Whirlwind trip to buy toys and porn...

Unfortunately, I forgot the porn. Unless you count FHM, though soft porn really isn't porn (accordint to a judge that said Zoo was "smutty but not obscene"). Though my trip to Melbourne did include many many cool new toys. For the dedicated readers of this blog, you would know that I fancy myself as a twitcher cum photographer - but without the patience or the skill. Welp, I have completedly compensated for all that lack of ability with a brand new camera. Woo. If you would like to know what I bought, click here and here. And I also travel lots, and what better for the frequent traveler than a PSP (PlayStation Portable) - I am not sure what's more fun, playing the thing or on airplanes have little boys behind you sticking their head through the seats to try and get a peek, only to then decide you would rather listen to music than him going "Dad, I want one too!". Yes. I am now officially geeked out - broke, but geeked out nonetheless.

There are two things that best set the standard of my trip. A) My shopping spree which you have heard of. And B) going directly from the airport to a bucks party, where the buck died in the ass at around midnight and Johnny and I partied til about 4 in the morning. Hard core? Not quite.. jet lag works wonders. I tried to keep the jetlag (i.e. sleep in late, go to bed late) for as long as possible - I initially tried to keep it for the full two weeks to I would be fine when I got back to Sri Lanka, though that didn't quite work. Heck, I still got called a piker for passing out in bars at like 3am!

I could write an itenerary of things I did.. but that's no fun. And to be honest, I couldn't remember half the things I did. But some highlights were chillaxing with mates, seeing my new baby nephew Bails, being bagoobled by the buildings in the big smoke, hanging with my bros, going for a drive through the wide open spaces (ignore the fact that it was destination Bendigo), eating my way through town.. oh and of course seeing Emma and going to the Wedding which was the reason for my whole visit.

I got told I write too much on the blog. Generally, people said "I am illiterate, please don't write I just want photos". Unfortunately, I don't believe in lowest common denominator. But I hears ya. So from me, tada, and from my camera, hallo hallo.

This is my home town, Melbourne:


Here is the steps of the state library where people in suits try to get their two minutes of "nature" during the summer.. the rest of the time, they are in AC or heated cubicles acting like drones.. poor suckers (yes, you!):
Here is me, embo, and some friends (not sure why this photo of the 400 made it.. but anyhoot):
Here is an alley that had cool grafiti, near to Yen which has the best noodles in a box!

This was my favourite piece of grafiti:

Not sure what happened with this photo, but cool hey?
This is my brother. Yes, he may look like a tool, and that's because he is.. but at least he has clean teeth! This was one of my first photos with my new camera.. SWEEET.
Emma and I went for a drive to the country, Bendigo.. I liked the open spaces.
This is the guy I went to see.. lucky it was only 2 hours to get there! Hi Paul!
This is my first bird photo.. a Rosella.

If you are in a cubicle in the city, these are the closest things to birds you will see in Melbourne. Pidgeons and Seagulls (rats with wings):
I liked this photo. When playing with my new camera, I took random photos.. this is the lemon tree in my parents' back yard. SOUR!!!

This is the beautiful bride and bridesmaids' getting ready on the day of the wedding (I got to be paired up with Karen on the right - she's like me, a tree hugging hippy pinky lefty socialist bleeding heart, and thus we made a great team):
Unfortunately for Katie, this was the boobie prize: The groom on the morning of, you think he was wigging out? You'd be wrong, he's usually like this.
Peace, Love and stupid little packets of peanuts on airplanes,
B.