Astronaughts and Moons · Sunday May 14, 2006
On Monday night I went with a friend to go see a talk by the first japanese man to go up in space, Dr Mohri, at the Horizon planetarium. It was brilliant and awe inspiring and we were both so glad to have taken the time out from our busy lives to go to this.
Before he started his talk, there was a visual presentation of our place in the galaxy, given in full disorientating planetarium glory. We are so immensly tiny!
Afterwards we went to a cafe place called The Moon. I did not notice the funny of that until another friend pointed that out today. Oops!
I went to a great fun party tonight. It had a dress-up theme of Princess and Pirates (and faeries and ogers and so on..) Good thing I kept my garland from Fairbridge! Dried out or not, still good. There was a fairy floss machine, and fairy bread, and hilarity and lots of fun had. I never want to grow out of having fun like that. (Peter Pan syndrome perhaps)
Uni is working me hard. I played a Piazzolla tango in class on Friday which was exciting, though I still have a way to go with that one. Technical exams are coming up, so many scales and studies and excerpts to practice! Sort of a good thing I’ve got other projects on the go I guess, or it’d drive me mad O.o
The Next Door House · Monday April 24, 2006
We got a letter in the mail today; the house next door to us is going to be demolished! This is how they word it in the letter: Demolition of an existing single house and construction of two grouped dwellings.
Probably just because I’ve never had one of these letters before, I find it curious reading. The proposal for the new units don’t meet up to the local Codes. Pretty much everything is smaller than it should be, except in that one unit majorly overshadows the other (86% rather than the max of 50%). Try this line for example: “The upper level southern side setback associated with the kitchen/lounge, dingin and library/study is proposed to be 1.2m in lieu of the required 2.2m.”
Then again, maybe I just like how much they use the word ‘lieu’.
O how can you breathe little blue?
You have hooks, you have holes in you,
In absentium and in lieu of all the things that have been promised you…
A Fair Bridge
I went to the Fairbridge Folk Festival on the weekend. It was much fun. Hightlights include:
And most importantly:
And then, again, sometimes it’s good just to get out of the city.