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Saturday, September 20, 2003
seems I am having some trouble with posts showing up twice .. please bear with me while I try to fix that .. I am AWARE the situation ..
Friday, September 19, 2003
I finally managed to take a good picture of our resident St. Andrews Cross Spider, who we dubbed "Spider Girl" ... since she is in the 5 cm/2 inch category, she just has to be female .. she is pretty cool and her web is just amazing ... I even told the gardener to not touch it ... it seems that once in a while she has so rebuild the web, the wind movement makes it a bit weak. And she is reallt great at it .. and she is a beauty.
Thursday, September 18, 2003
Last night we had the great experience of the private hospital in Suva. No, really, that place is great, I wish more hospitals were like that!
I picked up Ritsu from work at 5:30 and she felt really sick and I could feel that she had a fever. So we skipped our plans of going to a concert and brought her to bed instead. She kept feeling worse and after a while it dawned on us that she could have Dengue ... so around 10 PM we drove up to the private hospital, where we were met by a nice, young indo-fijian doctor, who gave Ritsu some painkillers and anit-biotics and sent us home again (we had the overnight bag packed already) ... he was fairly certain it was not Dengue ...
After her medication she felt sleepy but around 6 AM she woke up again, this time with stomach pain. We had an appoinment at 8:30 AM anyway, and the doctor again confirmed that it seems to be a bacterial infection and just sent us back home.
Fortunatelly now after having anti-biotics in her system for 24 h, she feels better, albeit weak, but I am very glad it is nothing more serious.
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
9 AM = 32C/90F @ 78% now that is fun ... let's see how high it will get.
Oh, want to see today's Fiji Times front page ?
Click to enlarge ... that photo is from last night's Tadra Kahani event
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Yeps ... 31C/87F @81% ... it IS getting warmer ...
Tonight's highlight was a song and dance show at the Multi Purpose Hall (they are really using that thing well) called Tadra Kahani. Basically performances from schools .. quite impressive ... follow the above link for a much better description and details.
The actual show was pretty good, albeit riddled with technical problems. But there is not much entertainment in the musical section around here, so that was a very welcome chance.
Yeps ... 31C/87F @81% ... it IS getting warmer ...
Tonight's highlight was a song and dance show at the Multi Purpose Hall (they are really using that thing well) called Tadra Kahani. Basically performances from schools .. quite impressive ... follow the above link for a much better description and details. (There is only one BIG mean typo on the website, MDG #4 is NOT "Reduce child morality" ... there is nothing wrong with the children's moral. It should read "child mortality" !!!!! )
The actual show was pretty good, albeit riddled with technical problems (light's went out twice, last dance number seemed to have ended up with a premix of their music, the disgarded version). But since there is not much entertainment in the musical section around here, it was a very welcome change.
Monday, September 15, 2003
Seems that summer is coming back already .... the day you turn the fans on seems to be the day to acknowlegde that winter is over. 26C in the morning with 86% humidity ... nice .. and rain in the afternoon ... the good news is that Mangos are coming back in style .. can't wait !!!
Sunday, September 14, 2003
Last night we went to have dinner at the Fiji Malthouse again, we shared a Pizza and had 2 side salads. The salads are big, with very nice lettuce (other stuff than iceberg), but the dressing was too much oil and not enough vinegar ... that would be nice if they's offer different dressings.
As for the pizza we did a half half again, half "Pacific" (which is basically a "Hawaii" with ham and pineapple, but has some onions too) and half BBQ prawn / seafood. The Pacific was great, the BBQ prawns were a bit funny, first they used what I usually call salad shrimp, tiny critters they probably get frozen from Const-U-Less, not sure what so BBQ is on them. But again, the crust is fantastic, the staff was very nice, the beer was great. Really nice place, finally we found good pizza (now we just have to find out which toping we like best)
Then this morning, instead of going to church (yeah, right) we went to the movie theater to watch a movie that we had NO clue about, other than the title is "romance", the ad depicts a half naked lady and it is rated R18. With a title like that I could not find any info on the IMDB, but later I found out that it was this French movie from 1999. Why they would show that one in Fiji is still a riddle to me ... as is the whole movie ... weird, strange, totally unsexy, lots of bla bla bla. Some obvious / silly cuts (hiding a felatio, but later giving a full frontal detail view of a woman giving birth!). I am still not sure if the movie had a plot, a point or a deeper meaning.
But hey, the trailer for Jeepers Creepers 2 looked nice.
