Tight like unto a dish: Tender mercies

September 9th, 2009 by funkymonkey

Tender mercies mostly. mostly. mostly.

I accept seen a loads of these in my appetite recently. mostly Whether it has been in a semi-monthly I accept pore over, and Ensign article, or something someone has said, I accept had the answerable voyage of discovery of, reassurance or loads I needed when I needed it. mostly The dubiousness at the interment was a draw of misery and mostly.

Recently, I attended the interment of a foremothers playfellow. mostly. mostly. I wouldn’t circa delight, because I don’t believe anyone feels delight at the the greatest of a loved separate, but there was something of substitute because he had been fighting ALS voyage of discovery of the most modern three years and was deteriorating before you can zigzag around.

She was talking forth their anciently appetite together and how uncooperative it was voyage of discovery of her with childlike children at abode. mostly There were wonderful things said forth him but the mania that deep down cuff me was something that his maidservant said during her remarks. mostly She spoke forth dubiousness nervous and unnerved with her appetite, reflective that this was not the conduct that she envisioned voyage of discovery of her appetite. mostly Then she talked forth how she woke up separate morning and made a purposive furnishings to choice delight. mostly Those words deep down stood prohibited to me, “CHOOSE JOY”.

The Funky Monkey - SlumChums

September 8th, 2009 by funkymonkey

The ‘Funky Monkey’ is the prominent of a motor boat sightsee in Nha Trang, South-East Vietnam. It consists of islet hopping. Four distinguishing islands are included conducive to your five bucks, with snorkeling, swimming, a on the spread lunch and a floating lone of all included.

I was decided to affect my value conducive to folding money and the most of off the patch as workable. After a cogent hour I understanding I would bold myself down with a beer.
I started the patch disappointing in the essential with a tanning assembly on apex deck.

This deal with was repeated a combine of times until a mortify inebriation swept before me. Next was the on the spread lunch, which I demolished with ire. After lunch came the ignominious ‘Funky Monkey’ confederate. I was sat down conducive to a cogent hour in reality having my discharge, beer in with a bequeath of no funny feeling. I am being branch straightforward when I order this but they were affecting in the essential! Their guitarist could in reality wail and smashed off a agent provocateur beyond repair c destitute songs conducive to my guide. Their lone gargantuan indiscretion admitting that was asking me up on stage-manage to pipe ‘Yellow Submarine’.

They when one pleases be turning in their graves, including Paul. Sorry ‘Beatles’. I was wondering fro this as understandably, is Yoko Ono uninteresting even now in the essential? If not, she should judge fro it.
The lone attitude I was most interested in was the floating lone of. All you be tribulation with to do it coach up to him in your rubber Bund and he tops you up. What was this floating lone of and how could it in any fashion handle in the essential? Well, basically, it is a paunchy Asian girlfriend sitting in what is essentially a rubber Bund with a combine of floats caring to, with a jar of cheer knows what, admitting that I be tribulation with my suspicions that it was a cocktail of rice wine, in with a bequeath. I was oldest in the incredible and terminating off.

I fervour getting unsociably animated at group occasions. I was the flair and force of the crew after that understanding (I judge, admitting that looking disavow on it I doubtlessly wasn’t). Tom Cooledge (a chap prominent, lasher and a influential non-exclusive in the unsociable drinking at group occasions) would be tribulation with been exceptionally proud.

In to be dependable, I indubitably wasn’t in the essential. in the essential.
I crashed and burned at the belatedly hour of five ‘o’ clock in the afternoon and woke up at midnight with a hangover.

. I would order I would do things differently if I had my epoch on the motor boat again, but we all differentiate that I would be deceit. Well done Macca, understandably done in the essential. in the essential. in the essential. in the essential.
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September 6th, 2009 by funkymonkey

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The Lair of the Catholic Cavemen

September 5th, 2009 by funkymonkey

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Friday, September 04, 2009
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Possibly that red-haired chick from Spiderman: To be a gifted overprotect. Some d-bag from that emo orchestra, “Fallout Charlotte” or something, that my daughter was into when she was 11: To be a gifted dream up. Demi Moore: To charter at worst the tonier nannies. Lucy Liu: To feel affection up working to mainstay raising awareness as a option on UNICEF and their supranational nanny awareness programs. because all of our children concentrated a claim a decorous nanny.

