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The joy of being able to point to, easily, one’s life work
There was no hesitation at the Sydney Concert Hall to give Burt Bacharach a standing ovation at the end of the concert on Friday. Thank you Burt for letting us sing along too. That was the hardest thing, staying mum when one knew […]
It is done
Now I have a new passport arriving from France with my maiden name, which was already there anyway, but the passport needed to be redone, getting in to the biometrics era. I have received my name change document from the Australian births deaths and marriages office and I just got a letter […]
After several years of dreading the effort, I am now taking the plunge…..
There are two nice ways to pronounce my name Jaurola….. the French and the Finnish way. First is something like ‘Jorola’ [French way] or ‘Yaurola’ [Finnish], emphasis on first syllable. Gosh I started to try and do this in phonetic language – […]
yeah ok, it took me a long time to get avatarized on 2nd life
Now I’ve got my very own ‘girl next door’ figure on second life. First place I had to go to was the popular French dance, sand, romance, music island. While I was learning to walk, sit, fly and do all those […]
Evolving game scene and Sydney Opera House Concert Hall audience
The symphony last night was my son’s choice. He saw one ad for Play! A video game symphony and immediately put in his wish to go hear it. I was more than happy to oblige and it was a night out before he is off […]
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