League of Legends International Wild Card All-Star @ Melbourne

Ahahah... Riot came to Australia for the first time and they came to Melbourne! They had the International Wild Card All-Star tournament at the Melbourne Margaret Court Arena. I found that out like a few days before it was happening and I booked a ticket for it with Chris. I thought it'd be excited, but it was meh... It wasn't as I expected from you know... Watching the finals. People would cheer and clap every time something awesome happens in game. But people didn't really care at this tournament. :| Tough crowd. Also, the teams were meh. It wasn't that exciting to watch. Some of the players made some huge mistakes that I thought I could have done better than them. But what do I know, I'm just a Gold player lol... It was an experience regardless. We got a goodie bag that had a scarf, Academy Ahri skin code, a Lulu cupcake stress ball, a Thresh Lucian lanyard, thundersticks, and a string bag.

What I'm excited is that I start work tomorrow! What I'm not excited is that I need to find a room to move out @_@; I've been looking on Gumtree and various websites, but it's either extremely expensive to stay in the city or it's crappy and run down place. I've tried contacting a few people inquiring about checking out the place, but they either ignore me or they're seeking for females only... That or bills are not included in the rent price which I do not want to take a risk on because I can save, but I can't guarantee that roommates will save. What if the bills come out to be an insanely large amount of $$$? I also don't want to take a risk on high bond because what if they decide to blame me on damage that I did not do and keep my money when I decide to move out? I didn't know looking for a houseshare was so difficult haha... I'm still deciding whether I want to continue to stay at hostels because I don't want to isolate myself in a houseshare. I'm in Australia to meet new people! But hostels are so expensive compare to houseshare (Houseshare cost about $200 a week cheapest while hostels on average cost about $245 being the cheapest). I still have a week to decide so it's all good. Last night was my last night of cleaning the lounge. I still have about 2 weeks worth of credits for free accommodation, so that will go into paying for this week's stay. I hope things will continue to look bright for me! It's afternoon right now so I'm going to continue to look for a place to move. Once I get that sorted out, I'll settle down and start looking for a 2nd job! Good good good.

Job! I got a job!

Jobbbbb! :D

My current hostel Melbourne Metro YHA was looking for a part time housekeeper. They posted a sign on the lounge door but I didn't really noticed it until people at the hostel was talking about it. I checked it out and email the manager of this branch indicating that I am currently working at the hostel vacuuming, cleaning the kitchen, and the lounge and that I was interested in getting the job as a housekeeper. I didn't have much hope for it because I know a lot of people at the hostel was also applying for the position too; people are craving for a job and income lol...

To my surprise, the reception reached out to me for an interview. I didn't even know what's it for because they went to my room and put a post-it on my door saying see reception because I was not in my room. I went to reception and they told me it was an interview with Dooshyant for the housekeeping job and I can see him in like 10 minutes. Luckily, I was wearing my dress shirt getting ready to go out to pass out resumes. The interview was okay, but I felt like I could have done better. I was like, whatever, nothing to be worked up about because it's just a housekeeping job and I don't mind if I don't get it. In a way, it feels like a downgrade from my job at home because I used to work in an office as a systems support specialist. Here I am going to be a housekeeper cleaning after other people's mess. :< But that's okay, it's a legit profession and a source of income so anything is good. It's something new for a change and I love cleaning so it'll be a nice experience for me.

Today, I was just walking around and the reception caught me walking around the hostel and they told me that Dooshyant is looking for me to let him know if I've decided to take the job. I was like O_O hwot? I was waiting for an acceptance email... But that works too! Haha... Basically, Dooshyant accepted me when he gave me the interview. It was just up to me if I can commit 6 months to the job because they want someone who will commit due to training being intensive and costly in a way. I went to office straight away and let him know that I'm willing to commit to the 6 months and he let me know that I will start on Tuesday! But I gotta move out of the hostel because they don't want to mingling my personal life with work life so I have a week to look for a house share. What's awesome about this position is that it's part time from 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM, so I can totally get another job for the evening shift. I'm not sure if there's any coffee shops that opens in the evening, but I also want to try being a waiter too. I can get a job maybe for 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM so I can earn a little bit more cash $$$. 10 hours a day shouldn't be too much and I've taken a long enough vacation by now... 3 months of no income @_@ Gotta make it up! Now that I think about it... I didn't ask how much I will be earning from the housekeeping job. x( The application asked how much I want as a salary so I put down AU$20/hr. Dooshyant said it was around the ballpark but didn't disclose how much is the salary. So I guess it's alright. They can't rip me off because YHA is a big organization and they need to keep their reputation. ;)

Pokémon Symphonic Evolutions!

