Most of my blogging tends toward my travel experiences, and diversity in media, but I will also discuss my own creative pursuits, which are generally in the film, writing, and performance fields. I'm also an editor at Solarwyrm Press. Performance: improv, acting, stand-up comedy. Filmmaking: screenwriting, directing, video editing, short films, music videos. Writing: speculative fiction, memoir, short stories. Though I consider myself a citizen of the world, with how many places feel like home to me, I was born and raised in Australia, to American parents. I'm a dual-national of both countries, lived in Malaysia for five and a half years, and now live in the US.
Monday 20th April 2009 Jeremy woke up at 4am to get to the airport on time to fly back up to Sydney, leaving behind his mum, Doyle and me. We got up more around 8am, and headed out sometime around 9:30am to catch the free city circle tram most of the way around the city, … More Diary of Melbourne, 2009 part 2 (Apr 20-24)
Wednesday 15th April 2009 A complete day of travel today. We had Jeremy drive us to KL Sentral, where we arrived a bit before 9am, and were able to catch the 9am Skybus to the LCCT airport. We arrived about 20 minutes before check in opened, so I took Doyle to Marrybrown and got him … More Diary of Melbourne, 2009 part 1 (Apr 15-19)
In two days, I am off to embark on a return to the Melbourne Comedy Festival for the first time since 2002, which was my then third visit to the festival, all in consecutive years. Now I’m trying to recapture some of my interests from my youth, partially in the hopes of re-finding myself. I … More Prelude to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, 2009
If you haven’t already noticed with the layout change, I changed my hair to a nice aqua/teal colour last week, from a previous blonde (which lasted a week), and purple before that. Since I have gone green, I’ve had a greater than normal number of strangers approach me, for numerous reasons, and I can’t help … More How Having Green Hair Has Affected Me
I’ve either arrived or left from all of IAD (Washington Dulles), DCA (Ronald Reagan) and BWI (Baltimore-Washington International) now so I think I’d be a reasonable judge to suggest which airports to use if you do want to go there. Personally, whilst IAD is probably the biggest and most used of the three, it’s also … More Airports surrounding Washington, DC
If you get to know me for any period of time, you’ll probably discover that I’m a little addicted to travel. I’ve had international flights every year since 2004, which is a little surprising to say the least. Anyway, not long into 2009, we embarked on yet another international trip – approximately 4 weeks in … More Dubai, New York and Virginia 2009
I’ve previously alluded to but not gone into great detail the fact that I have friends on the Internet. Whilst staying with my first cousin once removed Judy, she mentioned reading an article about how the US is “behind the times” in terms of percentages of friends being on the Internet with whom they’ve never … More Technological World of Friends
Jeremy had some time off between Christmas and New Year last year, so we used that time to see a bit more of Malaysia. On Saturday December 27th, the Portuguese village in Melaka was having a national open house for Christmas, and everyone and anyone was invited. So we headed down for the two hour … More Melaka and Genting, 2008
Christmas 2008 was the first Christmas I’ve had as a “family,” (as in my now immediate family where I’m the mother) but without any extended family. Even growing up I can’t say I remember any Christmases where the entire day was spent with just me and two other family members (if that has happened, I … More Christmas 2008
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a new recipe, but I did make something new for my son’s 2nd birthday. Living in Malaysia means you get to see a lot of green coloured bakery items. This colour is generally from (and indicates) the “pandan” flavour – which I have gathered from pictures is a … More Pandan & Coconut Muffins/Cake
