The Overnightscape Underground

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Talking as I walk huff huff

33:18 – Topics for this episode: Snippets of audio taken while going about daily life, including topics like ballet flats, listening to podcasts, daylight savings, not changing much since primary school, travelling as a student in Sydney, the right to sit on the train, what I dislike about hot weather (bugs, no air conditioning, finding free air conditioning), trying out Sultana Bran and whether I liked it (eating with milk, and/or with fruit), taking the ‘male’ role at an all girls’ school and chivalry, broken things at home, heat or cold or weather affecting doors, a false ending to the episode then bad smells about the office and finding vermin.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Attribution: Clara Tse.

Released October 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts, and Nai Wong Bao Network, an independent network focusing on Asia Pacific matters.

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Rambles over the course of a day

01:19:46 – Topics for this episode: Not wanting to get up in the morning, warmer weather, changing shower habits, voice in the morning vs evening, KPOP emerging in Australia, changing purposes of a present, my graduation, awkward situations at graduation, camaraderie when graduating with friends, work and uni shouldn’t mix, anime appearing on Australian TV shows (Please Like Me), Madoka Magica, changing attitude to anime (anime watchers that weren’t anime fans, getting into anime in the past, difficulty finding fellow anime fans for a performance, attendance at SMASH! 2015 and the changing anime club and AnimeSydney), Hare Hare Yukai (and our 2009 performance, air-conditioning when it’s warm, Cold Case and Inktober (and both combined), Gaudeamus Igitur played at my graduation and parodies, attending the Frances Yip in Concert… 45 year anniversary concert (getting there, feels like Hong Kong, Andy Lau, iPad photos, stores from Frances Yip, East vs West, genetics manifestation) and a song called ‘Shanghai Beach’.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Attribution: Clara Tse.

Released October 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts, and Nai Wong Bao Network, an independent network focusing on Asia Pacific matters.

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Cyril’s, Capitol and watching YouTube

42:14 – Topics for this episode: A lunch break walk where I go to check out the closed Cyril’s Fine Foods and roam around Capitol Square, featuring traffic noise, Men At Arms forging anime swords, consolidating accounts, fanfiction authors I useed to read, forgetting details, disappearing European shops, warmer weather, bootleg anime stores, the draw of UFO catchers, the changes in Capitol from its gachapon days and the disappearance of pachinko machines, vegetarian options at Harry’s Cafe de Wheels, drinks, Japanese forging, university qualifications vs vocational ones, setting yourself up to fail and still being just a kid.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Attribution: Clara Tse.

Released October 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts, and Nai Wong Bao Network, an independent network focusing on Asia Pacific matters.

Thanks for listening to this podcast. (´∀｀) 多謝你！

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Stories from Chinese School

01:26:59 – Starting Chinese school, texts and patterns of learning, poem recitals (‘Climbing a Mountain’, ‘Calendar’), using English to write down word pronounciations (vs use of bopomofo), stories such as 畫蛇添足 (draw snake add legs), 草船借箭 (To Borrow Arrows with Thatched Boats), memorised poems (‘Before the bed there is a bright moon’, ‘Returning Home’), some Chinese songs (incl. Chinese version of a popular song from 1989, a Chinese opening theme for a TBV drama), and more.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licxence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Attribution: Clara Tse.

Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts, and Nai Wong Bao Network, an independent network focusing on Asia Pacific matters.

Thanks for listening to this podcast. (´∀｀) 多謝你！

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Shopping at Daiso, Chatswood

01:15:36 – Halloween in Australia , the spirit of Halloween despite not celebrating it officially, songs playing in the store, changing prices over the years, glassware and ceramics from Japan and other countries, food sold in Daiso Japan, Japanese on various crockery, smashing fragile glass or ceramic items in a shop, further drooling over crockery, hair accessories, measuring systems in the US vs UK, Japanese snacks and sweets (Pocky, youkan, hard and gumi candies, sauces, dried foods), fake flowers and carp streamers, Engrish on Japanese products and more.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Attribution: Clara Tse.

Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts, and Nai Wong Bao Network, an independent network focusing on Asia Pacific matters.

Thanks for listening to this podcast. (´∀｀) 多謝你！

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My thoughts on Instagram

25:41 – Topics for this episode: Why I’ve been conscious about the way I use Instagram, an account run by a former colleague, Instagram philosophy from about a year ago and my thoughts of Instagram in the present, self promotion and trying to be more active across all kinds of networks.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Attribution: Clara Tse.

Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts, and Nai Wong Bao Network, an independent network focusing on Asia Pacific matters.

Thanks for listening to this podcast. (´∀｀) 多謝你！

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This experience that experience

43:02 – Vegetarian for a month, difficulties when living with parents, meat substitutes, Chinese vegetarian cuisine as part of Buddhist culture, vegetarian fast food, different peoples reactions, Lord of the Fries, feminine issues that weren’t and various other late night ramblings.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Attribution: Clara Tse.

Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts, and Nai Wong Bao Network, an independent network focusing on Asia Pacific matters.

Thanks for listening to this podcast. (´∀｀) 多謝你！

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Mediaeval Faire at St Ives

01:16:19 – Wayward playing a track from their ‘Rota Fortunae’ album, trying to record an explanation of the performance group while the members play over the top of her, what seems to be an explanation of shawm players and reeds, being at the Mediaeval Faire at St Ives, Clara tries to identify spices used in Medieval cooking, Clara takes a pamphlet, wood smoke, talking to a craftsman about metal/wirework, talking to a craftsman about his woodwork (he plays an instrument, whittling), being ‘natural’ for photography, searching for a Sydney-based medieval/re-enactment/swordfighting-as-a-martial-arts group, reenactment groups, continuing my search for a Sydney-based group, conversations, sword fighting sounds, weather, sounds of the faire as I shop, ‘forks’ and serving knives of medieval times plus social status, eating knives, knowledge sharing, smells and observations, walking into a ‘tavern’ and not having enough cash, someone blowing their horn… literally!

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Attribution: Clara Tse.

Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts, and Nai Wong Bao Network, an independent network focusing on Asia Pacific matters.

Thanks for listening to this podcast. (´∀｀) 多謝你！

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Policing and Career

44:05 – Line of Duty and police corruption, Australian accents, effect of podcasting on speech and the way I talk, self-consciousness, ignorance and exhaustion, juxtaposition of tone and character when talking to someone close vs someone less close (intimate/non-intimate conversations), treating the self as a stranger, purpose of shared hobbies and interests in breaking barriers, non-typical introversion and a sense of alienation, Recruits (not Police Academy), wanting to be a police officer, needing excitement and being ‘in the thick of it’ vs the mundanity of daily life, building expectation (or lack thereof), office work, changing career goals, motivations (self-motivation and parent-driven, formal education), fate of designers and change.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Attribution: Clara Tse.

Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts, and Nai Wong Bao Network, an independent network focusing on Asia Pacific matters.

Thanks for listening to this podcast. (´∀｀) 多謝你！

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Time Periods and MH4

48:08 – Topics for this episode: Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, liking the Medieval and Regency periods of history, women in these time periods, looking back to simpler and different life styles, Medieval Fair in St Ives coming up, looking for tunics and armour, female warriors in Medieval times, Medieval Day in high school, just getting out there and trying, Sengoku period and other Japanese periods, more HM4U gameplay and some swearing.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Attribution: Clara Tse.

Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts, and Nai Wong Bao Network, an independent network focusing on Asia Pacific matters.

Thanks for listening to this podcast. (´∀｀) 多謝你！