FUCK YEAH!

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Just to fill you in, in case you didn’t know, Kevin Rudd is Australia’s current Prime Minister!

Ciao for Now!

3 days 1 hour 35 minutes and 17 seconds to go… wow.  Now that it’s so close the reality of Japan is finally sinking in – and it’s hard to be excited about it.  Not that the reality is a bad thing! But the reality is just that: a reality.  At the end of the day, it isn’t going to be this fairy tale dreamo thing, it’s still going to be life, in a place completely different. Sounds awesome!  Buuut it’s going to be a new reality.  A new life.  And it starts in an airport, with no phone, hand drawn directions based off someone’s memory and about 23,000 yen in my pocket.  And I am meant to build my new life using these tools (or lack of).  Sounds like fun!

There are a lot of emotions coming up this week, good and bad.  Well… no not bad at all, only good.  I mean, i’m gonna miss people, but i don’t think that’s a BAD or negative emotion – it’s natural.  And i’m not sure where i’m trying to go with all this, but what I want to say is: no, i’m not excited, but i don’t think i could be, or should be.  I’m in a very good place, i’m at peace and happy i’m going to Japan, even a little scared now.  I feel i’m ready to leave Australia – but i still want every second of my remaining days to count.  I’m gonna miss this place.  Gonna miss the people and the random shit i get up to.  But like i said, come Saturday – it’s a new life, new people, and new EVEN MORE random shit.  It’s gonna be great, it’s gonna be hard, there’s gonna be high’s and low’s, and I want them all to hit me head on.

do do doo do… do do dodo doo… dodo doo do do… dodo do do doo do doo…

10 days left!  Things are slowly starting to sink in and a mix of excitement and deepening sadness are starting to kick in – which is good! Because for a second there i didn’t think I was human.  I went to Brent’s (looong time friend and drummer in both bands im in) 21st birthday party on the weekend.  There I got extremely drunk as I do, but in the morning everyone was awake and chatting away as they do… But then I left to go home… as you do… And like… I said bye to these people, the people i grew up around and they brought to my attention that I wouldn’t actually see them again till I return from Japan.

Now that’s what hit it home.  Because I stood there and was like “oh… yeah that’s right hey.. well… bye”.  lol I didn’t know what to say, clearly “bye” was not enough but I was so not prepared to say “see you in 9 months” to anyone yet.  They even actually surprised me with a going away cake! It was white with the big red dot in the middle: Japanese flag.

Money’s getting tough these days, but the lifestyle is awesome and relaxing.  The good thing about the money issue is that it’s forcing me to save badcore – which i’m happy about because i want to get into a good money-management rhythm before i reach Japan.

My cold is still persisting, it’s very mild, but it’s there – which is a tad irritating.  I’d prefer to be either dead sick, or healthy.  Not a fan of the in between. But i’m on the mend! And that’s all that counts.

Anthony Bourdain

As those who have been following my blog would know, i’m living in a tiny room that is in the same house as my older brother.  Let me explain quickly: The lady who owns this house (Karen), is renting her Garage to my brother, Richard (or Ish), and a tiny room to me.  Now my room would probably fit 4 times into the garage my brother stays in.  But in his garage he has Foxtel! (Satellite TV) Now I used to watch Foxtel like nothin else when i used to live with my Mum, keeping up to date with the latest in random shows like Attack of the Show, Man vs. Wild, London Ink, MMA/UFC and Anthony Bourdain’s: No Reservations.  All very different shows! But it’s good to have them back, it’s good to have the time to just chillax on my bro’s recliner and watch mind-numbing shows.  Something I haven’t experienced since I lived back at Mum’s place.

Alright, no mucking around – I’ve come to realise a few things recently. Realisation: I have a bung eye.

Yep, it’s true, and i just realised this.  Here’s a snapshot:

Exhibit A

HAHA OMG! So proud of that photo, epic-awesomeness! Yeah ok it’s not THAT bad, but it’s there! I swear!

Now onto “Other things”.

Tuesday July 14th
Wednesday July 15th
Thursday July 16th
Friday July 17th
Saturday July 18th
Sunday July 19th

Tuesday July 14^th

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2:29 PM

Ok so let’s fill you in.. I was supposed to be going to Sydney on Thursday (July 16^th) the Watch Harry Potter with my Cousins at the star class cinemas.  Date got switched to Wednesday (The 15^th).  Had to get a flight in the afternoon so that I could get picked up.  Turns out that flight was too late.  So yesterday I transferred it to a flight on Wednesday morning.  All good?

NO.

Driving to work this morning I got a text from Jetstar: “Your flight has been cancelled douchebag”.  *I may or may not have paraphrased*

So… called them up at work.  They said the next available flight was the initial flight that I transferred from LOL I’m like “Nah” and they’re like “Damn” and I’m like “Got a flight this afternoon?” and they’re like “Yeah” and I’m like “Hook me up”.

Yeah so i’ll just quickly churn out a couple things that’s been goin down.  I know the next post was to be the Sydney Diary, but… i’m still in Sydney – PATIENCE YOUNG ONES!

1st Awesome Thing – Email from DHL – Certificate of Eligibility is on its way from Kansai Gaidai!

2nd Awesome Thing – Housing forms got released! Emailed them back in a flash! …  Then re-emailed them because i forgot to attach my form.

3rd Awesome Thing – A little milestone of mine was to become the first result on google.com (and google.com.au, .co.nz, .co.uk, .co.jp as well) if you typed in “kansai gaidai blog” <– and i finally got it this morning.  Google fluctuates its results all the time so if YOU try and check i might not be first anymore – BUT the fact is i was first, even if only for a couple hours, i was first. Fuck. Yeah.

Ciao for Now!

The week or so has been quite eventful – although the events themselves seem super lame.

I was meeting my darling Amy at a restaraunt the other day, i was running late and i had to put my shoes on, so what did i do? Put my shoes on WHILST driving! Achievement! … … *cough*

New blog design is in progress, concept #1 completed,  aaaand…. scrapped. It won’t do.  Onto concept #2.

Oh i also bought a hat the other day, turns out it was a girls hat – and i wear it with pride!

Met a few new people who ran into my blog, hopefully they are enjoying it – big shout out to them.  Especially you Chris, my fellow gentleman who can’t breath whilst sleeping lol