a bit annoyed

So priests eh. Fr Jose has offered personally to refund the 700 pounds extra provided to DVK. They kicked me out of my room early but his story is they don't give refunds and he has already given them all the dosh. Doesn't completely make sense. I could press him for accounts. But it looks like I was too aggressive in my attack on his colleague and it wasn't that much money. I have asked him to find out if he could get any mail that might have been sent. But even that seems a lost cause. I will not give him any more money and I try now for SEERI.

SEERI have offered me a month or less which is more than enough time to get an admissions letter to start in April which he says is essential and if he can get a letter for that date suits me well enough. I'll return to England in March get a transcript from UCL and he wants a transfer document from the last university I attended I think I'll give him one from Greenwich luckily I have attended a fair few universities in my time but I think a transfer is usually when you transfer not when you attend loads of them and then decide to attend another one. But technicalities. Trick is not to fall out with him for the two years of the visa. Then the Lebanon for another degree or licenciate or something, and then Roma for an STD. No Catholic serious about Syriac should be outwith one. It may stand for something like Doctor of Sacred Theology but it will mean for me Syriac.

So I commend two things to you first Hellboy 2 and sugar cane juice (one million flies can't be wrong) especially when mixed with ginger and lime). So my apologies for attacking Hellboy 2. Guillermo please forgive me. It was after reading Love Eat Pray by Elizabeth Gilbert that I achieved del Toro enlightenment. No need to do exercises or visit Bali or Rome though I intend to do that too.

For three reasons, for picking Luke Goss you remember the Goss bros, must be 80s rock pop idols. The act of singular genius. Luke Goss sums up in his life, both the last of the elf princes, a mirror of the Fallen One's son who is Hellboy. On that alone Guillermo you excelled and you could have rested. Then there is a duet between Hellboy and Abe effing genius. It starts with Vivaldi and then moves on to Neil Diamond I think but it's just an act of genius. Not to mention casually being drawn into a world of phantasmagoria but fused effortlessly in modern america even when it's in Eire.

My apologies I have sinned and outraged the modest genius of Guillermo Del Toro. Hellboy 2 is a must see film it reveals the zeitgeist of our age of fallen heroes. If Sam Raimi had done it I should not have need Liz Gilbert's magickal text to reveal it to me, Gilbert's is Mills and Boons idiot guide to spirituality for the spiritual tourist or armchair magician and I commend them all to this house.

So I will have to return soon, restock compose myself get a new mouth gum teeth protector thing and a box and get back into the Far East. I love you all madly. And final piece of advice. Not a good idea to trust priests with money, or things they could use for sex if you thought that they wouldn't. Hmmm. I should perhaps have known though.

Goa

I arrived on 23rd and have been relaxing in the motherland since then. I am on the verge of working out what the various regions of Goa mean, so when people ask which part of Goa I may have a response. All to do with snobbery of course and how portuguese you pronounce.

So a little annoyed with DVK but one must not be troubled by little things. Fr Jose's Mother died a few days before I returned so he was in Kerala for the funeral. Fr Davis who runs the PG Bloc had readied my room for the next occupant I had to ask him for the key. I was given the bum' s rush at the end. I cannot guarantee the lives of the pigeonlings after I left but I don't feel responsible for them after I left. One tried to maintain neutrality like the old country but when bordering fascistic forces. Anyway after much consideration I think the best way to respond outwith pettiness is to require Fr Jose to return the excess of the 350 pounds sterling I had deposited with him for my keep at DVK based on my being evicted on 14th December instead of the room being kept for me for my return. I might get a couple of hundred pounds more. I think it may impinge upon the PG Director's accounts. My guess is he is a bit of a people pleaser, has been allowing the fathers too many freebies and now has a massive hole in the accounts for which he can give no reason.

Anyway extras to Fr Jacob via Fr Jose for my stay in Kerala next shift. After that maybe Bali I read this fun book Eat Love Pray by Gilbert which reminds me must do a review of it for Amazon but these things may have to wait for my return to civilization. John the Just shares a house with his brother, but sort of down the middle the practice is described in Once upon a time in Aparanta so it's a Goan thing. This is my first internet experience since arriving. I have attended midnight mass, one Goan dance. And some parte s based around food and meeting John's relatives, one of whom I think may be a widow and a fine cook, now I had thought about asking the Universe if I could marry her for her hand as it were. But three kids and I am pretty sure they wouldn't all like me even if they did figure out I could help with their education.

Not to mention the widow is a Caflick Fundamentalist and I don't think necessarily would want to remarry. Plus she may not be a widow. Yep maybe we are going to need a bigger boat.

So that is why I have not been taking advantage of the kind seedings of Yahoo Answers. Though in my absence I still got 5 best answers takes a few days for them to kick in. That's 50 more points. I think it's best to return when I know I have continuous access.

Oh I didn't get to ask whether I had any mail waiting for me at DVK. But I'll ask Jose along with the deposit return request. Disappointing in some ways but I was given a precursor prophecy of how I will be treated if my money runs out and that's always good to know. They give me food lodging and tuition because and only because I give them money, no woman no cry and all that stuff. Oh I did like the Gilbert. A book for spiritual tourists. It was meant for me. And yet as spiritual tourists go she started off nicer than most holy people and improved dramatically in the course of her meditation ashram sojournings not to mention pasta in Italy.

Colombo Airport

So I watched Spirit, it's awful, the CNN guy was right. Not sure if whathisname has become too self-indulgent I think he wasn't experimental enough with the costumes he had some good actresses in that one Scarlet Johanson Eva Mendes I think maybe it's written into their contracts that they can't wear degrading outfits. But wasted an hour or so here.

Hey I left Kandy 1pm 21 December and I'll only arrive in Goa 5.30Am on the 23 December. I was worried I had left too early but it took six hours to arrive at least three changes. Negombo and then a shuttle later. I don't think I have ever travelled with a gel with whom such a trip might be pleasant. They seem to get irritated with me if the travel is unpleasant but I think that just may be women who know you very well.

So the Maestro is not accepted at the whisky duty free shop so that sorts that problem out. I might try getting something to eat and drink though just see if it works. I couldn't manage lunch in Kandy I got nerves. I think they were nerves. Just couldn't eat. I am progressing well in Yahoo answers. I should make level three by next week if I just keep batting away. Though I might take a break for Xmas.

I hope Irom has written again but if not I'll maybe send her something in the New Year. International Peace Activist and Human Rights Defendor she may be but it's not that nice a life, in solitary being force friend through a nose tube. They get this huge syringe of green gunge and push it through three times a day. Then she does her yoga sutras. Oh yeah and I think Dennis might have sent me something but not expecting anything else.

I shall check out Holy Ghost in Lebanon now I doubt they have a web page but you never know.
And still have two decent films Orphanage and Wall E but I thought John the Just might be interested in one of them. If not give me something to do with my spare time. Plus I used my last rupees on a converter plug, a nice one I had left the cheap one in Kandy. This one looks nice if it works. A Xmas pressie for the Mcbook I should give her a name although really it's the Average White McBook that's a nice name.

Goodbye Kandy

Ok the plan to see the beautiful scenic well that went out the window. I think I need a travelling companion or something. Not sure might have been the rain and the leeches. And the broadband. But not sure if I approve of this life, downloading and watching films and then writing strange reviews.

Oh yes I think it is fair to say as far as I can gather Mrs Miggins was a little taken aback when she read this on-line dairy, why not, probably it's most avid reader but there you go you can comment in passing too Mrs Miggins it is interactive. Anyway the only consequence as far as I can tell and it's never a good idea to use the modifier only, was no laundry got done. Instead was despatched by driver to a dry cleaners, hence, and it has taken me this long to figure out why it cost so much and it was done piece rate. Anyway probably the highlight of my trip having my smalls drycleaned and returned (but we didn't starch them sir) oh no never mind must be the damp.

And I now think it very unlikely my life will imitate any of the films I have seen or may see and if that were to happen I should suspect coma delirium, a codeword to awaken always helps but I'm sure to forget the codeword. I fear that I may be turning into the SS officer in the film about the just gentile, so he is told real power is about mercy, so he for a while says to a few Jews who upset him for no reason, I forgive you, Ralph Fiennes who has always been called Rafe. Well he bores of that after a bit and returns to shooting them. My generosity must be more than handing over a bar of chocolate to the shopkeeper's wife and kid on my last day. I bought an extra bar. I need enough to get the bus then a taxi to the airport though I am keen on the bus shuttle. A more adventurous adventuror would dine out in Colombo pick up some sites and return late to the airport having hired a driver for the day. Yep but my ancestors would not sing to me how brave you are my grandchild, they might definitely start shameless and full of fear, is it how they end. Fear becomes courage and shame honour. Vipisanna has taught me I shall never be a meditator. I tried getting back into the swing. Lasted ten minutes.

Have last film downloading, Wall E, well it was easy to download an hour to go. Will take Orphanage stylish foreign ghost movie, Spirit awful american fascisistic cartoon by my hero, and Wall E to Goa. I should start packing. I am going to shut down some time after lunch and then relog tomorrow in DVK for the last time.

I hope Dennis has sent a card, because Dennis sends card and it's nice to get one sorry I never send anything back. And I hope Irom Sharmila Chanu has written again if only to say well nah she wouldn't say that would she. That's it I think. I should cultivate new acquaintances in case I have need of them, mercenary well more fellowship against the evil that never sleeps, either way friends come and go enemies shut the door permanently and some people stalk, but that's really rare and quite a privilege were it not so harmful.

No plans to return. Nepal next. Then England for annunciation 2010. Then study I must check out the Lebanon if India makes a fuss. Somehow Syriac studies maybe a Licence in French medium just sounds strange enough if it's up a mountain in the Lebanon. Well if the Injuns kick off about visas eh.

