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Sunday, 28 May 2006 - GO THE CRUSADERS!

Bigger competition - same result! Having won five of the previous ten Super 12 tournaments (including last year), we topped the round-robin ladder, demolished the Bullsacks 35-15 in the semi-final, and finished off with 19-12 against the Hurricanes in a game largely dominated by the weather! Christchurch turned it on with incredibly thick fog that only worsened as the game progressed (that mist behind Richie isn't his aura ;) Apparently people sitting up the back of the stands couldn't see a thing, and so they all pissed off to the pub to watch the game instead. As for the players, well they couldn't see much more and there were a lot of handling errors by both sides, but after spending around 80% of the game in the Hurricane's territory, the Crusaders were too good, again :) Pea-soup fog or not I wish I could've been there to see them, but at least I did get to see them wipe the floor with the Reds at Suncorp way back in round 2.

Monday, 28 May 2006 - "Oh man, I got no idea what's goin on!" - Towlie, South Park (after a joint)

Bit of action in my building today. I'm actually working down the road at a client site but had to I whip back for something and was greeted by all this - sweet! Over the last few months part of the ground level has been smashed up and rebuilt for a new ABC Learning Centre to go in (so we're going to have screaming bloody kids running around all day soon). Somehow, over the course of the weekend, a whole lot of paint fumes got sucked right throughout the building via the air conditioning, and several people got far too high on it as the morning progressed and had to be attended to by paramedics hahaha! I went for a wander inside and there was a pretty decent odour in there, and I came out feeling pretty happy too hehe ;)

Thursday, 1 June 2006 - Happy Birthday to me ;)
Yup, the big 24 today - eek ;) I give myself a present every year: a day off work. The weather forecast for this weekend is crap so I figured I'd make the most of the mint weather today and go for a burn. Destination: Bribie Island.

Nothing like a good murder-suicide to start a birthday off! Getting to Bribie involves catching a train north to Caboolture, and from there it's a 20km open-road ride. Quick five-minute detour from Caboolture station first. 24 hours earlier some guy came round to this guy's house, sorted him out, and then sorted himself out while a chick ran out of the house screaming her head off! Up the road there is the Ten News crew. I didn't realise until after I biked past them that they were actually recording, so I was probably on the news again.
The only way onto the island is this long-ass bridge. And as the road is not wide enough to accommodate a bike amongst the traffic...		...the only way across this long-ass bridge for me is this skinny-ass path which is only just wider than my handlebars! So if somebody comes from the other end then somebody's fucked because you can't even turn around haha!
I think I saw Sarah and Paulie squashed on the road ;)		Oh wait here they are.
Aside from the cycle path running along the coast and everything along the main street, there isn't really a lot to see or do here, but I was told as much beforehand.
Be that as it may, the island is quite pretty and just like Cleveland and the Gold Coast etc. there are plenty of big houses, big boats, and flash cars. However, I got talking to a local (long story) and he said I should watch out for traffic because 58% of the drivers are over 65 hahaha! When I left him I soon realised he was right though, and some of the driving was pretty questionable!
Looking north along the coast towards that long-ass, skinny-ass bridge.		More Sarahs and Paulies ;)
Pretty :) After learning 58% of the drivers are dangerous, I largely stuck to the cycle paths hehe.
Ha! Yeah right.		So that's Bribie. About the most exciting part of the day was when my watch clicked over to 4:02pm (6:02pm New Zealand time) and I officially turned 24 hehe. Yup, 24 years ago Mum was screaming and the doc was spanking my ass!

Monday, 5 June 2006 - I'm coming home!
Hell yeah! I'll be back for a visit from the 12th through to the 25th of July, so if you want to catch up...

Thursday, 8 June 2006 - 42 Below, made in Sydney, New Zealand?
This here is an email forward that I don't really understand, but it's funny anyway.

Monday, 12 June 2006 - Queen's Birthday
Queen's Birthday in Aussie today - love the long weekends :) The weather was utter crap all weekend (although we really do need the rain) so I was stuck inside studying and the legs were starting to itch hehe. I was complaining to Mo a while back that I'd virtually run out of new places to ride and she had a good idea: start at my gate and head right, then take the first left, then first right, then first left, and so on and see where I end up. Alrighty then!

I found a few interesting things while going around the side-streets: this incredibly steep hill that got me up to 60km/h on the way down without any pedalling whatsoever (I busted my arse back up it just to come down again hehe - fun)...		This chick loading up her car with stuff that people had left at the Salvation Army depot (which had a sign out front saying not to leave shit while they're closed because people nick it hahaha!)...
This little BMX track that I had some bloody good fun on for about 10 minutes (hence all the skid marks)...		And several cycle paths I knew nothing about - sweet!
A panorama of Panorama Street :)
After about two hours of this (mostly) left-right-left-right shit, I ended up round the Everton Hills, Arana Hills, and Ferny Hills suburbs, which as the names suggest are bloody hilly and although there wasn't much of interest it was somewhere new nonetheless. The shot on the right is looking back towards the city, about 12kms away.
I came home via Suncorp Stadium which overlooks Hale Street (my street) and noticed a bit of action below. Part of Hale Street is downhill and being a 70km/h freeway people just love to scream down it right past my house (myself included on the bike hehe) and today the cops were loving catching them. The white Mitsubishi on the right slammed on the anchors when he saw the cops ahead and made a nice long loud skid hahaha - it was good to watch! So anyway that was my day starting right out of my gate, next time I'll start left and see where I end up.