Oh god, this concert though... Caused me so much problems!

I originally wanted to go to Pokémon Symphonic Evolutions concert when they came to Boston, but I didn't go because I was busy packing and planning my trip to Australia. When I was in Adelaide, I saw a poster advertising this concert, so I looked online and they were going to Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney! I thought this might be a good chance to finally meet Anita, so I booked two tickets to the one in Sydney. The one in Melbourne was going to be held in the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Center building vs. the one in Sydney was going to be held in the Sydney Opera House. Which one do you think was cooler? Of course Sydney! I told Anita about it and she was like, she'll try to get that day off. But eventually, her manager put her in for that day for work so she couldn't go.

What now? I'm stuck with two tickets and no one to go with. I didn't want the ticket to go to waste, so I started seeing if anyone wanted to go. Chris and San didn't want to be spending that AU$140 just to take the train to go see something that they weren't interested. So I started going online to find people on Reddit. I even made an account on OkCupid just to ask people! LOLOL... I think people thought I was a creep trying to fish them into going to an orchestra with me but people still replied me thanking my generosity but they were either busy or not interested.

I took Friday and Saturday night off from cleaning the hostel lounge. I booked train tickets to leave Melbourne on Friday night and reach Sydney on Saturday morning. The whole time up until 2 hours before the orchestra, I was just trying to find someone. I finally picked up the tickets at the Sydney Opera House. I can't believe I'm going to a concert at the Opera House! I was excited as well as disappointed that I might be watching this orchestra alone... I asked about the refund policy and the guy at the reception said Sydney Opera House is pretty strict about refunding and there's no refund. But often times, people are willing to buy tickets near the front door if they didn't get a chance to get some. I didn't know how to approach people... People started going in for merchandise and I tried to ask people that were standing around if they needed an extra ticket. I thought maybe if I go in a get a t-shirt, people will be more aware that I am going to this concert and try to ask if I have an extra ticket for sale. I wanted a t-shirt anyways, but it didn't help haha... I tried selling the ticket until 7:50 PM when most people has already went inside the concert hall. I went back to the reception and told him that I couldn't find anyone to buy the ticket. I gave him the ticket and told him that if anyone comes and needed a ticket, just give it to them. I had a feeling that SOMEONE might come and wanted a ticket. I didn't care for it anymore and just wanted to try to enjoy the orchestra as much as possible with just myself QQ...

The concert started and I didn't regret a single thing spending so much money just to go to Sydney and watch this concert. The orchestra was sooo good and every time they played a song that I knew from the video game, it sent chills down my whole body... They played only the video game music plus the first season extended version them song at the very end. But I'll get to that later. I was so immersed into the orchestra that I forgot I was there alone... But then about 7 minutes into the concert, this Asian girl walks in and sits next to me. We made eye contact and waved at each other. After the song ended, she asked if I was the guy that left his ticket at the reception to give away! Turns out she knows nothing about Pokemon other than Pikachu and she was just there to experience being a concert hall at the Sydney Opera House. She ended up enjoying the orchestra! Or so I think because she didn't fall asleep to it haha... We ended up connecting and decided to go grab dinner after the concert ended at 10:30 PM. By that time, majority of the restaurants were closed already. I Yelped and found this Japanese restaurant and bar place with two dollar signs so I was like okay, lets go there! The food was good, but it was definitely not two dollar signs! Our bill came out to be $165.... T_T;; We ended up splitting, but that's one hell of an expensive meal! Even my first anniversary dinner with my ex was not that expensive... We spent the rest of the night exploring Sydney harbour area and taking night photos until like 1 AM when I said I need to head back because I need to get up by 6 AM to catch my train back to Melbourne.

The whole way walking back to my hostel, I couldn't stop thinking about how much I've spent on this one weekend! Lol... That and this girl seems pretty cool. Her name's Serena and we got each other on WeChat. She's from Beijing and only here for two weeks on a vacation before going back home for her job.  I just took it as another great opportunity to practice my Mandarin because her English wasn't that great either! She said she wanted to study in America when she was younger, but her parents didn't allow it and she just kind of gave up on that idea. I wish our Asian culture wasn't THAT into respecting our elderly's sayings. We need to be more independent and do what we want to do. It might not always be the best decision, but we learn from mistakes, right? Originally, my mom didn't really like the idea of me leaving everything behind to go to a country where I don't know anything about, but I would have still be living a sad and boring life at home if I were to listen to her and stayed. I'm so happy I made this decision for myself and do what I want to do for myself. Everyone should do what they want to do. Parents' advice is good, but the ultimate decision is yours to make on your own. No regrets!

