FRIDAY (Sunday)

God no.

Another viral wannabe-sensation. But for all the wrong reasons. Auto-tune could not save this sorry soul.


-xx

University Lawns

Life as a university student has officially started for me. I’ve even become one of those people that sit on the lawns at lunchtime and read some philosophical Latin play. I would say that I do it out of enjoyment but I actually take Latin as a class and I’m seriously lacking in the language-talent department.

I’ve made a few friends in class (yay! Not a loner!) but my lectures are friggin’ huge and consisting of 90% male. That’s what you get if you do maths and physics. I can only blame myself.

Living in Melbourne is decidedly more expensive, but with Queen Vic Markets just around the corner, I can keep in my budget. Best thing about being at uni though? Use of the Rowden White Members Library. I never need to hire out dvd’s, download tv shows or buy books anymore, I can just borrow them out for free! Muppets in Space, here I come.

Calculus lecture calls. Carpe Dium.

-xx

Utopia

“I was born a hater of injustice; from my most tenders years my blood boiled against heaven when I beheld the sick, and against men when I witnessed the sorrows of the poor; the pauper’s crust stuck in my throat when I sat down to eat my dainites, and the cripple child has set me weeping.

What was there in that but what was noble? And yet observe to what a fall these thoughts have led me! Year after year this passion for the lost besieged me closer. What hope was there in kings? What hope in these well-feathered classes that now roll in money?

I had observed the course of history; I knew the burgess, our ruler of to-day, to be base, cowardly and dull; I saw him, in every age, combine to pull down what was immediately above and to prey upon those that were below; his dullness, I knew, would ultimately bring about his ruin; I knew his days were numbered, and yet how was I to wait? How was I to let the poor child shiver in the rain?

The better days, indeed, were coming, but the child would die before that. Alas, your highness, in surely no ungenerous impatience I enrolled myself among the enemies of this unjust and doomed society; in surely no unnatural desire to keep the fires of my philanthropy alight, I bound myself by an irrevocable oath.”

An excerpt from ‘The Dynamiter’ by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van DeGrift Stevenson.

Proof that the problems of our age transcend time.

- xx

Benefits Of Education

Sometimes I thank my mother for making me cook a lot of my own meals when I was young. It’s made me understand and appreciate ingredients and the flavours they bring to the dish more acutely.

I don’t know what I would do in uni life if I couldn’t whip up little cheap and easy numbers like this…

Chicken Vermicelli Soup

2 chicken breasts cut into thin strips.

2 cups of diced carrots, onion and celery (or vegies of your choice or means).

A few bok choy leaves.

1 cup of water to 2 cups of vegetable (or chicken) stock.

Rice vermicelli

Bring the stock and water to the boil and add the sliced chicken. Once the chicken has coloured on the outside, add the vegetables. Lastly, add the rice vermicelli to however thick you want it to be. Simmer covered for 10minutes or until the bok choy is soft. Serve piping hot and with a few chilli flakes if you want an extra kick. Season to taste.

Best eaten with chopsticks… cos it’s fun that way.

A nice, light winter warmer.

- xx

Ice Carvings

I'ma gonna go carve up the ice, y'all!!

I seriously cannot wait to get back out on the ice again, I've missed it so much. And I can't even remember where I kept my skates, it's been that long!

All this thinking about the cold and ice has me back on the coat hunt, and here's my number one priority this winter.

Do you know how hard it is to find a simple, camel duffle coat in Australia? Pain- in- the- ass.

It's the second last piece in my ever-growing coat collection.


Enjoy your so called "summer"...


- xx