I had a thought the other day. If everyone in the world was a musician, there would be no time for making war. Sure, OD-rates and depression might rise, but hey, overall, the death rate must surely be less.
I watched the movie Kiss Kiss Bang Bang on Friday night. It was hilarious, I love movies that are sarcastic, and not just for the hell of it, but downright clever and makes me think “Doh! Why didn’t I think of that?” (sorry, such a Homer moment). I also love the irony that a cartoon has named a fat lard of a father and husband after a legendary Greek poet. WoNders will never cease…
Spent the weekend just bumming around the house, with all the blinds down because of this ridiculous heat (I am already expressing regret as I write, because when winter comes, I will come to miss these days when I walk around with singlet & shorts). I feel like a trapped mouse, with no inkling of time and what is going around me, although the Australian Tennis Open is just 1 km from my house and I watch it on telly constantly, half paying attention.
Have also started to practice my German (ich, liebe….) – it’s a mouthful, but I do think I will succeed in this. One day I’ll have to tell my French episode attempt. Meanwhile, my beloved is trying to master “I want beer and pizza” in German. Nice!!
Other than that, I bought a new toy over the week, it’s an IPod shuffle! Yes, am totally wanker-personified at the moment, with it hanging around my neck. But it’s made walking to work in the morning so much less boring and tedious. At least I have Ben Lee telling me that “All straight things must bend”. Now that’s my kind of meditation - something that just confuses the fuck out of me.
p/s: quick shout out to Wikipedia, the new definition to meanings.
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Monday, January 9, 2006
Ode to the year of the *woof*woof*
Another year, another beginning.
I know it's a bad start to a good start (!), but I have been so slack with my blogging, it is almost beyond repair. Unbeknownst to all of you (but not anymore!), i have always quietly kept a notebook of my day to day activities. In the first year of meeting my beloved, I kept a diary of what we did everyday. Ah, the wonder of young love! And then the note-taking started dwindling and gradually stopped. If only life came in reverse - you get all the crap stuff out of the way, and then you enjoy the wonderfulness of new beginnings. Only it would be end - or something like that. Anyway, I put it down to being too busy living a life to spend time talking about it!!!
So, my 2005 ended on a quietly, unassuming tone. Just how I like it, sometimes I like to believe that about myself. I have been trying for the last couple of weeks (not very hard, obviously) of what has happened in the year that's just passed. And it dawned on me that my biggest break through has been finally finishing my studies, and then meeting my best friend again after 4.15 years (yes, we are specific!) in New York and getting a taste of her world. Which, now looking back, has been awesome and I still get bouts of New York sickness. But the last year has also been the year of most inertness. I switched on the automatic button in my brain, and just went on with my daily life, chilling out. And it has been nice - but while it's been nice, it's also been somewhat unfulfilling in the sense of self-development! It just sets to enhance my laziness, which I have oodles of.
So what is in store for 2006? Catching up with old friends for one. It felt like a blink of an eye, but it's been almost 10 years since I last sat for my O'Levels. It's an amazing achievement in its own right, I think. But I can't wait to see everyone convene in April, and I can't wait to see certain people and ask them the places and people they've seen since then.
Like Johann, getting healthy is another biggie on my agenda. Amazing how easily one forgets to exercise and say 'I'll do it another day'. So this year is going to be one of purposeful effort on my part. I am almost at my thinnest in many years, yet I am also at my weakest. I could sleep for Australia (quoting my sister, constantly used by my beloved) and still feel tired. And some days I look in the mirror and feel the entirety of my 26 years ++!!!! So yes, more healthy eating and more exercising.
Also on the agenda - learning German, play an instrument again, and be a little more adventurous!!!!
I hope everyone had a very good start to their new year themselves, live your dreams. They don't have to be big, they just have to stop being dreams!!!
xx
I know it's a bad start to a good start (!), but I have been so slack with my blogging, it is almost beyond repair. Unbeknownst to all of you (but not anymore!), i have always quietly kept a notebook of my day to day activities. In the first year of meeting my beloved, I kept a diary of what we did everyday. Ah, the wonder of young love! And then the note-taking started dwindling and gradually stopped. If only life came in reverse - you get all the crap stuff out of the way, and then you enjoy the wonderfulness of new beginnings. Only it would be end - or something like that. Anyway, I put it down to being too busy living a life to spend time talking about it!!!
So, my 2005 ended on a quietly, unassuming tone. Just how I like it, sometimes I like to believe that about myself. I have been trying for the last couple of weeks (not very hard, obviously) of what has happened in the year that's just passed. And it dawned on me that my biggest break through has been finally finishing my studies, and then meeting my best friend again after 4.15 years (yes, we are specific!) in New York and getting a taste of her world. Which, now looking back, has been awesome and I still get bouts of New York sickness. But the last year has also been the year of most inertness. I switched on the automatic button in my brain, and just went on with my daily life, chilling out. And it has been nice - but while it's been nice, it's also been somewhat unfulfilling in the sense of self-development! It just sets to enhance my laziness, which I have oodles of.
