Hollywood! On the Gold Coast.

This weekend I went to Movie World with my sister and 3 of her friends for her 10^th Birthday! 

Movie World! .. Hollywood on the Gold Coast.

It was fantastic! ... I really really enjoyed it! Being the adrenaline junkie that I am, I was the one who wanted to go on all the rides and the big rollercoaster’s, however I must say, the other 10 year old girls who are into make-up and Hannah Montana, did not seem to be that impressed with my intense enthusiasm and thirst for adrenaline!

Instead, they wanted to keep going on the ‘Scooby Doo spooky coaster’! ... Now, don’t get me wrong, I absolutely loved that ride as well, but I wanted to go on the ‘Superman Escape’ ride, and no one wanted to go on that one with me, nor the ‘Leathal Weapon’ rollercoaster (I do apologise to any of you who don’t know what or where these rides are, no matter, I shall be talking about them anyway!) .... They all thought it was ‘too fast’, or ‘too scary’, but that’s all okay because we didn’t go there for me, we went there for my sister, and if/when I go there next, I will go on the rides that I want to go on, so I’m not stressing about that at all.

'Superman Escape' Roller Coaster!

The night before we went to Movie World, I had a very implausible dream. Saying that it is implausible doesn’t necessarily make it implausible, it just means that it’s unlikely, but not completely impossible, that it could happen. Meaning that if I had a dream that I was falling out of the rollercoaster seats because of their lack of security while being yelled at and harassed by angry Smurfs, then yes ... I would say that that dream was, in fact, impossible (although you can never be too careful!) But instead, my dream was that I went on the ‘Wild Wild West Log Ride’ with Johnny Depp, however there were added features on the ride. There was section where you had to get off and catch a butterfly to move onto the next stage, which came as a bit of a surprise to me, but hey, if I had to catch a butterfly to keep going, then dammit, I would catch a butterfly! The boats we were in were that small that I was forced to squash in next to the other person (which in this case was absolutely fine because it was Johnny Depp, after all!) Then after the ride we both walked away saturated (at least I got that part right, you do get wet in the ‘Wild Wild West Ride’) and we approached these two police horses, which, for reasons beyond my interpretation of reality, were blue and red, then the police officer that was on the blue horse dismounted and it turned out to be Christian Bale. Then I woke up!

The 'Wild Wild West' Ride - That I could possibly totally go on with Johnny Depp!

Does that seem at all strange to you? Because I think that that could quite possibly happen, I mean, why could a horse be blue or red? And is it really that impossible to believe that I could go on a ride at the Gold Coast with Johnny Depp? ..... I mean, dreams can sometimes represent premonitions ... although in this case, it could be just wishful thinking!     

Private Island

From that fantastically chosen title of mine, you are probably thinking that this latest blog will be about me owning a private island and vacationing there every now and then with a few of my besties and/or family.

Now I mean this in the most polite way possible, but, and you have no idea how much it hurts me to say, you are in fact WRONG!  .... I do not in fact have a Private Island of my own in that Caribbean, although I will admit how nice that would be! That would, however, imply that I am secretly rich and able to just buy a piece of land in the middle of beautiful clear water out in an almost perfect climate.

I am not rich, nor have I been saving for 400 years to be able to afford said Island. No ... no, this is merely a distant dream of mine at the moment, a bit like owning a property in the South of France.

HOWEVER, a dream it is, and not to be reckoned with .... and I will let you in on a little secret, if you want something bad enough, and you put in the right amount of effort and hard work, you will eventually get it. I’m talking as realistic as you can get in this situation, if you turned around to someone and said, well, I want a pink elephant with blue stripes in my backyard to keep my pet giraffe with the bell around its neck company .... well that’s probably unlikely to happen ... I’m not ruling it’s possibility out all together, I’m just saying there is a slim chance of that occuring.

ANYWAY .... I think my aspiration to own an island one day is not THAT far fetched .... you never know what’s around the corner – that’s the beauty of life!

So when I’m older and I have purchased and jazzed up said island and I’ve bought the boat that I can water ski behind and the sea plane that I can skydive out of, I’ll let you know.

Who know’s, I might even name one of the beaches after you!

Metal Images

You know how you get those images in your head when someone says something. It triggers mental pictures and thoughts that you otherwise wouldn’t have had.

Well, that happened to me today!

My mum had left our super radical spaceship like vacuum outside. She had been vacuuming the car and had come in for lunch. Anyway, she said to me, “just keep an eye on my vacuum outside would you? I don’t want anyone steeling it!”

Now, one would think that the proper mental image here would be someone driving along, spotted an easy target, thought ‘sweet as, free vacuum’, pinched it and then drove off ... Everyone’ different, I just thought this would be classed as the norm in said situation!

However, that’s not the case ... You see my though process is quite different and this was yet another chance for my imagination to let loose!

See instead of a car, I just picture someone nicking the vacuum and running down the street with it ... Why they are running is beyond me ... maybe they wanted the exercise and the fresh air!

Secondly ... it wasn’t a person that I had a mental image of ... It was Speedy Gonzales!

