Carried on from my Sydney 2023 post (finally making some time in between drawings!), my first stop in Melbourne is almost always Brother Baba Budan. Having a 5PM closing time is handy!
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Imagine a communal tea shop
Well, imagine a cafe, but one that serves tea in the most interesting way. I never order tea at cafes because I feel it’s not worth the money, and if it is, you have to spend at least a couple of hours to actually get good tea since you can get multiple steeps from them.
So, imagine there’s a tea on the menu called “communal tea” and it only costs $1. It uses really good tea (imagine Kuura Corp, Bitterleaf, etc) and the concept is sort of like batch brew for coffee – you get one cup of whatever’s in the pot. It might be the first steep, it could be the eighth (until of course it gets changed out because all the flavour and colour are gone), you don’t know – but it will taste nice and you don’t need to commit to staying there for a bazillion steeps. The reason why it doesn’t cost a lot is because you don’t know exactly where in the steeping count it’s at.
And you can have a few on rotation! White, black, pu-erh… I think it’d be a fun concept!
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I’m not an AI!
Isn’t that great?
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The Death Gate Cycle
It’s been a very, very long time since I’ve read The Death Gate Cycle. So long that I forgot just how much inspiration I sourced from the series! Weis and Hickman are an amazing writing duo.
The most interesting thing when re-reading it, is seeing what I remembered, and what I’d forgotten. Haplo was pretty much how I remembered, but I forgot how much I hated Bane. I’d forgotten all the “endgame” characters and plotlines, I even thought there was supposed to be a fake Haplo or fake Alfred but it looks like I was wrong. I also couldn’t remember if we met Rue or not.
But my goodness, the magic of possibility. The runes, the circles, the wave. The limiting of possibilities. The accursed knife, Hugh the Hand and the Brotherhood, the necromancy…. The description of the perspective flip! That Hugh had died, and nothing could change that, so Alfred “leapfrogged” so to speak to bring him back. It’s a fixed position in time, but if you walk around so that you were behind the fixed spot instead of in front?! I mean I knew I’d adapted that to my story too, but I’d forgotten how I’d first gotten the idea.
I really have to go back and revisit all my worlds, and see just how much influence the Death Gate series had, because it’s such an awesome set of books!
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Lunar New Year 2023
It’s been a while since I’ve posted about an adventure. Are we finally back to the days of crowds everywhere and fun street events? Hopefully! This is the first Perth Lunar New Year celebration since 2020, and it was fun!
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Am I getting a lemon?!
Last year my lemon plant tried to make a lemon, then failed miserably. Looks like it’s trying to make another lemon this year; all the fruit fell off except one, which might have some hope! Let’s see how it goes!
Lemoooon
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Nothing more to collect!
806 hours played… not bad! I don’t think I can get a 5BC 5 boss modified boss rush flawless though… that’s definitely beyond my skill level!
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Swan Lake has made me 1% more cultured!
Dear Diary,
Yesterday I went and watched Swan Lake by the WA Ballet Company. It was a last minute decision; two years ago I wanted to watch Dracula but alas, lockdowns meant that my ticket had to be cancelled, and so I exchanged them for a voucher that was valid for three years – and as a spur of the moment thing, decided to see what was on and found that Swan Lake was being performed!
I actually didn’t know what it was about at all, and only skim read the synopsis. All I knew is that it had been interpreted into a WA specific context, and it was actually really interesting! Plus now I realise the “Swan Lake” music – before it had just always been stuff I’d heard but not known the origins, and now I know!
The performance was pretty amazing! Ballet takes so much strength, grace, and skill! Makes me miss my dancing days!
Maybe I’ll book more theatre stuff next year!
