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Happy Cambodian kids!

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My friend at work, Mark and his partner Daniel decided to adopt an entire orphanage in Cambodia. They keep in touch, fundraise and even occasionally visit. In May 2010 Mark put the hat around at Nova Brisbane and between the staff and clients he pulled together almost 4K in cash and a ton of kids clothes. He took it over himself, and he's just received some pics of life around the orphanage and the village since his happy visit. Such a good feeling. Thank you Mark & Daniel. "Children...

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I can give.

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O.M.G! to the M.A.X!  I can't believe this is my lovely blog. I don't know how websites are made, or the difference between a website and blog, or how a lady can be sawn in half and twinkle her toes right before my eyes as happened at Magic Mountain when I was seven.  I kind of know why Magic Mountain doesn't exist anymore.  It disappeared in a puff of smoke in the late eighties.  Not magic smoke I'm afraid, but developer's dust, as is so often the case on the good old Gold Coast.  Anyhow,...

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I used to be cynical

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I am an idealist, a romantic, a bleeding heart. I wasn't always. I used to be very cynical and hard. I changed twice actually. The first time was in high school. I went to a Catholic girls school at the tale end of the nun era. The nuns liked us to learn typing, short hand and home ec, and left the more obnoxious subjects like history, geography and the sciences to the "lay" teachers. The one lesson the nuns taught everyone was bitchiness. They were a pretty nasty old nest of Queens...

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