...i'm supposed to be home finishing off the work i didn't get around to doing during the week. that i'm updating my LJ instead of building an LBO model says it all ( Read more... )

freshly baked chocolate croissants from pret always make me happy.

silly french associates who throw tantrums don't.

boredom drives me to do silly things e.g. buy 3 Mulberry hadbags and 1 Mulberry clutch purse at one go just beause it was a sample sale!

thank god boredom hasn't driven me to call a) sean b) sleazy ex-boss c) sleazy aussie yet!

my alternative lives:

1) broody European intellectual smoking galouises and drinking strong black coffees in between animated intellectual discourse (farpavilions has already laughed at me for this ( Read more... )

antiquefantique says i haven't blogged for a million years ( Read more... )

of greatness IHis Holiness John Paul II passed away on Saturday. it's remarkable how many people's lives he managed to touch in his lifetime. (Vatican statistic - John Paul II has actually personally seen 60m people on his many trips around the world) and what's more remarkable is the universal appeal of his message (especially his emphasis on ( Read more... )

what do you tell your mom when she asks "Are you really happy with your life?"

when i was in morocco, it was a running joke in our trekking group that i would return to london and either open a michelin-starred restaurant that served sardines on toast and condensed milk on toast or write "The City Girl's Guide to Camping". my camping tips would include mentions of ibruprofen (painkillers good!), kitkat (especially good in ( Read more... )

He knew it was merely a house; others bought and sold houses and moved their belongings with ease and nonchalance. It struck him as he travelled through Rye that no one, save himself, understood the meaning of this. For so many years now he had had no country, no family, no establishment of his own, merely a flat in London where he worked. He ( Read more... )

i have NO self-discipline. i was supposed to have gone on diet starting last week. i was going to eat nothing but healthy salads and vegies. so what was i doing gorging myself at steamboat last friday? and i wasn't going to have any carbs after breakfast...so what am i doing finishing off this flapjack now ( Read more... )