The Roquefort Files

Travels to the pub and back

September 8th, 2003

Random Oz recollections #1: Chris and I were wa…

Random Oz recollections #1: Chris and I were watching The Sopranos one evening, and some homie type character actually had a line consisting entirely of the word “Word”. I haven’t laughed so much in ages. The conversation went something like this: Mafia dude: “So you’ll do it?” Homie #1: “Yeah, G. We’ll wax the mofo. [...]

Back to normality (or at least work) now. I expect…

Back to normality (or at least work) now. I expect that these entries will steadily diminish in A) excitement value and B) length from now on. I got back after something like 30 hours of travelling and waiting around in airports. The last flight, from Singapore (#Apore!# Ha! Bad joke. Cheers Chris) was the worst [...]

September 4th, 2003

Singapore airport at 5.23 am, I can reveal, resemb…

Singapore airport at 5.23 am, I can reveal, resembles every other airport I’ve been in at any time of day you care to choose, except that I can’t shop for Gucci and Rolex because the duty free shops (catering exclusively for the stupendously rich) are closed. It does have free internet access until 6 am [...]