The ultimate Experience

Although admittedly the quality had to suffer bunches in a few cases I wanted to bring my Australian life a little closer to you. The sensual experience of the internet is limited. If not by sending you packages with dog fur or a cold and wet cleaning cloth I cannot make you touch what I touch. But maybe I can at least make you feel emotions like joy or curiosity?

The internet does give me some, even though limited, power.

The taste experience.

Taste what I and the Aussies taste.

- Stir Fry

For the marinade mix 

3 tablespoons of oyster sauce

3 tablespoons of sweet chili sauce

1 tablespoon  of soy sauce

1 clove crushed garlic

1 cm piece grated ginger

-> let diced salmon or chicken sit in the marinade.

For the vegetables cut up

broccoli

capsicum

carrot

zucchini

While you cook the rice, heat up oil in wok and fry the vegetables in it. Then add salmon/chicken and the marinade and keep frying until cooked. Serve with rice. -

If that recipe doesn't please your taste buds enough, try this simple desert:

- Frozen Berry Yoghurt

Pour a desired amount of frozen berries into a bowl. Add plain yoghurt. Add some milk and stir until combined. Optional: Add honey. Done -

Easy as that, but very tasty! Those are two recipes from my everyday life. We cook pretty much the same things every week. Spaghetti Bolo, Chicken Schnitzel, Stir Fry, Sausage Risotto, Pizza. Sometimes, rarely, we make Nachos.

The listening experience.

Hear what fills my ears.

In the 3rd Track, when you can here the kids counting, those are only James and Katie. Alastair was to busy eating his cereal to join. Can you guess what you heard at the end? (Manu, I am sorry to say, you cannot guess with the others, because I am sure you have heard this sound before and now exactly, what it is ;) )

If you want to get into my mood while listening, try these songs. (Now we can get the feeling part after all ! ) I hear them multiple times a week and just won't get sick of them :D

Love me Again

Counting Stars

Royals

and a small bit homeland: Whatever Parodie

The viewing experience.

Photographs are nothing new of course. I must say I am pretty proud of myself concerning one specific photograph, taken only two days before.

While the big Grand Finals were on - Big Time for the dockers: in their 19 years existence they never made it to the finals before - Katie and I took off to the foreshore to do some quick photographing. Sadly we only had a half hour's time, but that must be very well used!

Why am I proud, even though Katie has obviously taken that picture displayed above? Well, she did push the button, but I took care of the settings in manual mode! For the first time, I controlled shutter speed, aperture, ISO and focus all by myself. I checked the settings on Katie and didn't mean to be in the picture at all. But if you want something to look exactly like you imagine, you have to do it yourself sometimes ;)

I also did some editing on it, which I am fairly happy with. You will notice what I did, when comparing it to the shot below.

So, although the viewing experience isn't all too new, I am still happy to present you with the photos above.

The multimedia experience.

Wait, you can do viewing and listening AT ONCE? Oh yes. Yes, you can. Even though blogspot has sucked out all the quality of it (and the editing isn't done gloriously either), I am presenting you with a spontaneous, happy little cheer up video, I put together for beloved Nate the other day. And really. Whenever you are bored, sad, angry, desperate, feeling spontaneous or already happy: Turn up music (remember, I gave you some songs above) and give the house a rock.

I love you all.

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