Rum. Rum is good.

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A really nasty heatstroke and dehydration doesn't make for a quick and coherent brain :{

I really, really need the monsoon to begin. It's way late already, and the heatNhumidity's making me unpleasantly sick and slow to recover from the heatstroke, and what with rl being a spot bothersome there're large number of pending comments I can't think properly enough to answer *Annoyed*


I loved this lovely little ST-TOS comic :)


Friends, if there's anyone wanting dreamwidth codes, please do send them over



Is it me, or is Sacha looking a little bit like Sarah Jessica Parker in this pic ?



I think he does. Interesting :D

Speaking of 'Bruno', here's a link that is Not worksafe XD



Will possibly be able to get at comments when I'm a little more organised rl :(

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'nets acting up BigTimE for me atta mo'

:/

Yes, it's because of 'Aila'

Is that the name of a woman ?

Last I knew, 'aila' is a word in Marathi that means '(he/she/it) is coming'

Hope I'm right there, and if not, please do correct me, Marathi-speakers

However, if 'Aila' was named from the name of a woman, then I Protest Massively !

Trust me, guys who name environmental disasters with feminine names, I can be a few times worse than any of those you've named if I really put my mind to it *Fumes a little*

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Cyclone on here, lines are overhead, I expect they might go any mo'. *Worried* Power's out now, I'm writing on batteries. Will answer all comments as soon as I next get online

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Yesterday late afternoon, after a few days of 41 degree celsius plus temperatures, the skies came over all dark-like, and evening came early, and it stormed, and it hailed, and it rained alongwith ... And all the sleep I missed on those hot, hot days have come back en masse to weigh on my head.

Not a good idea, I am very busy rl at the moment, and can't think of anything till I get this visa-app done and through.

The current coolness is welcome, though ... I don't know how long it will be around ... ...

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Nice little nor'westerly yesterday, and high speed winds. And a large number of overhead phone lines gone as a result. My home's was repaired some two hours back.

Btw, anyone who has geocities account/s - it's going to go later this year.

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Weather is HORRIBLE. I itch. The air's filthily dry, Dry, DRY, and it's hurting my skin, dammit

I don't want to be here, I want to be in Rio. That's Rio de Janeiro. It's one of the two most marvellous places on earth, for me

Oh well, cricket isn't bad, at the moment, that is ... ... *Cackle cackle* Repercussions iZ tasty. Very VERY tasty ! I shall be watching today. And licking my lips. And giggling. Prolly dementedly *GiggleGiggle*

A particular newly elected administration of a particular country ruined my one very good chance of doing some decent work. I hope they burn freeze. Slowly. And very painfully

The same goes for slightly older-elected administrations of some other countries. I hope they rot, slowly, and painfully

Goaded to extremity by the posting of this ... this maddening recipe, I gave in, and made shortbread, and ate it with cool banana and cool purple seedless grapes and chocolate and vanilla and nuts icecream. I think I can hold out for a few days before doing that again *Hopes*

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Wow, it's scarily windy today ...


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Good Gods, 'Santas in Australia's largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas's traditional "ho ho ho" greeting because it may be offensive to women, it was reported Thursday.'

:D

Makes me want to go 'HO HO HO' regardless :D

Go on, read these for some more fascinating stuff :D



And yes, it's raining and snowing hailing at the moment OMG that's so disturbing ! Come on, this is the tropics, at the very least stop the snow hail !! *Astounded*

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Right, then. Greenpeace. One of their fund-raising parties stopped me yesterday on the street and began giving me this spiel about Olive Ridleys and global warming.
All very well, I suppose, but when I asked what were they doing about the one-horned Rhinoceros (and other animals) in Kaziranga and Manas (and other smaller protected places close to these reserves) getting drowned in the current floods, all that fellow mumbled was ‘We have our specified projects.’

Yet.

Another.

Bleeding !

Corporate !!

GAH !!!

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*Stares at weather map*

*Worries very, very much*

Well, on the plus side, the streets are mostly visible, so I suppose I can go buy some things today.

