Random stuff

My lack of broadband internet connection is getting really annoying and I'm blaming it for my less than frequent postings here. (Totally not relating to me being lazy, nah-ah).

I guess I just want to do some random ranting, so here it goes:

Following yesterday's post, I remembered I left something out: on the bench next to me, a family came after us, sat down and told the chef that it's their first time having teppanyaki, esp for the 2 girls who looked like about 7-10 years old. So he started cooking and doing his fancy tricks, then he dropped the pepper mill, "SHIT" he exclaimed, then apologized. We were a little puzzled, was he sorry for the stuff up or using that kind of language in front of kids??

Went to a property auction today, for those who are not familiar with the house auction here in Melbourne, we just have people gathering casually around the property (garden mostly) and the auctioneer will just call out bids after buyers raise their hands to make bids and the highest bidder wins. Now I have a question, why for most auctions, the agents choose to conduct the auction in the noisiest spot possible on the property? Ie. property located on the main road, woooohoooo! Let's just do the auction right outside the front yard where there's cars/trucks drive by every 20 seconds instead of the 200 square meter+ of quieter area in the back! Is this some way to confuse buyers with current bid and to get more money???