Ooops! Australian Art

Every one talks about art & artwork & arts & artists' events in Sydney & what I found here is: too much is going on & too many to join in.

This picture is in one of the rooms of the New South Wales Museum of Contemporary Art, a place I regard the best to spend a whole day every now & then.

Of course there're ongoing events & big exhibits... . But I rather adore a series of little side rooms at the back showing pencil works & sketches of early settlers. Small pieces of work of the size of your palm or your PC, as if they were just yesterday. Time in a bottle.

Click the label "旅遊大世界; Round the world in 80 seconds" for my other adventures. :-)

The Little Wonders in my Wanders-- my life as an (bystanding) Australian 4: Round the (english) world in 80 sec

This picture is REAL. I took it just last week, with a chuckle, when I was waiting on the platform for my train to school.... .

Then I received the following e-mail fr a dear friend this morning & couldn't help sending it to U. Happy reading.....
(it's nice to know that our 'English' in Mainland China is not too ... well, U know what.)

Happy reading.....

Wonderful English from Around the World In a Bangkok temple: IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ENTER A WOMAN, EVEN A FOREIGNER, IF DRESSED AS A MAN. Cocktail lounge, Norway: LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN IN THE BAR. Doctors office, Rome: SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND OTHER DISEASES. Dry cleaners, Bangkok: DROP YOUR TROUSERS HERE FOR THE BEST RESULTS. In a Nairobi restaurant: CUSTOMERS WHO FIND OUR WAITRESSES RUDE OUGHT TO SEE THE MANAGER. On the main road to Mombassa, leaving Nairobi: TAKE NOTICE: WHEN THIS SIGN IS UNDER WATER, THIS ROAD IS IMPASSABLE. On a poster at Kencom: ARE YOU AN ADULT THAT CANNOT READ? IF SO WE CAN HELP. In a City restaurant: OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK AND WEEKENDS. In a cemetery: PERSONS ARE PROHIBITED FROM PICKING FLOWERS FROM ANY BUT THEIR OWN GRAVES. Tokyo hotel's rules and regulations: GUESTS ARE REQUESTED NOT TO SMOKE OR DO OTHER DISGUSTING BEHAVIOURS IN BED. On the menu of a Swiss restaurant: OUR WINES LEAVE YOU NOTHING TO HOPE FOR. In a Tokyo bar: SPECIAL COCKTAILS FOR THE LADIES WITH NUTS. Hotel, Yugoslavia: THE FLATTENING OF UNDERWEAR WITH PLEASURE IS THE JOB OF THE CHAMBERMAID. Hotel, Japan: YOU ARE INVITED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CHAMBERMAID. In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian Orthodox monastery: YOU ARE WELCOME TO VISIT THE CEMETERY WHERE FAMOUS RUSSIAN AND SOVIET COMPOSERS, ARTISTS AND WRITERS ARE BURIED DAILY EXCEPT THURSDAY. A sign posted in Germany's Black Forest: IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN ON OUR BLACK FOREST CAMPING SITE THAT PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT SEX, FOR INSTANCE, MEN AND WOMEN, LIVE TOGETHER IN ONE TENT UNLESS THEY ARE MARRIED WITH EACH OTHER FOR THIS PURPOSE. Hotel, Zurich: BECAUSE OF THE IMPROPRIETY OF ENTERTAINING GUESTS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX IN THE BEDROOM, IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE LOBBY BE USED FOR THIS PURPOSE. Advertisement for donkey rides, Thailand: WOULD YOU LIKE TO RIDE ON YOUR OWN ASS? Airline ticket office, Copenhagen: WE TAKE YOUR BAGS AND SEND THEM IN ALL DIRECTIONS. A laundry in Rome: LADIES, LEAVE YOUR CLOTHES HERE AND SPEND THE AFTERNOON HAVING A GOOD TIME.

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People e-mailed me & asked about the 'butterflies' on my hand. Well, I do not know the name & have to go to check it up in a library (if anyone knows, of course pls e-mail me). This is how the plant is like: inviting twigs w/ little clumps at the end so the butterflies wiggle & dance in the wind! The 'butterflies' wings' are thin & half transparent; they look like nymphs & fairies.

I told U about flowers in every backyard & here are the most attractive crops on my way to school. Can actually bike from the train station to the college but every time I can't resist leaving my bike at the station but walk up just because of them. They cannot be expensive cos they're everywhere; nothing to be nursed in a glass house or fancy thing like that. Not to mention, household plants like herbs; everybody plants them.

There's still more to tell U about Aust plants here :-) WM.

My Little Wonders of my Wanders-- my life as a (bystanding) Australian-2

Before I came here, people talked about FLOWERS in Sydney & I couldn't help feeling puzzled. Flowers?
Where else there's no flowers?...

But ney, flowers here are booms; ferocious is the word. They come in clouds & crowds whose colours hurt your eyes. And they are ubiquitous that no body seems to bother to look at them... .

Flowers are at every other back/ frontyards; by the road side; everywhere. Look at these 'butterflies' on my hand. They really flicker in the wind!

Let me show U scrubs & weird plants next time :-)

My Little Wonders of my Wanders-- my life as a (bystanding) Australian-1

The 1st experience that I feel in my body upon my setting feet on this place is: Hey! My body SLOWS-s-ss-z-zzz do-w-n & that includes my brain. Everything goes slow: the bank queue, the supermarket queue, the carpark pay-up queue & people's brain waves *_* Of course I knew it & love that.

This is well exemplifed by my landlady-- the most frequent type of sentences fr her mouth is a question:
"I don't get that... ; can U say that again?"
"hmmm, I'm not sure I understand. Why is it that?"
The strangest bit is: these can come 3 days after the initial issue or 10 times after I've said the same thing, if not 20.
I'm going to take that as the best coaching & training for my endurance & patience; I surely need that for my personal aspiration :-)

There was one time when I wonder how on earth she's going to any movie cos she'll have NO chance to understand any storyline... . And indeed, once we're talking about movies when she said, "oh, I've not been to one since long; I never understand what's going on... ." :-)

Closeby the place I stay is a small park of trees & children's play area but all the time I've been there, the place looks lonely: just me & the birds. Know how it feels walking on newly lawned grass the 1st thing in the morning? Let me tell U: like walking on CLOUDS. It's springy, bouncy & WET from the morning dew. It feels so good that I can't help my urge to do that walk every other day. Evening walk? Well, it could be too chilly this time of the year.

I went to the long endless strip of beach, the Lady Robinsons Beach, along Brighton-Le-Sands a couple of times & each time a little nice surprise. This beach is way way long, extending 5-6 subsurbs, meaning quite a couple of train stations in distance. It is said that the water is too cold to swim. There's a fishing gentleman there feeding the gulls that flocks hovered at this spot & what a scene. See the strait opening at the far open end of the gulf on the picture? If U turn your head to the left, that arm of the strait opening is actually the airport & U can actually see planes landing & taking over, cool!

Let me tell U more about Australian PLANTS next time we are here :-) WM.

COMING UP: Australian plants.