Finally, it is the end of 2024! My family has been joking that we cannot wait for the year to end, as it has just been a shocker. For context, I broke my ankle a few days in to 2024 and that wasn’t even the worst thing that happened. So, yeah. Normally I don’t get […]
I always enjoy this end of the year period. In Australia, it’s summer time so it’s school holidays, which I think are always nostalgic even if you’re no longer in school. It’s also Christmas and the New Year, so people come together more frequently than normal. The cricket’s started, the tennis is about to begin, […]
This week the wifi went down at my residence in Bali. I think it says a lot about the state of the world we live in right now that I felt immediately that this was a big hinderance to me. In some ways I think this is justified – the internet is how we stay […]
This week, I had the pleasure of joining in a Hindu ceremony in my local village in Bali. It was meant to start at 3pm, at 3pm I went out of my house and Grandma (not my Grandma, but she’s the Grandma of the homestay I live in and sure acts very grandmotherly towards me, […]
You’ve probably heard of a composer called Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach is widely considered one of the greatest composers in western music, if not one of the greatest creatives ever. He was the only musician to be represented three times on the Voyager golden record surmising all of humankind’s music. In music class, we were […]