Why can I never get the jobs at the Strip Clubs!?

Hay Hay Hay Peeps, hope all are well wherever you may be in the world, and whomever you may be there with. I just wanted to do a catch up on here before I got nagged for not putting anything up here...but I was too slow there! Sorry Nan, but when I'm stationary it's hard to write in here as regularly as when I'm travelling and doing new exciting stuff on a daily basis.

So as mentioned in my last post, I didn't get that job that I was writing about, apparently I "gave a bit of a negative response when (I) realised that it was door-to-door sales"....dam really, I tried to hide that.

Life definitely goes on!

Since then though, I have started working for a company that buys computers from Government buildings, banks, etc. from all-over Australia, and then sells them on. So my job is to basically book in equipment, check over it, wipe the hard drives, move it on...that's it. I knew it would suck before I started it, I just wanted money, and I was right, it does suck. I tried to fix a broken PC the other day, and got told off for wasting time, it's all about speed/numbers at that place, but I wanna fix it if it's broken! However, with my job I did get the opportunity to work in the Suncorp Buildings again, a couple of Fridays ago, the same buildings that I was in 3 years ago, disconnecting PCs, so that they can be moved to new desks, so that we can reconnected them again...I know, fun right. But this time it was at night....ooooohhhh. Looking over Brisbane's night sky! Started at 3 on a Friday afternoon, and finished at 2:30 on a Saturday morning.

My current work is currently in Murarrie, which is a suburb about 11-12km away from here, to the east of here actually. So as much as I enjoy the ride I have the sun in my eyes nearly the whole way there, and I really really have the sun in my eyes on the way home.

My rusty (but free) bike

My original (WW2) helmet from Dandy...

...but she got concerned about my lack of vision, and so gave me a new helmet with some modifications...

I also had an interview, at Honey B's last Wednesday night, to do bar work in a strip club, the same company that own Love and Rocket (where I had an interview last time when I arrived in Brisbane), but I'm still waiting to here back from them, so that probably isn't a good sign. Over the last couple of weeks I've had a couple of successful interviews, until the issue of not being able to drive came up, jobs sounded good too. But earlier today I had an interview with a company that are a "leading integrator of payment and information solutions and related services for intelligent travel applications. They deliver integrated systems for transportation and traffic management, delivering tools for travelers to choose the smartest and easiest way to travel and pay for their journeys, and enabling transportation authorities and agencies to manage demand across the entire transportation network – all in real-time." (in Brisbane terms they do the Go-Card (Brisbane's equivalent to the Oyster Card for any Londoners)), as a Workshop Technician, in short I will be fault finding and fixing things to an component level, most of these things being electronics. It's a 6 month contract, so I'm hoping to get that, I find out about that tomorrow, kinda hoping for positive news on that one. I feel my aim (with my current job) is to quit before they "have to let me go".

That's the working side of thing....on the food side of things though, aside from having a few more Kangaroo burgers, I did discover these in Coles the other week:

Jeff and I have even had more tonight.

Out of the work and food activities. I have finished that website for that Music Store, but I need to speak with the manager to get her views on it, I've been needing to do that for over a week now. I was in a recording studio the other week, helping Rosie get some voices down to help her with her uni work again. On the weekend just passed we went down to Coolangatta to try and enjoy a day on the beach, we had a tyre blow out on route down, it didn't stop us, but it did slow us down. Open Mic Nights. I swam a km at The Vally Pools after a couple of half hearted attempts before I was employed., Sandra and I went and saw the Turtles' Movie on Saturday to relive my childhood, and Jeff, Kirra, Sandra and I went to see Sin City 2 last night. Richard, my old manager at GroundProbe, was back in Australia for a holiday from Japan, so I caught up with him last Tuesday, and a few other faces from my GroundProbe days. Reading more German every morning while eating mein Frühstück and speaking a lot more German with Sandra and Dandy. And I sewed my own button on my trousers on Tuesday night, and it's somehow still attached! Uummmmmm, I feel I'm just listening things now....like I said, this is harder to write when I'm stationary.

Tash and Rosie, in the studio!

Driving past the old apartment in Kangaroo Point

Just got off the phone with Dandy, and it's looking like River Fire Saturday, and Daisy Hill mountain biking on Sunday. And hopefully a new job starting Monday, so that'll give me more to write about in my next post.

But as promised from my last post.....

Our room

Living room...

...with 3DTV...as standard, of course!

The veranda between our living room and kitchen

The kitchen

Our back garden

Jeff and my downstairs gym

...And TUUUUNNNNNNEEEESSSS!

And our new friend now living in our kitchen.

The front of our gaff

The view of the Story Bridge and city from out our front earlier this evening...

...and earlier tonight.

Just at the end of our road, a few weeks ago:

My new wallet! $10 K-Mart special!

Oh, and this is Rosie's electronic drum kit that we set up last month, I just forgot to put it in my last post

It's crazy to think that on 9th September it was 4 years since I left England on my first travelling experiences. So much done since then, I just only hope that I can get back to writing more exciting things for you to read (than this post and my last) in the near future, like before.

And I will just finish by saying...WINNING AT EMIRATES AND SECOND IN THE LEAGUE....WHAT THE...!!!!????!!!!!????!!!????!!!

I really need a job!

OK, so I haven't forgotten to post on here in the last few weeks, but I've just been waiting for something worth writing about to happen, and as the title suggested "I need a job" so I haven't had a great deal of exciting things happen since my last post, nearly 6 weeks ago! So I will just do a quick run down I suppose. And get some photos up here!