Back to Melbourne and back to looking for jobs again lol... Such is life. I had a call with Lucy today. I'm so glad that she's feeling a lot better now. I felt so hopeless when she's so upset about her life and I can't do a thing for her but encourage her to once again get out of the Asian mentality that we don't always have to listen and respect our parent's decisions. She needs to do what she wants to do because it's her life; not her parents. She asked me if I was stressed about the job situation. To be honest, I don't really feel as stressed as when I was college and wanting to get a job before getting out of college so I don't look like a failure. One thing that have changed me for sure by coming to Australia is that I'm more laid back and not stress about things that I cannot control. If employers don't want me, then I'll just have to keep trying. I can't go around complaining about how I really need a job. Although it's so depressing to look at my bank account ahahah... I think I've spent around $8000 by now in three months time. I'm so glad that Tran hooked me up with the work for accommodation job so I can at least save some money on living expenses. I don't feel like I'm trying hard enough to find a job, but that's okay... I'll just treat it as a vacation. If I don't get anything by mid December, I'll probably head to Sydney and spend Christmas and New Years there. We'll see...

Anyways, sleep time! Nightz0r~

Burning Bridges One Friend at a Time

上个星期真的黑仔了。。。

Everything has been pretty cool! I've been slacking on looking for a job since I get free accommodation, but I'm working on it.

Wednesday, I met these two new HK friends, San and Ceres. Melbourne was Ceres' last stop before she has to return home to HK. She has been here for 5 months working at Perth. We ended up agreeing to rent a car to travel the places outside of Melbourne. I ended up talking with Chris and he convinced me to rent a manual car and he will teach me to drive it because in Germany everyone drives manual... I thought it was a good idea because I wanted to do that at Tasmania too but I ended up getting an SUV so I couldn't get a manual one. This time though, I ended up booking a manual car on Thursday night. The plan was to go to different places for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday with one of those day being the Great Ocean Road. 

Friday morning, I indicated that I will pick up the car at 9 AM, but we were being slow pokes and didn't leave the hostel until 11. We ended up missing the pick up time and all other cars were out of stock. We ended up going to museums instead. Well, just Ceres. I only slept for a few hours and San was tired, so we just kinda wandered around and ended up getting back to the hostel by 5. I made another booking for another car for Saturday and Sunday, again with Chris convincing me that I should book a manual and so I did. Saturday comes along, we headed out early to get the car, but Chris did not wake up and his phone was dead. I called him all morning and no reply. So I tried to do it myself -- driving the manual car out of the garage of where we pick up our car. I mean, how hard can it be? It ended up being just as hard as it should be. I step on the clutch and breaks, turned on the car, pull down the hand break, and start driving. I was afraid to be accelerating too fast in the garage, so I didn't gas enough before letting go of the clutch. I stalled it every single time I let go of the clutch. All the people that were working at the garage kept staring at me asking me if I know how to drive a manual... They told me to go upstairs and change the car because if I don't know how to drive manual, it's going to be dangerous driving in the city. Frustration overload over the fact that Chris is not waking up and I have already wasted two of Ceres' short stay in Melbourne. I gave up and ask for a different car, but they were out of stock once again. Chris didn't wake up until 11 AM and apologized over WhatsApp. We ended up taking the train to Puffing Billy where we took a steam train to a rural area and worked our way back. I guess San doesn't really like walking on regular basis. She was complaining about having to walk 30+ minutes whenever we mention that. I wanted to stay a bit longer and walk all the national park trails, but they wanted to leave, so I guess I'll follow them. THEN I made ANOTHER booking, this time for Sunday and Monday, AUTOMATIC. I didn't want to mess shit up again. Sunday came along and we ended up going to Great Ocean Road -- Ceres, San, Chris, a Taiwanese girl, and me. It was fun and beautiful, but I can tell that Ceres is really disappointed that I messed up her vacation. I promised her that I would drive her to the airport on Monday. We ended up getting back to the hostel at 12 AM, I ate dinner and it was 1:30 AM. After cleaning the lounge, I was dead tired and it was 4:00 AM. I've been awake since 7. I completely forgot about having to drive Ceres to the airport in the morning, so I totally forgot to set an alarm. She called 11 times and I missed them all. I didn't wake up until 11 AM, flipped out, and flipped out again that I might have gotten a parking ticket for waking up late.

