Archive for April, 2008

Introducing Aurelia and Emilie!!

April 21, 2008 · Filed under Blythe

It’s anti-climactic, showing these pictures now. But I have many excuses why I’ve put it off for so long:

1) I opened the packages at night, and night-time photos suck

2) The next two days were rainy

3) The following one was overcast

4) I got lazy on the 5th day.

But anyway, without further ado, here are my two new blythes!

This is my gorgeous Gentle River, named Emilie (a French-y name for a Germanic girl? Oh well!).

And Aurelia, my Hello Harvest.

I’m going to take more photos later, but for now there are some at my Flickr account!

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Love dedications

April 19, 2008 · Filed under Blythe, Life

This blog entry is dedicated to Nathania, eternal companion through Mediterranean waters and faraway lands, valiant and handsome, fighter of evil and protector of purity. May you be happy with this dedication and revel in self-worth.

(PS. Blythe photos coming soon! After the day clears and there is nice natural lighting)

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Stalking packages

April 8, 2008 · Filed under Blythe, Life

I love mail tracking.

On the 5th of April, less than 2 hours after they were paid for, items no. RA869031432HK & RA869031429HK were processed for delivery to their destination, Australia. I’ve been checking the status of the two parcels compulsively for the last two days, and last time I checked both items have left Hong Kong for their destination on the 7th of April

Eventually, after crossing the sea, I will be able to stop stalking my girls through Hongkong Post, and instead shift my attentions to Australia Post.

Once again, I love mail tracking.

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Outer space!

April 5, 2008 · Filed under Life, Outer space

Stars are cold, very cold. Or rather, stargazing at the top of a mountain without jackets is cold. However there is a warmer side to stargazing- looking at stars (and planets and galaxies and nebulas).

Some things we saw:

  • A fuzzy red dot = Mars
  • A Saturn that looks like Saturn - complete with coloured rings, and shadows, and perfection!
  • Two fuzzy stars together = binary star (or bad eyesight and bad focus)
  • Alpha Centauri
  • The Milky Way
  • Another galaxy
  • A triangle star constellation
  • A dog star constellation (I still argue it’s three lines)
  • Free tea
  • Airplane star (moving quickly and blinking)
  • Shooting star x 2
  • Single star constellation
  • Dot shaped constellation
  • Single point shaped constellation
  • The lone star

All in all, it was a fun night out. Yay!!

(I promise the next entry will not have dot points. We are just so unimaginative, us science people)

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