Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life! I'm a Violinist and doing what I love is often interestingly contrasted with the reality of getting to do what I love...
6 Sep 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
Ah.... this was a day that my wife and I were looking forward to... well, probably just me... I'm not really sure that my wife was fussed one way or another about it! It is now a bit over 3 months since I had my vasectomy... and that means that...
4 Sep 2022 5 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash Since I have arrived back into Australia, I have had the opportunity to interact more with students from a secondary and tertiary level as a teacher/tutor/mentor/guide. This takes place either at a youth orchestra sett...
3 Sep 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash Well.. I have to say that returning back to Australia is quite weird in many ways... as I've mentioned before, I left Australia when I was a student... a completed Master's student... but still, at heart... I felt like...
2 Sep 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Now that I'm heading down to Sydney much more regularly for work, it means that I'm able to start exploring around more when looking for food. I've found that I'm tending to stay in the area near Central Station on the Surry Hills side and I'm s...
1 Sep 2022 5 minute read 0 comments bengy
Ahhh... there are very few things more exciting than having a bit of extra per-diem money weighing down your wallet and the prospect of visiting a comic book store (or a coin store!). It is a sort of child-like moment of pure joy... the expectat...
29 Aug 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
I've been meaning to replace my bulky wallet and key ring for quite some time now... but it has been sort of hard to do. I hate getting new anythings (except for games, instruments, and tech gadgets...)... I'm sort of a creature of habit in that...
26 Aug 2022 1 minute read 2 comments bengy
Ahhhh.. the eternal dilemma of a travelling musician... to go with the orchestra/ensemble provided hotel or to book your own accommodation? If you go with the provided option, it is just so much easier... and you will generally get something tha...
25 Aug 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Sigh.... I hate recording sessions... and most of the musicians that I know also detest them as well. There are so many reasons for this... but for me, it is a sort of culmination of music by committee that sometimes infects a group. Well, it is...
23 Aug 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash You can find previous Brain Dumps here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21. Part 22, P...
22 Aug 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
It has been a crazily long time since I was last in Brisbane... over two decades! Wow, that sort of dates me a little bit... but when I was last here, it was a much quieter northern state capital... quiet and much less developed and cosmopolitan...
