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Allrite in Asia: Let's go Kawagoe!

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Tuesday, April 3, 2007. Imagine eighty people dragging a four tonne three storey wooden float down a street. On the float musicians are playing flutes and striking drums, while at the top a human sized doll watches over the proceedings. Now imagine twenty-nine of these floats parading past centuries old Japanese architecture through streets lined with tens of thousands of onlookers. We walked through the chilly rain to the Kitain Temple. We were starving by this stage, for we hd not eaten lunch and i...

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Allrite in Asia: Karma Kamakura

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Wednesday, April 4, 2007. Inside the cave locals placed their coins in the small wicker baskets and ladled the Zeniarai Benten shrine's spring waters over the basket, soaking the money. Legend says that the money will be bring great returns once spent. As Australians we had a great advantage over the locals. A plastic fifty dollar note. No worries getting that wet! Disembarking at Hase station we walked up to the Hasedera temple, with its large wooden "kannon" (Buddha statue). The temple gardens are ...

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Allrite in Asia: Snow, Streams and Steam at Hakone

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Friday, April 6, 2007. Snow, Streams and Steam at Hakone. Each gust of wind covered us in a cloud of rotten-egg gas. The landscape was stony and bare, except for paths of leafless shrubs. Grey water bubbled from steaming vents in the ground. Behind us Mt Fuji loomed large, covered in snow and cloud. We ate eggs boiled in the hot springs of Owakudani. The iron and sulphides in the water had reacted with the proteins to stain them black, but they tasted great. Steep and winding roads lead us to the area of...

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Allrite in Asia: Home

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Monday, April 9, 2007. After one month travelling through China, Hong Kong and Japan on plane, train, cable car, trishaw and whatever else you can imagine we have finally made it home again. It is always nice to return to your own home, a place where everything is familiar. Almost everything is familiar. Where once there was lawn now there was a jungle and the green waste bin wasn't large enough to hold all the clippings when I returned it to its former state. The flights back to Sydney were pretty fun, ...

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Allrite in Asia: Postscript

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Tuesday, April 10, 2007. The missing luggage was delivered safely to the house after 10pm last night. I was asked if we were carrying back rocks by the delivery man. After a month of travel it is pleasant to be back in our own home, back with our puppy who looks less puppyish than when we left. Yet I am not tired of travel. I still listen to the jets as they fly above our house and think about how I would like to be on them. Maybe back to Europe next time, but with a stopover somewhere in Asia.

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Allrite in Asia: Venus on Planet Tokyo

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Monday, April 2, 2007. Venus on Planet Tokyo. A shopping centre decked out like an old Italian town, complete with painted sky and uniformed attendants marching with glowing red batons. It's Venus Fort, located in the Odaiba area of Tokyo, adjacent to a multistorey showcase of Toyota cars which includes an automated car driving a indoor circuit. It's quirky Tokyo with a cafe that serves a delicious cup of hot white chocolate. From Ginza we walked past impossibly expensive brand shops down to the Tsukiji ...

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allrite rites: Communicating science

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Monday, February 16, 2015. I recently read an article somewhere how versions of Pythagoras' Theorem were independently "discovered" in Egypt, India and China prior to its namesake. Why then do we associate it with a single Greek? It is not uncommon for scientific and mathematical discoveries to occur multiple times. So who chooses the credit? Posted by Andrew Wright. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular 2015. This blog © Andrew Wright.

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allrite rites: March 2015

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Monday, March 09, 2015. Brown days in Sydney. Sometimes in Sydney on the days like today when the fires are burning the sky takes on a hazy Asian tinge. As I walked to work, hungry from a lack of breakfast, I could imagine a small food stall along the footpath, trestle tables and plastic chairs to the side, patrons slurping steaming bowls of noodles and soup or snacking on goreng pisang from little plastic bags. Oh well, I can but dream. Posted by Andrew Wright. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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allrite rites: Purpose

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Thursday, February 12, 2015. I chose to believe that humans have three purposes. One is the purpose of life itself: To survive. The other purposes are those that raise us above all other known species: To understand and to create. The better our understanding the Universe the better we serve our first purpose as well and the better we can create. It disappoints me that so many believe that our purpose is to believe or to gain personal wealth and power to the subversion of all other goals.

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allrite rites: Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular 2015

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Saturday, February 07, 2015. Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular 2015. Each fan has their own Doctor. Maybe their Doctor wasn't the greatest actor. Maybe he didn't have the best scripts. But he's the one they grew up with, who held their hand as they ventured into time and space. For me it's Peter Davison. For B, David Tennant. Alex has Matt Smith. I wonder if Colin Baker has anyone? The programme is listed below with some brief notes. The Thirteenth Doctor's theme might sound simple at first listen, but it...