Bryan\’s Cafe

I’ve been back for a week now and been working (yeah, you heard right) 12-hour days to sort out some company problems as my dad takes a break. You could say my mind has not been exactly ‘here’ in blogospace.

Singapore was refreshing and much to my dad’s chagrin I ended up in London for a week at my brother’s. It would’ve stretched to a month if not for my parents and Shirley and Jojo my puppy who I heard has been trashing my room. Anyway I stayed at Paddington, helped my bro with a few ideas for his business there and tied up a few loose ends with my funds manager friends in town.

For some reason London seemed different this time. The atmosphere wasn’t too jubilant. I’m guessing its because my friends Laura, Martin and Matt have graduated from college and are too caught up in their jobs to hang out much. The last time we did something was in ’05 when we camped out in the country and made a horrendously lopsided crop circle in somebody’s wheat farm. Anyway I ran low on dough and had to cut short my plan to head north to Helsinki so… well here I am being a responsible son 😀

Got no photos to show this time around. The UK trip was unplanned and I didn’t bring my photographic gear with me.

A lot of things are going thru my head right now about my future and stuff. I’ve grounded myself till end of the year so I can help dad out with some things so I’ll be here. Thanks for all the expressions of concern you guys. Gimme a week or two and I should be able to start posting as regularly as I used to.

(Hey Angel your avatar finally showed up. Nice!)

I won’t be updating these couple of days as I’m in Singapore. I do have a life outside the net that needs catching up u know plus an apartment here that hasn’t been cleaned for months, yucks. 😀 So have a good weekend and I’ll respond to your comments probably Monday or something.

I think I’m going nuts. When I was a teenager I used to impress my friends with this gag. I’d hang a piece of dry toilet paper on a string, point my finger at it from about 3cm away and watch the paper gravitate slightly towards me.

No the paper’s not posessed. Its called static electricity. Its common in dry weather and there’s lots of it where I lived in the US.

Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t have given it a second thought but I think that’s starting to change. Its not the static but the AMOUNT of it that’s been coming out of my body. I zapped two friends today by accident, just as we were walking in the mall. There was brief contact and they recoiled like they’re bitten by snakes. It felt like pin pricks they said.

I hate it when that happens. So anyway just now, just to show my two friends the freakazoid that I am, I pointed my finger close to a metal banister and out came a blue streak towards the metal surface. Its just a couple of millimeters long but its visible very very briefly. My friends freaked out. So did I.

This blue lightning thing started a couple of years ago and is getting stronger in intensity. I’ve had electrical equipment die on me. Some of my friends have wised up about walking too near me to avoid getting mini electric shocks, particularly Shirley. I just can’t control it.

Crap there goes my social life.