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sourrain was what I was known back in the days of the internet revolution – yes, I was old enough to witness the first wave and spent hours and hours on end on the revolutionary IRC or Internet Relay Chat as it was known (wooo!) – the mother of all chat programs. On stealth net on a variety of malaysian based chatrooms, I was known as sOuR`rAin. I remember reading my nick on The Star’s writeup on the IRC phenomenan as one of the stranger nicknames.I thought I was so cool, with my 14.4kbps modem on a 10kg laptop. It would later evolve to ChiNoiSe/ chichi and then honeypout…but sourrain shall always remain my main online persona.

exordinarily ordinary started in april 2005 as a catalouge of me and where I was in life, which was a happier place than it had been in ages. I have had about 5 blogs before – one blog was created especially to rant about this guy I was nuts over – Every single post was about him .Every day.And I made dreybee read it.Every day. God, it ain’t easy being my friend.

Other victims to my fickleness on blogging would be this blog started to catalouge a wedding, a blog started to display my creativity exordinaire in jewelry making.All failed. Well, not really failed. I have learnt so much, and have continued to create things on a fairly regular basis to cope with the stress of my very-serious-ninetofive-job. Which I happen to love. A non-creative job balances out my spontaneous crazy ‘hobbies’

Exordinarily ordinary started off as a friendster blog. It moved to Blogger in Sept 2005 due to my control freak nature – friendster blogs are absolute shite. As we got close to 007 my mission impossible was to find it a home. After months of endless debate, one boring friday afternoon sourrain.com was purchased…helpdesked,bankrolled and hosted by my best blogging friend – moo. Actually, I was asking him to host my site, as you do when you are bored and wanna chat. He was willing and ready (oooo) and told me to come back to him when I actually have something more concrete, so I kinda sorta lied that I have purchased it. Oops. He gave me the dns addresses and the rest is, like they say, ends when the fat lady sings.

exordinarily ordinary is about a life led less than ordinary. I have a garden, a cat and a (now dead!) hamster – and I also have a passport with way too many carbon footprints. I can drink like a fish when commanded – preferring to finish up each glass like it’s my last. Oh, and the compulsory husband as well,also known as bacon for his weekend breakfast culinaire. I do NOT gamble,but yet I dream of winning the lottery, failing that, I have a very unfounded ambition of snapping pictures for a living. Preferably of things edible..yummy.

Just like my blogs, I’ve moved to many wonderous places. I am currently stuck in hicksville (better known as Leeds, W Yorkshire) , plotting my escape to more temperate paradise.As my career line is next to dead (until I am about 40, I was told) I try to pursue my other creative outlets – like ironing.

Jokes aside, I have bouts of creativity that has always been stunted by my lack of attention span – jewelry making, origami folding, photo frame paintings – I have had many a failed venture. Some did not even get further than purchasing a book; i.e. saltdough sculpting. I won’t even pretend its because I am too busy – it’s because I am a lazyass.

The only thing that I have not gotten sick of doing is travelling. I’ve been lucky enough to have been to many a wonderous place – and I hope that I would continue to have the same childlike joy in exploration for a long, long time. If forced, my most favourite place in the world is San Francisco (having lived there on a part time basis) and Hong Kong – nothing beats Hong Kong for the best ever East-meets-West magic. All travelouges are under the escapism tab.

1995 – Narita, Japan. Los Angeles, USA, Las Vegas, USA
1996 – Singapore
1997 – NA
1998 – Hong Kong, China. Shenzen, China.
1999 – Paris,France. Strasbourg,France. Luxembourg. Bruxelles,Belgium. Antwerp, Belgium. Bruges, Belgium. Amsterdam, Holland. Baden-baden, Germany. Fresno, CA. San Francisco, CA. Santa Monica, CA.
2000 – Paris, France. Bruxelles, Belgium. San francisco, CA
2001 – Oregon, USA. San Francisco, CA.
2002 – San Diego, CA. Tijuana, Mexico. San Francisco, CA
2003 – Hat Yai,Thailand. Pulau Pemanggil, Johor.
2004 – Camerons, Perak. Pulau Redang,Trengganu. Pulau Perhentian, Trengganu. Hong Kong, China. Pangkor Island, Kedah. Bali,Indonesia. Langkawi, Malaysia. Bangkok, Thailand
2005 – Manila, Philiphines. Boracay,Philiphines.Tagatay, Philiphines. Hong Kong, China. Redang, Trengganu. London,UK. Whitby,UK. Scarborough, UK. York,UK.
2006 – Liverpool, UK. Gloucester, UK.Oxford,UK. Edinburgh, Scotland.London, UK.Tioman, Malaysia. Sydney, Australia. Melbourne, Australia.
2007 – Blackpool, UK. Ibiza, Spain. Glastonbury,UK. Prague, Czech Republic. Lake District, UK.
2008 – Dublin, Ireland. Shannon, Ireland. Edinburgh, Scotland. London, UK. Cairo, Egypt. Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
2009 – Oxford, UK. Singapore. Camerons, Perak. Malacca. Glastonbury,UK. Amsterdam, Holland.

Other interests that I have been indulging on more permanent basis had been picture snapping and food making. I love pretty pictures and I love pictures that speaks a thousand words.I find it an avenue for my expression of repressed emotions. 99.999% of the pictures in this blog have been captured by me..I HATE people ripping off other people’s work and do not condone using other people’s photos without properly attributing it.

My blog is a highly personal expression of my self. I did not start this out to get a record deal, book deal, achieve celebrity status ect ect like many (newer) bloggers. So if you don’t like it, deal with it

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