It was Holocaust Awareness Week and because of this I wore a paperclip on my shirt (well, for half a day anyway). To cap the week off, I spent a day of Auschwitz. (I said 'of', not 'at', although I'd really like to go some day). But first, here's a re-cap of the weekend so far:
Friday | Decided to go to Flemington Market to stock up on less-perishable but still fresh produce. After some housework at home I set off, 1st to the library for a quick return-&-borrow, then Flemington. I got most of what I wanted to get - celery, tomatoes that actually taste like tomatoes instead of bland fleshy things, a sack of potatoes, carrots, zuccinis... & some other things that I didn't plan on buying. For instance, I didn't realise the plants section at Flemington sell, well, plants that are SO much cheaper that at nurseries & other places. I, thus, bought a big pot of white cyclamen for a small $8 which normally it would cost somewhere in the $20 vicinity in other places. Bargain. All that at Flemington only took an hour, so I proceeded to go to the nearby DFO which I also haven't been in quite a while. I knew that the Oroton outlet at Market City looks like closing down because the other week when I tried to go there for fresh produce I saw them having extra 30% off of a much depleted stock & I saw this square sterling silver ring again which I 1st found at DFO some months ago. It was $99 down to $69. Didn't buy it of course, because I thought I remember it being just $29 at DFO all those months ago. This time at DFO, however, I saw the same square ring again, & indeed it was $29 so, like usual, I quickly snapped it up. I walked around for a bit more, looking at things here & there & buying absolutely nothing more, that is, until Jag which is 2 stores down from Oroton but because I went the other direction, completely at the end of my, umm, walk. Fabulous crocodile leather shoes reduced from $140 to just $40!!! I know I was actually looking for replacement of BLACK leather shoes, but since Aquila chooses to remain so damn expensive even at its outlet stores, I had to settle for the dark brown, very pointy, crocodile leather slip-ons instead (no lace-ups please, too lazy for that!). Quick lunch at home, some cooking (soup mainly) & putting away the produce it was time a quick half-hour work-out before dinner at the Fung's. Naturally we followed that up with 4 rounds of mahjongg (lost about 1/3 but who cares 'cos we never play with real money :P). 2 hours of Wii before finally going to bed at 1:30 even though I was already quite buggered by 12.
Saturday | Because of Wii I didn't end up getting up until 11 this morning. What I had planned as a day of catching up with my reading ended up being a day of TV, & here's where the day of Auschwitz comes in. 2 back-to-back episodes of Oprah was on Auschwitz, 1st with Dr Elie Wiesel then the winners of the Oprah essay competition discussing the impact of the Wiesel book 'Night'. There were many footages of Auschitz in the snow, plus some of other, more recent genocides like Rwanda, Bosnia, & Darfur. There was, of course, a very well scheduled (manipulated?) reunion of a Rwandan refugee with parents & younger siblings which she's not seen or contacted in 12 years. That was my 1st 'of' of Auschwitz. After lunch I settled down to watch 5 episodes of the Amazing Race All Stars, 1 leg of which the teams travelled from Warsaw to Krakow via Auschwitz-Birkenau. The task for to light candles & have a minute of silence. Rather daunting. That was my 2nd 'of' of Auschwitz. My 3rd 'of' of my day of Auschwitz was just now. Having been forced to read up on abjection as part of the 'dressin gup' of my thesis I turned to Julia Kristeva's Powers of Horror. Not 5 pages into her explanation of abjection there pops Auschwitz again as an example of 1 of her explanations of abjection - morbid fascination. It just seems I can't escape Auschwitz today.
Tomorrow onwards | More reading. 3 chapters of Kristeva to go thru in total & then there are probably 20 other articles on various things. Luckily I've already finished my readiing for this coming week's lab. Oh crap, dental on monday, & during the day. Great, need to make special trip down @&%#^&@
BTW, it was 'no' & no' from the 2 jobs that I applied a few weeks back, so no moving down to Melbourne any time soon.
