Tea and Rants...

Derok's TGY

2009-09-15T17:10:00.003+10:00

Ello all,

My new tea arrived today, so im quite excited to try them. But i have promised myself that before i even look at them, i would type up the notes for Derek's sample of tgy. And so here we go.

This tea was one of the prepackaged oolongs that contain enough for one session. An estimate is it's about 3-5 grams.

Opening the bag, i found a subdued aroma with a slightly fruitier tang to it. hmm this tea has probably been oxidized a tad more than the TGYs im used to.

The leaves themselves are a tad dry, and darker than usual, again giving a hint to the degree of oxidation.

It also seems a tad more roasted, with the pellets being smaller in size.

I brewed this with near boiling water.

The first steeping yielded a deep yellow liquor with a syrupy cherry aroma supported by a nice thick mouth feel. Lingering notes of raisins, berries and with a creamy....hmmm...oh gosh...whats the word... 'fruitcake'-esque base. Not that floral at all.

Second steeping, slightly longer than the first was pretty much the same as above, only lighter. Floral notes however are becoming more noticeable, with hints of rose/gardenia flavours gaining strength over the fruitiness. The softening character also reveals slight acidity and that familiar 'straw' base.

The final steeping is light yellow in colour, and only floral fragrances are noticeable now, the straw base grows increasingly noticeable signaling the end of its endurance. Its warm sweet water now haha.

the spent leaves are what derek would refer to as 'hrrgh' in quality :P lots of fragments, but still relatively thick and strong.

Overall, a pleasant, comfortable tea!

Funalliance 'Tie Guan Yin KING (2009 Spring)'

2009-08-30T21:42:00.003+10:00

Ello all,

I have up to this point, mostly been able to generally, remember my thoughts on every tea I drink quite well. However, memory is indeed fallible and so its probably a good idea to actually type some stuff down.

This is actually a tea from last month (i think), I've only gotten around to an actual focused session tonight haha. Right, so first impressions; the dry leaf is dense, vibrant green but lacking a good sheen, so little dull.

The dry fragrance is encouraging; floral and lemon top notes with a fruity middle note followed by a base of straw.

The steepings: water is boiled and allowed to cool for a min or two.

The first steeping (30secondish) greets me with a heavily floral/lemon fragrance, the infusion is bright yellow-green with reasonable clarity. Sipping the tea yields an unexpected umami depth with acidity. The body is light and extremely smooth. Not a single trace of bitterness or astringency.

Things get interesting at the second steeping (also 30sec) with the fragrance opening up a tad more to reveal a more fruity (for now, specifically what kind of fruitiness is indiscernible) scent backed up with a straw base. With a deeper yellow colour, the tea is incredibly smooth and relatively viscous (two traits that hit the nail right on the head in terms of my tastes), while the

the amino acidy umami quality gives way to significantly more sourness. A slight, but noticeable drying astringency is also present.

Third and final steeping (about 1 min) the nose detects predominantly straw, while the floral scent is almost completely dominated by a lemon/berry notes. The acidity tapers off at this point leading to a smooth but slightly flat straw. This probably signals the limit of the brew's endurance.

The spent leaves are thick, leathery and have relatively good structural integrity.

Overall, for such a low price (about $13 including shipping) its an enjoyable casual tea.

Roger's TGY

2009-06-06T12:30:00.004+10:00

Ello all. Yeah this post aint really much of an update, i just promised a friend of mine (roger) to post a few notes on some TGY he picked up.

Alrighty, i must begin by saying im officially disappointed with this tea :P

Dry leaf comments: The leaves looked a tad dull and brown (which TGY should not look like), aroma was dry and lacking the floral fragrance characteristic of this class of oolong.

This time i chose to do the infusions in a gaiwan, no particular reason, it was just convenient haha.

Brewing parameters:
-Water temp: Cooled for a few sec after boiling
- Steeping times: 20 sec, 20 sec, 30 sec, 50 sec
- Amount of leaf: I dunno, all of the sample roger gave me.

Tasting notes:
Aroma was very subdued, slightly floral, took on a more roasted fragrance afterward, i suspect this tea has gotten quite old and the vendor just re-roasted it in an attempt to give it some oomph.

Colour, deep clear yellow. A tad too yellow, amber in fact, again shouldn't be so- not like TGY at all.

