rastplats

daniel — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:10:32 +0000

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.

Winter

daniel — Tue, 22 May 2007 10:52:23 +0000

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.

Spare Change

daniel — Sun, 20 May 2007 15:14:50 +0000

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..

Totally useless information

daniel — Thu, 17 May 2007 13:34:48 +0000

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.

Who Me Nerd?

daniel — Sun, 13 May 2007 13:53:10 +0000

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.

Better than sliced bread

daniel — Thu, 10 May 2007 15:45:04 +0000

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 Can Walk

daniel — Wed, 09 May 2007 04:58:36 +0000

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..

University Violence

daniel — Tue, 08 May 2007 07:03:21 +0000

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.

Creativity

daniel — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:12:03 +0000

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!

TGI Friday

daniel — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:36:53 +0000

Its friday..

..friday means surfing!