fridge stories

I said I was going to put all of our teams' photos up on the fridge. Yat Wan asked me to take a photo of it.

A successful MC term is one where you thank the team that came before you and work for the team that comes after.

Wellington on a sunny day...

Wellington is one of those places that can be a tourist destination even for its inhabitants. If you look carefully, there are so many beautiful things to see. So much to learn. I found out that most of the random sculptures scattered around were endorsed by a man called Ian Prior and his wife. He had a vision for Wellington, which he worked hard to realise and it came true. The City Gallery is filled with amazing pieces of art work that could mesmerise me for hours.

This exploration of Wellington found me on top of the big "taniwha" near Civic Square taking photos above the motorway. How dangerous! My hat almost flew off. Then in the afternoon I met up with Nikita to have lunch at HK BBQ (Cantonese food! Oh how I miss) and tea at Katipo - that's her in the top right hand corner.

The week before, I also went to the Wellington Museum of City and Sea with Kristi and Simone. More photos later.

the lakehouse

I saw this interesting movie at the cinema last week and it made me think.

The whole concept is that two people are separated by time. They are "two years apart" in time. In real life, this is like two people separated by distance and/or stage in life. For example, you are a 20 year old university student waiting to finish university and start your overseas experience and you meet a 28 year old who is almost ready to get married and have children... you are separated not by distance but by life. Do you wait?

Or two people separated by distance and life, when one cannot possibly move to be with the other until later on in their lives because there are other goals and obligations to keep. Do you wait?

Is it about waiting? How do you move on?

In the movies, it's always possible to wait two years - nothing new comes along and the main characters never find anyone else in the interim (read: Keanu Reeves). Or maybe it's not because they don't meet anyone else, it's because their heart is already set on that one person so anyone else will not compare. This might be the heart of all long distance relationships.

Or is it just a movie?!

If you have had many bitter love stories, it's probably just a movie =P otherwise, it might be worth pondering.

Dishes...

Are very interesting things... they are so useful but so often the subject of much conflict.

Vaishali left her last dish for me to wash... she did it right in front of me of course, cheeky thing ;) It was supposed to be symbolic. If all the dishes in this world could be self-washing would all of our living problems go away? No. Perhaps only 1/4 of them. Living with other people is difficult, even family, even spouses.

But I learned something last night. The best way to deal with it sometimes is just to take a few deep breaths and leave it. Unless it's to do with some deeper unspoken problem in which case it's better to go to the root.

Poor dishes, always get blamed for the majority of household problems when they are perhaps just the symptom of larger things?