I thought it would take at least a few more weeks, but my visa application has been accepted. It was so quick!
Oh I'm a happy fella.
Now all I need is my ticket to Perth once my online banking is up and running and then come late september I'm on my merry way!!!!
wooooooo!
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Alex, My Long Lost Sister.
So, I've one more lesson to go and a few hours to burn, then I'm off to the land of aeroplanes and baggage claims. Tonight, one of my best ever mates from Canada is touching down for nineteen days of fun under the Hong Kong sun.
We met back in highschool when Alex was organizing a bus trip for anyone who wanted to go to Edgefest, a yearly one day festival, that during those highschool days, was one of the coolest tickets around. It usually brought in 30,000 plus for the day, with three stages and big and unknown acts...........but the problem was distance. For most people in the greater toronto area like we were, the three hour drive north to the middle of nothing important was often a stress to organize. So, here comes alex, this gal I'd never seen before with the proposition of a bus full of friends making the pain of travel an adventure. Alex (Alley Cat) is the only person from those early highschool years whom I still talk to. There are other's of course, but she was the first to stick the whole way through. And...there's a very sound reason for it as well.....she's awesome.
Back to the past...
I've been keeping up with my running phase and have completely slacked off on biking, because my back rim is looking a bit too wavey to be readily recognized as belonging to the biology of a bicycle. Okay, well....it's not that bad, but it does need a few touch ups, especially in the rear brakes, which no longer exist.
Going for a run when I have the time a few nights a week is a real treat. Being so out of touch with the quick art of foot to ground I very very very easily tire out; on my bike those fun lovin'lactic acids take waaayy too long to make themselves known.
I've got into a whole system of jogging for ten minutes then sprinting as fast as I possibly can, for as long as I'm able before my lungs think it'd be a great idea to rival the sound of a 747 taking off.
This whole deal seems to work well for me. Sprinting is one of the greatest pleasures I've rediscovered in recent years.
Anywho, that's all pretty boring isn't it?
Yesterday I went off in the early morning after not much sleep from the previous night's music and debachery. Dirty Dan and the Seven Sea's played their last gig in hk before danny's departure to vancouver. Two thirds of the bowie knives played and after seven sea's I played my own stuff. It was a great night through out. Sunday night I played with shaun as well, opening for the seven sea's at a private cd release party. The cd sounds great by the way. So, if you're out in vancouver hunt down danny and greg. They'll both be there in a couple of weeks or less.
Crap, out of time again.
There's a prospect of an exhibition of my work in the next two months....it was chris jenkins birthday yesterday.......all is well.
yeah alex!
take care.
brendan
We met back in highschool when Alex was organizing a bus trip for anyone who wanted to go to Edgefest, a yearly one day festival, that during those highschool days, was one of the coolest tickets around. It usually brought in 30,000 plus for the day, with three stages and big and unknown acts...........but the problem was distance. For most people in the greater toronto area like we were, the three hour drive north to the middle of nothing important was often a stress to organize. So, here comes alex, this gal I'd never seen before with the proposition of a bus full of friends making the pain of travel an adventure. Alex (Alley Cat) is the only person from those early highschool years whom I still talk to. There are other's of course, but she was the first to stick the whole way through. And...there's a very sound reason for it as well.....she's awesome.
Back to the past...
I've been keeping up with my running phase and have completely slacked off on biking, because my back rim is looking a bit too wavey to be readily recognized as belonging to the biology of a bicycle. Okay, well....it's not that bad, but it does need a few touch ups, especially in the rear brakes, which no longer exist.
Going for a run when I have the time a few nights a week is a real treat. Being so out of touch with the quick art of foot to ground I very very very easily tire out; on my bike those fun lovin'lactic acids take waaayy too long to make themselves known.
I've got into a whole system of jogging for ten minutes then sprinting as fast as I possibly can, for as long as I'm able before my lungs think it'd be a great idea to rival the sound of a 747 taking off.
This whole deal seems to work well for me. Sprinting is one of the greatest pleasures I've rediscovered in recent years.
Anywho, that's all pretty boring isn't it?
Yesterday I went off in the early morning after not much sleep from the previous night's music and debachery. Dirty Dan and the Seven Sea's played their last gig in hk before danny's departure to vancouver. Two thirds of the bowie knives played and after seven sea's I played my own stuff. It was a great night through out. Sunday night I played with shaun as well, opening for the seven sea's at a private cd release party. The cd sounds great by the way. So, if you're out in vancouver hunt down danny and greg. They'll both be there in a couple of weeks or less.
Crap, out of time again.
There's a prospect of an exhibition of my work in the next two months....it was chris jenkins birthday yesterday.......all is well.
yeah alex!
take care.
brendan
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