UM, DID ANYONE ELSE JUST SEE THAT?!?!

I have no doubt that surf and social media is going bonkers right now after the fine display of surfing at the Roxy Pro at Snapper Rocks today.   Here’s my addition to the blogosphere for www.surfgirlmag.com ...

WOW, what an unbelievable couple of hours of surfing that was to watch.  I have never ever EVER seen female surfing performed as powerfully, stylishly and athletically as I did today. Tyler Wright, Sally Fitzgibbons, Coco Ho, Silvana Lima, Laura Enever and Carissa Moore put on some show.  It was jaw-dropping, mind blowing, edge-of-your-seat stuff watching them trading 8’s and 9’s all the way through the quarters, semis and final.  I even think the men were truly inspired by it.  The Quiksilver Pro Round 5 heats which ran straight after the Roxy Pro wrapped up, were a ridiculous frenzy of crazy high scoring affairs!

I logged on to the live webcast in a computer lab at the University of Sydney this morning to catch ‘a quick bit of the quarter finals’.  Let’s just say the assignment that I was supposed to get done did not get touched, and the lectures that I was supposed to attend as the day progressed were missed!  It was impossible to tear myself away! History was being made!  That had to be the best display of competitive female surfing of all time.  The level in women’s surfing is about to jump off the Richter scale, with all these new rookies on Tour pushing the other talented girls to the max.  I was absolutely blown away by watching that today, and I am so excited to see where it goes next!

Next time I’m watching in a computer lab at Uni though, I will watch in a quiet corner somewhere.  Today I got so into it that I forgot where I was and let out a bit of a hoot at one of Sally Fitz’s waves.... got some strange looks from a couple of nerds haha!

Inspirational surfing went down today.  Jaysus, I can’t wait to hit the waves myself tomorrow and try my best to turn my lame little wiggles into some decent turns!  WHOOOOOOOP!!!!

 (The author would like to sincerely apologise for the over-use of exclamation marks in this blog, but would suggest that the awe-factor sustained by today’s events justifies it)

You can watch video highlights of all the surfing at www.roxypro.com.au if you were unfortunate enough to miss it hehe!  Warning: prepare to be amazed...

Some ObZervations.....

So I've been living in the big schmoke of Sydney in Australia for over two months now.  It's been good!  I've been able to sneak away for a couple of trips already too, and I'm super excited about a couple of projects that I have lined up over the next couple of months. Watch this space!

My Masters of Pharmacy at the University of Sydney started a week ago, after a 6 week summer semester of Chemistry.  Getting back into the swing of study has been hard, I'm not gonna lie!  But I'm sure the challenge will do me good.  That's what I keep telling myself anyway....

The nerd-cap is back on....

A few ObZervations since I've arrived in Oz.....

• There is an ice-cream here called Golden Gaytime.  
• Quite a lot of Asian people carry umbrellas in the sunshine.
• You don't even get a hint of a chill even after being in the water for 4 hours straight! You can however, get hideously sun burnt.  
• Keep your Underground ticket, you need it on the way out. Duh (country bumkin here didn't know!)
• There are heaps (oops, pardon my Aussie accent) of low-carb beers here.  Guilt free sippage!
• The red wine is no match for the French reds however :-(
• It's so easy to stay motivated to train and to do it outside.  There are fit people everywhere and cool outdoor gym areas to do workouts along amazingly scenic running routes.
• There are also a lot of very unfit and overweight people.  I don't understand why, when it's such an amazing environment to be active and healthy in.  I mean it's not like it's cold, wet and windy where all you want to do is hide indoors by the fire drinking hot chocolate and eating stodgy comforting food!
• The bus drivers are mental.  I reckon (oh, there's my Aussie accent again!) they must recruit ex-rally drivers or something.  If you have to stand, prepare to have your balance skills challenged!
• There are second hand shops everywhere, it's awesome!  I got a nice little black French Connection dress for $10!
• Our phone companies in Ireland are ripping us off.  I got a free iPhone 4 when I arrived as part of my brothers deal with his housephone & internet company.  I only pay $49 dollars a month for $400 worth of calls and texts and 2GB of internet use.  My iPhone bill at home was ridiculous in comparison!

I heart Australia.  It's such an amazing environment to live the active, surfing, outdoors lifestyle that I love to live!

Right....off to set the alarm for a dawny surf before heading into Uni for a day of Biostatistics, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science and a Calculus tutorial......FUN TIMES!!!

Some photies...

Say nawtin!

Where I live...taken along my running route. Lush!

I watched the Australian Open Final down at the beach...

Ah the good old outdoor lifestyle!