I haven’t been blogging for about a month, I know. After my last thread was published, Nonie came over, then Dinar and Prila the next day, then I took the girls out for distillery tour at Glenfiddich where they have developed a taste for a very expensive whisky (no less than 35 years old) and [...]

June 27th, 2009 by Finally Woken

From Wikipedia:
Anal-retentive (or anally retentive, anal retentive), commonly abbreviated to “anal”, is used conversationally to describe a person with such attention to detail that the obsession becomes an annoyance to others, and can be carried out to the detriment of the anal-retentive person.
For years I thought I was merely a perfectionist who wants everything done [...]

May 25th, 2009 by Finally Woken

The first time I landed in Scotland I realised that I had no closed-toes shoes at all, except several pair of boots. All my shoes had at least 5 cm heels or higher, and all were open toes models, a.k.a sandals, because I come from a tropical country which doesn’t require me to protect my [...]

May 7th, 2009 by Finally Woken

What was she thinking??
A woman leapt over bars at Berlin Zoo right at the bears’ feeding time and instead of trying to get herself away quickly from the hungry predators, she swam right towards them.
The bears must have thought “Yumm, big lunch, rather different from fish we normally get, but whatever”, when they saw her, [...]

April 13th, 2009 by Finally Woken

Here is the selection of the best verbal slip-ups made by telly stars when they’ve been suffering from foot-in-mouth disease (article is taken from the Sun).
Racing commentator Ted Walsh: “This is really a lovely horse. I once rode her mother.”
US golf commentator: “One of the reasons Arnie is playing so well is that, [...]

April 11th, 2009 by Finally Woken

Two years a go, a few months after moving to Scotland, I sent text to my father who is also my doctor, complaining about the constant pain I had on my right thumb. I was wondering if I suffered from arthritis, and was asking for his suggestion what to do with it.
His reply came back [...]

April 7th, 2009 by Finally Woken

I know I have been publishing stories about facebook a lot lately, and here is another one!

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk

A British teenager who took a drugs overdose has been saved after the American girl he was chatting to online raised the alarm.
The 16-year-old boy from Oxfordshire had sent her a message suggesting he intended to commit [...]

April 5th, 2009 by Finally Woken

I have encountered a bizarre moment this week. Suddenly someone I barely know cowardly sent a private message to  friends of mine, saying how embarrassed she would be if she doesn’t work and yet keep spending her husband’s money. A friend alerted me and pointed the fact I posted a good news a mere minutes [...]

April 3rd, 2009 by Finally Woken

Following my previous post about how facebook has taken my friends away,  I also have to mention that this particular social network has helped me to connect with long lost relatives. I am not really good at keeping in touch with my cousins, second cousins, and so-called aunties and uncles. I mostly know the immediate [...]

April 2nd, 2009 by Finally Woken

Now that’s what I call creative!

clipped from www.thesun.co.uk

SOME schoolkids are in a class of their own when it comes to silly exam
answers.

Test chiefs in the UK yesterday claimed GCSEs need to get tougher to stretch pupils.
But plenty of bright sparks out there are already getting pretty creative.
New website funnyexam.com is packed full of bonkers replies [...]

March 30th, 2009 by Finally Woken

Not just money, this hotel requires a specific profession for its guest to stay in their posh room: a rock star! And apparently, ‘anything goes’ in this hotel.

clipped from news.sky.com
At prices starting at £175 per night for the tiniest crash pad, to £3,500 for a garden suite, this 30-room hotel is not for indie bands [...]

March 29th, 2009 by Finally Woken

…Literally. I am deleted from someone’s friends list because apparently his wife was jealous at me. I also found another friend has deleted his own cheeky comments and his tag in several pictures because his wife has just joined facebook and might see our pictures grinning at Dragonfly and wouldn’t be happy about it. I [...]

March 25th, 2009 by Finally Woken

I have promised myself to publish at least one post on weekday and one interesting news from UK at the weekend. But this one news is worth it!

clipped from www.thesun.co.uk

Parents Andy and Clare were delighted when builders finished a new flat roof on their £1million house.

But Rory, 18, had just watched a documentary about Google [...]

March 24th, 2009 by Finally Woken

Although not as bad as Ponari and His Magic Healing Stone phenomenon, anything resembles religious figures always attracts attention. The problem is, I don’t see the similarity!

March 21st, 2009 by Finally Woken

Jakarta, just like any other capital cities in the world, seems to offer prosperity, success, and fame. Its skyscrapers with glittering lights and gigantic billboards parading beautiful people are the symbol of dreams and hopes for many people. The city is glamorous, bright and bold; although it also can be unforgiving, deceptive, materialistic, and unoriginal. [...]

March 19th, 2009 by Finally Woken

Forgive me readers for I have sinned.
I have been guilty letting my other passions took over, and before I knew it, 6 weeks has passed and I have only produced one thread. However, despite lack of postings, I have actually been taking part of 2 activities which still involve blogging. One is as the participant [...]

March 13th, 2009 by Finally Woken

For the past two weeks in our holiday I have got to running around from one place to another on daily basis. After going back from Siem Reap, we’ve had lunches and dinners appointments every single day I start making schedule so I wouldn’t forget which couple or people we are meeting today and tomorrow.
In [...]

February 9th, 2009 by Finally Woken

Well, at least happy holidays to me. People start getting back to work, and we’re off for holiday. Mine will start very early tomorrow and take 18 hours before it actually begins in 12,000 km away from Aberdeen, in a much warmer, albeit wet, climate. We will sneak away to Cambodia for a few days [...]

January 22nd, 2009 by Finally Woken

Natalie Massenet, the woman behind net-a-porter.com, is about to lunch a designer “outlet” website that will stock top brands with up to 80 per cent off.

clipped from www.vogue.co.uk
Massenet is currently putting the finishing touches to THEOUTNET.COM, which will buy in ready-to-wear clothes (by the likes of Christian Louboutin, Marc Jacobs and Stella McCartney) that have [...]

January 21st, 2009 by Finally Woken

I am delighted that lately I have been collecting college friends in Facebook. Everyday each one pops up and says hi. While some of them I recognize immediately as they were in my assignment or student body groups, I need more time on others as we weren’t that close in uni (excuse me, my class [...]

January 18th, 2009 by Finally Woken