And it would be nice if my first reaction at the death of Brittany Murphy ok after who, was that's sad only 32 heart attack so you wrestled with the welcome stranger odd to lose so young guess you are as frail as you look sis, instead of first reaction wonder what drugs she was doing because it would say I had learnt to rely on a beautiful heart rather than a clever by half mind that will never be that beautiful. And I miss my mum. And I never knew how right it would be to feel that to know that, because everyone who is feels the same.

Australia

When Noel Coward was asked to say something witty at an airport he said, Australia. Now I have about an hour to go on that. I liked it. Couldn't get why the yankee CNN guy hated it it bodes well for the Spirit. And I realized I can just go to town with long rants about anything and call it a review of Australia. There was some suggestion by a well meaning friend who perhaps thinks me more grown up than I am nah anyway that I do lots of reviews and then become a starred reviewer and then be paid by companies to say nice things about their films. Now there are many reasons why such a career would not work. First I think ordinary people have to start saying that they found your review helpful whereas I would see them more as a distinctive work of art in their own right more taking off from the film I am discussing but freely in full flight not pinned or tied down by invisible threads. And the very thought that I might pwostitute my sacwed calling. I thay woth he thwying to inthult me. Anyway it will give me more things to do. I think I have taken on board the critique to get a life, now it appears I have several. Luckily I bought three chocolate bars and have two left plus a very small bouteille de biere de ginger so I shall sup and then return to Australia. So far excellent magical realist fairy tale obviously right up my billabong. But there is an hour to go. Hmm. Well let's see what the master does with it. I do so hate it if they become self-indulgent but one can hope not and if the CNN guy hated it well not for yanks could be for me.

Oh Dev's priest friend rolls up and says he will take me to see my priest friend. Oh yes I say is he expecting us. No but he will come quite late after a busy day and take me do I want to go. And I sort of say well no really I know his uncle. But don't you have a pressie for him. Well I have pressies but not necessarily for him. So he says he has been very busy. I guess he worked out I wasn't going to offloads loads of rupiyah for his kids. I might have done I am a bit of a soft touch but I guess he found my lectures too humiliating. Your man has got to learn to pucker up if he wants to make bish.

Anyway I plan to leave tomorrow after lunch, well after lunch and the three films I have downloading have downloaded. Then I switch off the Mcbook and switch on again in Bangalore. I think that's it. A few chocs some ginger beer and we are good to go. Oh I didn't go for Nomdeplume had Dematante as my family name but it seems to want to use my real name with real name tag, I always feel the best way to hide is right out in the open. And I'm not sure how seriously Nomdeplume Dematante would have been taken in the long run. All happens for a reason. Oh nearly tea time Mrs Miggins sometimes sends over a tea. If not have ginger beer and chocs. I am self sufficient.

Film Reviewor

I almost need a pipe. I think I may take up that challenge to become a semi-amateur film Reviewor for Amazon, main reason being that I can foresee becoming a senior contributor for Yahoo Answers in a few months given that I vote for myself daily which gives you points and then often get best answer because I was the only one to vote and I really haven't been teased into responding to any of the hate questions like Why do all Muslims want to kill and rape decent honest christian children, because that's not going to lead to informed debate and the format is more Day time TV I need another opinion from this side of the room.

So in a few months once the challenge is over or they withdraw my account because I got drawn into something with a fascist which I can't see happening I'd much rather flirt with the divorcees or the poets and hippie earth mothers and remain quirky and then watch a film. The beauty is the realization that you will become senior whatever in the on-line world without any talent just by slow and steady persistence in many ways like levelling at an MMORPG but this seems to require a little more imagination. And more keyboard input.

So yes I couldn't download many avant garde films Parnassus still a no go, along with Mad Detective city of sylvia and Opera Java, but how many avante garde films does one want to watch of a weekend. Plus critics hopefully are good if they are consistent. So the CNN guy loves Hell Boy 2 wants to watch it again, he hates 300, Sin City and The Spirit, so I figure it's gotta be worth giving The Spirit a download plus it is downloadable though it bears the critic's review, great quality crap film. Ah but if it is as fascisistic as promised dem molls will be in some intriguing outfits and yet happily uncomplicated. Now that's what I'm talking about. It could almost be my sign-off bit like nice to see you to see you ok maybe something punchier grittier I'll work on it. You can never plan these things. It's the throw away line that your NYLon audience picks up on. That's a point I should have some nomdeplume Nomdeplume I'll try that then they can say but you old fool Nomdeplume isn't a Nom de Plume, well that sounds highly unlikely even if I did not understand a word of english and french and you got the french to agree.

spam

So now the main email alert oh yeah figured out how to get that on the toolbar well ok it was offered with one of the toolbars that esconced itself but quite handy I had thought, is your question has been voted best answer. Nobody votes it would appear or few do. So yep I am toddling my way to level three. One or two have remonstrated with me to get a life, hmmph, saying that they actually come to Yahoo Answers for real advice and they don't take too kindly to my sometimes flippant actually sometimes they are quite depth analysis magickomythopoetic but anyway only a couple of criticisms and if they don't take the time to vote or assign a best answer I vote for myself and end up with the best answer tag for their question anyway. Ouch.

So Apaloosa now that was a western. Even if you don't like westerns and I do. A classic of its genre. If I were a multi-trillionaire well I'd have to own it. Oh I should check back on that fab films of 2008 and start downloading. Tomorrow we ride, not hard, an easy pace for it's a long ways to go and I am in no hurry.

Leeches non-medical treatment thereof

Tai Chi Chuan works gentlemen, if you ignore the leeches, and it's more yep they do appear to be feasting having burrowed just under the skin temptingly close so that you'd think if you were quick enough you could skin the surface and pull them out with tweasers but no. After about what 12 hours a night feasting they had bloated and in the morning though still there after a very hot shower and that was nice they left. Obviously the whole they move with the rains thing is holding true and it felt good to part with them completely. No black marks glad to be of service well ok more glad that you are gone don't come back any time soon.

Oh missus miggins makes exceedingly good stollen cake, she called it Xmas cake nothing like my mother's very moist but no alcohol used, my mother prided herself on the soaking of fruit in the leftovers of various bottles, I remember once cousin steve wanting the remnants of some vintage port and when it went to my mother I guess I must have had some choice in these matters even then she was most pleased it was drunk by raising and cherries in a glass bottle where these things went to heaven.

Ah but she did mention I could have treated her for Xmas rather than the local economy. How flat stale and weary to me are all the uses of this world, they have become rank garden weeds possess it merely. Or something like that. Rise of the Lycans was a damn fine film taking on board the WereSpartacus if the RSC had done an impromptu Dracula meets the Werewolf hell yeah damn fine film. Obviously not trying to do the gotterdamerung las dat ratte komma in but all the same find leather lycra wear and slow motion battle scenes passion and what more does one want.

Have appaloosa and australia downloading (films of 2008 alphabetical though I doubt I'll get to C at this rate.

Film recommendations

So those of you and you know who you are who like the film about the demon who is conjured and you have to get another person to accept the note thing to pass on the curse famous film forgot the name but not all hollywood remakes are that terrible and you may hate me for this it may forever drop my reputation as basically a populist kitsch he of no taste, just pretend intellectual but really a closet wannabe amurkan well Sam Raimi's Drag me to Hell. Not bad remake, retake, labour of love, I got the unrated director's cut not sure what all the fuss was about, scary yes ok but it's that what a horror film is supposed to do. Certainly not in the same league as Lat da ratte komma in or however you say it almost worth learning swedish just so I can say that with conviction but as a remake well done that Sam Raimi, go make Spiderman IV you earned your street cred now go get yourself some money and another condo or yacht and mistresses poor Tiger Wood who knew, you mean they didn't love you for your personality and golfing skills, wimin eh.

Going for rise of the Lycans third in the series and relying on the wimin in leather effect sometimes the critics completely miss the point. Sam understands if it is essential for the plot or for the narrative or the text anyway if it's essential for the starlet to wrestle in mud in the rain with well you missed an opportunity there Sammy but anyway at least he understood as did the Star Wars guy, it is essential for there to be no bra. Maybe it could be seen as a lacanian subtle attack on the hegemony of Brahminism but either way good call Sam. Now this is what I'm talking about.

Oh yeah so tried real life for a few hours. Went into Kandy saw the cultural show. The cultural centre could take a few thousand so in the end the hundred who turned up looked few. It is a little sad and decadent, reminded me of the Mary David troupe, and times passed. Oh if you remember the royal variety show well they did the plate spinning thing, might even have started here, and fire swallowing but it was more of a magicko-religious ritual today and walked on hot coals. And some dancing and drumming and a little bit of athletics. I did like the whole cobra dance thing and the way the waist turns the hands or the wrists. All very tai chi chuan. But the age is dying. Las vegas does it much better. More's the pity.

So yes I picked up two leeches on the way back left foot. This time I'll leave them to soak hope they drop off when they are bloated. It may be revenge for my plans for Eli but I cannot be dissuaded by low level attacks. I'm not looking to kill vampyres, but do you really expect me, well there is a possibility if young Eli there would consent to a few small jobs, be part of the six entity team, a bit like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid but this is unofficial, there's the whole killing of the three boys by the swimming pool and you left a witness girl. That's the problem when people start killing by a code, it just complicates life.

So yep enough of real life I was going to say back to some films. Tomorrow is Saturday. Monday I return to Colombo. Tuesday I hit Bangalore and Wednesday Morning 23 eve of Xmas Eve I hope to be with John the Just and I should be able to relax there. As close as I get to family for now.

Oh I have a chance to have another free week with LOTRO. I almost considered it and thought no it's going so well with Yahoo Answers, I have made a new contact, I was interested in paranormal questions but my contact tombraider who may be a little younger than I had first imagined well she also deals in questions on make up, ah but I can give the amurkans the benefit of my bindi and henna knowledge, not to mention sandalwood paste and Lavender. I am a man of yes well ok only gonna start the download tonite it will kick out soon but at least I have something started.

