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Riuva in Hell Part 1: I Modded Australia

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Popularity: 12% [?] Published by tj_han December 1st, 2006 in Culture

The continent of Australia, the largest island in the world, is famed to have a great and unique variety of flora and fauna on top of the pristine unspoilt nature of its landscapes. But I didn’t see any of that.

Here are some pictures I took which show just how much I hate the place.

Thanks to the holiday season, I couldn’t get a flight straight to Brisbane so I had to fly to Melbourne first, and then to Brisbane. And then to my actual destination of Rockhampton. The only occasions where I watch Hollywood movies are on in-flight entertainment systems and I caught Pirates of the Carribean. But more interesting was the Japanese music radio channel, which played stuff like Inukami’s OP, Hikari (by Aice^5, Horie Yui’s seiyuu group) and Kiba’s OP, Sanctuary, by Nami Tamaki. It was quite freakishly coincidental because I was listening to my anime songs on my own player but on a whim, just plugged the headphones in to test out their sound system and I heard the Inukami song playing. First reaction was, "Did I plug into the wrong hole? Why is Qantas playing Inukami OP?"

The first thing I saw at Melbourne Airport was a giant Astroboy poster advertising a Osamu Tezuka carnival or something. These posters were all over the airport. Anyone in Melbourne actually going for this?

I actually lost my mp3 player (AHHHH) during the trip so the return flight was the only source of Japanese music. Anyway, the flight was an overnight one so I saw the SUNRISE (Planetes, Cowboy Bebop). I took quite a few pics to use as background images for photoshoots. These I’m not showing here.

The domestic flight to Rocky had a better view, since the aircraft was a smaller one and flew at a lower altitude.

Ok, the following two pictures show what my exact impression of Australia.

Tourists, watch out! Go to the right places.

Totally symbolic. The place is fucking dead. Even the kangaroos were dead. By the roadside. With temperatures reaching 38 degrees, I heard news that Sydney was snowing.

Everytime night came, it meant the day’s work was over and the heat replaced by coolness. Night rocks. But these pictures are not what we want to see. Australia is a desert of anime stuff, especially out of the cities. So I took some liberties and resculpted the landscape to my liking.

This is now the Karen tree.

And the Miko-chin tree.

The Laughing Man strikes Australia. But even he cannot win here, for there is no bloody internet or even handphone reception for him to hack.

Let’s see how many countries the LM can tour.

Stay tuned for many more episodes of Riuva in Hell.

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16 Responses to “Riuva in Hell Part 1: I Modded Australia”

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1 LianYL 785 comments Dec 1st, 2006 at 1:03 pm

WTF, At least you get to travel.
2 Danny 10 comments Dec 1st, 2006 at 2:11 pm

Melbourne!! XD
3 TedFox 85 comments Dec 1st, 2006 at 4:31 pm

I see all your beloved School Rumble keychains. hoho
4 The_Observer 4 comments Dec 1st, 2006 at 4:39 pm

The Osamu Tezuka posters are about a display of his artworks (Astroboy and all) at the National Gallery…somewhat big scale. Nothing too interesting really…a bit of nostalgia, perhaps?
5 Lupus 67 comments Dec 1st, 2006 at 6:34 pm

You should be glad that you don’t live here.
6 Diego 8 comments Dec 1st, 2006 at 6:35 pm

LianYL speaks truth; at least you got to travel, my dear fellow. Our own plans for a 2007 holiday down under have been scuppered, to my disappointment - although judging from your travel journal it seems we won’t be missing much.

Pity there aren’t any Nagato trees in the outback. They would have improved the scenery a hundredfold.
7 tj_han 1442 comments Dec 1st, 2006 at 6:47 pm

It wasn’t a holiday. I can only say that much until I get the rest of my pictures security cleared.

Diego, the funny thing is I actually had a Nagato chain with me. Forgot to plant the Yukitree.

Lupus, THAT’s RIGHT!! I LOVE SINGAPORE.

Observer: Never liked Atom all that much anyway. Is it true that half of Melbourne is Asian?

Tedfox: They are not my beloved ones. I didn’t get the ones I wanted remember?

Lian: You should go on exercise too you wimp.
8 Juice 49 comments Dec 1st, 2006 at 10:31 pm

Thas some beautiful photos, TJ. Welcome back anywayz
9 Tsubaki 519 comments Dec 1st, 2006 at 11:48 pm

They sure have beautiful landscape there though. Perfect background for a lot of figures that I have.
10 rdrake 69 comments Dec 1st, 2006 at 11:55 pm

Hehe, you might have tried using the dead, dead, desert for a backdrop. Hard to find that sort of thing in the ever rainy, ever greenish Singapore, see…
11 The Zee 9 comments Dec 2nd, 2006 at 6:48 am

Very beautiful pictures by the way… and they remind me of my time on the planes to California. The structure of the clouds in your first picture are pretty much identical to what I saw. Man, I really need a better camera than the one I have…

lol, the School Rumble key-chains look so out of place hanging on that branch.
12 Bridge Bunny 53 comments Dec 2nd, 2006 at 7:57 am

Is Shoalwater Bay really as hot it looks on official media?
13 Pixy Misa 5 comments Dec 2nd, 2006 at 10:45 am

It didn’t actually snow here in Sydney, but it went from 38 degrees one week to 15 the next.

It did snow in Melbourne, around Olinda in the Dandenongs. (Which is where I was a month ago.)

Welcome back!
14 LianYL 785 comments Dec 2nd, 2006 at 12:33 pm

Lian>> I’m not allowed! I volunteered you know. lolololol.
15 TedFox 85 comments Dec 2nd, 2006 at 3:15 pm

I forgot to add sarcasm tags. Obviously my tone didn’t get across well enough. haha
16 The_Observer 4 comments Dec 3rd, 2006 at 7:31 am

I am not sure of demographics but it kinda depends on where in Melbourne. Some parts are white dominated, some Asian, some Middle-Eastern…bla3x.
Thankfully it isn’t some enclave like situation………………yet…..

BTW, some alarmist news: http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Man-dies-in-road-crash-at-Rockhampton/2006/12/03/1165080795865.html
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