Living for the Weekend.......

Working all the time
Work is such a bind
Got some money to spend
Living for the weekend!
When it gets too much
I live for the rush
Got some money to spend
Living for the weekend!

Week one done at me new job. I work at a company called Australia Tower in the business development dept, Doing insurance actuaries and administration for annual and exit statements.............mmmmm, I can only presume its my many years of experience and expertise in this area that have lead me to this job. First day I sit down and they are like "do you know how to use the AS-400 system....Click.....uh......Groundhog day!"( the last sentence will only make sense to anyone who worked with me at Grass roots)

Actually its quite good and the folks in the office seem real nice, I work with a wee lass called Kirsty from Luton, I can't write anything about her because she knows about this site but I can say she likes boys for bestfriends, myspace.com and a band called Brighteyes. I have to wear a tie, I get to wear anything I like every Friday and I listened to my Ipod for 4hrs on Friday so I should be O.k.

So it's the weekend and they feel so much better when they are sandwiched between 5 days of hard to semi-hard graft and not between 5 days of going to bed at 2am, waking at 2pm, watching shoddy Australian telly...

( Aus T.V is exactly the same as ours in terms of content, except they have halved the budget, got less experienced actors, all the camp day time presenters are twice as gay, all the comedians are half as funny and even the news reporters seem less bothered about international current affairs..."In other news some Americans have found that terror bloke they were looking for.....Uh an Iraqi dude or summit.)"

..., watching John mope about the flat sneezing in the fridge and looking for some rope.

In other news Cooper has departed us and gone walkabout to do a little bit of traveling, but nay fear she will return sporting a suntan for all to see back home. So I may want to update you on who is in and out. Wendy is the only original girl here. Out have been Grace, Sue and Cooper. In are as follows:

Gloria: 26, Paul likes her cos she dresses quite well but reasonably smutty. She is also the one that wears a bit of plastic to the right of her nose to cover a bith mark!!! Have a very funny story about her, booze and falling a sleep on our couch but I will save that one for a rainy day. Speaks pretty good English and moved into our house cos she was being bullied by her previous Japanese Landlord/Flatmate. I went round her flat with her to pick some stuff up cos she was scared he would burn her with a lighter: Turns out he is just some jumped up Japanese boy with blonde hair who probably got bullied at school and because Gloria has an inner fear of anything (air, noises, doors closing, doors opening, Paul, Paul in his pants, Paul in a towel, shouting, Singing, Laughing and Paul) he took advantage. Paul does not know this but as I am typing this I've been informed that Gloria and William may be getting it on, The reason I probably have not noticed this is cos dating in Korea looks a lot like two people just sat in the same room and less like two free spirits joined in an eternal passion and love for each other. P.s Paul will be gutted, he is currently out buying a guitar, I hope this inspires him to write a bitter twisted ballad about women. ha ha

Lucy: 22 Is fundamentally pretty and actually quite nice, She speaks good English and I think she finds Pauls Underwear and burping habits disturbing, god knows why! However she and her friend (who we found out was in hospital with Herpes) have this annoying habit that you get with some Koreans. Lucy dated an Irish lad for a while (probably explains the afore mentioned.) Now this thing they do annoys the hell out of me but it is a bit difficult to explain: Basically Korean girls seem to think that cos they can speak english and/or they dated an English speaking person that makes them "way" cool and it means they tend to use a lot of idioms and say them in annoyng American accent. The one that annoys me the most is when they drink beer( this is 'way' cool also) they say "cheers bitch" but they say it "cheeeeerrrs Beeeee-atch."

Maria (NB: Possibly not her name) Age: Unknown: Seems nice, works on a market stall which is great, never really around. Isn't scared of Paul which is both good news and unusual.

Right doing one, Out to get some juice, paul and I went for Friday beers at the YHA last night and it all got a bit Dable dias Mone cherie petit poi une dejoune oooooohhhh if you know what I mean and If you dont then...........

A few congratulations are in order......

Firstly congratulations and well done to Watford F.C, They have joined the big boys (Like Newcastle) in the premiership. This is good news on many afront, Firstly its always nice to see a local team do well, It also means that there will be premiership football in Watford again which means I may get to catch a few games when I get back (when I get back....,) however lastly and most importantly it means the following conversation can take an easier route.

Stranger: Yer mate I'm from Slovinia me, What bout yerself?

Tom: What me, yeah I'm from um Tring...

Stranger: Trent!!?? Nah mate never heard of it!

Tom: No, No Tring, Terrrr-Ring...

Stranger: Ring, What kinda f@ckin name is Ring..."ring - ring, like a telephone," Never heard of it, is it in Scotland like?

Tom: Uh No Uh its near Uh Watford

Stranger: Oh Watford, Yeah that shitty Premiership team that look like Bees

Tom: Its wasps you tit but yeah thats me

So Thank You Watford for making my geographical explanations a whole lot easier. As some may know for twenty years I thought Tring was south of London?? Thank you Mr Bunting, If you had stopped me from blowing spit balls at the clock in geography lessons for an hour twice a week maybe I would not be in this position.

Next congratualtions are in order to Brent and Todd, the two miners who spent 14 days in a cage under ground ( the Koreans thought this was a five star hotel resort and that the miners were merley taking part in some big brother style documentry.) I'm not sure how much coverage it got in the U.K but it has been front page here for a while, The Sun would of loved it. People can't get enough of them out here and they even had a 3hr interview on Sunday night and the presenter cried...good god, Cooper and I have predicted that they will release a song!! Watch this space. Talking of bets, about two months ago I had a look at putting 10 quid on Theo "Im a big boy now" Walcott being in the England squad...35-1, Effin hell, you do the maths. Any who much hysteria has been bestoed upon these two miners and rightly so as they have endured much in the last two weeks, however Paul was and I quote "a bit dissapointed they got out so early" as he was quite enjoying the daily anticapation!!!

