Category Archives: Modern Life

Film, Modern Life, TV

I am smarter than MY fifth grader

And she is smarter than most of the contestants on Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?.

I can’t believe how not-smart they are.  Review? It’s quite fun watching it as a family.

We saw Ratatouille tonight.  Great film.  But I still feel a bit icky thinking about rats cooking in a kitchen.  Any kitchen.  Even a cartoon kitchen.  Ewww.

Now, moving on to more important issues.

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Modern Life, Work

The nanny state future of Australia

What do Australians want in 2007?  According to David Chalke from Australia Scan we want to be looked after. 

The free market, capitalism rules, competition days are over says David, instead just tell me which product is the best.  Make my decisions for me.

Do we like brands?  You bet we do.  They simplify our choices for us.

Australians in 2007 have a finite capacity to act.  There is just too much to take in, too much going on.  We are constantly re-evaluating our lives and simplifying what we do.  We have choice fatigue.

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We like government in Australia says David, and we want them to fix things – and we depend on them. 58% of us receive a benefit of some kind.

And just as we want more rules from government, we want more rules for our kids as well – the permissive days of days past are gone – we’ve gone from permissive towards rigid in our parenting style.

A look at NSW health by David Chalke – this is the style of his presentation…

Travel, Work

A green moment in Melbourne

Well the conference is over and I’m sitting in Qantas Club checking my emails and blogging of course. QC membership is the silver lining to Groover’s continual trips to Karratha… and thanks to the Orchid Hunter, I’ve been upgraded. And kids, I’m travelling UPSTAIRS! I know…

Anyway I thought while I’m here I’d share with you a favourite moment in Melbourne. We were driving through Eaglemont and came across this weird topiary… at least I thought it was a topiary… rather odd shape but I thought maybe an eccentric English fellow might live there… or maybe someone from Vancouver eh? The two places where I’ve noticed topairy the most.

But no.
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It was a street sign.

Love it.

Extracurricular

An uncomfortable moment with gorillas

I went to the Melbourne Zoo yesterday. My daughter was very keen to see the Orang enclosure and compare Perth’s with Melbourne… she loyally prefers Perth but does concede Melbourne has some good points.

We went to see the gorillas. I was quite keen never having seen a gorilla “in the flesh” so to speak. There was quite a lot of people crowding the viewing area but I managed to get a vantage point and could see them in action. I couldn’t stay.

I was so uncomfortable. They are just too like us. I felt I was looking at inmates. It was horrible.
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Perhaps it was because I’d seen the day before an episode of “The Mighty Boosh” – one of the main characters is a gorilla… I don’t know. I just know that I didn’t like it and had to leave. Yes even reading the daily tabloid was preferable.

And after that – the whole experience was somehow lessened.

Fashion Victim, Random, Travel

Freedom through eye-wear

Still on public transport in Melbourne – I’ve caught a train and a tram now – it occurs to me that society wouldn’t function as well if it wasn’t for sunglasses. Sunglasses, especially those with reflective lenses, allow you to examine your fellow passengers without feeling self conscious or rude.

Well perhaps a little self conscious…

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Could you be looking at me?

Modern Life, Random

Tampon on the train

I’m travelling on a Melbourne train – I’m in Melbourne this week with my daughter – and I see a tampon on the floor. Where had it come from? Was it the girl sitting with her ipod in staring out the window… maybe she’s too self conscious to pick it up… Was it the boy who maybe picked up his sister’s backpack which had a hole in the bottom and it fell out and he hasn’t even noticed it falling to the floor…

How long has it been there? How many stops has it travelled?

We reach Parliament and the girl gets up and kicks it under my chair.

Is it a sign? I have cursed you with the lone tampon! Forever bloodless shall ye be. Too late buddy – I’ve already been fixed. Ironic it has landed under my chair.
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And yet I feel uncomfortable. People might think it is mine. This pristine white plastic wrapped object which screams its presence from the floor. I laugh and say loudly “Hey a tampon on the train!”

We get up to leave at Flinders Street station. We leave the tampon on the floor. Who are we to interrupt its journey. It’s escaped from its pale blue or pink box and sought freedom. Where will it end up? Perhaps all the way to Epping. Perhaps it will be kicked out onto the platform and onto another train. Maybe some poor desperate girl will see it and thank the universe for rescuing her from an awkward dilemma hopefully in time…

Good luck little friend, and may you live in wholesome fulfillment.

Work

Is work supposed to be THIS much fun?

Just spent a fantastic evening at work. On a Sunday night. We were putting to air a pilot program called This is Your Life (sort of) based on the live show.

Live improvised theatre on radio. Yes!

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This is what I signed up for. And parts of it were even funny. 🙂

Random

A plague of blow flies

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Groover reckons we’ve got a dead rat.

Family, Introspection, Modern Life, Work

The virtue of Kindness

I don’t think I’ve been very kind lately.  Not to myself, not to my colleagues, not to my husband and not to my kids.

I don’t think I’ve been that horrible… I don’t think I’ve been an ogre… but I don’t feel as if I’ve been kind.  And we need to be kind don’t we?  Kindness is important.

So what does Kindness mean?

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Does it mean just taking a deep breath and thinking “kindness first” before you say a word?

I don’t know, but for the next week, that is what I’m going to try.  Decisions based on kindness first.

Extracurricular, Family

Extending Family

I went out to dinner last night with my parents for Dad’s birthday.  (Galliano’s in Shenton Park – very nice by the way) 

Groover and I, Mum and Dad and three couples – all old family friends. One from Dad’s uni days, another from Mum’s, and another couple who have shared Christmas with us for the past 30 years or so.

The food was good, the company great – comfortable, funny, full of in-jokes and shared experiences.  And I sat there and thought how lucky they all were to have each other (still together as couples and as friends) and this great friendship that has lasted in some cases nearly half a century. And how lucky I was to have this fantastic extended family.
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So I’m warning you my friends that I am carefully cultivating you so that when I’m 69 I can have a dinner party with my extended family! Put the year 2035 in your diaries now.

Of course I say this with a heavy heart as HP won’t be there.  We played Mah Jong with the kids the other night and I found the scoresheets from the last couple of times we played with H&J.  We always left the scoring to H because he was so good at maths and it was pretty complicated. Do you ever stop grieving?