Home Again!

[theoriginalblurker]

Why does my office smell like rotten food whenever I get back from a long trip?  There is no food in my office!  However, I do reside next to the food court.  What are they putting in the walls?!!


Things I did not have a chance to blog about while I was gone:

1. The fact that, on my second day in Singapore, I awoke to find myself on the other side of the bed with my head at the foot of the bed.  WTF?


2. The day that my ride did not show up and I had to take a taxi down to the Harbour Front to catch the ferry to Batam.  Luckily I found the guy with my ticket wandering around the port looking for me.


3. Running around Little India in the pouring rain looking for gooseberries for my colleague's daughter. (Note: Gooseberries taste like ass.)(Note 2: They were probably Indian gooseberries.)


4. Watching a pastry chef build a cake and refusing to leave until we knew what the cake was going to be (even though we were about to pass out from lack of sleep).

Oh, and apparently I still have jet lag, even though I slept for almost the entire 3-day weekend.  I guess you just can't escape.

Comments

[hwrnmnbsol.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I wonder if your office area shares any ductwork or common ceiling plenums with the food court area. If so, after a long period of low ventilation in your office, it's natural that some food odors would migrate in.

There are fixes for this. They are expensive. Hire me!

[auspeople.livejournal.com]

What are they putting in the walls?!!

Remember the rat? Noooooooooo!

The fact that, on my second day in Singapore, I awoke to find myself on the other side of the bed with my head at the foot of the bed. WTF?

You aren't taking Ambien, are you?

[drelmo.livejournal.com]

The sleep narcosis is probably some debilitating tropical disease. You should probably panic and run around a lot until you smack into a wall and pass out, 'cause that'd be pretty funny.

[mrschu.livejournal.com]

Would ass-flavored gooseberries be the perfect dessert to accompany the cock-flavoured soup from one of Angelo's previous posts?

Glad to hear you're back safely.

[jpmodisette.livejournal.com]

Alla got some dried cape gooseberries; those taste like dried ass. They were so bad, she wouldn't even offer them to our friends to try. (This is a strong statement, for those of you who don't know Alla).

I've seen the proper culinary use of the cape gooseberry: we bought this mango ice cream pastry thing with one cape gooseberry sitting on top of it. You eat the gooseberry so you can better appreciate the fundamental non-gooseberrity of the cake. Or, if you've eaten a gooseberry before, you can just imagine what it's like and not only get the enhanced flavor effect on the cake but also the euphoria of "I am not eating this cape gooseberry".

[greeneyes-rpi.livejournal.com]

You eat the gooseberry so you can better appreciate the fundamental non-gooseberrity of the cake.

That sounds about right. The wikipedia article I cited says this:

"a glass of water taken immediately after eating a large fruit makes the water seem sweeter"

a-yup

[arenson9.livejournal.com]

Welcome home and may you never again eat anything that tastes like ass.