Taste: flat... however, the mouth feel was epic (only good thing i think:P) it was smooth and heavy, great stuff.

Wet leaf: wrinkled, brown and broken, very poor leaf integrity (easily torn under the slightest pressure)

Overall: yikes, that wasn't a very good tea, but ah well we all run into this stuff sooner or later.

Don't worry roger, there is plenty of good tea out there, your quest aint over yet haha

Once more unto the breach

2009-01-27T16:54:00.004+11:00

Ello all!

Its probably time for another blog update, a few people have been pestering me to do so.

Alright! its '09 and the lunar new year has just come great. More generic Tết stuff...sticky rice cakes, red pockets, visiting relatives... bleargh, maybe I'm an exception but I have an incredible dislike for this hubbub.

Good that its all over now.

Unfortunately the holidays are pretty much over too... Is it just me or does everything i plan to do in the holidays just melt away on the first day and gives way to mindless clicking on the net?? Then again, i suppose i have managed to accomplish a few things- catch up on some reading (my latest is Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History Through Time' which Steven graciously lent to me, *thanks again Steve, if your reading*)..cook a different meal each day and for once get an average of 10 hours a night sleep. Oh not to mention watching most of the TED sci/tech talks (some really good stuff there). Great

Anyway, so back to school tomorrow! The looming HSC is creeping ever so closer... and the work will pile up once again. Well not that i don't enjoy the work... i just hate a specific subject- english. The most superficial, superfluous, irrational and irritating steaming pile of bovine excrement I've come across in quite a while. Too bad its mandatory...

At least i will be able to replenish my tea supplies (courtesy of derek) who often ventures to the city (conveniently for me, near a tea vendor). I'm completely out of the good stuff- been living off apple juice for the past two days...

Well i suppose that sums up the past few uneventful months.

See ya guys later!

Until they think warm days will never cease

2008-10-18T13:18:00.010+11:00

Ello all!

A little rant first. My father decided (about 5-6 months ago i might add) to re-concrete our driveway... and as soon as i heard that he was going to do it by himself, i GROANED. You guys must realise by now, that my father isn't the most efficient of DIY-ers and never actually FINISHES what he starts....bleargh... so he goes of and hires a bunch of excavation vehicles and digs up the place....crushing the grass on my backyard i might add.... and so for the last 6 months or so, i have been living in pretty much what one would be inclined to call a swamp....in a battle field....with trenches... wonderful.

The paved area(above)
This is the driveway...wait this 'was' the driveway....

aaaand sooo that's what is left of my once perfectly functional backyard....

On a lighter note,
Just bought some new tea from 'Teaspring.com' in the past week.( I wish i had done so earlier, since the financial crisis the AUD has plummeted and i pretty much had to pay double. Belargh.) Anyway, so i have four new teas to experiment with and I'm gonna post my thoughts up here.

I've only tried one of them today and i still have quite a lot of variables to muck around with to fully appreciate the tea, but i think i have the gist of it. Anyway, the tea I've spent my morning fiddling around with is 'Yunnan 'Pure Gold' Black Tea' also known as Dian hong which apparently is just harvested in spring '08. Awesome. sooo lets have a look at this tea:

As soon as i opened the packet i was greeted with a wonderfully heavy chocolate-esque/malty aroma.The leaves really are gold! As you can see are long, feathery and uniform, free of breaks and flakiness. Friggen awesome!

anyways, lets go onto the brewing conditions.

Steeping times were 1 min, 1 min, 1.5 min, and massively long for the fourth steeping. ha ha

as this was a black tea, i allowed the water(filtered) to come to a rolling boil.
anyway the steeping themselves:

First steeping, 1 min:
The scent was quite complex, initially the choc-maltiness of the tea hits the nose, providing the deep 'body' of the scent, then i began to notice the fruity undertone of sweet berries.

The taste itself was indeed reflected in the scent. The tea had quite a body, smooth and mellow with an incredibly creamy malty character. Just the slightest hint of astringency with the almost undetectable smokiness (similar to lapsang souchong)

The aftertaste had two qualities, firstly a lingering sweetness and then complimented by a fleeting sourness that dances across the tongue.

The liquor itself was clear, deep amber with bright coppery leaves.

