it smells like north ryde (no really! i feel like i’m back at peachtree road reading the sunday paper over the distant din of kids playing in the park)
whenever i get back to sydney and step out of the airport, i take a deep breath, and from the fragrance i know i’m back home.

and joh’s not arriving till tuesday.
however, due to jack’s last minute ticket shopping, he’s not arriving with joh but one day earlier.
so come monday i’m going to the airport to receive someone i’ve never met before.
this should be interesting.
and big daddy j still insists on walking to my house. sigh.
quite a few guests in my [...]

he got me dj shadow’s new album!! for no reason other than that he finished session before me and wanted to cheer me up.
and because i have (and once raved to him about) psyence fiction.
what a sweetie.
i love the rhythms on this album (the private press). it is a feast of syncopation. ‘giving up the [...]

heh heh.

if i should die this very moment
i wouldn’t fear
for i’ve never known completeness
like being here
here is true peace
here my heart knows calm..
all i’ve known
all i’ve done
all i’ve felt
was leading to this
- gorecki, lamb
this time last year, for the first time in my life, i truly had this.
i re-acquainted myself with peace, and trust, and beauty.
wide-eyed [...]

but i’m feeling like crap at the moment, so if want something silly to cheer yourself up with, go take a look and a laugh at this.
and watch his little face carefully. hilarious.

i go read articles like this in the straits times online to remind myself how head-shakingly bizarre it can be.
it is amazing how obsessed singapore is with weight, thinness to the point of insanity. i remember looking at ads in the paper for slimming centres, when i was there last december, where the ‘before’ was [...]

huzzah!
you know how when you log in to blogger a list of your blogs appears on the right side of the page? sometimes when i log in, the blog listed is not in.flux but entrails. it’s a completely blank, brand new blog. it’s happened to me about thrice so far. entrails. is that meant to [...]

you can come and do my garden..! the damn things are having a grand old time at the expense of the jasmine.
my gardening magician mother would weep at the piss poor job i’m doing with her plants.
i just don’t have the proverbial green thumb(s?). and talking to plants is too odd even for me (but [...]

joh is fucking insane. he has decided he’s going to WALK to my house from the airport come monday morning 6.30am. *shaking head* he asked about first light and clicks and..
national service obviously makes much larger dents in their heads than previously thought..
jack wong is coming to sydney with joh and going up to nimbin [...]