Strandbeest

...amazing kinetic sculptures.

Flickr introduces graphs of camera usage!

This is a great idea, and essentially turns flickr into an enormous camera review site. You can click on each camera name and view a wide selection of images that have been taken with that camera, from all over the world.

Nice one!

Fish Face

10-wheeled skateboard

Good morning... coffee in hand (with sweetened, condensed milk, of course), here's a quick update for the day.

Check out that awesome 10-wheeled skateboard that Frank and I found in a toy store in KLCC! I skateboarded for many years in my 'youf' but riding this would be a really unusual experience methinx.

I was originally going to refer to it as a 'deca-wheeled' skateboard, but i just felt like too much of a wanker, to be honest.

• Did I mention that I'm now a Team Lead? Yeh baby!

• Did I also mention that I haven't had a cigarette in hmmmm .... 12 days? Yep, true story also.

It sucked fairly heavily (oh, so punny) for the first few days there, especially in a country such as Malaysia, where smoking is quite common compared to Australia.

Smoking in restaurants (sorry, 'Restorans') is commonplace, although they often/usually have a smoking section.

Smoking in restaurants in Australia has been banned for a few years now.



Went to Sungei Wang plaza last night (I'm going to be laughed at, but that's 'river of gold' right?, oops correction: 'river of money', (thankyou Julee) not be confused with 'Sungai besi' - 'river of steel' which is a train station around here somewhere? Ok? points out of 10?)

... and bought the above other things the above ^ genuine-Asian-country drinking bottle.

I can truly fit in now. Well, fit in as much as a long-haired blonde guy can in an Asian country.

Also bought 3 groovey t-shirts for 50MYR (about 18 AU$), i think they are genuine copies though. Like that matters.




This is not Sungei Wang plaza, but Ampang Park plaza instead. I kinda like the arrangement of stair at each end.

'SEX WORDS'

Tonight I went to dinner with a good female friend to Chopstik Noodle House at Midvalley Megamall. Excellent food, excellent conversation and the most excellent-est company.

We ate duck. We ate prawn dumplings in soup. We talked with our mouths full. The waitresses filled our cups and splashed the drink on the table. We didn't care.

My friend and I, we speak openly, we speak freely, nothing is particularly taboo (though you might get slapped), but when a particular lull fell over the restaurant just as my friend uttered the phrase 'SEX WORDS'... you could have heard a pin drop.

She turned red, people turned around.

I, being a gentleman, laughed.


But honestly, what an awesome night. Thankyou whoever you are!