Sydney

Am here again. Just landed about an hour ago. There's something about this place that keeps wanting me back.

This is the first time I wasn't questioned and also the first time that my belongings weren't examined by the airport authorities here - which is a good thing. But routines, good or bad, work their way into one's expectations of how things should be and even when it's a change for the better, you'd still get a tat suspicious. Or maybe that's just me. Hahhahaa!!

It's 18 degrees and the sky is clear. Lovely. Will walk out to buy myself some dinner later. Won't leave this place without having some of what I consider, the best black sesame gelato on earth! I know where is it, how to get there but don't know the address. Will go find out later and record it here.

The next few days will be meetings, meetings and more meetings! Hopefully will get an hour off to go to Target - my favourite shopping place for the boy's clothes and maybe something from the Stella McCartney range for myself?

Also picked up this book "The Art of Happiness at Work" by His Holiness The Dalai Lama & Howard C.Cutler, M.D. at the airport. Here's an excerpt which I find interesting...

"...there will always be problems in life. It is just not possible to go through life without encountering problems... the better we are able to accept that fact, the better we will be able to cope with life's disappointments...take the example of a person who likes to eat sweet things, but doesn't like sour things. Then, there is a certain kind of fruit that this person enjoys. That fruit may be mostly sweet, but it may also have a little bit of sourness in it. That person continues to enjoy the fruit, they don't stop eating it because it has a little sour taste. If they want to continue to enjoy eating that fruit, then they have to accept the little bit of sourness in it. You can't separate the sweet form the sour in that piece of fruit; it is always going to be mixed. Life is just like that. As long as you are living, life will have good things but also some problems that you don't like. That's life."

Fruit for thought eh?