Gone and left the Facebook

Here are photos from the last week...

Sunday we went to the museum, after Cafe Connors'. There was this mask thing going on... and this was by far the most spectacular mask... Oisin had a field day...

As you can see...

And that's Ghin with Mary, happiest with his scissors...

As you can see, as well.

Oisin is a masked Venetian carnivale stranger...

Very Cassanova...makes me want to go to Venice again...

Ghin kinda ruins the suspension of disbelief

That's him as Napolean, recently i've been thinking the way he behaves is ever so slightly Napolenanic.

Cool dude meets Napolean

That's mommy...

I love this photo, even though its just after he's poked me in the eye

Phantom of the Opera...

Then on Monday, they went to this thing called cardboard cities where there was all this cardboard and kids could make anything they wanted out of them. It was REALLY impressive. Oisin had a great time putting his recently house building skills to work. He created a fort which you could stand on. This was done by putting a set of three cardboard boxes on top of each other.

Here he is on the fort.

Ghin enjoys being Godzilla

A cardboard cubicle. If things continue the way they have, this is going to be the D-day we're all talking about cardboard cubicles.

And kitchens... i had no idea that City of Ember was shot in Belfast by the way.

Then Oisin made a car, which we took home. It soon became a time machine.

I think kids love these things that let them use their imagination. From car to rocket, to train to time machine. And he was especially pleased with the little trailer that he created to pull the behind the car.

Ghin has a tube of Pringles, just like in real life in our car. Our car by the way has become very clean. We paid people to clean it for us this weekend and we are thinking of enforcing a no eating moratorium, although i don't think this is going to happen for any real length of time.

After shopping at Tescos, we went to seapark. That is Holywood, Co Down.

The boys at the play park. I took the photo from really far away because it was so COLD and i was in the car. But that's Peter playing with him. He was a bit grumpy because it was very cold and i didn't bring my jacket, so i had to leave him to look after the kids and he really FEELS the cold, but i had just recovered from my six month cough and wasn't taking any chances.

That's just after Ghin hit his head on the slide and was wailing away.

I'd been thinking about it for a while - and i've finally done it. On hindsight, i should have done it earlier, and perhaps i also did it rather impulsively... contradictions but, i know. I think it was swirling somewhere in the back of my mind and then, poof, when i read an article about Facebook's privacy issues,i thought, yeah, i don't need this shit, and i went, poof!!!!

I'm outta here.

I 'only' had about 90 friends - maybe less - on FB. But it didn't matter. Because i am in touch with these people in someway or other. And i also found that it was the same people on FB. About a dozen. The rest kinda dipped in and out and some others i really didn't want to know about. In that, they were acquaintances. Others in in touch via phone, so it didn't matter. And honestly, life will be a little less complicated. Belfast is so small - in fact Ireland is so small - that things we need to go to are heard about easily. It also means that i'm freed up to do more stuff now. I was checking facebook too much really.

Now i can concentrate on the blog.

I'm going for an early run. It looks like today is going to be runless unless i go now. It will be along the Comber Greenway, around 6 km. I'd do ten, but we'll see how it goes.

I've begun fasting - mostly because Singapore is not far away now and i'd like to be able to eat when i get there. I don't go overboard and i don't end up eating the really awful things like char kway teow, which i never liked in the first place, but it would be nice to eat without thinking too much about it.

And fasting is good anyways. I have stopped the booze and i've stopped the snacking. The was weird yesterday. After i decided that i was fasting, i actually didn't feel hungry. Or rather, because i accepted i was going to be hungry, i stopped being hungry. And when the boys were snacking - Pringles crips, as Ghin calls them, and biscuits, i didn't feel like i wanted it. Fasting is entirely different from dieting - that's why Mama always said, Malays are born with a fasting stomach. It's not the predisposition, it's the state of mind. Once you've decided you're off food, your brain just switches off.

Normally, i'd be standing at the counter at Starbucks, wondering what lowest calorie thingy i could pick up and going for the chocolate brownie anyway. That's how temptation works. But when i stood there yesterday, i just turned my back and didn't consider it.

It's been such a long time since i fasted. I find that i have more energy. It think it is something about putting the wrong kinda fuel in the tank. People who fast say that after three days they feel incredible.

For dinner i had a tuna salad and for dessert a moichi. I also had two rabbit sweets and coffee. But that was it. Oh, and an apple.

Right, the really nice thing as well as that i can now write properly on the blog. Previously WAY TOO MANY PEOPLE had access to the blog and it was becoming a pointless exercise. Now it feels far more private.

Right, time for my run now.