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Posts tagged with "Adelaide"

Snake, happy and two songs

Sunday, 5. October 2008, 09:54:14

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After deciding I had done absolutely no exercise in who-knows-how-long, I told myself that I had to do some exercise or I'd end up looking like a lump of lard. Each day for the past four days, I've been walking up a hill. It makes me tired and my legs get sore, but it's good exercise :smile:

Saturday’s walk was particularly exciting. I learnt that you should never walk on little tracks by yourself. Why? You might get bitten by a snake! My dad stopped to tie up his shoe on a rock...and there was an Eastern Brown Snake (second most deadly snake in the world :eyes:) behind the rock.

My dad had his camera with him but the shot he took isn’t the best.. I guess when a deadly snake is in front of you, you don’t really have time to work out the ‘rule of 3rds’, calculate where any shadows will be, set up a tripod etc etc.

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I finished work at 1am this morning. I started at 6pm and it wasn't very busy so they let me go home. I would have stayed there for extra money though! I got home and my dad and I were talking in the kitchen:

*Kimbers is happy and laughing*
The dad of Kimbers: Were you drinking at work?
Kimbers: No.
The dad of Kimbers: Oh...you just seem really happy!

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Two songs:

Somersault from Zero 7


If I ever feel better from Pheonix

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Bay to Birdwood

Sunday, 28. September 2008, 06:34:15

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The Bay to Birdwood is held each year. This year the 'drive' was for vehicles manufactured on or before 31 December 1955. The start is by the sea and the finish is a picnic event at Birdwood, a village in the hills and home to the 'National Motor Museum'. The distance is 70km.

If you just thought 'Hey, Kimbers doesn't even like cars!' well, you're right :D Cars don't interest me in the slightest.

Better explanation:
The Bay to Birdwood Run for historic motoring vehicles, is the largest most continually staged event of its kind anywhere in the world with an average of 1500-1600 entrant vehicles including cars, motorcycles, trucks and vans.
(source)


What did you do on Sunday? I sat on the side of a road with a glass of wine and watched cars drive past


Happy looking people in a green car




The event is not just for cars. If you own an old bike or FIRE ENGINE, you can probbaly enter


Someone didn't want their photo taken...probably knew it would end up on a blog and wanted to protect his identity :wink:

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Royal Adelaide Show 2008 and Canon competition

Thursday, 18. September 2008, 12:28:40

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The Royal Adelaide Show is a big fair. It goes for about a week every September and thousands of people go to it. There are rides, games, cake decorating, art competitions, cooking competitions, animal competitions (chickens, sheep, cows, dogs) etc. You have to pay to get in, pay for food, pay for the rides, pay for showbags etc. Some idiots spend $500 for just one day at the show!! :eyes:

What is a showbag? Showbags are promotional material by large companies. For example, $10 will buy you a Cadbury Chocolate showbag, which will contain a range of Cadbury chocolates. They were once free, but the companies worked out that people would actually pay for them.

Carcase competition: This competition involves high school children looking after a cow (one of those big ones for meat...I don't know what you call them) for however long it takes a cow to grow up. The judges judge all the cows when they are alive. The next day, all the cows go on a drive up the freeway to the slaughter house, are killed and then they are judged hanging on a hook :frown: All the children cry and miss their cow! After the cows have been judged, they are sold to the market and bought by you and me.



Cake decorating


:yuck: Bogans and cars....I don't understand how people can be interested in these cars. If you're going to be interested in cars, why not be interested in foreign, expensive cars?


This is the 'Grand Parade' where all the animals walk around the oval. Why? I don't know...so my dad can take photos of them?


A guy with a cool hat on the side of a horse


A horse jumping over a fence


These guys chop wood...why? I don't know...Because it's fun to chop stuff? I enjoy chopping/cutting up big pieces of paper into tiny pieces of paper.


One of thse things that I've never been on.


