OH MY GOD! It's been a whole week since I last posted. Cannot say much except that it's been another busy week for me...
My house-sitting time will be over in just a couple of weeks and I haven't managed to get as much done as I had hoped. However, I have been making up for lost time over the past seven days as well as get a couple of karaoke nights in.
I have been working on a t-shirt for a friend that says "Help Wanted: Hunky Man Slave" in Chinese characters. It's been a bit problematic but a great learning experience. I can only get better at it. I will also try to make one for myself. I will also make some that say "spam" and "white person noodle house". I think it only fair to do this as there are many badly composed English products made in other countries. I'd also like to try my hand at Hindi shirts.
I will also be able to finish writing some more letters and try my hand at quilting before I go home...
I would also like to say that for the first time in a long time I saw something that made me gag and almost vomit. This doesn't happen to me too often but yesterday took the cake.
I was standing at a bus stop downtown when I hear someone coughing and hacking just steps from me. I look over to see this 50+ year old woman (or at least she looked that old) coughing up what seemed like a lung. All the while, she had a cigarette in her right hand and a coffee in the other. She was uncontrollable and I am sure that bits of her lung came up. That is when I have the almost unstoppable urge to "woof my cookies". Had I had the guts I would have yelled "Have another drag'... or at least put her out of her misery.
One final thing today that I would like to comment on. I have been seeing ads all over for the ALDO fights Aids campaign which I find totally brave and honourable. However, I also wonder how effective such a campaign can be when even leaders of countries cannot stick to programs meant to curb it.
I was reading in the Guardian about a program in Swasiland that banned girls from having sex until they were 18 being officially abandoned by the polygamist king. Granted the campaign was a little drastic but if we don't have drastic policies, then this disease will continue. If the mindset of the people and their leaders does not change, the situation will continue.
In an ideal world, campaigns like the one that Aldo and Youth Aids are running should do the trick. Unfortunately, if only parts of the world buy into it then aren't we going up the creek with no paddle?
My house-sitting time will be over in just a couple of weeks and I haven't managed to get as much done as I had hoped. However, I have been making up for lost time over the past seven days as well as get a couple of karaoke nights in.
I have been working on a t-shirt for a friend that says "Help Wanted: Hunky Man Slave" in Chinese characters. It's been a bit problematic but a great learning experience. I can only get better at it. I will also try to make one for myself. I will also make some that say "spam" and "white person noodle house". I think it only fair to do this as there are many badly composed English products made in other countries. I'd also like to try my hand at Hindi shirts.
I will also be able to finish writing some more letters and try my hand at quilting before I go home...
I would also like to say that for the first time in a long time I saw something that made me gag and almost vomit. This doesn't happen to me too often but yesterday took the cake.
I was standing at a bus stop downtown when I hear someone coughing and hacking just steps from me. I look over to see this 50+ year old woman (or at least she looked that old) coughing up what seemed like a lung. All the while, she had a cigarette in her right hand and a coffee in the other. She was uncontrollable and I am sure that bits of her lung came up. That is when I have the almost unstoppable urge to "woof my cookies". Had I had the guts I would have yelled "Have another drag'... or at least put her out of her misery.
One final thing today that I would like to comment on. I have been seeing ads all over for the ALDO fights Aids campaign which I find totally brave and honourable. However, I also wonder how effective such a campaign can be when even leaders of countries cannot stick to programs meant to curb it.
I was reading in the Guardian about a program in Swasiland that banned girls from having sex until they were 18 being officially abandoned by the polygamist king. Granted the campaign was a little drastic but if we don't have drastic policies, then this disease will continue. If the mindset of the people and their leaders does not change, the situation will continue.
In an ideal world, campaigns like the one that Aldo and Youth Aids are running should do the trick. Unfortunately, if only parts of the world buy into it then aren't we going up the creek with no paddle?
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