Platitudinous

Why is there a dead Pakistani on my couch?

2009-05-21T16:58:00.003+10:00

I never have anything to say when I remember this blog, so I'm just going to post a bunch of Lost related things instead.

They still want each other. Juliet and Sawyer is the worst thing that's ever happened on the show. I don't really care what happens to Jack.

I'm still trying to work out what's going to happen in the 6th season. I have no idea how the Egyptian references and 'immortals' are going to come together. I think Jack, Kate, Sawyer etc will succeed in returning to the present, but I don't think they'll get off the island that quickly... I started getting some major Charlie and the Chocolate factory vibes when Ilana and Bram's group got the island. Like they were all candidates for something. Then I remembered Jacob (aka Mr Slugworth) going around talking to all the main characters in their flashbacks...

I've heard some pretty good timeloop theories. For example, pushing the button in the hatch caused the island to move back in time every 108 minutes so the characters didn't age (making it hard for the women to have children). This would also mean the island was stuck in 1996 and when the Oceanic flight crashed on the island, the characters were sent back in time. This explains why Rose doesn't have cancer and Locke can walk - because until they catch up to 2004, it hasn't happened yet. When Desmond turns the fail safe key, time on the island gets back on track, but they are still in 1996. I think a similar thing must have happened when Juliet activated the hydrogen bomb. If anyone has seen the teaser trailer for the 6th season, it definitely looks like Juliet's eye. My money's on her waking up naked in the forest like Desmond did.

The Magic of Trees

2009-02-15T11:18:00.020+10:00

When I have money, I'm going to build the best fucking tree house you've ever seen...

Yellow Pages built a restaurant 10 metres off the ground in an old Redwood tree during one of their marketing campaigns last year. The Yellow Tree House opened for bookings on the 9th of January 2009.

The 14-story, 50-foot wide Tree of Life opened at Walt Disney World, Florida in 1998. It took ten artists and three 'Imagineers' 18 months to sculpt 325 animal carvings into the tree.

A 72-foot high Baobab tree was turned into a pub at the Sunland Nursery in Limpopo, South Africa. The Baobab Tree Bar and Wine Cellar was founded after Heather van Heerden and her husband, Doug bought the farm in 1980 and discovered the massive tree was hollow. The 6,000 year old Baobab has 13-foot high ceilings and has been known to fit 54 people inside.

Nature Maker Steel Art Trees

Shawn Lovell Metalworks - Tree Bed, $15,000

Confusion

2009-02-04T23:03:00.005+10:00

I don't know if I should laugh or hate the world.

Fort William, Holy Island, Hadrian's Wall, British Museum, London Zoo

2008-07-12T02:51:00.009+10:00

600 photos, 2 pairs of shoes, one pair of sunglasses and an illness later, I give you an update.

HADRIAN'S WALL/VINDOLANDA

HOLY ISLAND

FORT WILLIAM/SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS

BRITISH MUSEUM

TOWER OF LONDON

LONDON ZOO

York

2008-06-28T00:58:00.004+10:00

Oxford

2008-06-27T04:38:00.005+10:00

Today was our last day in Oxford but we had a buffet breakfast and walked along the river before we left.

I love Oxford.

Hong Kong and Oxford

2008-06-26T00:09:00.007+10:00

I'm such a shit person when I'm tired. I couldn't sleep at all on the plane and the weather in Hong Kong is terrible. Humidity is a bitch and it was 30 degrees pretty much the entire time.

Lantau Island and the Giant Buddha were amazing, I just wish there were more things to do outside of the city.

I'm in Oxford at the moment though and I can honestly say it is the best place I have ever been (so far - we'll see what I think in 6 weeks). I could happily live here for the rest of my life.

Europe 2008 Itinerary

2008-06-23T08:40:00.000+10:00

June

23 - Brisbane, depart 1.10pm - Hong Kong, arrive 8.05pm
24 - Hong Kong
25 - Hong Kong, depart 12.35am – London, arrive 6.20am
26 - England
27 - England
28 - Leeds (Ghostfest w/The Ocean, Cult of Luna)
29 - Scotland
30 - Edinburgh

July

01 - Edinburgh
02 - England
03 - England
04 - London
05 - London
06 - London
07 - London
08 - London
09 - London, depart 11.40am – Nice, arrive 2.40pm
10 - Nice
11 - Nice, depart – Carcassonne, arrive
12 - Carcassonne
13 - Carcassonne, depart –Toulouse, arrive
14 - Toulouse
15 - Toulouse
16 - Toulouse, depart 4.35pm – Dublin, arrive 5.40pm
17 - Ireland
18 - Ireland
19 - Ireland
20 - Ireland
21 - Dublin, depart 4.10pm – Venice, arrive 7.50pm
22 - Venice
23 - Venice, depart – Paris, arrive
24 - Paris
25 - Paris
26 - Paris
27 - Paris
28 - Paris, depart 2.00pm – Hong Kong, arrive 7.35am
29 - Hong Kong
30 - Hong Kong, depart 11.30pm – Cairns, arrive 8.35am - depart 9.50am
31 - Brisbane, arrive 11.55am