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.
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!
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.
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.
As the title suggests i now have an interest in developing applications for the iphone. Everyone seems to be having such a fantastic time doing it so i thought why not me too?
I have found out in the last several weeks since i decided this would be something i would like to try, that it is very hard indeed to register as a company to apples iphone developer program. Many emails and several hundred FAX attempts later, (YES FAX!? Apple pls wtf?) i am patiently awaiting some kind of response from apple, somewhere. When this happens i will have my mits on the latest version 3 of the SDK to play with. Then i hand it over to my mate Timmy G to perform some coding nerdery and we will both make a bajillion space bucks.
Until then! Or until something else urges me to make a useless post huhu.
Well, there you go, after once being the 3rd most popular website on the internet and Yahoo! aquiring it for something like $3 billion USD, Geocities is going to close. Normally i wouldnt give a shit but this particular free web host holds a special place in my heart. You see, it is the home of The Official PorkSword Homepage.
Not only does this mean that the site will close and the homepage, which has been there for 10 years (!!) will be no more, it will really actually be totally no more as i have no idea what the login details are for the site so I have no way to save the data. Unless of course i manually save every bit of it, but i wont do that cos that is lame.
So, to all you PorkSword fans out there, and i know there are… some, this year will be the last year you can view our homepage so make the most of it! In my opinion this is “out of line”.
EDIT: fuck it. what was i thinking? i’ve downloaded the entire site using a nifty little application, so now all we need is a domain to bung it on. I could just throw it up on one of mine but i feel we need our own such as www.porksword.com. Unfortunately, that site is already registered and parked as a gay resource site hah. I have put in an offer to the owner on sedo.co.uk. Will see if i get a response!
I haven’t posted anything advertising related for a while. But GPYR has made a couple of corkers lately, this one in particular impressed me.
This is a new ad for Spring Valley Smart Energy called Junk Ballet - featuring a rather large and precarious looking 3D stroboscopic zoetrope. Wikipedia describes a zoetrope as a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures.
A 3D stroboscopic zoetrope is something a little different. Using what looks like an old merry go round, they constructed a scene from junk that is 5m in diameter and spins at around 40km/hr. They then use strobe lighting to bring it to life with the end result being an animated 3D scene that is really quite spectacular.
Unfortunately, Patts werent the first to come up with the idea of using a zoetrope in a commercial. You might have seen the huge 10m contraption for Sony Bravia. While Sony is using this 174-year-old technology to draw attention to some new features of the Bravia, Spring Valley are using it to suggest that drinking Smart Engery will give you amazing brain power? Or something. Never mind how silly the Creative Director sounds, he’s actually quite bright.
It has irons flying in and out of washing machines, TV’s, flying books, toilets… what’s not to like!? Not sure exactly how my girlfriendscousin got himself into the ad yet but it doesn’t surprise me huhuh.
Without further ado:
Full credits:
Creative agency: George Patterson Y&R Melbourne
Executive Creative Director: Ben Coulson
Copywriter: Simon Bagnasco
Art Director: Chris Northam
Producer: Luisa Peters
Group Account Director: Mathew Cummings
Account Director: David Shekleton
Account Exec: Damien Miller
Production Company: Revolver
Director: Kris Moyes
Executive Producer: Michael Ritchie
Producer: Pip Smart
Post-Production: Fin Design
Editor: Stuart Reeves at Guillotine
Sound/Music: Simon/Michael Nylon Studios
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.![[del.icio.us]](http://www.madcaow.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/delicious.png)
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