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2009/11/23

Good times at Moon Hill

Some of the better photos from my time in Yangshuo early November.

.sam

2009/10/21

The Wifes’ Cooking

We hang out with a lot of (read: a few) Americans. One big difference between Americans & Australians is that they eat Mexican more frequently (read: a lot more frequently).

Zoe recently made some burritos(?). I was so proud I took a photo:

Burrito Something

The local beer in the background is liquan (漓泉). Not pronounced “Lick-you-en”, more like “leech-wan”. Its nice enough & cheap!

.sam

Zach Galifianakis vs Kanye West

Stumbled across this video.

Its a Kanye West rap so there are some swears

 

.sam
2009/10/2

More Chinglish to get us started

Here’s a classic from a year ago. Its that time of year again and this particular shopping mall is at it again,

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Being a “show off” is a concept hasn’t crossed my neurones since primary school.   (“show-offy”)

This new apartment development is advertising an “American uptown culture life…”

TTs_big_day_out_ 034  ….judging from the banjos and cowboy hats these good old boys are straight from 1862!

More apartment developent sites. Lots of commercials around town use English catch phrases to inspire customers, its just I haven’t heard of any of these catch phrases…

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…as always saving the best for last:

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How far is the futureyou say? “Its approaching!”  smile_confused 

what did you just say? I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of how awesome that statement was….

*sam

Unintended Unattention

Haven't updated anything in a while....Confused

...soon...

sam
2008/9/28

"If you are not in fashion..."

Most of you are probably familiar with the concept of Chinglish. For those of you who aren't; Signs, billboards, labels, T-shirts, with english text that are designed by a non-english speakers often produces hilarious results. China probably has the highest proportion of it around and hence where the name comes from, Chinese + English = Chinglish. The following is my own foray into bringing to light more Chinglish

This came from the label on a briefcase I just bought. Transcribed it reads:

" simple of beautiful
Art produces ugly things
which frequently
become more beautiful with time.
Fashion, on the other hand,
produces beautiful
things which
always become ugly with time.
IF YOU ARE NOT IN
FASHION, YOU ARE NOBODY.
It is a new fancy rather than
taste which produces
so many new fashions.
Beauty of style
and harmony and grace
and good rhythm
depend on simplicity."

Hmmm words of wisdom from the suitcase label.
I have my theories on how this kind of mind-meld-poetry comes from (mostly the internet), but that can wait till another day.
My favourtie part is the middle: harsh words from a suitcase label... that kind of thing could ruin your day!

till next time,
sam
2008/5/13

Bread in China

Howdy,

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 Hilarity

Unbelievable,.... i laughed very very hard!

The gallery has some of the highlights.

 

fr sam
2007/11/15

Youtube enabled

I'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
2007/10/21

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)
2007/6/23

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
2007/5/23

London Bridge

Sam:
 
"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"
2007/5/12

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
2007/2/15

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
2007/2/10

FINALLY UPDATED!!!!!!

 
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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
 
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Christmas Day

" I got my brother some punching gloves for christmas...
 
our Grandad was impressed... "
 
sam

Walking in the Neighbourhood

Another 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 Art

Just 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
2006/10/17

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... "