August 2006
30-Aug-2006
- You have been blogged
My friends are often joking
around that every moment I spend with them is getting blogged.
So here are some of those moments :-)
I had a pretty quiet weekend...
mainly because me and Jules could not find anywhere to go
clubbing. It was saturday night and Gas emailed everyone
saying they would be open (after it had 30 bullets in its
front door on thursday night). So I was thinking 'why not'..
i'm sure it would be a lot more heavily protected by undercover
police officers and the like and would probably be safer
than usual.
But a couple of hours later
I got another email saying it was no longer going to open.
Talk about last minute changes. So me and Julian went to
Kings X to the World Bar, but it looked really really packed
so we thought we'd give Plastic a go. We drove all the way
over to Tailors near central station only to realise that
Plastic is on a friday night, not a saturday! Man its been
a while since i've been to a plastic night.
Anyway we couldnt find anywhere
to go, even looked in 3D world. By the time we remembered
chinese laundry it was already 2am. And apparently there
was a 5 room drum and bass party in the inner west. DAMN!!
So we spent the night hanging around the city watching everyone
else go clubbing.
Last night Tim H and Ben
C came over and we had pizza and played some xbox. I ate
the leftover pizza for lunch today mmmm. We had a walk around
darling harbour, raced the monorail (you can outrun it!
I should try outrunning it all the way around the city one
time) and ate ice cream. yumm.
Ok thats all for now. YOU
HAVE BEEN BLOGGED.
18-Aug-2006
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Planes:
The world has gone terrorism crazy at the moment. A woman
had a panic attack on a plane due to claustrophobia. She
was handcuffed and the plane was diverted to another airport
escorted by two F-16 fighter jets. All the passengers were
searched, and all the luggage was laid out on the runway
and checked. A bit over the top?
Trains:
Yesterday on the way home from Chatswood, my train stopped
between Chatswood and Artarmon stations. Apparently there
was a "mechanical fault" on one of the carriages
whatever that means. The trains in both directions were
stopped and the driver got out and walked along the tracks
to sort out the issue. After about 15 minutes of sitting
in between stations we finally moved onto artarmon where
they spent another 5-10 minutes looking at things.
All this was in peak hour
on the busiest rail line in Australia (the west sydney /
northern line). Eventually we were told we all had to get
off at Artarmon, and the train left empty. The following
train got very very full, and people could not get on at
any of the stations.
When I got off at town hall
there were so many people on the platform that security
was preventing people from going downstairs onto the platform.
It was a mess. 1 train stuffs up and the whole system goes
crazy.
Automobiles: To
top it off, I then went to my mums place and on the way
there was a lot of traffic on the M4 because a number of
cars had been involved in an accident. What a mess.
16-Aug-2006
- Snowing in Pyrmont?
I came home yesterday and
as I was walking along the street I saw something that looked
like a pile of snow on the side of the road. I thought it
was strange but then thought it might have been something
dumped at the side of the road.
Then as I walked further
towards Ultimo, I saw all the fruit and leaves of the trees
stripped from them and lying on the ground. It immediately
reminded me of the huge hail storm that hit Sydney in the
90's, where I saw the same thing.
The streets were lined with
what looked like snow. All the grass was covered in it.
I had a close look at it and realised it was millions of
little hailstones.
I had seen a big storm coming
in from Chatswood earlier, but hadnt seen anything but a
sprinkle of rain. I was amazed that it had hailed, and the
hail was everywhere.
So I quickly went over to
my car to make sure it was ok. There was hail all over the
windscreen of my car, and on the roof, but thankfully nothing
was damaged.
Lucky for me!
15-Aug-2006
- Funny paintball photo
I found this funny paintball
photo of me from a few years back.. I thought I'd share
it with the world..
Military Ray
14-Aug-2006
- Reunion
And i'm not talking about
the 10-year school anniversary type reunion.
As I was browing through
Google
Earth, by chance I came across an island I have never
heard of in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar
called Reunion. If you have never used Google Earth before
then click on the link above and download it! Its well worth
it!!
Reunion
Reunion is an amazing place
to look at in Google Earth when you turn the terrain feature
on and adjust the tilt as you look at the island. It is
a volcanic island that pokes high out of the ocean and has
some amazing volcanic craters. Click
this if you already have Google Earth installed. If
it downloads as a zip, then open up the internal kml file.
Some interesting things
about Reunion:
So there you go. Amazing
the things you discover on Google Earth. You could browse
all day on it!
8-Aug-2006
- Disappearance
No, I'm not dead.
But I have been sick for
a while and havent been going out or doing much, so there
was nothing really much to blog about. Hmm.. and there still
isnt :-)
Except for my neighbours
who I cant stand. They make so much noise all the time.
I cant wait until they leave (if they ever do!). SHUT UP!
ahem.
ok maybe not blogging for
a while was a good thing.