Archive for June, 2008
June 26 2008: The Dude Person
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I’ve (surprisingly) actually had a few people contact me via email and the like, to question me on this new fellow in my life. Mish for instance, grilled me about him when I was at her place today (we played Singstar and made vanilla muffins with lemon icing!). I hesitate to use the b word when referring to him here, or elsewhere, for fear that I turn into one of those dreadful people, so shall stick to calling him simply my “dude person”. Or, Alex. Either one works.
I was going to write an entry describing him and explaining why we’re together…but well, to tell the truth, I didn’t think I could do the latter without simpering, tittering like a schoolgirl, or throwing a few “awww” and “*blush*” in the explanation. That’s the thing about me: I seem mature and level-headed, until I open my mouth and a twelve-year-old kid’s squeaky voice comes out, replete with teenage idiocy. So, some basic details, in list form.
- He’s 27 years old, six years older than myself. (Our birthdays are three days apart).
- He’s tall (185cmish), with a slim build and brown hair and grey/blue eyes
- He works with music (he’s currently training to be a sound engineer/masterer/person thingie, and he mixes beats in his own time)
- He’s very black. Not in skin tone, but rather in his clothing choices, mood, demeanor, humour, etc. He has a very cynical world view, and is rather sardonic, sarcastic, etc.
We’re polar opposites (I’m 21, short, ‘plump’ build, tone deaf and relentlessly optimistic), but somehow, it works. We work. And…that’s it. No more squealing. From now on, he’s nothing more than one of the many recurring characters in the soap opera of my life.
June 25 2008: The Internet Hates Me
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E-life seems to have a vendetta against me lately.
Jingwen was down for a large part of today. I’ve been unable to access Snark for about half a week due to a 403 Error (which I’ll assume means I’ve either been banned, or my IP which I do share with others has been blocked temporarily for spamming the server). I can access it via a proxy, but as my internet is running slower than a dead turtle, it’s unbearably slow.
With all that said though, I can’t honestly say that it’s affected me all that much, what with having been away for four days over the weekend. Also, in addition to the four plus days I’m at work during my month-long holidays from university, as well as an average of two nights a week helping my parents with their cleaning/ironing gigs (which they’ve increased as my father’s over his kidney stone problem), I’ve also started babysitting for a wealthy family (e.g. Melbourne equivalent of Upper East Side wealth, titled-British-lord wealth) on a regular basis (two/three nights a week) for a bit of extra dosh.
Trying to fit in seeing friends and the dude person amongst these commitments is hard, to say the least. Adding internet access to the list is an unnecessary complication. I’m happy just to have time to check my email daily and write a quick entry here. Life is hectic!
Quick side note: I rode in a Ferrari for the first time today. For a short while, I actually felt a little more important than I already am.
June 24 2008: Great Ocean Road, June 2008
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Back from the country! And, when I say country, I do quite literally mean country. As a born and bred city girl, I tend to have heart palpitations every time I drive out of a city and find myself surrounded by nature, with cows (and other cattle) in paddocks alongside the state highway. All…that…fresh…air! It’s overwhelming to be able to step outside at night and realise that you can actually see the stars without smog and pollution shielding your view.
Needless to say then, I found myself intensely overwhelmed for the majority of the weekend. We were staying a little way out of Cobden, a tiny country town of less than 2000 residents (approximately in the middle of this map). We were half an hour from the Twelve Apostles, an hour from Warrnambool, and approximately three and a half hours from Melbourne. The area we were in is commonly known as the Great Ocean Road, a popular tourist route which winds its way through beautiful coastlines, startling cliff drops, amazingly canopied rainforests, and fertile farmland. It’s perfect for a weekend away, as it’s secluded, surrounded by beautiful scenery, and tourist attractions.
My stay with my girl friends was designed largely as a little pick-me-up post-examination period, with the additional benefit of being able to visit a part of my own state which I’d hadn’t had a chance to see before. That’s half the problem with living in a country like Australia - it’s so large and sparsely populated that one rarely gets the chance to see much outside of one’s immediate area.