HAPPY NEW YEAR!

iboyfriend4

i'm smitten with my iphone4. g is so jealous it's not even funny. it's got to the stage where he doesn't even want it sleeping in the same room as us. "i'm not adequate anymore because i'm not an iboyfriend4". damn straight.

i downloaded a little app called 'autostitch' which stitches together photos. you just take them, dump them in in no particular order, and voila! check out my offerings below! keep in mind that it's not just one or two photos: the picture of our street taken off the balcony is a composite of 42 different photos. these are all 180° shots:

the view from dover street that we'll soon be saying goodbye to! :(

corner of swanston and flinders

fed 口

birrarung marr (northside)

the yarra from birrarung mar

nepal flashback

i am so impressed with my little autostitch app that i decided to go back and stitch together some of the panorama photos that i had taken in nepal (in Dec 2003/jan 2004 - pre blog times!!!) here are a few of them. you can click on the images for further detail.

warrnambool

yeah it was good: really good. i hope they'll have me back next year! fingers crossed.

vov came back to australia for a few days before heading off to nz. here's what we do during our family gatherings:

smash it

in my last entry 3 weeks ago i had just done my french C1 and was about to fly off to wodonga for the weekend for some locum work. today i've just finished my german A2 exam and tomorrow i jump on a train for a weekend of work in warrnambool. as i suspected, life is just a series of goethian repetitions. here's a pic i shouldn't have taken from the window as the plane was coming in to land in wodonga. it was so lush!!! thanks la nina weather pattern!

after a recent muslim festival, all the ladies at work were turning up with henna tattoos. here's a hand that i snappety snapped of one of my lovely patients. henna me up girls.

pong organised a paint-ball event that i was unfortunately unable to refuse, no matter how devastatingly intense the desire to pike on the piker ;) it was bogansville with guns. not a good look. we marched out to play, fully dressed in camouflage with masks and coloured armbands etc, so as to be unable to recognise individuals, just teams. i had a millionth of an inkling of what war might be like in that moment. anonymous. just kill the people opposite you because they're a different colour or because your boss has told you too. 'i blew phuong's head off because julia gillard told me to'.

the death squad: mee-hong, phuong #2, yi, phuong original version, darren, anthony, hello_ondrej

i felt sickened and deeply troubled looking around at the machos shooting each other, though was able to put this feeling aside for just a few moments during the wild west game where i was opposite the bank door with immunity and just took 'em all out. shudder. i'm still afraid of guns, even if they only contain paint. check out one bruised thigh below. as it turns out, paint fucking hurts.

here's a quick grab of g and i with zee and emma when they visited melbourne today before their massive world wide adventure next year!! bon voyage ladies!

now that all the exams are over, our life might go back to normal again. can't wait to cut loose this summer! as the weather hots up melbourne men are stripping off and i am liking what i'm seeing on the streets of this town more and more. regarding those exams (for interested parties), i passed. the chinese A2, the french C1, and though i don't have the results for the german A2 i did today, i'm pretty sure i smashed it ;) i'm feeling proud of myself. almost as proud as i feel about the success i've had with my beautiful home grown cacti!!!

DALF C1

this is a photo of the clouds hanging above cremorne as i crossed the yarra on my way home from sitting the DALF C1 today. they look menacing, but not as menacing as the five and a half hours of exam i just sat. the experience can be aptly summarised by the french term 'cunt-fucked'. we'll see. tomorrow i fly to wodonga in another attempt to sponsor our new life overseas. meanwhile, g continues to create...

rose street artists' market

g setting up

the rose street artists' market advertises itself as 'australia's premier arts market'. the implication is that the australian arts scene is dominated by cashed-up bogans. hoping to join their ranks, g set up shop for the first time on sunday!

a bee-lamp

frog lamp

this dragonfly lamp that sold like a hotcake and represented the first money that g ever earned on australian soil! woohoo!

louie's 30th

a pic showing the birthday hag...and my blue contacts!!!

louie's sister (whose name i've temporarily forgotten *blush*) is simply stunning

here's me getting some lip-on-cheek action from another stunner

the only photo of the birthday girl's new fiancé in which he doesn't look like a fat-faced drug addict...

g gorging on some turkish bread on the way home! (with black CLs!)

had to put this one in: the number plate that caz should have had

smells like summer!

the weather's getting warmer and summer is making its belated appearance in marvellous melbourne!

what better occasion than a sunny day to ride along the river into town for a good feed at one of our funky laneway cafés? loving melbs!

headphone lovedream

here's the view from the resident's room at the women's. overnight when i had time to spare (usually a couple of hours between 3am and 5am), i would listen to my mp3 player whilst lying on the couch below this window, looking out at the lights of melbourne glowing in the night.

my old earphones broke, and the only spare ones i had were those i had taken from my last qantas flight on the way home from broken hill. a cheap set that were designed to fail. they did what they were made to do, so i cut them up and sticky-taped them to the wall in the residents' room with thought bubbles saying "i think i'm falling in love with you" and "oh baby don't say that". yes, readers, this is where your hard-earned taxpayers money is going: headphone lovedream.