Monday was not only that. I missed driving Ceres to the airport (but luckily, I didn't get a parking ticket). I tried calling her to see if I can reach her before she boards the airplane, but I couldn't reach her and my Skype credit ran out of credits... What? I thought if I buy a number from Skype, I can call over wifi for free... Apparently not. So now I have to spend another $25 to get more credit. I looked up the information to get to Sydney for the Pokemon Symphonic concert and turns out the cheapest to get there is by train for $140 round trip + $30 for a night of hostel. Anita ended up telling me that her manager assigned her to work that night so she can't go. Now I just spent AU$170 to get to Sydney and another $160 on two tickets with just myself going... When Chris woke up at 2, I needed to return the car because parking is such a hassle in the city. We went to pick up Chris' package that his mom sent and we headed towards the parking lot to return the car. After returning the car, I noticed that I forgot to return the garage entrance ticket so I told Chris to watch my groceries that we just bought and I'll be back quick. I started running back. The side walk was made of smooth marble like material. There was a guy coming out of the doors so I wanted to run around him for the garage. I ended up slipping on my flip flops and splat onto the ground. Fucked up my right knee and right elbow really bad. I got back up and walked towards the garage attendant and he told me that the ticket was useless and he didn't need it.... At this point, the only thing that's going through in my head was, "Can my day get any worse? I knew from the Skype and concert that it was going to be a dark day." Chris tried to comfort me, but I didn't want to speak. That's how I deal with my problems. I shallow it and deal with it myself. I don't like to express sad feeling to other people. I ended up spending the rest of the day cleaning up my wound and chilling in the hostel because I don't want to encounter any crap for the day.

But back to Ceres. She was a great person. I wished I didn't fucked up so hard. I didn't get her HK number, her WhatsApp, or her Facebook. I guess we just weren't meant to be. I felt so bad that I missed driving her to the airport. Lucy told me that it might mean that she's not as important to me as I thought she would be. Chris also tried to comfort me that it's not my fault. We don't expect these to happen, but it happens. I can't always think about other people's happiness because I can't make everyone happy. I need to think about myself sometimes because I went to sleep late and my body needed the rest. I guess they're right, but I seem to fuck up the most with the people that I thought are most important to me. It's just like how I always make Unkei upset even though she's one of the most important people in my life. I guess I don't know how to really care about those that I truly care about. I hope Ceres doesn't hold a bad impression of me if I ever see her again. :(

These two days were really hard for me to walk around because my knee is badddd... But I still managed to go to two psychological department studies and earned AU$50 out of the two, which is a good amount of pocket change to help lighten up the expenses. I ended up spending it all on food and getting a haircut lol...

Work's been great, but tiring because of the midnight to 2AM thing, especially having to wake up early to travel with the two HK friends. Ceres is gone but San is still here trying to get a job. I thought I'd like her and she gets really close when we take pictures. Like, our heads are touching and she'd put her arm on/around my shoulders. I read something that when a girl gets touchy, it means something! But I guess not. I found that our personalities are completely the opposite haha... I want someone like... Shen Chia-Yi or Onodera Kosaki <3 Oh well! Right now, I still need to find a date to go to the Pokemon Symphonic concert with me! I don't want my other ticket to go to waste. :'( 

Anyways, gotta get ready for work soon! Until next time, peace out~

Back to the old habits...

It has been over a week since I've blogged. @_@ Why? Because I'm back to my old habits. I've been consumed with playing League of Legends or Pocket MapleStory (mobile version). Either that or I'm briefly looking for jobs. I don't know... I'm having a bit of a trouble trying to get a job but I feel like I'm not putting enough effort into it. I've also been going to sleep really late lately. ;_; Oh geez. I need to change.

In other news though, I've met an awesome friend again! Her name's Tran and she's from New York! She has been helping me a lot in terms of earning money lol... She understands the struggles of getting a job because she has been here since February and she had a lot of trouble too. So she showed me how to earn money from going to studies at the University of Melbourne Psychology department! Ahah... Today was my first time doing it and I was paid AU$6 for looking through slides of x-rays and see if there's a fracture. It took about 30 minutes, so I guess it's like AU$12/hr. I doing another study this Thursday, but I forgot how much was the payout. Tran is also mega nice @_@ She agreed to house sit for one of her friend, so she let me cover her for her hostel lounge cleaning job for a month! In return, I get to stay at this hostel for free while I continue to work! For a month, that will save me about AU$750! Every bit counts! Plus, I get to stay in a 4 share room which is only filled with the volunteers. When Tran talked about it, it sounded like a VIP lounge or some sort because she said there's a couch in there with a table filled with food that the volunteers have collected when people don't take their food with them when they leave. When I got into the room, it was pretty cool! Nice view, free food, big space, etc. I don't get to relax at night anymore because I clean the lounge from 12AM-2AM. But that's okay; I chill in the morning anyways zzz... But Tran though. She left home to teach English in Korea for four year and then came over to Australia for Working Holiday for her last year of eligibility (31). After this, she's going to go to Japan to teach English! Can I travel like this too???

