A Wife's Charmed Life

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Little Lenten Sacrifice

ASPIRE NOT TO HAVE MORE, BUT TO BE MORE - Archbishop Oscar Romero

Caritas Australia 2008's Project Compassion is giving out Lenten Sharepacks (thru our Parish) wherein you'll find six envelopes, one for each week of Lent. Each week, the relevant envelope should be returned to the parish containing your donation.

The first week envelope is for the Philippines:

The other five envelopes will go to Australia, West Java (Indonesia), Kenya, Brazil and Fiji.

My little Lenten Sacrifice this year is to save my lunch money for the week (no lunch out or buying lunch at work) and instead bring lunch from home every day. The money I'm able to save from not buying lunch for six weeks will go into these envelopes. It's not much but as the Caritas envelope says "It only takes a little to make a big change".

Saturday, February 9, 2008

On My Way To The Supermarket and Back

The sun shone a bit this morning so I brought Mrs. Kanyon with me to the supermarket.

I'm very fortunate to be living near a park with a lake and what's good is that it is strategically on the way to the supermarket. What joy to have the luxury to walk buying fresh goodies to and from the grocery store!

At 11:05am, on my way to the supermarket, the lake looked like this...

Spend about 15 minutes taking shots here and there but didn't stay long as clouds were already forming over the horizon. And so I had to continue walking towards the grocery store.

The reason why I went to the supermarket today was because I needed to buy ingredients for a dip that I wanted to make and bread to go with that dip. When I'm all done with that, I walked back home and as usual, I had to pass by the park. It was about 12:00noon and this was the sight the awaited me...

It was such an amazing sight to behold!!!! I have only seen clouds forming like that here in Australia. It looked scary but I was more in awe at how immaculate God has made such a creation. It was terrfyingly beautiful.

You can probably understand why after about 10 shots, I had to walk home fast. Even if I had an umbrella with me, I didn't want to get my camera and groceries wet.

When I arrived home, it took about 10 minutes for the rain to finally fall. Very angry rain that was. I just had a quick lunch and a little bit of net surfing, then in a few minutes fell asleep inside my room listening to the rain. And this time, no more bad dreams.

Dream

I just had a bad dream. I dreamt I was in my High School Reunion and for some reason, I was tasked to be the photographer of the class. The good part of the dream was I saw everyone's faces clearly as if I just saw them yesterday. The bad part was after the pictorial, all my photos were blah :( I was nearly in tears but I woke up (I usually wake up when my dreams turn into something bad).

Now I know what this is about. I'm totally having guilt feelings about photography lately because I haven't touched a camera for two weeks. Yep, two weeks. What's to blame? (not that I need blaming):

the rain that never seem to stop falling for the past couple days here in Sydney
books that need reading because things may happen very quickly in the nearest (!) future so I need to be ready any minute
during weekends I spend most of my time studying for the citizenship exam
sometimes I'm just too lazy or too tired to get up and shoot

Oh well, hopefully the sun shines a bit today or tomorrow and I'll probably do some wandering with my camera.

Friday, February 8, 2008

Musicals To Look Forward To

Two Musicals I'm looking forward to this year:

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA starts May 13, 2008 at the Lyric Theatre, Star City, Pyrmont NSW.

Ticket prices: $104.90, $89.90, $79.90 and $35.90 (ticketmaster)

About PHANTOM OF THE OPERA:

The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the novel by French novelist Gaston Leroux. The music was composed by Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Charles Hart and additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe directed by Harold Prince, choreographed by Gillian Lynne, lighting by Andrew Bridge and designed by Maria Bjornson.

The musical focuses on a beautiful singer, Christine Daaé, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious, disfigured musical genius known as "The Phantom of the Opera," who terrorizes the Paris Opera House.

source: Wikipedia

WICKED (The Untold Story of the Witches of OZ) will start showing in Melbourne in July 2008. Not much details yet as they are still auditioning to complete the casting. You may register at www.ticketek.com.au for announcements and advance ticket sales prompts.

I'm hoping they will tour in Sydney too or else, I'd have to go to Melbourne just to see it.

About WICKED:

Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a libretto by Winnie Holzman. The story is based on the best-selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, a re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's classic story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the perspective of the witches of the Land of Oz. The musical tells the stories of Glinda and Elphaba, two young witches who eventually become the Good Witch of the North and the Wicked Witch of the West, respectively, and is set mostly prior to Dorothy's arrival from Kansas. The plot also includes several references to the classic 1939 film.

Wicked tells the story of Elphaba, misunderstood and victimized, who grows up to become the Wicked Witch of the West, and of her reactions to the charlatan Wizard's corrupt government. It also shows the development of her relationship with the beautiful and ambitious Galinda Upland, who becomes Glinda the Good Witch of the North. Throughout the show, their friendship struggles to endure their opposing personalities and viewpoints, rivalry over the same love-interest, and Elphaba's eventual fall from grace.