Flashmobs Are Baaaaaaaaaaack!

Hey folks, everyone's favourite cultural phenomena from 2003, Flash Mobs, are back in Melbourne.

The organisers have re-emerged from wherever it was they were hiding, and are organising a Mob this Saturday, September 9th in the afternoon.

Join the yahoo groups mailing list and register your mobile phone number over at www.melbourneflashmob.org. You'll get an SMS on Saturday with more detailed instructions.

Hmmmmmmm... Spontaneous.

New Person

Yesterday, evildoom_bunny and I met a New Person.

Not in the sense that we met someone we'd never met before, but in the sense that this person didn't exist until Saturday morning.

And when I say met, I mean patted the head of. Gently. No actual talking involved, or hand shaking.

Which is a round-about way of saying we went and looked at new born baby :-)

A couple of our acquaintance squeezed out a baby very early Saturday morning - well, when I say couple I mean husband and wife, and mostly it was the Wife doing the squeezing!

We visited them briefly at the maternity ward of the Mercy Hospital for Chicks, which is a maze of a place. Very modern - even had a room especially for preparing bunches of flowers. Brian Chee Mun Ho, the New Person, was doing some serious breast feeding - some babies have a hard time getting the hang of it, not this one! It's amazing how tiny they look, less than the length of my forearm.

He was having a sort of half-hearted cry when we left. He had nothing to really cry about - warm, well fed, kinda squished looking. I said to evildoom_bunny "It's almost like he's simply complaining about being out rather than in." It must feel like a very weird transition - being warm and all wet, then having to use your lungs and mouth and wear clothes. I'd be a bit grizzly as well. evildoom_bunny would also know - she was nearly a month late.

The last new born I saw was my cousin Katya's baby Nina, about three years ago. She was the second largest baby the Royal Women's had ever seen - nearly 12 pounds (five kilos?) and nearly 60 centimetres long. So Bwian looked small in comparison, being only average sized.

Me? Clucky? Not at all :-)

(Weird. While writing this I just got an email saying that Melinda in Finance - in a division of my company which is interstate, so I've never heard of her - just had a baby. It's an epidemic!)

Sunny Afternoon

I spent my lunchtime walking the streets of central Melbourne. It's still cold, but it's sunny (go figure) so I was wearing my long black coat.

I had a huge salad from my usual lunch joint, then I went for a wander up Bourke Street to a mobile phone store, then I popped into Missing Link. Where I picked up some badges, couldn't afford any actual albums, and asked about tickets to Ministry.

Then I popped into a "caffeine seller" called Octane and got a large Chai, and wandered back to work.

And it occurred to me as I walked up Bourke Street that my life doesn't suck. There I was wearing a scruffy t-shirt and my fave coat (I can get away with this at my work), drinking a warm drink, in what is arguably the best city in the world... Can't get away without mentioning my favourite monkey evildoom_bunny here :-) Well, I was filled with a string feeling of somethingness.