Why my subconscious chose a little Mexican Mouse running around with a sombrero pinching my vacuum is unfathomable ... but I can’t control that ... after all, it’s my SUB-conscious.

Bonjur ... Possibly Maybe!

Bonjur – I’m pretty sure that’s how you would spell it in English ... just in case it’s not and I accidentally said something like ‘slimy chickens’ in Portuguese, what I meant to actually say was ‘hello’ in French!
As France is one of my newest obsessions ... notice how I excluded Paris from this ... I have never been to Paris, and don’t get me wrong, I think (from what I’ve seen and heard) that it is a beautiful city ... and don’t get me started on the architecture. Being an architecture student, Paris evokes some sort of longing architectural passion in me! ... I’m absolutely in love with its French architecture ... as I am with a lot of other architecture ... but that’s all beside the point and I’m rambling again. The thing is, there is just something about the South of France, the little villages and towns, the beaches that are oh so close and those little coffee shops that scream ‘come inside, hot, sweet, caffeinated goodness ... drink me and marvel at my deliciousness!’ It all just sparks an excitement in me! I would very much like to possibly maybe live there someday ... part time!

Eventually I think it would be absolutely amazing to go and study or even work as an architect in France or London or somewhere like that!

I would also absolutely looove to travel to Greece one day, Santorini in particular and Athens, and anywhere else you can think of around the world!

SANTORINI - In the Greek Islands!

As you probably have already gathered, I have an insane thirst for travel! ... and Architecture ... I think it’s amazing to explore different cultures and fantastically fascinating!

Well .. this post has mainly been about my infatuation with travel and the South of France at the moment, however given the current circumstances, I really don’t care ... I feel like rambling about the South of France, so I’m going to ramble about the south of France!

This is a little town in the South of France called 'Plan De La Tour' ... Isn't she pretty?!

.... Okay, I think I’m done rambling about France.

Onto another subject, the weekend that just passed, I went to a basketball game ... now I really really LOVE basketball ... watching it, playing it, coaching it! ... it’s an awesome sport ... for those who aren’t that into basket ball .... just skip reading this paragraph.

Okay .... well I waited until the last minute to tell you to skip reading the above paragraph, so you had to put up with me talking about basketball anyway .... it’s not like I can just insert new words in the middle of a sentence now can I?

I really don’t have any awesome closing paragraph or anything today ... so I will just say one thing:

Life is what you make it ... SO MAKE BUBBLE GUM! 

Pirates

I went to the premier night of Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides last night. I'm not going to lie to you, it was a little bit freaking awesome!! I went with some of my besties, and I didn't get back home until about 1:00 AM ... and I had to wake up again the next morning at 7, the thing is, I felt really really energised and I am still really energetic and enthusiastically excited!! ... I guess that's what a dose of Captain Jack does!
It was not as good as the original however, but what is .. usually most sequels are a bust, I think Pirates has done a good job at keeping even them up in the box office ratings!

This fourth installment in one of the most epic quadriligies of our time, was directed by Rob Marshall ... Now I'm not sure if many of you know that he was the director of movies such as 'Chicargo' and 'Memoirs of a Geisha' ... Not titles that you would generally relate to a Pirates of the Caribbean movie that's for sure, however, given the circumstances, I must say that the movies didn't completely go down in flames, again despite not having the talented direction or Gore Vebinski like the Pirates previous movies. The script was easy to follow however somewhat predictable at times and definitely not as funny as the previous movies .... Captain Jack Sparrow still had his dry sense of humour, but on a more watered down scale, but I definitely will say this ... the fantastic performances of Geoffrey Rush, Kevin McNally, Penelope Cruz, Ian McShane and of course the one and only Johnny Depp, were intensely exciting and passionate and they still brought that much needed essence to their character that absolutely brought, what could have been a disastrous movie, up into what I would rate, on a scale of 1 - 10 ..... 6 awesome's.

Moving on from the fact (which you have probably guessed already) that I have a major celebrity crush on Johnny Depp .... I would like to ask you all a question ... yes ... that would imply that I had actually been thinking about this for some time ... "What's that? she is actually thinking! ... holy crap run!" ... no .... In my recent outing of said awesome Pirates movie ... I got into a heated discussion with one of my friends about whether or not Disney will do yet another sequel in this awe inspiring series of Pirates and Caribbean and Johnny Depp Awesomeness. This is basically how the conversation played out:
(For reasons beyond me I have decided to give my friend an alias .... so instead of his actual name ... I will be calling him CS .... short for Captain Shapera)

CS : Will and Elizabeth weren't in this one .... Do you think they will be in the next one?

Me : *perplexed* Next one?

CS : Yeah, apparently they are planning on doing up to 7 sequels ... they were planning it from the start!

