Somehow Malaysia is able to put a ton of roasted duck on top of some fried noodles and greens and whatnot, cook it all right in front of you in 2 minutes flat, and sell it for $1.50. That shit put fast food to shame. I think I'm going to start a chain of little carts in cities across the US that sell the same kind of food those guys sell from their ( Read more... )

We're off tomorrow for 18 days in Malaysian Borneo, Malaysia proper and Singapore, and it's not a minute too soon. I need a motherfuckin' break.

I am going to eat my weight in satay and indian food.

I'm reading this book about a guy's travels in russia, and he throws in a lot of interesting side info about the country. He was talking about how bad customer service is there (or was, in 1997) because during the communist era no one really cared. You were assigned your job and there was no real chance of getting fired. So when the first McDonald' ( Read more... )

So this month has wizzed by for whatever reason, and now it's almost Christmas, which means the new year is around the corner, which means it's almost 2008 which means I'm that much closer to death.

Also, Christmas here is all religious. What's up with that? Haven't they gotten the word that one magical figure (Santa) officially killed off the other ( Read more... )

It has been a non-stop cheese-a-thon since being back in the US. Lots of good oregon microbrews. Visited Abby's brother in medford, lounged around, we've done a lot of walking, in the park and in the city, just enjoying the quiet and the clean. Downtown Portland seems so quiet. Being back in the US has been good, but weird. Twelve pound packages of ( Read more... )

I'm not going to get in to the internet and technology and alienation and all that CNN special report crap, but I joined facebook because I like to sign up for things, set them up and never use them again, and I saw something that's common on these social networking sites, and that is the "Happy Birthday!!!" post, which has to be the laziest, most ( Read more... )

Here is something I can't stand. Filipinos travel in packs ( Read more... )

So, they don't really celebrate Halloween here, for whatever reason. I don't even care. However, two interesting things.

This morning at 5am, a fucking loudspeaker was going off around our house, with what sounded like chanting. It was later identified as a prayer. I saw the following from my window: a small candle procession, a lit up float of ( Read more... )

Check this out. The password is: theklaw

It's something I put together with other volunteers here cuz we think we're funny and we're most certainly bored.

In an interesting trip through time, I downloaded my journal using that lj book website, so i can just read straight through my entries. College, marriage, jobs, travel, parties, it's been an interesting 7 years for sure. Totals out to something like 350 pages in pdf format. I had no idea I had written so much. I've always laughed at the idea of a ( Read more... )