I remember LOVE...Mary Stallings

You'll see : Track 5

I remembered when I fell in love for the first time...Mary kept me company. I came across the album today and recall how foolish some of the notions I had about the people and the world in general. How can youth be so deficient... Imagine being born old and growing young! Living life's journey backwards - fully cognisant. How small is the world..

This is one of her better albums singing old tunes. Check it out at Amazon where you can hear a couple of her tracks. You'd be surprised... some music has a memory thread embedded in them - chords that will bring back scenes from old battle grounds both triumphant/disastrous - you'll know what I mean.

The NEW iMac is yummy...

So with this new aluminum casing (Gimmick) since it's already on Mac Pros and OS Leopard October will be wonderful....hopefully it will someday come with interchangeable casing!! I have to agree with Freddie that the keyboard looks excellent as well with an option of 2.0, 2.4 or 2.8GHz! But white is still an Apple institution!!

Out of sorts today - Chiro after-effects!

I feel like someone had slipped an iron rod along my neck to my spine and told me to hold/don't move. Sitting is unbearable today....the only salvation is the fact that I have better posture now! Little successes...but hell I ache all over today!

My Ipod distraction....

Before all the hype...when the voice was crisp and fresh.

Young and less mature but yet honest.

Jamie This Sweetheart!

What Flavour Are You?

Gelati Galore!

I'm a Pistachio, Coffee, Bachi type of guy...

and you?

The Tower...

The room had to be bolted - the uprising and its supporters were making their way up the tower in the hope of annihilating the last heir to the covenant. The 12 members sat in their Gothic ornate chairs waiting for the herd to break the doors down as battle cries filled the air. Blast after blast thundered from the castle grounds underneath. It only took seconds for the usurpers to circle the room but little did they know that a deathblow had been despatched. The falcon hovered in the middle of the room defiant and in flux, morphing into one birdlike form to another reciting its deadly repertoir.

Transfixed, its audience could not move. A sudden scythe-like sound then filled the air, tearing at the very heart of the individuals as each and everyone in the room fell to their knees grabbing at their chests and with another string of calls ascending, all life seemed to have been extinguished.

The dream continues.....

My Calculus Dream...

It was 5 weeks into the semester. Everyone was there applying what they've learnt - I had just flew in, had no text, had no lodgings, had no idea what was going on and was suddenly instructed to apply myself in the class. I looked around and everyone was nodding in acquiesce of what was being imparted. I started writing notes - formulas and numbers that made no sense whatsoever. It was a terrible feeling albeit the fact that it was all a dream!

Interpret that...

First Sign of Spring!

There are a lot of things to be thankful for...Spring is a coming!!

Strelitzia Reginae

Sakura

遥控fart 机器

You know how you tend to cross path or stumble across as I just did into someone's blog or people whom started out blogging and then suddenly disappear into thin air not to be seen or heard again? Well to these individuals I say sometimes I find you but then I loose you at the same time. You are humorous, your insights are sometimes endearing and sometimes you make a connection that you don't even know with people from the tiniest corners of the planet.

So this blog is dedicated to Shanghaikyle whom somehow managed to make this title so very hilarious on a Friday morning that I chuckled insanely for 10 minutes in the office while all the anglo-saxon looked all panicky thinking I've gone into a fit.

Bless your Smocked Fish and Braised Chestnut and Rape Menu! I'm going to Shanghai mate...

Lagerfeld - He's Odd but he DOMs!

Fabian..not a name I would associate with this...

2o, German, Blonde and Blue eyed.

Far too über young for my cuppa.

So where do I get one of those fine speciMAN again?

C.O.I - Coming Out Insurance

How come I wasn't covered?

One of the nicer pics of the Forbidden City

Not too sure what the wait is all about. I think they were local tourists waiting for the main group to get them.

Indra has found a girlfriend next door!

There's a big hole in the brush fence where Indra has been busy hooking up with the Cavoodle next door. Still don't know her name but Indra's hormones seems to be kicking in although that's not going to help her due to the snip snip! I think we've inherited another fag hag!

Would you pay for personalised plates?

So this was done with my cellphone...sometimes it doesn't turn out too badly on the blog.

Playing Around with Flickr!

Uploaded some pics in Flickr today. Bored I guess!

Getting Closer to the holidays....

The Tokyo booking has come through and now that we have paid for our railpasses it looks pretty good. Tickets are all set - monies changed. The only place left to confirm is Matsumoto now that even our Koyasan booking has come through. It will be good to go somewhere where I don't have to translate since the partner reads/speaks Japanese. I have had the misfortune of being confused as Chinese,Burmese, Cambodian, Thai, South American and hopefully this time around NOT Japanese or I'll never get into some of the places I want to see.

Next is to confirm with the Imperial Household Agency for permission to go visit some of the highly 'sensitive' cultural sites. Autumn leaves will be so breathtaking... my camera will be doing overtime then. This should be reason enough to keep me motivated @ work. It will be 3 weeks of Japan.

The Beijing Olympics is in August and from what we can deduce May-June will be good time to go to HongKong and Shanghai for some antique shopping. The trouble with that is we need to plan our Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand border crossing trip well so that we're there in Spring.

The flow of bills have been constant though...the water/gas/power bill got paid this month, the dog licence renewal, the combined phone/mobile/cable/broadband and the council rates which increased this year by 5% (value of our bluestone) and not forgetting the new garage door. God - I don't know how I survive each day?

Waiting in the pipeline are those bloody wardrobes in which the installer will be coming this Saturday to complete the job and the new dishwasher. All those savings I've done for the Macbook for the past 3 months have somewhat evaporated into thin air. Everything I have I own - the thought of going into credit is not something I am accustomed to.

Trust Fund time, I'm crossing my fingers that Christmas will come early this year!! Back to square one.

Victor Harbour - Fish & Chips!

Image taken by the Donut stand

Just an image of Victor Harbour about 2 hours away by car...we go there over the weekend sometimes just to get out of the city. You can also see penguins and go whale watching... it is brilliant as a distraction.

Cleaning up the Blogspace

I have decided to clean up my blogspace links today. The decision was based on the fact that I have found some of them irrelevant to my daily choices. Some I have kept because I read them often and the people behind the creative process are real to me while others have been given the boot so that I can concentrate on what's important.

I am still reluctant to remove the Btalk link as I am finding them too 'narrow-minded' each day...not all of them but some. The drawl is loosing its endearment as days go by.

So I am now in search of more mind food and as of today seeking delicious 'vocal chords' of the Thalamus kind. En route!!

And thank you to all of those that have made the journey a grand one - Kevin, John, Peter/Pinoyboy, Brad, Archerr (just a listener)and Andrew. I wish you new discoveries in the months to come!!