DAG 122: The other way round.....

I posted a new story and i left around midnight the internetcafe. Just a few hours to go and i am heading of back to Japan. So how to spend my last australians dollars. Well i could use a drink. I finally spotted this nice and quiet bar. No loud annoying discobeats and also no stupid drunken aussies (at this time enough of them). But when i tried to get in the 'black' security didnt let me in. 'cant let you in bro' he said. Why not , i replied, is the bar closed....No i think you had enough allready!!!! Whats that, I didnt had a drink for the last two weeks. Last beer i had was on new years eve. I feel 'white guy with hanging eyelids' dicrimination here. I didnt wear thongs or sportsshoes either. Did this guy got refused in Amsterdam and was he out for revenge?
And it also happened to me on the way to australia. Just wanted a beer in the plane, and i only had a little bit of wine with dinner. And to get a little bit relaxed (its still me on a plane you know), i asked for a beer. The steward looked at me, if i was going to harras the pretty stewards and passenger on the plane and give me an alcohol free beer! Well tomorrow i am back to the vending machines: can buy beer on the streets!

This is by the way the original posting:

Everything in australia is huge! Not only the country, the distances but also the food. Wanna get a coke? its more than half a liter. Everything here is just a little bit more. Cans of softdrinks? ....0,38l. I remember that Markus and me were glad to find a thick piece of chocolate in Seoul, instead of the thin 60 grams bars they got everywere else in Korea. But here in Australia its hard to get one under the 250grams. No wonder that the weight of Australians is getting an issue, not only on television (they report that 45% of the australians are overweighted) but also between travelers: do you think the australians are fat? It was even the first thing my friend Emily asked me when i met her. Well after two month traveling in Asia, it was one of the first things i noticed. But according to the canadians i have met its not that bad: the americans are fatter!

I think the general national weight is reduced due to the many asians that live here. Or as a korean guy stated to me: i don't like sydney, because it is like Korea, too many koreans! And they are indeed everywere. The streets of Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Cairns are crowded by korean people, most of the signs are even in two languages: korean and English.

I remembered this biting Mountain Goats song about dying love

'somebody else's parking lot in sata cruz'

it all starts here: at the opera house of Sydney!

When i see the first contours of the biulding. I shiver.

Its a masterpiece. It costed wat too much and it took over 16 years to built it.

Its a true orgasm for the eye! Got speechless.

over 1 milloin tiles are in the rooodtiles.

The tiles are not white, but creme, because

of the reflection of the sun

I visited a contemporary dance performance inside the opera building.

Called 'construct' The opening was not only funny, but

it was a battle between a automatic screwdriver and

impossible moves of the dancers.

I read later that the choreographer of this piece, Tanja Liedtke

recently died in a caraccident.


Visited a Sydney Nolan exhibition.

Nolan is the one of the most important artists of Australia.

His works of Ned Kelly are quit remarkable.

Kind of selfreflection of the artist inside the most famous villan of australia.

(see picture)

This is one of the things i will miss.

Auzzies excellent coffee.

Everywhere you go, they have real coffee.

Got addicted of the 'flat whites'

With a GPS system inside the botanique gardens

of Sydney. The GPS sends you to different places in the

garden and there a story of ghostly love was told.

It was a project of the Sydney Festival