I got a box from Canon today. It's for a photo competition. In the box there are some objects and you have to take photos of them. There are 10 winners, which receive up to $5000 worth of Canon EOS products. I won't win.

There are two categories: Professional and ameteur, which is unfair! Professional= You earn more than $20,000 from photography/year. So, someone with a very cool camera who earns $18,000/year from photography is in the same category as me; the poor uni student with a dodgy point and shoot.

My model will be INTERSHEEP!!!!! He/she has long legs...

The objects are:
  • A red ribbon
  • Tea lights (those littlecandles)
  • A pink crayon
  • A blue cocktail umbrella
  • Bubble mix (I'm assuming they don't want photos of the container, but of the bubbles)



Now I'm on my way to bed. I'm lucky enough to visit the doctor tomorrow! The best part is waiting in the waiting room and watching people. It amuses me. So does watching people on the bus. There's a guy who looks like Dave Grohl in the video for 'Learn to Fly' and a girl who looks like she's from the Famous Five. Yep, I'm a simple person living in an over complicated world full of share options, insurance, exothermic plastics and syringe disposal units.

Goodnight :smile:

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My night at work in Freak-Central

Monday, 11. August 2008, 10:11:12

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ID?
*I walk into the door and greet the bouncer*
Me: Hi!
Bouncer: Hi...oh can I see your ID please?
Me: *turns back* I work here...
Bouncer: Oh


I'm weird?
Mr B (the guy I was working with): *picks me up*
Me: Ahhh put me down!
Mr B: You're so light, did you know that?! Do you eat anything?!
Me: Am I? No..I don't pick myself up...I don't go around picking other people up to compare weights either. Yeah...I eat toast and I graze on fruit. I like porridge too!
Mr B: You don't drink do you? I've never seen you drink
Me: No. I drink water, usually hot water. Infact, I'm going to get some right now. We get free hot water, right?
Mr B: :left: Do you smoke?
Me: No
Mr B: Have you EVER smoked?
Me: No and I don't want to
Mr B: Do you want some chocolate? *puts chocolate infront of my face*
Me: No...I'm fine...
Mr B: You're so weird!


Freaky drunk guy

When? 4.43am Sunday morning.
Where? On my way to the bus stop

I was walking to the bus stop and was about to walk past some guy in a white hoodie, on the side of the street.

I was 2 steps past him when he said: 'Do you work in a club?'
Me: What? (I couldn't understand him)
Weird drunk guy: Do you work in a club?
Me: Do I work in a club?
Weird drunk guy: Yeah...
Me: Err not really. I work in a bar
*I try to walk away*
Weird drunk guy: dkjhfkjshfkjhfs (I had NO idea what he said)
Me: What? *tries to walk away*
Weird drunk guy: Do you kjsfhkjh (no idea what he said here) taxi?
Me: No, I'm getting a bus! It's cheap
Weird drunk guy: Do you kjsfhkjh (no idea what he said here) taxi?
Me: *takes one step away* I'm...
Weird drunk guy: Do you not talk to me (Ohhh so that's what he was saying...there was NO taxi involved in the conversation)
Me: Err...*gets scared*...I'm waking to the bus stop...it's warmer there (infact it's freezing cold, but I didn't want to talk to this FREAK)
*I walk away*
Weird drunk guy: jsdfkdjfhgkdjhgdkjhgkdfjhg (no idea what he was saying, something about how I didn't want to talk to him)

I got scared :frown: and kept looking in the windows of the shops to try and see if he was following me. Luckily the idiot didn't follow me. I think I could have bashed him up...he was around the same height as me (haha shorty! (well, for a guy I guess) )

Next week, I'm taking my big umbrella with a pointy bit on the end :D It's good for stabbing/hitting and keeping my hair dry :wink:


Sleepy guy
Last week, there was a guy sleeping on the ground at the bus stop. Another guy came along to wait for the bus and kept looking at the sleeping guy and was laughing at him for about 10 minutes.


