dog.

When I went out of our car it felt like a different world. The winding road was empty, and the ricefields in front of us rich. They spread all over the deep valley like civilization flourishing. Some parts brown mud, other parts fuzzy golden fields. And then some green spots, and all the bare-chested farmers. […]

sunset.

As it dawned on me that the sky was not as clear as it used to be, the sunset was reaching its lowest point. I listened. They say you should be able to hear it when you hold your breath just a little bit longer than usual. So I did. And listened. The sax beginner […]

yum.

Pineapple and mandarin oranges, with salt and crushed chilli mix. Olives with shrimp paste and crushed chilli mix. Amaretti cookies soaked in hot soy milk with ginger. Broken rice mixed with soy sauce, sesame oil, cut chilli and dill, with boiled sausage. Tomato juice, apple cider vinegar, black pepper and sparkling mineral water.

why.

Early March 2007 marks my reintroduction to the web. As an old-skooler who puts respect in bandwidth (read as: only do whatever you need to do in the internet, never more, whatever “need” might be), the beginning of my current ADSL period feels like going back to the future. I have been in the future. […]