Monday

This really doesn't do it justice - and it would make more sense if you could make out the icon on the small blue sign upper left: it's a cigarette. This is a smoking enclosure within Hong Kong's airport. It was the only one I saw but I suspect there are others. And given how far you have to go to the gates here ... you can understand why people may not be able to just "slip outside" for this.

Saturday/Sunday (2)

It certainly is the month for birthdays! When I arrived at the hotel yesterday there was a birthday party in progress with a group of very excited children. Later, this trolley was waiting outside the room for collection. Mmmm sprinkles and ice cream.

Saturday/Sunday (1)

Happy Birthday Gemini folk (especially you SPD and you too W).

Friday

View from the Philppines office window. Judging by the comments from the locals, the mountain in the background is not often visible.

Thursday

This image may be disturbing to some, so you'll have to tilt your head to the left to see it! Dinner out with the Filipino colleagues included this special dish.

Wednesday

Enough said. (And should someone have been on hand to say "it's time to leave the stationery store?")

Tuesday

I was intrigued enough by this - seen from a distance - to want to know more. How on earth did they get the OFFLINE message on an ATM that was ... offline. Well, of course (d'oh) they did it the old-fashioned way ... almost ... with OFFLINE printed on paper and stuck over the screen.

Monday

We are not alone ... with the abundance of people needed to do "road work". I counted 7 workers and one supervisor (not in this pic) painting the lines on this pedestrian crossing in Manila.

Sunday

REY - the wonder car - has gone to live on a farm (or get an extreme makeover!)

Saturday

Devonshire Street Tunnel, Sydney.

Friday

It's a bit grainy but still worth a viewing - when we had dinner down at Circular Quay, they were projecting photos onto the southern pylon of the Harbour Bridge.

Thursday

Now wouldn't it be something if every coffee shop did this!

Wednesday

Cognitive dissonance? More like dognitive dissonance. It took my brain a while to realise that this salon was for our canine friends - I think it was the reference to "Professional Stylists" that threw me.

Tuesday

On the way home, spotted this bag chained to the back of a utility. Seemed oddly out of place, and as though there might be a story attached.

Monday

Photos can be deceiving. While they look to be the best of friends, within a second an unsheathed paw shot out, but, thankfully, missed.

Sunday

More tiny tongs: Bakers Delight Marrickckville Metro.

Saturday

The Creative Watch Co. has an automatic watch tester at its premises in the city. It's pretty cool.

Friday

Tiny tongs made their appearance at dinner at a Turkish restaurant at Marrickville.

Thursday

The new Apple Store in Sydney is being kept pretty much under wraps - literally. This is supposedly the location - in the CBD, corner of King & George Sts - which, incidentally is across the road from my first bank. I somehow have a feeling this locale will also see the colour of my money.

Wednesday

Dawn over Marrickville. Alas, the camera phone does not do justice to the colours.