Well after my last post I worked a bit more, and went for a week back in Adelaide with Lara. Had a wonderful time, went out a bit and just relaxed. Saw some fabulous wineries again, and also did a super GLAM photo shoot with Lara - she dolled me up full make up and all and stuck me in some burlesque type corsets etc and I had my first ever proper photo shoot! Lara does professional photography and is a fantastic make up artist.... so all I can say is! WOW I felt like a million bucks :) It did help that we drank constantly through the shoot... towards the end, I think I was getting a little too ambitious...
Anyhoo - left Adelaide and spent one last night in Sydney with Carin and Hilton. They have just moved into a fantastic city centre apartment which overlooks Darling Harbour. Its amazing and its everything you imagine Sydney living to be for the chic and happening! Had a lovely night out, and just got ready for my trip and then the next morning got up, sorted a few things and I was off to Sydney International at 1pm!
It must just be said that I have had some hiccups with flights and my agent has buggered me around a bit... I have been super nice to the guy (its a South African agency I booked my flights with) and have taken all the service with a bit of "African" attitude, meaning: you just shouldn't expect the same level of service as you would get in the UK....
ANYWAY, I found out 2 days before leaving for Asia,that the little bugger changed my flights (due to some apparent "class cancellation" or some rubbish. Had I not just randomly checked shortly before leaving, I would have been waiting around unnecessarily for 9 hours, and then arriving in KL at 3am! Great - arriving in a weird place in the dead of night, checking into a hostel of rooms, with everyone sleeping etc... Having been quite tolerable about his other incompetencies until now(which have been extensive)I completely lost it. In fact its been a while since I have lost my temper in such a way - I think perhaps back in London. I got on the phone to the agent, and literally obliterated him on the phone for about 20 mins. There were hand movements, there was pacing, there were words such as, YOU and WILL, deliberately over enunciated and there was a clearly chosen psychotically threatening voice tone... I used everything in my Pledger handbook of "how to threaten and scare people"... Needless to say, it worked.. and I got on the flight I was supposed to! Even though, on the phone at one point it was "impossible" to change it...hmmpph... anyway - my advice, don't use travel agents! Do the work yourself! Plus - there are definitely times when being a completely scary bitch comes in handy. Nothing quite makes my blood boil as much as when I know I am not at fault, and someone is dicking me around! I am sure all you Pledger's can associate with the fury!
Anyhoo - I am writing from KL - and arrived safe and sound. I am going to write a bit about here in a second - its very exciting!
xoxoxo
Monday, 31 October 2011
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Still working 13th Oct
So, I am still in Sydney and trying to work as much as I can to save for Asia. I am still working for several agencies, and quite annoyingly I am called up quite last minute to fill in spots of mostly people that have called in sick etc. Its weird when you kind of want to work, but are slightly annoyed when you receive a phone call at 7am in the morning asking if you're available...anyway work is work!
So I leave in approximately 2 weeks for Asia!! Yippeeeeeee... I am so excited, mainly because I will finally get to spend some money - I have gone into the "saving" mindset, and even spending money on a coffee pains me, with everything I do - I ask myself "what could this money buy me in asia?" and more often than not, that dissuades me from the purchase. I have started to develop an immense dislike for Sydney the weather here has been 85% SHIT, and everything is expensive.. plus I am getting bored of the place, I cant really spend money and I just kind of want to move on. I haven't been going out much, as again this is an expensive affair. I did coax Hilton into going out with me a couple of weeks ago.... Carin was staying home as she didn't fancy a night out with us 2 nuts, a but we still had a rip roaring time. Unfortunately - we got home blind drunk at 3am in the morning and Carin was not so impressed. We lost the keys, a jacket and I was scoffing a greasy burger looking all cross eyed and trying in vain to act sober. The following day - feeling a little worse for wear - we headed to a free festival in Darling Harbour which celebrated South American Food, Dance and Music. It was great - we got to watch a few shows, and I got to eat some AMAZING Brazilian food - absolutely delicious! Made me miss Rick :), and look forward to my time in Brazil which is still coming up. YIPEEEE!
