My Blue Heaven

The art of cryptic blogging

I think I’m beginning to master the art of talking about something without actually talking about it (on my blog that is). Cryptic, no? Hehe. And the purpose? I guess to gain the carthartic relief of expressing ones feelings and thoughts to a relatively anonymous and unknown audience of readers without going into specifics. Sometimes when I post, I do have readers in mind.. such as the people I know in person who read this… but there are always those unknown lurkers that occasionally remind me of their existence by dropping in a rare email or comment. It can make my day to recieve a kind email or comment from someone, somewhere else in the world!

Anyway, here are a few random pics from wanderings around Frankfurt. Autumn here is rather pretty.

Ok back to doing my Australian tax return 2005. Bleugh.

Current listening :: “Sea Song” – Doves

Musings

Memories are funny things. They don’t seem to be always entirely accurate. I think the mind has a tendancy to play down certain parts and highlight others leaving a slightly skewed image of your past and the people in your past. Oftimes it leaves a rosier image than what reality was.

Life is funny too. I never thought I’d be where I am now, at this point in my life, or at any point really. It’s amusing to think back to my teenage years where I imagined myself definitely married by this age. I think it was between 24 and 26 that I had set myself to get married. Hehe. So silly. There are some things in my life that do bother me now. Stuff that I held at such a high importance back home, that I just haven’t been able to keep up. Like doing dance classes, and regular exercise and piano. I feel like I’m losing them. It frustrates me that I just can’t seem to be able to do anything about it. It’s just much harder here – but I guess that is life – its not always gonna be living at home with your parents who do everything for you. Or living in that comfortable zone supported by a myriad of friends who look, talk, think and live in similar ways to you.

I dunno what I’m trying to say. I guess… in some ways I am disappointed in myself.. and in some ways I’m disappointed in people. But then I’ve been disappointed in people since primary school. So perhaps its just me. Sometimes I feel like I don’t know who I am anymore. Maybe I’m still just getting used to the change. I dunno. This is all one long slow process of growing and living. And I guess you just gotta take things as they come. Sometimes I wish things would never change, but they inevitably do.

Current listening :: “Quiet Day” – George

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Shopping conquest

As requested, my list of new purchases from my recent shopping conquest in Brussels, Belgium. With pics. 🙂

Gorgeous brown leather fur-trimmed coat, with tie around waist from Morgan De Toi (pic 1) Black puffy 3/4 winter coat from Mango (pic 2) White nearly full length winter coat, semi puffy with fur trimmed hood from Zara (pic 3) Choc puffy 3/4 winter coat with fur trimmed hood (Mango) Black turtle neck (60% silk from Mango) White turtle neck (Mango) Brown zip up (Zara) Hipster jeans (Mango) Hipster jeans (Cool Cat) Brown wool long jumper (Cool Cat) Brown lace-trim skirt (Morgan De Toi) MNG Jeans tshirt x2 (Dark olive and light blue from Mango) Choc suede boots with kitten heel (Daria D’Angelo) Synthetic black boots with metallic kitten heel (Mach 3) Black suede short boots with kitten heel (Sacha) Grey & blue Diesels Classic LBD (little black dress) with a modern twist and classy thin gold/crystal/black velvet belt to accessorise (Morgan De Toi)

In other news. My weekend has been fairly relaxing. Ate some yummy italian pizza at the local pizza place on Fri night, took my bike out for a bit of a cycle on Sat, watched “40 Year Old Virgin”, had dinner at the coolest Mexican restaurant – you get to cook your own fillet steak on a hot stone at your table!! You can prepare it as rare or as well as you like. How cool is that!!

Have to book myself a flight back to London for sometime this coming week to meet with the Cassium guys to sign the contract for my new job and be debriefed on my project etc. I am about to start on a 400 pounds per day job for 6 weeks!! 😀 Doing guru-level CSS stuff. (Apparently). Methinks Google will be my very good friend. I had to do a rather tricky cross-browser CSS test to get this job. Which I managed to complete after acquiring a few extra white hairs. I have a feeling I will be acquiring many more by the end of this contract.