Time check Fri 9.57pm check me.

I must go and live or stay and die love Eli

Ok I was vegetating away here but every now and then, it's a swedish film Let the Right one in, theme is not new modern vampyre cross with the little girl who lives down the lane. The novelist when he say 8 mins of the directors's cut started crying because it was so beautiful, nothing how he had imagined it, completely new and a masterpiece. Hollywood plan a remake this year. Why do americans set themselves up that way. Infernal affairs ok I'll give them they improved. But this one is maybe the French could do it, or the South Africans but ah well they never listen. Same with a composer you tell them don't start the tenth do they ever listen.

Now why is it though, 12 yr old kid gets to go steady with a vampyre after she has explained what if I wasn't a girl, ok I'm not a girl, and he still wants to go steady and she explains the whold, if I stay I shall die if I go I will live, and still they find a way to be together. Does it have to be completely impossible for the thing to work.

And in real life, stay with me, in real life, I know it would be my job to slay the vampyre, am I not a part time reservist on indefinite gardening leave with the forces of good and is she not correct me if I'm wrong here a bloodsucking no need for obscenities ok but a vampyre feeds off the blood of if not innocents well children of the living god yes. She cannot live without, yes. So look if I make an exception in this case, word will get around, there's no point pretending. And I've seen how fast you are kid I'm not gonna give you any chance. Plus I'm not going alone. When you bring more than a six entity team they tend to get bored but a couple of reliable killers with me. I can't let you live.

No don't look at me like that. What you think you two are going to have a happy life in the fjords somewhere, exchanging kisses in morse what do you think is going to happen in a few years when Oskar meets a real girl what then. And you haven't planned this out kids. You are 12 ok one of you has phenomenal wealth but with the usual vampyre flaws. We will find you and we will kill you. Love Shmuv no I am not getting soft. Leave the boy out in sunlight and feed him some garlic, I am not suggesting overkill. But Eli has to die.

But what a beautiful romantic film. And I am far less cruel than the american who is suggesting a remake. That's just evil.

Yahoo Hooyah

Some post answers on Yahoo questions to create a database of genius and eventually become crowned with titles like serious contributor or old contributer 6000 points. And they get a yellow border but for me it's like Lotro. I am trying to level to level 3 and from 2 it's a grind I can tell you. And if you want to be serious you just answer questions in your field broad as that may be, I decided to be a fan of a Biologist, because her avatar had a mohican yes mainly but also because I had answered a question on something apart from a few chromosomes what genetic differences are there between ape and man. Now I happily stated I spoke with the freedom of edenic innocence and then proceeded to inform the guys of the few genetic facts that I knew. Having unloaded I said prophesied that one would post claiming I knew not what I spake but since I wasn't denying this question is so am I wrong.

Now the mohican biologist who just answers questions on biology and tries for best answer bit of a swot and yet sexy still oddly. So she says well he'd not wrong it's just that it's pretty irrelevant went on about amino-acids and numbers and what the acids do and marker and things turning things off and on. You see that's the thing with an expert, what on earth is she trying to say, as the Sci-fi series would put it, in English please.

But if you want to level I have hit upon what they term an exploit in classic MMORPG. I answer as many questions as I care to, then after four days when the question is resolved it is decided by majority vote. I then return and vote for my answers. It seems to work.

Yeah I am a little bored. I don't like sight seeing on my own, don't like meeting new people. I have that show dance and stuff to see and this being Friday maybe should head off today. Two more films downloading and an episode of Starhunter. Maybe time for a meditation before lunch see how it goes.

What on earth was Guillermo del Toro thinking

No it is not enough to have the name Guillermo del Toro didn't he do Pan's Kingdom, now that was good. Obviously he is better when dealing with magicko-religious fantasy films that are set in the time of Franco rather than updated anti German Fascist films. Whatever the reason. Hell Boy 2 if you missed it, you did well. It's missable.

But I have Drag me to Hell and Let the right one in downloading and if you don't see a turkey every now and then you don't appreciate the beauts.

Parnassus a No Go

Sub-commandante we are trying for target lock but the downloads and there are many are described as Fake thumbs down many by spaniards and other untrustyworthy peeps. Once a bona fide thumbs up has been located I am sure it will draw all the seeds from here to the Caucasus. However if you have alternative targets of opportunity just let me know. We will of course continue to seek out the primary and if it's the CIA or MI whatever the number is no it's still me I am talking about film downloads and not the kind that funds international terrorism the kind done by geeky kids in who live with their mother's in council estates and have blotchy skin. They're the trouble makers, if only they'd stick to downloading films eh officer. But if any members of our security forces did have interesting films that they thought could keep me occupied and therefore further the stability of our corrupt regimes, win win officer and it won't cost the taxpayer a penny more. You could post as deep thoughtful whisper or something, just no fakes, I amn't allowed to mess with the NAT protocols so downloads are not fast even with an average white mcbook. And another thing how come I can't watch some tv series in Kandy but I can in Bangalore I am a virtual citizen can't I get a virtual passport for watching stuff on broadband. That's the thing with bureacrats tie the thing up first shut every one down oh but did anyone think about how to make money out of all this. Idjits. I am sure there is a way of by passing the lock or if there isn't some geeky kid in Hounslow is working on the problem as I type.

Oh but The Deppmeister, looks promising. Give those council estate boys a day everyone loves to be the first to seed.

Abolition of Checks

First when did it start being spelt that way, that's what they do before they get rid of you they mispell your name. Not happy about that, gonna have to work out some system involving small asians small handcuffs and titanium space age tough fabric suitcases that don't look all that special. Well my problem is not that I have loads of dosh it's more that it's too tempting because I tend to drop the stuff or leave it lying around and they aren't like apple seeds.

So Mrs Miggins had commented if she were dishonest well yeah I am sure I would have problems and yet unlike the rest of the characters here who are like the Major I try to settle my bills before I leave and pay for everything. But what troubles me more is what's it all about. Worst case I lose my dosh I die. New clothes fresh start reroll. But why. I shouldn't talk to people I know there's a couple across the hall, oirish gel not sure if she is protestant but she likes london maybe that's the fashion among the feenians now, and the hubbie or life partner actually life partner coz she complains he has no immigration rights in europe, from NZ. I'd much rather be a citoyen of NZ but there you go. She was giving me the standard lecture on all these foreigners who come to England and live lives of royalty while her poor brother pays taxes and is all sorts of trouble because he has lost his job (not to the foreigners then because we had agreed they come and scrounge) I think I must accept that these people are like creationists, they are exhibiting a faith response. If I did manage to persuade them with the evidence they'd just get very angry. Luckily I don't think I got angry. Why. We all got our problems. These two don't seem to have worked out yet completely that you won't be happy with more money. Well he seems to be on his way. I liked him fairly laid back dope smoking not sure what he does but he does it in Saudi. And she well that's the thing with women. Horror is I may end up with some piece of work like her and that might be one of the better scenarios. Actually that makes me feel better.

I don't got no oirish madwoman hater of the poor, they were slagging off servants earlier, father forgive them don't got a reason that's why you gotta forgive them. Wow relief I'll go watch one of the films and then Hell Boy 2 will almost certainly have completed it's download well as far as anydownload is ever certain. That should take me to afternoon tea coasting past lunch. I could go out with a priest or something but I'll only give a one sided lecture and he'll just be waiting for me to stop so he can ask for mo money.

Nah better off watching films in me room. Oh she did let me in on the tale of the stupid ities and the surf board but there's always more to stupidity than what you hear about.

District 9

Thing with Sky or Cable or an Average White McBook and unlimited broadband is you can see films you wouldn't ordinarily see. I was quite taken by District 9. Critics weren't so. I guess it's hard to place. It's like one of those Australian Films like Strictly Ballroom, or that woman's wedding with Abba songs, except its South African. You know how you'd think these people are so good at sport because they are completely devoid of any cultural or intellectual distractions and yet when they do have a go, quirky. But I really like Night Mshayaalahamsmse film about the naiad the water spirit and no one liked that. But I also really love the Book of Tobit. Anyway so I got two more Pelham 123 and Hellboy it depends how many seeds I get it seems better to go for more than one film and they switch to the best download only way to do it really quickly is to have administrator control over the router. I am just pleased they switch it back on in the morning. Around midnight I think they switch off. Orders is orders and lets me sleep the machine. Well ok I might try chatting to the guests but not for too long. I don't think I like people that much and if I haven't spoken for ages I can be a little too manic. So much for vipassana. I am a meditator. Hmm.

No matter how often i learn the lesson I never learn

I give you the saviour of the universes, Miss Coraline Jones. I know for certain it was far better than either Hell Boy 2 and District 9 which will just have loads of explosions. But why was I wary. Why did I think oh no will have to concentrate it will require my attention. And the black cat. Now that's well I commend them to you. Not gonna stop me watching the other two as soon as they download though. But now to get some dosh so I can pay my way.

