“you get to a point where the days start to go by very slowly and the years just fly past”
succint and true; just like you.
have a good one, cos you bloody well deserve it.
xxx

today i celebrate having survived 24 years, and (if i do say so myself) not having made too big a mess of my life so far.
very drunk
very happy
very grateful.

i’m not the sort who cries at weddings, but i think i underestimated how much i love my cousin and her groom.

congratulations, may and jase.

well, when you put it that way..!
give me a large serving of perish with a side dish of fire and brimstone, thanks.
onya.

reading this article on funding for language learning made me
a) think that i really should do something about the abysmal state of my mandarin, and
b) remember that old joke that goes: if a person who speaks three languages is trilingual, and a person who speaks two languages bilingual, what do you call someone who speaks [...]

we didn’t get to jif the opera house roof.*
we didn’t watch pieces of april at the cinema that sells beer.
you didn’t get to try the best vegetarian dim sum ever.
we didn’t finish watching that ninjatunes dvd.
you didn’t get to raid my cd shelf.
we didn’t drink nearly enough coffee together.
in other words: dude! hurry up and [...]

i miss berlin.

pass quicker than weeks. therefore, if you are very much looking forward to something, there is more instant gratification to be had in counting down by days, because that’s six more times within the same period that you can feel that you are closer to the arrival of your desires.
my countdowns currently stand at the [...]