Trip – Page 174 – Robot Claw

Friday Night Lights

December 30, 2011

The above were taken at Bondi Junction mall. They are representative of the sort of sights seen in bakery cases everywhere down here.

I had walked to the mall in the AM for a bit of a trot and to have a looksee. Here’s what I found:

Yes yes, I know – enough with the Oporto already! Point taken 🙂

In the afternoon we headed to ‘the cricket’, specifically a 20/20 game between the Sydney Thunder and Melbourne Renegades. We got there shortly before the start at 7pm, and the sun was relentlessly shining down onto our seats. It was quite brutal. But our seats were very good with a spectacular view.

The game was at the ANZ stadium at Olympic park, which is where the athletic events for the Sydney olympics was held.

I enjoyed a delicious $15 meal of chips, sausage roll and a Lift. I washed it down with this guy, priced at a reasonable $4.60:

A Magnum. It was delicious. I’ll have to try some other flavours before I leave.

Eventually the lights went out and we watched Melbourne beat Sydney in a close game that went to the last ball. This was an upset and there was lamentation amongst my fellows. Or not, especially since Bernard had placed a bet on Melbourne winning and won $8.60 🙂

All in all, a fun night!

…oh, and here’s yesterdays TSV on TVSN (this is for KLS to have a laugh!):

Fishing Season

December 29, 2011

Yesterday morning I woke up with a bit of acid reflux. I figured it was probably the double-fillet Otropo burger and chips I’d had for lunch. Or perhaps the 2.4 L of Lift. Or maybe the half a bag of licorice bullets, or half a pack of cheese and onion chips. Or Chokito bar, 2.5 fish cocktails and 2 potato scallops I’d had for dinner or maybe the 6 small cherry ripe bars. It must have been one of these.

Anyway the basic cure for reflux – exercise – worked well, and after a brief trot around Centennial park I felt much better. On the way I saw this guy:

Yes yes, I know – always with the spider photos! He’s a classic orb weaver, about 6cm in length from leg tip to tip. He says “Hello!”

Pat arrived late morning, and we set off to the city for a looksee. A couple of items I saw when I looked:

Christmas Rilakkuma says “Hello!” as well 🙂

After some trotting around we ended up near the UFO catchers. Pat & Adam settled in at a pub downstairs to watch the cricket while Bernard and I tried our luck. I was not lucky; he was. Here’s some proof:

Amazingly, this was not his only prize! The other was bigger and greener. I’ll post a shot at some point.

After this I went trotting around again (to look – unsuccessfully – for new and original postcards and to get some cash) while the others watched cricket in the pub. During this trot Bernard’s luck continued as he won $200 on a poker machine!

And then, when the cricket was done, we discovered ‘Fishing Season’.

As you can see, it’s a tabletop arcade game with multiplay where the players shoot nets at fish to catch them. It’s token based, so you have to buy tokens and feed them in to play with, and as you catch fish the game shoots out tokens as prizes. Since there was no way to redeem the tokens, we just fed them back into the machine to keep playing.

For three hours!

Yes my friends. The four of us, on a $20 investment, sat there and played Fishing Season for three whole hours! How’s that for value for money? At one point we were up to nearly three times our original number of tokens, and I reckon we could have played for much longer had we not, at one point, just started ‘rapid firing’ nets just to burn through our credits.

And then, in the evening, there was four player Magic and K-Pop till midnight 🙂

Here I Am, Lord (…again)

December 28, 2011

The flight was tolerable, if boring.

Been here several hours now. Here’s what lunch was:

And here’s something I saw in a shop:

I’m very, very, very tired (going on 2 days with no sleep). We’ve been playing the Magic decks and watching K-Pop on TV. Heading off to Salt’n’Lemon for dinner.

I bet I’ll crash when we get back 🙂