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Life Coaching Concerns

I spoke to Amanda last night, a friend of mine in Australia who is currently a life coach. The conversation was quite enlightening for me, as it pointed out to me how focused she was on the intricacies of business, … Read more …

Online Photo Hosting

There's a lot of websites out there that offer you free hosting for your photos, but unfortunately, most of them don't offer a lot of space. For example, my new-ish photo album website, available from the link on the right, … Read more …

More Life Coaching

Ange, one of the friends (of Deidre) that joined us for yum cha today, found out that I had started down the life coaching path, and she got very interested. To cut a long story short, I'm going to be … Read more …

Relaxing On A Sunday Afternoon

It's busy here at Starbucks today, and I'm sitting here wtaching the hordes of people while Deidre's in a nearby bookstore, chilling out with some reading. We did yum cha today, as well as a little bit of house hunting. … Read more …

Yum Cha

I went out to yum cha today with Ben, Trish, Monique, Garry, Renu and Matt. It was great! Unfortunately, Deidre wasn't able to make it, as she had to play netball. I was supposed to go with her today, but … Read more …

Life Coaching

On Thursday a friend of mine, who I've known for a while on the internet (we've never actually met yet in real life), was discussing with me a few of his issues that he was unhappy about. I offered some … Read more …

Self responsibility

How often do we blame someone or something for making us feel a particular way? How often do we blame someone for 'making' us feel angry, annoyed, happy, sad, and so many other feelings? Are they MAKING us feel that … Read more …

Pleasure and pain

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors. – Anthony … Read more …

New photos available

Oh yeh, I forgot to mention… Click on My NEW Photo Album to go see the latest photos I put on there the other day. There's a few of Wellington, sunset from my window, and the Articulate Championships on Sunday. … Read more …

Open relationships

I was talking about this with someone the other day, and they asked me my view on it. This is basically what I told them, that I thought I would put into here as well: Western society is Christian-based, which … Read more …

What a (social) life…

On Friday night Deidre was going out with the girls (Renu – Matt's wife, Monique – Garry's partner, and Trish – Ben's wife) for food, fancy dancing and frivolity. I went out with Garry to see Batman Begins at the … Read more …

Tag, you’re it

I got tagged, I think, thanks to this site I stumbled upon. Bastards. Well, here goes…. 10 years ago: It was a year after my 'soulmate' had left me, and I was confused, lost and alone, with no idea where … Read more …

A story, part 2

How do you go on with your life, pretending everything is normal when you know that it’s not? How do you keep a secret that can never be told, for fear of being committed to a mental institution? Or worse. … Read more …