A collage of candid and impromptu photos taken by Wendy over the last week. The top two were taken at Ipoh Garden - I went to high school with the woman next to me, and she’s also Wendy’s work colleague. That’s Perth for ya, freaking small world.

The bottom two were taken at Metro. And yes at the time the photos were taken, I was already happy happy joy joy. If you catch my drift.

Off to The Deen tonight to catch the Australia vs. Italy Worldcup game. Should be a great crowd and atmosphere. Will try to get some good pics.

(Crinity @ Flickr,
via everystockphoto.com)

I would like a girlfriend, but do I really?

I spent the entire day being at home yesterday. Not having to go anywhere or see anyone was extremely relaxing and liberating. I only came out of my room to make food, do my laundry and play with and walk the dog. The rest of that time? I was in front of my PC - I am addicted to it see, but then you already know that.

I wonder now that I’m so comfortable going about things at my own speed, and on my own schedule that will I adapt to it, if and when someone new comes into my life? I don’t need my life to be completely full because I actually love these moments of having absolutely nothing to do and nothing to think about.

When you ask me what I’m thinking and I say “nothing”, it’s true. “Nothing” to me is actually something. To replace that nothingness would mean that the special someone, whomever it may be would really have to be special indeed.

So I had an epiphany: that I am alright being alone, not a hermit mind you but single. I’m down with it. I guess that makes me a “quirky alone“. Now quit trying to match make me.

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Hey you know, you are my friends and I love you for it. You whinge about your boyfriends to me from time to time and that’s ok because you buy me food and drinks for my troubles. But there’s a certain limit to my obligations to you as a mere friend.

1. Don’t sulk when I can’t see you whenever your boyfriend is not available and you feel bored. Don’t say that I’m neglecting you - that’s a question for your boyfriend and not me.
2. Don’t whine that we never do anything that you want to do, when you announce at the last minute that you want to join the rest of us for a night out and expect us to change our plans for you. Your boyfriend is the one who has to put up with this because he’s the one who gets the poontang.
3. Don’t suddenly feel the need to introduce girls to me just because you are now happily attached. You don’t owe anything to me and please don’t feel pity for me because I wouldn’t appreciate it.
4. Don’t expect me to be buddies with your boyfriend just because he’s your boyfriend. Hey, you dig him. I get it. It doesn’t mean that I have to like him. Don’t force us to socialise.

I think that’s it for now. Now if you will excuse me, I’m gonna do whatever I want whenever I want because I’m free and single innit?

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Caught up with Jaclyn for dinner last night. She has opened a little video rental outlet inside Aeon Cybercafe on William Street (near Cakes Unlimited). Neat setup that she got going there and very entrepreneurial of her too. Somehow, the idea of having a video rental stall inside an Internet cafe just works.

Her overheads are low and so is the initial capital - the main costs are the DVDs and VCDs, and a video-rental software to manage it all. The only downside is the long hours. Though she’s sharing the staff with the boss of the cybercafe who happens to be her friend, so she doesn’t have to be there all the time.

Besides the long hours, there’s also the constant thinking and planning. As a former small business owner, I told her that it’s normal. Even on your day off, you would be thinking about your business because it is your own money that you are playing with.

She rents out Chinese movies and TV serials - Mandarin and Cantonese ones predominantly from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and also Korean and Japanese movies and TV serials. Prices are $2.50 per DVD or $1.50 per VCD, and you get one night per disc up to a maximum of 7 nights. Tell her you heard about her shop from me and you might get a freebie or two.

Yes this was a plug.

Photo: Vince Caligiuri

Australia had drawn the game with Croatia 2-2 in the FIFA World Cup in Germany. We are in the final 16. I didn’t stay up to watch it but from all accounts, it looked to have been a great game. Exciting indeed.

The Sydney Morning Herald - Kewell saves the day

Meanwhile across the world from Germany in Thailand in Kanchanaburi, Australian nurse Pam Fitzpatrick was shot in the neck and died early yesterday. She and her sister and some friends had just finished watching the Australia vs. Brazil game early Monday morning when an altercation occured between some men outside the bar she was at.

[Two men] rode by once and someone in the [bar] yelled at them,” said Kanchanaburi’s police chief.

He said the word used, “kwuay”, translates as penis and is the most offensive form of Thai abuse. “They came back and shot [at] him. They came back quickly, so it’s likely they had the gun on them.”

Pam died over something that had nothing to do with her at all.

The Sydney Morning Herald - Nurse’s family mourn their happy, bubbly girl

Pet gripes of celebrities:

1. I never asked to be famous.
2. I never wanted to be a role model.
3. I just want to be left alone.
4. Being rich is not easy.

Did I leave out any?

So what’s the easy way out of their problems? Get out of the limelight altogether - except they don’t. They like being famous.

Having said that, all the above is ok. Us fans will put up with your gripes as long as the end product - your movies, your TV shows, your songs, your books and your blogs - entertain us. But when you begrudge our support by insulting us, that’s pushing it.

Celebrities should never forget that without fans who support their work, they are nothing. Of course some fans border on the obsessive.

With that thought in mind, I would like to quote the irrepressible Xiaxue from her latest post:

… just coz you are one of the 20,000 people reading this blog and thus letting me be a professional blogger does NOT give you the rights to demand anything from me.

What was their demand? For her to blog more regularly. Which when you think about it is quite reasonable. Xiaxue considers herself a professional blogger which she is because that’s all that she does. Is her life that busy that she’d neglect what is in essense her sole source of income?

Still, there are better responses directed at your fans than:

Fuck off and boycott me if you want to. If it gets bad, I’ll just work harder, blog more, and get more readers.

Celebrities need to understand that they are what they are because of their fans, and fans have to realise that celebrities are humans too. Even though some celebrities are undeserving of their fans’ adulation.

For a site that brings celebrities down to the realm of us mere mortals check out Defamer (the title of this post came from one of their advertising links).

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These are a selection of photos that I have taken whilst clubbing and raving. I love the lights in nightclubs and I am all about the “hands in the air” moments.

Taken from my pool of photos on Flickr tagged with “clubbing”.

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