Babybear!
Nope, I don't know why I wanted to call you that.
YES YOU! Ahh fuck it, I can't be bothered writting to you individually knowing that at some point one day, someone I barely know, or don't know at all will read this. It will bug me knowing that I referred to you in an affectionate way.
ANYWAYYYY
No excuses as to my lack of posting, it's the same as always. Hopefully this
little writting experience will suffice and overwhelm you with more about me and from me than you ever remoetly cared about or wanted to know. I'm at the place where I'm awake at night and I'm bored but can't access a lot of internet sites, but can't refer to this place by it's real name incase there are ever any legal proceedings lol. Yeh...that place. SO expect and epicly long post...actually, don't. I'm not really feeling it now and I'm sleepy. I'm just taking the opportunity now that it's presented to me. I hate posting blogs without pictures =.= I feel like they are needed to break up the massive amount of txt.
Anywhoozle.
Right now I'm a little tired to be overly enthused but I've been having a pretty damn good time, consistently too. No overridding conflicts or emotions that keep popping up so that's good. I guess usually the source of those conflicts came from Tim drama but things have been real settled lately and it's great, I'm probably jinxing it now. Part of my brain just got annoyed for even saying that jinxing things is an actual thing =.= Ugh whatever brain! I'll say what I wantttt, you can't get annoyed at me just because someone may read this one day and think I'm some sort of superstitious twat.
The closest thing to drama recently was my pre-occupation with some pointless txts I was getting, a close friend talking about what could be and acting all tortured soul. Like...fuck off. Why even bring something up that you know can't/won't happen. Just wasted my time being concerned about what could go wrong if we proceed in a particular way. It's like me being upset and worried that I might die from testicular cancer...oh but wait, I've never had balls, nor will that ever be the case. SO FUCK OFF.
Zennnnn =P
Hmm I guess I'll just document some of the things I've been up to in chronological order. I've really enjoyed my break b4 I start working full time. I feel like I've grown a lot during this time, I've experienced so many things and I'm so glad I took the time off, even if it was for the wrong reasons initially. It was worth it in the end =)
FISH MARKETS:
So the day after dining at The Roosevelt, my dad decided he wanted to have lunch at the Sydney Fish Market seeing as we were still in the CBD. I've been there maybe twice and it never fails to dissapoint me. I always expect to be blown away by the fish there and I never am. I think even if I didn't expect it to be amazing I would still be dissapointed. The food is never even remotly fresh, I've had better take away fish in the burbs.
I think I've never had amazing seafood. I would like to, I mean, I've had some that was tasty as opposed to bland like every other time I eat seafood, but nothing mindblowing. Mind you food has only amazed me a handful of times, actually more than that, maybe like, 6 or 7 times. None of those experiences have ever been with seafood, although I guess proportionally it makes sense. Considering the amount of times we eat in our lives, 6 or 7 times of being really impressed with food is miniscule (and dissapointing) and since I eat seafood much less often in general, the chances are even lower of finding something special.
I would love to learn how to cook with seafood too. I've never worked with fish, and the only way my gran makes fish is by deep frying which is nice n all but meh. I've considered taking a class there at the fish markets but ehhhh, I'm in no hurry, there's plenty of other foods I'd rather play around with. Speaking of, I've got my first cooking class next week. I'm excited, I only recently-ish discovered how easy it is to make new foods and have them turn out nice.
WAREHOUSE PARTY:
How douchey does that sound aye! It wasn't too bad, I expected a lot more hipsters. Instead it was just a lot of locals who seem pretty chill and substantial amount of european backpackers. This was my first warehouse party and I was super pumped. I had visions of masses of sweaty bodies moving in unison to the wonderfully bass heavy beats, hectic light shows, fucked up people trashed out of their minds, strangers exchanging bodily fluids, and you know, an abandoned warehouse. Instead I got a loft no bigger than my modest home, 70's disco with electro beats over the top, with 2 cheap rotating disco lights that you can pick up at most $2 shops next to their fine selection of lava lamps and fiber optic lights. There probably wasn't more than 100 people.
I still had a really great time but nonetheless was dissapointed. I met a bunch of kool backpackers who really saved the night but I honestly felt ashamed as an Australian lol. These backpackers had come in search for this 'secret' warehouse party because they were sick of the clubbing scene and wanted to go to a good ole' rave like they're used to back home and then were met with THAT. Ugh...fail.
Either way, we all got pretty smashed which hadn't happened for ages, I mean, yes I was drunk the night prior but that was way classier haha. It was interesting to compare the drinking experience though.
Friday night I got drunk on expensive spirits and cocktails, the next day, no hangover and I got the real nice face numbness while I was intoxicated. The type of numb you get when you have a lozenge that numbs the back of your throat, except drunk numbness begins with the tongue, then the lips and as the night progresses extends to the cheeks.
Saturday night I got drunk off a sack of goon that was drunk straight from the bag and shared around with anyone who walked passed and looked friendly. I had so much goon poured over my that night haha. Because I wasn't with my dad I was able to let lose and there was lots of dancing and being stupid so I let myself lose that restraint I had around my dad. There are lots of parts of that night that I forgot even happened until I rehashed the night with a friend a few days afterwards. I wasn't even aware that I had blank spots in my mind. The next day, there was a definite hangover haha. Cheap wine = ridiculous amount of sediment and just..crap that makes u feel like shit the next day. I rarely get hangovers and I guess this wasn't that bad, I just had an uneasy stomach for most of the day but no headaches or sensitivity to noise/light unlike my friends.
