Half past midnight and I'm more than half way through 'men at arms', it's impossible to stop reading it. I've taken it with me to the beach, to the airports, to the bed and it's delicious. I think I'll read a discword books every month and read through them until I've abstractions brimming out of my eyes.
Went to a comic store and died for a bit. It was one of the biggest comic store full of comic oddities I'd ever seen, with bookshelves upon bookshelves of English language translated manga, however all of them were in volumes and not a single one off or not in sequential order. Can't buy volumes of manga and carry them around in my backpack. So I settled on some graphic novels. Among the few names I bought were Transmetropolitan, and I'm it itching to read them..soon.
Bought a couple more books on some street because the bookshop looked like my spirit animal and how does one avoid getting into that trance like state.
Picked up a collection of morbidly horror stories because they make such fun long hours in aeroplane reads and a book by Somerset Maugham called 'the narrow corner'. Maugham is my favourite writer, and his description of situations and feelings is so point on, it's impossible to be in awe. His writings are fantastical, approachable and highly readable, and the English is impeccably written.
Ah, what else? It's the Great Barrier Reef tomorrow and my sunburns have turned to red rashes, and I actually had to buy something to sooth the burns..lets see how alien I look tomorrow.
This country/continent has the oddest most spectacular landscaping. It's like I can't point out what vegetation this is, it's like a different planet on an unknown Galaxy.
Came across such gorgeous trees that were actually ferns growing out of trees in closer impact ion. They were trees alright, but ferns. Trees..trees..sigh.
And of course the gorgeous blue green ocean. 
Interestingly, this water (great ocean road) was so cold that I thought my blood would solidify into a giant red Popsicle if I bathed in it anymore, and upon further investigation found out that the reason why it's freezing is because it comes from Anatrtica. Apparently there's nothing that gets in the way of these ocean connections, no lands, no obstructions..the earth really is round and weird.
..and then of course, there are gems like these.
More updates, stories and poems coming soon.
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