In this day and age of technology such as Facebook, My Space and Twitter, people can add strangers who they don’t know from Adam and ‘befriend’ them, building cyber-relationships.
Cyber-friends turn into genuine friends you think you know quite well.
The problem with having friends in any of these mediums is the ease with which you can delete these so-called friends when they get sick of you, or in my case, you disagree with them on a topic. If you don’t want to be privy to them disagreeing with you it’s easy enough just to hit delete and wipe that friend, and a history of posts forever.
It reminds me not to get too attached to people I have ‘met’ online in case they decide they don’t like me anymore or don’t want me on their friends list. Oh the net is so fickle.
Yasu just called me and said from Thursday this week there is no work at all. :(
I guess we’ll be tightening our belts even further.
I guess i’ll go look at seek.com.au and see what’s on offer.
So, the recession has finally hit us.
My eyes are killing me, I think it’s from not wearing my glasses. I have two pairs, one for reading and one for distances as I’m short sighted. The ones for distances are like magnifying glass and give me a headache and a kind of warped view when I take them off. I’ve got the reading glasses on now and they’re not so bad, just have to get used to them again.
I think I have spent too much time on the internet today. I just can’t seem to pry myself away. Friends keep sending me things on Facebook too, which I keep responding to, can’t help myself!
I had no idea what to cook for dinner last night. I had scoured the internet for recipes but wasn’t very inspired. So i got out my Japanese Cookbook and decided to make Niku Jaga. The only problem was i only had one potato. I did have a sweet potato though, so i decided to use both. I also threw in a few runner beans instead of peas. I added some vegetable stock because i was out of dashi.
Niku Jaga boiling away
When Yasu walked in the door he said “oh smells yum, are we having stew?” It actually tasted quite nice, probably a little more like stew as i was abit heavy on the white wine (instead of sake), but in all, very good. It sufficed for something a little different.
After dinner Yasu shocked me with the news that we might be moving to Dubai next year. The economic crunch has hit the boat building industry, and the only place to go will be Dubai, as their boat building industry is very good. I was kinda depressed at first, the thought of moving all that way. Then i did some research and found there’s a “Daisou” (100 yen store) in Dubai, so i’m pretty happy about that! Yasu is now re-thinking because after i told him that, he must have thought…crap she’s gonna spend all our money at Daisou, he knows my history with the 100 yen stores!! Lucky Dubai though, we don’t even have one in Australia i don’t think. Or any 100 yen stores. I wish we did though, that would be so cool.
So yeah, not much news to report except the above. Yasu is working on a boat at the moment, but it won’t be finished until february 2009, so around that time we’ll be assessing the situation. So no need to panic right now as some of my friends have done.
