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Happy Birthday direstraits!

Thanks for the greetings, Halo, Maya!!!!

I'm working today, unfortunately, but would have preferred a whole day in lazing with Jonathan Strange (or my wife, rather :D :D).

I'm now waiting for my dinner to arrive (it's raining heavily now, it's been for the past months due to the monsoon season this part of the world). But I'm having chocolate moist cake later! Yum... can't wait.

ds
 
Happy Birthday ds!

Have a great day.. Since it's your birthday does that mean cake for all of us at this forum?

Hay
 
direstraits said:
I'm now waiting for my dinner to arrive (it's raining heavily now, it's been for the past months due to the monsoon season this part of the world). But I'm having chocolate moist cake later! Yum... can't wait.

ds
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I was really sorry to hear that a tropical mongoose has struck on your birthday (nasty little devils aren't they) but I hope you have a lovely day regardless. Enjoy your chocolate cake and don't forget to have a hobnob - after all it your birthday.
 
Many happy returns of the day, ds.

Keep the chocolate cake out of the rain; you want it moist, not soggy. :)

Irene Wilde
 
hay82 said:
Happy Birthday ds!

Have a great day.. Since it's your birthday does that mean cake for all of us at this forum?

Hay
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Absolutely! Cyber-cake is the best, since it's zero calories! You get one just like Raven's! Just as easy to make two as one. :p

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Cathy
 
Happy Birthday ds!!! I hope your day is GREAT!!! I never told you that I used to live in Malaysia as a young child. We lived in several countries there over the years, I was born in Balikpapan. My only memories are of our house in Kuala Lumpur (did I spell that right?) and the British school I attended.
 
cajunmama said:
I used to live in Malaysia as a young child. We lived in several countries there over the years, I was born in Balikpapan. My only memories are of our house in Kuala Lumpur (did I spell that right?) and the British school I attended.
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Didn't you have any problems with the tropical mongoose?
 
Whee! This is undoubtedly the best cyber party I've ever had! Thanks guys!

And thanks for the cake Cathy! Everybody gets a piece, and that's an order! :)

I just sank my teeth into my chocolate moist - lovely stuff. Anyone for some choco moist?

Hi Billy! What's a tropical mongoose? If you mean the mammal animal (sorry!), then nope, as I live in Kuala Lumpur (so yes, Cajunmama, you got it right!), and finding a mongoose here is quite difficult. You do get pengui.. er, other animals. :)

But somehow I don't think that's what you meant, right? :)

Cajunmama, Balikpapan's on the other side of the South China Sea. :) So can you speak Malay/Bahasa Indonesia? Which British school in KL is this - I'm only 2 years your junior, so I'm pretty sure your school's still around. I could drop by, snap a picture and bring a tear to your eye as you're overcome by nostalgia. :) :)

ds
 
Oh yeah, I've always wondered about that: what's a hobnob? :)

(I've wondered this bit for so long since I've read Litany's posts. Where is she, though?)

ds
 
direstraits said:
Oh yeah, I've always wondered about that: what's a hobnob? :)

(I've wondered this bit for so long since I've read Litany's posts. Where is she, though?)

ds
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Well, the literal definition is an old archaic term, direstraits, meaning "to drink". It's come to be associated with high society cocktail parties, where important people in different businesses can meet each other.

"Hobnobbing" is presently considered meeting important people in a social setting. A lowly file clerk invited to a fancy party given by the CEO would be seen by his friends to be "hobnobbing with the big wigs".

Hope that helps! :D

Cathy
 
I first heard of the tropical mongoose in Rudyard Kipling's stories. Apparently it's a rainy season that comes every year and small furry creatures with sharp teeth fall from the sky and eat all the snakes. I'm not sure if the snakes fall out of the sky or whether they're already there. It sounds like dangerous living. One season it's all snakes and then in the Tropical Mongoose season it rains all the time and the little furry creatures come teeming.
 
Billy Oblivion said:
I first heard of the tropical mongoose in Rudyard Kipling's stories. Apparently it's a rainy season that comes every year and small furry creatures with sharp teeth fall from the sky and eat all the snakes. I'm not sure if the snakes fall out of the sky or whether they're already there. It sounds like dangerous living. One season it's all snakes and then in the Tropical Mongoose season it rains all the time and the little furry creatures come teeming.
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Ah, I see now. You mean Singapore. That place is overrun with snakes and mongooses. You're not too far off, just a few hundred kilometers too far north. Gallant try, though.

All we have is the tropical monsoon - fairly timid stuff, no bloodshed of the scale you described.

:D

ds
 
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