Posted in interests, music, tagged birthday, medieval on 16 May, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Purely by accident while browsing something Spanish (I can’t remember what) on the library catalogue, I came across a Spanish renaissance CD, which I borrowed. It was very nice and made me realise that I missed the medieval feasts the medieval club used to have. It got me thinking. I have a significant birthday coming [...]
Posted in interests, music, visits, work, tagged easter, wedding, WOMAD on 2 April, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last month went quickly.
It felt very weird to finish up at my last workplace. I miss some of the people (but not the culture). I don’t regret working there. It just wasn’t challenging enough and the pay was pitiful.
Work at the new place is fine. Learning new stuff and getting on with it. There’s plenty to [...]
Posted in interests, music, work, tagged belly dancing, New Plymouth, WOMAD on 8 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the past two rainy weekends I’ve been away from home – on the Saturdays I was either in Wellington or Masterton and both Sundays I had belly dancing performances – one at the Esplanade and the second at an old people’s home. Both went reasonably well (well, others said very well but I made [...]
Posted in interests, music, tagged belly dancing, costumes, doumbek, drumming, sunshine on 13 October, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I always feel a thousand times better when the sun is shining and it’s warm. Living in a region where it’s damp and cold for 85-90% of the year makes you a sun worshipper.
So yesterday was a good day – even though I wasn’t actually outside soaking up some precious Vitamin D.
Our belly dancing group [...]
Posted in home, music on 25 September, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The mind is a strange thing. What would make my mind replay a tune I heard, just once on Saturday evening, at 2am on a Thursday morning? The tune was stuck in my head so I felt like I couldn’t sleep. It was quite bizarre. There were no words but just this melody playing over [...]
Posted in music, work, tagged distraction, music, stress, work on 17 April, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I had a drum beat rhythm in my head and tapped it out on my desk at work. It was then I got thinking – “I wish I had a job which involved listening to music” and then thought “or even just allowed to listen to music at the workplace”. Just imagine how much more pleasant [...]
Posted in music on 6 April, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I started reading an interesting book called “Net, Blogs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” about digital music. It mentioned a couple of websites in the first chapter – www.allmusic.com and www.last.fm. I didn’t find the first website at all useful for music I searched for – it was decidedly lacking, but last.fm is brilliant! I’ve been [...]
Posted in music, work, tagged beards, New Plymouth, WOMAD on 18 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I got back from another very enjoyable weekend in New Plymouth for WOMAD. It was my third time and I enjoy it every single time. The music is inspiring, the atmosphere wonderful and it’s great to meet up with friends and share a wine/beer and listen to that fabulous music from around the world. Last [...]
