Life goes on as normal
Work, home, friends, family. The routine of everyday life.
On 30 September 2006 Mum, Dad, Oma Z. and I went to the William Rickett's Sanctuary to remember my Oma K. who recently passed away. It was a place that is special because she introduced it to my parent's on one of her visits to Australia. It was a very fitting thing to do - and very peaceful and beautiful.
Later in the day Mum and I played Rummy, which Oma always loved to play. I won both games :-)
For dinner, Mum and I had sausages, mash potato (from a packet) and salad - like Oma used to make whenever I was there to visit. The packet mash isn't as good as the real thing - but that's how Oma made it, and it wasn't too bad. The sausages were about the only meat Oma ate occasionally too.
Later that night, I made pancakes. Oma always liked it when Dad would make pancakes in the evening. Yum yum!
The day was a fitting tribute to Oma, and co-incided with a family lunch being held in Germany on the same day.
OMG, I was on train this morning and a little tubby man sat near me (on opposite side of carriage) and he was disgustingly chowing on a hot dog....YUK! Then he opened a can of Coke, and ate an Apricot Bar. I thought that was plenty, but then he scoffed down a mars bar making all these chewing and slobbering sounds.
Sooooo grosse!
This evening I cracked the 2.5km swimming goal!! WooHoo!! Arno, wie geht's bei dir mit schwimmen?
It was such a good exercise session, but I'm a bit sore now. Not to worry, because I will now be having a few days rest from exercise.
After eating some yummy Laksa (made by Kai Ma) with toasted Turkish bread, my stomach was sore. It's good again now after a bit of a rest.
TUESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2006
I swam 2.2kms tonight! What a great feeling...although I shouldn't eat chocolate so much afterwards. Tomorrow I will aim for 2.5kms....one day I'll do 3kms. But let's not get ahead of ourselves :-)
On Friday 8 September 2006, my Oma passed away. She had a tumor that got the better of this very strong woman. She taught me many things, and I will always have fond memories of the times I spent with her. I am thankful to have had the opportunity to get to know my Oma even though she lived on the other side of the planet to me.
I hope my family in Germany also have many great memories of her.
Find out a little about the place she lived - a beautiful region which Oma loved very much. She showed me many of the places she enjoyed visiting.
Check out what happens to the web when a good, fun loving Aussie dies. See web link below.
The Age newspaper article
Rest in peace.
This morning I went to work as usual on the train. When the train arrived at one of the stops the driver announced that the train was delayed because of an "incident" at the station, and would be going shortly. Well, shortly can mean anything from a minute to an hour! So many passengers got off the train and boarded the one on the platform opposite which was also going into the city. Of course as soon as everyone made the train swap, the first train moved on, while our new train stayed still. Great! Now we are in a train behind the first one......but wait.....
....then I realised that this new train was going to go express part of the way, so would overtake the first train, which it did. Then it didn't go through the city loop like normal, it went straight to Flinders Street which worked out better for me anyway. I was having breakfast with a friend, AY, which was only a couple of blocks from there.
Then on the way home on the train I had an annoying young bloke singing out loud (well to himself, but loud enough for me to hear even though I had my headphones on!) next to me. Then he decided to lean against the seat I was in (he was standing) and basically also leaning on me!! Why me!!??!! I had to ask myself. He didn't seem to care even though I looked at him a couple of times to hint he should move a bit away. Didn't work, but I made it home.
Tonight we went out for dinner at Limor's Restaurant for my Kai Ma's birthday (Kai Ma means Godmother in Malaysian) - she's 50!! Happy birthday Kai Ma!! It was a big meal with great friends, and my parents were there too. It was a great night with plenty of food and laughs.
