A little unhappy that I’m typing this now and it’s already Friday morning in Melbourne/Malaysia and I’m just only having dinner on a Thursday night. Dinner is not spectacular, some canned fish (albacore it is, and the first time I saw this word was on WoW) in bottled pasta sauce with some spaghetti. Heh, the average takeaway meal here is around $6, and portions are pretty decent. You still get what you pay for, with Asian food being cheaper in general. The reason being the inputs for Asian food is usually a whole stack of noodles or rice, with some veges and meat dotting the scenery. With other foods like sandwiches and stuff, bread isn’t so cheap, neither is ham or cheese and all the other things. So while it feels more value for money to eat Asian food, you are actually getting more nutrition with more expensive foods.

Anyway, that is off tangent. At work I sit in front of an LCD TV (or plasma, I didn’t check) and it’s always on the business news channel. There’s always a market update and how you can make more money with the current situation. It’s a little sad that people can take advantage of gasoline prices, or natural disasters and benefit from how the stocks for insurance companies etc move. This is the intended target audience however, people who just want to find the trends and make more money.

On a less serious note, the same channel has specific advertisements as well. The ads on this channel are either online trading tools, or food programs for weight loss. Heh, it’s sort of implying that people who live on the edge to make money are also fat!

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This weekend will try and explore Chinatown (which is south of the island). So far I’m sticking to the only subway line I know. NYC is by far the easiest city I know of to navigate and I’m directionally blind. No silly street names (until today, I still get confused with Latrobe and Lonsdale St in the Melbourne CBD cause both streets start with L).

I’ve been stuck on this island for a while now and I still haven’t seen the coastline. Will try and make a trip for that next week once I find any place of interest to go. Also want to visit the B&H Photo Video store here. It’s a massive camera shop with lots and lots of camera stuff to look at. Heh, already picked a lens I’m keen to buy, a Sigma 30mm f/1.4 lens for low light work. It’s more for indoorsy stuff without flash. Might even have a go at a Nikon D200 and get ‘poisoned’ by it’s feel. Would also like to catch Pirates of the Carribbean: At World’s End at the cinema too. Read reviews where they found the film disappointing, but any chance to see Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow should be reason enough. Heh.

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Room smells fishy from the tuna now. Not a very nice smell.