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5/13/2008 Bread in ChinaHowdy, Cab't get sane bread here. Once I was served a burger on a pineapple bun. For those who don't know, a pineapple bun is sweet bread (like a cream bun) frosted with sugar and pineapple powder (i think). Does that make you shudder? Mind you thats probably less suger than a McDonalds burger! Baguettes from Walmart don't burn in the toaster; they caramelise, there's that much sugar in them... So, mum had a bread maker (in Australia), they're no good for big families (like mine) cause the loaf is gone in 4 (Stewart-boy) slices. We got it over here and between us its perfect. Hot and Fresh.. pictures to prove it.. fr sam Japanese Gameshoe HilarityUnbelievable,.... i laughed very very hard! The gallery has some of the highlights. fr sam 11/15/2007 Youtube enabledI've got a backlog of videos to upload, in the meantime here's the latest one, starring some of the young guys from our home in carlingford fr sam 10/22/2007 Busily Scurrying along.Currently working like ferret-meerkat-superants for departure in January 08. We have some training courses coming, we'll post some photos in the coming weeks. In the meantime, we took a camping holiday to Thredbo when we got back at the beginning of September. It was freezing cold! The scenery was superb! Stay in Touch, fr sam (& zoe) 6/23/2007 We are irrelevant...This post is a bit of an experiment...
here goes,
the title of this post is about the nature of slamball, the hype makes me laugh, looks like fun, but these too elements combined silently screams " We play slamball! We are irrelevant! ". Adds a tinge of black humour to the whole affair...
hope the embedded video works
sam 5/23/2007 London BridgeSam:
"New gallery, including the spectacular london bridge and twelve apostles.
Sam's first visit to the great ocean road, Zoe's previous visit was when the london bridge was complete and uncollapsed.
Our May newsletter is out, if you haven't recieved it (and would like to) drop us an email"  5/12/2007 Melbourne Dreaming" Oh No! I left the pot on the boil again!
Replace the word 'pot' with the word 'blog', and replace the word 'boil' with the word 'didn't-update'.. and then rearrange the sentence so it actually makes sense!
We were recently down in Melbourne for (amoungst other things) meetings re: CHINA. Lots of news to fill in, we'll have a newsletter out soon!
Till then, checkout the gallery with photos of the street art around Brunswick Street. This place oozes with creativity! "
fr sam 2/15/2007 Forster Spear Fishing" Couple ' O ' Weekends back we got our friend Carl to take us to his parents place in Forster for the weekend. He's a mad spear-fisherman so he taught me some of the ropes and I had a go. Highlights include,
* Filming over 2 hours of underwater footage with my Dad's camera (thanks Dad). "Life Aquatic" type movie to come later, so stay tuned...
* Killing Fish
* Eating those Fish
* Sand boarding
* Teasing Azadeh (one of Zoe's girlfriends)
I'm still experimenting with this blog format so the photos are in the gallery, or click the link below, and see the comments for further comments from me... muhahaha"
sam Thredbo in Summer" Between Christmas and New Years we travelled down to southern NSW, stayed a couple of nights in Thredbo and had a 'walking' holiday (meaning, the main activity of the holiday was walking around the national park, boring huh?)
This was my first time to thredbo in the summer and I had been fed all Zoe's stories about how great it was, that we had to go do it, the country side is so beautiful etc... Well all her stories were true... it was spectacular! I loved it!
I did a bit of bouldering whilst we were there, we went to Blue Lake (which was amazing) and enjoyed picnic lunches everyday... itsa nice!
If you've skied thredbo before you'll probably recognise some of the terrain... sans la niege"
sam 2/10/2007 FINALLY UPDATED!!!!!!****!!!!****!!!!****
Finally got some time to update our blog! (2 new galleries and 3 new posts)
I'd put more up but apparently I've reached my "monthly upload quota"... bah!
check back soon and comment!!! :) please :)
sam
****!!!!****!!!!**** Christmas Day" I got my brother some punching gloves for christmas...
our Grandad was impressed... "
sam Walking in the NeighbourhoodAnother post on how lucky we are to live in Sydney... sorry...
 Have a look at the gallery, one day in November last year we walked from Rush Cutters Bay Park around to Lady Macquarie's Chair (If you don't know what this means don't worry, neither do I)...
The photo below is from Rushcutter's Bay Park, The Church Tower at the top centre is St Marks, across from it to the right is the "robot head" of a boxy building. This is where we live (no we don't live on the top floor and no we don't live in a giant robot, although that would be cool)
Two Lessons from this photo...
