Weird Oz Town

Have you ever experienced someone whistle at you when you are walking in public? or men staring and making comments and noise at you? It's common in my home town, and other Asian countries, where the men are usually looking down to the women, where apart from country's modernization and development, their traditional value of men and women are still can't be equal. Whilst it called street harassment, people still arguing whether this is also called sexual harassment. Anyway, I don't want to be so serious discussing harassment here.

It's just, interesting to experience it in this country, which can be called as a Western country. To be precise it happened only in town I live now, Darwin (as I've been to other town). One time bunch of men whistled at me, or other time they stared and smile at me, the worst was they tried to make conversation. Whilst sometimes the men were 'hot', but still, it's annoying, inappropriate and rather scary! and that was the most shocking thing I've ever think would happened here.

Darwin is quite unique compared to other big town in Oz. My friend sent this to me, which is very true. Other facts about Darwin:

• The best parking space is determined by shade instead of distance.


• Hot water comes out of both taps.


• You learn that a seat belt buckle makes a pretty good branding iron.


• The temperature drops below 32c and you feel a little chilly.


• You discover that in February it only takes two fingers to steer your car.


• You discover that you can get sunburn through your car window.


• You develop a fear of metal car door handles.


• You break a sweat the instant you step outside at 7:00am.


• Your biggest bicycle wreck fear is, "What if I get knocked out and end up lying on the pavement and get cooked to death?"


• You realise that asphalt has a liquid state.


• Farmers are feeding their chickens crushed ice to prevent them from laying hard-boiled eggs.


• While walking back barefoot to your car from the beach, you do a tightrope act on the white lines in the car park.


• you catch a cold from having the air con full blast while you sleep during the night.


• You learn that Casuarina Square isn't a shopping centre it's a temple to worship air-conditioning.

Ah well,.... time to leave this town is now ticking......