Rolling Stone

Coming to the end of a string of corporates which was fun and lucrative. Also shot a short film where I met an ambitious, possibly talented beautiful Chinese actress. Hmmmm…

On a small note, I was able to update the firmware on my camera and therefore will be able to use these cheap adapters to record more footage on solid state memory- woo hoo. I am also able to afford to now pay off my overdraft, buy a few more bits of kit and even put aside some savings.

Tonight I met some friends of my folks again who are from Shengyang in north east China. They are nice people. I was reminded again of my absolute desire to learn everything Chinese and specifically the Mandarin dialect. I have been invited to learn from them and they learn English from me. I was before but didn’t get around to it. It reminded me of this innate desire above all desires. On the same side, it continually makes me feel a little trapped in this country I have no desire to stay in. But my work is here, and my family reside here, though a predominate of my interests do not. Live where you live, and then move on.


The G20 have disbanded and the protest didn’t amount to much- no surprises there. If I was there to protest, which I declined an offer to, I would probably be trying to raise awareness about the fallacies and evils of Facebook- not trying to blame the banks and not my own debt creation; not trying to push for more cuts in CO2 constraints but trying harder to constrain my own. We cannot change world leaders agendas with a placard- there are ways- but not this way. We can change local politics and local movements, our friends and the circle of people we know. The world is not as it is- it is what we make it- though we have to observe the means and intents in which to do so. If we are so naive as to think we can do so with a march and a placard, we are as responsible for the state of the world as those who run it- if not already. The problems facing humans in the next 100 years is very possibly fatal and it needs the grand idea and action implemented together if we are to prevail as a civilization. Judging by the protests, we may just may be a little too unwise to flourish, but we have the possibility to survive in smaller numbers.

“You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need…”

- J