Thursday, 23 August 2007

Sydney City - night view







These are some of the photos taken last night from Milson's Point and Mc Mahon's Point.
I know many people have taken shots from here, but i had to take my version of it.
Its something you just gotta do and test it out as a photographer.

Yesterday wasn't the most suitable weather to take photo as it sprinkled now and then, which got me and my lense wet a little and i expected the photos to turn out dull. But, it seems because of the gloomy weather and the clouds, the water turned out more darker than usual which made the lights reflect quite nicely on it.
Quite interesting also to see, how the water looks more like an ice. Imagine an ice rink like that. That would be pretty cool eh? It looks as though you could walk on it.

Friday, 17 August 2007

Sydney Design Festival

Last Saturday, me, Gogi bro and Mang Chi went to Power House Museum for Sydney Design Festival exhibition. I wasn't aware of this event until i saw it on Gogi bro's blog and thought it'd be interesting to see different industrial design products Sydney had to offer. It was my second time visiting PHM. Coming from non-design background, i wouldn't say everything they exhibited was all to exciting for me. However, there were enough for an average guy like me to keep interested for few hours. If you were really keen, it'd probably take whole day to actually fully understand and how all products and design came about.

The above was one of the Swedish product which interested me. Can you guess what it is? It's an automower. Yeah! It's an automower!! How cool is that? It's only about 3 kgs, noise free and it does all the mowing itself. i.e. If you determine a centre point for it, it would move itself along upto its programmed perimeter and mowe the lawn. And once the batteries goes down, it will go back to its charger and recharge itself. How cool is that? I want one!!!!

There were also some cool design furnitures, pretty glass vases and wool clothings. I guess since Sydney or even Australia as whole is not really an industrialised country and thats probably why we don't have too many of our own designed product. i.e. There really wasn't a necessity for us to design our own product because we don't build one.

But, i imagined, we could do better. There are other countries that are well known for its products. Like Switzerland, obviously with watches, bags and knives. Even Bally, did you know Bally was from Switzerland? i didn't know.

Anyway, my point, we could create and build one like Switzerland. We just have to be creative and push on forward.

Come on Australia!!





Monday, 13 August 2007

Darling Harbour - Cockle Bay Wharf


Weather this weekend was just beautiful. Especially this Sunday, the weather was like one nice summer day. I can't wait until Summer arrives. Hmmm~ Summer~~



Thursday, 9 August 2007

Mr. Mahoney

A shot of myself, just passing by DFS Galleria. It's not on focus but, sometimes, a photo looks better without being on focus. i like it. If you know what i mean....

Monday, 6 August 2007

Bondi Beach



I went to Nick's at Bondi beach pavillion this weekend with Seung Jin and his wife, Hana. As Seung Jin comes to Sydney once every year, my aim is to take him to a place or have foods that he can't enjoy so easily in Korea.


Nick's at Bondi is quite a great place to enjoy an Australian atmosphere. It has a great vew of Bondi beach. I have never been to Nick's before and i quite liked it. I like the fact it was very open, with all glass walls to access the great view, and has quite high ceilings which again gives you very open feeling. And the match of white and sky blue colors in the restaurant matches well with the blue sky on a nice sunny day. Also the whites in the restaurant also gives very clean atmosphere.

We had barramundi, tuna chef special, rib eye steak and some salad and although its a seafood restaurant, our favourite dish of the day of rib eye. Apparently, this is the restaurant that does Ribs buffet all Monday, all Tuesday and Sunday dinner.


It is just such a great place to enjoy your Saturday noon. I must say, i wouldn't mind having lunch there every Saturday.




After our lunch, we went for a walk along the beach to see all the art works around Bondi, but, Hana, as most girls are, didn't quite like walking too much and we headed to seek a nice coffee shop.
Although, we were looking for a coffee shop, we couldn't go pass this interesting little cafe with so many delicious cakes infront of the cafe. Coffees were okay but the cakes were soooo delicious. I don't usually like cakes because they are too sweet for my liking, but the cakes they have at the cafe were special. The cake slices are about $7 each so they are quite expensive considering you could buy a Burger King meal with $7 but its worth having one. I would recommend the vanilla cake which was made of pastries with custards inside.