If you read this today, I would have been somewhere in the sky between Aberdeen and London.
Hope you will forgive me as I am away – again. This time mr.mck and I will explore the south part of UK but I will be staying in London for several days first before he joins me this [...]
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July 28th, 2009 by Finally Woken
“If you feel you have been excluded from the Bible, please write your way back into it.”
The above notice, alongside with a container of pens, are put by the open Bible at an exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art (Goma) in Glasgow. The exhibit, Untitled 2009, was proposed by the Metropolitan Community [...]
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July 26th, 2009 by Finally Woken
I remember when I was in primary school I wanted to be an astronomer (looking for objects up in the sky), archaeologist (looking for objects down beneath the earth), or architect (building things up or down), when I grow up. The first two were clearly and highly influenced by reading too much Hergé and Agatha [...]
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July 24th, 2009 by Finally Woken
I was surprised that I haven’t mentioned about the biggest event in Scotland yet. Homecoming Scotland 2009 is a series of events designed to attract people of Scottish ancestry to visit Scotland. The campaign, organised by EventScotland and VisitScotland on behalf of the Scottish Government, and part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, claims that [...]
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July 22nd, 2009 by Finally Woken
Within hours after two hotels in the heart of Jakarta were shattered by bombs, there has been a big development in Indonesian blogosphere, or should I say twitterworld.
clipped from www.budiputra.com
Started from Friday afternoon, the Indonesian Twitter users put their new red and white avatars (red and white represents the national flag)–while some avatars also have [...]
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July 20th, 2009 by Finally Woken
Yesterday was a quite important day for me. As part of my permanent residency process in the UK, I have to take (and pass) the test called “Life in The UK”. To be able to pass this test I need to answer 75% questions correctly, or 18 out 24. I have spent almost two weeks [...]
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July 18th, 2009 by Finally Woken
From The Telegraph.
Italian cartoonist Donald Soffritti imagines the later years of superheroes, with hilarious results. His brilliant cartoons have been collected into a book, available here.
Now, can you guess who they are?
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July 17th, 2009 by Finally Woken
“Look at us,” said Ecky on one of her texts to me, “We’re miles away apart but here we are, talking about crushed chili!”.
I laughed when reading her text but realised how bizarrely true it was, that despite being separated by oceans and 10-hour time difference, not to mention two totally opposite climates (she is [...]
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July 15th, 2009 by Finally Woken
NHS (National Health Services), the publicly funded healthcare system in the United Kingdom, believes that regular intercourse can be good for school pupils’ cardiovascular health and they have a “right” to an enjoyable sex life.
clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk
The advice appears in leaflets circulated to parents, teachers and youth workers and is meant to update sex [...]
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July 13th, 2009 by Finally Woken
If women can get pregnant from stray sperms, loads of women would definitely try to find out where George Clooney or Brad Pitt swim!
clipped from www.thesun.co.uk
A WOMAN is suing an Egyptian hotel claiming her daughter got pregnant – from using the swimming pool.
Magdalena Kwiatkowska’s 13-year-old returned to Poland from their holiday expecting a baby.
Magdalena believes [...]
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July 12th, 2009 by Finally Woken
The wife of the new head of MI6, Britain’s secret intelligent agency, has caused a major security breach and left his family exposed after publishing photographs and personal details on Facebook (foreign office staff are warned about using social networking sites when they join but MI6 advises its agents to maintain even [...]
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July 11th, 2009 by Finally Woken
I’m embarrassed! Lorraine tagged me in May 20th and I was supposed to do my homework and pass it along, but with the moving house and big holiday coming in, I kept postponing it and suddenly it is already mid July!
Yes, Lorraine just awarded me with the “awesome award” amongst other 6 bloggers (thank you, [...]
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July 10th, 2009 by Finally Woken
I’m just back from 3-week holiday with the girls, conquering 3 countries and 9 cities, but I have been planning to go away again by end of this month. This time I do have a valid reason, a friend will have her baby baptized somewhere in England, and mr.mck and I are invited to witness [...]
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July 9th, 2009 by Finally Woken