So Indonesia came to end on a high, after breaking my phone a few weeks before leaving Indonesia, my wallet got stolen from me on our last night in Indonesia. We were out for a night out in Sky Garden, a club in Kuta, after randomly deciding to spend the night out after meeting up with Raúl and Federica whilst eating. It was a pretty good night, then we left the club, started to make our way home, but on route stopped outside the 7-eleven. On our way out that's when I got hassled, and I felt them A holes take my wallet, they worked quick though, and in a big group. Some how Sandra managed to get my camera back. We went home, changed our clothes then went to spy on them, we watched different people (no not people) thieves operate, and we noticed that the 7-eleven were in on it too, helping the guys out, giving them subtle advice. As a result we managed to stop them doing the same thing to two unsuspecting Aussie blokes. My serious advice to you is to stay clear of these clubs down Jalan Legian in Kuta, or to keep your wits about yourself at all times, as the clubs are in on it too....and you know that the local police aren't gonna be much help to you westerners.

Honestly after the whole reasons we went over to Indonesia: To help out; that country just takes and takes and takes, doesn't work, but still feels it deserves more. I'm not speaking about all Indonesians obviously, but a large portion. I feel bad for the people out there that really need help, as many will take advantage of this, and they do give it a bad name. But in saying that, I would like to point out and stress that a lot of Indonesians are great, fantastic, funny, caring...just brilliant.

OK, so that was Indonesia done, We spent our last day just in Kuta, before getting in our taxi and heading for Denpasar airport. Where we got charged more money, this time to leave Indonesia! Before taking our flight onto Brisbane, my Southern Hemisphere home! I think that I slept most of the flight, except for when the food cam around! We arrived in Brisbane at about 5 or 6 in the morning, and pretty much straight through customs...again!

Yeaaaa, a happy me at Denpasar airport, with my new wallet (The zip broke a few days later, but still....!!!!)

Long time no see: It was 104 weeks since Rosie dropped me off at Brisbane airport for me to take my reluctant flight onto Queenstown, New Zealand. That flight was on Saturday 28th August 2012, and Saturday 26th August 2014, Sandra and an excited me got picked up by Tash and an excited Rosie! Aaaaaah yeeeeeaaaaaahhh! We headed back to there house in Windsor (a suburb just north of Brisbane's CBD) where we woke up MJ! And then didn't achieve too much the rest of the day. But I did get to see Jeff and Grimace again.

I've been here a few times now!
The entrance to Australia
At Brisbane Airport!

The following day, we took a trip to the Glasshouse Mountains. We went to go climb Mt Tibrogargan (364m), but it was closed, so we couldn't do it!...Haha, yeah like a little plastic orange fence is gonna stop me or Rosie.

The view from the top of Mt Tibrogargan

And the sun setting on our route down

That was my first weekend back in Oz after 2 years, and Sandra's first weekend in Oz. Since then we have been on the house hunt and job hunt. And after nearly 6 weeks, I really need a job! I am getting a bit bored and restless, and over the endless job hunt. Sandra has managed to get herself a job in a chain known as Sumo Salad, there was a new store opening in the MacArthur Mall in Brisbane CBD, which opened last Friday. So Sandra started working there last Thursday, and as a result I now have my Sugar Mama. The house hunt went well too, we actually managed to find a place in Sping Hill, but on the day we were meant to move in, we got a better offer from Jeff and Nina to feel up there spare room for 3 months...at half the rent. So we moved in here, in Teneriffe (not the Spanish island) the weekend before last, and had a bit of a house warming. Thanks to Jeff, Nina and Grimace for helping us get our bed sorted.

3 very poor pictures from our balcony looking into Fortitude Valley as the sun sets... I will get more pictures of our place on a future post

Apart from that, I have been job hunting. Earlier today (well yesterday now), I managed to randomly cut myself some sort of deal about setting up a music store's website, in exchange for drum stuff...I only went in there to look for some drum sticks. And I have a call back for a second interview tomorrow morning after meeting the MD of the company earlier today (maybe more on that later, we'll see how tomorrow goes!).

We spent the weekend just passed on Fingal Head beach, a group of us headed down there late on Saturday night, slept on the beach and then spent most of Sunday down there. A few weeks ago I spent an afternoon climbing Kangaroo Point cliffs with Coops and others, again. Started swimming in The Valley Pools with Dandy to keep me occupied. Started using our downstairs gym with Jeff. And catching up with old friends, and meeting some new! And that's kinda it for the moment. But don't worry, it will get more exciting soon, I can't have my readers getting board! So I will have to start doing more stuff.....but trust me, Australia is expensive when you don't have a job!

Tweed Heads in the distance, on Sunday morning.

A view of Brisbane CBD behind The Story Bridge, taken from New Farm / Teneriffe on Monday evening

But since we've been back, I would like to thank Rosie, Tash, and MJ for letting us crash on your sofa, for what ended up being four weeks in the end, whilst we got our living arrangements sorted. You helped us out loads, plus it was great being that close to you all! Sorry about the blender!

I'M BACK!!!!

And I just wanna finish this post by saying congratulations to my sister and Andy who got engaged on my first weekend back in Oz. Bless her, she was tryna get hold of me all weekend so that I would find out through her and not Facebook. All the best to the future Mr and Mrs Stinko. And happy 30th to Anissa for the weekend just passed.

A toast with a Hahn Superdry from Sandra and me!

I will also try to take more pictures to put on here. I'm just a bit bad as I've been here before!