Went to see the FLOWERS – FLORA IN CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. I really enjoyed it – it covers a really wide use of flowers in art and culture (as the name suggests) and was just really delightful to look at.
Another instalment in the continuing series Why Must Everything Be A Video: Part I Just Want To Repair My Worn Sleeve
I can tell particularly because they are eating and discussing other places they’ve eaten at while planning where to eat at next
Went to a Georgian restaurant instead of the Malaysian one I was planning to go to but somehow surrounded by other Malaysian Chinese (or adjacent) people still.
Today at work, instead of doing the things we normally do, we all painted swans.
Ok so like, I need to remember what I thought of these so I know whether I want to buy them again and if it’s not somewhere on the internet for me to look, did I even write it down?
Anyway. This was fine. The pasta was a bit too small and there was too much liquid at the end which made fishing the pasta out a little tricky. It did smell and taste good.
That thing when you’re watching a documentary, look away for a bit while listening to the archeologists talking and then remember that you don’t understand Italian and really do have to look.
This thought prompted by remembering how one person was commenting on how the particular snack bowls seemed to “live” on the tea table that they’d seen and how it must be because drinking tea stimulates appetite etc and couldn’t event consider that putting snacks out for your guests is just a normal hospitality thing (at least within my family’s culture).
I don’t even practice gongfu tea myself but if someone comes round there will be snacks on the table ready.
Joined a tea (primarily Chinese tea) discord because I had a discount code for some tea website and they had a discord and it is fascinating how white the vibe is, particularly since my experience with tea drinking (particularly gongfu tea) has primarily been with my Chinese family and like… it’s not a huge, serious, formal deal. It’s just hanging out, drinking tea.