You think you know a person, and then again you don't. Someone landed up in perth this week...all the way back from the desi land. I'd known him to be a proper poster boy - good in studies - well laid out kinda guy. So I met up with him to just help him settle down, get on with the basic shoppin etc etc. Now as far as I knew him he was a vegetarian, as are most families I know back in cal. But the first thing he looks for in the store is Bacon & Ham. 'I've never tried ham before', he says!! And then he pop's up again - "err...do they sell alcohol here?". OMG!! He's been away from home less than 48hrs, and his path to self righteousness has already begun hahahaha....

Couple of days back was rakhi, the Indian festival where the sister's tie a band on their brother's hand for goodwill & protection. Well, a friend of mine here, whu's also from India, recieved a whole bunch of these 'rakhi's' from his sisters / cousins back home. Now along with one of them was a card, which had a dried leaf stuck to it. The card was witheld at the Australian Quarantine Bereau because the 'dried leaf was a potential quarintine hazard'!!!! He was insted sent a photocopy of the card, along with a letter that said that if he wanted the card back he would have to pay $48 for gamma ray treatment before it could be 'decontaminated' and handed back to him.....all this for a card that cost less than 0.50c!!!!

Aussies are just plain paranoid!!!