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Thursday, January 21, 2016

The role of fire

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Aboriginal people have burned country for tens of thousands of years. The ancestors gave them a cultural obligation to look after and clean up country, a duty handed down from generation to generation. Signs in nature told them of the time to burn, a time when minimal harm would be done to country but huge benefits would be gained.

Their ongoing traditional management of country is recognised in Kakadu's World Heritage listing.

In some areas where no burning took place, noticeable harm was done. Now that traditional burning is back, the landscape is once again abundant with native flora and fauna. These days, conservation managers across the top of Australia are using traditional patch burning in the cooler weather to prevent wildfires, to repair country and to encourage biodiversity to recover.

This earth, I never damage.
I look after.
Fire is nothing, just clean up.
When you burn, new grass coming up.
That means good animal soon.
Might be goanna, possum, wallaby.
Burn him off, new grass coming up, new life all over. 
Bill Neidjie
Bunitj Clan
Note:
I wrote this post on 5 Nov 2013 probably after the Darwin trip where we saw a couple of forest fires. I know I should have a photo for this post which I probably didn't upload in my FB. Thus that explains why this post was never published. It's funny that 2 years had passed, but my blog style is still as abstract as ever... as messy as ever... Just like the blogger herself I guess. Always start with something and end with an entire different thought.

So when I re-read this post, I thought about the fire evacuation on new year eve day, about the fire 四月saw in the plane, the nearby fires my users were talking about that were set up intentionally but grew out of control. Fire is as usual the double edge sword. And I been playing with fire for the past few days while trying to light up the scented candle via the cooker. Every time I used a paper to light up the candle, I could never control it. It always start small but fire up big. And I always end up throwing the whole paper into the sink to douse it.

Just realized too that in a few weeks time, it will be the year of fire monkey too. If all signs are about fire, then what does the fire wants to tell me?

p/s: Is heaty also a sign of fire? Must be all the chocolates at fault.... sigh...
pp/s: Almost forgot about the siren that woke me up this morning... the constant whirring....

Saturday, January 02, 2016

Pretty Little Mistakes

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太太 loaned me a book titled 'Pretty Little Mistakes' by Heather McElhatton. Initially I was bored after trying 2 story paths. But then, because I like to ask 'What If...', so I ended up trying a few more paths.. and then a few more paths.

It might have become an addiction so I stopped and decided I should return this book to 太太 asap. Cos even though 1 beginnings, 150 possible endings. But I only have 1 life, and only 1 ending.

I did pick up some interesting quotes at some of the bizarre endings:

It is good to have an end to the journey, but it's only the journey that matters in the end 
What you chase - isn't there.
It turns out that in the immense phone-book-sized rule book of heaven it says people who turn away from true love must spend a hundred years and then a hundred more looking for those they forgot to look for while they were alive, keep walking. 

I was told that since I made a decision, I have to stick to it. No more 'what ifs'.
I know time will heal, though how much time is subjective.
And I know being rebellious, even if I were to rewind my life again, I will still do what I did.
But I wish that when the fireworks fizzle, and only smoke is left, memories get blurry but what the heart had felt once, will remain fresh forever.
And I still believe 2016, will be a good year ahead. Because GA always knows how to make it good for us.
I'm only sorry that I always never seem to be able to see to the ending of some scenes. But I will try again and hopefully one day I will succeed.


p/s: At Hometown, while window shopping and waiting for 太太 to be awake, I heard this song playing...

有些人愛著愛著就變了 
而誓言愛著愛著會忘記 ...

怕只怕愛著愛著又放棄 
有沒有愛著愛著就永遠 的幸運 ...