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A few weeks back, I was busy making pancakes for 25 surftrip-kids on a hotplate in the middle of the Wilsons Promontory National Park. Uneasy feeling. I was being watched.  Observed. We’re talking teen girls at boyband concert eye-balling. But the hung-over and tired wasn’t really paying any attention. Someone was lurking in trees.

Oh shit.. Kookaburra. I’m dead meat. They may seem cute and all but they fully qualify for the general cuddly-animal rule of Australia: “If it seems really cute, fluffy and all things with sugar on top - Run like hell.”

The cold war of the pancakes was on. Full stakes. Mutually Assured Destruction. These pancakes didn’t have surrender written  I did trash-talking, staring and the occasional move from Karate Kid II accompanied by my spatula.

Australian houses, while nice to look, are really crap in wintertime. The concept of insulation is completely alien and thicker windows than one-pane doesn’t exist. The result of this is that whatever temperature it is outside, it is inside. Fully homogeneous.

Today we had 14 degrees centigrade.

Time to get a new doona.

Every major city in the world have them, poor homeless people begging for spare change.. and wherever there are genuine beggars theres often professional ones too. But. Here in Melbourne we rarely see either of them. Beggars in Melbourne (which you will be confronted by every single day in CBD) are exclusively caucasian young males (with cocky attitudes), quite often with expensive brand clothes, who happen to have run out of coins for the tram. Every bloody day. As if mate..

When I eat a lot of oranges, which I often do given that oranges is both cheap and tasty, I get a lot of.. unwanted gas. The direct effect of this is that my room smell just like burning car tires. Exactly like.

Who needs burning barricades, eating oranges is being revolutionary from the comfort of your own home. Or better yet, someone else’s. It really stinks.

Does the books you read defined who you are? I’m currently reading two books, one on the history of the Internet and the industry that stems from the network technology. The other is on the history of the typewriter and adding machine industry that later evolved into the computer industry.

Today at the bakery when buying bread:

- Would you like that sliced?

- Yes please.

- Do you want Sandwich or Toast slicing?

..it’s definitely the small things.

I wiped out on a big wave during the weekend and managed to get my foot sushi’ed from the fin of my board.. today is the first day I can walk without a limp.

It’s the small things in life..

A girl just got stabbed in the library at my uni.. the library where I usually spend most of my days working on my thesis.

Not today. I decided to work from home. Good call.

One of my goals for this year is to increase my creativity.. do more stuff. Paint. Write. Code. Create. Learn new techniques and mediums. I’m off to a somewhat slow start but I’m getting there. Yesterday I signed up for a course, my first non-uni course ever.

I’m taking Introductory Book Binding..

Time to get oldschool!

Its friday..

..friday means surfing!

Yesterday saw the traditional Surf Club cocktail party which was good fun as usual.. ~350-400 drinks in 3 hours. Messy. Working the bar I had about 0.5 of them in between serving and pouring and cleaning and picking glasses and..and..

A lot of smiling happy faces though..

(except for when the good old bloody mary’s was on the menu)

Dishwashing detergent makes chefs knives really slippery.. and slippery chefs knives make for a really shitty thing to handle without dropping.

Yes I did. It landed on my finger giving me a really nasty cut.. ouch.

I stumbled upon Roland Huntfords The New Totalitarians in the university library..

“Sweden is a relic of the Middle Ages, a State of corporations and communes, and the Swedes are medieval people living only as members of a group. It is the ideal situation for the Incarnation of Brave New World.”

“..the Scandinavian peninsula is not so much a part of Europe as an extension of Siberia”

I’ve already ordered my own copy of this masterpiece..

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I’ve finally uploaded a few new shots from the past 2 months.. emphasis on a few. There is however a photo of my new house in Northcote, go take a look!