I think I'm getting better at this talking with people thing now lol. I've sparked up a few conversation because I was cleaning the lounge/kitchen. But I still don't understand; if you don't start a conversation, most people won't do so either. The thing is though I feel like I want to meet people, but on the other hand, I get so annoyed when I'm constantly given attention. Like Chris for example! He's always there! He like LOVES me lolol... He's cool and I like hanging out with him but there are times when I find him annoying AF. I like to pick on him for smoking and getting him to quit completely. He picks on me that I always play League of Legends. We're pretty common in a way that we like video games, love computers, trying to get a job, and we can just go on about meaningless shit but we talk a lot.

I'm going to keep this short. I start cleaning a few minutes. I haven't called home last Sunday and I feel bad. @_@ I'm getting consumed by MapleStory and League of Legends... Ugh. I will definitely stop playing once League of Legends season ends tomorrow though. I've been trying to get Andy's account to Gold, but I'm losing like 5~6 times in a row it's horrible! I landed in Silver I but I kept falling and now in Silver 3... One more day! And I'm meeting up with another friend tomorrow. His account is curse I tell yah! I can't blame it on the ping even though my ping is ~280. I'm just bad at League of Legends in general. ;_;

Good night!

Melbourne Derby Day!

AU$50 black dress shoes. Wake up at 5AM. Walk for 1.5 hours. Raise money for 11 hours. I had a sincere smile on my face all day, try to be as approachable as I can, and greet anyone that makes eye contact with me. Some of them just looks like in disgust as if I'm going to steal their money.

I was really tired and upset yesterday because I had a long day and a lot of things happened all in one day, but nothing sleep didn't fix! It has been a weird week.

All week, I was applying to jobs at least 4~5 hours a day on Gumtree and Seek with no luck. x( Most of them don't respond. Some of them respond saying they have already found someone. Some of them say they have better matching candidates. I had one interview on Friday for a volunteer position with the YHA org to participate in a video shoot. In return, I get 10 days of free accommodations at any YHA around Australia. I was declined yesterday because they found someone better. I'm not good enough even for volunteer work. QQ; Oh well... Just got to keep trying on Monday. It's so demoralizing when you're applying for jobs and not getting any of them. It makes me feel like I'm not good for anything. >< Stay positive, Henry.

During this week and a half here at Melbourne Metro YHA, I've met three Germans! It's weird because all three of them saw me playing League of Legends and started talking to me, but two of them left already. The one that's left is Christopher. He's a pretty cool guy. Really good at making websites. We've been hanging out for quite a bit and I guess we get along pretty well haha... He seems like a genuine guy and likes hanging out with me so he can improve his English. On Friday after my interview for the YHA video shoot, I saw people walking around with PAX passes and I totally forgot that PAX was this weekend! I was like ohhhh, I wanna go! So I went back to the hostel to grab my camera and then I thought of Christopher that he likes game too. I messaged him asking if he wanted to go with me. He was super excited. He said he has never been to a gaming convention before. When we went, I can tell that he was really happy and excited about it. We stood around the lobby of Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre looking for people with Friday badges and see if they're going to come back (because we were there around 4PM). If they weren't coming back, we wanted to see if we can buy their passes. One kid just gave me one for free but Christopher was too shy to be asking people. I eventually found one that was willing to sell one and Christopher ended up paying $20 for it; which is okay because day pass is AU$60 and we only have 2 more hours before the convention closes for the day. He was really happy at the end. He thought he was going to spend a boring day at the hostel, but I made his day. It makes me happy to be able to make others happy. :)

Not only the Germans, but I've met a few other people that I didn't get to communicate with as much as I got to with these Germans. They keep me busy and not feeling lonely ahahah...

