RANT ALERT!!!!

Last week on 60 minutes there was a story on the live export industry for cattle. It was probably a good thing that I missed it, as they showed footage from inside an Egyptian slaughterhouse of terrible cruelty. What I did see was this weeks reply from Cameron Hall, CEO of Livecorp, the Australian company responsible for selling these cattle. He basically went on the front foot, accusing animal welfare groups of trying to halt animal farming!?!?!? Luckily most people are not like Hall, and most were deeply disturbed by the images shown.

I went to their website to check it out..... haven't they got such a nice friendly logo??

Now, I know life must suck when the company you control makes its money from death and destruction but don't you dare belittle welfare groups who in most cases are run by individuals who don't get paid for their work.
On current prices for cattle, a cow the size of Cameron Hall (assuming he's a lard arse, which is likely) would be worth around $42.
I heard recently that a study attempting to find the value of a human life found that we valued our own lives at around $3million. An interesting disparity?

la laaa laa

I've been slack and haven't taken any photos in Melbourne since I got back, so these are photos from a while ago but it's pretty much what I've been doing.
Driving to Nathan's place to be silly in the pool and going to uni!




Monash University

Hello again!

I want to keep up the blog but what do I write? random thoughts I guess......

The USA
What's Hot:
Costco - What a great idea for people with an extra house to put their groceries in! I love this store... it's almost as good as Pak-n-Save in New Zealand. You can get everything here in bulk, and I do mean bulk! The nacho chips I bought there way back at the start of my trip were $3 or so and lasted a week of intense eating! We found gallon (4 litre) containers of Mayo!!! lol

Transit - NY subway system has to be one of the best in the world. $1.25 when you enter a station and you can go wherever you want, change lines, do whatever. DC's is good as well, you put your ticket in at the departing station and take it out at the arrival station, it calculates the fare and takes it off your 'smartcard'.

Numbered Streets - While slightly boring, the system of numbering streets makes it so easy to get around. It is pretty hard to ever get lost in New York City!

What's Not:
High Fructose Corn Syrup - It's in EVERYTHING!

Pizza - Yes I want to pay $12 for a pizza that only has cheese on it. And yes I am happy to pay 1.50 per topping!!! You've got to be kidding. Also the pizza is rubbish anyway.... the US needs a major influx of Italians.... or Australians.

Big Cars - If the US needed to mobilise it's citizens for an all out countryside attack on another country it could easily do it without having to supply them with big trucks. Everyone here drives military size vehicles. What global warming problem? Our European friends would freak out. Suprisingly California was the worst exponent of this, a place which is supposed to be fairly sensitive to environmental issues. The 'big cars' we have in Australia look like matchbox cars compared to these things.

MTV - Yes lets have a music tv station that plays the same shit every single day!!! The TV equivelent of triple m

Welcome Home Dave

We caned it on the way home... 30min early! Go Captain!

Fiji and home!

Windowless bus in Fiji.... here we are driving across the beach!! that's actually part of the route!


A great island we went on a day trip to because the beach near our hostel was so rubbish! (See previous photo)

It is great to be home finally! Thank you to everyone that kept an eye on this site and left all those comments! It was great to hear from home so often and made the trip away from you all so much easier for me!

Love you all!

Almost there!

I am writing from Narita airport outside Tokyo. I had a great time in Japan and got lots of fun souveneirs in the last couple of days which meant that I had to go postal on my luggage just to fit it in. Hopefully my bag doesn't explode sending clothes all over the tarmac!

You all have to come here, it's such a fun country!!

Having said that I am really happy to be coming home! I get 2 days on the beach in Fiji before arriving home on Tuesday night Melbourne time!!! See those of you who live in Melbourne soon!!

Tokyo... Tokyo des!

WHA??? KE??? There are something like 10 Tokyo Metro lines, 4 lines operated by a different company and 2 Japan Rail lines.....


Ok thanks, and which way would that be?


The Imperial Palace, where the Emperor lives.


The Imperial Palace with some goof in front of it.


The Metropolitan Government Building. Totally free to get up!


Well which is it?


Tokyo Tower


Watch out!


At the beer museum!! yes that's right, beer museum!!


An interesting contrast between a park started in the 1600's and Tokyo's newest skyscraper district right next to it.


They love Neon here..... this is one area in Ginza, the trendy shopping district where Louis Vutton, D&G, Dior, etc etc are.


Why didn't I think of this store name?