Alright, so I've been back in the land of the raging and freakishly erratic weather otherwise known as Melbourne for more than a week now. Almost ten days at most but who's counting anyway.
I am really not at all bothered to recount the happenings from last week when my family came along for the ride as well but just for posterity and my own selfish reasons sake I'll try to do it best as I can.
So, arrived last Monday night at my new place on LaTrobe Street which is probably one of the better location you can be at if you are uni student and don't want to be too far away from the city. My younger brother is also currently enrolled in UniMelb as well with him being just a year behind of me. And staying in the same apartment complex as well. Only just five floors below me. Convenience sake, closeness, however you want to put it.
So yes, family in Melbourne, what do you do? Where to take them? All these questions going round my head. We basically just traveled within the city actually and went shopping quite a bit and settling down in the new place. Loads of boxes to unpack, place to clean up, house supplies to be bought, room to be spruced up, and all that jazz. Had most meals out in various restaurants in Chinatown, around the city and Lygon. All in all a rather relaxing holiday for them not including me and my brother I think because we were more concerned about settling our uni stuff and enrollment amidst trying to satisfy the parents and the other younger younger brother as well.
Oh yeah, attended the Damien Rice show on February 20th last Tuesday night at the Palais Theatre at St. Kilda and it was awesome. Like really good. Better than record good. I took like a eight minute long video of the encore of the show where he performed the second last song of the night on the piano and it was understatedly incredible. I forgot that he was Irish until he started speaking. Which he sounded totally cute with that Irish accent thing and swearing every sentence or so. He was just being mostly random and mellow throughout the night where at the later part of the show he actually invited some random guy to come up on stage and take over for him for one song. Which he wasn't all that bad actually surprisingly.
Mental note: will try to upload the said video on YouTube as soon as I can for all to ravish at the performance that was and is Damien Rice.
Anyway the family sans my brother and I returned to KL on Saturday afternoon after a dim sum brunch which unfortunately didn't taste all that great but filled empty stomachs well. Thus it was then my brother and I left to fend for ourselves so to speak. Overall it was a rather uneventful weekend with just more cleaning up the apartment and getting things sorted and together. My house-mate arrived just two days ago actually where classes were already in the swing of things. Still it is only the first week so it can get better.
Am contemplating on joining this Creative Writing short course the university student union has on offer aside from the other myriad short courses available as well. It could very well put me back on track on my supposedly on-hiatus writing journey for almost three or four years now. Hopefully with fingers crossed.
Anyway, have to get ready for another two hour lecture later. And pay the monthly rent. And think of what to cook tonight for dinner. Man, this living out business thing is a lot different than what I thought it would be. Not difficult I mean, just a different environment than what I'm used to.
Oh, another mental note: Phantom of the Opera in July. Must get tickets. Really.
