Chumki (my pussy’s name) means glitter in Bengali. So there you have it, Chumki is my glitter fairy. She is 8 weeks old today… and such a peach. My little cuddly charcoal black Persian. She was born on the 25th of November, a cusp born Capricorn, and a demanding little queen but then I love her and she almost gets away with anything. Purrrrrrrrrr!
Monthly Archive for February, 2004
Time flies by SO fast when you are having fun. The adage is true indeed. Sunday morning we hired a car and to our surprise they said they would give us a free upgrade to a spankin brand new BMW 318i at no extra cost. Wow! We couldn’t just pass up the offer even though we were hoping for a slightly bigger car. Well, who wants a bigger car when you got lovely leather seats, sunroof, television, dolby speakers, WOW! And its so nice and easy to drive in that. We took Bill for a spin to Warragamba Dam and then to good ‘ole Mulgoa Fairlight road, down to Artarmon and then up to Hornsby. We stopped by at Bunnings to pick up some low voltage halogen lamps for our new garden and a water hose and the sorts … as I stood there watering the plants I was reminded of the time when Dad and I used the water the plants at home.. and we always hosed each other with water till we were soaked and drenched as a sponge, not to mention the yelling and screaming fits through our huge gardens, we had 3 big gardens at the time… hmmm…. it was all good fun….
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This is the part that gets a bit *ahem* messy… Lorna, Roy and Anne came by today to help us move. It never stops amazing me how very much they do for us and how unconditional their love is. We did two trips in two cars and well most of the easily movable stuff is gone. The place out here looks more spacious given that most of the clutter from the boxes is gone. Hopefully tomorrow we will find a bit of time to go and unpack things and put them in place in the new house. It is exciting. It is fun and yet it could be a pain but so far its only been on the up and up. Well, lots happening… Justin (my buddy from College days at Pune) got in touch with me today…. well almost after a decade, Nan’s bought a new Toyota Infinity (I don’t think that model is sold here in Aussie) have to catch up on the goss. And ofcourse Bill is here from Chicago we are taking him out tomorrow. And all of this happen while we move. We are efficient or what, … we do things better down-under 
admit it!
A few days more and we will be moving to the Hornsby — the bushland shire of New South Wales. Hornsby is about a 40 minute train ride from the city of Sydney, about the same distance by road. From Pearces Corner to Wisemans Ferry and from Beecroft to Brooklyn, Hornsby Shire is a vibrant and beautiful place to visit and to live. Hornsby is surrounded by the Ku-Rin-Gai Chase which is about 5 kms away and Gosford about ten kilometers on the other. What I now feel a little bad about is that having lived nearly two long year right next to the Lane cove National Park I never made it there.
Youth Ambassador, Ruth Gould, a great friend and colleague has just returned after successful completion of her nine month long development program in Cambodia. Ruth was working at the Women’s Media Centre(WMC) and helping women expand their computer skills, creating Video, Radio databases and Web Site development with in-house software updates. She spend a few years of her childhood in PNG (Papau New Guinea) where she grew up following which her family moved to Australia. She spent a good amount of time backpacking through Europe following her Bachelor of Art Hons from the University of Sydney. The adjoining picture is of Ruth and Hean climbing 100+ steps to temples at Phnom Chisor, Takeo Province.
Yesterday we went to watch a play ‘Dr. Cade’s Performance’ organised by the beyondblue research project. Beyondblue is the Australian national initiative for people living with bipolar disorder (previously known as manic depression). This was their February update to offer information, awaken people and make people more aware of what bipolarism is. Though the bipolar disorder has been acknowledged in the medical system for long, it has failed to draw enough attention and often times the patients symptoms were not recognised by health professionals and they recived incorrect diagnoses and wrong treatment. It speaks of many that have suffered social isolation, the failure of any support networks and breakdown of many relationships. Drawing on their views Beyondblue offers a way forward.
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