(Oh by the way, on the right there is my makeshift gaiwan :P i really need some better tea ware... also i noticed how much my pitcher resembled a beaker hahaha.)

anyway, here is a closeup of the tea-liquor:
The nectar of the gods! ha ha

Alright, the second steeping (1 min):

The fruity berry quality of the tea seemed to lessen somewhat in this steeping, revealing a deeper chocolate/malt almost coffeeish aroma.

In terms of the taste, the interplay between the fruity sourness and the velvety maltiness continued and the smokey undertone from the first steeping became more pronounced. Still very smooth.

Now the third steeping (1.5 min) was interesting:

I was very much surprised by the aroma-which completely reversed! Where the fruity undertone of the first and second steepings were heightened to the point that it became the major fragrance, while the malty quality diminished to a light fleeting scent.

The taste however, diminished quite dramatically. Although it retained its smooth mellowness, the more interesting characteristics were almost gone. It was nearing the tea-coloured-water stage.

I hoped to push it further to the fourth steeping....which didn't really work out... ah well 3 steepings is quite a good run!

Anyway, lets take a look at the wet leaf:

AREN'T THEY JUST AWESOME! XD The very tips! smooth, velvety and unbroken. The effort put into these leaves is unmistakable! (on a little side note, don't they look like their made of chocolate?:P)

Well, in short, that was an awesome little tea experience. Ill probably spend the next week finishing off this tea before i move on to the others. Expect more reviews!

and hopefully....by the next review, my house will still be in one piece hahaha.

SPINNING DALEKS!!!!!

2008-07-07T22:05:00.005+10:00

Ello all!

Well its been what... 5 months since my last post, things are getting a tad dusty... anyway due to my lack of blogging, people have been jabbing at my sides for quite some time. Well ENOUGH! Alright people, you have gotten me peeved enough for a rant. I'm complaining again, you happy? talk about schadenfreude...

it was probably time for an update anyway.

Sooo first thing is first!

Holidays. I am some what ambivalent to holidays.....when i was younger i used to almost piss myself with anticipation (....any of you who take that literally will find a putrid fish on their doorsteps.....what the hell is wrong with me? PUTRID FISH wtf!!!) at the very thought of the holidays. However, as time passed i become less and less enthused about the thought of staying home. Probably because thesedays, i tend to do more work at home than i do at school. Belargh to that!

Oh and i'm pretty sure that this will seem familiar to everyone -every holiday i make promises to myself:

"Peter, with these two weeks, your going to do something PRODUCTIVE.Your not going to sit around pressing 'Stumble!' (have i mentioned how MEGGAHELLAAWESOME stumbleupon is? seriously guys google it up!) all day! your going to improve your fitness! do your kung fu forms, eat better, sleep better...."

so on and so forth. Just two days into the holidays and what do you catch me doing? im sitting in a chair for hours on end with a packet of cheeto's munching and mindlessly stare at clips wobbling jelly at 2 AM(no seriously you guys WATCH THIS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDn8y7j8kSk ) Greaaat.... But then again is this not the essence of the holidays? The mass procrastination, the accomplishment of three fiths of the square root of bugger all?(i dunno, my mathematics teacher seems to be fond of that expression....hah thats what you get for having the same math teacher for a few years....*Shudder*)

Hmmm now onto my second point- I have recently begun watching Doctor Who.....I must thank lemur for this one. Few weeks ago, due to torrential rain (just going of tangentially, have you realised how many ways 'rain' can be written phonetically? rain, rane, raine<--not quite sure about this one....raen, rayn....ok this is just foolish...or should i say fewlish....or fullish....) AAANYWAY..... ah yes due to torrential rane sports was cancelled....that would logically make that day a Wednesday....which is also irrelevant.....anyway, so lemur and i decided to go spend our time in the computer rooms. Lemur had fortunately brought a usb full of dr who episodes along....and i, having nothing better to do, agreed to watch....the concept of a TARDIS almost ripped every neuron inside my head apart...waaay tooo coool. Anyway, watched the finale of season...4 is it? i dunno the most current season what ever it is.....now for those of you(who havent watched the epp) and think im about to reveal the ending, dont worry -im not going to. All im going to say is SPINNING DALEKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! right. well....that...was messy, i can never seem to write properly while im blogging.....its very spontaneous. Third rant/topic thing- i recently bought some new tea, Mao Feng.....i acquired it after a long hard day of tutoring....biggest mistake ever......im still kicking myself because of it. Apparently Huang Shan Mao Feng is really awesome, problem is, after what...5 hours of continuous mathing....my wits...were obliterated. So as soon as i saw 'mao feng' i thought 'awesome gimme!' and so i bought it......and suddenly on the way home, it hit me......that was definitely not good quality mao feng -if its mao feng at all. leaves are dry, withered, and the tea itself is well very 'ku' and i didnt even overbrew or burn the tea!! i mean seriously a 1 min steep at like 70 degrees......geez crappy tea.

