Thursday, May 8 2008

Yuko Flies Out (again)

Yuko is on another trip to Japan. This time she's attending a reunion of some of her former work colleagues. Her flight was an early one, so we got up at 5.30am for an early morning trip to the airport.

As we reached Southern Cross Drive, the traffic slowed to a crawl and it continued like that for a long time delaying us at least 20 minutes. When we evenutally reached the cause of the chaos, we saw two ambulances, police cars and a lot of cyclists stopped on the side of the road blocking one lane. I later heard on the news that this was a road rage incident in which a driver had deliberately crashed into a group of cyclists. As I was driving, I didn't get a picture.

Rather than just dropping Yuko like last time, I went inside the terminal and we had coffee at a cafe there before Yuko went through the gate. I left the airport at about 8.15 and arrived at work only 15 minutes later than normal.

Belinda in the early morning

Last minute packing in the hallway

Arriving at the airport

Yuko at an airport cafe (Noswonky visible in the mirror)

33

Today I went to the restaurant formerly known as '33' to meet some of my former co-workers for lunch. There was former employee of XXXXX [Name Omitted], and current employees [Name Omitted], [Name Omitted], [Name Omitted] and [Name Omitted].

[Name Omitted] told me about a hack for Canon compact cameras which can significantly enhance their capabilities. This is very exciting indeed.

He also told the story of how he was once imprisoned by the U.S. government in a 'special room'. Except for the length of time he was detained (30 minutes), it was a story very similar to that of David Hicks.

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Sunday, May 4 2008

Mother's Day Arrives a Week Early

Next Sunday (May 11th) is Mother's Day, but we celebrated it today instead. This was because we will not be able to celebrate it fully next week. So in the morning I decorated the house with gay balloons...

Inflating a gay balloon

Mother came to our house for lunch and we had Yuko's tempura prawns. You can't beat Yuko's tempura prawns...

Yuko's Tempura Prawns

Mother had asked for a book for Mother's day. In this video, she reads what I wrote inside the book, and then discusses her religious conversion...

After lunch we drove over to the College because Yuko wanted to take some pictures of Mother and me for possible framing.

Mother waits to be called onto the set for the photo-shoot

This was later deemed the best shot from the shoot...

Then I took Mother home while Yuko lay on the ground again...

Yuko lies on the ground

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Saturday, May 3 2008

Mitsy

Recently while driving, I've heard a clicking sound coming from Mitsy. It was caused by a large metal object embedded in Mitsy's front tyre...

So early today I took Mitsy to the tyre doctor and had the object removed. They fixed the hole too and it only cost $25.

Mother

Mother has requested a specific gift for Mother's day. It's a book which she has already read (because I lent her my copy), and which has helped her to complete her long-running religious conversion.

I had tried to buy the book at several shops, but it has been out of stock (due to its popularity). I therefore decided to go to the city today to try to find it. Yuko came with me so that she could see if her mobile broadband works in the city. It did.

Yuko blogging in the QVB

I found the book at the second place I tried - Dymocks. Then we saw a cherry picker...

Cherry picker

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Thursday, May 1 2008

Emergency

At about 10am, the emergency evacuation alarm sounded at work. So we all began screaming and waving our arms in the air as we evacuated down the fire stairs and walked to our assembly point. I think only our building (one of six) was affected. It was very exciting indeed!

After standing around for a few minutes we were told we could go back to work. I assume it was a false alarm as there was no eveidence that a real emergency had occurred, but there was no announcement about it.

People returning to work

Later I told the story to Yuko while drinking beer at Taiki...

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