RobandWend's Ramblings: June 2006

Singapore

So here we are in Singapore - three hours until our flight, so I've talked W into letting me spend 5 mins on the net. We're more tired than you'd expect for 9pm, still we'll be back in the UK soon.

TTFN R&W

Last update (no changes)

No Changes - but this is it.

MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	SUN
JULY 2006				30 – Depart 16:00 Singapore 2105/2355	1 – Man'ster 07:00 -> L'rpool	2- LPool (Pick up car)
3- LPool Afternoon /evening S & S -> LPool	4- LPool -> Sheff	5- ->	6	7	8-Cornwall	9-CWall
10-Cwall	11-Cwall	12-CWall	13-CWall	14- CWall	15- CWall -> Bham	16 BHam
17	18Dogs - Owlerton Stadium 7:30pm	19 Meal (J&M)	20	21 – Meal(Gary)	22	23
24	25 Beauty and the Beast	26	27	28	29 Depart 10:00	30 Singapore 0600/0933 Perth 1435

Flight details

Want to see our flight details...

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Flight from Perth is SQ226 on 30June

then from Singapore... SQ328 on 30June

Here's the current flight status (1pm Thursday)

30th June 2006 - Friday - Flight Number SQ226 / Aircraft Boeing 777-200

	Airport	Scheduled Time	Actual Time	Estimated Time	Status
Departure From	Perth (PER)	15:55
Arrival In	Singapore (SIN)	21:15

30th June 2006 - Friday - Flight Number SQ328 / Aircraft Boeing 777-200

	Airport	Scheduled Time	Actual Time	Estimated Time	Status
Departure From	Singapore (SIN)	23:50
Arrival In	Manchester (MAN)	06:50 (+1)

Getting close

The holiday to the UK is getting closer and closer. Yet here I am on a Saturday stuck at work again. Plus I'm working on Sunday. Oh well working regular 13 days in a row is now standard in our department.

Still - I don't care - holiday soon!

Henna

Look - it really does go darker...

Calcutta Tiljallah Relief Anniversary Dance

A late night bash last night - a charity gig for this cause...

Here's the blurb...

CTR has two major thrusts:

Providing pensions to seniors
as of 2005, 257 seniors were being given a monthly pension - 155 in Kolkata, 82 in Chennai and 20 in Bangalore.

Educating children
as of 2005, 123 children were being educated - 36 boarders and 42 day scholars in Kolkata, 15 boarders and 20 day scholars in Chennai and 10 day scholars in Hyderabad.

CTR has branches in:

Australia - Melbourne, Sydney and Perth
UK - London and Southampton
Canada - Toronto
USA - headquartered in New Jersey

All the branches are run by volunteers who are not paid, either in cash or in kind.

CTR administers its programs through local administrators in:

Kolkata - CAISS and Loreto, Entally
Chennai - Anglo-Indian concern, Smile Cares and Teacup Ministry
Bangalore - Ms Sylvia Bosen
Hyderabad - Ms Margaret Studden

CTR funds all its programs through these administrators.

CTR also publishes books on Anglo-Indian culture. The gross proceeds of all sales go to the charity. So far, three books have been published and a fourth is in the process of being edited.

Information about all CTR's activities can be found by following the various links on this website.

CTR is making a difference and invites all to help.

Heres the Video of W's friend Amanda

And here's the pics...

Holiday plan update

Minor changes only

MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	SUN
JULY 2006				30 – Depart 16:00 Singapore 2105/2355	1 – Man'ster 07:00 -> L'rpool	2- LPool (Pick up car)
3- LPool Afternoon /evening S & S -> LPool	4- LPool -> Sheff	5- ->	6	7	8-Cornwall	9-CWall
10-Cwall	11-Cwall	12-CWall	13-CWall	14- CWall	15- CWall -> Bham	16 BHam
17	18Dogs - Owlerton Stadium 7:30pm	19 Meal (J&M)	20	21 – Meal(Gary)	22	23
24	25 Beauty and the Beast	26	27	28	29 Depart 10:00	30 Singapore 0600/0933 Perth 1435

Henna

W went down to Fremantle last night after work to have har arms Henna'ed for a bollywood charity bash we're going to this weekend. They look really great - currently still light, as the henna darkens over the 1st 3 days. A plug for Kelly @ 'henna moon' in Freo www.hennamoon.com.au (link doesn't currently appear to be working!).

She drove to Freo, I caught the train - a trip of nearly two hours from my work. The plan was to have a meal there, however by the time she'd finished it was 9pm, so we got take-home instead.

Here's the site for the wood fired pizza - now a nicely concreted base...

At work we've got a stack of new expensive hardware going in. Basically this...

is replacing this...

And at last the Ikea CD tower has arrived, here you can see the 2nd of three going in...

Neat video...

OK - I'm getting lazy in my posts...

D's birthday party

Whilst R & M were at Menopause we went with the usual bunch to a Chinese in Leeming, to celebrate D's birthday... I was amazed at how old - and tall D is now. She's taller than her mum, man they sure shoot up (in a non-druggy way :-)

Clear monitor

Would you trust this cat...

Holiday

The holiday must be getting close, as both W and I are starting to get excited! It's strange, as I don't feel like I'm thinking about the holiday all the time, but I can definitely feel it getting closer, and little things feel better each day - like the drive to work for one.

We decided to buy a new small camera to take with us. We've got the digital slr, which we will take, but it is just a little clumsy when you go out for meals and the like. We've got a really nice canon ixus - pre-digital, which would have been fine before we converted to digital. But to be honest now, it's feels a bit like being a betamax player whenever we use it.

So... We splurged out on one of these...

Read a review here

It was a toss up between the Sony which we got, and the Canon range of super-compacts. The Sony won in the end simply because W found it far more intuitive to use (given the 30 seconds we played with it in the shop).

So far I'm very happy with it, it really does seem easy to use, and the images look very good ... Nothing for the blog yet - let's face it, once they've been reduced to fit here, they all look the same anyway.

Michael has done yet more dry runs on the wood fired oven, it's not proved as easy as originally though - it's not exactly hard, but the kit didn't fit together quite as published, and needed a reasonable amount of tweaking to get it to form a perfect arch.

We're still waiting for the footings to be poured - so possibly we won't be having home cooked pizza's as soon as we return.

It's cold in here

Today we take a quick look at our fridge - or at least the doors.

W wanted to be sure we kept the fridge clear of clutter when we moved to the new house - that proposal isn't holding too well...

So what have we got...

Pizza magnet - won't be needed once we get the oven built.

A Griffiths coat of arms (cheap plastic magnet from the UK)

My work phone list - just incase I get called

Recycling calender from Council, held on with photo of D.

All the blue magnets (lots of them) are from the vet - this represents how much money we spend with them.