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Went to see Eskimo Joe at The Forum on Saturday night with Tom and Dave. Was a pretty good gig, but a little dissapointing that they didn’t play some of their older songs. I’ve seen them at The Forum twice previously, the first when they were supporting The Living End in ‘99 and again in ‘03 when they were supporting Alex Lloyd (tool). In the first concert, they played “Sweater”, and in the second they played “Who Sold Her Out” and during both of these songs the crowed went off, even though they were only support acts. Unfortunatly in this concert I dont think they played any songs apart from their last 2 albums, so these classics were left out. Anyways, apart from that it was a good night.

Shika and I went up to Brissy last Friday, as Shika had a Genetics conference from Monday to Thurdsay at the Brisbane Convention Centre on Southbank. The trip started with our flight on Jetstar which was pretty dodgy. It was delayed by about an hour, so it ended up getting to Brisbane at 12:30am. Jetstar hasn’t got allocated seats, instead they have three different coloured tickets (Orange, Blue and Silver), so the earlier you get there the better ticket you get. We got there just after Blue ran out so we were stuck with Silver, the last group. The deal is, when the plane is about to board, they announce which line you have to go to depending on your ticket. Luckily I guessed correctly which line it would be, and we got to the front of the Silver line which meant we could get sets together, but we just missed out on a window seat :(.

We were coolected at the airport by Briony and Trev. They were gonna meet us at the gate, but Briony had a fork in her bag, so the airport staff thought she was a terrorist and wouldn’t let her in. Talking about terrorists, I had a bomb test done on me on the way there and on the way back. Guess I look a bit dodgy. Since we’d gotten into Brisbane, pretty late, we decided not to go out as me and Shika were pretty tired.

On Saturday morning we met Kirsty and Craigs little girl Caitlyn who is about 14 months old. Later, Briony and Trev took us for a drive. First we went up to the Glasshouse Mountains. It was really pretty, and we had an awsome morning tea consisting of blueberry pankcakes, and bacon and eggs.

After that we drove to Mooloolaba on the cost, where we walked along the beach and got our feet wet, but it was too cold for swimming (I know, you reckon I’m weak Tom). Then it was back down to Scarborough where we saw Ann and Pete’s new house that they are building near the beach. The house looks increadible and has a beautiful view over the ocean.

Later that evening we watched the Pies narrowly lose to the Crows, then Simon and Briony took us into Brisbane and showed us the nightlife.

We took it pretty easy on Sunday, went to a shopping centre in Chermside, then me and Trev dropped Shika off at her hotel in Southbank. We were planning on going for a swim in the hotel’s pool, but it wasn’t heated and the weather was on the cool side.

On Monday, me and Trev went to WetnWild. When we got there the carpark was empty and the main gate was closed. We had flashbacks t0 Wally World, but on closer inspection, there was a side entrance opened. Once inside we realise how empty the place was, there can’t have been more than about 20 people in the entire theme park, so it was pretty strange. We got through all the rides, including 2 new ones, in about 90 minutes. After about 2 hours we were bored and decided to go home.

That night I caught the plane back to Melbourne, this time I was lucky enough to get the window seat, so I got to see Melbourne city on the approach to Avalon.

Check out the photos.

Some rediculously cheap tickets on Jetstar today. Shame the website is as slow as a wet week. The below image is for flights to Bali for 2.

Also couldn’t get any tickets on days I actually wanted to fly

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Well, I know its a bit late, and everyone’s forgotten about what happened last Monday night, but I went down to Birrarung Marr (who the fuck came up with that name? Surely there are easier aboriginal names to remember than that) with Jase and met up with Bianca. We were planning to go to Fed Square, but it was closed by the time we got there at 11pm, but it didn’t really bother us too much ‘cos the atmosphere was pretty awsome down by the Yarra. The excitement could be felt in the air walking there, with the hugh crowd converging on Flinders St.

In the first half, we had a fantasic view of the screen, and as the match went on the crowed became more confident of a win. After half time some tall guys stood in front of us restricting my view to about 1/3 of the screen, but that was balanced by one of the Italian players getting a red card. With Australia continually pushing forward, it seemed to be only a matter of time before we scored. However, in the 93rd minute of the match, the unthinkable happened…

The crowed went totally silent, hoping that it was a mistake. Everyone had there hands over their faces, trying to hide from what had happened.

I’d never seen so many people in the city at 3:30am on the walk back to Jase’s. I was quite surprised that the city wasn’t trashed, ‘cos everyone seemed so pissed off.

Went down to Hastings on the weekend, after there was some confusions with making bookings for lunch at Cape Shank. Shika, Tom, Jase, Dave, Megs and myself thought it would be fun to hire a boat, so after asking around at Hastings, they told us the closest place would be Yaringa, a bit further north on Western Port Bay.

When we got there we found out we could hire a little dingy that should be able to fit us all in. The guy told us how do drive it and that we weren’t allowed to go faster than 5 knots in the channel. Soon after we started, we found that wouldn’t be a problem as the boats top speed was about 5 knots.

Most of the boating journey was uneventfull, apart from the awsome seals we saw (which I first thought were divers). They were just playing with each other and came really close to our boat. At one point they even swam underneath it.

Check out the rest of the photos from the weekend.

Hi All,
I’ve been playing around with my photo gallery and come up with a google maps mashup for it. Check it out here. Once you get to the page, click on “View Map” which will show you a map of the world, as well as the locations of all the photos in the gallery. Click on a marker to see the photos taken at that location. Underneth the map the are some links that help in zooming to places of interest.

Also, when you are looking at a particular photo, you can click on “Go to Map” and it will show you where the photo was taken.

Please tell me what you like and what I can do to make it better.

I found this cool product while browsing today. You can make a face talk and put it on your page, its pretty cool. You can make your own at sitepal. Also, seems as if I have an obsession with manipulating virtual faces, as I’ve already blogged something simmilar on 9th March.

Went out for drinks and dinner on Friday night. Drinks was at F4. Whoever’s idea it was to have a bloody bar up four flights of stairs is a wanker. After a few bourbons, my reflexes weren’t as razor sharp as they normally are, and on the way down the stairs I missed one and ended up on my ass, in the process twisting my ankle. For the rest of the night I was hobbling around and everyone else was telling me to stop complaining.

We then walked through the rain to go to Lebanese House for dinner. To our surprise there was a belly dancer, and Dave was lucky enough to get all her attention as seen here ->

Spent Easter at Phillip Island with Shika, Tom, Jase, Dave, Ed, Val, Bianca, Megs and Han.

In hindsight, the Island probably isn’t the best place to go at this time of year. The first time we went to the beach, it started belting down after about an hour. The treck back to the house was ‘tormentuous’, as we had to run through piercing rain and schnitzalising winds for about 20 minutes.

Second trip to the beach didn’t end up being much better, as it was so cold most of us pissed of and headed into Cowes to have a coffee. Tom persisted in swimming, and now he has a cold (although he claims thats not what caused caused it). And we were all looking forward to a good beer battered fish, until we realised that Tom had forgotton to bring the flower. So we grilled half of the fillets and I fried the other half in pancake mixture.

The remainder of time was spent drinking, playing singstar, drinking, playing touch frisby and drinking. Have a look at some more of the photos from the weekend.