spring

November 15, 2009

I love this season. It gets really warm and all the flowers come out. This has been an amazing year for flowers, everywhere I look, both in our garden and elsewhere, I am surprised by how beautiful plants are when they decide to flower.


yellow watermelon

November 15, 2009

I picked up a slice of yellow watermelon from my local Coles this week. Whilst it’s very peculiar looking, it tastes pretty much the same as normal watermelon.

Yellow Watermelon


uk ireland 1999: 10 year anniversary redux

November 8, 2009

This month marks the tenth year anniversary of my very first trip overseas. In 1998 I finished school and had just turned seventeen, so I decided to take a year off before starting Uni. I ended up working in Australia in a cafe for about nine months, then spending just under three months backpacking overseas. I went with Kitty, who I started dating in year ten in high school. We went to the UK, Ireland, Paris and Thailand.

Some of the things I remember from the trip were:

  • Wondering what the fuck we were doing after being grilled by British Immigration after a 30 hour journey over;
  • Being well and truly sick of seeing castles after navigating our way completely around England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales;
  • Thinking the Avebury stones were better than Stonehenge because you could actually touch them;
  • Freezing our buts off, everywhere we went; and never being able to manage a hot, or at least warm, shower in any hostel we stayed (says something about our budget);
  • Visiting my first ever Starbucks;
  • Thinking Glasgow was cool, even though people told us not to stay there;
  • Being admitted to hospital in Cork, Ireland for the first time in my life, with the worse case of food poisoning I will ever endure;
  • Deciding at the last minute to travel to Paris from London for our last day in Europe. We slept in the bus overnight on the way over and arrived at 3 am. We then left the same day at midnight and slept in the bus on the way back. The bus drove onto a ferry on the way over, and drove into a train (channel tunnel) on the way back;
  • Ireland using a different currency called a Punt, which no longer exists with the Euro;
  • Everything being so darn expensive, considering one dollar bought less than 40 pence and I just saved all my money working as a 17 year old in a cafe for $8 an hour;
  • Getting to Thailand at the end and actually having money left.

Good times.


a brand new baby was born yesterday

October 25, 2009

“A brand new baby was born yesterday,
Just in time
Papa cried, baby cried
Said, your tears are like mine.”
~ Jack Johnson – “If I Could

At 11:23 am yesterday, Junior Pixels entered this world. He’s a beautiful, happy and healthy baby, and I am very proud of his Mama for doing so well.

My plumerias also flowered yesterday for the first time in two years. Beautifully timed.

Frangipanis 25 Oct 2009


usa redux

October 21, 2009

Whilst cleaning up some old papers this evening, in preparation for junior pixels, I found a bag of memorabilia from the USA that Kitty had set aside for me. Rather than keep the various brochures, I thought I would take some photos and keep them on here to refer back to.


google bar code

October 7, 2009

I really like the image on the Google home page today. It’s for the anniversary of the invention of the barcode and looks really cool.

Google Barcode


sometimes you know today you’re gonna have a good time

October 4, 2009


a message to you, rudy

September 22, 2009

This is fantastic, listen to it and you can’t not smile.