Also on the social side, Hilton got us put on the guest list for an awesome South African event hosted by SAA for the SA v Oz rugby game. Sadly we lost and it was a gut wrenching affair watching the game. Luckily the pain of losing was softened by the limitless FREE biltong, FREE droewors and FREE Booze they had on offer!! It's always nice to go to these events which make you feel all, hmpph ahumm I mean...patriotic etc. There was typical South African music playing in the back round, the bar was all decorated and it was just a nice proudly South African atmosphere! The atmosphere did however turn very sour when the final minutes of the game were ticking by..... ANYWAY!!!
I had been invited to a house party after - and after licking my wounds following the game, set out to enjoy an evening with some Brazilians I have met whilst working - a nice couple. Interesting house party - very eclectic mix of people from all corners of the globe. I wasn't in my usual entertaining form, I think I over stepped the "dutch courage" stage of drunkenness, and landed up having to scuttle home in a slightly anti-social drunken state. I know a lot of my social reports have a similar under current which involves alcohol abuse, but I am happy to report that I have alas discovered what my tipping point is... Its taken 16 years of intensive training, but I am learning now what exactly my limit is! At least I have had an epiphany on one subject whilst being on this trip!?
I am here in Sydney until the 22nd, so just 9 more days. I then fly back down to Adelaide to visit Lara for a week, then I fly back up to Sydney and out to Asia.
I am so excited about Asia - I have even added another country to my itinerary, going jungle trekking in LAOS for a few days.... WOOHOOOO! more news to come!
So I leave in approximately 2 weeks for Asia!! Yippeeeeeee... I am so excited, mainly because I will finally get to spend some money - I have gone into the "saving" mindset, and even spending money on a coffee pains me, with everything I do - I ask myself "what could this money buy me in asia?" and more often than not, that dissuades me from the purchase. I have started to develop an immense dislike for Sydney the weather here has been 85% SHIT, and everything is expensive.. plus I am getting bored of the place, I cant really spend money and I just kind of want to move on. I haven't been going out much, as again this is an expensive affair. I did coax Hilton into going out with me a couple of weeks ago.... Carin was staying home as she didn't fancy a night out with us 2 nuts, a but we still had a rip roaring time. Unfortunately - we got home blind drunk at 3am in the morning and Carin was not so impressed. We lost the keys, a jacket and I was scoffing a greasy burger looking all cross eyed and trying in vain to act sober. The following day - feeling a little worse for wear - we headed to a free festival in Darling Harbour which celebrated South American Food, Dance and Music. It was great - we got to watch a few shows, and I got to eat some AMAZING Brazilian food - absolutely delicious! Made me miss Rick :), and look forward to my time in Brazil which is still coming up. YIPEEEE!
Also on the social side, Hilton got us put on the guest list for an awesome South African event hosted by SAA for the SA v Oz rugby game. Sadly we lost and it was a gut wrenching affair watching the game. Luckily the pain of losing was softened by the limitless FREE biltong, FREE droewors and FREE Booze they had on offer!! It's always nice to go to these events which make you feel all
I had been invited to a house party after - and after licking my wounds following the game, set out to enjoy an evening with some Brazilians I have met whilst working - a nice couple. Interesting house party - very eclectic mix of people from all corners of the globe. I wasn't in my usual entertaining form, I think I over stepped the "dutch courage" stage of drunkenness, and landed up having to scuttle home in a slightly anti-social drunken state. I know a lot of my social reports have a similar under current which involves alcohol abuse, but I am happy to report that I have alas discovered what my tipping point is... Its taken 16 years of intensive training, but I am learning now what exactly my limit is! At least I have had an epiphany on one subject whilst being on this trip!?
I am here in Sydney until the 22nd, so just 9 more days. I then fly back down to Adelaide to visit Lara for a week, then I fly back up to Sydney and out to Asia.