The black one is my tea....the one on the left is Huang Shan Mao Feng..... yes...exactly..... still kicking myself.....belargh.

Anyway, thats all for now! perhaps i can have an early night for once.

Goodbye all!

Yay, Red Envelope Money!

2008-02-06T20:44:00.000+11:00

Ello all.

Happy Lunar New Year to all out there that celebrate it!

It's strangely quiet it my house on NYE for some reason. Which is ironic. Everything has settled into a nice comfortable contentment. Which is fine nonetheless. Tad unusual though.

But besides that, everything is more or less typical of a NYE celebration:

The alter is up, the candles are lit and the ever so pleasant smell of incense comes wafting into my room. Pity though, dad insisted on buying the 'non smoke' variety. Defeats the whole purpose of burning incense in my opinion.

Bah, doesn't matter, keeps him happy... Anyway, as usual I am going off at a tangent.

Every year, around this time, and old family friend usually comes around to do some well wishing and normally that involves bringing a delectable sticky rice cake thing...uhhh 'Banh Chung' i think its called. Hmm i will see if i can get a pic of it to post up here....oh hell i might as go and get one now. Ill be back in a bit....

There we go! Banh Chung in all its prism-esque, banana-leaf-wrapped glory. Traditionally its eaten on NY day I think.

Hmmm what else? Oh yes, school.

So its been how many days?....*ill go check my calendar*... Ah 6 days of school, and i must say I'm loving it! Two reasons mainly.

One is my subject choices. Ah Steve (My cousin if all you others are wondering), if your reading this, THANK YOU!!!! BIOLOGY IS GREAT! I can't believe i was going to take visual arts or something like that *cringe*... So yes, half of my lessons now consist of physics, chem and bio and the rest is math. Well....yes i have English too, but nothings perfect. And English itself ain't bad im doing Thomas More's Utopia. I've always wanted to read that, and now here is the perfect chance.

The second reason is im in senior school. My ascension itself is nothing important, but the little privileges that come with it is the metaphorical cherry on top of the Triple-Choc sundae that is my subject choices. No longer will i have to wait outside those damned science rooms!

Pity though, my science head teacher had to retire.....he is an uber teacher. I would have had him for chem and physics. Bah.

Anyway, today sport was canceled and so i left school early....spent a whole hour walking in the sweltering hot sun, mercilessly bombarding me with intense solar radiation. Well...yes im over exaggerating... but it was rather warm. My shirt was practically sticking to my back by the time i got home. No matter though, i treated myself to a nice cool glass of coconut juice. Hmm that stuff officially makes my favorite beverages list....not that i have a favorite beverages list. But if i did, it would have been on there somewhere, of course after tea. NOTHING beats tea.

Yep well that pretty much sums it up for the week. Oh one more thing, the vlogs are soon going back into full swing. And yes the link will be on my personal message on my msn name. So check it out when you see the date updated.

Yeah so im probably gonna spend the rest of my evening drinking tea and reading or what not.

Have a great new year!

Kick him while he is down.

2007-11-03T23:21:00.000+11:00

Ello all.

Feelin' crap.

Had one of the most crappiest days today.
Started of at 6 in the morining. I NEVER get up at 6 on a saturday.....gahhh [life's groin kick to peter # one]. spent half the day at various uncle's houses(an aunt from VN has come to visit the extended family here in Oz)[life's groin kick to peter # two]. Spent the whole time there avoiding a lynch mob of little pestering kiddies who thought it was amusing to try to stick toy dinosaurs into my eye[life's groin kick to peter #4]. Then i had tutoring[life's groin kick to peter #5]. Back to my uncle's[life's groin kick to peter #6] Then we went home.....halfway home my aunt changed her mind about spending the night at my house....so we went back to one of my uncle's house[life's groin kick to peter #7].

