Month: February 2007
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A Strange Mid-Week Break
A view into the Hong Kong airport. Taken on the 15th of February 2007 with a Nikon D200 and a 18-200 VR lens. Part of the Suvarnabhumi Series in the Thailand Chronicles. Today is a state holiday. Nobody is supposed to be working. It’s Wednesday, and I just woke up from a 12h sleep.…
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Good Points And Bad Points In Being A Teacher
More school art from our school in Hsinchu. Teaching is a great profession. I have learned this over the last 6 months, even if I was a teacher in part in Canada, it isn’t the same when you are a full time teacher. I have been asked what the good points and bad points of…
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Digging This!
A strange hawk on top of the K1 Caffe on the Ao Chalong pier in Phuket, Thailand. Taken with a Nikon D200 and a 18-200 VR lens on the 21st of February 2007. Part of the Thailand Chronicles Series. I have used memediggers in the past, quite often. They are a good tool for the…
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Battlestar Galactica S03E08-13 (SciFi)
Sometimes surviving can be its own death sentence. Kernel Ty to Bulldog. -Are they still eating paper? -No, there’s a paper shortage. Admiral Adama to Kernel Ty. I have really gotten into this season’s Battlestar Galactica. This season has some great episodes.
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End Of The First Day Back At Work
We both barely got any sleep last night. Since we had slept over 18 hours the day before, it was a bit hard to fall asleep. The day begun quietly and I arrived at work at around 7:40AM. I started drinking my tea. My first class didn’t start until the afternoon, I had 2×401 and…
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A German Cabbage Leaf, Growing Entangled With The Storytree
After I had been blogging and surfing the net in an uncomfortable situation at the Phuket aiport, I discovered that I had a virus on my 8GB CF card, that I use to take pictures. I had been suspecting this for a few days. I knew I had picked something up in one of those…
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Battlestar Galactica S03E01-07 (SciFi)
Well, I finally got back into Bstar this weekend. After our holiday, I was looking for some entertainment and came up with 15 episodes of unwatched scifi. So I started watching them. In all honesty, I started in the second week of February, but carried on last night.
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A British Chestnut Leaf On The Storytree
From one of my Thailand Chronicles Posts: He is a Brit who lives here and does periodical visa runs to Myanmar. He just had a daughter from his Thai wife and runs his bar. Interesting chap. He said he loves it here, though he does go back each summer to England for 6 weeks. One…
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An Indian Waterlilly Pleasantly Attached To The Storytree
When I was waiting for my wife to check which aisle we had to check-in for our flight to Taipei in Suvarnabhumi airport, an old Indian woman accosted me. She asked me if I was Indian. I told her that my parents were, but that I was Canadian. My wife and I were teaching English…