*Keeps worrying*

Well, at least carlanime's offered me a canoe. *Feels less worried*

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Yesterday passed in a very strange way. I hadn’t gone out because apparently the city was entirely awash (I hear it still is). And then, the power was switched off at around 10-ish (because the waters were reaching up to something or other in the electricity way), and was restored back around 7-ish today --- so, an outage of 21 hours, which was mostly spent trying to save food-stuff (Thank Gods for gas-cooking---enabled).
Exhausting, but results were satisfactory.
Now the only thing is to think of things to do with the food … *Ponders*
The great emergency is that now I’m on my last cigarette-pack, and I need to buy more, and I need to wade through that … that horrible water to buy more. I’m putting it off as long as I can *pushes away evil moment for time being* as my Wellies are old-ish and beginning to leak a little water in. *Looks out and sees duckweed (Lemna sps.) floating around*

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Loads and loads of rains for the last two nights, and my feet were itching so I had to wash them thrice. Thank Gods for cloth-pumps !
And so much lightning and thunder, I dared not go online.
There's dirty, knee-deep water in the streets ... Eurgh.

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So I made some icons ...

Variations in Roses ...


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And yes, http://tinypic.com/ is wonderful ! *Adores*


( And I made some more icons too, for my GJ and IJ ... )

I'm making some more of this sort ... Yes, for my GJ and IJ.

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It's 5:19 in the morning, and the sky looks ominous. I don't know how long I'll be able to be on line. I don't want to be online when the lightning starts.

Wheee ! Cricket starts at around 4:30 PM today WHEEE !

I can't believe it I can't effing believe it, now this email address is receiving spam and I created this account because my normal account was receiving way too much spam (at the time I created this one) ...
After so many months of being in the clear, 'm getting spam in this one too Aargh ! *Deletes spam mails (anon and non-anon) emphatically* *Shakes fist at nasty little spammers*

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It rained perfectly, gently, and off and on. It's lovely and cool now.
The lunch out was absolutely marvellous - Garlic Naan and Haandi Mutton, both quite utterly superlative, followed by Butterscotch Icecream. I think I might be trying the single malt there next time I go.
I am still feeling happily fed. And drowsy, but not uncomfortably sleepy.
Mmm. Mmmmmm.

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ETA (1:09 AM, 23rd) - 'm trying out 'Vertigo' for a day or two ... *Thoughtful*

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Damn, it's thundering. I've to get off line.

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It rained.
Quite a bit.
And there are clouds.
Which means I am feeling a lot less sick at the moment.
Nevertheless, the monsoons are yet to arrive. I hear it'll be another 2-5 days.
Oh, well ...

I'm feeling slightly less pissed off with lj-ing now. Hope I feel okay enough to return ... All my friends I've come to cherish are here ... But so are the new few I have met on gj ...

Yes, I must stay on on both, then.

I'm writing fics ...

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It appears that the monsoon's on its way to inside the south.

Which means it's going to be another fortnight or so to get here.

And meanwhile, I am utterly sick from the heat, and my skin feels burnt.

All of which has put me in a terminal sort of bad temper.

As for which blogging site (gj, ij, vox, anything else that I find ...) I shall stay mostly on from now on --- that is something I will be deciding during the course of this week.

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ETA:
This wfi sounds precisely like some things awol from a place perfectly suitable for Savonarola, the gitmo-policy-makers, Osama-bin-Laden, the Myanmar-junta, and every other damned rotted brain fundie who've ever existed on the earth.

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Major outage today.
Not nice, in this sort of weather - way too hot, and just a slight warmish breeze ... *Drinks water*
*Continues drinking lots of water*
Desperately need the rains now. Now !
My little kittens had become dehydrated a little, too ... *Worries*





( Re. the Un-Friended Stalker lj-user-miman ...  )

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Today is really terribly hot. Absolutely can't sleep. *Sigh* Maybe it'll cool off a bit further on into the night ... *Hopes*


A kitten settled on something that's of a contrasting colour to it automatically improves the look of the perch by Infinite %.
The level of expendable energy exhibited by the same kitten in this heat is, to say the least, incredibly annoying ! *Glares at random hyperactive kitten, who doesn't give a fricking damn and continues to jump around with the others*



( To the Un-Friended Stalker lj-user-miman ... )

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Last afternoon-eveningish there was a wee bit of a thunderstorm, which meant I had to stop connecting to the 'net and couldn't check lj.


But, I slept.


Thank heavens, I Slept ! *madly happy semi-dehydrated Grin* *drinks water*

And there's clouds around today. OhPleaseLetItRemainCloudyOhPleaseOhPlease !!

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Red cabbage seems to have a lot of sulphur in it. So tasty.

The bacon I got recently is absolutely fabulous ! *YumSlurrrp*

Bacon 'n Red Cabbage Rolls, Ooo !

I need to get lots of chocolates. Almost run out of it now. Maybe I could make a chocolate cake tonight ... Desperately need it.

I wish the monsoon would turn up early this year, which means now ; *is melty and ineffective from heat n humidity* probably got a real heat-stroke today, Ugh !