So what is in store for 2006? Catching up with old friends for one. It felt like a blink of an eye, but it's been almost 10 years since I last sat for my O'Levels. It's an amazing achievement in its own right, I think. But I can't wait to see everyone convene in April, and I can't wait to see certain people and ask them the places and people they've seen since then.
Like Johann, getting healthy is another biggie on my agenda. Amazing how easily one forgets to exercise and say 'I'll do it another day'. So this year is going to be one of purposeful effort on my part. I am almost at my thinnest in many years, yet I am also at my weakest. I could sleep for Australia (quoting my sister, constantly used by my beloved) and still feel tired. And some days I look in the mirror and feel the entirety of my 26 years ++!!!! So yes, more healthy eating and more exercising.
Also on the agenda - learning German, play an instrument again, and be a little more adventurous!!!!
I hope everyone had a very good start to their new year themselves, live your dreams. They don't have to be big, they just have to stop being dreams!!!
xx
A MINI-scule affair
My beloved and i recently celebrated a friend's 30+ birthday at the new Greek restaurant MINI. As with all new restaurants go in Melbourne, there have been whispers amongst the pots and pan for a while that this would become the "Greek" contemporary, which seems to be what Melbourne is somewhat lacking of.
Situated a few doors down the infamous Yu-U on Oliver Lane, the first sightings of the restaurant (which is below ground level) are its stained glass windows. Enter the small doorway and we were greeted with the bar sidled along the left wall of the restaurant. The other thing I realised immediately about the place - hard surfaces everywhere, not a great start. You see, my first impressions of a restaurant now always rests with that point. If my dinner companion and I choose to carry on a conversation during dinner, will I hear him/her? More importantly, can I hear myself? I did like the red bunkett seats lined up against the back wall though.
Seated beneath a set of lights that look suspiciously of Drogg/Space design to my untrained eye, we were presented with our menu, comprising a total of two pages. Entree and mains comprised the first page, and dessert on the final page. Entrees which we shared amongst five of us comprised of sardines wrapped in prociutto, a whole calamari that had been stuff with veal & pork mince and then fried and cut into sections, a zucchini pie and a soup of some sort. It was that impressive, I did not remember.
My favourite was my main dish which comprised of lamb loin that looked like it has been aged for ages; it was nice, soft and melty in the mouth! Yum, accompanied with a mashed potato gratin of some sort, it was ultimately piggy for a Monday night. To drink, we had two bottles of the Hugel 2003 Riesling, extremely gluggable, and being priced at $45, it was one of the better choices. I can't even remember what we had for dessert, but it was something like four of the seven available on the menu. Ah yes, no expenses spared when it came to our stomachs!
All in all, it was a fantastic night. Aside from the slightly strange waiter, the not-so-well priced wine list, MINI was an enjoyable affair. Not an experience to repeat in a hurry, certainly, and quoting a friend "They didn't even have the token Saganaki, that's not really Greek food is it?".
Situated a few doors down the infamous Yu-U on Oliver Lane, the first sightings of the restaurant (which is below ground level) are its stained glass windows. Enter the small doorway and we were greeted with the bar sidled along the left wall of the restaurant. The other thing I realised immediately about the place - hard surfaces everywhere, not a great start. You see, my first impressions of a restaurant now always rests with that point. If my dinner companion and I choose to carry on a conversation during dinner, will I hear him/her? More importantly, can I hear myself? I did like the red bunkett seats lined up against the back wall though.
Seated beneath a set of lights that look suspiciously of Drogg/Space design to my untrained eye, we were presented with our menu, comprising a total of two pages. Entree and mains comprised the first page, and dessert on the final page. Entrees which we shared amongst five of us comprised of sardines wrapped in prociutto, a whole calamari that had been stuff with veal & pork mince and then fried and cut into sections, a zucchini pie and a soup of some sort. It was that impressive, I did not remember.
My favourite was my main dish which comprised of lamb loin that looked like it has been aged for ages; it was nice, soft and melty in the mouth! Yum, accompanied with a mashed potato gratin of some sort, it was ultimately piggy for a Monday night. To drink, we had two bottles of the Hugel 2003 Riesling, extremely gluggable, and being priced at $45, it was one of the better choices. I can't even remember what we had for dessert, but it was something like four of the seven available on the menu. Ah yes, no expenses spared when it came to our stomachs!
All in all, it was a fantastic night. Aside from the slightly strange waiter, the not-so-well priced wine list, MINI was an enjoyable affair. Not an experience to repeat in a hurry, certainly, and quoting a friend "They didn't even have the token Saganaki, that's not really Greek food is it?".
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