And this ones for Murphy, the pal who always shows up. He would make a super boyfriend. He can be demanding, always there giving you small little surprises and yeah just hanging around even after you think it was over..I mean what if ...!!
Anyways I am here in Australia, despite getting my passport 10 minutes before my check in time with a visa (yeah you need one of those to prove you are not a terrorist, you don't pose a threat to the kangaroos , you can basically walk past immigration and say- u cant screw me! Its a different thing that as a child I thought that people can take a bus or walk around the world buy land, build houses as they took pit-stops!). Well after having had my nervous system on the edge and a battle through the security, I just sit and sit and sit waiting for a boarding call. The airports a mess, suddenly all of India just shows up from no where and grabs all the seats that exist. I just park myself on the floor and realized that no one was really in a hurry to get anywhere. No seats got available even though flights did take off and time just ticked. Then we are told, coffee day is the mantra to relieve us of any inconveniences caused cos the plane just wont take off! It wasn't in the mood to! So free refreshments at 2.00 a.m.?! Its so much a price to pay for forgiveness! Sigh! Eventually after much anticipation, speculation and hope, a plane shows up. We are asked to board and it decides it can fly and that it takes off but cannot land! So it flies and flies forever until someone says no more air after Singapore. Scared of falling it does land. Just an hour after my connection has taken off! Sigh! 12 hours on airport seats another long flight cant be the idea of fun. I land straight into my customers office presenting something and I think he would have just gifted me sleep had he got one of those knock off coupons instead of a project!
Anyways the truth is, despite Murphy I am here and ....Even though I have never been to this continent, I always dreamt of having a farm house in Australia as a child! I guess I was just a hopeless child who thought about real estate way back then! However, reality was rather disappointing. The place is so dead after 6, seems very cold and has not yet managed a wow factor! It has a beautiful harbor but no one to walk and admire it. Everyone just sleeps. It is ridiculously expensive in terms of food and tourist stuff. Its not yet appealed to me in a way that I would remember it and long to be back! Maybe its cause I am yet to see nicer parts. I have only looked at it as a city to live and work at and not yet seen the tourist spots.
I had the most amazing food though and intend to give the city a better chance tomorrow. Just came into these spaces and decided..maybe I should just update by blog so that people who do complain can let me be for a while!
Kangaroos, I am yet to see....they don't really walk on streets out here like i had thought!
