Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Rencontre avec le dieu de la litterature australienne
Monday, 12 May 2008
I HEART BRISBANE
- sunshine without side effects ie the burns - I’m getting so good at avoiding them it’s unreal
- sightseeing til legs/feet are sore
- rugby - Reds v Crusaders.. not for the faint hearted. 14-8 for the Reds at half time, looked like they’d win when they were 21-8, then along came Dan Carter. A try here, two conversions there, final score 27-21 for the kiwis. Just brilliant.
Aaaah ..that’s the way life should be… On Sunday I took the train to go to Ipswich, the oldest city of Queensland, about 30kms south west of Brisbane, but 1 hour on the train-that-stops-at-every-station-on-the-way.
It’s probably fair to say : I’ve been there and it is unlikely I will go back. Unless they have another Global Gnome Competition
And now a poetry moment… Just found this poem by this Bulgarian born/citizen of the world author/poet called Kapka Kassabova from her book Geography for the Lost, that I have not read but should. How did I hear about her? Her novel Reconnaissance (picked up in Christchurch) kept me company during my Brisbanian week end ..
I want to be a tourist
I imagine my life as a city
somewhere in the third world, or the second.
And I want to be a tourist
in the city of my life.
I want to stroll in shorts and baseball hat,
with laminated maps and dangling cameras.
I want to find things for the first time.
Look, they were put there just for me!
I want a room with musty curtains.
I want a view of rubbish dumps and urchins.
I want food poisoning, the dust of traffic
in the mouth, the thrill of others’ misery.
Let me be a tourist in the city of my life.
Give me overpriced coffee in the square,
let me visit briefly the mausoleum of the past
and photograph its mummy,
give me the open sewers, the stunted dreams,
the jubilation of ruins, the lepers, the dogs,
give me signs in a funny language that I never
have to learn. Then take my money and let me go.
Thursday, 8 May 2008
I can't wait for the week-end to begin
I can’t say I had heaps of un at work this week so I’m looking forward to my WE in Brisvegas. Haven’t I been there before??.. Yup.. but.. here’s my excuse : last time I was there my camera played tricks on me and all my black and white photo came out slightly blurred ...
Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Rions un peu

Monday, 5 May 2008
Quel ennui
Friday, 2 May 2008
Petit Papa Noel ( il faut chanter le titre), etc...
Elle s'en roule par terre de joie et elle en bave a l'avance!!! (Elle a un peu tendance a parler d'elle-meme a la troisieme personne, c'est le syndrome Facebook) Elle a meme reussi a convaincre Caribou#2 de partir avec elle a Brisbanania le temps d'un WE et assister au combat des dieux du stade de l'hemisphere sud! Friend, trust me, we will have the awesomest time EVER! You have my personal guarantee.. and you know that I'm right 99.5% of the time heehee...
A part ca, je me demande ou sont les cartes postales que j'ai envoyees de Christchurch. Elles backpackent autour de la planete avant d’atterrir dans la boite aux lettres de leur destinataire ou bien? Je sais que la NZ c’est a l’autre bout du monde mais quand meme... ca va faire 3 semaines ! Ca ne peut pas etre a cause d’une adresse illisible parce que j’avais pris la peine de faire des belles etiquettes... C'est fou ca... Malheureusement je ne peux pas y faire grand-chose.. par contre ca me donnera peut etre une excuse pour retourner a Christchurch! Ah bah oui hein, j’ai envoye tout plein de cartes postales mais elles ne sont pas arrivees alors il faut que je recommence !