Remains of the day

Got up at a cracking time. I have plenty of the day remaining. Early breakfast two eggs sunny side up and two chipolatas with toast missed the coffee but I had a pre-prandial tea. And now I have two films downloading District 9 which is a poorly rated sci-fi and Hellboy 2 because who cares what the critics say about that it's a film about a underachieving screw up maybe that's my thing I never really got past the whole erikson teenage phase thing, but i never liked erikson that much or piaget, how come you always take their side. Oh Coraline now that's supposed to be a good film. Shoot I'll have to concentrate. Ok lets do it

Emergency Funds

I remember was it Flora's dad or his friend, anyway he had this car with two petrol tanks but he always kept one full as an emergency tank never used it. The ATM refused my card could have been a small bank but it said it had retained the card which was a lie, but no sense in pushing my luck. Tomorrow I'll head into town early and get some Sri Lankan rupees for the rest of my stay am burning fumes for now. The current rate is 114 to a USD so I should get around ten thousand they never give the rate they quote. About 3-4 thousand should keep me in food till Monday. Then I need 105 rupees for the bus to Colombo, which if I time right I then just have to mosey on down to the Airport. Flight is 7 ish in the morning of 22 have to be there three hours before so I dunno if they let me in evening before that's good else I go find a cinema to watch stuff at. Then I have indian rupees for once I get to Bangalore and Fr Jose will give me some more I think. And if the card works at an airport shop I'll get some JW Red usually they don't swallow the card they swipe them. 6 days and counting. Oh got my laundry done not a good idea to send a tourist to do his own laundry but there you go, am here to help the local economy. They are as good as new bless but for that price I could have bought a decent suit here. Ah but first time they had a decent clean. At least I have clean stuff to wear for the week though probably best to get them washed again in Goa. I'll only have ten gs but it should last. In case there is an unforseen circumstance.

Course Adjustment

The problem with having the faulty radio transmitter receiver and an incomplete codebook well let's not be negative we get some info yep. So I think I am going to Nepal or Burma or well out of the country again. This is for why.

Ok Xmas is still set, that's the stuff that's banked as it were, and then a few weeks in Kottayam maybe get some kind of letter for the course to start in June. I could ask Jose about is there something I could offer for the OCI that isn't a birth certificate since I don't got a birth certificate, and if he says he can get me something from his notary public person then I'll take it and if not move on.

So I figure I should go for a short trip out of the country so I can return with a new visa to catch my flight back to England on March 25. I think I can change the flight for an additional 70 quid but it's the feast of the annunciation if I have to return as good a time as any. Then sort out finances. Find out what's in my bank account and get some standing orders sorted. If the attorneys give me the capital I'll just have the allowance invested. One of those you put it regularly into an account then in ten years time you find the accountants have absconded with the lot to fund their cocaine and prostitute yacht lifestyle, but it's mature to save and invest and I am of a certain age.

I have found a monastery in Nepal but really all I want to do is check out the women in local dress maybe see a few dances. Monasteries are all well and good but I could see one in Ealing. That's as far as I have got with the course direction. I think it means I shall head back to England but obviously this could change as that's three months ahead. But I do think I'll have to visit somewhere for a few weeks in order to catch the flight.

Hey there was this Canadian studying Yoga at Vivekenanda standard yoga course. He came on a one year tourist because Canada gets one year but they won't give you a student visa unless you return to country of origin. You used to be able to keep renewing the tourist but not in Kandy not after a civil war, though people here say its because of a pilgrimage in the south scheduled for this time and you do see a few black dressed pilgrims but it's more likely to be the civil war and the fear that India is going to have a tamil refugee crisis if the elections don't go that well and the 1 lac displaced tamils in the north aren't given protection and the the muslims in the east start taking up the reins of the LTTE but for Kandy they say b'nness as usual it don't affect us. Which is like if there were famine and plague in Watford it wouldn't affect the denizens of kensington and chelsea, there may well be indeed.

So not much of a course correction no point giving out course corrections if the corrections are later corrected and it remains the same course hmm. But that's the thing with the fawlty radio and codebook thing.

Oh gotta a mysterious feedback message from yahoo saying your answer will get some feedback do you want this posted i said ok, took me a while to realize it wasn't actually a person reading my answer on line and then rushing to intercept, I do hope it's not someone too stupid who gives the feedback but they probably will be. I must learn to suffer better.

Busted

rySo I come back from a hard day at the embassy and Mrs Miggins says oh so you wrote about Kandy Cottage and me and I say nah must be one of the reviews you are very popular. But the thing with a thoughtful daughter with the leg thing, I was only watching GI Joe Rise of the Cobra you gotta be careful with the geeky types especially if they also minor in tactical weaponry. I was a little embarrassed too tired to be shocked and then I realized my failsafe. I am like Sri Aurobindo in output. If I was born with a natural superpower it would be CON. T.O.E. which is not just a rude word en portugese. Let the enemy capture me combined with my low pain threshold I will sing like a canary. It will keep their intelligence agents tied up for the duration of the war. Every time they ask me a question I volunteer more information which leads to more questions more information. I mean did I say anything terrible. Thing is don't re-read that way I maintain plausible deniability and I have my visa so mission accomplished and Hell Boy II is being downloaded but the signal always fails sometime in the morning stopping the download but no matter apres petit dejeuner download speed is always faster and there is no safety en francais because of automatic translation software and no one else I know understand Syriac or Meiteilon for which there is no common translator available. Ah I write loudly it's not the most damning thing I've done and I still got fed and a pudding so. Pity I am only staying till the end of the week then. Just when things were beginning to get interesting.

I have no intention of doing this again

Maybe I lack the true grit and resourcefulness of a natural born syriac scholar but ain't no way I am spending another day in some assistant deputy high commission to get a three month visa because they are frightened of tamils trying to overstay in India. Because all that stuff about oh don't go to Colombo you have to queue for hours well that sounds nice coz oh the good news is I have my passport it is stamped till March 13 I can go to Goa and spend Xmas with John the Just, I haven't given loads of money away to any priest here for his kiddies. And I wasn't with some spoilt chick who decided to give me a hard time coz we were queuing. There was this sweet couple with MS and the officials kept telling the wife (the sri lankan) to rewrite her form as it wasn't clear enough and she kept saying while hobbling on the crutches if for effect not necessary but I have MS it's a progressive neurological disease which gradually takes away the and her husband is saying but they won't understand neurological. Anyway I shouldn't grumble but still. I am going to spend my money in Nepal or Burma or Laos sod the indians next year they'll no longer believe they are an up and coming superpower with an 8% gdp annual growth and then still screw them. Just so long as I don't have to go back to blighty just yet. And I have two films downloaded. Up the pixar film which I know is good. And GI Joe rise of the cobra which may be awful but has wimin in some kind of bullet proof lycra so how bad can it be. Oh and only 12 points to level 2 now if someone were to give me ten for best answer I'd only need one answer to level. Just like LOTRO but its free.

Priests

So I got taken to mass by one of Devika's friend/relative priest guy. He wanted to present his kids children of poor tea workers with some books. I guess I'm not too much in the mood for it. It's not the money it's why. I suggested maybe he could do something more self-sustaining standard stuff involve the women see what they want. But no he just wants to buy the books and prepare for move on. He hopes to get his own parish next year. I said once I had talked to my contact, that's Sir Joseph's nephew I'd get back to him. I had a few ideas none of which inspired him. One was well ok get the families to put some money towards the scheme and I'll multiply it by a huge amount. But he felt they were too poor. Why didn't he ask them what they wanted maybe they don't want books. He has raised 21 lacs which is a lot I guess over the past year to rebuild a church building, which looks nice. But my thing is well why didn't you ask the people what they would prefer done with 21 lacs maybe they'd have liked scholarships or a combine harvester I don't know it's supposed to be for them or is it to impress the bishop. I think I am allowed to be forthright because I might still give him some money and I haven't as yet. Well when I say no money. It's ridiculous he was going to pay the driver who took us down to the church and back. So 1500 rupees Sri Lankan which isn't very much. I don't mind appearing stingy but only really rich people never pay for anything. So far that Paul Father has helped. I suppose I could end discussion by saying that I would certainly pay for whatever I'd like a contract drawn up with particulars following canon 1300 protocols and there's no way he'll agree to that. But my son he'll say you must have faith you must trust me. I'll just respond I will but I'd like to be able to sue via the local diocesan tribunal and I want the case open and shut so that I'll win in advance. Apparently if I don't get all this stuff written down aforehand they won't even consider it. I have done this before father. But no need to upset the guy maybe I should just ignore his requests or take them under advisement or whatever the phrase is.

Oh and I am only 29 points away from level 2 in answers and my new superpower of being able to rate questions I wonder what level 3 brings.

Went into Kandy

Got some chocolate supposed to be cashew nut but they taste of milk chocolate maybe it's cashew nut flavour or maybe it's a sri lankan thing. I got some peanut biscuit type things they were really sweet. And I have some jaggery sweets because I think they are healthier than sugar. And I got some toothpaste and a toothbrush. Films are downloading ok. I should get that monastery trip started tomorrow maybe or today it might lead to something. Oh I got another top answer ten points for do we meet our pets in heaven I quoted from Shankara and Aquinas but that was a fine lecture that one. Oh I have iron man downloading that will be ready tomorrow I guess. Should look for something else. Yep had a look at psalm the lord said to my lord is it 110. But just not been in the mood. Maybe Goa will be better for syriac. Oh the rains have made the hillside a bit unstable. Last night or maybe night before a tree fell into one of the neighouring houses owned by Trinity College. Mud slide really. Set the dogs off here. So long as I stay out of the way of the leeches I feel safe. At least I am stored up for sweet snacks. And the food is not bad here. Oh 9 days to go. I think that will be enough though. I should meditate for an hour I feel like something sort of spiritual that doesn't require much effort. I think I was suited for meditation who knew.

Rien

That was the diary entry for that night 1789 for Louis. So I think I will give Devika the 100 dollar bill when I leave as a consolation prize for my not proposing. I am currently in stealth marriage proposal mode and yes I do have one otherwise I'd be constantly proposing. She noticed I am not eating lots and wondered if I was not enjoying her cooking I was welcome to eat out also and they deliver pizza (but I am familiar with the manner of ordering pizza anywhere in the world and if it does not arrive in 30 minutes it either does not arrive or it's free it is one of my more proclaimed superpowers) but I told her I had plenty. Now I've had more sugar than I have had in the past five months. But it was a birthday party and local sweets plus that gateau. But I can be very choosy with food. So this morning. Arising very civilizedly before ten I was greeted with an almost english breakfast, four chipolatas (which are best served cold with a frisson of solidified grease) omelette four toasts and fresh fruit plus real coffee. I do like the coffee here but only in the morning then I switch to a selection of teas. So I am full. The download seems corrected always slow in the day time but only 10% of both films Harry and 2012 to go must be done by lunch time those are post-prandial films for sure. I'll have a crack at psalm the lord said to my lord, i have it in three versions now how hard can it be. Just read it through a few times badaboom badabing.

