Melbourne

I had a great time in Melbourne in July. Click on the link below to see photographs of Melbourne I took when I was there: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27468257@N03/

I love Perth

(forgive me, my english is terrible)

I have been in Perth (Australia) for 4 months now. I first arrived here in early March 2008 and have been going through some rough times since then. My first problem when I got here was money and accommodation. I had no money and I was given two weeks of free accommodation in a hotel before I had to move out and find my own accommodation. I enjoyed my stay in the hotel but I had to pay for my own meals and I had no money. I remember having to eat noodles once a day for almost 2 weeks. Then I had to check out of the hotel and had to go stay in a backpackers hostel for a week. My stay at the backpackers hostel was made possible by a true friend of mine and I owe him a lot for that.

Life at the backpackers was fine but sometimes I felt like I had no privacy. It was nothing compared to my spacious and luxurious hotel suite at Mantra Hotel. But it was better then staying out in the streets. I had to share a tiny room with 3 other people: an Irish guy, a Korean guy and an Israeli girl. I hated the room at first sight but then I decided to look at the positive side of it. It was a small room but at least I have people I can talk to when I am bored and alone. Gradually I began to like my room-mates and I enjoyed the moments when each of us would come home (backpackers hostel) from work, sit around in our tiny back yard and talk about our work, australia, perth and even our problems. I had only been with them for a week but I felt sad when I left and moved into my new place. I am still in contact with the Irish guy. He had also left the backpackers hostel and has found himself a place. I met him recently at a pub and we celebrated our reunion hahaha.

Apart from my money and accommodation problems I also had relationship and other issues that I was dealing with and putting them all together made my first 3 months in Perth a living hell.

But I am feeling much better now. I have made friends with people here and I was able to meet up with some old friends. And with my money and accommodation problem gone (well not entirely gone) I am beginning to like Perth. Although Perth may be less exciting, compared to the East, I think it is the people that make a place exciting. When I first got here I didn't venture out and approach people. I locked myself in my cage and as a result I found Perth a bit boring. But in the recent weeks I have met some really nice and understanding people and I am starting to build friendships. So Perth is not boring after all. There are nice and interesting people here. I just have to go out there and meet them.

Perth CBD viewed from Kings Park

Kings Park, Perth CBD background

South Perth

South Perth close up

Time Off

I really don't have anything to say at the moment so I'm going to take a break. I'm going through a difficult time and I'd like to take time off from everything. I just want to be alone and deal with my issues. But I promise I will try my best to come back online soon.

Parasites

...Everyone within 50 kilometers is fighting to marry me off to their dowdy daughters, to blunt my wits over the dinner table so they can ensnare me into matrimony. But - I hate them, I detest them. They care not for me, but for my money, for my title, for my grassy little kingdom...

Black Foxes by Sonya Hartnet

Vinterkveld i Bergen

Winter evening in Bergen

Good friend for company, having coffee and cognac, beside the fireplace, listening to Tracy Chapman and Minor Majority. That's what I'm doing right now, and I am enjoying it very much. So who says winter is bad? Winter can be fun if you use it the right way. Well it's not really winter yet in Norway, but for me I regard this as winter. Norwegians say winter starts in January but for me winter starts now. It is already too cold for me (being from the Tropics) but locals here say it is not cold at all, and yet they complain about the weather and that it's too dark etc. I think it's too cold and dark but I have a better way of enjoying it. And that is to have coffee and cognac in front of the fireplace listening to good easy-listening music.

The ugly frogling

So the frog has been told not to go to work today because he is so ugly no one can even dare look at him. So the frog packs his bags and walks out into the snow. Along the pathway, down the stairs and down the road goes the frog. Small droplets of frog tears falls down his eyes. But then something about the snow makes him stop crying. The snow is so white and so beautiful that even the ugly frogling looks so beautiful walking on the snow.

With tears now gone, the ugly frogling throws his bags on the ground and runs through the snow into the whiteness beyond. He can't understand why the whiteness suddenly makes him so happy. Perhaps the snow brings out the beauty in him. Maybe he has always been beautiful. He doesn't know. All he knows is that he is so happy and that is all that matters.

Skraneflaten, Bergen, Norway

This is my house in Bergen, Norway. Well I don't own the house but I live in it. It's big and cosy and I like it very much, but its quite far from the Sentrum. It's the same distance as from Gerehu to Town. In POM it costs K0.70 to travel from Gerehu to Town by bus. Here in Bergen it costs the equivalent of K12.00 to travel the same distance. And if I go by taxi it costs me the equivalent of K251.00. But apart from the cost of living and the fact that it rains a lot, Bergen is a very beautiful city. One cannot really see the beauty of Bergen in the rain, except on a sunny day. Sunshine brings out the beauty in Bergen. Too bad it rains a lot in Bergen. But I think rain is something that is a part of Bergen so one has to get used to it and see the beauty of Bergen in the rain.

These days I don't stay indoors anymore. I go walking, jogging, shopping and clubbing...in the rain. I can't stay indoors and wait for the rain to stop 'cause it will not stop.

More pictures of Bergen will be posted soon.

The house


View of the neibourhood from the house


The most used part of the house




The kitchen


The dining table which I hardly use


The fireplace


The garage and the house

Musings of the living dead

So the innocent greenflyingfrog was killed by this malevolent sorcerer and then raised in a comatose trance from his grave by the same malevolent sorcerer. He (greenflyingfrog) was led to this ugly shopping mall with a complicated network of pipes to toil indefinitely as a slave.

Most of his soul has been captured by the sorcerer as it is evident by the absence of will, memory and emotion. His eyes are sunken and his skin is peeling off, and if you ask him what "1 + 1" is he will say "Monday". 1 + 1 = Monday? There is something terribly wrong. He hasn't slept for more then 48 hours, but why would he need sleep? He is a zombie now and zombie's don't sleep, do they? But this zombie is a different kind of zombie and he needs sleep and the lack of sleep is driving him insane and has a tremendous effect on his health and emotions. Perhaps because only a part of his soul was captured, he is still able to feel that he needs sleep and has become very emotional about it. I wonder if all of his soul had been captured he would have been nothing but just a living dead.

So this is what this living dead is thinking:
1) 1 + 2 = Kakaruk burger.
2) I am covered up in 4 layers of clothing. How come I am still very hot?
3) I really hate this but I don't have any choice. I don't want to go back to that stinking island.
4) All I wanna do now is cuddle A and cuddle A and cuddle A and cuddle A forever...
5) Oh s**t! Am I just dreaming?
6) And as you can see readers of this blog...my Egnlhsh is terribla.

Norway

So greenflyingfrog has been silent the past months...

I had not been updating the blog lately due to tight schedule and of course I was just plain lazy. Anyway, I am in Scandinavia at the moment and it's cold and it rains in the city (Bergen) I am staying. I went to Oslo last week and managed to get some photos. As you can see in the pictures, although Oslo is cold as well, it is sunny. But not Bergen which rains a lot. I may post some pics of rainy Bergen soon.

From La Defense to Champs Elysee to Eiffel Tower

More Paris pics. I have yet to see more of Avenue des Champs Elysees.



La Defense.



View of Arc de Triomphe from Grand Arche.



On our way to Arc de Triomphe, we looked back and took another photo of Grand Arche.



Arc de Triomphe (Arc of Triumph).



Little car. I saw this car along Avenue des Champs Elysees.



Tour Eiffel (Eiffel Tower).