I am so excited about Asia - I have even added another country to my itinerary, going jungle trekking in LAOS for a few days.... WOOHOOOO! more news to come!
Thursday, 6 October 2011
Money Money Money and the things it makes us do.... 14th Sept to current day..
Well - Australia is bloody expensive, and my funds are running far lower than I had anticipated! This leaves the only option for me to throw myself at as much work as possible...And whilst I would love to be picky about what I am doing, this is a luxury reserved for people who have a lot more time on their hands - I have been given a month to try and plump up my funds! I have already gone into my “South America Budget” and this part of my trip only starts in Jan!!
Nothing like a bit of desperation to get you firing on all cylinders…
I have signed up with 2 offices agencies which look for office based support roles, 2 hospitality agencies which cater to huge variety of clients and then also a catering company which does private events. Plus I have still managed to keep my bar work at the live music gigs. So I have had variety of variety of colourful jobs which include:
• Data entry for a large international company (name omitted for legal reasons) - so boring the highlight of the day was my coffee expeditions which took me on a walk to the other side of the office to use the "fancy" coffee machine. I can confirm that not only does excessive coffee consumption result in heart palpitations but it also has somewhat of a laxative effect. Something I saw as a plus as it took me away from the shackles on my stark prison like temp desk, for yet a second expedition. This job was for 8 agonising days.
• Working at an event for a leading drinks brand - a lot less exciting than it sounded, I mean what type of a company has one of these during the day, serving alcohol then expecting everyone to go back to work afterwards....? A company that has a legitimate breathalysing machine in their reception, that’s who has these! They were serving a wonderful variety of amazing looking snacks. I disregarded strict company policy and sampled a good amount of these… skilfully cramming the whole bit sized canapés into my mouth whilst turning corners or moving into sneaky spaces where I knew I wouldn’t be spotted. I almost got busted by one of the attendees and was forced to stuff a slightly large mini pie.. it was a lot drier and larger than my eyes told me, and for a second I thought I was going to cough the whole thing out sending splattering pie crumbs and pieces all over the wall I was facing. Fortunately there was half drank glass of Sav Blanc at hand which I washed all down with and narrowly managed to dodge catastrophe…
• Working at a theatre company giving out pensioner’s free tea and cake, those old biddies sure can pack away a bit of cake - and the venom when I ran out cake!!
• My personal favourite and potentially the highlight of my hospitality career - making hotdogs at a huge sports stadium for a massive Ozzie rules footy game. Not just any hotdog – a BIGdog… I think I made about 400 of the fucking things. I also had some 17 year old gay little man bitch snivelling at my inability to fold the hot dog bags correctly once packaging them. He was literally about 17 and thought that being a hotdog supervisor made him VERY important. He kept on coming over to me and kind of cheering “Yeah Sarah, there you go – now you got the hang of it…” I mean really – it’s making a hot dog, not bloody micro surgery…??????????! I had a momentary fantasy of taking a piping HOT BIGdog sausage from its bun and using it to repeatedly slap his greasy little face with it… But alas I held my composure.
• I also worked in the board rooms of this huge Law firm serving fancy big wigs refreshments whilst they either had meetings or soirees with clients... They have a whole catering department of about 20 people employed purely to pamper the employees and occasionally clients! The amount of money that must cost!! Everything was state of the art in their kitchens - and this was actually one of my highest paying jobs...ridiculous, that firm must be robbing people blind!!! They did have one of their employees commit suicide by lobbing himself off the building about a year ago, so clearly the pressures of working there are not light! Money – does crazy things eh?!
• I also worked at the racecourse in their banqueting dept. This was quite a fun day, worked in one of the boxes and served 2 large tables. Unfortunately I learnt by the end of the day that the people I was serving were in fact NOT wealthy folk of the TIPPING varietal and had merely won the tickets to the event or something. So my outrageous flirting, overly attentive service, and borderline psychotic smile I had plastered on my face all day was NOT rewarded with 50 dollar bills being stuffed into my pockets.. A fun day none the less though…
• Working at the live music venue which is still on-going. Possibly the most disorganised venue I have ever worked at in my entire life, alongside one seriously common deranged and nasty crack whore type woman, that delights in trying to make my life difficult. But she just gets into trouble because she fucks up her work and the boss likes me… I just smirk at her which I can see gets right underneath her skin… HAHAAHA. The joys! Anyway - the job pays cash and it’s just for another few weeks, so bring it on lady!