Friday | Decided to go to Flemington Market to stock up on less-perishable but still fresh produce. After some housework at home I set off, 1st to the library for a quick return-&-borrow, then Flemington. I got most of what I wanted to get - celery, tomatoes that actually taste like tomatoes instead of bland fleshy things, a sack of potatoes, carrots, zuccinis... & some other things that I didn't plan on buying. For instance, I didn't realise the plants section at Flemington sell, well, plants that are SO much cheaper that at nurseries & other places. I, thus, bought a big pot of white cyclamen for a small $8 which normally it would cost somewhere in the $20 vicinity in other places. Bargain. All that at Flemington only took an hour, so I proceeded to go to the nearby DFO which I also haven't been in quite a while. I knew that the Oroton outlet at Market City looks like closing down because the other week when I tried to go there for fresh produce I saw them having extra 30% off of a much depleted stock & I saw this square sterling silver ring again which I 1st found at DFO some months ago. It was $99 down to $69. Didn't buy it of course, because I thought I remember it being just $29 at DFO all those months ago. This time at DFO, however, I saw the same square ring again, & indeed it was $29 so, like usual, I quickly snapped it up. I walked around for a bit more, looking at things here & there & buying absolutely nothing more, that is, until Jag which is 2 stores down from Oroton but because I went the other direction, completely at the end of my, umm, walk. Fabulous crocodile leather shoes reduced from $140 to just $40!!! I know I was actually looking for replacement of BLACK leather shoes, but since Aquila chooses to remain so damn expensive even at its outlet stores, I had to settle for the dark brown, very pointy, crocodile leather slip-ons instead (no lace-ups please, too lazy for that!). Quick lunch at home, some cooking (soup mainly) & putting away the produce it was time a quick half-hour work-out before dinner at the Fung's. Naturally we followed that up with 4 rounds of mahjongg (lost about 1/3 but who cares 'cos we never play with real money :P). 2 hours of Wii before finally going to bed at 1:30 even though I was already quite buggered by 12.
Saturday | Because of Wii I didn't end up getting up until 11 this morning. What I had planned as a day of catching up with my reading ended up being a day of TV, & here's where the day of Auschwitz comes in. 2 back-to-back episodes of Oprah was on Auschwitz, 1st with Dr Elie Wiesel then the winners of the Oprah essay competition discussing the impact of the Wiesel book 'Night'. There were many footages of Auschitz in the snow, plus some of other, more recent genocides like Rwanda, Bosnia, & Darfur. There was, of course, a very well scheduled (manipulated?) reunion of a Rwandan refugee with parents & younger siblings which she's not seen or contacted in 12 years. That was my 1st 'of' of Auschwitz. After lunch I settled down to watch 5 episodes of the Amazing Race All Stars, 1 leg of which the teams travelled from Warsaw to Krakow via Auschwitz-Birkenau. The task for to light candles & have a minute of silence. Rather daunting. That was my 2nd 'of' of Auschwitz. My 3rd 'of' of my day of Auschwitz was just now. Having been forced to read up on abjection as part of the 'dressin gup' of my thesis I turned to Julia Kristeva's Powers of Horror. Not 5 pages into her explanation of abjection there pops Auschwitz again as an example of 1 of her explanations of abjection - morbid fascination. It just seems I can't escape Auschwitz today.
Tomorrow onwards | More reading. 3 chapters of Kristeva to go thru in total & then there are probably 20 other articles on various things. Luckily I've already finished my readiing for this coming week's lab. Oh crap, dental on monday, & during the day. Great, need to make special trip down @&%#^&@
BTW, it was 'no' & no' from the 2 jobs that I applied a few weeks back, so no moving down to Melbourne any time soon.
1 comment:
Hi Yu-Garp!
Sounds like a Fab weekend (except for the low productivity) I love DFO, love the idea that you wear pointy alligator shoes, and I love tomatoes that taste like tomatoes! I refuse to eat bland fleshy things too. mum is inviting you and benji (temporary orphans) to come over on sat 19th for mud crab at our place (for my birthday of course I want crab) So come over! and bring your Wii, "Wii" can party all night. I bet my Wii age will be 80 hahaha.
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