what's wrong with this picture?

i found this photo from a kmart catalogue and thought it look weird. then I realised what was weird. But when i asked my mum and she said she thought it looked fine ... so can you try and spot what's wrong with this picture?

... it isn't really wrong, just looks weird. Easily explainable, but simply a bit unusual.

stop looking here, you're cheating.

ok did you notice that the girl has no legs? D: SHOCK. HORROR.

wowowowowowwoowowwowowowowowow. no, not world of warcraft but WOW.

haha it really isn't that significant. there can be a hole in the ground. or with all the photo editing .. (which I have noticed, like Levis representing all jeans, Hoovers representing all vacuums and now photoshop representing all photo editing software ... basically i mean that no one says photo editing software. you say 'photoshop it') you could have just cut her legs off the shot. and the list goes on.

sharing a little bit of my weird observations :)

sandmen

click blog post title for more photos! and excuse me if i say snow instead of sand. i've tried to correct them all but who knows where i said it.

we went to Brighton beach again today! And, as you can guess from the post title, we made sandmen. For the first time. Which makes up for the absence of snow in Australia (minus the Snowy Mountains and the tips of the Great Mountain Range ...).

i felt like everyone was looking at us (me being quite self conscious) especially since we were doing it near the side walk. apparently some teens even teased my brother about it when I went looking for sticks.

ok. here're some photos :) the smaller sandbaby is basically entirely made by me in a matter of 2 minutes (explains why it's 'melting' into the sand) and the sandman was constructed by me but my brother shaped it and decorated it :D

me with sandmen with our engraved names …

mr sandbaby

mr sandman

well i would upload a video or two but it's around 50MB (which i found out isn't that much in terms of videos :O) <--- hehe looks like a clown ... and I don't want to waste my peak quota. I'll upload it later :)

oh and in case you wanted to know, I ate a medium McChicken burger meal for lunch. My mum and my brother ate large while my dad ate small (yes, weird the people who usually eat the most got small and the people who usually eat the least got the large. queer.) i am pondering if there is meant to be a full stop after that bracket ...

well. we had a nice day :D

my trip to brighton beach

yes,  I went to Brighton Beach yesterday.

so when I was walking, I saw a very curious sign which made me think about the human race evolving into machines. why? here is a photo of me being very confused. sorry about the bad quality and lighting, I'm not a photographer (nudges Alicia) ...

BTW, no vehicles other than bikes can enter this area.

ok. first things first. 5km/hr isn't actually that slow, considering the average person walks at 4km/hr. But anyway, how are we meant to know at what speed we're walking? Am I the only one without a built in odometer (or whatever it's called) in my brain?

Now that reminds me of the current drama I'm watching ('Happy Salad Days' and I have no idea why it's called that since it's about death and sacrifices and a rock - you'll have to watch it to get the rock bit - and yes, I did only watch it because I saw that Aaron was in it -coughs-) where Aaron is the only one who can see the 死神少女 (directly translates into: 'Miss Death God' or something) without seeing through the rock because apparently there is something in his brain (hence my 'thought jump' into this topic). And I'm sorry that I didn't watch this drama the moment it was out (i think September 2010) and that I can't tell you what is in his brain because I don't know myself :) I haven't finished you see ...

Ok back to the built in odometer. This also reminds me of ... oh dear. I forgot the book title. I can't believe this. Be right back. OH YES starswarm! Yes. Totally. I feel so guilty. A very awesome, beloved and idolised human lent me that book to read in the holidays. Happy memories ... WAIT WHY AM I GETTING SO OFF TRACK TODAY? Okay. Well in that book this boy has an implanted chip in his head which talks to him :) lots of brains today.

Wait! Epiphany! I think I know what happened. I just went and typed the caption in ... and it occurred to me that the sign may have been for bikes ...

Oh well :D I had a fun time laughing about it with my brother anyway. And I was sure I had a really cool line to add after the inbuilt odometer bit but I got so carried away I forgot :(

whitewater world

linked the photo album of our trip in the title :D

i'm sorry but this entry isn't going to be as detailed as the movieworld entry :(

my mum and I woke up at around 7:40 while my dad and my brother woke up at around 8:20. enough said. apparently Horizon's family got up at 6 o.O wow. after we woke up and prepared, ate breakfast, etc. we kids had some time together! so, of course, we  played uno :) ... and big 2!