I should get a toothbrush and toothpaste but that would involve going into Kandy and I tend not to leave my room except to eat or shower. I should collect my passport on Monday I have discovered a monastery in the Hills in Nepal. It looks quiet. I shall email them about a month visit for end of march to end of april. Anyone can be a monk for six weeks it can be fun too longer than that and the bich'n starts.

download speeds

I think the problem was I continued to seed after dowloading the first two films. A seed is someone with the entire film/download. It means everyone else gets the stuff quicker it's fairly communist. But I am guessing it was taking it's toll. I'll know for sure tomorrow morning because I never get very fast downloads in the evening/night. Opposite at DVK. But if I am right then I should have both films by tomorrow afternoon. Tally ho!

success comes to local lad

So I got a best answer from Yahoo answers. It's a bit like questing on LOTRO. If you answer enough questions you get a best answer which is ten points but you get two points for answering a question and you have levels and you develop powers with each level. Like for the next level I get the power to rate questions thumbs up or thumbs down though I think it's only the one thumb per question. Anyway same buzz. Yep download speeds still slow ETA for 2012 is sometime tomorrow so I decided to download Harry Potter and the Half Blood also. Might try and download a fair few. I think by 18th it's going to be pushing it whether I get the film. Not sure why the download has dropped but it has.

So luckily I have two books and I really should have a crack at the Syriac. The main thing is no light in my room so I'd have to read in the living room and I dunno I like being on my own. So it was on dream interpretation but I am a damn fine dream interpreter of the Joseph school. Top of the class with the Master O, no you da man, no you da man no you.

Ten days to go

It rains a lot here. Hot water seems to have run out. I could ask but I tend to ask about things I think really matter otherwise you start saying oh we haven't got this month's issue of Harpers and Gardening Appliances as maybe but I don't want to read them so why ask. So I just reminded her to reset the broadband. It shuts off once a day, might be a technical or financial thing who knows. Anyway speed has dropped to less than 10kbs. Hmm be a while before I get to see 2012 (the film not the year) but it tends to speed up in the course of the morning.

Got a touch of my asthmatic cough chest thing. I just wait for it to go. Can't blame the pigeons. Change of weather will do it. Her sis and brother-in-law and nephew baby are staying over. Pity I can't marry Mrs Miggins, but it would only work if I could live in Kottayam I am not sure if she understand the whole Man of Leisure thing.

Ok so maybe I did try to contact honourable fiancee no 2, but I got sidetracked reading an on-line debate on family wars. I don't recall all her relatives names I am not good with names but these lot are like a Russian Novel, they are all interrelated like one big mafia. I had read about the serial killing it's not really mass murder if it's only two figures. One family taking on another but they'd still be interrelated. And the response to martial law of 200 people taking to the streets. That's not a response. That's just a joke. 2 million is a response. Those peeps invented people power. They can get governments removed that way they just don't have a plan to do anything once that is done.

Anyway it could have been worse, it's not so much that I didn't belong with that set, but I'd have no idea what was going on. I think fiancee no 5 will probably be the ticket if I can only avoid marrying hon nos 3 and 4.

Oh and my future career looks sorted, we are forming a British Space Agency, I think I shall apply to join, only a truly British Space Agency would give the respect due to a Syriac Scholar interested in a British Space Agency. I could think up interesting names for Star Ships HMS oh let me think.

Advice on leeches non-medical

Same as with bats, you are best off ignoring them. Apparently if you catch them early you can apply salt, or burn them off. What I think doesn't work having tried it is trying to pinch the buggers once they are ensconced, tiny little thing thought it was a blackhead at first, pinched it when it was almost done it would have just dropped off and slithered away. Instead it just drove it deeper into the ankle. My Kurti PJs are quite handy with the narrow ankle band which does save the legs, but the sandals not much cop. Best not to walk around the forbidden forest of the ancient kings of Kandy when it's raining. They seem to travel then. Anyway from now on will try vipassana and just ignore them and not walk in the forbidden etc. As for the bat well not that impressed with its sonic ability I could see the door. I think it worked it out in the end.

I used to know a thing or two about whisky

So this is the plan. I have four bottles of blended whisky. But fairly good blended whisky. Blue is the new Black with JW and I also have a black a gold and a green. So when I say I understand whisky. I used to collect. The blends are smooth, they bulk up with grain whisky and then take single malts to flavour as you would base oils with scents in aromatherapy. The age they give if they give one is of the youngest whisky including the grain, which is a bit silly really because grain whisky doesn't mature like malt whisky. So if you wanted to show off about age then a vatted whisky would be better. But it's more about legend. Johnny Walker isn't a particularly old brand. It was once a corner shop in the 19th century but an aggressive advertising campaign made it in the 60s with Walker walking for over a century. In terms of taste never really took to blends I was too much of a snob a good taster can recognize about ten to 15 single malts. I think I knew the basic highland types, there's a whole set Glenmorangie, Glenlivet etc perhaps the colour changes but a basic solid highland. The Islay had character but that can be overrated bland sometimes tastes nicer. And the Irish whiskeys were by far the smoothest.

So having presented my credentials one needs a frisson over Xmas, the child could be strangled at birth or be killed by Herodas. So I'll put the presentation four bottle JW case in my hold bag. Then I'll purchase a Red Label as large as they'll let me to take to Goa. Spirits are taxed by volume not by sale price so in effect if you save 5 pounds in duty it's per bottle regardless of price of whisky. Therefore the most economical purchase in terms of percentage saved is in the less expensive brands. Red Label, White Horse, and given the types of really cheap Indian whisky that people will drink here it will still be considered a generous festive offering. Thus unless someone can fault the logic or dares to impwess me with their superior knowledge. That's the plan. Of course if the hold luggage gets nicked there goes the plan. But I'll still have a bottle of Red Label to present to John. And the other whiskies for small intimate gatherings for afficionados who will know how much they are loved when you show them the bottle. Not the most expensive whisky. I had thought it was the 50 yr old Balvenie which used to sell for 1g sterling per bottle 75cl. I don't believe I ever tried that one. I never went over 100squidish for a 75cl. They vary then the cycles of whisky are rhythmic. So they are base 8 or base 12 or base 15. Thus a fifteen year old could be sold as a thirty year old an 8 could also be sold as a 24 yr old along with a 12. But it doesn't make sense to sell a 15 yr old malt also as a 24 yr old. Or an 8 also as a 15 yr old the cycles don't make sense. But in the end they sell what people will buy. It can be disappointing though if you had expectations.

Technical hitch

So it seems once a day I have a little chat with Mrs Miggins. I guess because it's just once a day they are more intense. Her husband is AWOL. Went to Germany to earn money for the two of them and then no further contact. If he is a nice guy then he is dead or has amnesia. But not where the wise money is betting.

Her daughter is having a scan today. I am not a medical person, but to lose the ability to walk freely and move joints at 16 is probably not that normal even for a gel. At least they appear to be moving quickly, though she has had the problem for some time it was only yesterday she agreed to see the doctor. I understand that but I had been led to believe that gels were more sensible than lads on medical matters, ok so you get TUBEd, but fairs fair and if you were going to die then they can sometimes defer death.

Oh and I got milk rice this morning for breakfast when they returned from the docs they have to go again at 11 for the scan then they will see Mrs Miggins on her own which doesn't sound that good. I shall be a little worried about the anti-midas effect there must be some literature on that because I've heard others claim the disease, anyway I would be most annoyed, ok so I have difficulties assembling the six entity team but I am not having the anti-midas affect it's very inconvenient.

She tends to suggest I look after my finances better and get with the programme, and we aren't even engaged. And with an AWOL husband and her being more devout than I am, we aren't going to be engaged which solves the whole technical violation can I appeal thing. Of course now Sharmila Chanu will write back and say she does not approve of my book purchases and she is an internationally feted peace activist why would I think she would have time to teach me Meiteilon and Manjulah's family will contact me via some gypsy saying, thanks for the dosh it's not enough, but here is the little finger of her left hand as downpayment please try to send the rest on one go.

Good news downloads have restarted there was some kind of hitch on the internet had to resort to reading a book. Ice Age III is next on the list. 11 days to go. So far really quite relaxing but it does rain a lot here compared to India and the drought.

Not bad

So I just watched Inglorious Basterds the Tarentino flick I think I'll try 2012 next. Well who wants to go to the movies on their own. Tomorrow I shall start on some Syriac. I have seen the Tooth Temple. Oh best thing about that was and Devika said they would take me for a Bangalorean who went to an English School, they ask me where I am from when I say Indian and Bangalore, hey didn't have to pay at the Museum. I like being accepted. Oh dinner is ready gonna eat now take care oh and tomorrow got cake and things for the birthday party so life is good, not sure if it gets any better.

Can't see an obvious downside

Not the most romantic of statements but I was thinking loudly as I do here. So not sure how I would get to that position but say me and devika (Mrs Miggins) were to marry. She could keep house here in Lanka which she could rent out to paying guests or hire a keeper and go off to Dubai details. The point is I'd put up the dosh for the house. She gets her security illusory as security is and I get a home. So I'd still go orf to Kottayam to take the MA in Syriac maybe PhD but I'd know I'd have a home in Sri Lanka kept by Mrs Miggins and whenever I wanted decent grub or my laundry done.

