Outcast Sea Creatures

My friend Basil told me to look at some websites of fish last week and I was a bit reluctant to and told him that normal people don't go searching for pictures of fish on the Net. He told me to go have a look at the links and I came across some really weird sea creatures!


A fish with a weird nose!


A fish with eyes that glow!


Longest legs I've ever seen on a crab!


Really fat headed fish!

Trouble

Last year in June I was shopping with my friend at Harrods in London when I smelt an intriguing, beautiful scent and literally sniffed around the store to see where it came from. I can't really describe the smell but it crossed my mind as smelling dark, sensual and dangerous. It's a bit different from your typical floral perfume scents. Melinda and I finally found where the smell was coming from and Harrods was first in the world to be launching Boucheron's "Trouble" perfume. The girl gave me two free samples because I was Australian and her husband is Australian so she likes Australian people.

Last weekend (almost a year later), Trouble was launched in Australia. I didn't buy the perfume in London because of the pound and thought it would be released soon in Australia. So yeah. Australia is a bit behind.

Gone in a blur...

This week has gone by in a blur... Thinking I could cope with it, I went to work, caught up with friends at dinner, went drinking and would come home with the alcohol slowly sedating me and lulling me to sleep with jumbled dreams about remembering to do things only to be woken up by the alarm clock to go to work again. This got repeated day after day - 21sts, COMSOC cruise, catch up drinking sessions thinking my body could physically cope with it. I could though. Something about nightlife makes me feel energetic and anticipative of what the night would bring.

It's all fine if you get enough sleep. But I didn't. And then I cracked. Waiting over 5 minutes in queues, trying to get my phone plan changed and being instructed to go to Orange and then to Optus and then to Orange and then to Optus again and in the end being told to come back the next day, old men making sleazy comments, and little things like my boyfriend not meeting me on time got me feeling stressed despite the warm weather and blue skies on a somewhat pleasantly sunny autumn day. I cried alone on a city bench and then realised how exhausted I was. Yet I still marched on shopping at the Paddington Markets, Oxford St and then Pitt St Mall because I felt like doing something was better than doing nothing.

I should change my attitude from "im only young once, I have to go out and see and experience as much as I can" to ... actually I don't know what. I'm used to trying to do everything in a short amount of time an example being going to 1 1 countries in a month and then repeating it again the next year by going around the world in less than a month. The consequences of that was throwing up on planes from catching 9 planes within 25 days yet I didn't care because it would bring me to a new country to see. I'm the type of person who would choose to go see as many things as she can rather than stay in one place and taking time to explore and savour what time can only bring. Changing my attitude would only make me feel bored and restless. So i guess I'll continue being myself with one exception - i'll make sure i get enough sleep!

Note (10:20pm): Some kind friends have called me to see if i'm "okay" after reading this post. I am absolutely fine and happy after having slept 10 hours last night! I was only stressed and tired for half a day but sleep does wonders to your wellbeing, happiness, and mood.

My "Album"

The past few weeks I have been "recognised". Who knew that having my face at the Unilever stand at Careers Fairs would have such a big impact. When I go out people say, "OMG you're the person with the huge face at the Careers Fairs! Ha ha that picture is soooo funny you look hilarious!". I was starting to feel sorry for famous people who have their pictures out on a wider scale but then thought, they don't have pictures of their hair being blown up and with a stunned, open-mouthed, wide-eyed expression from being shocked by the photographer and creative director suddenly yelling out to achieve a certain "surprised look".

I'm not going to include the pictures in here (and get more comments) but I'm going to include a mistake photo that I thought was quite cool. The photographer captured the picture a bit too late so my hair was already coming down. However, it was wrapped around my neck like I was being strangled by an octopus. The creative director photoshopped it a bit and has called it my new album "Octopus Melissa".

Also, another not so related point was on the flight to Melbourne (where they took the photos), Regie the winner of Big Brother 2 was our flight attendant. Although very funny and ditzy (matching the Virgin Blue flight attendant image) it made me think about how quick Australian "celebrities" fall. I saw Christy (from Big Bro 1) do stand up comedy at Fox Studios without getting a single laugh out of the audience once and Merlin works as a glass collector at Middle Bar. I guess the point is, don't go on Big Brother because then people laugh at you when you go back to your normal job or they laugh at you when you try to capitalise on your fame ie. Jemma with her make up line (how is that going anyways?). At least Blair was able to make it to Neighbours. But I don't consider that a great achievement.

Throwing Punches

I was having a conversation with Danny the other day about throwing punches. I've always thought that people aim for the eye because people have a black eye after being punched in the face. But Danny said most people aim for the nose because that hurts the most. I'm quite curious to know what everyone else thinks. Where do you aim when you punch someone in the face?