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Someone just got inspired.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
So its already June! Where did half of ‘07 go? Surely I’m not enjoying it that much!
The past few weeks have been a little quiet over here in Singapore. Lately it just seems as though the weekends are getting closer and closer together… Do you ever get that feeling? I tried Googling for some philosophical explanation, but all I could find was some babble about ‘traveling down a spiritual spiral toward enlightenment’ – and unless that means I am about to uncover why almost every zipper in the world has the letters ‘YKK’ on it – I don’t think its a valid explanation. There are some freaky bloggers in this world, let me tell you!
Click that pink link below to check out what’s been going down in the life of the Rob since the last post……
…good things take time
I have been meaning to revamp the bubble since moving to Sing but I just haven’t had the time… I guess half the battle was trying to sit myself down to finally write an entry of any substance. With so many people asking me about my experience thus far, I figured I would bite the bullet and finally give the site a new look along with a few new posts (and potentially, a promise of a few more in the coming months).
Where am I you ask? Well, to give you a rough idea, you can take a look at my suburb through Google Maps. I live in the illustrious Birmingham Mansions, a lo-rise apartment block with a swimming pool out the back. Don’t be fooled by the name, I mean it is a great place to live, but like everything else in Singapore it’s all over-promise and under-deliver here 
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I live with two flatmates Steve and Caddie, who are also from Oz. We have three decent sized bedrooms, 2 broken down air conditioners (!) and a brand new kitchen, but we love it here. It’s close to work (300 metres close! you feelin’ it??) and close to the MRT (train stations for non-Singaporeans) which is very very handy in a land of EXPENSIVE cars.
What else can I say? Its been a bumpy ride settling in, but I think that I have made the last of my expensive trips to Ikea (pronounced ‘eek-e-ya in Singlish) – for now – so I guess its safe to say I have now adjusted to my new lifestyle… (more)
Burn Him! He Might Take on Other Forms!
Okay. Five, maybe six words “Sheikh Taj El-din Al Hilaly”.
How many times have you been in a church/temple/mosque/battlefield earthscientology convention and heard something which you thought was a tad far-fetched; but let it slide because you know that to be a leader in these types of communities, one must be an extremist (to some degree).
So a leader of the muslim faith, says (in arabic) women should cover up or would otherwise be attracting male attention. Wow, groundbreaking news here. I am shocked. Someone of the muslim faith – where women who obey Allah (see Qu’ran) are covered from head to toe – thinks that women who wear revealing clothes attract attention.
“Queensland Liberal
shit-stirrerMP Warren Entsch has called for the sheik to be stripped of permanent residency and kicked out of the country.”
Now thats a bit rash dont you think? He doesn’t speak English! Kick him out! He doesn’t belong! Great work Warren (great name too) you’ve just sent Australian multiculturalism back about 20 years.
Debnam must be wetting himself with glee at this opportunity. It’s your time to shine Deb-meister, whatever Iemma says about this, make sure you grab your pocket thesaurus and reverse-translate everything he says (these are called Antonyms) and make that your statement!
Slow news week? No problems, sit in on any religious preaching and I’m almost certain opportunity will strike. Keysar Trad was right.
“Again, this is pandering to the lynch mob rather than exercising natural justice.”
It Is Nice.
So I haven’t posted in a while and I needed something to keep my millions of fans happy.
Just Smile! Please?
Lately I have been counseling/advising a couple of friends about certain issues which are getting them down… Although these problems superficially seem so disparate, when you really dig down to the cause of their grief, in its simplest form, you’ll always find the same culprit – a loss.
It’s become so clear to me that all of life’s problems are essentially the result of a loss of some sort. Every depression of your life, every negative emotional experience you have ever felt was a result of a loss. Its not an extremely profound impression of the world, but it is something that has definitely captured my own interest. If we know what worsens the human predicament, then why can’t we predict it? Why aren’t we better prepared? Haven’t we experienced a loss before? Why should this time be any different?
But you don’t understand, you don’t know what is like!
The answer is the degree of the loss – it is almost always different. The greater the loss, the greater the hurt. Even so, why do different people react differently to almost identical losses? My theory is that the probable return of what once was greatly effects the feeling and the severity of the loss. If you know something will never return, it becomes more black and white and our defence mechanisms kick in to help deal with the certain loss – at least in the short term. Read the rest of this entry »
