It was an alright night...watched Indiana Jones, had a few drinks at the Pig, and went across and played poker at the Blue Bar...
Brian, one of the blokes I drink with at the Pig (after a three week absence) is going on holidays, and he was talking to me about his consideration of a change of career....he's been a psyc nurse for a long time, and I think he's just sick and tired of all the BS that comes with the job...what ever his decision, I guess that'll be the best one for him...
Indiana Jones...it was a good movie...of course, fun, a bit jumpy at times, but overall, it's Indy...from River Phoenix playing a young Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, to Sean Connery playing Dr Henry Walton Jones Sr, to Cate Blanchett as a Russian scientist...this franchise has a feel that it could very well last for a long long time...kind of like Star Wars...epics...if anything, watch this movie...well worth what you paid for (my opinion anyway)...was also looking at the shots for Get Smart, look good already...and Kung Fu Panda...and definitely looking forward to Ice Age 3 next year...movies...haven't watched a movie in ages actually...the smell of the popcorn, over priced, of course...but just the atmosphere...*sigh*
Poker was shite...bowed out second hand, it was looking good, until the Ace kicker...I did meet with the First Mate of a boat that ran aground here on the coast last week...yea, found out he was from Sydney, and used to live in Wentworthville, where my aunty used to live too...and there was this idiot who refused to leave...again, similar to my situation on Saturday night at the Sands....no photo ID...we get given a booklet with all the acceptable forms of ID, and yea, the bloke didn't have any....anyway, had a swing, one of the other punters (not a bouncer) hit back, and the bloke disappeared...was probably the only down turn of the evening...apart from what happened earlier...
I'm going to have to move on, Grace already has, so I better do the same...I really didn't want to, but I guess my choice in the matter is over and dusted...nice guys do finish last I guess...and I guess it's also a bit of give and take...I wasn't exactly the most lovable bloke all the time, but most of the time I'd like to think I was.......now, if only she'd tell me what she had planned on getting me for my birthday...hehe...
I'm going to cheese it, got class in the morning...had class earlier, but I honestly didn't think I could have concentrated anything, so it would have been a waste of time anyway....
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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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