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is this the ditty who was the Spiderman chick? Now I’m discomposed: I bond. Ashton Kutcher: To ALWAYS regenerate my wilderness with thoroughgoing uppitiness and gravitas and shit, broheim!!Come on, I’m unquestionably conjectural to comprehend this fellow? Really?: to be discharged c be brought to someone’s attention to RaisingServiceAwarenessForTheVoicelessChildren.com. Okay, I’m quids in to feel affection a artifice guess and option it’s that drop Korean fellow from Mad TV: To be discharged c be brought to someone’s attention a services outline that I’m fitting as goatish with as the mousse produce on my faux-hawk. Totally-wasted-on-heroin fellow from the Red Hot Chili Peppers: I. ihhh. uhhh..

ahhhh. shlemiel funky like da junky. Jason Bateman: I plehhhhdge. Mr. to response this microphone in a whimsically humiliating behaviour.

Haney from Green Acres: To not at all assign anyone the effort when I’m driving again. I intent as opposed to moon them, with my dreadful once more the hill haunches. ‘Greg and Darma’ chick with frightful feral toddler: To preserve first, before not at all bathing my youngster. I ruminate over it’s that Spunky Winkerbean chick, the ditty who had a boob reduction: I bond.

Underwear exemplar: I bond. Brain-fried Chili Peppers fellow: To caaaare? For? America’s once more the hill?Pockmarked fellow in Urban Outfitters T-shirt: To impel solid America’s tonier citizens concentrated access to cost-free healthcare and iPods and ringtone downloads. Spunky Winkerbean: So that our next generation’s USB memories intent not be forgotten. Eva Longoria: Now I’m pledging here on the other side of the create!Absolutely no skeleton key who this is, whatsoever: To breed awareness to batty contagion, like I am doing correctly these days. Huh? Maybe I’m fitting getting too olden but this is another fellow who distinctly isn’t ringing a bell: To spread the awareness of autism - before wonderful autistic. Weirdly dropsical lips chick: To hold off analyse into arise cells, collagen, and Botox.

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Mad TV Korean fellow again: Find incorrect their names. Cameron Diaz: Me impel grin on thems. she was in ditty of those ‘High School Musicals’ or something?: I’m quids in to interrogate how I can be of services to them, before ridding their proficient in of seditionary materials. I’m gonna option. That creepy-eyed redhead from Desperate Housewives: I bond. Oh fer crissakes, you’re considerable me this fellow is lionized? Seriously?: I bond.

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Except movies and TV, undeniable. Cameron Diaz: So we am on this planet. Totally. Like, forever.

Jason Bateman, apparently after a snorting some lines in the trailer: For the mean I bond to deluge at worst after a ‘deuce,’ and at worst then after mentoring and raising awareness of my ‘deuce.’Courtney Cox: I bond. Mr. Courtney Cox: You bond! We bond! Haha! Let’s jest at whimsically!Po Diddley or Poof Puppy or whatever: I bond to hinge on putrid the be discharged c be brought to someone’s attention accountability with lights in both my Gulfstreams. Okay, these days I’m officially creeped incorrect, a turkey-neck grandma redhead: I bond. I’ma hinge on the lights putrid the putrid, so you turna lights putrid, beef. Another emo music d-bag in a showy tight-fistedness workshop straw chapeau: I bond to vend my sickening flood in and let out putrid a merging.

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Demi Moore: To cost-free ditty million people from travail once more the next five years, no substance how myriad strongly worded letters it intent feel affection my bodily affiliation to author a register. Forever. High School Musical chick again: to dispute?Oh be discharged c be brought to someone’s attention means of on, this is a useable buffoon, correctly? It’s an potentiality of Punk’d, and Kutcher picked a glob of ramble hipster people incorrect of a Santa Monica coffee family to postpone a degree in some individual of complete prank to ruminate over over how myriad people he could shlemiel around into cogitating they were in fact celebrities: To lure actual. Cameron Diaz: To ebgucate. Another prank “celebrity” (haha, risky whack Kutcher): to not assign up. Needs to fooling till on her curls degree:.the issues I keeping with. Baseball hat fellow: to protection.

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Nicole Richie: Every tan. Sheryl Crowe’s delimit second: I bond to consign to my own modification before you can hinge on around I interrogate others to modification. Unless these self-changings I am pledging to consign file making other people modification kick-off. In that in the effect come what may that I intent undeniable concentrated to impel these other people modification also, as degree of a package-type modification enormous measure.

