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Summer is great because you can get off work at 6 and still get to the beach in time for some fish and chips (or curry!) on the pier waiting for the sunset.

Went picking raspberries at Kinglake Raspberries, Victoria.

Looking for breakfast spots in Melbourne? The Breakfast Blog has some ideas.

In my short absence:

1. Moved to the suburb
2. Got Married
3. Got new car

In that order.

PowerBook do’s and don’ts

Defintely a don’t IMHO.

Nursing mums make a stand at the Esplanade - JUNE 19, 2004

I say, way to go.

Imagine life as a journey, walking down a pathway. Sometimes, pathways cross and we meet for a second, sometimes pathways combine into one and we walk together, sometimes pathways run closely in parallel but yet will never meet.

We look at others on their paths but we sometimes forget that we are also in the midst of our journey. Maybe theirs is a shorter way while ours is a longer one. Maybe ours will twist and turn while theirs is a nice straight road.

Either way, I know I’m walking mine with you. We’ll get there soon, honey.

In an articled titled “Cool gadget, but be prepared to pay” by Oo Gin Lee in The New Paper, the columnist laments the high price of cool gadgets, using the iPod as an example.

The writer says:

Hard disk drives nowadays are cheap - you can get a 2.5-inch 20GB hard disk drive for about $150 and a 40 GB hard disk for about $200 from Sim Lim Square.

Now, the iPods are using the smaller and more expensive 1.8-inch hard disk drives but, even so, the GB difference wouldn’t add up to that much more.

Hey, here’s a lesson. The sum of the parts is not equal to the whole. This argument is the same as those who complain about the price of music CDs in the stores, saying that since blank recordable CDs cost less than a dollar, so should the music CDs. Basically utter rubbish. Besides, even the prices listed were out of whack. You’d think that the editors will insist on some proof of research before publishing an article.

He/she then goes on to say:

I’m okay with spending $1,000 for a good PC but $750 for a music player?

Heck, I could get a hi-fi with a sub-woofer and still have change for a few audio CDs for that price.

And then what happens? Bring it out to the gym or the next bus ride I suppose. Good luck fitting that into you backpack, and don’t forget to pack enough batteries. Compare apples (no pun intended) with apples please.

5th Apr 1994.

It was morning. About 7am. A lone bus ride from Balestier after crashing over at Kent’s place. The mood was sombre, pensive even.

When I got home, it was in the papers.

Alice in Chains was playing “Down in a Hole” on my stereo. I put down the papers and went to sleep.

When asked about her reaction to Suzanne Walker flashing half her boobies to the crowd at the recent MTV Asia Awards, 16 year old Elizabeth Tham said:

It was disgusting. She’s just flashing her boobs to get attention. She’s not even famous; it was her way of putting herself in the papers. It’s worse since she didn’t even have the look or the figure.

Of course it’s to attract attention! It’s the MTV Awards dammit, and attention rules over everything else. Was our dear Elizabeth saying that only those who are famous can do so and minor celebrities like Suzanne can’t? Isn’t that double standards?

When asked for her comment, Suzanne Walker said:

I say sock it them girl.