Bit out of date, but here are some photos from Australia Day this year.

They had these crazy old busses giving people free rides around the city.

Inside they still had some old postings around and about. This one shows which area of the city that you can ride around in for only 10¢.

Old advertising amuses me in its direct quaitness. This one reads “100% of the people who travel by bus wear clothes. The bus is therefore a good place to advertise outerwear, underwear, summerwear, winterwear, sportswear, town, country, and everywhere wear.” and in script at the bottom: “P.S. Bet you read this!”

“100% of the people who travel by bus eat. The bus therefore is an exceptionally good place to advertise fruit, vegitables, meat, poultry, dairy produce, chocolates, sweets, chewing tobacco and indigestion tablets.” — emphasis mine.

Sailing ships and the Manly ferry

For New Year's Eve 2006 / New Year 2007 my friends Joe, Cicely and Brian came out for a visit. I am not sure how, but somehow Joe managed to score tickets on one of the boats in the parade of ships which offer the best view of the fireworks.

...a three hour tour. This is the boat that we watched the fireworks from.

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Here are the 9 o'clock fireworks they set off for the kids who can't stay up for the real deal.

There were tones of boats in the “parade” like ours, all dressed up like this sailing ship with lights and pizzazz.

More baots in the parade. The bridge's diamond jubalee (75 years) was one of the themes of the evening so there were lots of diamonds about.

The bridge is sometimes referred to as “the world's largest coat hanger”.

Of course there was something going on at the Opera House.

We all thought they had shurely set off all the fireworks for the early show since it was so impressive. We were about to be blasted with something way more exciting, starting with a few warning shots off the bridge.

Then to our left the city started to erupt in sound and light.

Finally everything went crazy.

It only took me 22 months to get around to processing these images.

• 23 September 2008 04:02pm: Something for everyone, an opera tonight! First trip to the Sydney Opera House to see them sing and stuff.
• 22 September 2008 02:22pm: I am going to be in New York/New Jersey 4-18 October.
• 22 September 2008 08:29am: City jackhammers are my wake up call at The Point. Is it Monday again already?
• 21 September 2008 10:19pm: On the train ride back from Canberra the kangaroos were scattering in fear as we coasted through landscape. Back in Sydney.

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Me and grandma at the Rocks, Sydney, sometime in the late 70s.

We had some light rain this morning. I had a nap out in the atrium my grandma had built, resting to the pitter patter of rain drops outside. The sun gently woke me up an hour or two later and I watched the clouds scoot across the sky over the neighbours house. It made me really glad that I moved up here from the city^[1].

The rain reminded me of this time when I overheard this kid talking to his mum in Sydney while it was raining and he refused a brolly, saying “guy's don't use umbrellas.” I remember thinking to myself, gosh guys are kinda dumb. Me, I like to be dry, so I guess I am not a guy. Next time a girl tells me that guys are all alike I can say “hey, I like to be dry when it rains!”

1. although, lets just see how much I still feel like that when I wake up at 6am tomorrow to go to work :P

Are the World Youth Drones gone yet? Please? Er. I thought they were going to be gone today, but I saw a few stragglers in the various train stations I was in today.