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I am surprised that most people fail to grasp the word vegetarian. I have been, by choice, a vegetarian for most of my life and have not had an urge to eat meat at all. I am always asked annoying questions whenever I tell people that I am a vegetarian. Some really clueless think vegetarians eat grass and leaves. A few others think vegetarians are always sick. …

I have been an avid note taker for years. I always carry a notebook  in my bag as it helps me capture my thoughts when they strike and pictorialize them too. The good old books have served me well. I still keep them around and refer them.
Here’s what they look like….

© Dave Walker

Am back on the blog after a lengthy absence. Work, work, work and more work had schemed against my blogging efforts in the last few months but hopefully things will remain calm from now on, giving me more time to blog. I am working on the feature now. Should be online by next weekend.

In Death Valley
by Edwin Markham
From The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems (1921)

There came gray stretches of volcanic plains,
Bare, lone and treeless, then a bleak lone hill
Like to the dolorous hill that Dobell saw.
Around were heaps of ruins piled between
The Burn o’ Sorrow and the Water o’ Care;
And from the stillness of the down-crushed walls
One pillar rose up dark against the moon.
There was a nameless Presence everywhere;
In the gray …

This drawing was in part inspired by a joke I heard on Clive Anderson’s Chat Room – satirical talk show, on BBC Radio Two a fortnight ago.

I remember opening a bank account with Midland Bank (now HSBC) primarily because they offered me a free piggy bank. During my student days banks tried to entice me with beer mugs, Dalek key chains, rail cards, pop corn machines, bar fridges etc.

Later on, …

About two months ago I was down at Jenolan Caves and was awestruck by this cave.

Haven’t got one at the moment. Thought the picture is cute.

From http://icanhascheezburger.com/

The following are some interesting quotes from a blog that I have been following regularly and is now coming out as a book.

“Good ideas have lonely childhoods.”

“Don’t try to stand out from the crowd, avoid crowds altogether.”

“You are responsible for your own experience.”

“Nobody cares. Do it for yourself.”

“If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.”

Here’s a link to the first chapter of the book Ignore Everybody.

Looking …

A writer died and was given the option of going to heaven or hell. She decided to check out each place first. As the writer descended into the fiery pits, she saw row upon row of writers chained to their desks in a steaming sweatshop. As they worked, they were repeatedly whipped with thorny lashes.”Oh my,” said the writer. “Let me see heaven now.”A few moments later, as she ascended into heaven, …

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

From the maxims of Archy by Don Marquis.

On a bus in downtown San Francisco last week, a conversation between two European’s who obviously had no idea about US politics:

 “I hope the Americans elect Obama as their President and Sarah Palin as their Vice President.”