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Friday, April 11, 2003
Recently the always creative Ritsu invented something that I can only describe as the Snickerstoast. Obviously she was curious how Nutella and peanut butter go together on toast, and after reluctantly trying it, I noticed that it taste just like that chocolate-peanut bar. It doesn't look pretty, but it tastes very yummy. And is of course totally fat free and has no calories !!!
Last night I made Pizza (ham / pineapple) for us and we had Candice and David, our house / catsitters, over for dinner and it was very nice. Somehow we were so tired that we not even stayed up for watching x-files .. we just fell asleep.
Today I went to an early screening of "The Core" .. and after having checked my brain at the entrance, I could very much enjoy that movie ... heck, it is science fiction, you should not wonder about the scientific background (though after a bit of reading, I found out the film makers actually tried to get some sense into the geology behind the movie) ... if you like films like armageddon, you surely enjoy this one. I even found most of the actors more interesting and some of the humor even smarter than average ...
again a night that ended way too early at 3 AM thanks to feeling hot, howling dogs and crowing roosters .. and the cat has the new idea to wake us up by playing quite noisily with our curtain ...
anyways ... the first (and probably last) test of ordering from amazon.com failed ! I ordered a book for a friend back in february, and it was shipped on 2/12. And never arrived ... after 6 weeks I contacted amazon, they kindly asked me to check with the local post office, which I did (nada) ... and now I just asked amazon for a refund, which they agreed on. I really wonder where this book is now ...
Yesterday was cleaning day again, and at some point the cleaning lady asked if instead of the usual 20F$ i could give her 50F$ this time ?!?! Turns out she needs it for her electricity bill. Not sure if she wanted 30F$ just extra, but I made an arrangement with her that the next 3 times she comes, she will get only 10$ ... hope she comes back :)
The gardener (who was supposed to show up on tuesday) came by to and the garden looks nice now again.
I have been researching the possibility of getting an ISDN connection, which is here considered "High Speed" ... and is silly expensive: around 225US$ per month and being limited to 500MB ... but at least i would be online 24/7 ... now it turns out that the ISDN modem, which telecom sells you for 350US$ (something you could get on ebay for around 20$) has only a USB connection, which means I cannot use our airport network with this .. fantastic ... I need to check if I can buy my own modem in the sates and bring it here ... but that may cause trouble .. a) it may not work with the system here / no support b) I hear they really do not want you brining in your own phone equipment i.e. cordless phones
hey .. movie time again .. all you people on broadband .. wanna see our cat in action ??? well . click here .. it is a 2.1 MB file .. no biggy for those who are not on modem ... and isn't she cute ???
I am really curious how many people will actually watch this ... this will determine if I will put up more video clips in the future .. please use the below comment link to tell me if you watched it ... hey .. this may very well be the first fijian cat video on the www :)
Monday was a funfilled day of people coming to read meters ... electricity, water .. what not ... and it was raining again ... for dinner we went to daikoko ... they had sea urchin sushi and it was very good again ... we then had ginger pork and wasabi steak from an apparent trainee chef .. he did his jobe very well .. but they gave him some training knife which was just not sharp enough !!! .. it seems they were under staffed .. so even the guy of the manager couple worked the tables .. he was pretty good and did a lot of silly show stuff .. like pepper mill landing in his hat and such ...
Last night (Saturday) we had Marly and Edo over for dinner: I made a cream of mushroom/almond soup, salad, salmon in dill sauce with potato gratin (imagine sliced potatoes baked with tons of cheese :) and Ritsu took care of the ocra side dish (when I do that, it turns into a grey mousse, she gets them done green, crunchy and very yummy) ... we all had a fun evening ...
Then today we went diving with Jonathan and his neighbors, and it turned out to be with Beqa Divers again. We enjoyed the size of the boat once more (especially after seeing 2 other "cettle" dive boats) and the duration of the trip was not a problem (you can either choose: small, crowded but fast or big, spacious and slow diveboats)
The 2 dives were very nice, and for the first time i actually managed to suck my tank dry! I noticed I was very low, when the dive guide Billy pointed out another coral to explore .. and it was still in the vacinity of the boat ... then we returned to do our 3 minute stop ... and all was fine .. but I knew i was quite low ... so .. after 3 minutes were over I was about to go up .. but according to Billy's clock, we had to stay another minute ... so .. i waited .. and felt that getting air was trickier .. and i gave him the "air out" signal .. and he gave me his octopus .. well .. if we had come up 30 secs earlier, nobody would have ever noticed :) It was not a dangerous situation at all .. but of course seeing someone sucking on another diver's octo looks always like something big/bad had happened ...
On the second dive we got to see some sharks, big swarm of Trevalies and lots of other stuff ... all in all a great dive day .. and now I am freaky dicky tired !!!