When You Don’t Hear From Me

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
by George Appiah

Damn … I wish I had three or four of this pillow. But I can only wish. And this morning I woke up to a spanky-shiny-funny new email from a laiiidy … and dear, that got me laughing all over.

It was a really long mail and included everything — from serious accusations to a love proposition (no, I’m NOT kidding). And gee… that was good, because these days I hardly get any interesting mails at all — except the spam, of course!

I’m not posting the entire mail here … just the part about me disappointing her everything she heads over over to this website and doesn’t find anything new (and I’m doing this with her permission).

Just to let you know I’ve been reading your website for over a year now, and I really do appreciate your sharing your life with me. Yes, your descriptions are so vivid that, sometimes it feels like I’m right by your side (not that I don’t want to), and you telling me a story.

And I’ve always been looking forward to the next article, though I must admit I can never tell what’s coming next and when. And that’s my problem with you, George. You’re so disappointing.

Day after day I dash over to your website looking for something new, and nothing. Week after week you disappoint. And that gets me so angry. So angry and I just feel like eating you alive, or shooting you, or something.

Of course, knowing you (from your writings, that is) I don’t expect you to take that para above seriously. Or would you? Why, are you cheese? You seem to be a busy man, and I do understand there may be a million things that may be keeping you from writing. But could you give just a little TLC to us, your readers too?

Are you currently in Ghana? A friend of mine will be travelling …. blah blah bla (and she went on and on into talk about how great it would be to live a “poor” life in Africa, and eventually asked “if we could get to know each other” and more blah blah blah :-) )

Hmmm. Of course after reading such a mail I simply had to fire up Firefox and start writing rightaway. Actually I’ve been writing a LOT more recently, except I’ve been writing more and more for myself and not for public consumption.

But the real reason I’ve not been blogging more frequently recently may be that I’ve been so so so “busy” doing nothing. And when I’ve got so much nothing to do, where’s the time to write a new blog post?

Or may be not. But who knows? Anyway … these photos may be a clue:

I know of a man who named his daughter “Innocent” because he felt he wasn’t responsible for that pregnancy. But this one?

This one says only members allowed. Simply key in your username and password and enter. Problem is, anyone can have a username and password these days

Lost Found in translation? A restaurant in China boldly displays this great “Chinglish” menu: