Books

When I was living at home I was always unable to buy books. Mostly because if you've ever looked inside my house you would see that my dad bought enough books for all of us. It drives my mum pretty mad, so if I had bought books as well it would have driven her to insanity. But now that I have moved out, there's really nothing holding me back. Sure most of my books still come from the library, but I do spend a fair bit on books as well. And recently Penguin books have re-released many of their books in the traditional orange and white covers which I currently have my eyes on.

None of the furniture in this apartment actually belongs to me, but I am considering buying a bookshelf because the drawers are getting a little full and eventually there will not be any space left on my dining table for me to sit and eat.

I happened to come across this amazing picture. I've always been fascinated with the idea of having my own room some day with floor to ceiling shelves full of books. I've had many dreams of one day opening up that little book store with a cafe. Although I think Viv mentioned something about selling gelato as well. Hahaha. I can see it now. I've even tried to think of some catchy names for it. But they just all sound really cutesy or cliche.

This is what I visualise my brain to look a bit like. There's this really crap movie called "Dreamcatcher" and although it was really bad one of the most fascinating things for me was the interior of the main characters mind as one large filing cabinent. One of my favourite Dorothy Parker poems also describes the interior of the mind as a home and a fortress against the outside world. I would describe my mind as something more orderly like this bookshelf. Everything has it's place. It looks tidy but when you think about it there problem is no real order to it. Also it's probably a bit impractical to store your books in that way. But very cool!

Riverfire

It took me a while to figure out what Riverfire actually was. Since when asked, most people said "an excuse to get drunk", like they really needed an excuse. During the morning I decided to go shopping in the city, and I thought I would notice more people about during the day but I didn't. And even when I was walking to Riparian plaza there were more people walking about, but nothing that indicated that it was going to be a BIG event.

But if you look at the other side of the bank under the bridge, the turnout was quite spectacular. Not to mention that this happened all along the river and in boats as well. Unfortunately my digital camera doesn't take photos of fireworks very well. From level 35 we had a very good view of bridge. It was not until later in the night that I realised I'd turned off the flash. I doubt that would have had any impact on my photos though.

Looks like I took photos of some crazy light show. These were some of the smaller fireworks which took place all along the river.

Throughout the night we helped ourselves to booze and food. Then we sat down for some "Harry's trivia". My team came second last and all because I was outvoted on how to spell "Story bridge"! Somehow I got talked into going to Friday's for some dancing, and thank god I don't have photos of that! So my first Riverfire turned out to be pretty eventful. I didn't get home until 2am because I spent 1.5 hours in a cab line. That was my first time in a cab line, and hopefully it will be my last. I will be looking forward to the next Riverfire though.

This is how I'd wished my photo had turned out. Except I don't remember the fireworks being pink.

Hot air ballooning

I am not sure how high up we were but it was amazing because the sun was rising as the balloon was rising as well. If you look closely, that is me on the left holding the camera and the pompom on my beanie. I've never been ballooning before but it was very nice. I didn't have a fear of falling or of heights up there. There was also no wind so it was a very smooth ride, even though we had a bumpy landing. I would definitely like to go again. Ballooning definitely isn't for adrenaline junkies. But for people like me, who just like to enjoy the view it was pretty fantastic.
A picture of our balloon as it was taking off in the sunrise. And then finally a picture I took off the sunrise from the balloon. Those houses were so isolated, and imaging watching balloons floating by every morning!