Monday, May 31, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
When friends come to visit
JP hopes to see more of what the rest of us have been up to. Well, truth be told, I haven't been up to much that's exceedingly exciting since Mr. Tsai and JP himself were here. So I suppose I'll just post some pretty pictures that I was supposed to have posted many months ago.
When Mr. Tsai was here, we visited Section 8 for drinks, took a walk down Union Lane, and went for more mojitos at the famous eco-builing Council House's bar off Little Collins Street. These set of photos (instax mini's) prove Muji's pens to be uselessly smudgy so I've since vouched to never leave the house without a Sharpie in the bag. Also because I secretly like to vandalise things.
On a side note, Mr. Tsai is extremely funny and lovable when semi-drunk. In the 10 years I've known him, that night was the drunkest and most care free I've seen him. More nights like this please Mr. Tsai.
We also made a few pledges with one another which we hope to be able to fulfill. First, a date in 1 year's time. And another for 5 years down the road. No, it's not a marriage pledge so don't get all excited for the wrong reasons.
Next, JP visited me and we spent good times feeling incredulous about life and the what-the-fuckisms that surrounds us. Because we both love Amelie it's become somewhat of an unspoken ritual to sacrifice the precious gold coins and take these retro b&w photobooth photos (left taken outside Flinders St. station in Melbourne, right taken at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris in 2008).
What's with the Asian Boy/White Girl banner? It's a secret joke. See if JP is obliging enough to divulge more.
Then we do what we like to do best - prowl the city streets and laneways and take silly blackmail worthy photos of each other. Though it's not hard to imagine that everyone else here has more blackmail photos of me than I'd like to admit.
At the old GPO.
Graff on Rutledge Lane consumes the council bins also.
I think these are two of Michael Porter's famous heads, also found on Rutledge Lane.
One of the many things that I love ever so much about Melbourne, how it embraces randomness eg. in this case, street art installations.
For our love of Percy Jackson, this image was captured especially for B.
At Free Lane, we came across a suggestion box. Naturally, we obliged.
I swear the bacon was JP's idea.
A penguin. Captured for the sake of JG. Perhaps it's your turn to fill these pages with some of your many photographs.
On a side note, Mr. Tsai is extremely funny and lovable when semi-drunk. In the 10 years I've known him, that night was the drunkest and most care free I've seen him. More nights like this please Mr. Tsai.
We also made a few pledges with one another which we hope to be able to fulfill. First, a date in 1 year's time. And another for 5 years down the road. No, it's not a marriage pledge so don't get all excited for the wrong reasons.
Next, JP visited me and we spent good times feeling incredulous about life and the what-the-fuckisms that surrounds us. Because we both love Amelie it's become somewhat of an unspoken ritual to sacrifice the precious gold coins and take these retro b&w photobooth photos (left taken outside Flinders St. station in Melbourne, right taken at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris in 2008).
What's with the Asian Boy/White Girl banner? It's a secret joke. See if JP is obliging enough to divulge more.
Then we do what we like to do best - prowl the city streets and laneways and take silly blackmail worthy photos of each other. Though it's not hard to imagine that everyone else here has more blackmail photos of me than I'd like to admit.
At the old GPO.
Graff on Rutledge Lane consumes the council bins also.
I think these are two of Michael Porter's famous heads, also found on Rutledge Lane.
For our love of Percy Jackson, this image was captured especially for B.
At Free Lane, we came across a suggestion box. Naturally, we obliged.
I swear the bacon was JP's idea.
A penguin. Captured for the sake of JG. Perhaps it's your turn to fill these pages with some of your many photographs.
So that's about all the photos I could update. There are a few more instax mini photos, but they're now in my mother's proud possession ie. in her wallet or somewhere where I'll never see them again, so this is about all I can post up.
What's up and coming?
Well, I've been unemployed since April, so if any company out there is looking for a graduate architect, feel free to get in contact with me. Seems like the joke is always on me because I always seem put myself in precarious unemployment whenever the economy is lower than rock bottom.
Despite all this, there is something that I'm looking forward to though. In 2 week's time, I'll be catching the Australian Chamber Orchestra performing Jonny Greenwood's Popcorn Superhet Receiver. I've been tempted to go on YouTube and listen to the piece, but I think I'll be patient this time and hear it out for real played in a concert hall myself.
Last weekend I caught a cello and pianist duo playing selections from Schumann, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff at the Hawthorn Townhall. Loved the Schumann and Rachmaninoff, still unsure about Beethoven. Sorry, genius he may be, he's just not my cup of tea (to my extremely plebeian, layman's ears) his compositions always sounds haphazhard to me with the harmonic scales thrown in seemingly at random and on some goodness-knows-what induced whim. I'm sure there's a very valid, and solid principle or reasoning behind it, but pardon maestro, I'm not a fan.
On a totally unrelated note, am I the only one who finds the blogger blogging system absolutely retarded?
Okay...good night, or rather, good morning, my good people.
_____
Yes, yes, I know I owe all of you listed on the right-hand-side emails. This weekend. Maybe.
x E.
What's up and coming?
Well, I've been unemployed since April, so if any company out there is looking for a graduate architect, feel free to get in contact with me. Seems like the joke is always on me because I always seem put myself in precarious unemployment whenever the economy is lower than rock bottom.
Despite all this, there is something that I'm looking forward to though. In 2 week's time, I'll be catching the Australian Chamber Orchestra performing Jonny Greenwood's Popcorn Superhet Receiver. I've been tempted to go on YouTube and listen to the piece, but I think I'll be patient this time and hear it out for real played in a concert hall myself.
Last weekend I caught a cello and pianist duo playing selections from Schumann, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff at the Hawthorn Townhall. Loved the Schumann and Rachmaninoff, still unsure about Beethoven. Sorry, genius he may be, he's just not my cup of tea (to my extremely plebeian, layman's ears) his compositions always sounds haphazhard to me with the harmonic scales thrown in seemingly at random and on some goodness-knows-what induced whim. I'm sure there's a very valid, and solid principle or reasoning behind it, but pardon maestro, I'm not a fan.
On a totally unrelated note, am I the only one who finds the blogger blogging system absolutely retarded?
Okay...good night, or rather, good morning, my good people.
_____
Yes, yes, I know I owe all of you listed on the right-hand-side emails. This weekend. Maybe.
x E.
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