Archive for June, 2006

My 27th Birthday

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Tik and I had some friends over for my birthday. We didn’t really do much this year as we have both been pretty busy but having so many people over was great. Today was the first opportunity to meet Misma, a cool Finnish guy, and perversely the only male I’ve ever met (and […]

Our First Ebay Auction

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

I’m getting a little concerned about the state of my current internet investments.
I think it’s now time to get out of the investment industry and to build another business.
Tik and I are keen to export products from Thailand - not an especially novel concept but one which I know we can expand and make some […]

Speech Recognit… Recognit… Recogmushroom

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

I wasted an hour today installing ‘iListen’ on my computer. This was my first experience of voice recognition software and considering the technology is about 10 years old now and that computers have gotten much more powerful I was really excited to try it out.
After a pointless hour trying to get the damn program to […]

Some More Thai Lessons with A

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

I had another lot of 10 x 3 hour Thai lessons with A this month.
The problem with studying so intensively is that I don’t get the opportunity to memorize everything. I was more interested in putting the time in and knowing that despite being overwhelmed with vocabulary I’d at least have the chance to […]

Tik’s Family Come to Stay

Friday, June 9th, 2006

Tik’s mum and two sisters came to visit us for the weekend to take a holiday.  Toon and Nong Mai have already stayed here before but it was the first time I hosted Tik’s mum.  She is a fun lady, very contented to be in the company of her three self-sufficient daughters.  We took them […]