Samsung Shop Sydney

 We had lunch in the Queen Victoria Building, very pleasant, we talked for hours & then had to hurry to buy a present.

The shops on the upper floors of QVB are wonderful, the top is the best.

I was thinking MS Surface would be a notebook and tablet all in one; but it has not been tried and tested as yet and the first one often has teething difficulties that are sorted out in the 2nd edition.

This is is the premier version of "MS Surface"  more powerful, and can rum all applications, for  business end of  he market.

Samsung Shop Sydney on George Street almost diagonally opposite to Apple Store

My 1st choice in a smartphone it above; I can't wait to touch it  it looks beautiful

Not as crowded as the Apple Store & about one third the size.  Staff are not overly familiar with the products, you had to go up to them for attention: I feel they need more training.

                

I wanted to find out more about the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 smartphone released in Germany 4 days ago, but no one seems to know when or if will be released in Australia.  It was beautiful to touch and hold (Samsung Galaxy Note 1)

What I found very interesting was the Samsung Series 9 notebook it looked as thin and as light as the Apple air notebook.

 I looked at their tablets in all sizes, but non of them came near the iPad retina display.  I would be happy to have the Galaxy Note 2 smartphone, to double as a  tablet and have a notebook for traveling.  But I don't know if it will happen; &  I have left it to late to buy an iPad now, as the new iPad well be released next month.

I think I will just have to buy an iPad and be done with it. As far as display the retina display it is streets ahead of all the tablets I have seen, there are lesions on how to use it which is just as important, no use having it if you can't use it. Then see if  Samsung Note 2 is release in Australia, if not I  still have my little phone & I would be connected with the internet with the iPad which is the important thing for me not phone calls.  Then a notebook is released, that does all the things I want I will buy it, until then I will use my iPad.  I can't bear the vacillation any longer.

Saw the movie 'Chinese Takeway'

Huang Sheng Huang as Jun & Ricardo Darin as Roberto a grumpy man with firm habits.

Jun the unwelcome house guest & Roberto

Winner of  Best Film & the Audience Award at the Rome International Film Festival a story about the relationship between a reclusive Spanish hardware store owner and a Chinese immigrant  thrown together by a twist of fate  The end credits reveal that one of the most unlikely elements of the plot was actually based on an incredible real life incident that gave the writer/director the inspiration of the the film in the first place.  Truth is certainly stranger than fiction.

Father's Day

Dad as a school boy

Dad as a at Hornsby  around 33 years

Dad & Harry early1940
 

 

 Dad & Harry  at Terrigal 1990's

Dad feeding his beloved lorikeets Terrigal

This is my father Don.

I bought some yellow jonquils and purple orchards & took them to the cemetery.  It was so crowded  as if there were a 100 funerals taking place.  Decided on the way home to scan in more of Dad's photos  And list all the things why I am grateful too my father.

He was a strong, genuine, intelligent man, with high moral fiber.   An authoritarian with a strict, ideals.  He put his family's welfare before his own, he worked incredible hard and faced huge obstacles & difficulties, he never complained, and never tasted the fruit of all his hard work.  He never indulged himself with the rewards of this labour, but willing gave it to my mother and I.  My father provided extremely well for my mother and I, much more than I ever imagined.  I was never really sure I would be left anything.  He told me after making out his last will, that his third of the company would go to my mother and not be divided between my mother & I.   I unfortunately took that personally, believing he never loved or trusted me.

I thought he never made anything easy for me, I always had to work hard for what I wanted, unlike my girlfriends who were given things they wanted.  But it is this very issue that I am most grateful and indebted to him.  I never take things for granted, I do not have a feeling of entitlement, & if something does comes my way, I am thrilled and very appreciative.  I am  65 years and I still feel elated when something is easy for me.  That is a wonderful gift to be given; as it last all your life.

He had a keen 'bullshit' detector and summed people up quickly, accurately & precisely.  Brutaly honest at times which would up set me, but my father knew so much more than I ever will, people could not deceive, or trick him, outwit him or dazzle him with new information.  He worked things out for himself and always knew exactly what was what.  This ability was intrinsic & innate in him, which infuriated me, as I was always wrong and couldn't understand why.  Life has taught me I am gullible & naive easily manipulated & manoeuvred to do what others want.

He had an inborn love of animals (which I inherited), and was very patient & understanding with them taking all the time they needed to be trained, but it was 'tough love'  Buster had to learn not to chase cars for his own good, and it was similar with me.  I had to learn what was right and wrong and not get the two mixed up.  



Dad and Buster at French's Forest

 

 

Dad in Second Class front  row, 3rd from the right.

He liked men company, after being brought up by two dotting women he married and got another        two women. He loved cars and mechanical things, built racing cars, and raced them. himself.   He loved the country, land & country life and it was always his pipe dream to have a pig farm with horses and cows, dogs,