I've been playing League of Legends quite a bit recently though, especially on the US server... Because I wanted to get Andy's account to Gold before the season ends. I'm pretty sure I will stop playing as much once I get his account to Gold. But it's so hard because I'm playing on 280~400 ping and I'm only really excelling in playing Sona. Even at that, I don't win every game with Sona. I can't CS or team fight with this kind of ping... Season ends in a week and a half. @_@

Yesterday though... During Melbourne Knowledge Week, I met this other girl that was telling me about Melbourne Derby Day. So they have this horse racing thing and it's one of the biggest event in the year. She was telling me that I can volunteer and just go in for free, which makes a lot of sense! I should start volunteering at Anime Boston and PAX so I can get in for free! So she mentioned that I can volunteer for Starlight Children's Foundation. Apparently, they raise money to help sick children in hospitals and we raised money by selling Melbourne Cup pins.

To attend the Flemington Racecourse, you need to be wearing formal clothing, even volunteers. As a volunteer, we need to be specifically wearing black formal shoes and tailored pants. I have dress pants, but I didn't bring my dress shoes, so I was thinking about back out... I wanted a new pair of Converse too and now I have to buy another pair of shoes that I can't wear regularly. Anyways, in the end I ended up sticking to it and bought a pair of AU$50 formal shoes. @_@ It's the cheapest quality piece of shat ever, but it was okay in terms of comfort, so whatever. I can probably wear it to job interviews too I guess. The day and I was excited for it! I signed up for the afternoon shift which was 12:30PM to 5:30PM. They mentioned that they needed people for early riser where we sell pins to people that arrives early at 7AM. I decided to go for that anyways! When I do things, I get excited and wants to do everything lol... Big mistake! I woke up at 5AM, wash up, and started heading out at 5:30. It started POURING! I was like -_-; I'm not gonna make it! Luckily, I got to an underground walkway over the train track before it started pouring heavily. I waited there hoping that it might get better. It lasted probably around 10 minutes and luckily, it lighten it to the point that it's okay to start walking again without getting drenched. I made it to the racecourse at 6:50AM, so it was a little bit over an hour walk. Not that many volunteer showed it, but I got paired with this crazy lady. I don't even remember her name, but she was AGGRESSIVE AF. She mentioned that we should put some pins on our shirts so people can see how it looks like (there's two pins, one for $5 and one for $10). I took one of each pin and pin them on myself and wanted to donate $15 for the pins, but this lady (my partner in selling pins) didn't want me to pay for it... Awkward. I sneaked it into the bin anyways. So we headed out to sell pin and she said she was a saleswoman before. She'd get in front of other people's face, shove the pins into their face, and ask them if they want it. I was being a bit passive but still making sales. This lady think she's doing all the work and told me that I need to try harder! And that she's going to take all the credit because I'm not doing so well... Whatever, mate. Sales slowed down a bit and she couldn't stand it, so she made me go to the train station with her out in the pouring rain to make sales when people get off the train station... She was like, "COME ON! STOP TRYING TO KEEP THE PINS DRY AND SELL!" Words cannot express how rude and crazy she was; you gotta be there to witness it. She was getting into my nerves when she started tucking my shirt to get into the crowd and make sales to the point where I screamed out at her to Stop! I flipped out and she backed off for like a good 5 minutes before started doing it again. I had to deal with her from 7AM to 12:30PM before she finished her shift. She was trying to act friendly and all, but I started ignoring her and just doing my own sales. My second partner was passive af though lol... More passive than me. But he's a cool guy I guess. His name was Nick and he's still in Uni. We messed around the whole day watching the race, and just strolling around because most of the people that wants a pin already bought one and those that don't have a pin don't want one.

I don't know if it was a fun experience. It's nice to be part of Melbourne's biggest event of the year, but the things I have to deal with and standing from 5AM to getting back to my hostel by 6PM? It was tiring.... It was also Halloween night too, so I had Chris buy some Smirnoff Ice, made dinner, and spent the Halloween night drinking, eating, and watching The Conjuring. Good way to spend Halloween in Australia, right? :P I hope my Christmas is going to be better... I don't want to spend it alone again QQ I met this cute girl at the racecourse though that was also volunteering for Starlight! But I don't think it's gonna get anywhere LOLOL... I added her on Facebook and that was about it. We had a little back and forth conversation on Messenger, but nothing extraordinary. Don't need woman! I just need a date for the Pokemon Symphonics concert for the 21st just in case Anita can't take the day off from work. T_T; Plus she already has a boyfriend. :U I keep joking saying it's gonna be a nice date and she just brush it off haha.

Anyways, Happy November! Man, I need a job.