Hero's Hundred-Acre-Land

Hero's Hundred-Acre-Land http://hunginternet.multiply.com/ WELCOME! Hope you're well... If you're not and not yet out of your breath, SHOUT! Have a great day anyhow! Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:03:21 -0000 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:38:00 -0000 Hero's Hundred-Acre-Land http://images.hunginternet.multiply.com/logo http://hunginternet.multiply.com 100 100 A day in the life... This is how a typical weekday of mine can be like... 5:50 the alarm on the mobile rang. S***, I don't want to get out of bed. Gone are the days when I woke up at five and did a bit of running. Now I still do sports in the evening though. 6:00 The BBC World Service radio is on while I have cereal with milk for breakfast. Top news are more than 150,000 Iraqi have died since the American(-led) war there began. That's more than 100 a day. Bush is still in the Middle East and he's going to West Bank today for talks aimed at securing peace between Israel and Palestine. A company in India (Tata) debuts its US$2,500 cars... 6:15 Prepare my 'lunch box'. 6:30 Leave for the station to catch the 6:45 train 7:25 Arrive at Charing Cross station 7:35 Arrive at Bush, logging on to read news from news agencies and different BBC outlets on an in-house system, ENPS. Scan news websites, read emails. 8:15 Decide on which stories about Vietnam to 'chase' and run in a 30 minutes programme some hours later.... http://hunginternet.multiply.com/journal/item/540/A_day_in_the_life... Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:38:00 -0000 ''I'' This is probably the song with the shortest name. Well, on the face of it only ... But it's a very nice song sung by an irrestible singer, Katherine Jenkins. I (Who Have Nothing) And here're a few others... Everything I Do Rejoice - I love this one the most Kiss From A Rose One of her TV interviews Okie, enough about I and now it's about me. My head is so packed with thoughts these days that I can see a Big Bang coming. Or rather a big bump :) Is it because I have started reading the thickest book I've ever bought, the Bible? Dunno. But I support someone who said that they love God but they just didn't like the middlemen between God and the people. And I am sorry but I just can't bring myself to believe that God created our universe in seven days (he worked much harder than us Monday to Sunday). I know this is a minefield so I won't go into it any more. Back to all things ordinary, today I took Dan and May to play tennis and May just broke down and cried when she lost the ... http://hunginternet.multiply.com/journal/item/539/I Sun, 6 Jan 2008 23:08:00 -0000 2008 You can probably see that the tittle of my next post will be '2009' so until then <IMG src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/4.gif"> I don't think I can wait that long but one thing is for sure I will blog much less this year. I am not good at remembering anything but if my memory does not fail me, I did a calculation the other day and was surprised to know that if I spend an hour a day blogging for the next 35 years, I'll have spent about three years doing it. So an hour a week or a month will likely be the norm for this year. My new year resolution this year if I can call it one is TTRM. That is Things That Really Matter. I will be thinking, doing, spending my time doing just that - Things That Really Matter. I can think of a few already. I have two business exams that I'll have to finish by the end of the year. Hopefully, I'll be able to persuade my boss to release me for two weeks to do that. Then there's that trip to Russia that I'll need to prepare for. I can go on but I'll leave the 'going on' bit for later. Back to present, I... http://hunginternet.multiply.com/journal/item/538/2008 Tue, 1 Jan 2008 16:35:00 -0000 2007 So 360 days have gone. But where have they?! This year I had the pleasure of working both Christmas and Boxing day. And the icing on the cake was the flu that made all my joints feel like the one of the oldest man in the world. Next year I know that I want to spend Xmas in the sun. Hello <A href="http://www.abouttenerife.com/">Tenerife</A>, bring on Siesta. I am going to La Isla Bonita all the way there. There have been years during which I grew and there have been years that just made me one of the same. 2007 seems to have been a cornerstone year. After all, I turned 35, buying house number 53, still being crazy from time to time but in much calmer manner. I've learnt to just let it go, let it be, trying to look at things in perspective. I've learnt to make greed and fear something you can control. All in all, it's been a year of learning, calming, refining, searching, experimenting but above all loving. I love myself, my kids, life around me. The only love that I wish I had much less was the love for spending. I won't go th... http://hunginternet.multiply.com/journal/item/537/2007 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:44:00 -0000 Xmas presents Just an image. A blog may come later... Happy Holidays! <A href="http://hunginternet.multiply.com/photos/photo/40/1"><IMG src="http://images.hunginternet.multiply.com/image/3/photos/40/500x500/1/xmas%202007%20wii.jpg?et=LrwJ5%2CkAl5rViXfXAb3yzg&nmid=74194126" border=0></A> http://hunginternet.multiply.com/journal/item/536/Xmas_presents Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:03:00 -0000 xmas 2007 presents http://hunginternet.multiply.com/photos/album/40/xmas_2007_presents Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:57:42 -0000 To people who can't read... It meant to be a blog about nothing but that would have been a waste of virtual web space, time, energy ... so it's going to be a blog about something. That's something is just that. I am writing for people who I know can't read this. They're people who probably don't give a damn that Xmas is coming. They are people, children and adults who are exploited during the day and who may sleep on the street at night. They're people who're much less fortunate than us all or people mentioned in one of <A href="http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-.3afJaI0baM6Y8plI2JE3TQOQu8-?cq=1&p=8123">Eve's blogs</A>. This holiday season I plan to take my kids to London and give presents to people to whom the notion of home is just a sleeping bag in front of a shop. I'll probably give them some vouchers to buy food or anything that they want to. It will make their misery a bit Christmasy and my children a different view of life around them. Hapy Xmas to all! H http://hunginternet.multiply.com/journal/item/535/To_people_who_cant_read... Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:40:00 -0000 Illiteratus I've lost the ability to write. Or to be more precise, the ability to set aside time to do it. If you stop counting the beans for a while you'll probably find that you don't have to do it that often <IMG src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/4.gif">. So life goes on. I am sorry if I dissappointed anyone who wanted to read the blog that I promised I would write. I actually did and my Vaio amazingly freezed right at the moment I clicked 'publish'. I then spent hours trying to give it kisses of life. It's almost back to normal now but Internet Explorer still closes whenever it wants and I still have the habit of writing it online rather than off. I spent the last few weeks on making my new (well, newish) house a home. It's still a bit messy now but I already love the way it looks, the way it smells, the sound and the light of the water feature, the perfume that Lucy wears, the sexy look of Sarah. Hopefully, I'll be able to introduce them to you in the New Year. Can you believe it, we're less than three weeks away from 2008. Tomorrow is... http://hunginternet.multiply.com/journal/item/534/Illiteratus_ Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:28:00 -0000 Merry Xmas! I've been spending too much time sleeping lately and have started to feel guilty <IMG src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/4.gif"> My blogging appetite for better or worse has not been good. If it takes a night in the office with only four hours of sleep to have my appetite back then I wonder if I should have it at all <IMG src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/4.gif">. But to any one who's reading, God bless you. Xmas is coming and it's that time to sing 'so this is Xmas and what have you done?' And yes, Merry Xmas! I am surely the first one to say this to you <IMG src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/4.gif"> 'I hope you have fun' my friends. <A title="Happy Christmas (war Is Over) Lyrics" href="http://www.metrolyrics.com/happy-christmas-war-is-over-lyrics-john-lennon.html">Happy Christmas (war Is Over) Lyrics</A> As for all things mundane, work has become a real drag. Everyone seems to be unhappy and everything seems to stay the same. But as it can't get any worse so the light is there at the end of the tunnel. I've been thinking long and hard about if and when to rent out a room in my house. The when is easy. After Xmas of course. The if is really hard. Sharing your own house with a stranger is obviously not everyone's cup of tea. But then who would give you US$... http://hunginternet.multiply.com/journal/item/533/Merry_Xmas Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:06:00 -0000 Vietnamese are not... Chinese. Full stop. My little one is so cross that people at his school keep telling him that he's Chinese. He said he told them he was Vietnamese but they could not care less. I told my rabbit that next time they insisted on him being Chinese, ask them if they're English or French, or Scottish, or American. And as if people at school called my rabbit Chinese was not enough, someone at the park called him Chinese as well. The little one understandably furious. He could have Karate chopped the fellow human being <IMG src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/4.gif"> I know there're more than 1 billion Chinese on the face of earth but this does not mean that anyone who looks a bit like Chinese is Chinese. And the Vietnamese love the Chinese the way the English love the French. Have a good week! http://hunginternet.multiply.com/journal/item/532/Vietnamese_are_not... Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:20:00 -0000 What's wrong with the F word Well, nothing really when I write. But I have problem shouting F*** you. And this allergy cost me $400 dollar. The offer was I would be paid the amount if I was happy shouting all the dirty words in Vietnamese, probably for a fantasy game that had something to do with Vietnam. Some other nice exchanges are 'I'll send you to hell, filthy animal', 'Skin them, put them in the dirt', 'wave goodbye bast***' And there's a long list of things that I am tired of: - Seeing naked men at the gym - Seeing odd things staying the same at work - Hearing people shouting at their kids (not that I don't do it from time to time) - Seeing people put their feet on seats on the train - Hearing about lack of discipline at schools in the UK (is there such thing as discipline any more?) - Listening to health officials in Vietnam refering to the cholera outbreak as 'acute diarrhea' for fear of being shun by foreign tourists Not an exhausted list though. 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