• Covering someone on sick leave at a reception post for a week and a half (doing this right now). Mundane job which involved dealing with the switchboard and also sending and receiving parcels...relatively simple and has the bonus of giving me massive chunks of time to surf the net and muck around on email etc. My favourite job so far woohoo!
And that’s about it so far - still have some work coming up. One job is at a bar set up for a massive Asian Food festival which should be yummy and then a few bits here and there. Getting very much over Australia at the moment - the weather is shit at the moment, and if I had more money in my pocket I would have left weeks ago.
Still have a couple more things I want to do in Sydney - one is going to the Hunter Valley Wine Region on a day tour and the other is going to a Koala sanctuary. I also have a few bars and restaurants I want to sample.... so we shall see. Please DEAR GOD let the weather improve!!!!
I am here in Sydney for just another 2 weeks, then it’s off to South Australia again for a week, then over to ASIA!!! Woohooooo!!!
Nothing like a bit of desperation to get you firing on all cylinders…
I have signed up with 2 offices agencies which look for office based support roles, 2 hospitality agencies which cater to huge variety of clients and then also a catering company which does private events. Plus I have still managed to keep my bar work at the live music gigs. So I have had variety of variety of colourful jobs which include:
• Data entry for a large international company (name omitted for legal reasons) - so boring the highlight of the day was my coffee expeditions which took me on a walk to the other side of the office to use the "fancy" coffee machine. I can confirm that not only does excessive coffee consumption result in heart palpitations but it also has somewhat of a laxative effect. Something I saw as a plus as it took me away from the shackles on my stark prison like temp desk, for yet a second expedition. This job was for 8 agonising days.
• Working at an event for a leading drinks brand - a lot less exciting than it sounded, I mean what type of a company has one of these during the day, serving alcohol then expecting everyone to go back to work afterwards....? A company that has a legitimate breathalysing machine in their reception, that’s who has these! They were serving a wonderful variety of amazing looking snacks. I disregarded strict company policy and sampled a good amount of these… skilfully cramming the whole bit sized canapés into my mouth whilst turning corners or moving into sneaky spaces where I knew I wouldn’t be spotted. I almost got busted by one of the attendees and was forced to stuff a slightly large mini pie.. it was a lot drier and larger than my eyes told me, and for a second I thought I was going to cough the whole thing out sending splattering pie crumbs and pieces all over the wall I was facing. Fortunately there was half drank glass of Sav Blanc at hand which I washed all down with and narrowly managed to dodge catastrophe…
• Working at a theatre company giving out pensioner’s free tea and cake, those old biddies sure can pack away a bit of cake - and the venom when I ran out cake!!
• My personal favourite and potentially the highlight of my hospitality career - making hotdogs at a huge sports stadium for a massive Ozzie rules footy game. Not just any hotdog – a BIGdog… I think I made about 400 of the fucking things. I also had some 17 year old gay little man bitch snivelling at my inability to fold the hot dog bags correctly once packaging them. He was literally about 17 and thought that being a hotdog supervisor made him VERY important. He kept on coming over to me and kind of cheering “Yeah Sarah, there you go – now you got the hang of it…” I mean really – it’s making a hot dog, not bloody micro surgery…??????????! I had a momentary fantasy of taking a piping HOT BIGdog sausage from its bun and using it to repeatedly slap his greasy little face with it… But alas I held my composure.
