lima hari di Adelaide: thank you, christine

aku sangat berterima kasih kepada Christine, Val dan Sam sebab sanggup luangkan masa untuk membawa aku dan akmal ke sana ke mari sepanjang lawatan kami ke Adelaide...sedih juga aku nak ucapkan selamat tinggal kat dia tempohari...datang berjemput, balik pun berhantar...tunggu aku sampai aku naik flight...susah nak cari kawan macam ni...apa pun memang seronok laa kat adelaide...kota kecil dan kenangan yang aku takkan lupa sampai bila-bila ...

at sam's

selama aku dan akmal di Adelaide kami menumpang tinggal kat rumah sam...kami jarang dapat jumpa sam disebabkan beliau amat sibuk berkerja di parlimen SA - nak dekat malam baru laa nampak batang hidung dia...Sam amat peramah walaupun sibuk...aku enjoy betul duduk kat rumah dia sebab senyap...sehari selepas pulang dari kangaroo island aku keluar pulak dengan tawakal...tak sangka pulak dia telah memperkenalkan dengan halal meat pie vilis yang cafenya 24 jam hanya terdapat di adelaide...aku tak paham kenapa laa depa tak pasarkan ke melbourne...dah ler sedap...rosya yang suka makantu pun cakap sedap...

lima hari di Adelaide: Kangaroo Island lagi

sebenarnya memang banyak sangat tempat di Kangaroo island yang menarik...cuma aku tak sempat nak menulis banyak tentang maklumat menarik di pulau ni...biasalah aku ni kalau dah berjalan penat terus aku fikir nak makan dan tido aje...tapi apa pun memang menarik pengembaraan bersama Christine dan Val kali ni...oh ya, masih banyak lagi foto-foto yang aku tak sempat upload...jadi hari ni lepas lunch tadi rasa macam takde keje nak buat maka aku upload laa beberapa foto yang aku rasakan menarik...memang puas hati laa dapat pergi kangaroo Island...rasa macam nak pegi lagi in the future wohoooo!!!!

summer stories

Dear Shah and Alvin,

Thank you for the lovely surprise which I received in the mail today--beautiful music. And the card is deliciously romantic and 'lushiously' erotic--flaming. Pleasure to savour. You shouldn't have, but the gift is appreciated. Val and I enjoyed our trip to Melbourne and catching up with you. I have a picture of Woka and her friend in the street which I will send as soon as Sam brings back my camera and I can unload it. He borrowed it; I keep asking and he keeps forgetting. I took the dogs to the park early today. The grass is getting very long in the paddock at the back and unless they cut it I will be staying on the oval. The dogs cannot be as free there, although I think that they are well behaved and wouldn't hurt a fly OTHERS get cross when they jump in greeting and sometimes kids squeal at their sheer exhuberance-scaredy-cats.

Val is out at the back of the garden collecting dead wood and having a last clear-up and burn before fireban season starts in earnest. I must get to work. I spent yesterday at one of Jeri's seminars on creative PhD's and I felt decidedly marginalised although it was nice to hear what some other people were doing from English and Creative Arts. Cole and Alison did not attend this month. But oh dear! I left my handbag and it was three hours later, after I had been driven to a private function where I thought my bag was being taken by someone who decided to look after it, and taken back by a kind Brodie Beales to uni to where my bag was with security, before I finally got it back. Meanwhile Val was driving up and down looking for me and security had phoned Sam at work to try and contact me. Such a palaver. And I was so cross and tired by the time I got home. The dogs missed out on their walk and I did precious little of any use all day. So now to work.

My abstract was accepted for a conference at Penneshaw on KI in early December -'The Shadow of the Precursor' - and I decided to do a paper on the intertextual links between my creative piece and Murakami, so I must get to work. Rick wants a trial run in November for those people doing papers, and as I am a late entry I must set to sharply.I saw a production of Shakespeare's "King Lear" by the STC on Wednesday. It was very good but gruesome and bloody. The postmodern set worked well. At the height of the storm there was a terrible thunder clap and lightening flash and instantly half the tile fell with a clatter, leaving the 'silhouette' or suggestion of a ruined castle. Very clever effect.

Thanx again. And always be welcome here. Christine (Val and the Menagerie)

busy again

kerja yang perlu dilakukan memang terlalu banyak...tapi aku terpaksa buat satu-persatu...nak baut semuanya memang tak larat...cuaca tak menentu...malam kelmarin dah sejuk tapi pagi ni panas semula..panas sampai aku tak boleh tido..berpeluh-peluh...dah rasa macam duduk dalam bilik sauna pon ada jugak...tristan bagi tau aku kat adelaide pon panas giler..sampai dia terpaksa keluar merayap tak tahan duduk dalam rumah membahang...malam tadi aku mengangkut bean bag trenton ke the zone...senang siket kalau aku malas nak balik tido jer kat opis...at elast kat opis ada air cond...tapi masih tak boleh lawan kak liza..siap bawak sleeping bag lagi macma nak berkhemah ler pulak...muahahahaha...melampau!!

lunch dengan alvin

kelmarin aku keluar lunch dengan alvin...masa nak balik tu sempat jugak aku amek shot beberapa panorama menarik musim panas...memang panas tak tahan...langit membiru tapi sangat panas...tengah dok berjalan balik tu ternampak pulak busking performance kat tepi sidewalk...vocalist tu suaranya memang ngetop..dengan muka yang ala pecah rumah pastinya akan menjadi kegilaan raja nok humalagapas...ko jangan raja nok, abang bob kau nak sumbat kat mana nanti...ko jangan print out plak gambar mamat ni lepas tu cium-cium teruja..kah kah kah....disebabkan performance depa kira ngetop laa jugak, maka aku pon berhenti laa dengar...alvin cakap band tu memang best...siap produce album sendiri lagi...anyway enjoy ler...