Horizon and I against the hotel view

Big 2 :) before we left ...

travelling to whitewater world on a non-pink bus, we passed wet 'n' wild. you really should have seen the line. it was longer than the entrance path and stretched across and around the entire front of the theme park! we (*cough* Horizon *cough*) took some photos.

we didn't get a lot of photos at the theme parks this time we went to the Gold Coast, so there weren't much especially since you wouldn't go on a water slide with a camera.

after the boys ignorantly ran away leaving everyone else to find a table with seats to leave our towels and stuff, Horizon and I really couldn't be bothered to find them. Afterall, it was a THEME PARK. so we decided to go on the Octopus :D and maggie won .... (I was so sure that I wouldn't come last since heavier people have a higher maximum velocity ... -hmph-) and managed to continue sliding several metres after where I stopped. After reuniting with our brothers who admitted to going on the Wedgie after lining up fo 5 MINUTES (later maggie and I lined up 30 minutes + for it), we decided to go on some rides together: (some details may be dead due to my memory being ... very bad)

• The Rip
• this was quite cool :) our tub thingo was meant to go around the basin once and on its second trip descend us into darkness, but the boys tried to make us go around a second time. the current won.
• The Green Room
• this was a really fun ride. the majority of the ride was in a pitch black tunnel, so you never knew where you were going. I loved the sudden, unexpected drop, especially when I was going backwards the first time. The rest of the ride wasn't too scary, other than the second drop into the funnel which seems quite similar to the kamikaze in wet 'n' wild to me. It was really funny because most people didn't scream until the first significant drop - so as the group going several times before us descended into the darkness, they must have been going slower than the others because just milliseconds after my brother remarked 'they didn't scream ...' we heard a long and waning scream marking their encounter with the drop.
• The Hydrocoaster
• lining up for this, all four of us, dwelling on my brother's discovery of an artificial rainbow, made rainbows with our swimmers. we had the sun in the right spot and, flapping our damp swimmers, propelled minute water droplets into the air. They acted as prisms and we had a rainbow right next to us :) however, our brothers soon got bored and left the line ... leaving Horizon and I to have VERY interesting conversations. Content of such interesting conversations you may ask?

There was the word 'one' engraved onto the metal railing. We had just finished watching the Matrix. That led to our fascinating conversation about only the 'one' being able to read it ... eventually leading to our conclusion that I must be either the second or ... the 'two' -drumroll-

so there was a parking lot beyond the stairs we were lining up on and maybe a 20m drop or so. it was so funny because somehow the conversation went into issues about eyesight and I told Maggie how I'd pull at the edge of my eyes (you know how you do the stereotypical 'asian eyes' thing?) and adjust the pressure I apply to my eyes and I can see clearer. Maggie exploded. Not into smithereens, but into a roaring laugh. I WAS SERIOUS. Has anyone done that before? yes no? It really works! 

• The Wedgie
• Horizon wasn't allowed to wear her waterproof watch on the ride, so she had to take it off and put it in a felt bag which would be flushed down after she went ... i.e. before I would go (after 'mischievously' throwing Horizon in front of me in the line despite her protests against my intelligence). I had to laugh when I reached the bottom and Horizon puzzly asked me: 'Where's my watch?' after a laughing fit and deciding against the possibilities of walking all the way back up and retrieving it, one of the monitors spotted something right at the exit and asked Horizon if it were hers. it was :D

but of course the most interesting bit: the conversations we had during our wait. i was horrified. it was THE WEDGIE. like HOMGA it was THE WEDGIE (repetition reinforces my point as my english teacher explained to me). so then, like many other people would say i said: i'm gonna die D: ... then guess what Horizon says? at least you die wet :D very helpful. Horizon, in an attempt to make me feel better, convinced me that I had a lion in my stomach which would fly out the moment I stepped into the wedgie ... and I immediately thought of astro boy. why? because I have a mcdonald's happy meal astro boy that flies out of its capsule and breaks the glass :) i will find some way to post a photo ...

okay so I think those were the only rides we went on in whitewater world. other than the cave of waves where we braved the waves on a floaty that our brothers managed to secure and the nickelodeon pipeline plunge where Horizon and I embraced our childhood self and played in the water and got drenched by a huge bucket of water. after arriving at the hotel, Horizon and I went swimming. where Horizon scraped her chin :) it was very amusing. we were trying to be 'mermaids' (excuse the kid side of us) - where you sink down near the ground of the pool and make a snake-like motion to travel. Maggie went too low ... put it that way. she asked me if it was bleeding, and I said no. because I saw no blood.

but there were scratches that were red when we went back up to the hotel ...

anyway Horizon claims that the pool contained psycho water. why? because it made her go hyperactive (yes, feel oh so sorry for me). we ate at a Chinese restaurant in Surfers Paradise near our hotel :) it was quite yummy, just like tomorrow's ;) i recall playing uno and charades off my ipod touch that night, but I'm not too sure :D maggie's mum and my dad were always already asleep when we started playing ...