Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Mike's travels - the final word.
(This is a little late, but I forgot to post it on here...)
Mike's final thoughts.
So I went, I saw, I came home. What lessons have we learned from this trip ?
1. Considering our quality of life, life in England is overly expensive, transport is crap, and when Summer comes elsewhere in the world, the entire population and their caravans don't all head down the same bloody motorway to the same few nice beaches.
2. "The Beach" does exist, and you don't need a hand-drawn map to find it.
3. Taxi drivers in Kuala Lumpur are honest folk.
4. Yes, it is worth going on a 9-hour flight to get to your Summer Holiday rather than the typical 3-hour jobby to Spain. It's worth the effort.
5. Call that rain ? Pah. We don't *know* what real rain is.
6. Not all Americans are fat or obnoxious.
7. Life without Pfizer is possible.
Mike's final thoughts.
So I went, I saw, I came home. What lessons have we learned from this trip ?
1. Considering our quality of life, life in England is overly expensive, transport is crap, and when Summer comes elsewhere in the world, the entire population and their caravans don't all head down the same bloody motorway to the same few nice beaches.
2. "The Beach" does exist, and you don't need a hand-drawn map to find it.
3. Taxi drivers in Kuala Lumpur are honest folk.
4. Yes, it is worth going on a 9-hour flight to get to your Summer Holiday rather than the typical 3-hour jobby to Spain. It's worth the effort.
5. Call that rain ? Pah. We don't *know* what real rain is.
6. Not all Americans are fat or obnoxious.
7. Life without Pfizer is possible.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Lettuce !
As some of you already know, I've had problems sleeping since I was a teenager. Regardless of how tired I'd be, each night I'd get to bed and be wide awake 1-4 hours later. It wasn't stress or anything like that - I'd sometimes think to myself, after lying there for three hours, "Right.. what are you thinking about right now ?" and it'd be something ridiculous like an old episode of Cold Feet or something that mundane.
Nothing's helped... I seem to be immune to sleeping pills, hot milk, warm baths, recordings of conference calls about RUP documentation... Nothing seemed to work except having a paracetamol... and you really don't want to be having one of those each night.
And then, last year, I discovered a cure. Lettuce.
Each night, I eat a bowl of lettuce before bed, and the difference is amazing. I'm asleep within 10 minutes. I can't tell you what a relief this is.
The problem is... no one quite believes me. Everyone thinks I'm either trying to be funny (seriously, could you come up with a punchline to this one ?) or just making it up.
And today, the Daily Mail finally confirmed my suspicions.
Lettuce can help you to sleep. It's official. The Daily Mail told me so.
Read it and weep, people...
