AUSTRALIA | Monday, 30 Aug 2010 | Views [951]
An SMS from Mikey about playing golf brought me back to reality. I crawled out of a bed occupied by a Finnish co-worker breathing dreamily in the aftermath of a night not spent sleeping. It then dawned on me that I'm late, in the normal sense of the ... Read more >
Tags: beach, partying
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 21 Aug 2010 | Views [1534]
As another utopian dry season twilight silences
the usual fun and frivolity of communal life in the staff crap shack, I use the
rare moments of peace to finally bring this journal up to date. I take another
long slurp of my frangelico and ... Read more >
Tags: friends, partying, work
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 14 Jul 2010 | Views [2137] | Comments [1]
I'm working up a sweat just
thinking about what to write. That's not because I'm whipping my brain like a
pack horse, it's just a constant by-product of life in Broome. Compared to
Hobart, it's like living inside an active volcano. Given that ... Read more >
Tags: friends, work
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 19 May 2010 | Views [1405]
Exchanging vows always sounded like a great idea to me if it involved swapping a 'no drinking' vow for a 'no stabbing' vow. When it entailed a life membership to monogamous loving, I often felt the need to reaffirm my 'no stabbing' vow. Like the inside ... Read more >
Tags: friends, partying, weddings
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 18 May 2010 | Views [1069]
Time has come for the winter migration. The chill slid into Hobart like the stranger who steals your seat at the bar, all bright eyes and cheesey smile. The trees decided not to fight the cold and burnt their leaves off in a fiery display of natures' ... Read more >
Tags: friends, partying, work
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 21 Apr 2010 | Views [1972]
With time expiring on my tenure in
Tasmania, it seemed appropriate to take in a bit more of the state
before I left. The North Western town of Burnie would probably not
feature on any sane persons list of tourist destinations, and had it
not ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, food, people
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 21 Apr 2010 | Views [1271]
I was checking in for my flight from
Port Macquarie to Melbourne. The kind lady tagging my luggage assumed
that I would happily declare anything illegal or dangerous I was
smuggling. I was two hours early for the flight and panting like
being ... Read more >
Tags: friends, work
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 20 Mar 2010 | Views [2478] | Comments [1]
This seasons fashion is idiocy, best
expressed through missed flights and further unnecessary expenditure.
While the finger of blame could stray slightly towards others, I must
accept full responsibility for uncovering more and more unusual ... Read more >
Tags: flying, friends, misadventures, party
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 10 Mar 2010 | Views [2692]
Would it be wrong for this anti pugilist to admit he loves watching the toughest dudes on the planet pummel the bejesus out of each other? As it further confirms the contradictory nature of my personality, and my tendency to spend every penny I earn, ... Read more >
Tags: adrenalin, friends, sports
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 4 Mar 2010 | Views [1051]
I need a holiday after all this talk
about commitment, and marriage and every other aspect of human
interactions that is scarier than watching 'Wolf Creek'. Its open
wallet season and not one, not two, but three interstate trips are
forcing ... Read more >
Tags: friends, sight seeing, sport
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 2 Mar 2010 | Views [1150] | Video
I'd forgotten what
silence sounded like. It's an empty sound, like one hand clapping.
Unfortunately, no transcendental insights accompanied such a realisation,
although I think some trees might have fallen in the forest without me being
there to ... Read more >
Tags: friends, planning, television
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 13 Feb 2010 | Views [1916]
Who wants to get married? Anyone? I'm
throwing myself away. I'm in need of a bit of a fix up, and I have
even less to offer financially now, other than my own lack of
self-sufficiency. My liver feels 20 years older than the rest of my
body, ... Read more >
Tags: friends, party, wedding
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 11 Feb 2010 | Views [2733]
Who wants money? Anyone? I'm throwing
it away. Out it goes with my mobile phone and all my phone numbers.
And a fair portion of my dignity too. Yep, that's what Bucks parties
are all about apparently. Being the first I had ... Read more >
Tags: friends, party
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 5 Feb 2010 | Views [1224] | Comments [1]
One minute a nobody; a TV star the next. After my brush with fame is televised this Sunday morning, (Insiders ABC 9am) I'll be a nobody again. Unless some careful editing manages to portray me as perhaps, weatherman potential. I fear it may portray ... Read more >
Tags: friends, television, work
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 27 Jan 2010 | Views [1376]
Isn't life amazing? Such a claim may
seem like a great self-help book title, or that I've been watching
too many nature documentaries again, but its the only way I can
summarise my last week. I've gone from clueless and uncommitted to
stable ... Read more >
Tags: sunshine, work
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 27 Jan 2010 | Views [721] | Comments [1]
Hangover day number four in a row. I
fell out of my bunk bed at 11am and sparked a joint to dull the
throbbing in my head. I needed a serious caffeine injection just to
stop slumber from reclaiming me as I typed. I haven't even thought of
work, ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 20 Dec 2009 | Views [1099] | Comments [1]
Returning to Melbourne is always a scary
prospect for me. Cougars don't stalk me in the front yard and the wardrobe is
boogey man free the last time I checked. Grey skies that look like they've been
finger painted by an obsessive compulsive ... Read more >
Tags: friends, on the road
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 13 Dec 2009 | Views [1039] | Comments [1]
An old biblical saying goes 'He who bores of paradise, is indeed an idiot, or loves apples!' Old is a relative term seeing as I made up that saying, just like someone else probably made up the Bible, but it is most appropriate to my decision to leave ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, friends, work
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 18 Nov 2009 | Views [2908] | Comments [3]
Who would have thought I would make it this
far? If anyone other than me gave any thought to it, you have far too much time
on your hands and should try collecting stamps or something. My abacus must
have a virus because journal entry number ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 5 Nov 2009 | Views [966]
I'm back in Broome. My house is full of
strangers. The weather is a hot liquid overcoat. I am no longer a underwater
porcelain technician. All of these facts painted a rather scary picture on my
return home. Particularly with the financial freedom ... Read more >
Tags: friends, work
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 30 Oct 2009 | Views [1268]
Money can strangely lose all significance once you have
none. On the proviso that you have friends who will compromise their credit
rating on your behalf. When the universe deemed that the last $8 in my account
was superfluous to my needs, I am thankful ... Read more >
Tags: money
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 2 Oct 2009 | Views [3116]
Its a sorry story when the best thing about
a place is leaving there. Even more so when it is only for two days. With a
weekend off for Rachel, and the 'Australia' movie shrines and Big
Mango sightings exhausted, we decided to venture further ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, friends
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 21 Sep 2009 | Views [1669] | Comments [3]
What drugs was I on when I thought of returning to Bowen? Anyone who reads my ramblings will be able to answer that question, but they won't win anything for their trouble. I drive around amazed that the fond memories I have of the place seem so far ... Read more >
Tags: drugs, friends, misadventures
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 18 Sep 2009 | Views [1303]
4,500 kms is a long way to travel and I knew it was not going to be easy. Given that someone else flew the plane for me most of the way, the biggest strain was on my wallet. The 620 km driving stint I did was my most challenging task, but I still managed ... Read more >
Tags: drugs, friends, on the road
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 13 Sep 2009 | Views [2655] | Comments [1]
Everybody needs holidays. Some of us need them more often than others. If I don't have a holiday every few months at least, I start entertaining thoughts of regicide. Everybody needs sex as well. If I don't have any sex for a few months at least, I ... Read more >
Tags: beaches & sunshine, friends, misadventures, money
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