• I also worked in the board rooms of this huge Law firm serving fancy big wigs refreshments whilst they either had meetings or soirees with clients... They have a whole catering department of about 20 people employed purely to pamper the employees and occasionally clients! The amount of money that must cost!! Everything was state of the art in their kitchens - and this was actually one of my highest paying jobs...ridiculous, that firm must be robbing people blind!!! They did have one of their employees commit suicide by lobbing himself off the building about a year ago, so clearly the pressures of working there are not light! Money – does crazy things eh?!
• I also worked at the racecourse in their banqueting dept. This was quite a fun day, worked in one of the boxes and served 2 large tables. Unfortunately I learnt by the end of the day that the people I was serving were in fact NOT wealthy folk of the TIPPING varietal and had merely won the tickets to the event or something. So my outrageous flirting, overly attentive service, and borderline psychotic smile I had plastered on my face all day was NOT rewarded with 50 dollar bills being stuffed into my pockets.. A fun day none the less though…
• Working at the live music venue which is still on-going. Possibly the most disorganised venue I have ever worked at in my entire life, alongside one seriously common deranged and nasty crack whore type woman, that delights in trying to make my life difficult. But she just gets into trouble because she fucks up her work and the boss likes me… I just smirk at her which I can see gets right underneath her skin… HAHAAHA. The joys! Anyway - the job pays cash and it’s just for another few weeks, so bring it on lady!
• Covering someone on sick leave at a reception post for a week and a half (doing this right now). Mundane job which involved dealing with the switchboard and also sending and receiving parcels...relatively simple and has the bonus of giving me massive chunks of time to surf the net and muck around on email etc. My favourite job so far woohoo!
And that’s about it so far - still have some work coming up. One job is at a bar set up for a massive Asian Food festival which should be yummy and then a few bits here and there. Getting very much over Australia at the moment - the weather is shit at the moment, and if I had more money in my pocket I would have left weeks ago.
Still have a couple more things I want to do in Sydney - one is going to the Hunter Valley Wine Region on a day tour and the other is going to a Koala sanctuary. I also have a few bars and restaurants I want to sample.... so we shall see. Please DEAR GOD let the weather improve!!!!
I am here in Sydney for just another 2 weeks, then it’s off to South Australia again for a week, then over to ASIA!!! Woohooooo!!!
Money Money Money and the things it makes us do.... 14th Sept to current day..
Well - Australia is bloody expensive, and my funds are running far lower than I had anticipated! This leaves the only option for me to throw myself at as much work as possible...And whilst I would love to be picky about what I am doing, this is a luxury reserved for people who have a lot more time on their hands - I have been given a month to try and plump up my funds! I have already gone into my “South America Budget” and this part of my trip only starts in Jan!!
Nothing like a bit of desperation to get you firing on all cylinders…
I have signed up with 2 offices agencies which look for office based support roles, 2 hospitality agencies which cater to huge variety of clients and then also a catering company which does private events. Plus I have still managed to keep my bar work at the live music gigs. So I have had variety of variety of colourful jobs which include:
• Data entry for a large international company (name omitted for legal reasons) - so boring the highlight of the day was my coffee expeditions which took me on a walk to the other side of the office to use the "fancy" coffee machine. I can confirm that not only does excessive coffee consumption result in heart palpitations but it also has somewhat of a laxative effect. Something I saw as a plus as it took me away from the shackles on my stark prison like temp desk, for yet a second expedition. This job was for 8 agonising days.
• Working at an event for a leading drinks brand - a lot less exciting than it sounded, I mean what type of a company has one of these during the day, serving alcohol then expecting everyone to go back to work afterwards....? A company that has a legitimate breathalysing machine in their reception, that’s who has these! They were serving a wonderful variety of amazing looking snacks. I disregarded strict company policy and sampled a good amount of these… skilfully cramming the whole bit sized canapés into my mouth whilst turning corners or moving into sneaky spaces where I knew I wouldn’t be spotted. I almost got busted by one of the attendees and was forced to stuff a slightly large mini pie.. it was a lot drier and larger than my eyes told me, and for a second I thought I was going to cough the whole thing out sending splattering pie crumbs and pieces all over the wall I was facing. Fortunately there was half drank glass of Sav Blanc at hand and I managed to dodge catastrophe…
• Working at a theatre company giving out pensioner’s free tea and cake, those old biddies sure can pack away a bit of cake - and the venom when I ran out cake!!