Of course this does sort of mean giving up on the dweam of finding my soul mate but I don't know people I think we have played with that one for far too long. Whereas here I am sure she could get somewhere with decent broadband she has a quiet intelligent daughter with a mysterious disease. Now I think the next step is to ask one of the priests who visits when they take me out perhaps to see Fr Bala Rajendram Sir Joseph's cousin, so how exactly did Devika's husband pass away.

Gentlemen I have a rule. There is no point having rules if you just break them willy nilly. No divorcees, not even partially innocent divorcees, I won't get a sacrament and I was really hoping that one of us knew how to do this right even if it wasn't for very long. Daughter is sixteen so maybe she married late for an easterner. I can't see the downside. Obviously if Sharmilah Chanu now takes it upon herself to say that she believes that I show potential as a book purchaser and she would love to teach me meiteilon well we all know what that might mean and then if Manjulah's family sends a gypsy contact to inform me that the offer of artificial limb and scholarship is accepted how would I like her delivered well then yes I guess too much. But that's the thing either nothing or too much. Life is like a toaster. Who designed this system it's not working. Anyway no harm in asking how Devika's husband passed away and see what the priest says.

Oh that torrent Inglorious Basterds it's never as simple as you think. Had to cancel last nights download because apparently all the comments say when download completes it asks for a password which it tries to sell you but no film every comes. I am on my second download. I think bit torrents are like a communist version of information sharing and breaks down large videos into segments which we computers pass on to each other like virus so it's fast and hard for authorities to control. It's like a pirate guild but in the nice sense of the word, not in the manner of funding terrorism and child sex abuse and all other evils sense of the word. More in the all property is theft but it was my chipalata sense of the word. I shall keep you informed. If she is not a divorcee. Even raped by the LTTE might be cruel but that works in terms of canon law annulment though I think is well rum.

Mrs Miggins and her travels

Had another feast here at the cottage, Devika had called three priests for dinner. She reminds me of my mother this one. Does a lot for the church. But now she has decided to move on. She has security here of sorts so long as she can work but worries about the future so will go to work abroad. Quite courageous really. But if you have a dream you follow it. I feel for her. She has put in her resignation and will leave in February. Perhaps Dubai.

I guess she knows the risks too but if she stays she knows she will never have long term security on her own. Ah did the three priests take advantage of her. They came late. They ate. They left. She wouldn't stay at table with us which is like my mother. She prepared the food. They gave a blessing to her daughter when they left. It's an honour to have three priests at a house so I don't know. And one the arranger is a relative of hers.

Her daughter has some kind of condition. Muscles don't work so good. She has trouble walking. A quiet thinker, a loner. I'd hate to be a teenager again. Exams soon. Her birthday day after tomorrow then exams. But it's Xmas.

Oh and Vuze should do it. Get those ripped films. I am I think downloading Inglorious Basterds with Voze. It will take most of the night less than three hours at 50kbs but the rate keeps changing so it should be done by tomorrow. If it works then it's a film every day. Download by night watch by day. And tomorrow the Tooth Temple. Though my asthma may be kicking in. It rains a lot here. Weather is not too oppressive, the altitude is good. But my chest don't like change in environment. I was never sympathetic to my mother about her asthma. Read too much Freud, I think I told her once she was trying to breathe in her mother. Yeah right Desie. I think she was just trying to breathe.

Promotion

So on my first grand tour of Kandy when I walked around the Lake and saw the sights I was approached well actually any pause or smile from me would result in someone trying to offer me a private tour. Clearly I still have Tourist branded over my head somewhere but the promotion is I say I am from Bangalore which they accept and it also explains why I can't speak either senalese or tamil.

There are soldiers on every street corner and in the middle of streets and this is the thing why it feels safe, it's not so much that the soldiers are relaxed and not threatening, it's one of the comments the Baptist preacher said about Indian soldiers standing at Malls and places, we give them guns but we don't really trust them with bullets. Taking a closer look at some of the guns I am not even sure if these boys are all trusted with guns.

So I got two tickets to the evening cultural dance programme, not sure how I ended up with two but only cost 500 rupees each and that's 200 rupees in real money (indian rupiyah). I may yet ask Mrs Miggins to accompany me to a cultural evening, they are open tickets for the next two weeks. Perhaps I'll wait a day or so, mainly coz I don't want to be laughed at for purchasing whatever it is I purchased it really would be better to go around these places with a local if only to stop my purchasing things I am here to help the local economy I agree it's just I dunno how many tickets to cultural events do I really want. But I checked out the Tooth Temple from outside tomorrow I shall stride manfully directly into it thus avoiding any more cultural event ticket purchases.

Mrs Miggins

If this were a film or a novel then I'd be married to her by the end of the fortnight. This being real life I think I am going to be fed and get my laundry done, might even get the visa will start tomorrow, and download speeds up to 50kbps. So found out she was born in 65. She has a sixteen yr old daughter and makes do. I think she realizes I am a bit of an idjit so I should be safe. She wants 300 rupees a day for meals. That threw me coz I thought she meant 300 per meal so I should be sorted now. I gave her 2gees for the first week in case I need better puddings I mean want better puddings. I think the visa costs around 12gees so I still have excess. Oh I should phone sir joseph's relatives. I got a four small bottles of Johnnie Walker starting with black and moving up to gold. I think that means John the Just will get at least one. I'd rather give some away here because I don't really lock my luggage in the hold I rely on it looking so drab that it is beneath people's dignity to check if there is anything worth stealing in it. Works for the McBook carry case. Once I start the visa thing though I'll be free should think about reading some Syriac tomorrow and get some fruit juices or something for the room. It's quiet I like quiet, even though all the rooms are now taken. Anyway pity about not marrying her though. Although probably what I see in her is a good housekeeper and since she is currently the housekeeper why ruin a good relationship with marriage.

In Kandy Cottage

Made it by the afternoon I think I was ripped off by the autorickshaw but really it was 2 pounds instead of the usual one pound which is a rip off but given the lads have survived civil war I was pleased to have got here by tea time.

Born of Hope looks spectacular in HD. I have been offered dinner soon so I'll break for that. Otherwise room looks cozy it's very quiet and I have the broadband password so I feel like I am back at boarding school even though I never went to boarding school. And that Devika a fine figure of a woman I'd marry her for sure if her cooking is as good as they say it is but how to propose, ah well never mind so many women and lets see how the tummy fares on the new food eh. But I am happy and well so far so good.

The mary david choir

Had a Bangalorean Chris Tingle thing. Magnificat started off with choirs and carols and moved to a Colombo based old time singer thing. It was nostalgic. Reminded me of Cuba before Castro. It wasn't sad. They were beautiful songs. There was something about it though.

The civil war is over and there was something about little children performing very american but with the pathos of the civil war. I took it as a sign possibly of oncoming homosexuality, (I quite liked the show tunes I think I joined in with you'll never walk alone which would have been a little macho if I hadn't recognized it was from Carousel) and that I am blessed on my journey to Colombo. Keveden the really nice ethiopian took me to the show on his ticket and then showed me the bus stop for tomorrow. I think I am all set. Managed to download the Lord of the Rings prequel in HD so I am happy.

Gonna switch off now and relog in Colombo. I love you all madly. And if Jesus is with me I got no worries he can't sort.

Last minute check

Check list. So I have the first episode of the two parter end of series finale and since they didn't make another series of Starhunter 2300. Then I found Born of Hope which is the second Indie LOTR film after hunt for Gollum this one is about Aragorn's dad. They say it's better than Gollum. I have download speeds of over 30kb/s. If there is a powercut though I lose the whole thing, it doesn't seem to remember how much it downloaded. So assuming there is no powercut within the next four hours and download speeds are maintained. If everyone starts surfing it will crawl. Well I certainly hope to have Born of Hope with me when I travel tomorrow. Plus I found a ten pound note in my white nehru coat pocket. This means I won't have to use the ATM in Colombo always fear card gobbling. I can change the tenner for the bus and auto and first meal. And I still have a hundred bucks US in reserve and can use the ATM. I think I am all set. I'll be happier once I am on a bus.

Ill drop by Jose tonite for Ramsa evening prayer. One of the priests I almost got to like said he thought I'd just go without saying, he was all right. And the Liberation priest gave me a card. I hope I can avoid a fuss. They like to hand out flowers and sing a song for people it's not really me.

The six entity team

They do have some good lines. Epitaphs that touch the heart. They are like pop songs, superficial and profound. So half way through the episode Travis gets his one line back. I am taking the Shuttle. We are coming with. But it will be dangerous. You know your problem Travis. Yeah what's that. We are all you got.

Not really sure if I have that, but there are a few people who tolerate me still and keep in touch and don't seem to want to steal my money, and have been handy amid the slings and arrows, might not be seraphic or quantum level beings but who knows for sure. There is a lot be optimistic about. I had forgotten this pericope from Arundhati. Man finds loads of horse manure dumped in his room one day. He starts to dig around. With all this horse manure lying around he says to himself, there must be a horse here somewhere.

My real struggle will be to get to the Airport on time via the bus. I could take a taxi but it's gonna be 2000 rupees and a bus is only around 150. It's not as hard as getting the anti-matter drive to work and entering hyperspace doh these kids make that look easy so maybe it is. I am sure I can catch a bus outside Christ College, and I seem to have done that before yet that was to Kottayam so udder side. Once I get to Colombo if the ATM works then all I got to do is get to Kandy and there is talk of a home cooked delicious meal by Mrs Miggins aka Devika she asked about food I mentioned a sweet tooth one can hope.

Got a damn fine programme which can download from YouTube and many other sites I expect. If only I could find a site that had decent films. Like Hellboy II things that are sort of too old for cinemas might make it to TV where can I find places like that I have an ant.com downloader just point me in the right direction though this is the internet and most of the fun is in finding the site. How interesting can Hellboy II actually be. But I shall try to download a few episodes of Starhunter then I'll charge up the battery to full and switch her off till I get to Sri Lanka. And if the Kandy Cottage broadband is as fast as they say it is.

