baby spring flowers to cheer you up :)

the Rain Wild Chronicles

Nighteyes the wolf from "The Assassin's Apprentice" had first captured my likings. reading on, the series had got me totally fallen in love with The Fool the court jester, who brought the reading further to the introduction of more delightful characters in Althea the sailor-trader girl and Reyn the rain wild treasure hunter. and belatedly the spirited Malta. to develop a liking of Malta might stir a storm with other readers, but nah, cant help, Reyn loves her, 我只好爱屋及乌 ^^ Robin Hobb is good in sculpturing her characters :)

her newest release, the Rain Wild Chronicles had been on my reading list for a while. Moving to brissy certainly do no harm to the opportunity to lay hand on a copy of it.

my fondness of Trehaug the rain wild city, featured in the book title, might not be totally Reyn-induced ^^ the swampy marsh where an acidic river flows, had forced the rain wilders to engineer an entire city on sturdy tree tops. unearthing treasures from the ancient Elderling city buried under Trehaug was the sole reason that the city existed. not so much different from Kiruna up in the arctic circle aye? ^^ having that inclination, to be presented with a whole chronicle based on the rain wild would be an utter joy~

so far, the reading had been living up to expectations. Althea, Brashen and Paragon from the Liveship Traders Trilogy have paid a short appearance, which is always nice to have for sentimental reasons :) the only minor complain is that the characters in this series are not outstanding enough, just yet. Having high hopes for Thymara the “rain wild-touched” girl who’s borned with reptile claws.

Reading on, good day to y’all :)

橄榄树

咦？是蛔虫effect作祟？咋果然是身无彩凤，心有灵犀呀 :)
之前msn的pm才放“为了天空飞翔的小鸟 为了山间清流的小溪”咧~
LL还问zomok会听那个年代的歌^^

嗯，真的和歌词一样，虽然小鸟和小溪，还有广阔的草原都是流浪远方的原因，但coffin上的最后一根铁钉，还是为了那棵梦中的橄榄树吧。。。
经过两个月半的沉淀和不同的冲击，很多事都理得比较清楚了呢 :)
上个post里面的决定，算是确定了橄榄树的方向，开始自己的千里之行吧。。。

整篇都寓意很深哟
却也惊人的贴切 :)

和三毛一样，最后也会回到远方的故乡吧。。。
说，我欠你们一幅画。画得好就放上来。好久没有画画的触电了 ^^

先来这个吧，刚刚不小心找到的，又是寓意深重呀 ^^
由crane吊起的橄榄树 ^^

啊
决定了。。。

这样的话，建起来的又会只是个挡风雨的、清凉简单的小木屋咯。
什么时候才会认真建筑一个可以last常常久久的家呀。。。

嗯
就觉得不可能在这里久留呀。。。
哪一天回去，
不要再担心我走的路，
不要再赶我走了，
可好?

re-living uni time

one would have thought that the life of a professional should be quite different from that of a uni student who had to live with a monthly budget at half of the national poverty line. in simpler words to describe the second part of the statement above, the poverty limit in sweden cuts at 7300kr per month, and i was happily surviving at 3500kr-ish (hey, even that is a lot of money!). and needless to mention, melbourne days were even more to the extreme.

but, but~ even though the monthly cap has been mentally lifted, the basic ways are still very much unchanged. the food, the accommodation, the trasportation, the pastimes and even the way people back home are missed ^^ it is especially amusing when looking at all this from the perspective of food. still cooking our all time favourite bacon risotto (edited recipe with herbs, and bacon de 绝配 mushroom! see picture ^^), sipping chamomile tea at night (no longer adding honey to it, tht's suppose to be an adult's twist ^^), only buying potato chips when they are 2 for $4 ^^ (no longer need to hide them under the bed~).

a guy who went up to mt cotton with us over the weekend was putting in picture his nightmare of having too much sweet and sour pork in his 4 UK years. ironically i am still having a profound weekness for honey chicken as it was something that i could only afford to consume on special occasions (geez, i was really that poor) ^^ it later became a dish that the shanghai chef relied upon to cheer me up when i was having a particularly though shift at the food court in Northland. he would purposely cook a tray of honey chicken 1hr before close of business so that there will be leftover for me to bring home for dinner :)

all in all, enjoy awakening and reincarnating memories at the moment :)

Wot is on their mind?

Just had a look at the KPI my boss drafted for me. Is it surprising that my main tasks for this quarter comprise of taking over the two topics they fired at me during my face to face interview in April? So they actually hire me to solve those two problems based on the proposal they asked me to prepare for the interview??? No wonder they were feverishly taking notes back then.

and brilliant that this only dawns to me after serving them for a good month 0_o

new kid in town

hi all, meet Bracken :)

3" tall at birth, his favourite food is fat and juicy eucalyptus leaves ^^
right now he just love getting cozy with Yellow ^^