Rain like you wouldn't believe.

so it has been raining A LOT in sydney the past few weeks. and when i say rain, i don't mean the usual pissy drizzly feathery rain that sydney is famous for, but the actual heavy almost-torrential kind of rain. and this rain, it went for HOURS. one day, it rained for a solid 30-hour stretch and i thought the Great Flood was coming upon us again.

[side story: i wouldn't have been surprised if it DID turn out to be the great flood seeing as the world is about to end on Dec 21, 2012 - why shouldn't natural disasters manifest themselves sooner than that?? which reminds me, i have to wiki/google Planet X - thanks Tam.]

all that rain reminded me of the monsoon seasons back in malaysia. during my last summer holiday, my mom, cousin + potential cousin-in-law and i went for a trip around the east coast; big mistake. anyway, one day i was walking out of my apartment when i passed under this 'christmas' tree (i'm calling it a christmas tree because i don't actually know what it is but i guess it's actually a fir tree, who cares) and there were all these little droplets of water hanging off at the very tips of the leaves/needles. it brought back memories of how when i was a little kid, we'd go to Fraser's Hill for holidays and every morning, the dew would condense on the trees to turn it into a crystally sparkling thing. and then someone showed me how to make little 'diamond rings' on my fingers by cleverly transferring the dew from the leaf to the base of my finger.

and something as simple as that would keep me amused for the rest of the walk as i would try to fit the largest 'diamond' i could find on my tiny little fingers. i guess i'm just easily contented.

anyway, it's stopped raining now for three days straight and i am happy! it's super sunny outside, albeit a little cold. non-wetness is awesome. non-muddy lanes and non-sludgy leaves and non-puddles are awesome too.

Exploits in the real world

It has been awhile since I last wrote anything substantial. I keep telling myself that I don’t have the time, or that it isn’t appropriate to be blogging during ‘work’ hours, but the truth is, every time I feel like writing about anything, I lose interest. It’s a little bit amusing yet ironic, because, what I’m trying to say is: I’ve lost interest in my current life and everything that goes with it.

That’s not to say that nothing interesting has been happening in my life. It is just that I do not feel as though there is anything compelling enough that would warrant me to commit it to an eternal life on the great interweb.

For some reason or another, I feel as though I’m just cruising through life these days. Nothing too challenging has been thrown my away since I got out of Antarctica, so perhaps that's why life seems dull these days. Back when I was on station, every single day was sort-of like a battle with the elements. Before walking out to work, I had to make sure I had enough warm clothes before I walked out of the door to keep frostbite at bay, check the wind speeds and temperature stats daily to make sure that I hunker down enough to not get blown away and watch out for penguins and seals so that I don't break my neck stumbling and falling over them - compared to those daily trials and tribulations, life now seems to pale in comparison! The most dangerous thing I have to watch out for while I'm walking to work are those pigeons that are always in mid-flight and perpetually look as though they are about to take a crap on you.

To alleviate this pseudo-stagnation that I've been feeling since coming home, I've been indulging in a lot of mini-holidays. I've been travelling to Melbourne A LOT, which is good, it's a nice change and I like it. Besides travelling, I guess I've just been slowly re-immersing myself into the 'Real World', a term I like to use these days. A lot of shopping, a lot of sitting-around-in-cafes-doing-nothing, a lot of walking-around-the-city-and-parks-aimlessly, and, of course, my favourite, a lot of catching up with food that I've missed.

I've often thought of blogging and putting up photos taken when I was in Antarctica on my blog. I realise now that I have accumulated WAY too many photos and, to be frank, I can't be bothered retelling my adventures again because I'm too lazy. Anyway, I've posted up most of them on Facebook with neat little story-telling captions too, so they're somewhere out there at least. Till next time!


Me and Yihaur went to the Sunny Ridge Strawberry farm in Mornington Peninsula, and all I can say is - Strawbies are AWESOME.