Please dont' sit next to me

When I got on the bus 3 drunk deaf guys (yes, they were deaf and don't go on about how I'm discriminating them, because I'm not!) got on the bus. They waved to me, so I waved back. The last one sat next to me :left: and all his friends started laughing. So I moved over, right up close to the cold window. Then his friend came and got him and took him to the back of the bus.

Normally on my way to and from uni, no one sits next to me. I must be scary looking. However to drunk people, I must look really friendly.

Sometimes there are funny drunk people on the bus and I talk to them :lol: Once there were English tourists on the bus and they were soooo funny! The guy was laying down on the 'old people' chairs and wondered if any 90yr olds would be getting on the bus at 5am....


There are SO MANY FREAKS IN ADELAIDE!!! Please donate money to me so I can get out of here :D :D :insane:

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Lunch and recent purchases

Sunday, 13. July 2008, 09:36:13

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Welcome back to my blog (there should be a waving smiley)

It's my grandma's birthday on Tuesday so we took her out to lunch today. She said she wanted to go to 'Dundees Hotel/Dundees Crocodile and Wildlife Park'. *sigh* Yes, I actually sighed when I found out we were going there.


After 4.75 hours sleep, I travelled for 1.5 hours with my family to get to an 'all you can eat' restaurant, randomly placed on the side of a freeway... :left:

$18 buys you 'all you can eat'...not that anyone would ever eat $18 worth of food.

Left to right:
Sister- Lots of carbs, some dead animal (iron and protein) and some veggies under there somewhere
Dad- Err weren't you looking up ways to lower cholesterol on the net last night? Well, ok you've got some protein there and some greens...but I don't know what the brown stuff is
Mum- You like potato, hey? Didn't we get 5kg of potatoes for $2 on Thursday? And you paid $18 for this...?
Grandma- sat too far away so didn't get a pic


My mum also ate some prawns. Nothing more classy than ripping out the intestinal tract of a dead sea creature at the dinner table :eyes:


HOT WATER :D My meal...$0...best price EVER :up:


I took a photo of this because it looks pretty :wink: Do you prefer rouns sprinkles or the straight sprinkles?

Then we went home :D I like looking out of the window at the country side which looked like this and this in spots.

This is in a village named Callington. I like clouds.


In other news...

My mum bought 3kg of oranges!!! :yes: :hat: Oranges make me happy. So does porridge. Porridges with oranges in it makes me super happy.


I baked a lemon and poppy seed cake last week. It was definately NOT the best cake I have ever made, probably because I kind of 'invented' the recipe and didn't put enough eggs in. I still ate it though :smile:


Puma shoes are really good in my opinion. Why? I've been wearing the same pair for 5.5 years and they have only started to 'die' recently. I refuse to pay over $50 for shoes, considering shoes priced at $100 are NOT worth $100 (I do learn stuff at uni that I can apply to real life woah! :yikes: )

I found some Converse shoes in a brochure for $50. When I got to one store the woman said
'Oh it's only the blue ones that are $50. The gold are $80'
Me- So a different colour is $30?!
Woman- Yes...
Me- You can keep the shoes then p:

Then I went to another store (the same store but a different location) and took the gold shoes to the check-out. They wanted to charge me $80 for them too! However, I used my knoweldge of small print and generally annoyed the staff and got them for $50 :up:


I also bought a warm polar fleece jumper recently. It's from Paddy Pallin, an outdoor shop where the staff are soooo much more friendly and helpful than the staff in the store I got my shoes from. I asked the guy for a student discount and got one :up:

With my new jumper, I can ride a bike, go hiking and mountain climbing. Wow, a whole world of opportunities awaits me and my jumper

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Some simple rules

Sunday, 6. July 2008, 13:53:43

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It's around 7 months since I started working in the bar. Not many people stay in the job for this long so that's an achievement for me. Also, I have some money YAY! You know, I haven't spent any of it yet which is also an achievement :up:


After 7 months, I've got some simple rules for people to follow.... (though I'm sure most of my readers are great customers when they go out :wink: )...there are probably some that I have forgotten too.

