A Canadian in King Parakramabahu's Court http://srilanka.laurieashton.com Laurie Ashton Farook's adventures as an expat in Sri Lanka. Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:30:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Random Events on 2010-07-10 http://srilanka.laurieashton.com/2010/07/random-events-on-2010-07-10/ http://srilanka.laurieashton.com/2010/07/random-events-on-2010-07-10/#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:30:00 +0000 Laurie http://srilanka.laurieashton.com/2010/07/random-events-on-2010-07-10/

  • Our air conditioner is broken. Hopefully it's just got a clogged intake whatever or something. Or something equally cheap to fix… #fb #
  • 2 routers, 2 ceiling fans, ceiling light, telephone cord, notebook, LCD display, fridge, A/C unit, 4 surge protectors: things that died. #fb #
  • It looks like our A/C is fixed. Yay! Sleeping in the cold tonight… #fb #
  • "You speak Swahili?" "You don't?" #

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  • The Five Days Of Food Poisoning is finally over. And I felt well enough to go grocery shopping. Good thing – we're out of food. #fb #
  • Okay, I gotta put groceries away and pretend to cook, uh, something. What, though? No idea… #fb #
  • Die spammer die die die!!!! @1000walmart686 in reply to 1000walmart686 #

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  • Installed Windows Live Writer Beta on notebook results in Default Manager plugin installed in Firefox w/o my knowledge. #fail #FB #microsoft #
  • Someone outside is blowing a whistle. Why? #fb #

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  • Woken up in the middle of the night last night from the fire alarm. False alarm. On off on off… Over an hour until fixed and off off. #fb #
  • Captivating images. RT @Binku Images of daily life in Pakistan http://bit.ly/alF0AN #
  • Captivating images. RT @Binku Images of daily life in Pakistan http://bit.ly/alF0AN #fb #
  • The fire alarm keeps going off this morning as people attempt to fix it. Of course, it starts as I'm taking a nap. #fb #
  • RT @Binku 35 Truly Dramatic Examples of Animal #Photography – http://bit.ly/7cBRW8 /via @9swords #fb #
  • Had a cajun chicken burger from The Sandwich Factory for Teh Win. Generous chicken, spices, hot sauce. Absolutely wonderful! #fb #

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  • Did not sleep well. Tired already at 7:30 am. #fb #
  • Lunch from The Sandwich Factory. 10^10 better than yesterday's. TSF was a win, flavorful but not enough cheese, only 25 min late. #fb #
  • Unit conversions: Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond. From @tonytoews #fb #
  • RT @FahimFarook FastOrder (http://fastorder.lk) & The Sandwich Factory (http://thesandwichfactory.lk/) made for a great lunch today! Kudos! #

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  • Reno going on at our house, so @FahimFarook and I checked into a hotel while parents oversee reno. The dust, etc. was making us sick. #fb #
  • I'm soooooooo hungry! Room service isn't here yet. I was already hungry an hour ago. When will food be here? *gnaws arm* #fb #
  • Ordered from room service over an hour ago & it's still not here. Caesar salad, cheeseburger, sub. What the heck? #fb #
  • That "meal" was disgusting, all of it. Not a single redeemable "food" item. The bottled water was okay, though… #fb #
  • Did I mention the bone and huge chunks of gristle in my "cheeseburger"? Bone? Gristle? #fb #
  • Ordered donuts from Gonuts For Donutes for delivery. 1 hour and 56 minutes later, it finally arrives. #fb #

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  • Question on a Sri Lankan hotel site: How do I cross the road? :D http://tropicinn.com/questions.html at the very bottom. #fb #
  • For the record, I hold either Fahim's hand or, if he's not with me, his mother's hand, to cross the road. It's crazy here! #fb #

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  • Off to make waffles for breakfast again. Yesterday's too-large batch mysteriously disappeared… And I gotta perfect the recipe… #fb #
  • Hilarious! What if everyone in Canada flushed at the same time? http://fwd4.me/U1n #
  • Is there another World Cup game on? It's taking me 10+ tries to post a tweet. #
  • Love Star Wars? How about chipmunks? You've GOT to see this… http://is.gd/d0xNT #fb #

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