Who Is The Black Chinaman?

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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

Monday, 28 July 2008

"Due To Technical Difficulties, The Ride Will Restart Momentarily..." Part 3

So, on the Tuesday after I got back from Sydney, my family's flown up to Brisbane in preparation for their flight back to Brunei...I decided that I'll take a few days off uni to spend some time with them...

After having a dash to the uni to find out what classes I needed to take this semester, and running into Grace momentarily, I managed to just pack a quick bag and run to the bus...then took another bus....then a train, finally arriving into Brisbane to catch dinner at Jo Jo's...nice place...good sized portions and food...

Slept the next few nights at Cloud 9 Backpackers in upper Roma St, near the Fire and Ambulance station...so there was a bit of noise through the night...which happens...

On Wed we went to Warner Brother's Movie World down on the Gold Coast...and had quite a fun time there, a touch of rain, a bit of wind...and a roller coaster that jammed up with us inside it...and it went backwards too, which was a bitch...

Mike actually took a picture of me standing at the Wild West show thingy, and there was one of the actors that was supposed to be playing the bad guy...apparently I looked scarier than he did...

Apart from that, it was mostly family time, and so, this one's a shorty...
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