• My personal favourite and potentially the highlight of my hospitality career - making hotdogs at a huge sports stadium for a massive Ozzie rules footy game. Not just any hotdog – a BIGdog… I think I made about 400 of the fucking things. I also had some 17 year old gay little man bitch snivelling at my inability to fold the hot dog bags correctly once packaging them. He was literally about 17 and thought that being a hotdog supervisor made him VERY important. He kept on coming over to me and kind of cheering “Yeah Sarah, there you go – now you got the hang of it…” I mean really – it’s making a hot dog, not bloody micro surgery…??????????! I had a momentary fantasy of taking a piping HOT BIGdog sausage from its bun and using it to repeatedly slap his greasy little face with it… But alas I held my composure.
• I also worked in the board rooms of this huge Law firm serving fancy big wigs refreshments whilst they either had meetings or soirees with clients... They have a whole catering department of about 20 people employed purely to pamper the employees and occasionally clients! The amount of money that must cost!! Everything was state of the art in their kitchens - and this was actually one of my highest paying jobs...ridiculous, that firm must be robbing people blind!!! They did have one of their employees commit suicide by lobbing himself off the building about a year ago, so clearly the pressures of working there are not light! Money – does crazy things eh?!
• I also worked at the racecourse in their banqueting dept. This was quite a fun day, worked in one of the boxes and served 2 large tables. Unfortunately I learnt by the end of the day that the people I was serving were in fact NOT wealthy folk of the TIPPING varietal and had merely won the tickets to the event or something. So my outrageous flirting, overly attentive service, and borderline psychotic smile I had plastered on my face all day was NOT rewarded with 50 dollar bills being stuffed into my pockets.. A fun day none the less though…
• Working at the live music venue which is still on-going. Possibly the most disorganised venue I have ever worked at in my entire life, alongside one seriously common deranged and nasty crack whore type woman, that delights in trying to make my life difficult. But she just gets into trouble because she fucks up her work and the boss likes me… I just smirk at her which I can see gets right underneath her skin… HAHAAHA. The joys! Anyway - the job pays cash and it’s just for another few weeks, so bring it on lady!
• Covering someone on sick leave at a reception post for a week and a half (doing this right now). Mundane job which involved dealing with the switchboard and also sending and receiving parcels...relatively simple and has the bonus of giving me massive chunks of time to surf the net and muck around on email etc. My favourite job so far woohoo!
And that’s about it so far - still have some work coming up. One job is at a bar set up for a massive Asian Food festival which should be yummy and then a few bits here and there. Getting very much over Australia at the moment - the weather is shit at the moment, and if I had more money in my pocket I would have left weeks ago.
Still have a couple more things I want to do in Sydney - one is going to the Hunter Valley Wine Region on a day tour and the other is going to a Koala sanctuary. I also have a few bars and restaurants I want to sample.... so we shall see. Please DEAR GOD let the weather improve!!!!
I am here in Sydney for just another 2 weeks, then it’s off to South Australia again for a week, then over to ASIA!!! Woohooooo!!!
Nothing like a bit of desperation to get you firing on all cylinders…
I have signed up with 2 offices agencies which look for office based support roles, 2 hospitality agencies which cater to huge variety of clients and then also a catering company which does private events. Plus I have still managed to keep my bar work at the live music gigs. So I have had variety of variety of colourful jobs which include:
• Data entry for a large international company (name omitted for legal reasons) - so boring the highlight of the day was my coffee expeditions which took me on a walk to the other side of the office to use the "fancy" coffee machine. I can confirm that not only does excessive coffee consumption result in heart palpitations but it also has somewhat of a laxative effect. Something I saw as a plus as it took me away from the shackles on my stark prison like temp desk, for yet a second expedition. This job was for 8 agonising days.