Lastly congratulations to me as I completed my first days work in two months, all be it a temp job and I turned up half an hour late. I was sat in a room with 6 girls ( believe me when I say it was not half as good as it sounds) stuffing envelopes, however I start my proper job Wednesday so will report on how that goes.

Bye

Bit of blue for the dads

Hey up folks, Thomas reporting here. This weekend Paul, Sarah and I went off to the Blue Mountains which is situated about 2hrs from Sydney. Friday evening after Paul had completed his first week of work we set off. Our weekend plans were two fold. Cooper is leaving us on Tuesday to do a bit of traveling along the East coast, so we thought we would send her off with a weekend away. Also Paul and I are planning on going to the Blue Mountains a fair few times in the coming months. There are many walks that we intend on doing and with K-Mart doing tents for $35, we are gonna get a tent, go for some treks, take some beans and set off for weekends away.


Apart from the stunning mountain range that appear blue in a certain light due to the Eucalyptus trees, there is a far spreading and amazing rainforest encapsulated in a sandstone crater. The most famous of these sandstone walls is three rock formations that are famously known as the three sisters. Now legend has it that the aboriginals in this area where giants and the sisters where turned to rock for some reason. These sisters are not the best of looking girls and to be honest dont look like humans but I guess they were chewing some funky kind of bark when they named them. Below is a picture of the three sisters. The one in the middle is called Lisa and may be a bit portly but I took quite a shine to her, she tells the funniest stories.


Above is a photo of Paul "touching up" one of the three sisters, Paul doesn't even know which one it is, Ty[ical!! So all in all a good weekend, good weather, good meals and a few bevvies in the company of some Blue Mountain Yocals. In other news Thomas starts work on Monday, I am doing two days temping in North Ryde and the I start a 10 week Job in Millsons Point just over the Sydney Harbour Bridge which means I'll have to go past the Opera house everyday.

Oh and in response to Paul's suggestions thay all I do is coo and flirt with the now departed Grace I thought I would inform you all of Paul's current Floosy. Her name is Gloria and is the new Korean in the house. She is a nice lass who isnt shy to wear some funky gear including to Paul's delight; Hotpants, Miniskirts and croptops. Paul actually makes noises of excitement when she walks in the room. He dotes over her every movement and can sometimes be found just watching Gloria doing nothing. Just a small note on Gloria, she seems like a nice enough lass, however there is one thing about her that gets me thinking. On her face just to the left of her nose is always a piece of placstic maybe 1/2 a cm squared. What it is covering I dont know but it looks like a piece of puncture repair kit. I will try and get a photo of her for you to see but like Jordan and Peter Andre she is quite hard to get a photo of due to shyness.

Love to all

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Movers and Shakers, Evictions in the Chunky Sister House

Said in a geordie accent whilst viewing edited clips of the Chunky Sister house (Our Big Brother)..."Day 21 in the Chunky Sister house and two housemates have been evicted, Sue from Seoul and Grace from Korea have been evicted"....

Well well G and Sue are leaving, why you ask, well Sue has been told to leave cos she hasn't been going to University (she missed three days!!! Imagine if that was the same at my Uni) and Grace well we are unsure as to why but we think she misses her family and or she hasn't got a job yet so her old man is fed up with funding her day trips to the beach.

So as of this Sunday we will probably have two new housemates, probably Korean but we can keep our fingers crossed hey.

In other news it has been a good week for Australian employment statistics. Wendy, Paul and I have all got jobs, though Wendy is the only one that has actually started. Wendy has got a job in a Sushi bar in Bondi and is proudly using her newly learned English ( or Englisheeeee as they say despite numerous explanations from "Teacher Tom.") Paul has a job working for a train company which is all good except for I can't see him working with the sea of backpacking hotties he had hoped for and rather more likely it will be Ted and Peter, two retired train enthusiasts from North Adelaide. I on the other hand start on Friday at a job were I think I'm gonna be out of my depth but I'll just try and blag it for as long as.

Lastly housemate John's behaviour is becoming more and more irrational, such as:

• John leans on, and tickles me more and more as the days go by much to my anoyance.

• He does not like it when I surf the net and watch T.V, he informs me that I must pick one of the two.

• Paul and my throwing away of recyclable products causes poor John much dismay, So much infact that the other day he knocked on the shower door to inform me that I should not of thrown a sauce jar away and should of infact recycled it.

• John is desperate for a woman, sorry this is an understatemeant. In Korea there is a saying: "A man is thirsty" means a man is desperate for a woman. If a man is "hungary" this means he is very very desperate, the other Koreans in the house inform me that John is infact starving. Anyway John believes that if he comes out clubbing with Paul and I we will somehow be able to set him up with any number of women that he so wishes. On saturday I informed John that I could not go out with him because I didn't want to spend too much money till I had a job. John then went and got a crate of beer and got so drunk that he was sick and tried to give me $100 to go out with him.

• Lastly and this is my fave John moment, John has decided (and these are his words) that if he dyes his hair blonde it will make him more "interesting" and "attractive." At first I thought this would be mental and tried to sway him not to, then I thought sod it.

Jin has also decided to dye his hair grey!!! Im not sure why, especially as I think he is on the verge of getting a new girlfriend. Jin is slowly becoming more and more open and humerous. It turns out that he was beaten by his computer gaming boss!! Anyway I will post photos of the whole hair dyeing process and the final product.