I'm effin' tired of this echo of a person hanging around the 'net, trying to communicate with me in its garbled Moron (I meant that as a language, not a description), especially as it's the root cause of a disgusting amount of trouble. Bugger off now, you ghost of Teh Shtoopid, you !

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Opening of f-pages sticking again ... I've given up for now.

And it's so hot-n-humid, I just hacked my hair off. Ah, the coolness on the nape of my neck now ! Bliss !

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Haven't been this busy in a very long time.

Day before - rains. Then horrible humidity. Brain congealed.

Yesterday, absolutely horrible humidity. Brain stopped working. Then rains. Thank Gods !

Today, so far, cloudy-ish. *Hoping it remains so*


Too.

Many.

Things.

To.

Do.

I'll do 'em !


On the flip side, discovered that the lj-user who has been trolling me the longest is actually certifiable as a result of congenital brain malformation. *Shudders in horror* Thank Gods it doesn't live close to me. I don't want something that sticks a knifed message into someone's door because the radio-volume was not to its liking to live anywhere on the same continent as I do. *Shudders in total horror at being reminded of the writings of the perpetrator of the recent V-Tech massacre by the writings of this particular troll and stalker*

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Oh for Gods' sakes, RaiN !!! *Throws up hands exasperatedly*

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It rained yesterday !
Not much.
But enough !
And a little bit the day before, too.
And I slept !
And now am functional once again !!
Wheeee !!!

I love jigsaw puzzles ! Yay !!

Back at night again.

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Haven't slept all night. Too bloody effing hot ! And now, 'm beginning to nod off ... Zzzzzzzzzz ...

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The lilting 'Coo' of a Cuckoo, a sudden whiff of 'Mogra' from joss-sticks somewhere, the golden sunlight of the late afternoon …

So beautiful.

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Oddly cool-ish. It must have been snowing, or possibly even blizzarding, in the upper reaches somewhere.

World Cup cricket tonight. Wheeee !


Off on 27th, afternoon, back on 31st, hopefully afternoon too (provided the train doesn't get late). Suddenly becoming terribly rushed – that's me.
Must try the tube there this time. I do have an extra half-ish day on the 31st. I might even try to drop in this Ministry Office if I can manage it … And of course, try the McD there. Have been using Wimpy's exclusively till now. Maybe go to a nice eaterie for lunch, or dinner, on the 29th … Dunno …



Serve-n-volley proceeding between Sunny and … Interesting, certainly.

Go Sunny !! YAY ! *BOUNCES*



Today's an off day.
Cheese n Tomato Sauce n Leek n Lobster on Pasta AND Chocolate Cake !
I Want ! Today !!

Let's see if I can cover some posts I've been wanting to make for a while now, too …

But that's going to be after the pasta and cake … Hee !



*Smirk* 'm waiting for the mix-up of 'beckon' and 'bacon' to come up someday, somewhere. Bring it on, someone, Cummun Now ! I'm effin' tired of the same old 'their' n 'there' n 'they're' and 'your' n 'you're' mix-ups. *Snigger* Buck up, people-not-on-my-f-list, give me something hilarious and newly so ! *Snigger Snigger*



The Borneo Clouded Leopard is divergent enough to be a separate species from the plexus of its origin.
And has the longest canine teeth relative to body size of any cat.

Lovely ! Lovely !! *Giggle* I particularly liked that bit about the teeth.

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… and uncomfortable.

C'mon rains ! Where are you ? A little itty bitty wettish breeze and some passing clouds won't do !

Also, no idea when I can get into the f-entries next … *PoutSulkPout*

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Sun - still hot.

Air - still crisp and cool.

Nice !

:)

Spoke to a very charming gentleman over the phone in the morning.

Have to download stuffZ for study. Hope it's not going to be too much ... *Pout*

Been talking by mail to a very, very nice girl. Mmm. Very intelligent !

Doing another set o' sadfic - sporks ! Hee !

Have to trim hair soon, though. It's grown way too long by now. Didn't want to hack at it during winter.

Also, have to cut down on cigarettes. It's gone above 3 a day since yesterday. It's gone upto 6 a day for the last 2 days. Won't do. Nope. Must switch to chocolate instead.

Haven't been able to check F-list since Sunday. Must go in tonight ...


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ETA (This ain't fer f-list, mind) : Heya porky ! Great seein' ya drop by. Keep coming over. Ta !

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… because I have way too large a f-list-pages left to read …

But some things are quite, quite irresistible !


