month long trips abroad will always make you yearn some for home. i don't feel that broken out of the shell as i expected to. it's sweet to be in brisbane, some comfort in familiarity and gleefulness that comes with successful conquests in the malls.

melbourne_ i was an ill bloke, so i sneezed, weezed, i got burnt up and my throat burned heavily over several degrees over a week but we managed well and had fun walking about town, to philip island to go ooh over cute clumsy penguins and to the great ocean road where the creamy cliffs are miracles and the shades of the ocean stirred my heart. dinner at nam long and yum cha at dragonboat restaurant. late night movie with alexis bledel in white stone houses by the greek ocean. new maroon mooks bag. huge chunk of codfish at chinatown wet market for two dollars with chicken and vege stirfry and two ice cream cones mint tim tam cornettos for us each. bad australian tv shows and sly bee. ha.