The Angry Dieter

Its official.  [edited @ 3.30pm today for clarity and detail]

It’s my birthday. My activities over the weekend have been many. Went out to a party on friday, got drunk, ate chinese food. Went back to someone’s house, played spics and specks on their DVD, and then passed out at 2am on Sat morning.

Of course, whilst we (j & I) were waiting for the taxi, we opened up a bottle of wine and drank it on the kerb like a couple of derros. By the time we got to the restaurant I was half cut. We drank the rest of the wine in between courses, and I had this chilli squid dish that was so hot, that my mouth went numb. I couldn’t taste the wine or the food anymore after that.

Saturday was recovery day. Sunday I went out with the parentals and my sister to the WA Maritime Museum. Never been before and my suggestion if you are in Perth, and plan on going, put aside more than 2 hours. The museum is so huge we haven’t finished going through it. So we’re going to book outselves a session at the museum again so we can finish looking at everything, and go on the submarine tour!

It was a little like going to see the Norwegian Maritime Museum in Norway for some bits (boring stuff). Lots of different kinds of boats, bits of fishing material - this interactive stuff like dummies wearing bed sheets talking to you. Great for kids, when you are an adult, it’s a little cliched. There is an exhibition at the moment about the discovery of WA, from the Dutch, to the French, to the English. Of course, we didn’t see the real Vlamingh plate, or Hartog plate, but we saw replicas and that was OK i suppose.

Today, going to the Perth Mint, never been there before, all part of my educational birthday theme this year. Hopefully I will learn something on this visit aswell. Dad then told me last nigh that he installed some kind of exhaust pipe for something in their basement. Interesting

I am home at 3.30pm and now have a fully charged ipod. it’s no different to any other mp3 player, cept the cool thing is i can play videos on it, store all my photos on it (all 4.5gig of em) and play games on it. Bizarre! I purchased some car chargey goodness for the ipod. I can’t stand the idea of leaving my laptop on all day to charge the thing.

OK: The Perth mint tour was .. interesting. It was short, there wasn’t too much to see in reality, because lets face it, it has gold bullion stored somewhere in it, and you can’t take photos. We got to strike a coin. Well J did, we put it in the machine, it rumbled, and spat out a copper coin, with some stuff about the mint on it.

The highlight for me .. watching the gold bar get poured and created, hearing about the amount of gold they retrieved from cleaning the smelting room, lifting the gold bar (it was only 12.5 kilos heavy) and checking out the awesome display of gold ingots.

Another thing on my to do list is struck off, and that’s to eat some gold. I saw when I was a kid, this cake layered in gold, and I thought that would be awesome to do. So I purchased some gold brushed chocolate. Ok it’s creme de menthe, but who cares! I will be eating gold! woohoo!

I miss MM i hope we can talk tonight.

September 3rd, 2007 | Category: Family, Friends | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL