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I’m drowning this week. Sleep has been bad, work has been dissatisfying, social contact has been lacking. I’m in the middle of an ocean and every direction looks as good as any other. I can thrash around and choose a path but the view never seems to change. I’m also stubbornly refusing to blame this…

I have to link you to this article, Seattle Weekly’s article on the city’s “Ragin’ Asians”. It hits all the right spots of being entertaining, deceivingly relevant, infuriating, and depressing. It talks about Asians (mostly Vietnamese and Cambodian) hitting the clubs hard and what a typical weekend is like for them. Before you read my…

“…just as long as you’re not too noisy. The quiet times here starts at 10pm. People here are usually nice about it and they will leave a note and if it continues, they will complain to management.” My soon-to-be landlady gingerly closed to door behind me. As she led me through another door and out…

The honeymoon is over and I am no longer so much in love with snow.

It’s cold in Seattle and this Australian boy doesn’t know how to cope.

Lame weekend recap post. I cannot post inane rants about more intellectual things because life has been happening and I don’t have time to think about the world at large. That task will be left up to you, person who has spare time read blogs all day. Why not go volunteer or donate to charity?…

Yesterday was officially a Bad Day for me. Maybe it was one paper cut too many or maybe it was the one-two punch dealt early in the day but I felt terrible. I spent the remaining hours with my head down, working hard and repressing these uncomfortable feelings. I shifted them to the bottom of…

My neighbours? They have a noticeable pile of mail slotted in their door. This isn’t regular mail but notices from the apartment building about events, building maintenance and reminders to be quiet. See, the mail is jammed between the door and the door frame. It’s been that way for weeks now. Everytime I walk past…

    Compare the pair. Left: Pacific Ocean near Australia and right: Seattle-Tacoma Airport Hey, let’s go to another country! Let’s fly across the a gigantic ocean in a big noisy can of sardines for umpteen hours. At any other time in the past, this idea would be insane to me. Friends always suggested vacations to…

Ergh, so many things I want to blog but I can’t really gather my thoughts for the 10 minutes it would take. The flight back to Seattle was easier. I slept for half of it, then I watched Die Hard 4.0, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Evan Almighty. The action scenes…

My plan for today to go out and pick up some random gifts for people. It would involve a walk down to Pike Place Market and then maybe further walking to South Lake Union. In between, I’d do lunch at the Elliott Bay Bookstore and then grab a latte to go. How delightful and carefree….

Waiting in line at a hot dog stand in Belltown at 1am on a Friday night, I spied two cute and drunk Asian girls. One leaned back into the embrace of the other, writhing provocatively and clutching at her hips. The other doing her best to keep her balance and hold up her drunk friend,…

Fay cried the night before I left. We sat in the middle of the living room like every other night spent in front of my TV. It is one of the significant moments I remember about leaving Melbourne. She said that once I arrive in Seattle, I would be too busy to miss everyone. So…

Seattle has its own version of Sarah B’s Cringe; it is called Salon of Shame. I was lucky enough to buy my way into the guest list and checked it out tonight. (Only 3 blocks from my apartment!) It was awesome. Amazingly hilarious journals of egotistical pre-teens and all that sort of self-absorbed nonsense that…

So yeah today I drove down to Capitol Hill today to check out the area. See if it’s a good place to live. It looks like it is. I have to find an apartment in the next 2 to 3 weeks and a good way to start is to figure out what sort of neighborhood…

My brain is all over the place, I can’t write one concentrated post. I was listening to this radio show on the drive home on Friday night. I think it was NPR or something. It was a human interest story on some high school where an overwhelming number of children had parents that were currently…

Ok so here are the TV shows I watch when giving extended basic Comcast cable: I hate having to watch the ads Daily Show on Comedy Central at 11pm daily Colbert Report on Comedy Central at 11:30pm daily Heroes on KING-5 at Monday 9pm Studio 60 on KING-5 at Monday 10pm House on KCPQ-13 at…

I am not lying about being in Seattle.

For those that don’t know, I made it to Seattle. The 14-hour flight to LA was cramped, depressing and lonely but somehow I survived. Right now I am completely shellshocked by the fact that I’m in America and I have to fend for myself but I’m doing ok. I live 20 minutes from Seattle and…

So this is it. I fly out this morning. After 12 noon today, do not try to call my phone anymore. I have left it behind, no international roaming or any of that fancy junk. I’m going on an aeroplane Umm… send me heaps of emails. I won’t have internet for a while but send…