1) We should go walking more often
2) He is good, cause none of this is our doing!
fr sam Paddington Street ArtJust up the hill from where we live is the Sydney suburb of paddington.
Its a groovy cafe/arty/fashion area (i.e. too cool for us), lots of fun to walk around, visit bookshops etc and have a coffee...
One trip (back in Oct last year) we had our camera and we took some photos of the local graffiti/stencil/street art around this area. Some pretty awesome stuff... All of these pieces are now gone, buffed away, and only this gallery as a lasting capsule of urban art... will anyone see it now??
fr sam 10/17/2006 Big Mountain Madness...Sam:
"A couple of weekends back we did a (dry) canyon in the near Kanangra Walls called Kalang. To get there you travel through the Jenolan Caves. The trip in is pretty cool; you drive your car into the actual cave through to the other side... not to mention the winding roads around that area... AND about 20km of dirt road = drift-city! (just kidding)
A night under stars at a nearby campsite before setting off the next day, made for nice serenity ('ah the serenity')
The walk to the top of Kalang wasn't too bad and the and the 7 or 8 abseils were 30 to 60m long: advanced but not very strenuous and we were finished by about 1pm... Then the pain began; 3 hours of gruiling scree climbing out i.e. scrambling up a dirt hill in dense scrub... BUT I think it was all worth it... see the picture gallery and decide for yourself... " 9/19/2006 Holidays and Weddings...Sam:
"Three weekends back headed up the North Coast of New South Wales to for a camping break.
We stayed in the Bundjalung national park, at the Woody Heads camping ground. It was 'car camping' so we had the luxuries out in force, fresh roasted coffee every morning, bacon and eggs, melting chocolate with fresh strawberries...
After a few days we headed further up the coast to Byron Bay where Zoe's good friend Lis got married (9th Sept 06). An awesome time, the weather dryed up nicely for the wedding weekend, and then two days later proceeded to bucket down for our 10hr drive back to Sydney...
thus ended our interlude and last week we returned to the reality working life and the fun and games that it entails..."
8/28/2006 Baldness and CratesSam says:
" Firstly, the baldness is self inflicted and I did later shave the sides of my head to match. But not before emailling my entire family and telling them that I had been struck down with spontaneous hair loss... I hope that the title and attitude of the photo gallery correct any misgivings. One friend said I looked like woody harellson (thanks alot jeffery!)...
A couple of weeks back I made a 'cargo rack' for the bike we have been lent by a friend (thanks Dan!). When you see the photos you'll understand the reason for 'cargo rack' rather than cargo rack... I think it pretty good, it does work." 8/17/2006 Amazing Stories...Sam speaking:
" We are so blessed by our Dad in heaven...
Two days ago friends from church called us up and offered us a free car, 'Q: For keeps?', 'A: Yup!'
Whoa, they just dropped it over tonight, unbelievable! Not only are we totally humbled by their generous gift but also by Dad's amazing provision through them! Our current financial status meant that we wouldn't be able to get a car for months... this coming thru has flipped that all on on its head...
Also I've gone bald, as the photos attest, slowly getting used to it..." 8/16/2006 The Storm has gone...Sam speaking:
"The Thunder/Hail storm has stopped....
* the discovery of a sega emulator has brought me much joy (And procrastination) 'Secret commando' was actually called 'secret command' in the version my brothers and I used to play. The game was impossible, but the emulator has some features which allow dog-eye tactics and i have made it to the final boss: a glowing face that lauches bombs at you whilst grenades randomly appear from the sidelines = totally unfair!
* Zoe has a great new haircut. She got this whilst I was away...
* I took some friends to china with me, including my brother, v.cool! He also rode the mechanical horse in changsha, it was powered by pumping the stirrups
love to all our friends,
fr sam (&zoe) " 8/15/2006 The Latest....Some brief details of our lives to date...
* Sam was away in China all July doing the summer camps like last year. Zoe stayed home :(
* Zoe took holidays at the end of July (with friends in Noosa), this prolonged our seperation by 5 days...
* There's a lightning storm at moment some Ima get off the computer...
fr sam (& zoe) 6/15/2006 Totally newTotally new to the blog concept, here's the latest with us...
* Sam finishes his degree in a couple of weeks, the power of coffee keeps him going...
* Zoe works at Syd childrens hospital and wonders how long until she can ...
* Also, Big News, Sam will be in China for all of July, doing adventure camps with orphans (like last year, except Zoe won't be there,...
 )back to work (Stop procrastinating Sam!)
signing off, sam |
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