Thursday, May 24, 2007i open my mind and out spills hollywoodThirty years since Star Wars was released. Well technically it came out in Australia about five months later. I was ten. I was naive. I stood in the backyard of suburban Hobart watching the sun set and imagining there were two suns setting. Obi Wan where the hell are you. I looked for meaning in the... Sign in to see full entry.Tuesday, May 15, 2007wish I was still thereI loved Uluru. I was wishing I was still there as I was flying across the desert of the Northern Territory and then over the hard, straight geometry of rural New South Wales and down into Sydney. In the four days I was there I heard the gentlest birdsong at dawn, the continual transformation of... Sign in to see full entry.Monday, May 7, 2007getting to the heartTickets are bought; accomodation booked; ready to go inland on Friday for a four day adventure into the heart of my country: it's going to be red and dry, rocky and majestic and rugged, the stuff of pioneers and lost explorers, wild camels and man eating goats, vast horizons to gaze at with a slight... Sign in to see full entry.Saturday, May 5, 2007funny old SundayFunny old Sunday: after picking up my laundry from the Vietnamese guy down the road, I caught a bus into the city. There was a guy slumped in the seat in front of me and I presumed he was just drunk and asleep but then I started worrying that he might be dead. It was a dilemma as waking him, if he... Sign in to see full entry.Friday, May 4, 2007saturday morningSaturday morning: had my first coffee; ate cheese on toast; read the Sydney Morning Herald with a headline story proposing that we go back to using old style sailing ships for importing and exporting goods for the sake of the environment; have the music video show, Rage, on in the background - old... Sign in to see full entry.Wednesday, May 2, 2007the price of AustraliaOK so how much is real estate in Sydney I hear you ask. Well if you look at THIS rather nice house which is located a block away from where I live it's being sold for 1.25 million Australian dollars (just over 1 million US or about 750000 euros). Alternatively THIS two bedroom apartment just a... Sign in to see full entry.Monday, April 30, 2007ramshackled aspirationIt was one of those days when I earned my wage by staring at names on spreadsheets until my back started providing an editorial commentary. I don't know. I thought about buying a rowing machine. I thought about whether I should finally bite the bullet and get broadband connection at home. I thought... Sign in to see full entry.Sunday, April 29, 2007Australia conquers the world!Australia has won the World Cup, but naturally the entire world is already aware of that. It was a clash of the titans. We beat Sri Lanka. The World Cup was controversial. The Pakistan coach was murdered after they were knocked out of the competition! They take cricket terribly seriously in Pakistan... Sign in to see full entry.Saturday, April 28, 2007listening in on a conversationWell the good news is the drought may have broken, at least in this part of the wide brown land, and this news has been heralded in the newspaper with a picture of outback children rolling in mud. Yesterday, as I was sitting waiting for a movie to come on, I was entertained by listening to two old... Sign in to see full entry.Friday, April 27, 2007and in addition..I forgot to include the wild and exotic SOUND that inevitably wakes me up each morning just as the sun is pushing up out of the ocean. This is not a country suitable for the paranoid where even the wildlife is inclined to laugh at you! Sign in to see full entry. |