• Working at an event for a leading drinks brand - a lot less exciting than it sounded, I mean what type of a company has one of these during the day, serving alcohol then expecting everyone to go back to work afterwards....? A company that has a legitimate breathalysing machine in their reception, that’s who has these! They were serving a wonderful variety of amazing looking snacks. I disregarded strict company policy and sampled a good amount of these… skilfully cramming the whole bit sized canapés into my mouth whilst turning corners or moving into sneaky spaces where I knew I wouldn’t be spotted. I almost got busted by one of the attendees and was forced to stuff a slightly large mini pie.. it was a lot drier and larger than my eyes told me, and for a second I thought I was going to cough the whole thing out sending splattering pie crumbs and pieces all over the wall I was facing. Fortunately there was half drank glass of Sav Blanc at hand and I managed to dodge catastrophe…
• Working at a theatre company giving out pensioner’s free tea and cake, those old biddies sure can pack away a bit of cake - and the venom when I ran out cake!!
• My personal favourite and potentially the highlight of my hospitality career - making hotdogs at a huge sports stadium for a massive Ozzie rules footy game. Not just any hotdog – a BIGdog… I think I made about 400 of the fucking things. I also had some 17 year old gay little man bitch snivelling at my inability to fold the hot dog bags correctly once packaging them. He was literally about 17 and thought that being a hotdog supervisor made him VERY important. He kept on coming over to me and kind of cheering “Yeah Sarah, there you go – now you got the hang of it…” I mean really – it’s making a hot dog, not bloody micro surgery…??????????! I had a momentary fantasy of taking a piping HOT BIGdog sausage from its bun and using it to repeatedly slap his greasy little face with it… But alas I held my composure.
• I also worked in the board rooms of this huge Law firm serving fancy big wigs refreshments whilst they either had meetings or soirees with clients... They have a whole catering department of about 20 people employed purely to pamper the employees and occasionally clients! The amount of money that must cost!! Everything was state of the art in their kitchens - and this was actually one of my highest paying jobs...ridiculous, that firm must be robbing people blind!!! They did have one of their employees commit suicide by lobbing himself off the building about a year ago, so clearly the pressures of working there are not light! Money – does crazy things eh?!
• I also worked at the racecourse in their banqueting dept. This was quite a fun day, worked in one of the boxes and served 2 large tables. Unfortunately I learnt by the end of the day that the people I was serving were in fact NOT wealthy folk of the TIPPING varietal and had merely won the tickets to the event or something. So my outrageous flirting, overly attentive service, and borderline psychotic smile I had plastered on my face all day was NOT rewarded with 50 dollar bills being stuffed into my pockets.. A fun day none the less though…
• Working at the live music venue which is still on-going. Possibly the most disorganised venue I have ever worked at in my entire life, alongside one seriously common deranged and nasty crack whore type woman, that delights in trying to make my life difficult. But she just gets into trouble because she fucks up her work and the boss likes me… I just smirk at her which I can see gets right underneath her skin… HAHAAHA. The joys! Anyway - the job pays cash and it’s just for another few weeks, so bring it on lady!
• Covering someone on sick leave at a reception post for a week and a half (doing this right now). Mundane job which involved dealing with the switchboard and also sending and receiving parcels...relatively simple and has the bonus of giving me massive chunks of time to surf the net and muck around on email etc. My favourite job so far woohoo!
And that’s about it so far - still have some work coming up. One job is at a bar set up for a massive Asian Food festival which should be yummy and then a few bits here and there. Getting very much over Australia at the moment - the weather is shit at the moment, and if I had more money in my pocket I would have left weeks ago.
Still have a couple more things I want to do in Sydney - one is going to the Hunter Valley Wine Region on a day tour and the other is going to a Koala sanctuary. I also have a few bars and restaurants I want to sample.... so we shall see. Please DEAR GOD let the weather improve!!!!
I am here in Sydney for just another 2 weeks, then it’s off to South Australia again for a week, then over to ASIA!!! Woohooooo!!!
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