Life in Australia
The Voyage Home
by Ranil on Nov.05, 2009, under Life in Australia, Ranting
How does life change when you’re not around? It’s a thought i’ve come to think about lately. How do people change and move on when you’re not looking? Because the world doesn’t stop simply because you want it to. The faces they shift and sway with the passage of time and the hearts that you once captured are no longer yours to hold.
How does life change when you’re not around? Objects and places change. People aren’t necessarily the people you left behind. But can there be that single thread that you hope once connected you?. Can your friends still be the friends that you left behind in an airport terminal? Will you still remember the quirks and the nuances of the people that you once shared your life with?
Something New: Week 18 – Foie Gras
by Ranil on Aug.18, 2009, under Life List, Places To Eat In Sydney, Something New
One of my favourite pastimes is eating different foods. I like the adventure that comes with going outside of your usual food comfort zones and sampling something your palette has never tried before. It’s rare when I turn down a food I’ve never tried before simply because my philosophy has always been try everything at least once. If you don’t like it never eat it again but half the journey that comes from travelling is about trying the food. So last week I added to my eclectic list of food forays – including scorpion, balut, and freshly caught frogs – the french dish Foie Gras.
Something New: Week 16 – A New Commute
by Ranil on Jul.05, 2009, under Life in Australia, Something New
Someone once pointed out that going to work wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. I can tell you though I’ll take lying on a beach somewhere and sipping on a cold beer over hopping on a train to North Sydney any day. After my many months of travelling, drinking, sleeping in, and watching my bank account do crazy roller coaster ups and downs I head back to the working force. I trade T shirts and boardshorts for button up shirts and slacks; reading books for reading code; boarding planes and taking photos for boarding trains and a paycheck.
Something New: Week 15 – Drinks At The Ice Bar
by Ranil on Jun.29, 2009, under Places To Drink In Sydney, Something New
You can thank New Zealand for two things: the great scenery from the Lord Of The Rings movies and the craptastic overpriced sensation that is Minus 5. The idea is sound – create a vodka bar where the vodka is served as freezing cold as the furniture. The implementation however, that’s something else.
Something New: Week 14 – Football In The Land Down Under
by Ranil on May.19, 2009, under Life in Australia, Something New
How do I succinctly describe Aussie Rules Football. I think the best description would be chaotic. Like many things Australian it seems to be a mishmash of many things coming together to form something that is unique to the land down under. Footy, like many things Australian, is as strange and as loveable as the platypus.