wafblog v3.0

So I spent the weekend cleaning up room. This caused much tension between my mother and myself. I’d agreed to clean up my wardrobe before I left because my aunt had sent down a bunch of corporate-type wear that she can no longer fit into. This kinda meant that my wardrobe expanded four times straight-away (even after ditching the less desireable items). In fact, I had to send my dad out to buy me an extra hanger thing. Which was fine. I ironed the 50 shirts that I’d left in the basket since summer whilst watching “Underworld: Evolution” and then “Walking with Beasts”. “Walking with Beasts” was pretty awesome actually. I wish I’d gotten “Walking with Dinosaurs” as well.

Anyways, my mum went on a rampage about the state of my room. I should admit that my room is fairly messy and has been deemed a health hazard on numerous occasions before (re: four year old Coke bottle) but this time, it’s just piles of notes and books from uni that I haven’t gotten around to sorting out. So yeah, everytime I sat down for like 5 minutes my mum would come and yell at me and be all “why aren’t you cleaning your room?”. Drove me up the wall. I should be able to clean up most of it fairly quickly. Mostly it’s just determining what stuff to keep and what to recycle. But really, I think I would have been more productive if she’d just shut the fuck up and let me get on with it. Plus I got the ‘ungrateful child’ speech, which usually just makes me want to gag. I think I should take back previous comments about things at home being good. I’m wondering if she’s just being like that because she’s losing control over me. These days, I don’t tend to ask if I can go out - I just tell her that I am. I have no real financial dependence on my parents and I don’t really consult them on things. We’ll see how it goes. I would like to move out sometime next year, but I’m not sure if it’s financially feasible and I’m enough of a control freak to want to make sure that everything is going smoothly first.

Other exciting news includes the shooting that was happened in my work building on Friday morning. There’s a nightclub at the bottom of the building, and apparently at 1am three men in balaclavas drove up and shot some 30+ bullets into the front glass doors of the building. Near the actual entrance to the nightclub but didn’t damage it. It was a little scary to walk to work on Friday morning and find the usual entrance blocked off with police tape and media cameras standing around outside (especially as I didn’t know what had happened). I was sorely tempted to whip out my phone and take pictures with my camera of the bullet holes and the shattered glass. I actually wondered if someone hated RailCorp enough to come shoot at our building. The most annoying thing though, was not being able to use the normal liftwell. I had to use the other one, go to Level 9, walk across the level, go up to 16, change again, and then go to level 26. It was a real deterrent to going downstairs for a coffee. Not that it stopped us. I’ve since read in the paper that they suspect the shooting may be in connection with the owners not paying protection money or something.

Went to Equilibrium for drinks after work on Friday for one of guy’s birthday and also cos someone else retired. We got there just before 5, which was cool cos it wasn’t packed. But two of the people got there late and were refused entry to the bar citing that there was a RailCorp function and they weren’t on the guest list o_O This seemed rather dodgy considering that we had gotten in, and we were in the public area of the bar, not a function room. Anyways, they left, and we all walked out in protest. Apparently one of the guys stayed to give the bouncer a piece of his mind using four letter words. Heh. My boss was telling me yesterday that Equilibrium was also the scene of a shooting later that evening. So maybe it was good that we left. Maybe they should train their staff in customer relations to avoid this sort of thing happening in the future. All in all, a very exciting day LOL.

Went to Hurricane’s for dinner last night with Mike, Manda and Travis. Was lots of fun, and I always enjoy their company. The good thing about Hurricane’s is that there’s heaps of meat and you fill right up. I can’t believe I forgot to order extra Monkey Gland sauce, but I did take a picture (monkey!). Bondi is totally dead on a Monday night, I was quite surprised. But I’m guessing that’s because it’s winter and people don’t want to dine outside when there’s gusty wind. I wish I was able to afford dining out more often, as I’d really like to be able to spend more time with friends and try new foods. Maybe when I come back.

Hrm, I think I overreacted to something Mike said/did last night. I mean, he was being insensitive, but I really should have handled the situation better rather than I did. I’m not sure why I’m so insecure or why I reacted in that way. Normally I would have been able to laugh that sort of thing off and it would have been fine. But this time I just didn’t see it that way and reacted rather adversely. Maybe I’ve changed more than I thought I had. And not really for the better either. Or maybe I just find it harder to hold in my emotions anymore.

What else? New seasons of TV shows will be starting soon. Pity I won’t be at home when they come out. I’ve been trying to find new things to watch as both “Lost” and “Desperate Housewives” lost their appeal to me early in the second seasons. There’s a whole bunch of shows that have been on in the U.S. that we never hear about here. I guess it’s same for the U.K and stuff. It’s a pity Australia doesn’t make many shows beyond crappy soaps like Neighbours and reality TV that makes me want to cry or hurl things at the television set.