Firstly, the rec of a fanfic begins as - 'Blair has brain damage' *Giggle* I don't think I need to explain where my mind went … *Laughs a lot*


It's been windy, and rainy, and cloudy, and cooooool, and yesterday morning the whole place was carpeted with mango flowers and young mango twigs … Smelt very charming.
Getting ickle flowers sticking to sole of footwear --- not so charming, but it's easy to shake off, so, not really a bother.


I have been pretty stressed for a while now, so much so that I am not managing to comment properly to my friends … Something has to give. Either me, or the situation. And Soon ! Let's see who blinks first.


As I've said before, I've been sporking fics --- in blast_n_rip, and next in line will be one (two, if I can manage) of a few I'll pick at random from one of those which either plagiarised WWII–inspired war-stories shamelessly, or those that can be described as 'really awfully-written smut … Like the kind that wins awards, and there's more metaphor and similies in a sentence, with them sliding all over each other better than a greased-up pig.'
These're dragons_wyrd's words, not mine, but an excellent description, and since I refuse to plagiarise other people's efforts, the link to this description is at http://community.livejournal.com/deleterius/2640624.html?thread=54629616 …



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Oh, btw (This Is Not For People On Friended List), last, and the least :-
Hi ! *Waves energetically to Claire, Alison, Sophie, Katie et al* Thanks for dropping by.
I see, though, that some of you are still missing … Hey, don't feel left out, anyone of you. Please. Do keep visiting. You'll all of you SUE/STU-thors be featured in the sporks, in my own time. And of course, Sophie dear, I will deffo be sporking some of the rubbish you (and your dear friend/s) have spewed, including the most nauseatingly poor and nasty noncon I've ever skim-read. Don’t be that anxious to see your outputs featured in blast_n_rip, dear girl ! It'll all come, in good time. *Smirk*
Hiiiii, Lucy ! The next one, or prolly the one after that, might end up as a 'a pickel up yer bum' --- quoting yourself, of course, in case you'd like to know where this particular quote comes from.
Hello, Claire ! You do remember, don't you, what I promised would be the consequences if you lot kept stalking me ? And yea, these sporks are merely for my personal satisfaction. There's other things/one other thing, nearly done, for the satisfaction of all those other people you lot have been insulting ceaselessly since … quite a while.
Oh hell, forgot Trish. How could I forget that wonderfully persistent nuisance, almost a personal troll WOW ! … Hey, Trish dearie, do go check the link-to-the-post I sent you back in January. That is, assuming you haven't dropped your basic literacy-level irretrievably into the sea while flying back over it somewhat more than a week ago.

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I can be 'discreet'. But how can I possibly be 'discrete' ? And then again, one might 'lose' something, but how in all existence does one 'loose' something ? (No, not 'loosen'. 'Loose'.) 'You're a cad' --- I might say that. I can't even begin to imagine the circumstances in which I might think of saying 'Your a cad'. Would these be debated by the pandas, then ?

mina_de_malfois, thank you for the best Valentine's day present I've ever received. What excellent prose, presentation, and ofcourse, the superbly inspired and meticulously detailed research behind it ! Congratulations !

There's been rains, lots and lots of rains, for the last 2 days, and today … the atmosphere is so very free of particulates that the sunlight is glinting off the new leaves. An adorable sight.

I still loathe every bottle made of glass in existence, past, present and future.

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Fog and clouds everywhere. *Grump*
Headache-y all of last Saturday. *Grump*
It's too cool to have the fan on in my room, so fuggy that I want to have it on. *Grump*
Obligatory end of winter 'flu. Yea, certainly. Since last Wednesday. And I didn't realise it before Sunday. *Grump*
I have to wade through mounds of muck to try clean up an Augean Stables. *Grump*
Why do people, after they ask me to mail them, not reply ? *Grump*
My feet are cold, and I'm sure I've got pms. *Grump*

However, I've also got chips, and I'm going to try chips and cricket, together. If it doesn't work ... ...

Well, it'd better work.

I am also getting a great original plot-bunny based on ... something in lj. Might help ...

If anyone wanders over to this grumpy entry, then please do my poll ...

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( These quizzies are a wee bit fonny )

First day wash out, HEH !

O'course, as long as muh Veewu hunny's shoulder dun't recover fully from the 'slight strain' (as reported), there WILL BE NO PLAY.

NONE ! NONE ! NONE !

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You Are Lightning

Beautiful Yet Dangerous. People Will Stop And Watch You When You Appear. Even Though You're Capable Of Random Violence ! You're best known for : Your Power ! Your dominant state : Performing.

What Type of Weather Are You ?