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Amazing Geelong Football Cake

hugh — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:55:02 +0000

One for the bakers and Geelong fans alike. My sister in law made this crazy cake for my brothers birthday last week.

If you’re ever in Weipa and need a cake…

Cake ADDICT …You know you want some!
• 0439 876 593 • weipacakeaddict@gmail.com • PO Box 162 • 8 Damson Ct • Weipa 4874 •

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Learn something new every day.

hugh — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:04:13 +0000

Just when i thought i knew everything…. this happened.

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That was a chat log from just now. Awesome.

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I fucking need something to blog about, an apology.

hugh — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:28:15 +0000

Dear blog,

I am sorry i have neglected you over the last few months years. I would like to remind you though, that you are not the only blog in my life and those other blogs are much higher maintenance that you and this makes me a very busy man indeed. This is not your fault however, in fact, it is mine. The truth is that I am a terrible writer (note my excessive and most likely incorrerct use of punctuation and short sentences), writing is not my thing and let’s face it, writing is a huge part of being a blogger. Even now, it has taken me an hour to get this far into this post and it’s only like 150 words or something.

I will try harder in the future to come up with interesting and educational blogs about no particular topics in particular, and when i can’t think about anything to blog about i will do what most other bloggers do and steal them from sites such as Engadget and Mashable. I might even install an auto blogging plugin!? Or is that too harsh? Probably too harsh.

Anyway! That’s it I guess, im sorry!

Love always,

Hugh

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Ang Thong Marine Park

hugh — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:27:29 +0000

On Tuesday we spent the day out at Ang Thong. It is an archipelago of 60 or so islands to the north west of Samui.

It was meant to take an hour on the boat to get there but it was choppy as hell so it took another 25mins to get to the first stop, Koh Wa Yai. Check this map, it’s up the top. Here we caught up with a few other boats and went snorkling for about 50mins. It was pretty rad. Not a whole lot of wow fishies and the corals seemed to be quite plain. Good fun tho that snorkling business.

From there we cruised south between the small islands.

This one looks like a monkey.

From there we went onto Koh Mae Koh to the Talay Nai which is a lake inside a mountain. Meant to be fed by the sea with a series of tunnels thru the rock. To get up there we had to walk a rad path that was a heap of ladders tbh. Check how steep.

Nice view at the top.

Here’s me lookin intrepid… with my handbag.

From there we moved on and stopped for some lunch which was rad, deep fried king prawns etc. Good stuff.

After lunch we cruised off for some kayaking, the islands were numerous and very interesting. I can’t recall what this one is called, but you might recognise it. At low tide apparently it is very very thin and it is feared it might colapse within a number of years.

It looks very different from the side, that’s it on the left.

You can see some stormclouds closing in.

For a while we were the only ones on the beach as we decided not to go kayaking as i was getting very red from the sun. After 4mins or so it started to piss down.

Was good timing as we were due to leave anyway! So we legged it back.

the end.

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thailand – day something

hugh — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:41:59 +0000

too many fucking lame kids at this resort. fail. snot in pool fail

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Ok – Thailand Day…3 or 4?

hugh — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:43:14 +0000

Actually i think it is now day four. Anyway, we’re now in Koh Samui. It is… touristy. *plenty* of Germans and Aussies so I feel a little cliche which i was trying to avoid but being Aussie that is difficult. As with Phuket there are the old white guys with extremely bored young Thai girls following them around, also there seems to be quite a few blokes that might be living here with families and all.

Rocky’s Boutique is as I was expecting it to be. They do weddings here and there are lots of honeymooners but also a few families with screaming bairns and young kids that make too much noise.

Having a few issues with photos si i dont have any to post just yet!! but will continue this later on. lol.

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Thailand – Day 1

hugh — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:19:03 +0000

Hi! We’re in Bangkok. How about that? Have been here before briefly three years ago and had a great time so we thought we’d come back and have another go.

We arrived very late last night after a 9 hour flight. It is 3 hours behind here so it was 1am Melbourne time when we got to our hotel, the Eastin Hotel in Makkasan. It is a very new hotel and it’s pretty snazzy. I’ve no idea what we’re paying a night but it isnt all that much.

Immeditaly we went and found some food. On the street there were all sorts of wonderfully aromatic… foods of some sort. Chicken screwers, noodles, bbq’d fish on sticks etc. We went for the old trusty pad thai:

Im gunna finish this post later cos i’m running out of batteries!

