Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Arika and her car!
One of the best feelings in life is to be driving full ball down a backroad - listening to 80's disco music while you have the wind blowing in your hair. An even better feeling is the envious stares you get from your fellow drivers for having such a deadly car. My good mate Arika owns this one of a kind Mambo promotional car painted by world renowned artist Dave Mckay in 1991!! Isn't it amazing????

I also bought Arika's old car - so i am now the proud owner of a 1987 red Nissan Pulsar - one that yesterday completely blew a tyre leaving me stranded in a shop car park! So i didn't get to work for my last day of 2006 but the good news was - Arika picked me up and we went cruising in her deadly car again! Life is great!

And another example of why life is great is this : I'm going home in two hours!! YAY!

Thank you Arika and Tjanara for giving me the best times in Canberra! I hope everything works out next year and i'm gonna miss you both heaps!!

Luv Amy
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Monday, December 04, 2006
hmmmmmmmmm............Rockhampton...



I can almost smell the strong scent of the meatworks, can almost see the rich brownness of the Fitzroy, can almost feel the sizzling sensation of the Queensland sun on my skin.

I am such a nerd for being so excited to go home!

I've figured out that it's little things that make me think of home. And they're weird, silly, irrelevant things. Like India makes me think of home. My friend Melissa's stories make me think of home. Fish and chips makes me think of home. And the beach makes me think of home. Why? I wouldn't have a clue!

To the outside eye, Rockhampton is termed as a 'hole', a 'dive', or a 's***y place'.

To an extent i agree. As a tourist, i would never visit. I would bypass it for Cairns or Townsville or Brissy.

So if you are ever silly enough to go, here are my list of essential places to see.

1. Sit on the banks of the Fitzroy river and pretend not to notice that you can't see the bottom. You can also try your hand at crocodile spotting or try and make up what illegal activity people are up to on their houseboats.

2. Go to the Dreaming Centre. Apparently it's one of the largest Aboriginal museums in Queensland. Then drive down the road and go to the heritage village.

3. Check out the Botanical gardens and zoo - which have been there way before my dad was born, and believe me, that was a long time ago.

4. Leave Rockhampton...i am officially including this list to Central Queensland...and go up to Emu Park and eat fish and chips by the beach. Also go and see the singing ship.


Isn't it funny how you can just completely click with some people?? I have that sort of relationship with two groups of my friends.

1. Melissa/Chris/Antonia/Kate and everyone else in the AESM

2. Lisa, Becky, Liz, Sophie - we were school girls together!

I have never had a fight with any of them which is weird cause i have spent sooo much time with them. So it's weird how people click. What are the ingredients for a perfect friendship? Cause i seem to have so many perfect friendships - people who i never get annoyed at and who never get annoyed at me. Am i just lucky? Or is it so commonplace?

MESSAGE TO MELISSA: Hey! I just remembered - have you ever been to Emu Park?? I don't remember going with you but you've probably been already. But anyway, we have to go when i get back cause it's my favourite beach. We should plan an AESM trip down the beach. And we'll also invite Yogi...just because!



LUV AMY
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Sunday, December 03, 2006
This is Mt Yasur volcano on my dad's ancestral island of Tanna. I went up it when i was nine and my dad left me on it while he went to take a closer look into the crater. I sat on a heap of volcanic soil on the top of the volcano for ages until this big rumble came and i jumped up and ran down the side back to my mum who was too scared to go to the top. My dad came back down and thought i had run into the crator. I may have been nine but i wasn't that stupid! True story! It's something i'll remember my whole life. The day my dad left me on the top of an active volcano.



I am in an extremely happy mood today.

Here are the reasons:

1. Tjanara, who i share a house with, made this delicious Sri Lankan Curry and we washed it down with like three cups of tea - it was delicious.

2. There are ten sleeps til hometime.

3. I'm halfway through Umrao Jaan and i really like it so far. I'm becoming an Abishek fan by the minute.

4. I just read my friend Melissa's novel and it's hilarious! You can find a link to it on her blog here I'm even more happy because i make a starring role as the heroine (so far!) named Sarah. I also get to have a love interest - which is loosely based on my friend Yogi only the character is really vain and self centred which i don't think Yogi is. I also get to be an investigative reporter and an undercover superhero - but i won't give the game away.

I also finished watching KANK this week and honestly - i don't see what the big deal with it is. It doesn't stink, but it's not the best movie ever. I actually enjoyed alot of it. But that's because i really like Rani and Abishek is growing on me (as i said before).

I'm also happy because, although i know it's just a poll and probably didn't have a large enough sample i'm sure, Labor may actually have a chance of beating the Howard government in the next federal election. You can read about it in this SMH article I hate labor as well, but it's the lesser of the two evils. And your always bound to hate the people in power.

I have also learnt many things this week.

1. Never buy a toshiba. My friend Arika had one...then her power plug just stopped working. I have one as well and this week mine stopped working as well! So i am using my laptop with a kodak camera docker power adapter. I know your not supposed to but i'll think of that if my laptop ever blows up. For now i'm not too worried. The sound also doesn't work very well on Toshibas and they have a limited battery life. Buy a MAC instead...hahaha

2. Never spend the last few dollars in your wallet on a book, even if it is a new trendy travel memoir called Yoga School Drop out It's not worth it cause you'll miss out on the movies the next day.

3. NEVER FLY QANTAS. hahaha, i still do but seriously - they have lost my luggage 4 times this year!! My friend Amanda said it has never in her life happenned to her - and she basically flys Qantas every week. Maybe i'm unlucky?? Maybe it's airport karma catching up on me? What did i do in a previous life? Spill coffee on an air hostess? Or maybe i clogged up the airplane toilet and in doing so made the plane land in the middle of a war zone to unload human wastage? I don't know. All i know is it's payback happenning now.

4. Never say it's going to rain, because it never will. No matter how many times you knock on wood.

There was an interesting Dateline story on Land rights in Vanuatu It made me mad. What made me more mad was that i knew one of the boys who was being cheated out of his land. I couldn't help being mad at white Australia. Now i'm not saying "white australians" - cause you know, my mum is one - but i mean when is enough enough? First you claim land is yours even when it was originally stolen and when it is recognised and given back to traditional owners - you complain about "the aboriginies" moving in and stealing your parks and beaches. Then you - and i'm speaking to white queensland - steal actual people from their homelands and carry them across the sea to work as slaves in your sugar plantations. You pretend that all of this happenned years ago and therefore there should not be a sorry needed - because after all the crimes aren't generational. Then you refuse to let Pacific workers in so they can build their own economies, you refuse to support the plight of the West Papuans who are being held as second class citizens in their own country (which reminds me of the "aboriginies" as well) and to top it all off you say this country was built on christianity and is no longer racist.

If we aren't racist, how come we can fill up an entire newspaper fortnightly with the injustices committed against Indigenous people?

And how come you are moving in and taking land from Vanuatu to enhance your own profit in a tax havan??

The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was deferred again last week. You can read about it here We are onto the Second Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples. How many decades is it going to take?

Wow. This entry was all over the shop. It probably didn't make much sense but that's what blogs are for!

Luv Amy
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