Addy Teoh (张美鍊)

Parramatta: A Dictionary of Place and Memory | Sydney Review of Books In Parramatta: A Dictionary of Place and Memory, Yumna Kassab presents a personal catalogue of the institutions, sites, experiences, and people making up the cultural life of a city for which she has ...

As a proud Parramatta local I want everyone to know about Yumna Kassab's Dictionary, a series of vignettes that say as much about the author as the places she visits.

Nice. One of my starter words is ANIME but I still took 4 goes today.

I don't assume it's short for anything because I know too many people who have "nicknames" as names, but most Georgies I know have shortened it from Georgina.

Boff, who is diabetic, has just attempted to take my blood sugar reading like 6 times (because I'm still ill and we want a data point) but apparently I don't bleed enough after being stabbed.

My time widget just changed to Mandarin. No idea how or why. Instead of 2 November it reads 11月 2日.

I actually found out why Americans say 'store' more often. Back in the day, before they had shops they would literally sell excess produce/goods etc from their storehouses.

This is incredibly niche! I thought I'd heard about all the teas even if I haven't tried them but this is new to me. Thanks for mentioning it! How did you discover it?

I'm killing time at Customs House before I head up to the Opera House for a concert and the police are currently trying to eject an unhoused guy and I'm not sure how to feel about it. On the one hand he did yell at everyone for a bit but otherwise is just sitting around like the rest of us.

I have been feeling 'off' for about three days (fatigue, no appetite, low grade headache) and have only just realised my symptoms all align to dehydration but I cannot tell you how much liquid I've been drinking, like 2L water and 1L tea a day, wtf?

Genuine LOL

"Hi Tan!"

It was stupefyingly hot today, but on the up side I got a week's worth of laundry done in one hit.

"An AI crash could lead broadly to less spending, fewer jobs, and slower growth, potentially dragging the economy into a recession."

Talk about tech bros suffering from sunk cost fallacy ruining people's actual lives.

Bought a bag at an op shop. The lining was a bit torn but fixable. When I went to sew it up I found out it hadn't even been properly emptied by the previous owner (receipts, plastic bags, unused mask etc) and got annoyed... until I found $2.

a man with long hair is sitting in the driver 's seat of a truck with his eyes closed . Alt: Nic Cage in Con Air: a man with long hair is enjoying a breeze, smiling with his eyes closed

When you can feel the cool change/massive thunderstorm coming.

It's only mid-October and already more than 30C!!!

My fan is on level 3 already!!!

Ice cream for dinner!!!

Turns out shaming Boff for his untidy room on social media worked as he took care of the pigeons. I've only been telling him about it every morning this week.

I took one look at the photo and thought "oh THIS bitch"... Last Week Tonight just did an ep on Weiss and TFP and had a little on her as well.

I am convinced there are baby pigeons on Boff's balcony but his room is a hazard to walk through so I can't check and I can't remove them.

I can hear them ALL DAY. Not even their parents have to listen to them all day, they get to fly out into the world and get food.

"Please be patient. Your prayers are important to us..."

A cup of tea and a bowl of sugar on a black and white background

Sweet teas are made of these: It’s fair to say putting sugar in tea is a colonial invention, and has been debated since.
www.teashirts.com.au/sweet-teas-a...

Blurry boundaries of ‘Western Sydney’ risk masking inequality The lack of a clear definition for Western Sydney is undermining efforts to tackle inequality and segregation across Australia’s largest urban region and Australia’s third largest economy, a new study...

The flashy write-up
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...

From the sydney community on Reddit: UPDATE: So where is ‘Western Sydney’ anyway? Explore this post and more from the sydney community

There was a Reddit callout earlier this year and a subsequent research paper released about it.
www.reddit.com/r/sydney/com...

I just ate a really basic pineapple mooncake and it was really good?

Menswear Guy increasingly seems like the only one who really studied the blade, is the thing.

You, an idiot: goon bag.

The Chinese, a nation of intellectuals:

Shoot your shot!

I love that they are the national bird of Sri Lanka and India has the peacock.

It's SO good. I got all the feels.

I'm digging into my Finnish friends' gift of salmiakki chocolate. I know that's not hot chips but boy is it tasty.