She then changed her mind again. [life's groin kick to peter #8] so we went to another uncle's house.[life's groin kick to peter #9]....... then i came home.....SUDDENLY THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS THING HAPPENED.

Something that goes somewhat like this:

Me: Argh throat is still sore. [life's groin kick to peter # 10] Mother, could you call the doctor 2morrow, these antibiotics arnt working too well....[life's groin kick to peter # 11]

Mother: Actually peter, i think the reason why your throat is sore, is because u drink too much tea.

Me:[ in apoplexy] t....t....TOOO MUCH TEA??!?!? NONSENSE.

Mother: No it isnt. infact i think ill ban you from tea for a month.
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...to make it worse....(if that is even possible...) they bought me a yixing tea set(an uber tea set that ive wanted for quite some time now...) THEY BOUGHT ME A TEASET AFTER BANNING ME FROM FREAKING TEA!!!!! THEY MOCK MY PAIN!!!!!!!![[life's groin kick to peter # 13]

'Atleast you have a tea set' you might say. well on closer inspection.....MY TEASET IS CHIPPED AND THERE IS A CRACK IN ONE OF THE CUPS!!! [life's groin kick to peter # 14]

..........life sux.....

So much infact that im feeling borderline emo.....

infact...i will end this entry with bad poetry( you better shut your monitor off right now or else your most likely gonna stroke):

Blackness

My life is like a dark abyss....
its suffocating me.....
the darkness is consu....

FUCK THAT ARGH JUST WRITING THREE LINES IS MAKING MY EYE TWITCH.

right well that was a very bad idea....

hmm its pretty late now..... i think i will sleep...

yes.... sleep....sweet cathartic sleep.....

Its always darkest before it goes pitch black.

2007-10-10T09:02:00.000+10:00

Ello all!

Again holidays have been rather uneventful. Same thing pretty much day in day out: wake up, brush teeth, tea, pc, breakfast,tea,pc,tea, lunch,tea,pc,dinner,tea,pc, sleep. so lots of pc and tea. Yuuup.

Well i guess coupled with martial arts, a series of random events now and then and homework(yes back-to-school-itus is kicking in) is enough to keep me entertained. Anyways, this wont be much of a rant at all without some...well... ranting obviously. So lets get started.

My father decided a few days ago that it was an imperative to put a pole into my backyard(yes i know its random). As soon as i heard that i started groaning. Why you ask? Well you have to understand my father's warped sense of time (which some say i have inherited). He told me that the 'pole installation' would only take half an hour at most. I, being naive enough to trust him this time, agreed to help him. So we had to pry up the tiling, and dig up the soil, then begins the excruciating process of trying to get the pole 100% perpendicular to the ground. WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE COMPLETELY 90 DEGREES I DON'T KNOW! He said 1/2 an hour? more accurately translated as 1..2...3...4..5..6...7 HOURS!!!!! and he hasn't finished it yet....merely gave up at 7hours...

There you go....a nice shot of the hole...

Well now...that's enough for today i guess...i have to go anyway. Breakfast is ready and there is a whole lot of teaing and pc-ing to do.

Cratgon!!!!

2007-09-25T19:11:00.000+10:00

Ello all!

Not much to rant about this time... its been quite dull. So I'm just going to write what ever i manage to salvage from my tea-stoned mind. I might jump from topic to topic quite a bit...

...If you don't like that, well go suck a lemon.

Anyway,

Had science trials today....you know what? i really hate badly worded questions....freaking unclear on what they actually want us to answer... exams are over though, which is a relief...well for two weeks anyway.

hmmm though I've noticed something quite strange about today: Everything seems to be happening on the 25th... moon festival (and its incredibly addictive moon cakes...DAMN WHY ARE THEY SO EXPENSIVE!?!?!) ....release of halo 3....sci trial...crazy stuff...(not really... see how dull life can get?)

Well at least the moon festival means that Kung Fu is off for 2nite. Good. It will give me a chance to catch up on some much needed gaming. Neverwinter Nights 2 has just been staring me in the face as of late...

oh I've decided to break up my 'martial arts movie' project thing into smaller parts. The whole make a storyline thing etc is just a bit 2much and i really cbb. so the movie will technically be just a bunch of random clips thrown together....possibly a lightsaber fight somewhere.

