Posts by Chris Waugh
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How awesome are my students? Midday, blue sky, hot sun, 30 degrees…
Those are my students in white… or the team with actual uniforms, in other words.
And the super high-tech scoreboard says 32:12 at half time. 64:36 at full time, and my students relaxed and had fun in the second half. One dude shot three 3-pointers in a row from exactly the same point on the circle after exactly the same manoeuvre. Almost embarrassing, but hey, I'm bloody proud of them.
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Hard News: Satire's shooting star, in reply to Russell Brown,
Cool, thanks Russell.
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Finally finding myself with a bit of spare time, I tried to watch He Toki Huna, but got a 403 - Access Denied when following the link from here, and I can't find it through a search of the Maori TV site.
But I did find a Te Reo edition of Journey to the West. But, ummm, somebody at Maori TV needs to brush up on their Chinese history....
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I thought I had photos saved up for an autumn thread, but no, not many at all. I'm getting plenty for a spring thread, though, so now that this one has been revived...
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Capture: Got the blues, in reply to ChrisW,
Thanks, Chris. That wikipedia article gives a Chinese name 雪松/xuěsōng - "snow pine" - and the trees often have little name tags. I must go and check.
I was curious to read:
General cultivation is limited to areas with mild winters, with trees frequently killed by temperatures below about -25°C
So it'd cope with downtown/plains Beijing ok, but would struggle in the outer mountain regions of the west, northwest and north, and probably wouldn't grow terribly much further north than here.
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Now that I've got the photos of my wife's phone....
See? This is how yummy that yoghurt is!
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And the morning’s adventures ended with the yummiest yoghurt in Beijing.
How yummy is this yoghurt? This yummy, and she’s only getting started in this shot – and she made such a gleeful mess that I’m sure next time we go there they’ll have a big sign saying “No Pakeha Toddlers” on the door.
ETA: Nearly forgot! Are there any Uighur/Xinjiang restaurants in NZ? Cos I think Uighur cuisine would be really popular in NZ - although certainly not for vegetarians. Oh, and lunch rocked to Uighur pop music, awesome beats.
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Kids chasing bubbles.
That cool bridge from the other side. I loved the light down in this little corner of the park. It felt warm, soft and very green.
Geez, you could almost forget you're in the middle of a city of 20-odd million souls...
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Saxophone, happily playing to himself and whoever may wish to hear. (oops, now changed to the shot I wanted to post)
French horn on the opposite corner of the same square. This dude gets an audience.
And a really popular bridge - bet it's nice and cool in there.
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Today’s fern today
Magic. At first glance it looked like an image from an electron microscope. Today's fern up closer than you lot can get with your puny cameras, perhaps.
