I had my first encounter with some of those, uh, door-to-door religion salesmen yesterday. It wasn’t pleasant because they made me angry but I managed to keep my cool and didn’t slam the door on them. First mistake, they were…

 

Yes, that’s Troy’s hairy thigh in the picture. I’m sorry if it disturbs you. The happy-looking girl in the Polaroid is, of course, yours truly. Troy took the picture of me with our Polaroid camera shortly before I took…

 

+ See? I look like the guy on the t-shirt. - Yeah, but I look too happy, unlike the monkey. + Why wouldn’t you? - Why wouldn’t I what? + Be happy? - pause I don’t know. confused because…

 

From this week on, every Thursday I’m going to post a short short story that I wrote myself. Feel free to do the same if you like. The following story was originally written to amuse Troy at work. There was…

 

— It’s starting to feel like Canada again, now that the temperature has gone down to the high 20s (Celsius degree). — I seem to handle hot weather worse than Canadians, who are used to cold weather. — If Canadians…

 

Summer is not officially here yet, but it already feels like summer. In fact, it feels pretty much like Jakarta (Indonesia) during the dry season. I can’t say that I like it. I hate hot weather. It turns me into…

 

Neil passed me this book meme, and while I’m not really an avid book reader, I just thought I’d do it, just for the fun of it. So here goes. Books owned. I left behind hundreds of books in Indonesia….

 

This is not a post about rabbit. It is said that if the first words you utter on the first day of the month are “rabbit rabbit”, you’ll have good luck all month long. As I said before, this is…

Read more entries in the archives or subscribe to the feed.

Content copyright © 2000-2008 Firda Beka
Site powered by Movable Type 4.1