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[2085] Of fly, fly!
I have been busy and this stretch of insanity is expected to last until Thursday.
Staying true to tradition, each time I am unable to write, I present to you, a photo which I shot much earlier.
I spotted it somewhere near Darlington Harbor. Or harbour, depending on which side of the pond you are. And yes, my spellchecker highlights the word harbour even when I find myself in a country with the Queen’s English as lingua franca.
A great view.
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[2031] Of hello from Down Under
I have been in Sydney for a couple of days now.
For a person who have experienced Ann Arbor, I kind of took Sydney’s winter too lightly. When I got off from the airport, I was like “dude, you Sydney folks are such a wussy with your thick clothing. Look at me, a glorious white shirt and not shivering, at all.”
By evening, it started to get cold. And I started to be less ostentatious about my ability to withstand winter there.
The University of Sydney is pretty. It is a fusion of old and modern architecture, much like Michigan. Except, of course, Sydney is in Sydney. It is a big town and that is what Ann Arbor is not.
The campus however is much smaller than Michigan. In that sense, playing hide and seek is probably not as epic as one can play in Michigan. There is no grand boulevard (oh, I do not know, Michigan has like what, 2 in Central Campus alone?) though there is a quad, much like Michigan. The aspiration of the quad probably derived from the same source in England.
I have not shot any picture yet. That is largely because I have been running around looking for a proper place to stay. But I promise to share a whole lots of them.
And the birds here are remarkably different from the ones in Kuala Lumpur. Just the other days, I spotted a green colored bird with yellow marks on its wings, near Randwick. That where the University of New South Wales is.
Oh, I spot a chick outside!
See you later.
p/s — we will get back to economics and politics once my excitement weans off.