Now Jose wasn't that impwessed with the average white macbook, he wanted to see something like the airmac or the new Vaio. His point was that he would take something light on his travels and then link up with a desktop on his return. Now I didn't press that my average white macbook was more powerful than his light thing and his desktop. And since I don't have a desktop thing to link up to I'd have to buy two computers instead of the AWMcBook and I am chief roadie and everything but I didn't mention all this. Plus if you don't fall in love with a mac on sight well then it's just not meant to be and there's no point trying to explain it to the guy.

I did think though, ok it is a powerful machine but apart from that page of Matthew to which I have not actually added anything, sort of got stuck on chapter 26 of Robinsons. I'll just switch to phase two start reading texts from Healey and the lil book of Syriac short stories I got from Jose. Anyway apart from that and yeah I can write Meetei Meyek script. If I can get a hold of a grammar now there is one available. That can be my secondary subject (minor they calls it in Scotland) well yeah apart from that I really only use the AWmcBook to watch Starhunter. Yeah but no but I've already seen all of season two of The Guild and now I don't want to go on-line for an MMORPG. So yes still not using all of my potential hmm I remember the headmaster telling me hmm. Now he had a point but the stuff he thought I should pay attention to well in fact all the stuff I thought might be useful proved not to be and the stuff I was drawn to incidentally became really both interesting and useful.

There is that whole plan to choose the non-structured over the structured, folly over the sacrament. It's sound advice. Oh no more news from She. I might have scared her off with all the books. If she writes back I'll tell ya. Burma maybe. I think a lot of these countries with vicious tyrannical military dictatorships might be worth a visit if I let the soldiers know I am not here to stop anyone being disappeared or for any human rights issues, I just want to spend money and help the local economy, maybe do the whole exile writer thing and make you famous or just spend money and help the local economy whatever works and even if I were here for human rights stuff come on it's me boys. But I feel the need to gain the MA in Syriac or at least complete my translation of Matthew with copious notes.

And another thing I have gone orf the food here. I don't think it's as good and the portions are getting smaller or people complain if you take an extra chapati so time for me to go for sure. Two more meals and Tiffin to go then it's Kandy which I think will be a relaxing break, next to a forest, I'll be sure to take my umbrella. Got broadband and home cooking, a tooth temple, elephant orphanage, ah pity it's only two weeks. If I like it I shall return.

A little hungry now so the food should taste good. Catcha later.

Put this one to bed

I htink the moral of the thing is don't give money to strange missionaries. In fact don't give people money, especially poor people, or people offering to give it to the poor. I don't like these people. I think others use it as an excuse not to send money when they beg, that'll they'll use it on themselves not the poor, but I guess they have a point. My point is you still wouldn't give them your money, because it's yours.

So Rick the Healer who is also a Harvard MBA and a grown-up suggested he would not be a good person to look over the accounts that Paul offered if I were taking the offer seriously. Luckily I am not taking the offer seriously. I shall make alternate arrangements. Plan B. It was always better than plan A. Now I just have to love them forgive them wish them all the best and happiness in life the fulfilment of all their truest desires, and within minutes seconds once I do this, they will cease to exist. The most selfish thing you can do peeps is forgive and love those who piss you off, does buggerall for them but a huge benefit to your own health well-being and evolution.

Now to think about packing and finding out where the Majestik Bus Stop is though I tend to overworry always get to where I want to be and if I end up somewhere else maybe that'll be better. Two weeks alone in Kandy is beginning to sound heavenly.

Oh returned from the picnic with the boys. They really don't know how to organize a picnic either that or we are just too old for picnics. Everyone buggered off into tiny groups on Nandi Hills, when we returned for lunch they voted to go home immediately afterwards. The thing I really liked, really liked, is they kept offering plates of food to any indigent who passed by after a while word got around. But they didn't mind feeding peeps who asked for food, and they sat with us to eat. We had loads.

Paul Bruxby

I knew there was something. Tony Chantry the Superior General had a long list of CCs that he had copied his official response, it was the syntax, the last one on the list was Paul Bruxby. Googol does have its uses and he should have bcced the last. They call it Tele or depth empathic responses or good guesswork but it's the syntax. All the others were Mill Hill Missionaries members of the Supreme Council oh what lovely names and the Office but not the Divine Office they mean the ones who hand out the mail. The danger of so many CCs is occasionally somebody decides to leak the email on the grounds of public interest. I knew the last was the member of the legal team. Apparently he is a late vocations Priest, previously a banker and insurance company man who gives support to priests on administrative leave. (I hope I don't need to explain the litotes of canon law to you because this is of interest mainly to those who find canon law interesting, always embarrassing but I'm a Syriac Scholar it takes my mind of complex constructions).

We all need support. I don't criticize him for publicly supporting those whom no one else will, but why have they gone down that line so quickly. I say quickly he has had the complaint for a month now and met with the annual whatever its' called not AGM, chapter or something.

But I have not accused Paul Pratap of any offence apart from not supplying me with accounts for the money that should have been spent on an amputee and the only redress I had sought was for the money to be spent on the amputee. He is getting a reputation I had thought just around money but who knows. Not everybody likes him and in religious life it doesn't have to be about anything in particular.

Now Vipassana tells me to examine why I feel satisfied by this piece of information. This is an institution and the only thing that the institution will do until it has no other option is protect itself and damage limitation. They won't care about the human problems. It's not about humanity. But it's like attacking a torturer. The guy has a job to do. What is more important is can they do the job well. If he knows his stuff he will be telling the Superior General to shut up now. Wait for a writ or a journalist inquiry. Then to sound like a Christian to offer prayers support never to attack a victim, and try to redirect the blame elsewhere. If he knows his stuff. It's only 3gees. It is interesting how cheaply you can buy the souls of men if they are for sale. And the ones that cannot be bought, they have the highest price of all.

Yes I think it was because I held a secret fear. What if I were making a complaint against a just man. What if I were harming the kids I had vowed to help. Now you may laugh at me because they intend to ignore me. But I was once called a Rhino. I charge about but am pretty short sighted and never really do any harm. It's the hippos you have to watch out for. Big fat mamas who laze about in the mud. Yep that's the relief. I don't think I made an unjust accusation against a righteous man. Shit I hate it when that happens. Not sure if He'll forgive me another time.

The Vatican and homosexuality

Ok so a retired Cardinal, I think at the age of 75 they are required to tender their resignation to the supreme pontiff who isn't allowed to retire himself, and then he gives them a title of honour and they go live in a convent somewhere or an home for retired cardinals catch butterflies, but this one something like Brannigan should have been Brannigan but he's from Mehico. He say Homosexuals and Transexuals according to St Paul will go to hell. How come the supreme pontiff when quoting from a mediaeval text says that Islam is an evil etc but he was only quoting from an obscure document well ok he did apologize later saying it's not me it's this other guy who said it, but yeah St Paul does say stuff like that. He really is into hair length fashion and sexual mores. So anyway Frederico Lombardi and that's a made up name for sure, vatican spokesperson, what the hell is that. What happened to pronouncements from the Sacred congregation for whatever, what happened to he is a Cardinal (rtd) so you need at least another Cardinal (rtd) to respond, and he said well it's not so much homosexuals who will end up in hell as people who perform homosexual acts, something like that. It would be a strain for me to share a sleeper cabin with these people either homosexuals transexuals or cardinals, I don't really feel I belong much with any of the above. And then to spend the rest of eternity, tell me we have sub-light speed, always Kiptin, well then stand by. I can only hope that Aristotle is right and there are no individuals in Heaven only persons. Well I have another parcel for She. I feel I should write something. As they say when they leave the altar of santification, I know not whether I shall return to make another sacrifice. I have a couple of hours I guess but I should head off soon if I am going to make the PO office hours whatever they are today.

It won't work as a film

I really liked snow. I figured it out as much as I ever do. It's beautiful because it shows how Love can be destroyed by petty evil or petty goodness. People give torturers a hard time but there's a job to be done. Not everyone has the stomach for it.

So happiness isn't lost. It is'nt messed up. It's not even a betrayal. That's how the world works. The problems of two little people don't amount to a hill of beanz in this crazy world of ours. But that's our hill and those are our beanz.

The East is far more attractive. It's like changing clothes. And for Brahman but a blinking of eyes. Oh yeah you could make it work as a film but you'd have to change the ending and that would really piss off the author. Give a man a nobel prize for literature and I promise you there's no way you are going to get a decent screen play out of him, not like the old days. To have and have not had two nobel laureates on the script team. But they were americans they understand business.

snow

Orhan Bey is winning me over. You know it will end in disaster outwith some divine intervention. Too many plans, plots, machinations, politics. And a spiteful betrayal. I don't know how. But it will end in sorrow the one chance of happiness lost. A forgotten line from Savitri. This I can bear. Happiness is not permanent. Love is not easy only for the few. For it to be destroyed is better than for it just to wither or to be lost. A few chapters to go, have the secret police wire taps, politicos he can pass by an open window and sense a secret meeting about a bomb plot and it's of no consequence to the story. I liked that touch. But he describes the fear and anguish of the tortured man and his wife. The man knows what he is talking about. Not sure if it has cured me of my obsession with whoever it was, but it's a sound book on obsession. I must meditate. It's been a long time since I have managed an hour. Slipping back to the twenty minute sessions of the bourgeois Celtic tradition (the WI spirituality of Kensington and Celsea). Then there will still be time to read and watch the end of episode, and with my sub-light speed capability, I am half tempted to hire myself out, except.

sub-light speed

Well episode 6 hung so I took that as punishment, what for, I am a Roman Catholic even a new born baby is a sinner, to be a sinner is to be human. Anyway decided to load episode 7 meanwhile I can get tiffin in about twenty minutes. Those pigeons aren't going to leave before the weekend so I'll have to do a clearout soon. Oh wash some clothes and then.