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The road to Costco

hugh — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:33:42 +0000

On Saturday I went for a ride with Caroline, Tim and Katy. We were to go on a mission to find the new Costco at the Docklands.

Getting on the Upfield bike path next to the Melbourne Zoo.

Near the Flemington Bridge Station it looks like they are building a foot/bike bridge that will make it easier to cross… one of the roads there. At the moment you need to get down some stairs.

Funny zipper thing on Citylink.

Hooning along under citylink. It was very windy on Saturday but down here was quite sheltered. You barely need to pedal.

Still under Citylink. The two riders in front of Tim were just some randoms.

There is a creek/river on the right behind those bushes, it may or may not be Mooney Ponds Creek. There was an old man with a helmet on at one point along here. He was walking aimlessly along the path away from a bike leaning up against a bench about 50meters behind him. When i passed him he was covered in mud. I suspect he might have fallen into the creek. Not something that would be fun, even on a 40 degree day. The water is pretty wrongtown, full of mercury.

We finally arrived at the Costco building on Footscray Road. It’s fucking massive. The also quite huge Southern Star minus the pods lies dormant in the background. It was rendered inoperative after the week of 40+ degree days back in February. I think it will be out of action until Summer this year at the earliest.

After discovering that fucking Costco is not open yet, we continued down through the Docklands/Harbour Town. It is a very strange place. This was about 4pm on a Saturday arvo, we saw about 5 people in the whole area. Totally deserted and still very much under construction. It’s like a whole new city. Back at the Southern Star there were quite a few people, mainly there wondering WTF is up with the stupid broken ferris wheel, also there is a totally outrageous amount of places to eat stuff, and everyone was hanging out there. It reminded me of a cheesy touristy part of Brisbane, it does not feel like Melbourne at all.

Empty playground, interesting wind powered sculpture in the background.

More of the same. Apart from us, still no people.

Empty roads, horrible apartment buildings.

Tim struggling to ride into the wind. One thing about the Docklands is that it is a total wind tunnel, everywhere. There was no people in any of these shops.

Same very very windy spot.

These orange signs started to appear directing pedestrians and cyclists where to go. The whole place is under construction and it is not totally obvious where the paths are or where they lead to. This bridge was quite cool. There was a lane reserved for wheelchairs, would be good fun imo. There was a few people here, a gang of youths on BMX bikes, some dudes were fishing.

View west from the windy bridge. Bolte bridge in the distance.

Caroline looking in one direction…

Tim pointing in another direction…

Me, pointing in the direction we actually needed to being going.

After heading in that direction we were detoured by one of those orange signs into the bowels of what i think was the conference center near the exhibition shed. It wasn’t until we emerged on Spencer Street that i was certain about where we were!

Riding along the quiet side of the Yarra, next to the Aquarium.

Caroline pedaling.

Riding along Birrarung Marr. There are many more people here and it feels like we’re back in Melbourne. The ferris wheel in the background goes really fucking fast and has disco lights all over it.

This is the only shot of part if my bike. I’m the loser on a mountain bike. When taking photos I was usually riding with no hands, those Asian guys up ahead were very concerned about this. I lol’d.

Had just ridden up a rather steep hill near corner of Exhibition and Flinders streets. Very steep. glad i had gears at that point. Now we begun the ride into the wind. It was at this point by battery went flat.

Here ends the lesson. Which was, find out if the place you are heading to is open before leaving.

Actually, the lesson didnt end there at all. We continued to Katy and Tims house and proceeded to get very drunk on gin and Glühwein. Once that was over we went to Bar Fred and had some kick ass pizza. Bar Fred is rad.

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Fancy Box

hugh — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:48:23 +0000

Check this out.

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Agent Picolax – Extended Edition

hugh — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:42:20 +0000

You may or may not know about this post from quite a long time ago now by a man known to the internet as blutone. Unfortunately the forum which it was posted on had an auto prune feature enabled and the thread disappeared. The original post may be lost forever, but i was quick enough to archive it onto this very blog, albeit minus everyones comments, which were in fact a big part of the overall hilarity.

It has just come to my attention that the folks over at singletrackworld.com have actually (5 months ago!) posted the entire unedited thread onto their blog. So, for those of you who have not seen it yet, here it is.

The UNEDITED Picolax thread…

http://www.singletrackworld.com/2009/02/the-picolax-thread-returns/

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