Location
Brisbane, Queensland
Way Corp group(s) I was in
15 and 14
Where I live
Brisbane, Queensland "Sunshine State", Australia
About Me
Born in Kenya, raised in Australia. I am a Subject of the Sultan of Zanzibar, a British subject, a naturalised Australian Citizen and I have two Kiwi/Aussie children... but I don't think I have a valid passport just at the moment.
My Interests
English literature, history, education, music, dance...
Employment or Career
I am gradually working towards my BA, majoring in History and English literature as an on-and-off part-time student.
In the past I have been employed in the following jobs: fruit shop assistant, waitress, Arnotts Biscuits factory worker (biscuits = cookies), Hoyts candy bar attendant, legal secretary, McDonalds front-counter (are you impressed?), student nurse, nurses aide, customer service at St George Bank: loans and enquiries, motel house-maid, cocktail waitress, house-cleaner (for Dial-an-Angel), Telecom NZ faults centre officer, bookkeeper, and self-employed office manager for high-rise window-cleaning business (the latter for about 13 years.) I resigned from my full-time job in administration at the University of Queensland to study and complete my Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Literature and History.
Music I Like
Piano, guitar, clarinet, trumpet... I mean, I like to hear other people playing them - solo, as accompaniment, in orchestras, and bands.
I like music.
Books I Like
I love to read! Recently I've read several "Postmodern" novels for a literature course.
I enjoy novels by Jane Austen, George Orwell, Charles Dickens, PD James, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jonathan Swift, Gerald Durrell, John Steinbeck, Rosemary Sutcliffe, E Nesbit and many others.
I like reading the poems of writers like Rudyard Kipling, AB Peterson, Lewis Carroll, William Shakespeare, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Henry Lawson, John Donne, Robert Frost, Mo Wilkinson (she's my mum!)
And I like books that help me to spring-clean the brain cells:
- The Peter Principle (Laurence and Hull)
- The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Hoffer)
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig)
- Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior (Brafman and Brafman)
- The Language of God (Collins)
- In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed (Honore)
- Dumbing Down: Outcomes-based and politically correct – the impact of the Culture Wars on our schools (Donnelly)
- Endangered Minds (Healey)
- The Tipping Point (Gladwell)
- Coercion: Why We Listen to What “They” Say (Rushkoff)
- Boys Adrift: the Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men (Sax)
- A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century (Van DeMille)
- Eve’s Bite (Wishart)
Television I like
Crime investigation, British comedies - don't watch it very much - so I even find the adverts interesting!
Movies I like
The Mission, Out of Africa, The God's Must Be Crazy, The Constant Gardener, The Devil Wears Prada, Gone With The Wind, The Bourne Identity, The Sound of Music, Brave Heart, Spy Game, Finding Nemo, The Insider, Pulp Fiction, Along Came Polly, Love Actually, The Full Monty, Cool Runnings and all the rest! :-)
Sports Teams I like
Yeronga Devils, Brisbane Lions, the Kenyan Olympic team and the Kenya national rugby union sevens team.
Comments
Thanks for the welcome and the help. I think I get what's goin' on here. It's great.
I look forward to renewing acquaintances, catching up on the news, and getting involved where I can help.
See you around the blogs.
Love and blessings,
Rob
623-544-0348
Also You should see my finch Family ,about 50 of them that live in the plastic crates behing my house ....
Thank you for the link to Peter Wade . Over the past few years I Have only heard about him , not anything from him ....
My good friend John Shroyer told me about him . They stayed in contact with one another . Peter came to Ohio to present one of his seminars a few years back . John has since passed away , but he got me back on track helped me when I needed it most . So when I saw this site I joined with the goal of helping others .
Here is a link to what we do here in the Midwest part of the U.S. http://www.cffm.org
Photos , some audio teachings and the guestbook ...a just down the road here has set all this up .
Stay in touch ,drop us a line anytime , if we can be of help just let us know
Pat and laurie in ypsilanti patandlaurie82@sbcglobal.netDelete Comment
Love and blessings!
George
I just watched Out of Africa again...and again. How about the English Patient...and did you see the Shipping News?
Things are great up over! Thankful for good health, wonderful family, great friends and life in general
If you ever make it back to the States your always welcome.
Good to see you here. It's been a long time. I haven't the time to watch your videos right now, but we have a new holiday CD that has a song Six White Boomers that has had me thinking about Australia again. I'm also "chief manager and director of my children's education."
Karin Paetkau
Here is an instructional video made by NING which gives you plenty of tips on using this site as a new member.
CLICK HERE FOR THE VIDEO