Monthly Archives: January 2002

Thoroughly Thought Through

I just realise I have been binging and oversleeping most of the first half of this month. This from reading my email to Sarah again. She tells me she’s worried about me. I suppose I may have been in pretty bad shape then. I am better now, though how much better remains to be seen.Things

Simple Things

Talked to Sis and the kids for almost an hour today, then called up Mom and chatted for a bit. Felt really good about that. Just hearing their mundane problems and their concern for me despite my hundredth assurance that I’m fine, that made things better somehow. Not easier, but better. Modest Mouse wisdom: “The

Manuel’s 23rd Birthday

Re: Saturday. (And most of this morning, for that matter.)This was one of those days. Sigh, here we go. Woke late. Matthias had a friend over, Sebastian, and I got an invite to lunch. Superb. Salad, chilli con carne, pudding. Splendid. Sometime during lunch, I SMS-ed Marco about Manuel’s birthday party, and albeit a little

Open Your Eyes

Watched Vanilla Sky with Mike and Belinda. Tom Cruise looked real old in it.. the scene where he stares at himself in the mirror, well, let’s say there’s more than a slap of good ol’ Reality there. Something the movie lacked, but let’s not get into the plot, or whatever they call it these days.Cameron

Last Greeting

Was walking home, when I got this on my mobile: happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear kenny happy birthday um you! hehe. just ONE more time… ! c ya bel x And I smiled, really smiled, for perhaps the first time in a long, long while.

My 23rd Birthday

Somehow, a smooth mush of a day, wabbling thisways and whittling thatways, and everything turned out perfectly fine. Lunch with Mike and more messing about. Grabbed some kids for dinner at Kam Yi at Rosenheimerplatz, an authentic Chinese dinner, restaurant-style, I’ve promised them since eons ago. Mike, Marco, Manuel and I met Belinda at the

First Greeting

Here’s a bit of my conversation with Shwu, who is officially the first person to wish me a happy birthday today. Bit of trivia mixed in, in case you’re wondering, about the Chinese Zodiac and the exact art of astrological conceivement: yingfye: what year is it? yingfye: animal i mean shwugirl: erm.. shwugirl: horse i