Made my day when his father sent me this! You can already tell with his charm and cute smile, my youngest nephew will be stealing the spotlight for many years to come (sharing it with his brother of course ;-).
Thank you Nico! Can’t wait to see them again in June!!!
And in this case it happened to be another car colliding into mine last Tuesday, causing it to spin across another lane onto the footpath.
Yes, I was involved in a car crash. And before you start making remarks about my driving skills: no, it was not my fault 😉 And yes I’m fine. Mostly.
What exactly happened I will most likely never remember – and maybe that’s for the best. In fact it’s one of those things, no matter how much you mull over it in your head, in the end there was nothing I could have done differently, and neither could the driver of the other car. Classic ‘accordeon’ effect: first car slows down, second car reacts a little bit later (brakes harder), third car even later (brakes even harder) and so on. Before you know it you’re going at around 50 an hour and see everybody in front of you hitting their brakes full on. I hit the brakes and instinctively looked in the rear view mirror to check the person behind me. Surely my heart must have skipped a beat, judging her speed it was unavoidable and not even a close call. She tried to divert onto the other lane, smashed into my right rear, which caused the spin and catapulted me to the left.
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!!