So I was getting a little depressed about the current state of institutions. Not sure why. Perhaps part of me exists in a parallel universe where institutions are like the knights of the rounde table on their goode days coz they had some bad days. But then I realized well it was one of them comments from someone for whom it lessened the enjoyment but for me it gave me that necessary spur. First Orhan Bey he was getting a little too close to the truth for my future. Apparently I don't marry, I just live on my own in some small run down flat supplementing my state benefits with syriac things but never quite make ends meet and then I am murdered though my last days are not outwith comforts there is a secret camaraderie acceptance among old single men who obsess over a particular porn star, all the ethnicities, education, clothes styles, they blend in the embarrassed isolation. Thanks Orhan you could have written me a little bit of happiness maybe she runs off with someone after getting the european passport that she craves and yet despises but no. You wouldn't even give me that you turkish bastard.

Never mind the discovery I made via Starhunter is that I have developed sub-light capability. Are you sure Desi, yes I may at any time move at sub-light speed. Woah you mean like the Flash, yes like the Flash only a bit slower. But I find this rather comforting. Any problems come my way I just to have engage sub-light systems, sub-light systems are functioning within optimal parameters, ok take us to sub-light speed and let's get the hell out of here. To those of you more acquainted with Science apparently it's near light speed that would be the unusual thing. Screw that I have sub-light speed at the touch of a button. Engage.

I needed a good rant

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books

So I sent off some 3 D origami jigsaw things this time for She - hey I noticed Blogger lets me type in several Indian languages but not Meiteilon, I guess I am in the South the four southern languages and Hindi fair dos but I can sort of write in Meiteilon-, anyway St Basil's which I always called the Kremlin, Tower Bridge, La Tour Eiffel, and the tower King Kong climbed when beauty killed the beast. I read her speech made urbi et orbi when they had her up before magistrates, she is a bit political, she is beginning to sound like St Peter and the speeches he gave after being arrested and you know it's better for him maybe to stop speaking because look what they did to you after you spoke the last time, but these prophet types they never listen, your ways are not God's ways they say maybe be but its peeps who are gonna get violent soon and I understand peeps, there is no hope for us, she will be used up by that land till there is nothing left of her, this current sacrifice is only the beginning, it will never end for her, so it's making her all the more attractive to me.

I've been reading Snow by Orhan Pamuk either I've become more Indian or he has improved since My name is Red, which is a poor man's Name of the Rose set in the islamic art world of the great turkish empire. This one is more me gets off to a cracking pace after a solid intro. Our Hero is a middle ageing poet who never quite made it in the west he goes back to his home town hoping to meet his high school crush recently divorced but ostensibly to cover a story for a newspaper involving suicides islamic extremism and the Turkish secret police, and while meeting her in the New Age Pastry Shop he inadvertently blurts out on the first tea together it must have been the pastry, the truth that he came to marry her and looking in her eyes he realizes she has caught on to him, as accused in the silence, so you couldn't even bother to take the time to get to know me you are so impatient so greedy so infantile you couldn't even be bothered to make up some lines about how you always loved me, because in the end it's that superficial that you remembered how pretty I was heard I was divorced and thought you could save me from this dump of a town and you knew now at our age our expectations would be so much more lowered. But what she actually says is, "I always knew you had it in you to be a good poet, I'd like to congratulate you on your books." That is exactly how it happens.

I tells you Orhan is stealing the life I didn't have yet, our hero is Russian in his idea of impending sorrow, touch of the oscar wilde I am too beautiful for the worlde, and that's how life is supposed to be, I am supposed to meet She in the New Age Pastry Shop when the town is snowed in and no one can leave, and my cover story is I am investigating some Syriac manuscript found in Imphal, but I know even without reading it something terrible awful unbearable is going to happen. Yet what else was waiting for him. Second rate poetry to be despised in a land of foreigners. Not just death awaits, that too, but terrible things. Now this is a novel. I hope She enjoys it. Oh and what happened to that Major Superior, I wonder what he is going to say. If he looks after Manjulah job done otherwise I should make him afraid, I don't think he'll be phased by threats so I'll have to take it to level 2. TVU/OIAHE was springtime so that one can rest till after Xmas.

Next week gotta get the visa sorted I should start some kind of packing thing soon. Although looking around really all I've got to do is throw out the stuff I don't want and papers etc. And then what's left should fit into one bag, with the pictures and fragiles to be wrapped in clothes. Tomorrow. I should head off to prayers tomorrow also. So time for a meditation and then maybe some Syriac if I am in the mood. I hope to finish the Healey reading practice texts in Kandy. Then Goa and Xmas can be more of a rest.

Meditation sounds good. I think only the supramental can save us. So long as it doesn't get in the way of yeah yeah. Pre-downloading episode 6 of Starhunter it's still ok. Everyone seems keen on cappie percy the gel next door, yet no comments on the tall willowy black supermodel mars special forces gel, plenty more for me I guess.

privacy

I took a fleeting look at privacy on the interweb, which guardian readers seem to think means is just for terrorists, russian mafioso and child abusers, but I associate more with that whole human rights charter thing which still tends to fwighten bureacracts in Blightey whereas here you have to have an important uncle-ji on speeddial. The problem is speed. If you really want privacy stay of the grid but that slows things down. Or you can try one of the many options to conceal your IP but that seems to slow the interweb down much more than dial up, the anonymous providers won't last for more than a few days or weeks but the software holds and that's the point of anonymity. It has the necessary intrigue but none of the speed to make it attractive enough to use.

I noticed a couple of episodes of Starhunter (I've only seen three takes too long to download 45 mins) Cappie Percy (Montana) mentions to the big fat ugly one you have been sending encoded messages, I am not going to have them decoded I respect your privacy but if they cause harm to anyone on the ship or the ship I will flush you out of an airlock. And later Marcus tells Caravaggio the computer that he wants to talk to his gel for a few minutes, so Caravaggio stops monitoring them. Unbearable lightness of being has that as one of the real evils of totalitarianism that there is no private communication in that state. Which is what the save the earth peeps were on about with the freedom of information thing. Doesn't excuse their lying and being stupid enough to get caught lying, and lying about something other than having an affair with one of their young fat interns because you are meant to lie about things like that, I mean how does telling your wife help anyone. Sounds more like gloating than honesty that. But they should have been able to talk bollox in private still.

But that is why in the good olde days we had gentlemen's clubs. When I say we I mean you white trash imperialist scumbags right on my man I is black I is. You meet for dinner dress up in strange clothes, have rituals and then talk about stuff as if you were home where you are allowed to scratch your balls fart and think aloud. Point is no one would quote you as talking seriously if you had a moose head on and your tryser legs rolled up to your knees, especially after that stuffed swan, turkey, goose... pheasant woodpigeon, the Japanese have that fish that can kill you if the poison glands aren't removed enough, and gentlemen's clubs have stuffed game birds that all cook and different speeds and times but are cooked together.

Oh yeah on privacy I determined best way to stay hidden is not to try to hide. One it slows everything down makes you a sitting target and you are far better swimming in the giant shoal like starlings. Though I did try a search for Meiteilon only a couple of useful sites to learn the letters and a few words, and one of my pages came up from here. I am asking for sites on the glorious interweb to learn more about Meiteilon because I don't know anything about Meiteilon and one of the web pages Googol recommended ok number 8 or 9 but still on page one because there was only one page was mine.

Who else talks about Meiteilon. Thing is it's one of the 197 endangered languages of India only vulnerable at present because millions of people speak it. No good once you leave Manipur so it will remain alive as long as poverty or now now, lack of development, by that I mean learning IT and setting up call centres to help the middle classes of Delhi and Mumbhai so people can complain I know they are from Manipur they are just putting on a Mumbhaikar accent you can catch them out if you try but they aren't allowed to say they are from Manipur. But they'd have to do something about the violence, drugs, rape, murder or perhaps some kind of broadband connection within walled heavily fortified villages the Manilla model for development in SE Asia or the Singapore Model which is just valley of the dolls rehashed.

So I am setting off again to the Mall, I know, but it's convenient and good quality, to get the 3D modern origami of the Tour Eiffel, a graphical novel of Meerabai that'll do and then I was going to write again to Sharmila Chanu. I wonder when it would be ok to stop calling her Lady Sharmila although it has it's charm. Lady Sharmila my name is Desmond M Coutinho and I am here to rescue you. I figure I'll ask her to write a Meiteilon poem in her next letter with parsing, that might be quite difficult though, not to explain parsing but to get it parsed. I really want to learn about her, but it's one of her poems, with a bit of help on parsing I think you can tell a lot about a person by their use of grammar, especially her own grammar. Did I mention she has a touch of the Shakira about her. It's the mixture of colourful expressive metaphors, yeah ok if she was a big fat ugly meitei war hero, I might not find the metaphors so winsome, but that's my point, the language reveals the person, just as the land of the Lord of the Rings emerged from the grammar of olde anglo saxon and the futhark of the northmen. Through the poetry I can construct my six entity extraction team, and I know I can learn dead languages. It's only when I have to speak them and then have to arrange meetings with living people that I have problems. She is a bit of a shaman being between the worldes and everything it's poifect for me.

I can ask. Otherwise all set for Lanka. Reminds me of the Lord Ravanna they don't like him up north, the normans but he never laid a finger on Princess Sita, but as soon as the Lord Rama gets her back that's when he twubbles start. They say Ravanna was described as a devil an asura mainly because his side lost. But Tamils don't speak Hindi or Sanskrit, I think they'd rather speak English but steady there not sure if that's true. We all have to speak English but no one hear would rather. That's the plan then.