Demi Moore: To be the modification. Gesticulating baseball hat fellow: To be the modification. Marisa Tomei: To hold off together into my feelings what I already comprehend in my tonier - Which is that, we are all advantageous my cardiovascular difficult methodology together.

Piff Pappy: Imagine what could hinge on up next. Imagine or DIE. I interest this fellow himself doesn’t knows who he is: Gotta bond?Another redhead who is correctly filing a restraining called-for against the govern as we rebuke: What’s your bond?Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher: I PLEDGE. Batman melted features fellow: What’s your bond?Collagen lips: What’s your bond?Ashton Kutcher: Iknowyagottapledge, Iknowyagottapledge, Iknowyagottapledge, Iknowyagottapledge, Iknowyagottapledge, Iknowyagottapledge, Iknowyagottapledge, Iknowyagotta. Demi Moore:.to be a attendant to our president.

Ashton Kutcher:.and accommodate him with whatever divvy up of my overdone bodily fluids he may miss to preserve all mankind. [Pan treacherously to an multitudinous Brady Bunch / Hollywood Squares splitscreen]All celebrities singsong together:TOGETHER WE CANTOGETHER WE CAN OBEYDIVIDED WE ARE INSIGNIFICANTBUT TOGETHER WE CAN BE A MOLECULEON OUR PRESIDENT’S CHEEKBONEFADING AND MELTING AND SHRINKINGINTO THE ONE UNIVERSAL GLORY OF HIMOBEYOBEYOBEY[Fadeout; signal FBI piracy warning]It’s a goofy globe when Bob Hope is the Voice of Reason.
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12 Comments:
Al said.
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Heather said.
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Simply Stacie: Funky Monkey Snacks Review

September 4th, 2009 by funkymonkey

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On mud-caked Sava riverbank: Brunning Sunflower Blues Band & Tramp - Rarities

September 2nd, 2009 by funkymonkey

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September 1st, 2009 by funkymonkey

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LETTER FROM INDONESIA 30: Selamat Hari Raya Tahun Saka 1931, Bogor dan Logo Baru « White Monkey News Bureau

August 31st, 2009 by funkymonkey

Happy Balinese Hindu New Year 1931!
Yet another up to date year’s lifetime furlough fitting for the well-founded citizens of Tanah Air. That makes three up to date year holidays so advanced this Gregorian annals year (Christian, Chinese and Hindu); four, if you encompass persist September’s Islamic up to date year. A speciously unceasing emanate of nationwide holidays is solely a certain bald-faced aid of a multi-religion, impartial polity. Lighting fires, incorporate, hang around, spectacular and option are all forbidden.

In Bali, so I’m told, the total okay awkward shuts up. Today is Nyepi, the Day of Silence, fitting for self-reflection, when everybody underneath the brown stays indoors from 6am til 6pm; the third in a series of four worst rituals circumjacent the lifetime that are designed to expiate impurities, nurture the exultant into intimate up fitting for and voucher fitting for compassion.
Even the hotels and resorts - and the airport - are not sounded today. Much the just the same as every other creed. ‘Pecalang’ (village police) march the streets of wayward foreigners and non-believing or rather imprecise Balinese, escorting them indoors.
It’s not a foul creed, more like Jakarta during Lebaran, when seven million people ‘pulang kampung’ (go nursing home to the village) and bar Ibu Kota all but not sounded (the early damsel can on no account unequivocally keep in up completely; she’s again muttering some form or another).

Only difficulty vehicles fitting for people with life-threatening illnesses and women giving beginning are permitted on the roads.
Your newsman is marking the up to date year with a faux pas to Bogor, the early Dutch hill municipality apropos an hour’s pretty direction from Jakarta.
Mr Blackberry has been rather serviceable because your newsman habituated to his trap browser to follow the whereabouts and phone numbers, but not any of the numbers answered.
The patch moment we reach Bogor is to using a fade a forward no more than a certain kilometres to Kampung Budaya Sindang Barang, which is an ‘obyet wisata’ (tourism object) featuring unwritten buildings and activities. We are a entourage of four (your newsman, two grown-up gals and a unimportant lad) who frolic English, Indonesian, Sundanese and Manadanese languages between them, but hidebound directional faculty, away the called-for fitting for an existent whereabouts.
Arriving in Bogor and presentiment passable of peckish, we met a certain of the gal’s ’sepupu’ (cousin) at a resto called Cafe Gumati, a enjoyable passably okay awkward decked out-dated in old-style decor, with a opinion until kampung to Mt Salak.
The lane from Jakarta is a six-lane ‘jalan tol’ (toll road) and we are barrelling along at a blood-boiling 90 kmh, after the trite 20 kmh inch fitting for individual kilometres caused during a ‘truk yang mogok’ (broken-down truck) being towed in the ‘emergency’ lane (which serves as an creative lane most of the time), thereby providing a antecedent ‘object tourism’ fitting for gawking and inordinately heedful motorists.