Yup well that is pretty much it.

Have a good evening/Moonfestival.

oh and i leave you with this amusing pic (photoshopped by lemur):

2007-09-07T10:10:00.000+10:00

Ello all!

Well I must say, what a dull, dreary, uneventful week it has been. The weather was a bitch. Fencing ended, so sport was a bitch. Cant find any info for that damned commerce assignment, so school was a bitch....yup overall there is quite enough bitchiness to go around for everyone.

On a less....bitchy(..gee am i fond of that word) note, APEC is here! which means an extra day of rest for me. On top of that, my math tutor is invited to some celebration down in Melbourne, also which means an extra day of rest for me. All in all, I'm going to do quite allot of resting up in the next few days.

But now I'm deviating from my supposed rant a bit too much.

This week's topic: Xingisms. (Again, xing has popped up again, see? i told you he would).

In this world, beauty is abundant. Nature's radiance can be found in the sky on a sunny day, with white fluffy clouds leisurely wafting around in the deepest blue, or in glistening dew on countless blades of vibrant green grass.

However, the world has its share of hideousness as well. The epitome of such abhorrency presents itself not in some distant realm, with a malevolent god plotting the enslavement of the entire human race. Oh no not quite so. This terror, believe it or not, resides in your very own homes. In your computers in fact.

What I'm talking about is msn names. What is wrong with them you may ask? well there is nothing inherently wrong about certain msn names, but rather those who write them: their complete failure to grasp the concept of aesthetics.

Most of us, must endure with gritted teeth and grimness every time we log on. But for those who are fortunate enough to, so far, avoid this scourge of mankind, your luck has run out!!

Here are some examples to start off:

"We humans are nothing more then creatures that are controlled by our own desires and greed only to be given hope..."

"a circle has no beginnings nor an end"

" Hiding sadness with a smile"

"i dunno what i feel anymore.."

"i want to believe.....lost in life"

And so on....Has your brain imploded upon itself in an attempt to stop the torrent of evil msn names?? if not, here have one more:

" If good is bad and bad is good, then black is white"

OK, most of you should be writhing in utter agony about now.

*Ahem* I INTRODUCE TO YOU, THE XINGISM.

Named after Xing of course, who has the most irritating habit of speaking with an utter lack of coherency. ....his eloquence is just absolutely astounding.

A xingism, is usually a statement of some sort that either attempts to be profound, elegant, wonderfully articulated or intelligently analyze the nature of humanity. But it ends up being lame, corny, illogical and (depending on its degree) carcinogenic. Generally 100% evilness.

But what causes a xingism? do all xingisms share certain traits? characteristics? The answer is yes.

I have in fact developed a scale for measuring the evilness of a xingism. and for example, i will use:

" If good is bad and bad is good, then black is white" (And if you were wondering, yes xing did say that).

The Xingism Quotient(XQ):

Illogical: 5

Incoherence: 4

Attempt at being profound: 4

Emo-ness: 5

Love etc: 5

Japanese (look, I'm not racist...ahem... its just that some people think its cool to put random Japanese into a sentence): 6

Other(Anything that just doesn't seem right): Measured by the amount of seizures it induces(e.g. one seizure, one point)

right so lets deconstruct the xingism shall we?

" If good is bad and bad is good, then black is white"

'Good is bad': illogical thus 5.
'Bad is good': ditto, 5.
'Black is white': first of all it is illogical, so 5 and the conclusion of black is white from 'good is bad' etc is incoherent. hence another 4 is added, ie a total of 9.
Oh and after 3 people saw it, they seized so...3.
Overall, it was an attempt of being profound thus we will add another 4.

And so the total score is:26. now we divide the score by the number of words....12...so 26/12 = A WHOPPING 2.2!!!!!

(oh if you guys have any suggestions on improvements to the XQ process, don't hesitate to tell me!)

So let us work together, analyse our msn names, reduce the XQ and head for a better world! free of stupid incoherency!

Impending Doom

2007-08-25T20:43:00.000+10:00

Ello all!

Ah winter time! Sitting by the fireplace, soaking up the warmth, listening to crackling wood, while holding a steaming hot cup of coco in your hands, in perfect contentment. Not.

