yellow mini cooper (THE SQUEAKEL) and an explosion

well . . . regarding the previous post about the yellow mini cooper . . . I SAW IT ON MY STREET AGAIN! with it's lid thing raised so i think it broke down cause i recognised the driver and he was on the phone. sad. oh and why squeakel? i just thought of alvin and the chipmunks and how i wanted to watch that but the cinemas was really full and the queue was long so i think my bro and i ended up watching avatar cause it got sold out. yeah. seems like the car'll be a common sighting from now on :)

and the explosion? well my dad, bro and I were eating lunch in the cafe at Brighton Beach when we saw black smoke in the distance. right above the airport. yes, kind of concerning. SO I TOOK A PHOTO :D

and when we finished one of the employees packed our dishes. she smiled at me and i thought HEY SHE LOOKS FAMILIAR . . . and it took me a while to identify her and realise that she was simona ermilova from primary school! my dad didn't believe my epiphany since she looked so much more mature than me :( but i seem to recall that she was younger than me. hm.

well :) yeah. i was going to make this a short post but it wasn't so short after all :P

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 :(