Yahya
My blogs
| Occupation | Just learning: living joyfully! |
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| Location | Mildura, Victoria, Australia |
| Introduction | Software, process & form designer; mathematician, composer, song-writer, poet, artist, gardener, technical writer, systems & business analyst, statistician, linguist, translator, teacher, learner, parent, mentor, friend. I read, write & speak English, Malay, French, German, Spanish & Arabic, some better than others ;-) In the 60s: I was active on the radical Lot's Wife student newspaper at Monash University. Formal studies in pure maths, physics and philosophy. Later, I led & learnt from graphics, music & programming Special Interest Groups for the Melbourne PC User Group. Working in the software industry, I created writing templates and styles, and taught effective writing skills. I take a whole-of-life approach to learning & the arts, since life is so short that specialists forget what they're missing. For each of us anything is possible - with a little help from our friends! So I enjoy helping & encouraging others to the excellence that only they can achieve. Recently retired to the bush, to the sun and fun of Mildura by the Murray River: an UN-tree-change, leaving our suburban jungle for an open river flat. |
| Interests | people, music, art, poetry, languages, bird-song, gardening, social justice, fitness, swimming, design, textiles |
| Favorite Movies | Rain Man (1988), Cinema Paradiso (1988), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Fight Club (1999), Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), Avatar (2009), Samson and Delilah (2009), Amores Perros (2000), A Mi Madre Le Gustan Las Mujeres (2001), AzulOscuroCasiNegro (2006), and many, many more |
| Favorite Music | Wolfgang Mozart, Bach, Haydn, Domenico Scarlatti, me!, Afro-Caribbean, Satie, Arthur Bliss, inventive techno, lots of interesting stuff on SoundCloud |
| Favorite Books | Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift, Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Lady or The Tiger - Frank Stockton, The Country of the Mind - Dan Morgan, Mysterious Skin - Scott Heim, The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury, Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein, Poor Fellow My Country - Xavier Herbert, Capricornia - Xavier Herbert |
You've been invited to a fancy ball but the only thing you have to wear is an orange wooly jumper. What shoes do you wear?
Since I'm not wearing trousers (you DID say that the ONLY thing I have to wear is that orange woolly jumper!), who would notice my shoes - or care anyway?