My Blue Heaven

Bring on summer revisted

Hold that thought. Ok, backtrack a little. Stop there. Thats better.

Excuse my craziness. I blame the heat. When I said bring on summer, I didn’t quite mean sitting in an office with no air conditioning while it blasts 36 degrees heat.

I. Am. So. Hot. I can’t concentrate here. I’m falling asleep. Drinking water non-stop until I feel bloated. Even my chair feels like a heater. I love the hot weather… but, when there is no air con it kinda sucks.

Looks like I’ll be heading to the pool again tonight. For the 3rd time this week, I get to quench myself in the blissfully refreshing cold water at the Tooting Lido. I swam 8 laps the last two times.. and am hoping to make it 9 laps tonight! 🙂

Current listening :: John Coltrane – “Impressions”

Bring on summer

Wow its on the warm side today. 35 degrees.. London is rivalling even a Sydney summers day. I am definitely hitting the pool again after work today.

Anyway, thanks to Vron’s latest post, I’m gonna convert it to a mini me-me. 🙂

1. I’m currently loving: youtube, old school r&b (*sigh* jodeci.. tevin campbell.. hehe), crispy aromatic duck pancakes, the hot sydney-like weather & swimming in outdoor pools
2. I’m currently missing: home, family, friends, Sydney, the beach, coltrane
3. I’m currently hating: my hair (sooo dry and damaged), getting up in the mornings for work, being tired, having no money
4. I’m currrently looking forward to: a holiday (if I can afford it), the weekend, dance class

Current listening :: “Lately” – Jodeci (ahhh… old school.. soooo gooood)

Shocked and outraged

Ok so I finally visited this site (that Kwai had told me about a few times already) and I am absolutely utterly shocked and disgusted. I cannot believe this web site exists.. and that there are over 87000 members. This site makes me so so angry. It is so wrong on so many levels, that it is almost incomprehensible that such a large organised body of people can think like that, and be so… proud and proactive.. about such a thing. These people are actually proud of what they believe. And they are all over the world. There are separate little forums for different locations.. a group in Britain, and a group in Australia and so on..

I read through a few of the threads. Ugh. Words fail to describe what I think of this.

YouTube Anti-Racism Collaboration

Everyone check this out. It’s a special video collaboration speaking out against racism. It was made by Kwai, involving many YouTubers, even some of the big guns. 🙂 Please pass it on to as many people as possible. Oh yeh I say 2 lines in it too.

The responses have been pretty positive so far. We’re trying to get this video featured, so if you have a YouTube login, feel free to comment and rate to push this video up so that it can get more exposure. Unfortunately, this video has also brought out the idiots and racists across YouTube. Kwai has already recieved a fair few hateful comments for making this video. I seriously don’t understand how ignorant and stupid some people are out there. *sigh* Very sad.

The background music to the video is quite good and fitting – it’s an original piece, written and performed by an unsigned musician called terranaomi. She also contributes to the video.

So, anyway, check it out!!

Hot hot hot!

Man we have quite a hot week coming up. Today was 32. Tomm 34, wednesday 36!!! 😮 Not bad for “chilly” london eh! Anyway, I’m gonna take FULL advantage of this hot weather to go swimming at the Lido. And what is a lido I hear you ask? It’s basically what they call outdoor pools here. There are very few in London, but one happens to be kinda close to where I live. Well, not close, but fairly convenient to get to. And this is the largest lido in London – its 90m long and 30m wide!!! Really great for doing laps – quite a challenge. The first time I swam the length, I had to pause twice. 90m is quite long, and it was kinda a bit of “are we there yet?”.. hehe. Not I’m getting used to the length, I’ve managed to do 6 laps, with minimal pauses at each end. Hopefully tonight I’ll bump that up to 7 or 8! My aim is to be able to swim 1 km. By the end of summer here hopefully. I love swimming. Dunno what I’m gonna do once winter hits again.

Anyway, I’m quite happy with my.. achievement so far with my fitness. I’m slowly but surely dragging my body back in shape. Have lost a couple of those london winter kilos, and am getting fitter and stronger. I’m dancing once a week, and going to the gym (or swim) once or twice a week on top. Feelin good. Gotta love summer! 🙂 Just a shame there are no beaches. *sigh*

Well, sorry about my last, rather morbid, post. I still am sorting through stuff. And I’m not always feeling so depressive. Dunno when I’ll find the answers, but I’m sure I’ll figure things out eventually. Need some regeneration time alone perhaps. London being London, its always so hectic. I barely have time to breathe during my week at work. Anyway, I’m off to swim now. Ciao ciao. 🙂

Current listening :: “Miracle Drug” – U2