Questions I still don’t have answers to
June 5th, 2008
- Why do missionaries always come in gangs? Don’t they like to bang tambourines alone?
- If someone asks you if you have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal saviour, is it rude to laugh and run away shouting ‘nutter!’?
- Do all tourists leave their manners at home?
- Why does the Internet stop working when it rains?
- Where do the fish come from that Khmers fish out of puddles after it rains?
- Why do Koreans wear such shockingly bad trousers?
- Why do tuk tuk drivers ask if you if you want a tuk tuk even while you are in the process of dismounting your motorbike?
- Are Dragonfruit the most overdressed fruit in the world?
- Are rambutans worth the effort?
- What the hell is football and why do so many people watch it?
- Could the monkey on Wat Bo Road steal my sunglasses?
- Is buying the Bangkok Post expressly for toilet training the puppy without reading it ignorance or simply pragmatism?
- How the hell did I rip my boxer shorts last night?
- Am I my own worst enemy?
- Is there anywhere in Siem Reap I can work in peace?
Quite Random is the blog of Nathan Nelson, a human male who lives in the UK and is not entirely sure what he's going to do when he grows up but is interested in international development, photography, secularism, technology, music and movies and other things anyone of his age would be.
There’s a rather good song title from aband called Ballboy which asks a question which often perplexes me when lying awake late at night/early in the morning:
“Where do the nights of sleep go when they do not come to me?”