Walking the World

Anyway, we saw on the news later that there was actually a cyclone in the area. Oh. Uh. Okay. We…

Fahim isn’t feeling well. He’s tired and tired and tired. He’s also a little irritable and even more tired. He…

Today was the last day at church for the Boise’s. They’re missionaries, an older couple (as in, older than me!)…

After Crescat, we went to the Hilton Sports Club. Marlene has a pass – she pays monthly and she can…

We wandered around Crescat, and it was basically a small collection of upscale stores. There were perhaps 30 stores total….

I also found cornflour. I was looking for cornstarch. Here, what is known in North America as cornstarch is known…

I did, however, finally find ground cinnamon. I find this interesting – I live in the country where the best…

It’s a shopping mall along the lines of Odel’s – geared toward the rich and the foreigners. There are shops…

We watched a movie in the morning, and when it was done, we watched another, and after that, Fahim went…

For the record, I am brilliant. They dried. They were sufficiently dry to use tonight. Yippee. And also for the…

What I haven’t talked about yet are television advertisements. What I find very interesting is that, on a Sinhalese language…

Right. It’s now 2:15pm and the power just came back on. I ran out of battery power hours ago and…

Not really. I started a load of laundry at around 7:15am. Fahim had already left for work a few minutes…

Today, I finished watching the one season of Planet of the Apes. I started on what, Monday? Yeah, Monday. And…

Today, a mooing cow, accompanied by dogs barking, moved towards my house at a fairly good clip. Puzzled, I grabbed…

Mosquitoes have been up. Increasing. Drat. I’ve been getting bitten during the day lately. I hate it. Mossies have always…

One thing I haven’t mentioned yet is that it’s been a lot cooler lately. I don’t watch the weather on…

His infoshare/groove thing has an official launch tonight, and Fahim’s supposed to speak at it, and apparently, there were more…

There’s something I have to mention about Hindi movies. To start with, both on and off record, I love Hindi…

Fahim told me last night, after we watched two more episodes of 24, that he was going to wake me…

And this afternoon, I went to OSC, Overseas School of Colombo, to chat with Michelle for a couple of hours…

For dinner tonight, Fahim wanted to make shrimp okra curry. I’ve only had okra once before – at a family…

But it’s only unhealthy for me, of course. He wouldn’t have any obsession that was unhealthy for him. Would he?…

Fahim’s 24 didn’t entirely work. We started watching it yesterday, and it skipped on the DVD player. No, let me…

Fahim and I went shopping at Majestic City today. Fahim has to get a laptop bag for the new laptops…