Current listening :: “So Beautiful” – Pete Murray (Live at The Panel – I much prefer this version, even if he does sing a bit off key at times)

Filling the blanks

Err.. woah I just realised I haven’t blogged for so long there’s only blank space on my blog! Sorry to my readers for the lack of updates and lack of frequency in updates. Lots has been happening. I’m currently in between contracts and in the process of negotiating my new contract! If all goes well, I’ll be starting a new job soon. Its for 6 weeks, up in Derby, in the middle of the UK. Yep not in London. But the pay is… well.. way more than I’ve ever earnt before! 😀

In the meantime I’ve actually been living in Frankfurt with some friends for the past 1 & 1/2 weeks, as my temporary rent in london had come to a close. And it is much cheaper living out here whilst I am in between contracts. Even with the cost of the flight. Its been pretty cool living here. I rather like it – and am even starting to get better at speaking German. At least I can mostly read menus now and order food etc.

Last weekend we went to Brussels again. And I had one of my biggest shopping sprees ever! (And about time – I haven’t shopped for new clothing since I was in Australia!) Stocked up on all my winter gear at cheap European prices in Belgium. Did you know that different countries in Europe have different prices for the exact same item from the same shop? And UK prices are always the most expensive! Anyway, I absolutely LOOOOOOOOVE shopping in Europe! And I LOOOOVE European clothes and shoes. Mmmmm…. And I’ve found my new favourite clothing brands/shops over here – Mango (or MNG), Zara and Morgan De Toi. The first two are the new big fashion houses from Spain. Spain is really up and coming in the fashion industry now apparently and is huuge over here in UK and Europe. And Morgan De Toi is from Paris – a more boutique store with very parisian style clothing.

So anyway, will post my shopping conquests later. 🙂

Gotta dash and do some washing then go meet someone for lunch.

Current listening :: “Catch The Sun” – Doves

Sad reminiscence

Discovered this song the other day… (gotta love itunes sharing at work!) And the lyrics just really touched me. This is for anyone who’s ever been through a break-up. Check out the song if you can. It’s beautiful. [ Update: I’ve bought the mp3 from allofmp3 now, and have uploaded it for those who wanna listen 😉 ]

I feel so unsure
Trembling you open your door
Your eyes glistening
Silly me I’m already missing you

And this is all I have (Why you lookin at me)
All I have to give (I don’t know)
All I have to give (I don’t know who’s to blame)
This one last kiss (In this situation baby)
I know it’s not enough (oh)
Though our love will never end (oh no)
One more touch (no no)
Is all I have
All I have


“All I Have” ~ Amerie

*sigh*

Updates

In other news. I’m still here at AKQA. My contract got extended to the end of this week! Yay! Hours haven’t been quite as absurdly long as before. Been leaving at a more decent time, though still later than what I’ve been used to before. I’m also now living at Bayswater/Paddington area in a studio flat. Unfortunately no internet connection at home. 🙁 Thank goodness for internet cafes! The washing machine also doesn’t work in the flat so i’ve been using the local Laundrette. With big commerical washing machines and dryers. It’s so cool! Only takes 20 mins to do my washing. No more 2 hour waits! I quite like the Bayswater area. Lots of pretty good chinese restaurants on the high street. There’s one called Four Seasons which specialises in roast duck, roast crispy pork, soya chicken, bbq pork… and its ALWAYS packed. With good reason… their roast meats are really yummy! I’ve eat there twice so far in the last 3 days!! Hehe. Servings aren’t quite as big as Best One on Burwood Rd.

Anyways, ack gotta get back to work. Got soooo much to complete today. Got one project out the door yesterday at 7pm – check it out! And just got told I need to finish off the other project today. Man. Am I even gonna get time to eat?!

I had a wierd upsetting dream last night. Dreamt my dad died. The feeling of loss was so strong in the dream, I woke up crying. I have strangely vivid dreams.

Current listening :: “All I Have” – Amerie