What a storm!!! Thought the end of the world was nigh! Raging winds up to 100kmh with hail and floods!! 50mm of rain so far, more to come tomorrow! People walking in knee deep waters, with dustbins, bottles, debris and big chunks of ice floating by....huge traffic jams!!! Chaos in Melbourne city!!!
6th March 2010
After spending a leisurely afternoon at Ron Mueck exhibition, we stepped out of the NGV to streets littered with leaves and branches, as if a hurricane had passed through! Here I was with a huge brolly, and busting to go to the loo! But we were suddenly evacuated out of the NGV (as rain water was pouring into the building!), I had no choice but to seek alternatives!
Look at all the hailstones!
Some are as big as golf balls!
A mist slowly descending, dropping the temperature further....but the temperature somehow maintained at a comfortable 17 degrees.
Flooding on St. Kilda road, causing traffic mayhem!
Public transport came to a crawl....trams lining up, nose to tail.
By now, the traffic had come to a standstill. Since we were stuck in traffic, it's a good time to take some pictures of the destruction!
Saw a lot of dustbins being blown over today....
This pub is still open!
But the kitchen probably's not! The chefs are chipping in to help clear up the mess!
Hmm...can't do anything much about the mess, might as well play "Fetch" with the dog! :)
Street clogged up with debris and ice!
Looks a bit eerie with the mist, am expecting zombies to start roaming the streets any minute!
A ute trapped in the mud and debris.
So did this truck!
It's getting misty again....check out the huge blocks of ice!
*Gasp!* Zombie!!? Nah...Man.
An "iceberg" floating by! Hahaha...
The ice is melting slowly now....just little bits here and there.
Napier street, drowned in rubbish and mud!
This cyclist just wants to get home! Lunge straight into cold knee-deep slush!!! Ew.....at least we were dry in the car! The lady in red is looking all dressed up, nice and dry...
Oops! Not anymore! Unfortunately she slipped and had a little fall! Now she has to go to the party with a wet bum! :S
Life goes on as usual for some...
We've been trapped in the car for almost an hour now.....I am dying for a hot chocolate!!!
So we got off the crazy traffic and had yummy pizzas in Blue Room cafe at South Melbourne! Of course, I had my hot chocolate too! ;)
After that we walked around to assess more of the storm's damage...
"Autumn" came too early for theses Elm tree leaves; "Storm harvested" olives scattered the street; Ice covered alleys.
These fences looked like they have been splashed with green paint, but nope.....they are actually leaves that had been whipped, and lashed around by the storm, and torn into little pieces....actually, it looks quite nice...in a messy way! Hahaha...
Finally, the traffic's cleared up! The West Gate! Just have to cross this big puddle and we will be on our way home!!!
Poor Guppy coped the rage of the storm! Look at all the dents over her bonnet! Time to claim insurance!!! Oh well, Melbourne weather!
This is an ice-box. My ice-box at work. I use it to store ice, and keep things cold. In a large research institue, things sometimes "grow legs" and started walking off on their own! This is especially so for ice-boxes, and especially when it's a convenient size like this one. It can stay a boring, white ice-box, like any other ice-box in research lab, but instead, I decided to make it exclusive, so exclusive and distinct, that it will be hard not to notice it! Most of my friends know I like to doodle here and there, so why not on a perfect empty white space of the ice-box! So there! My version of the "Tree of Life" as colourful as you can make your life to be!
My latest obsession is drawing litle birdies.....so what's next? Hmmm.....I guess my inspirations will come when I receive my next ice-box and have too many incubation times to kill in between experiments! :D 
