fear of words: {I COME FROM THE LAND DOWN UNDER}

It's been almost five months since I moved to Sydney. So far I have encountered some interesting experiences here, I guess it could be more adventurous. To be frank my life is pretty mundane, but having a blog can make it seem more interesting than it actually is... Or make it seem even more mundane. Any who, let's break it down into categories.

UNILODGE

These past few months I've been living in Unilodge Sydney where supposedly students can rent rooms to stay in and the first impression I got from looking inside the building was "well.... At least it's better than living with a home stay family." And it was better because here there are way more interesting people living in the building, most I don't know personally but occasionally see around. My friends and I like to name the people we quite often see, for example the ginger living one the second floor that has a blonde girlfriend we call ginger, or the guy we saw shirtless once we call neun.
A plus side living here is that hanging out with your friends is very easy, you just go to someone's room and chill. I guess that's the best part. The second best part would be the fact that the place is very near a shopping mall (which has supermarkets, shops and most importantly a cinema) and it is near to all the major hang out places my friends and I go to which is the city, newtown and darling harbour. Plus they have great food around which is only 5 minutes away. The downside would be the constant smell of weed or questionable odor along the hallways and how often you see drunk people especially around the weekends. Also the fact that people party up on the roof so loud that you can practically hear the noise from most of the room in building.
Still it's not all too bad, most of the people I have encountered here are nice. Or seemingly nice. Who knows. Maybe they're secretly murderers, highly unlikely but could be a possibility.
Interestingly, my friends and I befriended two people that live in the building I think just because we see them so often. They are pretty cool people; Yusuf. Thomas. If you're reading this, I am talking about you two. You guys are pretty awesome people. I mean Yusuf have like 600 movies with him right now and having three masters he still laughs at the word "testicles" while Thomas who is working on his master thesis is what one call a computer genius with all the programming and computer dilly dally and also share some interest as I including the love for Bob Dylan, Star Wars and Lord of The Rings.
On another note, I bought One Ring. That story goes to another category, maybe.
Overall, I do like living in Unilodge (for now), I cannot wait to get my own place. Cannot. Wait.

FRIENDS

My group of friends are how should I say, a weird bunch. But aren't they all? The three people I spend time with the most are Dolly, Huiyi and Natalie. I practically live with them since everyday after doing all my morning routine I go to their room until the end of the day where I go back to my own room to sleep. They're a nice bunch, we all write notes to each other, buy each other stuff and make up songs together about the boys we fancied. Dolly and I are like twins, we share the same American-based type humor and occasionally put this very American accent we try to pull off. Natalie and I share quite a lot in common, though I am quite intimidated with her very advanced knowledge in maths and chemistry. Huiyi is practically like the mother of the house (or in this case room), we're the same age but she is one of the most mature people I've ever met. When you meet her, you'll know what I mean.
Every time my parents called me they would ask where I am and I would always reply "di rumah tetangga [translation: the neighbor's room]". They both like it that I don't hang out in my own room because apparently, in their words, I am not antisocial anymore like I was in Singapore. Psft. I was never antisocial. That much.

LIFESTYLE

Everything here relatively more expensive, especially if you convert the price to rupiah. Like in Singapore, I still buy a sh-t load of DVDs and go to see the movies a lot in the cinemas. DVDs are somewhat the same price like in Singapore ranging from approximately $10 to $40. The cinema tickets though, student price is $15.50 while in Singapore it is around $7. Though I did just get a couple of free movie tickets so, that's good.
Shopping here is expensive but there are so much more variety than in Singapore and especially Jakarta. I'm sure I'm not the only one when I say I am bored of the same looking young adults with the same styles wearing the same or similar brands. In Sydney, you get more variety. Even the people don't all dress the same, and there are lots who dyed their hair eccentric colors and not get stared at like back home. Seriously though shopping here is much more satisfying than in Singapore or Jakarta. I once bought Rick Astley's first album on vinyl for $2 and a tip top Return of The King DVD for $5. And the amount of vintage stores here, legit vintage stores that does not charge you $50 for a secondhand dress.
The gigs. Oh dear Lord the gigs. It is heaven. The problem? I have no gig buddy. So far I have watched Big Day Out (see previous post), Bombay Bicycle Club and Karen O's production of Stop the Virgens. In the future, I have secured tickets to see The Black Keys and Radiohead, and am thinking of going to Rufus Wainwright, Dark Dark Dark and hopefully Sigur Ros and Beck.

OTHERS

First day in Sydney, my mother and I were walking near Haymarket and this shirtless guy was in the middle of the street screaming "FUCK YOU. AND FUCK YOU TOO. FUCK YOU ALL. AND FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU TOO" to everyone in sight. It was a nice warm welcome.
One of my friend borrowed $200, he payed me back in 5 cent coins. You know how heavy a bag full of 5 cent coins is? Very. I looked very foolish on the bus. And when I went to get it changed in the bank, a random lady from across the room turned around and laughed at me.
The lonely friday nights where I decide to stay home and then usually you can see drunk people fighting from across the street through my window so I just sit there and watch them fight with one another until the police comes.
Once I just bought the unknown pleasure t-shirt and was very happy with my purchase, later that night as I was wearing the t-shirt and telling my friend of how happy I am a drunk guy stumbles, stopped, look at the tshirt for 5 seconds then look at me while slurring "y-yeeh like joyyy division?" Is that so surprising?
Went to Melbourne for the weekend and bought One Ring. Now I wear the ring everywhere. I am the ring bearer b-tch.

See? It's not very interesting is it?