GROAN...
Australia Day today...sitting in an I-Net Cafe on Sussex St in Sydney...on the way to Darling Harbor from Circular Quay...saw the Tall Ships race earlier, that was pretty exciting -I think- and just enjoying my last day of the holidays...going to watch the fireworks at Cockle Bay, and meet up with my aunty Wendy...she's working at one of the restaurants there now...and damn, this hotmail is slow...
The flight over was interesting...got chatted up by one of the stewardesses...she was pretty cute too...it was kinda sad when her face fell when she asked how old I was though...her name's Jen, or something that started with a J...and she's turning 23 this year...yea, she was nice...
Chinese New Year was nothing big, went to see some relos that I've never met in my life...that was pretty cool...just talked to them for a couple of hours, then went home...left on Friday night, arrived bright and early Saturday morning...and I'm still trying to recover from that ordeal...
Bastard Hotmail is still not loading up...
No, I have not talked to Julia yet either...
Heard on Saturday too that Cookie and Stu got promoted to Sergeant and Coporal respectively...good on ya both...that should be good...more spaces in the structure...I might lose my CNCO-LOG too, cos I heard that WA might have left, and so the L Section is going to become an ADMINO thingy again...that should be interesting...
Damn, I'm going to see if I can get another computer...
I'll be back within the month...:)
Who Is The Black Chinaman?
- Nick
- Kuala Belait, Brunei
- Saving someone's life is like falling in love. The best drug in the world. For days, sometimes weeks afterwards, you walk the streets, making infinite whatever you see. Once, for a few weeks, I couldn't feel the earth - everything I touched became lighter. Horns played in my shoes. Flowers fell from my pockets. You wonder if you've become immortal, as if you've saved your own life as well. God has passed through you. Why deny it, that for a moment there - why deny that for a moment there, God was you? I realised that my training was useful in less than ten percent of the calls, and saving lives was rarer than that. After a while, I grew to understand that my role was less about saving lives than about bearing witness. I was a grief mop. It was enough that I simply turned up. Living and working back in Brunei, after a 14 year absence... Also known as: Brunei, NASA, Bruise-Eye, Bru, Cheesecake, Nick, BruNick, BruMedNick, Two Step etc etc etc
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