Lazy Saturday.....

19 Aug 2006, Sat - After continuous activities on the past few weekends, we decided to give our pocket a little break (to regenerate and mend itself of the big holes we've caused) and stayed home.

The boys decided to tinker around with their toys for a bit....

K is helping Esmo to fix the speakers on his car








After lunch, Esmo and I went to a shopping centre at Carindale, a neighbouring suburb. It was humongous! We were there for a couple of hours and had a cup of coffee AND we didn't buy anything! haha...

Since the day is still young and we have the car, we got tempted to go for a little drive. So we went to the Eagle St Pier at the city, which has a nice view of the Story Bridge.


If you walk all along the pier, it brings you to under the Story Bridge and to the other side of the Brisbane River.





With the cool late winter breeze and the setting sun, it was a nice LONG walk. There were still a couple of "Go-Downs or warehouses" left and a couple other remnants of the past.

Walking past the bridge gives you a different view of the city skyline.






One of the relics is the World War II's air raid shelter.

So now we know, if we were attacked and is around this area, we'll break down the plank blocking the entrance to our safety and scuttle down below.....





Can anyone take a guess at what these two things are?


Clue: When they were still useful, they were always wet, and you don't see all of it at the same time...

Ans: Buoys.....



You don't get to walk on solid grounds when you get to the other side of the river. That's because if you are, you may be charged with tresspassing of private properties. Yes, there are rich buggers residing on water front villas (as usual....). So, the government, in a goodwill gesture to the public and the rich, built a floating walkway on the Brisbane River.

The walkway sways when the CityCat, a hydrocraft (it's a public transport - believe it or not) passes by. When it does, you get a very strange feeling, as if you were floating in mid air....




After the LONG walk, we got hungry and dropped by Hungry Jacks (a.k.a Burger King in Singapore) for some snacks. We flipped through the complimentary paper and found this CORNY advertisement on Optus Broadband.
If you noticed, the two polar bears at the bottom right hand corner are in a conversation.
The conversation goes like this:

Male bear: Where have you been hibernating all my life?
Female bear: You just want me for my body.....



No wonder Optus is posting some red figures to its parent company back in SG....

Apologies for the less than satisfying pictures. They were all taken using my mobile phone. We didn't plan for a scenic walk...

Till next post, signing out... Cheers!