Well, here I am posting from my phone. As you do!

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Today Stephen and I walked our little (or iin my case, not so little) patooties off doing a self-guied walking tour of Modernist architecture in Sydney. Although we were both agreed that it is out least favourite style, we nevertheless enjoyed the walking and the unseasonably cool weather.

The tour is part of the Powerhouse museum's Modern Times ( Read more... )

Thanks to Stephen for being a better record keeper than I, here's a list of the films I've seen in 2008.

2 Days in Paris
Angulimala
Brideshead Revisited
Burn After Reading
Darjeeling Limited, The
Dark Knight, The
Eastern Promises
Frost/Nixon
Hancock
Happy-Go-Lucky
Incredible Hulk
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Infamous 
Iron Man
Juno ( Read more... )

Here is the way we spent New Year, engaging in puja and the Sydney Buddhist Centre. This is the shrine to the Green Buddha of the North, Amoghasiddhi who's name means Unobstructed Success.

We could all use some of that in the new year, eh?


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There have been so many little voices speaking to me about Paris lately; weird little synchronicities - being given a French langyage lesson CD, presents from Paris, hearing French speakers on the street, meeting an English teacher from France, chatting to French friends through Facebook, dreams and a potential Job offer...

Today we met with some ( Read more... )

I'm gonna miss the sleek geek when he leaves us in 2009/2010.

*sniff*

But besides that, enjoyed 'The Next Doctor' a lot!

This is a short rough poem written on a recent Teens retreat at Vijayaloka. It was the result of a timed writing exercise using a line from Pablo Naruda's poem 'Keeping Quiet' which is a far more masterly work. Nevertheless, the sentiment is clear.

If we were not so single minded
there would be time and space
to see the dreams form in each others' ( Read more... )

It's been months of rehearsals and several dummy spits by myself and others to bring a  concert of 'uplifting' music to an appreciative audience. Now that it is over I am deeply relieved to get my Sunday's back.

The evening went well. A few bung notes here and there, as expected but warmly received nonetheless. The more professional acts were ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I turn 40 and feel woefully underprepared to face this milestone.

IN the last few weeks I have felt without foundation, a stable basis from which to act, mainly due to the general busyness of my life. There's been something of a spiritual crisis which has caused me to reexamine who I am as a buddhist. Most recently there's been a funeral ( Read more... )

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