Finally...all set.

Okay, my visa has arrived, my bank account has been set up and I am ready to go. All I need to do now is eat as much good food (i.e. steak) as I can before I fly off. This should be the end of my boring blogs and hopefully, I'll have more exciting stuff to write about in the future.


Note: Not a picture taken by me, just some random photo off flickr (gocarrts)

Second Note: The steak(s) I had at Charcoal Grill on the Hill was really bad today. It is normally one of my favourite steak places in Melbourne but something has changed. The steak was overcooked, and tasteless. Very disappointed to the point of feeling depressed. Oh well, looks like I have to go to Stefans (one of my other favourite steak places) to cure that.

HSMP Applications

My HSMP application was approved! It took a total of 4 weeks to get it processed. Taking into account the 10 days postage time each way, it took less than 1 week for them to approve it. Granted that I had to apply for urgent treatment, but all up it was a fairly painless process if you follow the instructions.

Picture of the post: Wine bottles

BTW: I have been informed that people are paying over £1,600 to apply for their HSMP applications. Frankly that is too much. Send me £1,200 and I will help you out. :-)

Just a Picture

Just another photo to spice up the blog. Once again, taken in Cinque Terra Italy.

In the beginning and on storing digital photo's

I've started this blog in preparation of all the great adventures that I will want to have over in London. If it turns out that I sit on the couch all day long and play xbox360 till I pass out, then....well...this blog will suck won't it? Anyway, fingers crossed that it will be an adventure and Europe is all that it is cracked up to be.

For those interested in storing their digital photo's online, you should check out Flickr or Imagestation.

I use Imagestation because its only $5US for the year for unlimited photo's but there is the caveat that people have to register to view the photo's (although registration to view is free).

I also have the free Flickr account. The link is in my links section on the right....you can't really miss it (the link I mean). This is another big photo storage site that allows you to store unlimited photo's. However, you are limited to 3 sets (i.e. 3 albums) and uploads of 20mb per month. A pro account (unlimited sets and 2GB per month uploads) costs $25US. The plus of this site is that anyone can view the photo's. This is where you will find some of the photo's that I will accumlate. The main photo galleries will be at my imagestation address which I will post a link to as each trip accumulates.



The page was looking a little bare, so I thought I'd upload this picture from my Flickr page. Its some moss from Japan.