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I need to become an 'Andy in Oman'

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:24:36 +0100

I need to take photos and blog about prices and compare things because I like to complain and criticize.

Mm yes, shall do that. Get me back on the laptop, baby.

‘Fresher’ with no real experience potentially in for some. Let’s hope I’m...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:29:29 +0000

‘Fresher’ with no real experience potentially in for some. Let’s hope I’m still ‘strong’ and willing, despite that slight niggle.

"This is your dream candidate. English accent, educated and looking for work."

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:21:36 +0000

“This is your dream candidate. English accent, educated and looking for work.”

- Somebody said this, about ME? :O

Man comes to fix the A/C

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 09:17:34 +0000

Man comes to fix the A/C

Man: What happened? [pointing to my face]
Me: Oh, it's just a spot. [touch face, remember I put toothpaste on it]
Me: It's toothpaste. Apparently it helps it. -___-'

"The car is insured. Anyone with license can drive"

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:50:40 +0000

““The car is insured. Anyone with license can drive””

- Car salesman after Podge puts down a deposit on car.

I get to have a goooo! Driving, vroom, vroom!

PAIN in Muscat

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:57:41 +0000

I’ve been here for a few weeks now, and it’s really quite something. It’s sunny everyday, it’s warm, it’s above 20 degrees… It’s difficult to believe there’s snow in England, say.

Roast meats, salads, hummus, vine leaves- all rather tasty… but I do kind of miss Chinese food.

Anyway, the main reason for the post is to tell you about the paaaain I’m in.

Of the few weeks I’ve been here, 80% of the time I’ve had an ulcer. Before it was on the gums near my chin. I thought that was painful enough, eating was a chore. It grew bigger with each day, more raw-looking and I thought it’d never heal. Bonjela didn’t really work. Besides, all the dribble watered it away. The ulcer on its own wasn’t that bad, it was the pairing of that and raw-roof-of-mouth which made it worse.

Some-teen days later, it’s GONE! I am over the moon but, before I have a chance to celebrate, I feel another niggle under my tongue.

GAAAAH!!! It must almost be a week by now. Eating is pain. Drinking is sometimes pain. Brushing my teeth is ultimate pain. I’m constantly salivating . I’m constantly wincing. I can utter sentences sometimes, before I wince some more and feel like chucking books at people. Well, the only person around me.

I’ve recently started with the bonjela again. Thing is, the ulcer rubs against my back tooth whenever anything happens. It makes you truly appreciate how much your tongue moves.

I’ve read a few advice pages. As a result, I’ve been gargling warm salty water. One blog even told me to rub salt on it. I wanted to cry.

But I must man up. I will survive, even if it means I appear unsociable when talking to other people and look as if each food item I put into my mouth is HORRIBLE.

Other than that, I’m enjoying my time in Muscat.

#3/12 Safe House- Chris Ewan

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 10:31:00 +0000

#3/12 Safe House- Chris Ewan

#2/12 Empress Orchid- Anchee Min.

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:28:00 +0000

#2/12 Empress Orchid- Anchee Min.

#1/12. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:08:10 +0000

#1/12. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared- Jonas Jonasson.

If you don’t have anything useful to say, then don’t say anything. Shall try the other...

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:47:20 +0000

If you don’t have anything useful to say, then don’t say anything.

Shall try the other way from now on.

If you feel sad climb a ladder up the sky.

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:26:00 +0000

[on a poster on my wall]

I’d never read it closely before. It’s kind of sweet.

Sooner rather than later. Enjoy meeting new people. Embrace surroundings.

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:00:22 +0000

Sooner rather than later.

Enjoy meeting new people.

Embrace surroundings.

"I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most..."

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:14:00 +0000

“I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.”

- Life of Pi

It had been preying on my mind and at one point I was upset, but there really as no reason to...

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:47:34 +0000

It had been preying on my mind and at one point I was upset, but there really as no reason to be.

The way it’s panned out is a relief and I‘m glad it happened this way :)

新年决心

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:14:01 +0000

每个星期：看BBC中文网，把它翻译成英文，ANKI.
每个月：看一本书
没几个月：练好一首钢琴曲

【完】

If it's such an effort...

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:25:26 +0000

Then perhaps it just wasn’t meant to be.

The other possibility is to work at it and have a more fruitful relationship?

Possibly.

The Piano House, Anhui

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:21:33 +0000

The Piano House, Anhui

"Have you lost weight? You look thinner."

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:27:04 +0000

“Have you lost weight? You look thinner.”

- Yess~ that’s what wearing more fitted clothing does

"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity—it’s envy. Life is..."

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:18:00 +0000

“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity—it’s envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.”

- Life of Pi- chpt 1.

Playing Singstar

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:10:19 +0100

A: B, have you stopped playing?
B: No, I haven't stopped playing, they've stopped handing me the mic.