Economics and Housing, Bahasa and Education, All Heretics Day, Genres and Gaming

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First of two articles I've written for Left Focus has just been published: Political Economy and the Economic Crisis. Part two will be published in the next few days. On a related note, had a good meeting yesterday with Paul K. of George Finance to discuss the land rent scheme proposed by the Stanhope government in the ACT. As good as this scheme would be for low-income earners and the economy in general (expenditure in land ownership always means expenditure away from productive activity) banks have been loathe to support the idea. On a more personal note, have received initial approval from the ANZ New Zealand for my planned purchases down there.

On the other travelling plan I've spent some time bringing my almost non-existant knowledge of Bahasa Indonesian up to an acceptable level. Working very hard to complete my Cert IV in Training and Assessment this week and have received confirmation that I can use this as a credit towards a Graduate Diploma in Education (Tertiary and Adult) (goodness, I'll be a bona fide Murdoch student again).

Last Sunday attened the poetry and music service at the Unitarians. Music in this case included Johnny Cash's "Man in Black" (Youtube) which I was very pleased with. My role was provide a reading about Unitarianism, to which I chose the activity of the Christchurch fellowship witht their All Heretic's Day forums which I think Melbourne should emulate. For poetry I chose a compilation from a thousand years ago - Al Ma'arri - a person who certainly deserves more recognition.

Have made some headway in the second draft of Rolemaster Cyradon which is due at the end of this month. Played GURPS Bunnies & Burrows on Sunday, as is the longstanding Easter tradition; Michael ran a good scenario entitled "Hart of Darkness" (haha). Visited severina_242 and _zombiemonkey over the weekend for an evening of bad Australian horror films; though that Thirst and Harlequin were OK psycho-thrillers. In contrast The Howling III was one of the worst films I have ever seen.

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[delicious-irony.livejournal.com]

I can count to five in Bahasa Indonesia.

How long is the planned duration of the trip? And I hope you'll take lots of pictures! :)

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Keep going to ten! Then you'll find getting to one hundred is easy...

satu, dua, tiga, empat, lima, enam, tujuh, delapan, sembilan, sepuluh

sebelas, dua belas, tig belas ... dua pula

dua pula satu, dua pula dua ... tiga pula

And so on..

Only planning on going for a couple of weeks, but getting a working knowledge of Bahasa is something I've been meaning to do for a long time. Now seems most opportune.