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First update in almost two weeks. I am slacking. I would like to ‘blame’ Ramadhan but it isn’t to blame, really. You get only one opportunity to try and focus on your spirituality and on getting forgiveness, you take it. In between that and work, you shelve the unimportant things like blogging, for more worthwhile ventures – like gaming hehe.

But this is a long weekend and there is a bit more time to manage work and play. I figured instead of working all day on Bank Holiday Monday, I’d spread out the to-do list for Monday over Saturday, Sunday and Monday: working half a day each and chilling the other half.

So far so good. I’ve managed to fit in not one but two movies! Well done me.

While Dr. Roger has opted for fare from Malaysia, I veered closer to Europe this weekend as I attacked the ever-increasing pile of unwatched DVDs I have sitting in my living room. Bought initially for purposes of interior design, I have been informed that it is okay to open the box and watch the movies from time to time.

Not just interior design, apparently

I finally got round to watching ‘This is England’, in time for the television 4-parter to go on air beginning 7 September. The TV series takes Shaun to being a 15-year old in 1986; the year I remember not-so-fondly as the year where cheaters do win, don’t they Diego Maradona? Thomas Turgoose does well, and I can’t wait to watch Somers Town.

And in keeping with the football note in things, I watched the Miracle of Bern. Charting the first of Germany’s three World Cup wins, it is also a movie about post-war Germany and finding hope in bleakness. It is in German (no one English would celebrate a Germany football team, and no one American is aware that football is actually a game played with a round ball..) and as with all movies, it clearly sounds much more poetic in its native tongue. But the subtitles did the movie justice, and the movie also did justice to it’s 113 minutes.

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I am off to Cardiff again in a few days. I can’t wait to go chill out at the library again.

Have you ever wondered what an ugly duckling looks like in real life? I found out on Friday.

And in other news, if your crappy shoulder hurts and you’re out of an icepack or any other swelling reducing measure, try putting the medals you got in the freeze for an hour, and then tape it onto the affected area. It actually works for a bit (until Asda opens the next day and you can go get a pack of Koolfever which does the same).

Of course the smart thing to do is not to play at all. But I was never a stickler for medical advice.

And finally, I got home last night just in time to catch Jessica Ennis and Mo Farah doing Britain proud with their gold medals. Jessica is half-Jamaican, and Mo is of Somalian origin. My next TMI article has almost written itself. But in the meantime, read this week’s.

I’m not feeling it as much as I used to when I write about it here, but surprise surprise I still do.

You left your things at my place,
As if I have all the space,
‘Cause you know i dont mind
Just come back when you think its time.. [1]

Leaving isn’t just physical.

But here’s a secret. The immigration officers at the border of Indifference are starting to stamp my visa.

[1] Title track to Yuna’s new album.