I hate winter. Worst season of them all. One day its freezing cold and the next day we are inundated with torrential rain. The day after that, its freezing cold AND my backyard turns into a freaking wetland. Nice.

That's not the worst of it though. All the other seasons are kind to me... well not really, lets just say kinder. The summer heat isn't bad, great time to run and dance and frolic and eat puppies. In spring, everything is fresh, new, lush and green. Perfect weather for eating outdoors...mmmm puppy fillet mignon. Well...i think you can already guess what I'm going to say for autumn...

BUT NO PUPPY EATING FOR WINTER! Oh no, no sweet bone-snapping goodness then. Winter is the season of DEATH....or more accurately, the season of getting so sick that you end up bed ridden for days.

Especially this year.

'But Peter! You get sick because you don't keep warm!' You might chide, shaking your head.

Well i suppose you are right. But can it really be my fault? Australia is a free country! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, CANT A MAN RUN BUTT-NAKED IN FREEZING RAIN AND NOT GET A COLD!!??!?

No I'm not serious of course, its partially because i do my forms in freezing cold weather at martial arts.

But mainly, its because of an excruciatingly irritating mortal who goes by the name of Xingy(for those who don't know this creature, DONT PANIC! I'm sure he will pop up somewhere in my future rants). Yes, he has this tendency to cough in my general vicinity, now and then....every second or two...bloody bastard.

And so the expected happens. I get sick. Really sick. Fever hits forty degrees and beyond. And, so i get dragged to my doctor who tells me i have the flu. I guessed as much. And so i head home to rest and groan and moan and feel sorry for myself. Strange enough...FEVER GETS BLOODY WORSE...and delirium kicks in. Have you ever noticed how amusing a bar of soap is when your delirious?

I get dragged back to the doctor. Who looks at me, shivering and borderline seizing, and says 'Oh looks like you have caught another flu'. Wow...ok so i have flu^2 now...

And i go home for the second time...and Mr.Flu gives me a kick in the crotch. Back to the doctor.

He takes one look at me, "Oh dear, this is bad".
I'm rushed off to get X-rayed. Yay.
He takes one look at the X-rays, "Oh dear, your lung tissue has lesions and there is some calcification."
His report: Possible tuberculosis & early emphysema.
Nice. I'm going to die.
Pete is rushed to hospital.
Specialist takes one look at report, shifts his attention to me and then, to the x-rays. He smirks.
"This report is absolute nonsense. Your lungs are fine. That lesion there [points to white area on x-ray] is your heart."

oh that's really nice...I'm not going to die after all. Meh.

Bloody incompetent GP....

The smell of the lambs...

2007-08-19T15:59:00.001+10:00

Do you smell the lambs Peter? Their overly spiced aroma? Do you hear them sizzling? Day after day after day you wake to see them bubbling in their own fat...

YES I FREAKING DO, Dr Lecter! My dad chucked another overkill... This is more or less how it goes...

*flashback*

"Hey dad"

"Yes son?"

"You know what would be good for dinner?"

"What?"

"A nice piece of lamb"

"Oh sounds good. I'll just go out and buy some then."

"Not too much though dad, im not too hungry. A steak or two should be enough"

"Oh yeah, ok then. A steak or two it is"

"Great dad! Thanks..."

2 HOURS LATER....

" Where the hell is dad?!?!"

"Hello Peter, im back"

"Oh great, what took you so long"

"Oh the lamb was on sale... Here have a look"

"...WHOAAAAHH!!!! Thats not two steaks!!! Thats 1....2...3...3kg...3KG!!!!"

"Yeah good value eh?"

"HOW AM I MEANT TO FINISH THAT"

"Oh dont worry peter, there is a bone in each of the steaks...its probably just 2.5kg of meat"

"Arrrrrghh!!!!"

*end flashback*

And so here i am.... a week has passed...after lunch....stuffed full with lamb....god help me....

Ah Welcome all!

2007-08-11T23:23:00.001+10:00

This is the beginning of my new blog....since my old one well...was left untouched, un-posted and generally neglected since...the beginning of this year (if i remember correctly). I have promised myself that i shall strive to at least do one post per week....

i highly doubt it though...

It is however getting late....and well I've been rather sick for the past month.....or two...or three....so staying up till 11pm is not really helping my convalescence....

So good night to you all, and stay tuned for more!