Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Three-ish months left
Well well well, guess who found a job. After working with Kayla for four days, I got a call from the western australian government who brought me in for an interview and offered me a helpdesk position which I gladly accepted. Hopefully i can save enough in the 8-10 weeks of the contract to further our journey eastwards. I don't think it'll be a problem, the only thing that sucks is how long I have to wait to get paid (Feb. 12) .
We are also moving into a new place as of Feb. 1, with the biologist/doctor we are currently living in the 5bedroom house with. That date can't come soon enough, for a couple or reasons - one being the lack of air conditioning in the house. The other being the fact that some guy moved in who was a complete flake, i believe he has schizophrenia which is possibly drug-induced. We kicked him out last night - don't worry.
Other than that, just been beaching it on the weekend .. went to a dream theater show ($130) which sadly was cut short due to some kind of electrical failure or blown power. So I didn't get to hear their last half hour which is usually the past part. Will upload pics and video later, tough to find the time when I don't have the internet at home.
tracklist :
Dream Theater - January 26th (Australia Day) - Burswood Theater - Perth, WA
In the Presence of Enemies
Octavarium
Endless Sacrifice
Dark Eternal
Stream of Consciousness
Forsaken
I Walk Beside You
Take the Time
Strange Deja Vu
Fatal tragedy (power blows)
My laptop HD is dying, so sometimes updates are far between. It might completely die and I won't be able to replace it before i get paid.
Have fun on your trip mom and dad.
John
We are also moving into a new place as of Feb. 1, with the biologist/doctor we are currently living in the 5bedroom house with. That date can't come soon enough, for a couple or reasons - one being the lack of air conditioning in the house. The other being the fact that some guy moved in who was a complete flake, i believe he has schizophrenia which is possibly drug-induced. We kicked him out last night - don't worry.
Other than that, just been beaching it on the weekend .. went to a dream theater show ($130) which sadly was cut short due to some kind of electrical failure or blown power. So I didn't get to hear their last half hour which is usually the past part. Will upload pics and video later, tough to find the time when I don't have the internet at home.
tracklist :
Dream Theater - January 26th (Australia Day) - Burswood Theater - Perth, WA
In the Presence of Enemies
Octavarium
Endless Sacrifice
Dark Eternal
Stream of Consciousness
Forsaken
I Walk Beside You
Take the Time
Strange Deja Vu
Fatal tragedy (power blows)
My laptop HD is dying, so sometimes updates are far between. It might completely die and I won't be able to replace it before i get paid.
Have fun on your trip mom and dad.
John
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Aussie update
Alright then. Haven't updated in a long time, Sorry. Rundown:
Xmas - +37. Exchanged gifts. Went to the beach (All the roommates plus a couple friends, John and I) and baked in the sun. We snorkelled just off the coast and saw thousands of fish by a local reef. You could actually swim down and literally swim with fish all around you. It was really cool. Then we went over to John and Katie's for a potluck xmas dinner. There was potato salad, shish kabebs(made by me). prawns, a Korean dish that our Korean roommate made. And a bunch of other various untraditional xmas dishes. hahaha it was a very Aussie xmas. And was definetly weird because of the hot temp. We all had a good time.
Boxing Day - taking it easy on the beach minus the fact that there was an 8 minute burn time if you were out in the sun without 30+ sunscreen on. It was an incredible 45 degrees celcius outside. Sleeping any time past 9 in the mornin was simply impossible seeing as the majority of houses don't have AirCon. Went snorkelling, saw tons of fish again. The ocean became our homes because it was too hot anywhere else. Spent the day swimming with the fish again.
John and I have the next week off and do various things. The beach many times.
New Years Eve - everyone comes over for a BBQ, such things occur sch as drinking games and John Kenny pouring champagne down everyone's throats. John and I head out to the main area of town to a club called Rise. It's a techno bar, but just the kinda of bar we need to dance the night away. Another plus was that it had a balcony that overlooked the main stage of Northbridge so we got to look above the crowd while hundreds of people counted down the end of 2007. the ball didn't drop. I don't know what's up with that! But John and I spent our 2nd New Years eve together and it was quite the fun time. We headed back to the house at around 3 to see that the BBQ was still thriving. Played some more dirnking games.
Jan 1 - Recovered.
I started my new job this Monday. I work in a lab with my roommate Marianne. I am a labroatory technician and loving it. Great hours,weekends off, great pay. We went to our first cricket match on Sunday. Boring!!! We need some hockey!!
Xmas - +37. Exchanged gifts. Went to the beach (All the roommates plus a couple friends, John and I) and baked in the sun. We snorkelled just off the coast and saw thousands of fish by a local reef. You could actually swim down and literally swim with fish all around you. It was really cool. Then we went over to John and Katie's for a potluck xmas dinner. There was potato salad, shish kabebs(made by me). prawns, a Korean dish that our Korean roommate made. And a bunch of other various untraditional xmas dishes. hahaha it was a very Aussie xmas. And was definetly weird because of the hot temp. We all had a good time.
Boxing Day - taking it easy on the beach minus the fact that there was an 8 minute burn time if you were out in the sun without 30+ sunscreen on. It was an incredible 45 degrees celcius outside. Sleeping any time past 9 in the mornin was simply impossible seeing as the majority of houses don't have AirCon. Went snorkelling, saw tons of fish again. The ocean became our homes because it was too hot anywhere else. Spent the day swimming with the fish again.
John and I have the next week off and do various things. The beach many times.
New Years Eve - everyone comes over for a BBQ, such things occur sch as drinking games and John Kenny pouring champagne down everyone's throats. John and I head out to the main area of town to a club called Rise. It's a techno bar, but just the kinda of bar we need to dance the night away. Another plus was that it had a balcony that overlooked the main stage of Northbridge so we got to look above the crowd while hundreds of people counted down the end of 2007. the ball didn't drop. I don't know what's up with that! But John and I spent our 2nd New Years eve together and it was quite the fun time. We headed back to the house at around 3 to see that the BBQ was still thriving. Played some more dirnking games.
Jan 1 - Recovered.
I started my new job this Monday. I work in a lab with my roommate Marianne. I am a labroatory technician and loving it. Great hours,weekends off, great pay. We went to our first cricket match on Sunday. Boring!!! We need some hockey!!
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