LONG WEEKEND YAY!

The long weekend is not long away and i am v. excited, so much to do in such a short time!!!

I will definately be taking full advantage of these 4 days of pure bliss as i'm sure everyone else will be as well!!!

Anways, i hope everyone has a great long weekend, drive safe & drink safe! DOUBLE DEMERITS! Don't get too trashed!

Things i'd like to do:

- B2B walk
- Ferry ride to Manly
- Luna Park : i feel like going to luna park for some reason even though its not that great
- Go to a bar with old skool rnb : totally miss old skool rnb it rocked
- Home movie marathon
- Glebe/Bondi Markets
- Step Up/Devil Wears Prada : must see


Thats all i can think of at the moment...

WARNING: university not suitable for all

I have 3 more days til i have to hand in my 2500 word tourism sustainability essay ... and what is the progress of this useless & pointless essay ???

well no progress at all ...

am i stressed about it??? no

do i think that it will be of use to me in the future??? no

do i really care if i fail ??? i am on the border of yes & no

am i over uni ??? yes

Which leads me to ask the question how useful is uni really for your future career? I mean is a piece of paper from uni really that important to get a decent job???

Because honestly i personally feel that uni is just a complete waste of time & money ... everything that i have been learning the past few years i know for a fact will not help me when i finally work in my chosen industry! What i need are practical skills not skills on writing a fucking 2500 word essay on whether or not i feel sustainability has changed the way we do mass tourism!

When will i ever need to harvard reference in the tourism/travel industry?

Why am i still at uni?? Honestly i do not know why, i guess at the end of the day i do believe that employers do look highly upon a candidate who has that useless piece of graduate certificate over someone that doesn't, and having wasted so many years whats 1 more year or so?

Uni life is just not meant for all...

POPPING PILLS AIN'T EASY

It took:

2 fevers
3 wks of non- stop coughing
2 headaches

and

3 visits to the doctors office before they fuckin came to a conclusion that i am seriously sick and that its about time they put me on some fuckin antibiotics!

Much to my satisfaction that i'm finally getting prescribed something proper because during these 3 weeks i had been prescribing myself a NUMBER of cough medicines errrm lets say about 5 different types i finished 3.5 bottles out of the 5 and they had no effect on me whatsoever! hmmmmm....

However a major dilemma arised, as the antibiotics prescribed to me were in tablet form ... and i am so ashamed to admit that i have never been able to swallow a tablet in the 22 yrs that i have been alive ...

I asked the doc if it came in syrup form and he just looked at me and went 'nooooooooooo' ... and why does everyone laugh at me when i tell them this ... i think its a perfectly normal question!!! Damn you people who can swallow tablets! Damn You!

Anyways i've had no choice but to CUT my tablets up in smaller pieces and i am v. proud to inform you that i can now swallow tablets in halves haha considering i started out swallowing quarters with half a litre of water!! Major improvement!!!

Popping pills ain't easy i tell ya ...

SHANGHAI [21-07-06]

After leaving London we had stopped over a day at Hong Kong before once again packing up our luggage back out to the airport (i had calculated over this 4 week period i had left and entered Hong Kong 4 times each way god you'd think i was freakin Hong Kong residency) and flying over to Hangzhou, China where our 5 day China tour begins first stop was a 4 hr drive down to Shanghai. Shanghai by night is a really nice city, it is developing rapidly i reckon in a few years time it would even more amazing, i'd return there when they have normal western restroom facilities! Luckily through experience of China last year it wasn't as overwhelming this time round and i was well prepared for this trip!

Shots i've taken of Shanghai by night on yet another cruise!

I love these pics Shanghai is so nice at night, this is a shot of the famous 'Oriental Pearl Tower'

I love this shot because it was probably the clearest night shot i took with my now v. crappy digicam!

Roaming Shanghai streets and admiring the night lights!

This is apparently Shanghai's busiest and most popular street, its really long and pretty much just shops! Thats one thing i love about asia the night life, everything is open til really late at night unlike errghhh sydney!

Always Coca Cola

MONOPOLY HUNT

Whilst i had the opportunity to explore the city of London i kind of went on a hunt for all or as many of the Monopoly Board Game streets as possible hehe i managed to find a few of them so here they are!

LONDON [16-07-06]

Finally back in London these are my second set of pics that i took of London over the next 3 days or so that i had left of London before i continue my journey over to Asia!

Three levels of TopShop Mania!

How big are these clothes tag counters!

This Vintage Corner in Topshop just killed me!

You could imagine how happy i was feeling when i came across the level dedicated to my most beloved thing of all SHOES! My sister was a bit worried that i'd bring that entire level back to her apartment and haha i would have if she didn't stop me from purchasing it all! DAMN HER!

This was such a cute drawing posted up near the wharf where we had boarded our cruise down the river admiring the view of London. I swear this 4 week trip i had taken 5 cruises all up! If you can enlarge the pic and read the lil notes on the side hehe

My London London Bridge (sorry i just had fergie's damn london bridge song in my head)

Passing London Bridge

Big Ben & co.

Ewww whilst shopping at Selfridges we came across this section that sold all these disgusting edible products what you see here are vodka bottles some with a real scorpion and others with real mini snakes it looked so gross but they're one of those things where its so gross that you can't stop staring!

Peppermint lollipops with ants in them and they also had tequila lollipops with a worm in it! gross!

The entire range they even had weasel coffee!!!! What did they grind up weasels and dry it off into coffee powder or something?! ODD ODD ODD!

PARIS DAY 2 - BASTILLE DAY [14-07-06]

Day 2 in Paris, i really wished we had more time in france i definately have to go back one day! So we were lucky enough to experience a day of paris during bastille day! It was an amazing atmosphere watching parades of soldiers, pretty much just having the opportunity to be apart of something significant to the french.

Kim & I posing in front the Eiffel Tower early morning to beat the tourist rush and because it was Bastille Day we had to get there before roads around the city were being blocked off for the afternoon parade and ceremonies.

Random pic i took whilst walking along Parisian streets

Opera House

Some French men & women in uniform!

I was seriously risking my life to get these few shots ... haha ok bit of an exaggeration but it was scary running across that massive road with busy cars on both side! I was standing right in the middle of both sides just to get this shot!

This is the largest LV store i think its hot!

Suburb in which we stayed at god i wish sydney public transports were as efficient!

This was the end of our European tour and back to London we go ... this was a shot i took at the port of Calais where we board our Ferry crossing the channel back to london.

PARIS [13-07-06]

PARIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CITY EVER I LOVE IT!

not many pics will have captions as i just took shots of everything and anything no matter which way you turn paris is just amazing!

I wish my camera took better night shots because seeing the Eiffel Tower light was so mad!