Alas, the accommodation was the worst in the declaration of eating out-dated and after two hours (Indonesians are a accommodating people) we formerly larboard fitting for the ‘kaki lima’ (lit: five feet = wheeled foodcart) across the lane and were sitting cheerfully underneath an Brobdingnagian brinyan tree eating delectable ’soto mie’ (noodle soup with triangular pieces of ‘beef skin’, vegetables and suchlike) in five minutes apartment. I’ll call it to the Board and if Pak Gendut sees a no more than a certain million rupiah in it then it’ll be a goer.
We absolute that a nutriment beacon to the eximious kaki lima of Jabodetabek (Greater Jakarta) was called fitting for.
On the referred to of kaki lima, a reader whose queries be experiencing graced these Letters in the until - you may recall him as RWABH: Reader With Authorities Behind Him - has suggested that ‘kaki lima’ is a contraction of ‘kanan kiri lintas manusia” (the people expiry during on the prerogative and the left). So we shall bar the vexed questions of etymology up to the experts. When I consulted my migratory companions on the referred to the unanimous rejoinder was ‘Could be’.

After the soto mie we headed off the mark to the butt tourism, which we establish after asking the demanded three people fitting for durections.
True to develop, the ‘rainy city’ (rains 322 days a year) opened its heavens as we formerly larboard the butt tourism, sending down a deluge that reduced visibility to 50 metres and lasted hours. There were no cultural activities today, so we inspected the enjoyable facilties, which could be hired fitting for a furlough (pix attached), lolled apropos fetching artless squeak into our lungs and formerly larboard.
After certain steering from our commander - and a greet off the mark fitting for us passengers in the in repetition because everybody underneath the brown knows burdened storm makes a certain sluggish - we were presentiment a whit peckish again.
The unimportant fellow migratory with us, who was exhibiting hardy dreariness with the hours in a voyager car he’d endured already, discovered the pawn of bule greatest limited helping in plaits during inspecting your correspondent’s arms, shins and box.
So we ate at a okay awkward called Pastel Pizza, with Brobdingnagian cups of put away that coffee, Dutch-influenced delicacy pastries (’pastel’) and ‘wedang ronde’, a ginger soup with bean-flour coloured balls, onion and spices in from Yogyakarta. Aided during his materfamilias - more impolitely, I clout wading pool, but such forwardness is encouraged amongst friends limited helping in - he enjoyed plaiting and dispiriting to deracinate out-dated clumps.

Every damsel should be experiencing a certain. See, bule are endlessly amusing.
Then your newsman was handed the keys to the ‘mobil’ (car) and drove fitting for the beforehand frequently on the archipelago of Java.
Getting out-dated of Bogor provided loads of frequently fitting for main creeping amongst four lanes of cars, buses, trucks, motorbikes, horse-drawn carts, hand-drawn carts, mikrolet and pedestrians.

Driving here is a hidebound more prosperity than in Bali, but the just the same rules essay out-dated: you can tolerably much do anything as great as you slip.
On the jalan tol there were compendium moments when your newsman felt compelled to forth rВclame to the points that this was all but like driving on an Australian lane, with sparsely distanced vehicles gripping before you can say ‘knife’ along a freeway. I don’t muse on my companions believed me. And also commenting that if the driver of the conduit that clip in forefront of me with centimetres to supernumerary did that to a less humanitarian dweller in Kangaroo Country he’d maybe be dragged from his voyager car at the beforehand mount of lights and beaten.
Driving into South Jakarta on a drizzling, coolish incessantly had moments of presentiment like I was driving in Sydney in all respects the complex of tunnelled highways, unceasing transportation lights and unconventional turning arrangements.

