Transdimensional Pants

Current Mood: cheerful

• Do some payed Photography
• Learn to Dance
• Do some acting
• Get into shape
• Run for a whole hour atleast twice
• Get my running pace up
• Swim at least once a month
  
• Sell some of my artwork
• Stop eating out so often
• Go Skiing
• Spend less time on the internet
• Learn more languages (I'm thinking more Japanese, or some Chinese)
• Make some music
  
• Go back to martial arts

Current Location: Melbourne, Australia
Current Mood: tired

Hello everyone. I'm back in Australia! Sorry I didn't update here more often, but I wasn't anywhere near a computer most of the time. Anyway, I have lots of photos to sort through, and I'll be posting some up here soon.

After my last post, Lydia and I went in to London to see the fireworks at the London Eye, to bring in 2007. I've got photos of that which will be uploaded soon and posted here. The crowd there was massive, and we weren’t as close to the London eye as I had hoped we would be, but the fireworks were still great. There was a moment when I looked out over the crowed, while the fireworks were going, and saw a sea of little blue LCD screens. It was actually quite pretty. The fireworks in the sky above and a mass of little blue screens below.

Lydia turned 19 while we were there. It was nice to be there with her, even though she doesn’t make a big deal out of birthdays. That day we went out to Stone Henge, and then Salsa later that night. It was a great day, although I think Lydia froze a bit while I was taking photos of the stones. I have photos of Stone Henge, and again those will be uploaded when I get some time.

We also visited Windsor castle! It was quite an epic place to see, but unfortunately half of it was closed for cleaning. We also managed to only get to half of the part that was still open as we thought we had more time that we actually did. That was a bit of a disappointment, but oh well, next time I guess.

On the second last day I was there, I celebrated my 25th birthday. That night we went into London and I had a proper English pie. It was strangely hard to find proper old English food, so finding such a place made me quite happy.

On the 12th of January, I flew back to Australia. Lydia stayed behind with her mother for a bit, then flying to Malaysia to visit some of her family there. She'll be back in Australia in early Feb. I miss her already.

I’m still kind of tired from my flight, even though I’ve been back 2 days. I’ve also got lots to do before tomorrow, so I’ll leave it at that for now.

Current Location: London, England
Current Mood: bouncy

Here I am again to bring you more updates of my time in London. I don't have much to say, it's all been quite the experience and you should all come here yourselves. there still hasn't been any snow here, which is quite funny, as there was snow when we left melbourne.

I went out to Woking two days ago, and it was a bit colder there. Actualy it wasn't, it was just windy, and that makes it feel more like Melbourne. Today I'm going around London for some propper sightseeing. Tonight I'm going into London propper to bring in the New Year. I'm well aware that you guys in Australia have allready seen it in, but I care little, as I get to celebrate it in a whole other country, so there. ;)

Oh, I have more photos of London on my photobucket. I will be sorting these out when I'm home. I also have some photos from my SLR camera, but they are trapped in the camera for the time being. I'll have more photos after my sightseeing tonight.

Anyway, Lydia is sitting here bored next to me, so I think it's time to go. Till next time folks.

Current Location: London, England
Current Mood: happy

Hello from London,

Yes, for those of you who didn't know I was going, I'm in England now! I have lots to tell, so bare with me.

Leaving an Australian Summer Behind
On December 25th at 9pm, Lydia and I checked in to Qantas flight QF29 from Melbourne Tullamarine airport to London Heathrow stopping in Hong Kong...
Oh my god! I never want to go on a 24 hour flight ever again! We left at 12:15 am on Tuesday the 26th of December. The first 8 hours to Hong Kong were pretty bad. I was getting quite tired after about 3 hours, but the seats didn't recline very far and my leg room was... well there wasn't any leg room. I eventualy got to sleep, but regreted it once I woke up as my neck was killing me. Later I figured out that while Lydia was awake, I could rest my head on her lap and actualy get some comfortable sleep! After that I resigned myself to staying awake and watching the inflight movies. I must say they had a decent selection, and the only part of my flight back to Australia that I'm looking forward to is that I can finish watching a documentry series I missed out on the end of. Lydia found the wonders of Ginger tablets. She said she'd eaten more on that flight than on any previous flight she'd ever been on. So that was good. I learnt about them from Mythbusters, so go Mythbusters!

Hong Kong
We landed in Hong Kong at about 6am local time, which meant everything was closed. We wondered around HK airport for about 20 minutes looking for bottles of water as we were both dehidrated. When I eventualy found some, they cost $15 each! I was outraged for the 1.4 seconds before I realised that was HKD, not AUD or USD. It actualy works out to around $2.50 a bottle.

One thing I noticed about Hong Kong was that every sign was written not only in Chinese, but in English too. The English signage at the airport was better than it is at Springvale.

Hong Kong to London: non stop!
Interestingly enough the trip to London wasn't so bad. I figured out how to sleep without dying from back pain, took off my shoes to releave the uncomfortable feeling there, and just took my mind off my tiredness by watching movie after movie. My feet swelled up from water retention, but other than that I think I fly very well.

Touchdown: Heathrow Airport
Local Time: 1:15pm Tuesday 26th of December 2006
It was nice being off the plane and being able to stretch my legs. I was shocked by the lack of security. Lydia thought she might have to declare something, so went through the "I have something to declare" line... and nobody was there... so she just came out and we walked right into London without even going through a metal detector... scary.

Anyway, Lydia's mum - June - was waiting for us at the Airport, which was lovely. She was very excited to see Lydia again. She then took us back to her place which is where I'll be staying for the 3 or so weeks I'll be here.

Everyone warned me that it was going to be cold. I knew going from the middle of an Australian Summer to an English winter was going to be a bit of a shock, but I wasn't ready for this! It's actualy perfecly pleasant! sure, it's cold, but it's not windy, and with a few layers it's very very tolerable. I've even found I'm too hot indoors because everyone insists on having the heating turned all the way up.
The trip from the airport was nice. The grass here is so green! It's almost blue in it's deep green-ness. There's also lots of nice houses here, although they're all rather tiny. I love it, it's so pretty!
I had a nice dinner at June's friend's house, which was delicious, had a budweiser then went to bed at about 7pm, 'cuz of the lack of sleep on the plane.

Good morning London
Today, I feel fantastic. I got a really good nights sleep on this ultra firm matress, and we woke up at about 5am local time. We went for a walk, and I was again surprised at how pleasant it is here even in the middle of winter. We then went out for a nice english breakfast at about 10am. Mmm. English breakfast in England, how ironic, but also delicious. I'm sitting here feeling quite smug, as everyone told me my jet lag would be horrid, but I feel great. I'm perfectly awake and alert and I haven't even been here for 24 hours yet! I must travel exceedingly well. It does help that I'm here with my Lydia though.

And now, for your viewing pleasure, some photos of Lydia and I (Mostly Lydia) in London and in transit! These are just from my happysnaps camera, as I didn't know I'd find an internet cafe, so left it at home (at home in London I mean). I'll be going out photographing with it later, and I'll post them up here when I have a collection.

And now, June is a bit sick and we have vital medicine to provide her with, so I must be off!

Bye all,
Nim