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Why I unfollowed you on Twitter.

Published 04/07/2009 Geek , Introvert , Random 3 Comments
Tags: Geek, Introvert, Random, thoughts, twitter

Lately I’ve been “cleaning up” my followers and followings on Twitter. If you want to follow me, be a real person and not a bot; also, follow me because you like me tweets, not to hope I will follow you back. I’ve also unfollowed a few people I’ve been following for a while; which is the main idea behind this short article.

I mainly use Twitter to follow and connect with like-minded people. If your tweets don’t tickle my toes the right way, I’m sorry, I’ll unfollow you. Also, I don’t mind if you pitch your blog, as I do it myself, but constantly promoting your blog and/or company can be a bit boring and uninteresting.

At the moment I’m only following 59 persons, and probably only half of them contribute daily; still I find it hard to be able to keep track of all their tweets.
I read tweets as I read books. I want to absorb all the information, even if the information is maximum 140 characters. I also want to take part of what the tweeple are tweeting. So when I see people following 100+, I’m curious if they actually manage to read all their updates.

It’s probably because I’m an introvert. I don’t want to skim through information, I want to absorb it and understand it. It’s also my way showing respect to what they are posting, showing that what they post I really want to read, not just skim through and pretend I care.

With that said, don’t take it personally if I unfollow you. If I see a movie or read a book and don’t like it, the writer of that movie or book should not take it personally, because it wasn’t my cup of tea. We are all different and we have different interests.

Peas…

Espressohead poisoned me with butter!

Published 01/07/2009 Dissidence , Food , Ki , Random , Veganism Leave a Comment
Tags: Dissidence, Food, ibs, Ki, Random, rants, thoughts, Veganism

Last week, on Friday, Lizzie and I went to Brisbane to sleep over at our new apartment as our new furnitures would arrive between 6-8 am in the morning; and we were about 3h away.

When we woke up on Saturday morning we decided to have a walk after our furnitures were delivired and have lunch a cafe.

We found a cafe called, Espressohead. They had a “vegetarian” lunch that had butter and eggs in it.
If I’m not wrong, that is lacto-ovo vegetarian, right?
Any who, we told the waitress that we wanted the “vegetarian” lunch without egg and butter on the toast.

We we finally get served the damn toast has butter on it and the mushrooms are fried with butter too.

We call the waitress over and tell her about the cock-up. To scare them a bit I tell her I’m allergic to milk (as it is easier than to having to explain what IBS is), and also tell her again we can’t have any butter in the dish. Then she has the nerve to say: “Oh, I thought you only ere vegan.”

As it was early in the morning I was flabbergasted with silence when she said that, but Lizzie can verify I was chucking a huge tantrum as they prepared a “vegan” lunch for us.

I’m never ever going to Espressohead again. I have experience in the food service business, as I studied it for two years, so I’m probably a lot more qualified than that useless waitress). Serving someone something they specifically asked not to have is a big no-no; being rude about it is a even bigger no no.

As someone with IBS and has a high intolerance for dairy products this is not good. I was just nauseous for about an hour, but in the end it shouldn’t have happened at all.
As a vegan I felt disgusted, violated and poisoned with tortured animal products inside me.

If you live in Brisbane or will be visiting, stay clear of Espressohead.

If you want proper, healthy and safe vegan food, go to The Forest.

You call this winter?

Published 01/07/2009 Food , Geek , Introvert , Ki , Random , Travel , Veganism Leave a Comment
Tags: Food, Geek, Introvert, Ki, Random, thoughts, Travel, Veganism, brisbane

I think we can say with great certainty that we have more or less managed to settle down in Australia. We moved in to our new apartment close to Brisbane city centre last week and I’ve finally finished assembling all the bloody 13 furnitures we bought. Talking about bloody, my right hand has four really nasty wounds from all the assembling. My thumb is the worst. Hopefully my hand will be better end of this week.

As you can see we also have Internet here. Apparently Australia seems to be still a bit in the dark ages when it comes to certain things, as we actually have a download limit; but in general it’s alright here. It seems to be a large amount of non-technical people here. Hopefully I can be part of changing that.

As of now I’m looking for work and will actively start looking and applying tomorrow. We had a nice long walk today, so I’m a bit tired. It’s winter here and it was about +26 degrees Celsius in the sun. I can get used to warm weather all year long.

I was told Australia loves it’s meat, but being vegan here is too easy. I have never had so many good and nice vegan choices. I love it here!

Traveling from the Netherlands to Norway and staying there for a bit; then going to London from Norway for a few days, and then going all the way to Australia has been exhausting. Of course, it didn’t stop there. We had to struggle with jet-lag, long travels, moving in to a new apartment and getting that ready. It has been extremely exhausting. As an introvert I’m drained 100% for energy. Hopefully being able to sit down for a few hours looking for work and blogging, and listening to music while doing so will recharge my batteries.

I’ll try to blog once a day, at least. You will of course catch me on Twitter.

Live long and prosper.

Note: Did you spot any grammatical mistakes? Keep them to yourself! Seriously, I’m too tired to bother with petty grammar-nazis!

I’m in Australia.

Published 21/06/2009 Geek , Introvert , Ki , Random , Travel 1 Comment
Tags: australia, brisbane, Geek, Introvert, queensland, Random, thoughts, Travel, vegan

When I left London for over a week ago I said I would blog when we finally arrived in Australia. Things haven’t been as easy and calm as I expected. Looking past the 40+ pages I had to fill out for the immigration, it has been very easy to get things settled in Australia.
Lizzie and I got a joint bank account and all I had to show was my passport. To get MediCare I had to fill out one paged form and getting a Tax File Number I went online. So far so good.

We have already aquired an apartment in Brisbane and will be moving there next weekend. Things are looking very bright so far.

What has been a very wet blanket is the bloody jetlag. I thought as I already have a messed up sleep pattern jetlag would be easy. So not true. Still I tend to wake up at around 2-3 am in the morning to fall asleep again; and the first days I suddenly fell asleep around 6 pm on the sofa.
Trying to find a place to live, getting all papers done, wrapping my head around I’m in Australia and finding vegan food has also been a bit stressing. I thought when we would find an apartment it would make things much easier.
I guess it would, if I hadn’t caught the bloody flu! Everyone in the bloody house has the flu. I’m getting better, but it’s still bloody annoying.

When we have finally moved to Brisbane and got the flu out of me I will try my best at being more active with blogging again.

If you haven’t seen me twitter it, I’ve seen wild kangaroos and kookaburras. That is so awesome!
And so far being vegan in Australia is really great!

Live long and prosper.

Note: I have a cold, so please look past any bad grammar or spelling.