I think to do that I'd just marquee the same photo of the Eureka Tower or something five times across her screen; "DO NOT SPIT ON STAIRS, WALLS, OR FLOOR" is hardly very convincing, is it.
I tried to take a photo of Dinkum Pies in the Block Arcade to please the non-Australians but the pictures kept coming out blurry.
I honestly don't think I've seen pictures of Akira before, or if I have, my memory is really, really embarassingly awful. :| She's so cute and pretty. My family has pretty much acknowledge that Poppy's no looker. Unless you like glaring. It's great when she does it to Amy's annoying friends.
I like all your pictures of grafitti ... if I went to go take pictures of grafitti, I would take my sister or someone with me ... someone slower than me, who would distract possible gangsters while I got away. No, really, most of the nearby grafitti is behind Krogers (uh, the grocery store, klsdjfskd maybe you have Krogers in Melbourne, id think so though ...). And it's not that pretty, unless you go deeper into Houston and that takes too much effort. Like turning on the car and driving.
The Block Arcade looks very posh. I like the narrow walkway and the little boutiques.
QUESTION: do many people live without cars/driving in Melbourne? That concept seems so strange to me, but then, Houston has next to no public transport.
I don't really associate graffiti with gangsters anymore, though I did more when I lived in the suburbs. This is more or less mostly state sanctioned street art, but they're pretty lenient about graffiti in general. They tried to bring in this zero tolerance policy about it when we held the Commonwealth Games last year but nobody was particularly impressed and I've never seen it being enforced. There's a lot of stencil art around Melbourne, I enjoy that.
Well most people can drive here (though none of my good friends do, but that's because we're lazy) but there isn't much point driving in the city in Melbourne. My family and friends who can drive still don't, particularly, unless they are going into the suburbs. I live about a fifteen minute walk from the CBD/five minutes by train, so it's easier to catch public transport into the centre. Once you're actually in the city and inner suburbs parking is really expensive. And we have trams (A bit like the street cars in San Francisco, I guess?) that run all through the city and inner
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Melbourne seems wonderful. I'm a little sad after reading this entry, because I get so emotional about people and their cities. I was reading my city's incredibly stupid LJ community the other night and suddenly felt so heartbroken that I'm going to leave. Not sad enough to stay and rot away here, but still sad. I can tell I'm going to have a hard time adjusting when I move. I have this intense need to connect with my city and know the history and rumours and politics and haunted houses. Plus nothing can replace my favouritest cafe and the music venue I work at. :(
Also, the graffiti in Melbourne looks awesome. I should do a post like this once the snow melts.
I enjoy Melbourne immensely because it's just really easy for me to live here, I guess. We have an incredibly stupid lj comm too, people are always asking really stupid questions / getting annoyed about people asking stupid questions on it.
How long until you move? When I left my childhood home in Ringwood I was really angsty (it's about half an hour from here, still in Melbourne so it's not like the move was that drastic. But my house :() but I would never ever go back now. If you tried to get me to live there again I'd be so depressed.
I love finding out random things about Melbourne history. I took a class last semester about Australian spaces, I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed it.
You should! In my head this was going to be like a day in the life thing but then my battery died before I even got to Melbourne Central, let alone the supermarket. All the interesting stuff is in the first half of the journey though, I guess. The rest is pretty generic.
I'm planning to move in about six months. Coming home will be a rarity, too, because I live in the middle of the prairies. The nearest "big" city is 500 km away and it has fewer than 200,000 people. Canada sucks.
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I tried to take a photo of Dinkum Pies in the Block Arcade to please the non-Australians but the pictures kept coming out blurry.
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I like all your pictures of grafitti ... if I went to go take pictures of grafitti, I would take my sister or someone with me ... someone slower than me, who would distract possible gangsters while I got away. No, really, most of the nearby grafitti is behind Krogers (uh, the grocery store, klsdjfskd maybe you have Krogers in Melbourne, id think so though ...). And it's not that pretty, unless you go deeper into Houston and that takes too much effort. Like turning on the car and driving.
The Block Arcade looks very posh. I like the narrow walkway and the little boutiques.
QUESTION: do many people live without cars/driving in Melbourne? That concept seems so strange to me, but then, Houston has next to no public transport.
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Well most people can drive here (though none of my good friends do, but that's because we're lazy) but there isn't much point driving in the city in Melbourne. My family and friends who can drive still don't, particularly, unless they are going into the suburbs. I live about a fifteen minute walk from the CBD/five minutes by train, so it's easier to catch public transport into the centre. Once you're actually in the city and inner suburbs parking is really expensive. And we have trams (A bit like the street cars in San Francisco, I guess?) that run all through the city and inner ( ... )
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Also, the graffiti in Melbourne looks awesome. I should do a post like this once the snow melts.
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How long until you move? When I left my childhood home in Ringwood I was really angsty (it's about half an hour from here, still in Melbourne so it's not like the move was that drastic. But my house :() but I would never ever go back now. If you tried to get me to live there again I'd be so depressed.
I love finding out random things about Melbourne history. I took a class last semester about Australian spaces, I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed it.
You should! In my head this was going to be like a day in the life thing but then my battery died before I even got to Melbourne Central, let alone the supermarket. All the interesting stuff is in the first half of the journey though, I guess. The rest is pretty generic.
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I'm planning to move in about six months. Coming home will be a rarity, too, because I live in the middle of the prairies. The nearest "big" city is 500 km away and it has fewer than 200,000 people. Canada sucks.
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(I will if I ever get the chance. So pretty.)
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