Me : What ... No way .... NO because they weren't even planning on doing a sequel to the first movie ... however given the fact that it did so well at the box office ... they said 'okay ... we can totally do another one now' ... or something along those lines ... then they said .. 'well okay, lets shoot 2 back to back' ... hence how the whole POTC 2 and 3 came about .... NOW .... they went to the script writers and basically said ... 'we need 2 sequel scripts for POTC .. back to back' and the writers then pretty much said 'oh shit .... what are we going to do for 2 more sequels .... we are out of mad ideas' ..... ANYWAY  .... when they started shooting number 2 the script writers had not even finished the 3rd script ... and they had a lot of problems with budget and all that jazz ... that's basically how the TRILOGY came about .... the idea to do a 4th installment was up to how well ratings were and how far they could push the boundaries ... but lets face the facts shall we ... nothings permanent in Hollywood.

CS : *silence* ...

.... I'm guessing he was wondering when the hell I was going to shut up and let him get a word in!

And they call me the movie buff in the group!!!

Killer Kitchen Implements

I deemed it necessary today to let you all know with complete and utter class the I TOTALLY GOT MY STITCHES OUT OF MY HAND TODAY ... HELL YES! As graceful as I could possibly sound over a form of digital communication, where it is incredibly hard to convey what emotions are running through me at this time ... I think that sentence sums it all up pretty well.
It’s sort of gross though, the big swollen red mark with a slice of flesh still kind of missing on my once, may I say, attractive finger ... okay, well it was as attractive as a pinkie finger can get, which in my opinion is pretty damn good looking!

But I have accepted the fact that I will have a scar across the base of the smallest, most helpless finger on my hand, seriously, it hardly seems fair, the poor little finger probably gets picked on by all the other fingers, purely because of its size, and then I go and give it a healthy scar to maybe toughen it up a bit ... and now I’m thinking that it’s going to get bullied some more.

I am feeling so guilty right now. I’m so sorry finger, please forgive me ... without you I can’t look posh and hold you away from my cup while sipping tea.

I really don’t mind having a scar on my finger, honestly, it matches the one I have on the other hand, the one I got while chopping carrots in the kitchen. Seriously, I swear the kitchen implements are out to get me, they get smart on day and decide to band together and gang up on me.

The pots and pans will form one giant super stainless steel kitchen pots and pans robot that will shoot cutlery out of its pot lid hands.

I’m never cooking again!

On another note though, I’m going to share this with you because I thought it was amusing, well in my opinion its funny, whether you find it amusing or not I guess is completely up to you.

This afternoon I was in my room studying and my Dad yells out “Athena, come here, quick!” so I race out to the lounge room with a million things running through my mind as to what my Dad so urgently needs me for. “What??” I said with a slightly, what I can only imagine to be a bewildered look on my face. “Look at the size of Julia Gillard’s ear lobes!” He says to me, all urgency gone in his voice, “It looks like Spock gone wrong!”

I laughed so hard I almost collapsed.

So the moral of these events:

Number 1) Don’t let your kitchen utensils get the better of you. Always stay sharp, you have to be

      one step ahead of them at all times, or they will get you when you least expect it!

And number 2) There isn’t really any moral in this. Oh wait no, I take that back, the moral is .....

              Those heavy earrings will only harm your lobes in later life!

Birthday Invites and Dust Busting

So it's my sisters birthday at the end of this month and I designed some invitations for her party. She wants to have it at Movie World! Hollywood on the Gold Coast .. pffft unlikely, I don't see Courtney Cox walking down the main streets or in line for the Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster ... and may I just say that maybe I should be getting some kind of payment or compensation for giving Movie World advertising!
Anyway, because she's really really into Harry Potter at the moment (as I'm sure a lot of us were at that age, and still are, at ages 17 + ) I decided that I would create such an awesometastic invitation for her that it would beat any retail invitations, hands down!
And I did. But the problem is, that I did such an awesome job, (that I was quite proud of if I do say so myself ... I'm not egotistical at all ... I just like them!) that I wanted to keep them for myself. I didn't want her to take them to school and hand them out to her friends, I created these with my own hands! I wanted to keep them. I even constructed hand made little envelopes with the houses out of Harry Potter on them (Slytherin, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw - I apologise to all the die-hard HP fans out there if I spelt the house names wrong) I was so proud of my creative efforts.

I thought about it, and decided that it probably would be a good idea to actually give them to my sister to give to her friends, after all I did initially start making them for her. So I let her have her invitations. But as a compromise, I took a photo of them so I could keep a digital copy and the memories!

Also I thought that I would share that we got a new vacuum today .. and may I add ... a pretty radical vaccume! ... It looks like its about to launch into space, and/or crash landed on earth from space in all its suction awesomeness! It's like a little bug shaped UFO with vaccume bags for aliens! Definitely a superior technologically advanced dust busting machine!
It is a lot better than the old broken one we had. I don't mean to sound horrible or hurt its feelings or anything, but it just wasn't doing it's job. We had to let it go, fortunately it wasn't getting paid a cent and did not have a family to feed so it was an easy task!

So rather than just skimming over top of the dirt, then the dirt turning around and looking up at me saying "HA HA, your not getting me, I am far to good for your crappy vaccume" in their arrogant tone, I suck it all up now with no arguments at all!

So screw you dirt!