tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117822852024-03-10T15:50:13.646-07:00Da Blogs Da Thanglecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.comBlogger570125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1167894812727823122007-01-03T23:09:00.000-08:002007-01-03T23:16:27.153-08:00I've moved...This blog will be up for a few days before it too is eventually moved. In the meantime... click the graphic and come on over to my new digs!lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1167814375187620652007-01-03T00:29:00.000-08:002007-01-03T00:52:55.566-08:00long day setting up... and migrating blogs. At least that is out of the way... most of it. You'll be able to see my handywork come Thursday. Figured it will be a particularly good day to launch some new and exciting things. I still need to work on more setup for my internet business. If I keep my deadlines... you'll see it then too! (Oh yeah... ArtHop is Thursday as well!)Damn, it was cold today... so, staying in lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1167725505228845362007-01-01T23:24:00.000-08:002007-01-02T00:30:09.233-08:00day one wasn't so bad.It was a pretty relaxed day for the most part. The cold fog outside just added to the inclination to stay snuggled up in bed for just a while longer. Considering that I got to bed around 2ish... after receiving a few drunken and sweet "Happy New Year" calls from friends I was up early... 8 AM. I supposed it helped that I didn't get blotto last night... though it was fun dancing 2006 away.Brewed lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1167641556911219262007-01-01T00:50:00.000-08:002007-01-01T12:19:19.526-08:002007 is the year of...... letting go of what was. "Re-creation & reinvention" is what it's about this year.That is my 12:01 prediction.Updates with pics... after I cook.UPDATE: 1/1/07 noon.Here are some pics from the New Year's bash last night. Looking at them today... I've decided I really need to get some new product for my hair.lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1167576806873736342006-12-31T06:33:00.000-08:002006-12-31T07:33:09.556-08:002007... Come on down!I think I'll slow dance to THIS tonight.Have a safe one tonight and a Grand and Happy New Year!Cheers!If you plan too fritter away the rest of this year... here are some activities to pass the time away:Click anywhere on THIS PIC... and just keep going.With a simple edit of the URL you can customize the name on THIS sentiment and send it to them for the new year!Using your computer microphone... lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1167383099578589652006-12-29T00:37:00.000-08:002006-12-29T03:52:50.223-08:00Da Count... for Da Year!It had been a challenging year, that's for sure! I have lost friends... and friends have lost loved ones. Almost seems like there were more challenges this year than most.At 12:01 on New Years I always make a prediction. This year's was "a year of major transitions"... and it has been pretty much that way.Yet, I have to be thankful for so much. The challenges have made us stronger. There is stilllecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1167298554395024732006-12-28T01:20:00.000-08:002006-12-28T03:51:06.170-08:00Year End HNT!Yeah, I came back for this...This one (which originally was also my announcement of semi-retirement from HNT) is probably my favorite one for the year. I've been back a couple of times since. (BTW...noticed I said "semi-retirement"?) I'm guessing I like it because the picture has more symbolic meaning to my personal direction in life.I also love the ones I did for the "sepia series" in April withlecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1167179025968508192006-12-26T16:16:00.000-08:002006-12-27T01:20:47.660-08:00what is it about me...... that causes many I know to always assume the worst about me? I am unconventional... and not perfect... but does that make me a total loser fuckup? Geez!EDIT: 1:30 AM, WednesdayI apologise for the vent earlier. The details are really not important. An incident just hurt and pissed me off which soured what would have been a reasonably nice day. It's over. It's done. Time to move on.Not going tolecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1167121878510766652006-12-26T00:22:00.000-08:002006-12-26T00:34:10.790-08:00as the fog began to roll...... in last night I decided to go out for a stroll. I needed to get out and stretch... plus I love looking at the lights in the fog. It was around 11 PM. As I walked I was once again struck by the beauty of the neighborhood in the surreal diffusion of the fog. I managed to capture some pics and have posted one here.I woke at 8 and began cooking at 10. I was done in a couple of hours. Mum and I lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1167019354125183522006-12-24T19:18:00.000-08:002006-12-24T20:12:57.636-08:00it's the 24th and my Christmas is complete....... I'll work backwards ala "memento" & "betrayal".Right now it's 7:30 PM as I sit here writing this. I knew that this year would be a poor Yuletide season when I gave up my job in June... but it was something I was prepared for. I had my reasons... but I won't go into that now.As financially strapped as I am, I still have riches beyond belief. I have just come home from drying clothes from the lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1166903390803414512006-12-23T11:48:00.000-08:002006-12-24T05:48:57.660-08:00trashed sent me this via email today...THE 12 INDIAN DAYS OF CHRISTMAS!Come back for updates later in the day.EDIT: 5 AM, Sunday, 12/24BITS & STEMS:You've already seen mine... here are some other non-traditional christmas trees.Ladies, I finally get it... eating chocolate in bed... YEAH!Did a Costco run yesterday and was disappointed by the sparseness of "samples". That's just not right.The Weather Report Today here is: Areas of denselecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1166756535760453932006-12-21T18:38:00.000-08:002006-12-22T08:36:00.856-08:00Da Count - the kindness of friends & strangersI have recieved this gift on numerous occasions over my life. You know the type - the non-judgemental, non-questioning, here's a place to stay, here's a meal to eat, cash bailout, kind ear, comforting shoulder, hand up, physical labor, here-I'll-do-that-for-you, just a smile brand of kindness... and not because "tis the season"... but just cuz.I can only hope that I have done half as much thus lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1166680715581782382006-12-20T21:35:00.000-08:002006-12-20T22:09:59.836-08:00the