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looking for love in all the wrong places

mel_adrian — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:50:34 +0000

a friend from called today to say he just arrived from sydney with 2 boxes of krispy kremes.

delighted by the news, i hurried down to the city to meet up with him. i would do anything for a krispy kreme original glazed doughnut. they just melt in your mouth with every bite.

on my way home on the tram, i was approached by two fellow passengers.

“excuse me…” an asian girl with a japanese accent and a green polka dot box induced sugar-coated daze only a kreme fan would recognise. i decided to spare her the misery of asking the question,

“no, my friend got it for me in sydney”

“oh…” the disappointment was shared. i offered her a doghnut to soothe the soul.

declining my generousity (perhaps in the acknowledgement of how much of a sacrice this would entail), she declared her love for the doughnuts and demounted the tram.

half an hour later, another woman remarked on her way out the tram
“they are nice doughnuts aren’t they?”

“oh yes…” i replied “pity they are not in melbourne yet”

“oh but they are. there’s going to be a shop in chadstone soon”

my eyes glimmered in the new hope, and before i could thank the bearer of good news, she left the tram, the doors sliding shut behind her.

note to self :
* riding trams with boxes of krispy kremes will induce absolute strangers to share their love of the doughnut
* next time, ask for their number or email address ;-P

the half blood prince

mel_adrian — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:04:03 +0000

everywhere i turn, harry porter stares me in the face. even the telly has caught the fever.

two more sleeps until us mere mortals can get our hands on the book, (except for those lucky forteen who got their hands on the book when a shop put it on the shelves by mistake yesterday) and i can’t wait.

i haven’t pre-ordered a copy. i’m very confident that there would be plenty to go around.

if like me, you are willing to wait it out, do shop around. there are shops that are giving it away for $29.99. (i think myers is one of them)

who cares about the best?

mel_adrian — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:00:18 +0000

america’s leading travel magazine has named sydney the world’s best city. the opera house has been put on the heritage list.

i just returned from a week long stint in neighbouring new south wales. have never liked it, probably never will. its too congested, the public transport system too complicated, everything is so expensive, and i always seem to be lost.

give me the world’s most liveable city any time.

now, all you have to do is fix up the public transport system in time for the commonwealth games, and i’m sure we’ll beat syd-en-nee anytime.