Tuesday, 13 June 2006 - Go the Socceroos, I suppose!

It's been a long time coming but the Socceroos finally managed to pull one out of their arse and qualify for the World Cup for the first time in 32 years. I'm not big on Australian sports teams but this lot really are one of the biggest underdogs of the competition and so I'm actually backing them for a change ;) The highly-anticipated first match against the Japs last night had the entire country in a frenzy after the Roos downed them 3-1 (what an intellectual looking bunch they are), and had the Roos players running around celebrating in typical homosexual style hehe. Sounds like they're going to get dicked by Brazil on Sunday though so lap it up while you can boys.

Monday, 19 June 2006 - Minipops
This thing was doing the rounds at work a while back, and might keep you occupied for while (I can get you the answers if need be :)

Thursday, 22 June 2006 - Wizardy
Wizardy - this is very trippy, see if you can figure it out :)

Sunday, 25 June 2006 - Thomas In Da Club
Right well I haven't really done much over the last couple of weeks, mainly because I was studying hard for the last of three exams for a Microsoft certification that I've now finally attained after nine long months (which makes me an officially certified geek), but also because after months of nothing but constant sunshine the weather's turned to constant crap! But anyway, during the last couple of weeks that I've been doing nothing of note, a couple of things have come up that may mean I'll be leaving Brisbane at or about the end of August. Two weeks ago I received an unofficial job offer from an ex-Mincom employee (Mincom being the company I work for) who I worked with on a project for a few months before he relocated to Toronto, Canada to work for a Mincom client. Aware of my intentions to travel, he highly recommended me to his manager who is currently looking for someone with my skill set for full time work. I emailed my resume the following day and it sounds like they're very interested. If they decide they want me, I've decided I will go and put my plan to relocate to the United Kingdom on hold for another year or two. Toronto is on the opposite side of Lake Ontario from New York State, so it would be very easy me for to travel around the USA from there which would be bloody great! So that's one potentiality. the other is Mo has planned a month-long trip around western and southern Europe during September, and as short notice as it is, I may join her which would mean I'd have to relocate to the UK around the end of August. Before all of this came up I was intending to leave Brissy in December, go home for Christmas, and then head over to the UK, but now who knows - everything is still very much up in the air. I'll either go to Canada in August, UK and Europe in August/September, or the UK after Christmas.

In the meantime, this was emailed to me today which had me nearly pissing myself: Thomas in da Club.

Wednesday, 28 June 2006 - Love a good protest!

I haven't seen a good piss-and-whinge protest for a while - even Santa turned up! This was all over John Howard's new industrial relations laws that essentially give employers the right to fire whoever, whenever, for whatever - not matter how pathetic the reason. The idea was to give employers more power to get rid of unproductive scumbags where previously they couldn't, but some took it too far and sacked single mothers with ten kids etc. and created a massive outcry. Look, even Ronald McDonald has been labelled a bad bastard!
The march brought half the city to a stand-still for a good half-hour or so, and attracted an enormous number of spectators.
I didn't realise it at the time but later on the news I heard the guy on the very right of the shot on the left was holding a placard supporting the new laws hahaha, that's brave! The shot on the right is what he would've seen (he was standing on the intersection corner). Apparently a few people did rough him up a little hehe, but I didn't see anything.
Whether or not John Howard took much notice, they all did a good job of wreaking traffic chaos throughout town! The buses above aren't parked at bus stops - there was a line of them stretching about a kilometre along Adelaide Street hehe. They would've been stuck there for close to an hour along with any other traffic unfortunate enough to be in the area. So yeah always great to see a good protest. I don't think we've had one since the Abo's burnt a flag last Australia Day, and just like their boomerangs that one came back on them, there were criminal charges laid over that hehe.

Tuesday, 4 July 2006 - Just another day in town!

The air conditioning in our building shit itself today and the place was roasting, so I went for another wander for an hour to get the hell outta there! As per usual there's always some sort of entertainment going on somewhere in town. Today there was this fella who occasionally sets up camp in Queen Street Mall and sells his spray paint art (similar to this guy, except the bloke above isn't quite right in the head - that'll be the years of huffing on the fumes).
Further along the mall was this guy putting on a show. And much like myself he wasn't camera-shy. He noticed me lining him for the shot on the left and so stopped and posed for me hahaha!
His grand finale was to juggle an apple, a ten-pin bowling pin, and a machete while balancing atop this ten-foot ladder. Furthermore, he would eat the apple in the process - even the goths were intrigued hehe! Incidentally, when I first turned up he was balancing this ladder up on his chin hahaha - I just missed getting a photo of that!
And he's off! He ate the apple by hastily stuffing it in his mouth, taking a bite, and spitting the apple back out to continue juggling it - he managed three bites before he messed up completely and dropped everything (and almost fell off the ladder - I would've given him money for that!)

Saturday, 8 July 2006 - GO THE ALL BLACKS!

The All Blacks took on the Wallabies in the opening game of both the Bledisloe Cup and the Tri Nations tonight at my home ground, Jade Stadium (too bad the game wasn't next weekend as I could've gone!). With perhaps the exception of the first 15 minutes, the Aussies were outplayed, outclassed, and simply outdone by the All Blacks, going down by two tries and 20 points to finish 32-12. And judging by the picture on the left it's no wonder, they look like a pack of animalistic morons. The boys are coming here for another Bledisloe Cup game on the 29th of July at Suncorp Stadium, I'll go to that one but there's nothing like being amongst a Canterbury crowd at home.

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