You hear that, Mr Andersen?

Followup, Bro, Spice

To follow up on what I wrote last time - it wasn't as bad as I expected. The problem that I was called in to solve turned out to be completely unrelated to database stuff; unfortunately, it took quite a bit of investigation to show that. Even so, it wasn't a total loss, since I noticed that a change I'd made earlier on Friday was causing problems, and I was able to fix that (rather than having it broken and complaining all weekend). Plus, you know, a bit of overtime money never hurts.

(Anyway, the inconvenience that I had pales in comparison to what one of my co-workers had to go through. It was his first week on call, and there was not a single night when he wasn't woken up by 4am at the latest. He basically managed to double his pay last week from overtime - and given that we don't go into time and a half until 60 hours, that's pretty impressive. :)

Anyway, I'm glad I got to the 48 Film Competition post-Paramount Premiere party, even if it was as they were wrapping up dinner. It was nice to catch up with the others and just chat, and I choose to see nearly demolishing a side-table & being accused by Jenni of looking like a dentist as just aspects of the whole experience.

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I was going to tell you the exciting story of my brother's departure to India - but why do that when he can tell you himself? I think he's trying to get all the exciting and terrible things out of the way early-on, so that the rest of his trip will be trouble-free. ;)

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Got to rewatch The Twins Effect with the ever-awesome Jenni, Lee and Celeste. Those two never stop being mega-cute! (Now, do I mean the two Asian pop-star female leads, or Jenni and Lee? Or maybe Jenni and Celeste? Or Bruce Lee and actual Lee? Ambiguity Man strikes again, bwhah-hah-hah!) This also meant that I had Indian four times in a row - I originally thought it was just coincidence, but now I wonder whether my cuisine is shaping itself in sympathy with my brother's trip...

No, wait, it wasn't four times in a row, unless kebabs and sticky date pudding can be counted as a Indian dish. Which I'm pretty sure it can't be. Curses.

Anyway, it reminded me that, while naan tends to be the same from restaurant to restaurant, onion bhaji can vary wildly between locations. Compare Curry In A Hurry's large nuggets of battered onion-y goodness with the delicious red fragments of Planet Spice. Mmmm. Okay, now I want Indian again tonight - which isn't going to happen.

Probably.

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Went to a fairly large party on Saturday where I basically knew no-one apart from the person who invited me. Very odd feeling. :) Of course, as the evening wore on it became more like a Wellington party - that is, full of weirdly serendipitous connections. For example, I bumped into the younger brother of someone I knew quite well at Uni, who I also knew a bit; he was only there because someone I had met through the Puggle group had come along, but it turns out that I'd met his girlfriend at another flatwarming, and chatted to her in email about tax. (And the flatwarming I met her at was for someone else who knows Puggle, but who I'd met through Weta - in a very roundabout way.)

Wellington is just an endless chain of coincidence. ;)

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Apparently the Spice Girls are getting back together. This reminds me of the "Spice World"/"Aliens Ressurection" double feature that people organised, back in the day - it was described to people by those organising it as "an evening of unrelenting horror". I guess I'll be losing any movie-cred I've garnered from the Film Festival by saying that I enjoyed both. ;) I'm not sure whether I've rewatched either of them since, though.

Posted by svend at May 23, 2005 7:57 PM