M&Ms

Catch em pink and white ones. Snacking whilst reading.

Porridge, Winter and Box Hill

Little beats having HK-style porridge (with turnip cake) on cold Saturday mornings for brekkie. All that for just $7.50 with a choice of coffee/tea/iced-lemon-tea. Box Hill is the scene of the crime - a massive Chinese enclave spanning 3.5km2 and 16km east from the city - of all things Chinese and East Asian - food, provisions, supermarkets, dodgy accountants. :)

It's become increasingly cold, with tops of 13 in the day, and about 5 at night. The electricity bills are gonna be killa.

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in other news, have been asked to compose a short jingle for a Fairfield Methodist Primary School video. More to come with that later. :) Am developing a little streak writing children's music of late.

Winter BBQ in the backyard

Had some friends from South-Eastern China - Canton and Central China - Henan (where the imperial capital Luoyang, yes many eons ago before Beijing was located) over for a long-overdue BBQ. Becoming quite good with Chinese geography! Meet some of my mainland friends!

Thoughts on reality and life

Reality is as far as your life goes.
Your life is as far as reality goes.

Which applies to you?

Spending the day at the school library doing some preliminary research for the final semester which Bob has decided to do on the mis-representation of China by the Hans, yes, that's you and me and virtually most Chinese without a double syllabled surname. From the photo, one can probably tell someone got distracted by renting some DVDS to watch too.

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In other thoughts, just wanted to share chapter 2 of the Lao Zi's Tao-Te Ching.

When people see things as beautiful,
ugliness is created
When people see things as good,
evil is created.

Bliss is

Bliss can be...Sitting on the designer couch in the living room with the heater turned on, the lights down low, on a cold winter's night listening to Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture on Vinyl. It's a little dark for any photo to make any sense, so you'll just have to imagine how blissed out I feel. :)

In other news. Took this a while back but haven't had the chance to post it. Found in Sydney's Chinatown, this restaurant. Hmm. is meant for sterner stuff.

A new track & Gold Coast and Brisbane postcards

Came up with a new track - Empty Cup. A little electronic walk.
Download it HERE!

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And, here're some photos I took in Queensland. (: yes the smiley looks strange but I've been hanging out with relatively younger people of late, and that inverse smiley is catching on.