I've learned that it's important to stretch before every wedding!

I would also recommend doing some extensive work on facial muscles. I smiled so much for so long at our wedding that by mid afternoon I had cheek cramps and twitches.

That's sweet.
I had too much variety (or about-face?) - from "I am going to faint" to "grin" to "smile" to "hissy fit" to "drunk grin... All over workout.



I learnt today that google is evil, and I want a new email adress.

I learnt that cats which are miserable sometimes purr frantically, to "say" something like "I am a nice little cat, you won't hurt me, will you? HELP! I THOUGHT YOU WERE MY FRIEND!"
Having small furry housemates operated sucks, but is sometimes necessary. There were complications, the cat's better now, but it would just be nice if my cat stopped tremblimg every time I have to pick her up...
Yes, friends! Even my goddam pet is miserable! :p :(

Poor critter Would it help to wrap her in a towel, when you pick her up, Hsing?

I am afraid that would send her over the edge completely... I try to restrain her as least as possible. She feels strange enough with the things we had to put her into to keep her from gnawing the wound. The poor thing played dead and went all rigid when I was at the vet with her the last time. I think all I can do is take care she... well... gets taken care of (in the medical sense), gets her vitamins, and other than that, she'll probably sneak back on the sofa when all has calmed down and things are better. I'll occasionally bribe her with cat malt. To think she crawled under my jumper when she was unwell in the beginning... Now she avoids me... Liquorice Littlepaw loves me no more.

I learnt today that after growing up with animals and being rather reasonable about them (unlike my parents), I am now fussing over a small cat without end...
But rest assured, I did tell my daughter she still comes first.

1) How to complain in Japanese....i can now say i'm hungry/tired/sleepy/peeved

2)How to drive on a two-way road that looks like a one way road - not to be sneezed at.

3) Buses are scary (see point 2)

4) Pedestrians (including grandmothers, cyclists, small animals and/or chidren, or animal-like children) are the root of all evil (see point 2 again).

5) Bowing on the phone is not only acceptable, it's unavoidable.

6) If you don't know what it is on your plate, you probably don't want to know.

7) The rainy season rocks.

8) Mixing beer and sake is probably not the best of ideas, seeing as it may make you walk around alone in the rain on a Friday night (walking like a man so not to be attacked by meek and fragile natives) in search of an ATM. On the plus side, you get lovely night photos of streets, shrines and the like.

(On the negative side, you get soaked to the bone and end up making 20 origami butterflies)

9) Warm sake on a wet evening is nummy. (not a typo, i like that word).

10) Writing on this message board uses up precious break time and I have to go work now, bye bye.

11) It is important to always wear clean socks (and have nice smelling feet) because you never know when you'll have to have your shoes off around other people. Gassing them all is generally considered to be in bad taste.

Wouldn't that be bad smell, rather.

Perhaps you're right.....unless it's that kind of smell you can almost taste....blergh.

*Excuse me while I go wash my footsies*

12) Have also learnt today that taking up Hip Hop dance classes after not dancing for 2 years causes extreme pain...and whingeing.

Yesterday I learned that the wee inhabitants of Northern Ireland have a wee habit of adding wee in front of every wee word possible. Litterally, buying something caused the following sentence: "Ah, ok, now can yah put yure wee pin in tha wee machine whahle ah get yeh ah wee bag tah put yer wee stuff in."

From this sudden discovery sprang a couple of questions.
- With all that wee-ing, could this be the part of Ireland that produced the seed of Rinso?
- I wonder how they deal with the latest Nintendo console.

Today I learnt that setting my alarm for 6am is a BAD idea, because it will annoy me and cause me to smack it so hard it stops working and I wake up 20 minutes before i am supposed to be at work.

I have also learnt that my aparment rocks as it's only 5 minutes from said workplace.

But Rincewind isn't Irish.

That, of course, was sarcasm.

Today I learned that no matter how hard you stare at a clock, you cannot make it move faster. It goes SLOWER....but not the opposite. Bizarre. (Bizzare?)

Today I learned that some things are too evil for words. One of my current tasks is customising a media player for a webpage and the guy who provided the file has provided examples with videos from youtube to check it's working.

So I checked. This is the video he used as an example. YouTube - David Hasselhoff Get In My Car