Went to the Legs Eleven benefit concert on Friday night. The Domain is such a nice venue at night. Apart from the cold snap and smoking chimneys, the night was very good, I enjoyed Little Birdy and Bob Evans the most.
Symple is Kevin & Haline. We create beautiful and functional designs for a variety of Print, Interactive and Illustration projects.
Keep Left Studio has ceased operation. It was a great learning experience, no bad feelings and all good for the times ahead.
Harry’s Cafe De Wheels is now open in Liverpool. Its on the Cumberland Highway near the Office Works. Other fast food outlets in skipping proximity are McDonalds, Kispy Kream and soon, Subway and Oportos. I think its going to get a lot more hoony on Friday and Saturday nights now.
I found out my Grandma passed away after a week of sickness in Vietnam. It been touch and go for the past week and my dad phoned with the news this afternoon. I am devastated and gutted, she meant a lot to me, she raised me on her farm since I was a baby until I was 5 when I left Vietnam. I am glad that I got to see her 3 times as an adult, I am glad that she is no longer suffering. I will cherish the happy tears you shed when I came back to see you for the first time. I love you so very much.
We rode the Spring Cycle today, it was a great day out, sunshine, lots of people and the sites of Sydney. The day started at 5am with an 8km ride to Liverpool train station, we made it just in time for the special train for allocated for all the riders today. We got off at North Sydney station and rode up to St Leonards Park. From there the ride began, winding our way across the Habour Bridge, through the idealic riverside neighbourhoods of Brays Bay, Canada Bay, Five Dock, Rhodes and a few others I forgot.
I wasn’t sure how my legs would cope with the distance since I haven’t been riding regularly for a few months. About 30km into the ride and right at the bottom of the steepest road section of the ride, I developed cramps in both my quad muscles and couldn’t straighten my legs. I had to sit out for 5 minutes and stretch on the side of the road. I had to take it a bit slower after that. I think my bike is too heavy for me, its about 3-4 times heavier than an alloy bike of the same size, my legs have to work harder for every pedal after about an hour riding.
The ride was fun though, I covered the whole 50km course in 2 hours and 52 minutes. Full respect to those Tour De France guys who do hundreds of kilometres day in day out. Maurice, Dennis and I decided against riding home from Olympic Park, which was another 35km. We opted to catch the train back to Liverpool and ride the 8km home. Going to do it again next year and try to do better my time, hopefully with a new bike. Bicycle Australia photos here.
Ironic how Kraft Foods, an American company, makes Vegemite. But the black surce of B Vitamins for Australians is being banned there. Bet you didn’t know Kraft Foods’ parent company, Altria also owns Phillip Morris. I like the black stuff, especially with butter on toast.
We went up to Kenthurst on Sunday to attend Caroline and Peter’s wedding, held at a beautiful venue on a nice spring day. It was lush with green groves of bamboo, brown bark of eucalyptus and colourful formal wear. I wonder how everything would look in Autumn. The wedding was very intimate plus the surroundings added to the nice atmosphere. It wasn’t loud and bold with a band playing, although the song selection playing over the stereo was really cheesy. I like what they did, memorable without overdoing anything.
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Riding in the 12th annual Portfolio Partners Spring Cycle this year along with Maurice and Dennis. The course is from St Leonards in North Sydney all the way across the Harbour Bridge to Olympic Park, approx 55km. The furthest I’ve ridden was 45km and I almost collapsed that day from exhaustion. I’ve built up more stamina since then so it should be a good day out ridng the roads of Sydney.
James Busby High class of 96 had our 10 year high school reunion last weekend.
It was amazing to see that not many of us had changed much in terms of looks and personality. There was only one person who looked unrecognisable out of the bunch. A handful had lost most of their hair, most are married and have babies. Only 1/3 of the year showed up with no teachers. We had left it too late to contact any even though we had a whole year to organise. It was a great night anyhow, everyone just started chatting away and catching up on the past.
Contemplating turning 30 in a few years really brought us to realize where we are and how long its been since those high school days stressing over school work. I’d much rather be back there many times when “life” just gets a bit too much.
Oh and yes it was a successful thing, we can look back now and say, yeh, we had a reunion and kept in contact. Some of these friends I’ve known since primary school. I think its one of those things that you just have to do in life.
I’m using NetNewsWire to keep track of all the blogs I read, which total about 150 or more, now I can view them all online with Google Reader, nice.
Decorate your wall, shelf or table with these very cute toys and framed prints from Claretduskymoonpie.
Akina’s new site is up with lots of cool collector items to buy.
A project from Sydney Council, incorporating 160 000 portraits of people living around the Sydney area to form The Face of Sydney. Reminds me of a work Garry did for an exhibition at the Casula Powerhouse many years ago titled Memories. Also, the annaul Sydney Life Photographic exhibition is on again at Hyde Park.
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