why wy?

Saturday, July 21, 2007 at 7:19 AM

I found this on one of my favourite mp3 sites Some of it is funny, some of it sad, most of it true.

A) Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
B) If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
C) Never have children, only grandchildren.
D) I am fond of children - except boys.
E) Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
F) Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.
G) There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.
H) I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
I) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
J) In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children
K) The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
L) The English take the breeding of their horses and dogs more seriously than they do their children.
M) Your children need your presence more than your presents.
N) I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
O) Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them.
P) The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Q) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
R) Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
S) My music is best understood by children and animals.
T) You make 'em, I amuse 'em.
U) The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
X) Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.
V) Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
X) God is dead! Heaven is empty - Weep, children, you no longer have a father.
Y) It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Z) You don't even live once.

. . . . . . . . . .
A)John Adams B)Margaret Atwood C)Robert Benchley D)Jean de La BruyÃ¨re E)Dick Cavett F)Lewis Carroll G) Clarence Darrow H)Ralph Waldo Emerson I)Robert Frost J)Theodore Geisel K)Oliver Wendell Holmes L)Jesse Jackson M)King Edward VIII N)Karl Kraus O)Gerard de Nerval P)Princess Michael Of Kent Q)Antoine de Saint-Exupery R)William Shakespeare S)Socrates T)Benjamin Spock U)Igor Stravinsky S)Harry Truman V)Gore Vidal X)Andy Warhol Y)Oscar Wilde Z)Yoda

After going through that I'm not sure if the quotes match, for instance the one by Yoda, I'm pretty sure he said X.

Thursday, July 19, 2007 at 10:22 PM

ice cream football.

Wednesday was the coldest day in Melbourne in 9 years, a miserable 7 degrees at its hottest. It snowed in parts of victoria too, and I almost wished it snowed where I lived. After all, it is going to be that cold, you might as well throw snowballs. Aikido training in winter is somewhat of an experience. You can't feel your feet for the first 5 minutes because the mats are so cold...

Tuesday, July 10, 2007 at 7:52 PM

cats that look like hitler

One of the last handwritten newspapers in the world. Great story.

Thursday, July 05, 2007 at 12:32 PM

Even if you don't do a martial art, you've gotta admit this is a pretty cool incense holder.

Sunday, July 01, 2007 at 8:21 AM

echuca

Joe and I decided to head up to Euchua midweek, in a desperate attempt to get away from the cold Melbourne rain. It's got a cute name, say A-chook-a, and is about 2-3 hours away, depending on whether you stop or not. It is an inland river port and is really popular for fishing and living on houseboats in summer. Note to self - houseboats are really ugly, more like containers floating on water. So steam paddles were the thing, as the river is really shallow ( I could stand in it and have the top of my head showing) and they still operate for tourists. I took pictures of the boats we passed, and forgot to take a pix of the boat we were on. It was called the Alexander Arbuthnot, which led to a whole series of bad jokes (from Joe) revolving about ahbuthen.

My best pix of the trip.

The sun and warm weather kicked in on the second day, and I walked around in a t-shirt outside in the sun for the first time in a month. It was nice weather in Bendigo too, where I took this pix. Look, blue skies! What is really funny is that we were almost planning a roadtrip to Lakes Entrance, which is really beautiful until concerned friends mentioned that it is colder than Melbourne this time of year. Lakes Entrance is currently flooded.

There is a chinese temple in Bendigo because there was a large Chinese population who came during the Gold Rush. The name outside the temple is jin shan, which means gold hill literally. At that time, Victoria had a 12 pound levy or entry tax, so to save money, these Chinese immigrants got off at Robe, in South Australia, and walked 300km or so to get to Bendigo. And these days we pay airport tax without question.