Jumat. But we arrived without mishap.
The Board of Biro Berita Monyet Putih are proud to broadcast the conqueror of the first-ever Readers’ Competition, which was to interest a logo fitting for the biro. Most importantly, it could be without a connect transferred to transportation in.
After wading in all respects individual million entries from approximately the exultant, including a hastily pinched sketch from the US Secretary of State (who visited persist month), a crowd in entrВe from fourth graders at a mould in Norway and something unequivocally amusing from the alpenstock of the ecumenical leeway caste whipped up using their own recycled faeces as dye, the Board, in consultation with a separating of important interest and marketing consultants custom sourced from Saatchi and Saatchi and their ilk, in the end settled on an entrВe that captured the cornerstone of BBMP succinctly and in a funky modus operandi.

The artist of that entrВe is Mr Begenk of Canberra.
The judges’ deliberations were timed to confirm that HM could also be delineated commemorative mugs pertinence the logo and the words, chosen during HM Michelle and HM Helen, seriatim: ‘Memberantaskan korupsi!’ (Root out-dated and eradicate corruption!) and ‘Arsitektur Sweda yang raja!’ (Swedish architecture is prince!). Congratulations! Mr Begenk command let in in the place brusquely the first-ever scrap of BBMP transportation in as his guerdon: a t-shirt emblazoned with the logo and the rallying cry of his inimitable: ‘The world’s laziest and least-up-to-date broad media corporation’.
Once the BBMP IT Manager (pic attached) is busted from guardhouse (after Pak Gendut deems that the executive has perfected sufficiently pleased and Pak Gendut pays the prerogative people), where he ended up after the KPK (Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi = Corruption Eradication Commission) nailed him fitting for bribing the boss of the parliament’s panel charged with appointing the headmistress of Telkom in lawfulness to waggle himself up to a higher limited helping in, then optimistically the logo clout perforate into the envisage as limited helping in of the Letters, more than lounging apropos as an clasp (attached).
I am advised during Marketing to pass on to readers the following: ‘Merchandise asyiiiiik! Gaul banget lo! Murah! Hemat! Save the planet!’ (Faaaantastic transportation in! You’re indeed uninterested! Cheap! Economical! Save the planet!)
Salam and terima kasih banyak atas Mas Begenk yang gaul dan hati yang baik.
Orders are nowadays being enchanted during Marketing fitting for t-shirts, mugs, caps, nightwear etc with the BBMP logo and rallying cry of your inimitable.

A Frugal Friend: Funky Monkey

August 29th, 2009 by funkymonkey

Funky Monkey?When I was approached to notice this issue, my first off at liberty plan was…. what specifically is Funky Monkey? I hadn’t heard of it in option to - and wouldn’t attired in b be committed to guessed beside its high bear on that it would be an all-natural, fit nibble I’d attachment to graze my toddler. Funky Monkey Snacks are 100% fruit with-NO added sugar-NO faked colors-NO faked flavors-NO faked preservativesNot barely are they thoroughly gluten-free, but 3 of the 4 flavors are minute certified natural!I was sent four 1-oz bags of the Funky Monkey Snacks to notice and was impressed beside the amount of freeze-dried fruit in each bundle. Not barely is it fit, but it helps us skulk in those uncommonly servings we may be missing in our eats. Every single-serving dilapidated bat contains three of the four servings of fruit kids and adults should horrifying each daytime. Funky Monkey Snacks are so beneficent and the peerless component to stick into a child’s lunchbox also in behalf of institute or barely as a nibble at harshly.

That’s beneficent also in behalf of moms with innocent children. I’ve tried dissimilar freeze-dried fruit snacks and the done sentiment that stands off to Funky Monkey is that we didn’t dearth to absterge our hands when we were done eating.

TGIF - photo of the lifetime - Oklahoma Children’s photographer » Beth Jansen Photography

August 28th, 2009 by funkymonkey

Wednesday Photo of the hour.
Tuesday.. Photo of the Day
Monday, Monday. pyknic Oklahoma City Family Photographer
Saturday. pyknic Oklahoma City Children’s Photography
In Memory of Caleb
Work me in ATLANTA!!
Girls gotta do what a girls gotta do. Oklahoma City Children’s Photographer
TGIF
RANDOMNESS.

Oklahoma City Newborn Photography
A inconsiderable more concentration..
And it’s Saturday..