  • 1. Know what you want to order BEFORE you go to the bar
  • 2. State your order in a loud, clear voice
  • 3. Don't do the 'Ugh I've been waiting sooo long' 'Hurry up and serve me!' thing
  • 4. If you do (3), make sure you know what you want to order!
  • 5. If you appear drunk, the bartender is not going to serve you OK?!
  • 6. Sometimes, the bartender may get the order wrong. If you ordered a WHITE wine, but she pours a RED wine, tell her before she has poured you a whole glass of RED wine
  • 7. If you know the bartender's name, don't keep calling out 'Kim! Kim!' 'Kimmmmyyyyyy!'
  • 8. The bartender will be super nice if you give her tips :D
  • 9. Give the bartender tips because she needs money so she can go overseas
  • 10. Do not ask the bartender when she finishes work and suggest that you catch up for a drink. There is no way in the world that the bartender would hang out with you (even if you gave her a tip!)
  • 11. Don't ask the bartender 'Do you think my friend is attractive?'. If your friend is the ugliest person she has ever seen in her life, she can't say that or she'd get fired. If she replies with "He's not 'conventionally ugly'", don't ask what 'conventionally' means*.
  • 12. If you spill your drink it's your fault. You will not get a free one
  • 13. If you are in the bartender's class, tell her because then she'll be nice to you :smile:
  • 14. If you are German, you can say your order in German, for this bartender has and likes to take orders in German
  • 15. Don't ask for an order consisting of 15 different drinks and expect the bartender to remember all of them
  • 16. If you do (15), don't give the bartender the 'Ugh you're so hopeless' look because she'd like to see how you go behind the bar
  • 17. If you're a girl: You do not look conventionally attractive or even unconventionally attractive when you're drunk and squealing to your friends about nothing
  • 18. Please do not spill your drinks so that they spill onto the bartender
  • 19. Save paper and precious ink by not giving your number to the bartender because it will be put into the bin outside McDonalds
  • 20. If you store your coat/jacket behind the bar, make sure it's not a black one. They're really hard to find because EVERYONE has a black one!
  • 21. Don't ask the bartender for scissors, sticky tape or mobile phone chargers.
  • 22. If you ask for no ice in your drink, drink a bit, then ask for some ice, the bartender will put that on her blog
  • 23. When 'last drinks' is called, it means LAST DRINKS. Once the bar has stopped serving, it means that they have started counting the money and you CANNOT buy another drink.
  • 24. 'Home time'= HOME TIME! GO HOME! Some people would like to sleep
  • 25. Can you NOT put bubble/chewing gum on the tables?
  • 26. If you want some money, look at the floor near the bar. There is a lot of change down there
  • 27. Taking your drink into the toilets (where people VOMIT!) is a potential Occupational Health and Safety Issue.
  • 28. Learn to count your money and don't get the bartender to count all your coins for you
  • 29. Try not to spit in the bartender's eye. Why? Because it makes her sick and then she makes her friends sick and they get annoyed with her
  • 30. When ordering, try not to breathe into the bartender's face. If you look closely enough, the bartender is actually holding her breath so she doesn't have to smell yours


The most important rule:
  • 31.
Do not underestimate the bartender. She has above average intelligence** and is most likely smarter than you.


*con·ven·tion·al
adj.
1. Based on or in accordance with general agreement, use, or practice; customary: conventional symbols; a conventional form of address.
2. Conforming to established practice or accepted standards; traditional: a conventional church wedding.

** Thank you to my dad who helped me become smart :smile: If he didn't, there is a chance that I could be like some of the people behind the bar AHHHH! :insane:

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Most pointless sign in Adelaide

Saturday, 5. July 2008, 00:53:07

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'Road Ahead': Are you sure? :confused:








*is annoyed at the fact that all her pics now all go pixely :bomb:* It musn't be my camera because this was taken with my sister's...

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