We spent the weekend reorganizing our apartment in anticipation of junior pixels. We managed to sell just about all our excess stuff to people in our building (awesome reuse), and got a few new IKEA things that are a bit more practical.
My favourite new item would be our IKEA fusion table and chair set. I love the retro styling and rounded corners, plus the chairs have backs and padded seats which is something our old stools didn’t have.
I will post some pictures of our redone rooms in coming days.
On Saturday we went to the CSSQ 2009 Annual Cactus & Succulent show at Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens in Brisbane. The plants on show were amazing, and we purchased about eight plants for ourselves, which are mainly small varieties we haven’t seen before.
I really love this time of year as it is not too cold and the sun sets to the North which means we can watch it from our balcony. The sunset yesterday was particually dramatic.
We saw Lior play at the Brisbane Powerhouse on Thursday night (23 April 2009). It was yet another amazing Lior show, this time he was accompanied by a string quartet, a shadow artist Stephen Mushin, and a special guest who played a tabla for a couple of songs, which was really amazing.
Lior singing "I'll forget you" with Katie Noonan
The shadow artisty really made the show, it was simple yet so effective. It was projected on a round screen directly behing Lior. Originally Lior planned on having two shadow artists on tour, but he quickly had to change plans when of them gave birth very recently. Stephen Mushin did a really great job by himself, changing the screen in time to each song, with very subtle indicators of change. The concept of shadow artistry can be seen in the film clip for Lior’s “I’ll forget you”:
All in all, it was a very enjoyable concert. Lior finished this two song encore with a brilliant instrument-less solo chant, which reminded me of Fajr we heard every morning in Malaysia.
I fell in love with this plumeria pudica that I saw recently at a nursery. It is commonly called the ‘hammerhead frangipani’ as it has long, hammerhead like, evergreen leaves. It apparently flowers year round in warm climates so I guess we’ll see how it goes in Brisbane!
I haven’t written here for some time. The reason is that nothing much exciting at all has been happening lately in my world. To be honest, the most exciting thing to happen to me today was seeing these photos, which I thought were pretty amazing:
a unique underwater perspective of goldfish scooping
Some other notable mentions:
We renewed our lease on our unit for yet another year (fourth year: end April 2010). The increase was $15 p.w (3%) which is okay; landlords are definitely more nervous and less cocky at the moment.
We are going to Byron on the weekend to see Fat Freddy’s Drop, which should be wicked mad: can’t wait!
I am going to attend my first ‘Cactus & Succulent Society of QLD’ meeting next Monday night in Brisbane: I hope to see one of these.
Work has been pretty shite: I can’t wait to be on holidays.
I’ve been checking out this Brisbane based photo blog: paletendril, which is fucking amazing.
We went to Canberra a week ago for a wedding. The weekend was full of mixed feelings but I couldn’t wait to get back to Brisbane: home is where you make it.
We still love going to Oliver and Co. at South Brisbane (Melbourne St: SW1 complex) for pizza. They open every day for lunch and Tuesday-Sat for dinner. The pizzas are still great, although there’s more choice now and they’re homemade and still $10 each.
My pretty much all-time favourite band are touring Australia next month. With a choice between the Tivoli in Brisbane on a Friday, or two gigs (Saturday & Sunday) in Byron Bay, we opted for Byron, with the added bonus of the Byron tix being about $20 cheaper.
The last time I saw them was in late 2007 and they blew me away so it has been a long time coming: I can’t wait!
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