show I'm actually performing in...... the 2007 Rogue is titled "Suicide Lounge". Yes, it's sick and wrong... but will be so much fun to do. How? For instance... (not that this is on our set list) but, not only is that beloved standard "Night and Day" a song that celebrates what we would term as STALKING today... but I've heard it told (not saying this is true but... ) that this ditty was originally written by Cole Porter who was lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1166572546193371892006-12-19T15:40:00.000-08:002006-12-19T15:59:06.653-08:00m... m... christmas 2006This little tradition was started about 15 years ago by Fingers B. Basically, it's about getting together at a local watering-hole, imbibing and singing carols in a drunken stupor. (The 12 Days of Christmas has often been described as the "jollyest drunken brawl known to mankind") It's a gathering of Tower types and local musicians... and it's always a lot of fun.Solitaire and I, after our final lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1166487855727817042006-12-18T16:22:00.000-08:002006-12-18T17:20:45.863-08:00i may have a title...Still playing around with graphics... but here is what I came up with today...Oh... and if you click on the picture you'll see the new post on the Theatre J'Nerique site.lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1166375005770831802006-12-17T08:59:00.000-08:002006-12-18T09:34:32.333-08:00ME? Really? Awww....This sort of goes with DA COUNT this week...You can read all about how ME and YOU made the cover this year HERE! (Psst... you can also click the pic of the cover.) BTW... Congratulations to all of us!EDIT: Midnight.Time to plug friends who are going to play the Rogue for the first time in March. I give you POPLORD!Now, I'm in the mood to pop in that seasonal favorite "It's A Wonderful Life"."lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1166248186511116272006-12-15T21:07:00.000-08:002006-12-16T11:21:55.473-08:00got a spare hour 45?I was doing a little surfing today and ran across a movie that I originally featured on this post. Someone had actually uploaded it onto google videos. So, I watched it. Even doubling the screen size the quality wasn't bad (that is after I downloaded it to the computer... which you can do on google). So, if you want to watch it... CLICK HERE to start! Shout-out to Kien especially!I have to say lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1166162829034983702006-12-14T22:04:00.000-08:002006-12-15T11:34:56.026-08:00Da Count - the season of connectionIt is da season - the one that serves to remind us what really counts. For each of us it may seem to be different. But it really is the same... perhaps variations on a common theme.Peace and goodwill is a hope. Connection is real... and perhaps we can achieve that "hope" and contribute to it. My count this week is knowing that we do connect. Through technology... we all commiserate. Weather you lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1166055482409603712006-12-13T16:11:00.000-08:002006-12-13T16:22:33.333-08:00HNT -Christmas Trees (a repost from Picture Daze)OK, on this rare return I'm cheating by re-posting this... but there is a "panty tree" involved... so, I figure it counts.BTW... if you missed the video from 2 weeks ago... it's HERE... and there just may be a new one posted tomorrow. Cheers! & Happy HNT!Growing up Catholic in a Muslim country was really no big deal at all... at least not for me. When I grew up in Malaysia respect and lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1166000642978532892006-12-13T01:02:00.000-08:002006-12-13T01:05:24.660-08:00word up...... Mum's doing much better. Thanks.I'm planning on doing a replay for HNT later.lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1165861865341222842006-12-11T10:07:00.000-08:002006-12-11T11:20:58.083-08:00fair warning...... I made the decision that this blog will move come early January to my new site. I plan to unveil it on my birthday. I don't really celebrate my birthday but I thought it would be at least a good day for an unveiling. I will try to keep at least a post up here to notify those who come by that I have moved to my new digs.On a related note... my domain reseller business, Junglewebs (which has lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1165704917937735632006-12-09T14:44:00.000-08:002006-12-09T15:15:52.910-08:00finished cooking one of...... my favorite curries. Depending on where you are from it is called parripu or dhal - basically a lentil curry with vegetables. Almost every family has a version of the recipe and mine is adapted from the Tamil version. Made sure Mum got her serving and I just finished my helping in about 5 minutes. I made it extra spicy which is perfect for the cool overcast whether we are having.So, I'm fat lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1165557620300325252006-12-07T21:45:00.000-08:002006-12-08T15:19:51.290-08:00Da Count - children's storiesI found out recently that the "Faraway Tree" books by Enid Blyton are now available for sale here in the US. These books gave me such pleasure when I was a kid that I highly recommend them to you if you have any young ones. There were a series of 3 books and I read them over and over again. They really provided the seed that cultivated the joy of reading in me.Basically, it is a series of lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1165475325602648542006-12-06T22:36:00.000-08:002006-12-07T19:36:51.410-08:00still working on stuff...... so, I've nothing to show yet... at least nothing I want to show yet. Perhaps I'll have something tomorrow or on Friday.Now that I'm not holed up writing I can get back to doing chores around the homestead. I began today by mopping the kitchen. From this point on 2 hours will be set aside every morning strictly on maintenance. At least this will help keep the place up as well as give me a lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11782285.post-1165376029076521452006-12-05T19:05:00.000-08:002006-12-06T10:24:20.723-08:00over a year and a half ago...... I started this blog. At first, commenters were almost exclusively from a small pod of friends. As time went on, they were joined by others who I may not have known personally in my real life but were welcome to the party. Now, the original pod hardly ever comments. For a while after this drop-off I valiantly continued commenting on their blogs. But the laws of returns were paying low lecram sinunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660546282834465597noreply@blogger.com0