Hmm my friends said they loved it and if they had to choose between a night at hot damn and a night at a warehouse party, they would choose the party. I would choose hot damn. This isn't saying much because both places are pretty crap but at least the music is better and more varried at hot damn. What I did like about the 'warehouse' was that there isn't very tight security so pretty much anything goes. It was BYO which is fantastic, and you can smoke inside which is a lovely change and people are openly doing illicit substances without any fear of reprisal, which is hectic if that's your thing =P
All in all, good night. Something new and fun and ended up at the Cross afterwards. None of us remember why the fuck we went there because I know we didn't go to any more bars or clubs while we were there =S
FAT PANDA:
I got dinner with jamie, courtney and tim there the next day. I've eaten there a couple times and their sushi train is generally not all that fresh so I always ask to order. The service there is pretty great though, the owner always gives us a free sample of something and is pretty chatty with all the patrons. The only reason I'm writting about this is more because I was annoyed at the misunderstanding that night. I wanted a bento box but they said they only do that for lunch but would give me their dinner version, so I chose 2 things to be included. The chick then brought out two main meals...main meals are not ONE bentobox you dumbass, The food was super awesome! Best beef I have tried locally in a longgggggg time, and the chicken teriaki and mash potatoes was LOVELY. I was annoyed though, it was way too much food.
Circus:
The day after I went to Circus ..training? with Jamie and Tim at UNSW. No, none of us study there lol, yes I felt like a bit of a tooley. None of us are even students at any educational institution haha. So circus is a place where people get together once a week and practice skills like fire twirling, stilt walking, juggling, acrobatics, poi, unicycling and that day, wrestling. I chose to stick with fire twirling and it was fun, wayyyyy easier than I expected.
This all came about because of Tim's whacky and forever changing hobbies. He bought a fire staff or watever they're called when we were at Katoomba and started teaching me the basics back then. I took to it so easily that I figured why not go to the class. Haha yes, it's a bad attitude to have but ehhh, it's how I work. What attitude you ask? The one where I don't try anything because I just assume I won't be any good, usually I am correct. Turns out fire twirling is more about timing and patterns and less about being highly co-ordinated (which i am not), I mean, yeah the harder stuff requires some finesse but for now, I'm good. I don't know if i'll go again, maybe if I have nothing else to do but there is no real need. The class is less of a class and more of a bunch of people playing around until they finally get how to do it. It's more about borrowing the equipment than being taught how to do stuff because there are no formal teachers.
Tim's really good =D
Tourists:
The previous blog post mentioned that I was headed to the city to meet matt. We ended up in Manly and doing some site seeing with some of his buddies from his year on exchange in Finland. It was fun but everyone was pretty drained for various reasons. The really made me want to travel some more.
For now, my plan is that at the end of my newgrad program next year I'm going on a holiday. I'll just save up my salary all year and I'll have more than enought to travel comfortable for a few months. At the moment my plan was actually just to go to Chile for a month and do the usual, stay in the north at our families apartment, visit family and party with the cousins but maybe I should do some actual travelling. See the rest of chile? I don't know, the idea puts me off a little. I feel like I will need a lot of time to do this properly and I don't particularly feel like going on one of those holidays. I just wanna chill. Who knows, I haven't even sorted out when I finish newgrad and there is always the possibility that I might just take up a full time permanent position during the year if a good enough offer comes my way, problem with that is that I won't be able to take a long holiday and I'd have to wait a full year before I could take my work holiday.
The other option is that I can travel Europe too and actually go to a lot of places, I mean, I'll have the time and money but ehhhh I'm just not feeling it right now. The last time I did that I was 16 and it had me beat, this time would be way different though, there would be a significant increase in the amount of partying haha.
Ehhh who know's this is still a year away, it's too soon to tell.
Reddit Pubcrawl:So on the Friday I ended up going to Newtown for the r/sydney pubcrawl. Reddit is a relatively new thing in my life. I've gotten really into it over the last month, I love it! It feels like such a community if you participate in some of the smaller subreddits of interest. I wasn't too sure about the pubcrawl though, I don't hang out in r/sydney and to be honest, I thought it would be a bunch of socially awkward nerds that would make me feel alientated for not being into gaming and anime as much as them. Turns out I was way off. These people were really awesome and super chatty and friendly. Everyone was so receptive to conversation, it was really refreshing and interesting. Even the types of people who showed up suprised me a little...yes I know, I'm a bitch for judging everyone so harshly b4 meeting them. Reddit is such a large community and there is literally a place for everyone there so the people are super varied. Clearly it was stupid for me to think people would be socially awkward, they were all a bunch of people who wanted to go get drunk and meet new people. OF COURSE they were going to be friendly and open, durrrr. I had a great night and I'm totally down to go to more meet ups.
FOODS:
I've been eating at restaurants a shit tonne lately...lol the whole lite n easy thing flew out the window but I'm going to start up again in August. The only one worth mentioning here is Wenty leagues. I went there the other night with Stef and Angel and it's pretty great, but only because stef knows all the kitchen staff haha. They're always super nice to us and ended up getting free food...or well, we thought it was free haha, turns out someone paid for us which was super sweet of them.
TED:
Ended up watching Ted the other night. I hadn't even seen the trailer but I was pleasantly suprised. SO new rule: never watch a movie trailer again if I'm going to the cinema. Trailers raise my expectations way up high and makes me rip the movie to shreds while I'm watching it. I really enjoyed Ted, I laughed heaps and there was lots of little things that captured my mind. Mostly the love the couple had for each other, that silly goofy comfortable kind of love and attraction. Reminded me of Tim...*sigh*
Beh I have to give the computer away, I actually have a few more things to write about lol. Oh and since I never wrote about the Vipassana meditation retreat I'm just going to post an email I sent my dad about it.
=D
take care lovelies.
