Another day in the life of a snail.

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There I am; just thinking 'oh, I'll just log on and do a bit of blogging - it's been a while and there are a few things that have happened since the last one' and what do I see?

Huh? Just what do I see?????

SIX UNIQUE VISITORS!!!!!!!!!!!

Five from Singapore and one from the US.

I mean, really, when did this all happen? Who decided that this was the week that we would all look at Kai's blog? Just what brought this on? Is anyone going to explain to me just what is happening?

I was so comfortable, ssssoooooooo comfortable, with the knowledge that no one else in the world read my blog. Nothing to worry about, no need to be concerned about what I said, just living in my own little world. And now this.

To be honest, one of the SG visitors is, of course, me.
BUT WHO ARE THE REST???
And more to the point - WHY????
Will this be repeated? Will it keep on? Am I to now have other people in my space?


Yes, I know, it is a blog, you think that other people are meant to read it. Well, that's just fine. You can think that way. I know it is an open space, but it is, or rather, it was, a secret open space, that no one else in the world intruded into.

Anyhow, enough of that rant.
Just remember though, if there are 10,000 hits a month then it won't be a free blog anymore. Why do you think all of your favourite blogs have advertising? To pay for the cost of having so many people viewing the site, to pay for the hits on the blog server. Ah well, life changes and I will just have to adjust, won't I?

So what has happened?

Yes, I went for another day-long hike.
[That should really be an 'n' dash, not an 'i' dash, but I am too lazy to make it happen.]
I haven't put the pics up on my Flickr site yet.
And I got wet, not from rain this time, rather from perspiration, but the effect was much the same - undies and loose, light cotton trousers all bunch up between my legs and rubbed my inner thighs raw. OOOOOWWWW!!!! that hurt so much!!
So yesterday was 'stay at home and stay off your feet'.
Today was 'GO BUY SOME DECENT HIKING CLOTHS!!!'
I almost feel as though there should be an 'idiot!' in that.
And some water proof real hiking boots.
Which I did.

But...

I kind of get annoyed with shopping in Singapore. The shops are too small!
Back in Oz a good sized sports store that I could rely on having whatever I need has a shoe section that is eight times bigger than the whole store here in SG will be. Such small little shops, they cannot have everything that you might need. And indeed they do not. So I have got some shorts that might fit the bill to some degree, but they are not what I really want, and I have no idea how I am meant to find what I want in SG. Will I ever master this one? Or maybe it will just take time to learn where the shops that will become my favourites are.

Hmm, other news. I should find out later this week or early next how my employment pass application went. I am kind of a little concerned. Maybe just because I am so used to things going wrong in my life. Especially things that concern governments. I am not experienced with the Singaporean government yet. I haven't heard back from the agency about the job that they put me forward for, so I will call tomorrow about that, and I will call the other agency that I haven't heard back from at all. You would think 'I worked with the Adelaide office for eight years! Don't you think that the Singapore office would return a call?' We shall see, well, we won't, because I will call them. Maybe they just need a prompt. Or maybe they called the Adelaide office and got a bad report on me, after all, they Adelaide office wants me to return because the SA Health Department is screaming for my skill set and almost no one else in SA has it. No, I know, they would never do anything that unprofessional, but the idea is funny, don't you think?

Paul and Cheng got married on Monday, the photos are going up to Flickr as I write this, I have already seen 18 of them, but something like 150 are going up. Paul looks very happy and proud, and very red haired! (heh heh, couldn't help it, had to say it) Cheng looks sssooooooo pretty! She is glowing.

We skyped, she said that she had just gotten off the phone from Jaz and Iris and that they will be in SG tomorrow!!!! I believe something like 'well, strike me pink!' is in order, or maybe 'well, knock me down with feather!' Yes, I was, and still am, surprised. Last thing I was told was that they would be a month or so, and that was a big change from the six months that they first thought. They haven't had their passports reissued yet, that would be far too much to expect from Malaysia, but they have some sort of single entry passes to come to SG. Iris will need to visit the US embassy here to get her green card reissued, Jaz will undoubtedly be asking the requisite SG department about her paperwork. I know that they will be very busy, especially for the first few days, but I am hoping so much that at some point I will get a chance to see Jaz again. I have been holding off from going clubbing/pubbing to wait for her return to continue exploring this 'not yet a relationship' thing because, face it, I think that I like her, I think that she could be the sort of woman that I could be serious about exploring a relationship with.

We shall see. And if this has been a little test by fate to see how serious I am then we shall see if I passed. But I should not read too much into it, and I should not let myself hope too much for something that may not exist outside of my own desire for it to exist.

And I skyped my sister. She has recently finished a counselling course and is applying for some jobs in childcare, and has also attended a couple of real estate agent seminars - something that she has wanted to look at for many years. She has also been attending a personal growth course at Cosmic Pages. Can you believe that? Cosmic Pages, it used to be the Southern Centre for Theosophy when I was young. I have been going to that shop since I was twelve! And as a teenager I went to their camp at Robe. I remember talking to the woman that runs it shortly after her father left the shop with her and went to open a commune. It has always been a solid reference point in my life. It is good to hear my sister talk about it, and to relay conversations she had with the owner.

One thing that I do need to still get is something to help me sleep. Preferably a herbal tea of some sort. Partly this is because I just cannot turn off my brain at night, or rather my conscious, mental mind cannot calm down and leave my brain to my subconscious, emotional self for the night. And partially this is because of the neighbours on one side that seem to believe that they need pay no mind to their impact upon the rest of the universe.

So I have a few other points that I was going to cover, but the evening suddenly turned to more important issues; parking on double yellow lines, inter-racial relationships, my search for suitable continuing education in SG, but I have typed enough for one night.