Notes #21

11 Nov, 2026

Oct 25 - Nov 11
It's summer here!

Doing well on my weekly runs, I love my weekend 10-12km runs, got so much to see on the way. Also did a few treadmill "uphill" workouts.
Unfortunately, I did not get a spot for the 2027 Sydney Marathon. Blame the ballot! (I also didn't get any spot last year when I was in SH). I will try my luck at next year's Melbourne Marathon, it will be some time in October, so gives more training time.

I went to the Potts Point area in Sydney last weekend. This is an art-deco neighbourhood with lots of classic and well designed apartment buildings. I really love this architectural style and we had them as well in Shanghai in the concessions during the 1920s. Here in Sydney, art deco buildings are mostly residential, back home they were more hotels, cinemas, office towers etc. Potts Point seems a really nice place to live in, also close to the harbour and CBD.

I attended an event and heard Ted Chiang in person, at the Powerhouse Museum in Parramatta. He came to Sydney for the opening events at the museum, how lucky! Chiang has been one of my favourite Sci-Fi writers. I got my book signed!!
I am reading The Knave and the Moon, by Rachel Gillig and almost finished. This is the second book after The Knight and the Moth, which was a very nice book I liked from last year. The writing is exceptional and the medieval atmosphere is whimsical. However, I have a similar thought as the first book that the plot is quite bland, there are tournaments going on as the main storyline, but each of them kind of just go quickly without noticing. I do like all the main characters though.
Continue reading the classic Dracula by Bram Stoker. I got this beautiful version with a faux-leather cover at Dymocks. Still at the beginning of the story. I printed the dragon tail bookmark!

Super super late to the game, but I started watching Supernatural from season 1, haha. Why did I miss it? Was it because back then I was so into Teen Wolf? No idea. But it has become my new knitting companion.

Joined the body of the Isabel Top, and now just working in the rounds to grow it longer. I am used to the lace chart now and it goes quite quickly.