Rise Lord Vedar
Saturday, May 21st, 2005As you understand from the title, I’ve seen StarWars episode III. Since I’m not a spoiler (and since I’m certain almost everybody who reads this post will see the movie), I’ll just sum it up by saying that there are many lightsword combats, and Anakeen does become Darth-Vedar, as you already know. Tell me after you’ve seen the movie and we’ll discuss more details. In the meantime, an interesting trivia thingy: when I studied at the Technion, we had this funny profesor (I think it was Baruch Fisher, who taught me basic electro-optics) who tried to invent an actual lightsword (the problem lies in the sharp edge at the end of the sword). I don’t know if he actually succeeded in doing so.
Besides this, this morning we had here some 17 or 18 degrees and the seashore was FULL of surfers and other half-naked people. I wonder how they don’t freeze.
And besides, I finally baught a car. It was a really nice bargain: I lowered the guys from 3000$ to 1950$. It’s a 1990 Ford Falcon st/wagon, cream color, and has full receipts three years back that it received all its services in garages and stuff. The guys were two engineers from England, who came here to travel and ended up working for 15 months, and now had to come back for a wedding so they needed to sell the car. The two owners before them were also not backpackers, so the car was really looked after - much better than the normal 20 years old rusted garbage they sell here for backpackers. It also has full 12 months rego (rego is like TEST here; they passed it two weeks ago) so it won’t be problem to sale. And the best part - because they came here to travel, they baught a *lot* of camping stuff, and almost didn’t get to use it! So I also own now two tents (one large and one small), a table, 4 chairs, a gas stove, a lamp, full kitchenwere (pots, plates, knives - everything! actually, more than I had when I was a student and probably more than Uri has in his house right now). They even gave me a bag full of spices, pasta, rice and stuff. It is so full, that I have no place on the back of the car - I may need to leave some behind me! The car has a radio+c.d. player (not that I have c.d’s), but the airconditioning doesn’t work. I won’t fix it now - When I get north I’ll see if I really need it.
I found the car in the backpacker car market at KingsCross, which is a neighbourhood in Sydney. I have the car and already paid them, but I will still need to wait in Sydney until Monday morning to finish all the registration thingys with the authorities here - these ignorant australians don’t work Sundays!
Tomorrow I will finish preparations to leave this city in Monday. If I have some time, maybe I’ll do some drive just to practice or get a dive here. In the meantime, I practiced driving it from the car market to my appartment, and found that a) the vinkers are in the wrong side, so I always turn on the vishers instead of the winkers (also, when you turn right you have to lower the winker, and when you turn left you have to raise it - the opposite than in Israel). and b) It’s quite hard to keep the lane, I always think I’m too much to the center of the road, while I’m actually located more left than I think. Apart from that - I’m a natural driver, as you all know.
