First of all, happy Chinese New Year to everybody, especially those é¼ amongst you 😉
And yes my friends…it is raining in Sydney! Though we’re no longer talking monsoon-like showers for days in a row, it still seems as if the gods are mighty angry at us – and if I knew of any Noah I would ask him to start building an Ark!!!
Hard to imagine I know, especially since I last left you with an account of hot sleepless nights. But the weather can change around pretty quickly here. Good thing predictions are quite accurate, so at least you know what’s coming. To be honest, I was more than happy to cool off for a bit 😉
Oh and the best part: it was dry and sunny on Saturday, perfect for a stroll to nearby Paddington. I visited the ACP. Hosted in a magnificent gallery (the space! the light!), I was swayed by their current exhibition (i.e. visual onslaught) to subscribe to one of their workshops. They also have a wide range of facilities (the library! the studio!), so I am very curious and excited to get started this Saturday!
Most of Sunday evening was spent Skyping with the home front:
Bittersweet. I am always happy to spend time together with them. But just ‘seeing’ and ‘hearing’ seems to stress the lack of any of the other senses. It was especially weird seeing Bram on the other side, playing with my cousins, it was hard not to get jealous. But without this technology I wouldn’t be seeing them at all! Does anybody know a good application for multi-videochat? Sightspeed’s audio is a bit wonky on the home laptop apparently…
It’s already bedtime for me here… Busy workweek as we are preparing for a sales conference next week, exciting stuff! And I get to go to Melbourne, woot woot!!
I love that we will both be at a sales conference/convention simultaneously. This could be the start of our mutual blog! Discuss the business to pleasure ratio: Melbourne v. Nice.
ACP looks awesome. You’ll be the next Annie Leibovitz or Jill Greenberg before you know it. 🙂
Ben let me play with his Lensbaby today. I’ll send you some of the pics he took. The effect is really fun.
x
Hey Ilse,
Het heeft even geduurd voor ik de weg naar je website (knap, trouwens) gevonden had, maar intussen heb ik door een serieus inhaalmaneuver alle posts gelezen ;o)
Bram had al een heel deel verteld toen hij twee weken geleden de post kwam halen: over jullie huisje, over je werk dat je bevalt, en over Sydney in het algemeen.
Toch heeft het net dat ietsje extra om jullie huisje ook écht te kunnen bekijken (zij het dan op foto).
Goh, ik heb de indruk dat het daar allemaal zo slecht nog niet is. Wel spijtig dat je er niets van eten ofzo binnen mag brengen. Anders had je lekkere gouda en andere zaken die je mist kunnen laten meebrengen (zo heb ik dat in Madrid gedaan). ‘t Zijn vaak de kleine dingen…
Alleszins, we missen jullie, Tom en ik, de nieuwe bovenbuur is wel vriendelijk, maar het is toch niet hetzelfde…
Tot gauw,
Lieve groetjes,
Annick