So with a new year, seems to have come a radical new schedule, especially in comparison to month number twelve of 2006. My lifestyle has been flipped on it's head over the last 7days. I've improved my diet (a little), been for 3x5km runs in the mornings (also resulting in starting & finishing work earlier) and given up beer for January (more so just to detract from any spontaneous pub outtings).
Back at work all week, other than the public holiday on Monday of course, I once again couldn't wait for the weekend to roll around. Friday night was the most fun I've had since... well Christmas and New Year I guess, with a boys outing around Darling Harbour, taking in sun-down at Bungalow 8 and the Loft before being unashamedly the first on the dancefloor at Cargo Bar. A slightly later night than anticipated, but a well earned wind-down from the first week of work in 2007.
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aturday, Sydney was treated to an absolute pearler of a days weather. I met up with a new friend Katy, and the two of us went for a visit at Toronga zoo. Really quite a different zoo to any I've been to before, with some great views over the harbour and city - as well as some cool animals, favourites being the huge leopard seal (something I'd read a bit about recently) and the platypus's. The sun's hot gaze was fended off by a great breeze, though most of the animals seemed unfazed - except the echidnas that seemed to have dug a hole so deep that they wouldn't or couldn't be coming up to the surface any time soon.
Sunday was an easy day capped with a BBQ on a rooftop in Newtown and some quality much needed quiet time where I got a chance to kick off a novel I've had knocking around for ages.
As I enter my final week of my contract, I can only wonder where this roller-coaster of a section of my life will take me in the next 3-4weeks. It was nearly a year ago that I finished up in South East Asia and dropped into Perth, WA - I had no idea back then I'd still be in Australia a year on. As much as some unpredicatble stuff has happened, this has really been the first time I've had no idea about how the future will shape itself. I'm looking for another new job right now, that may then give me the chance to stay a little, or a lot longer... on the other hand, if I don't get that kind of opportunity, then I must leave the "land down under" for the "land down under and to the side a bit" at the beginning of February to pursue the next phase. Watch this space and wish me luck...
Back at work all week, other than the public holiday on Monday of course, I once again couldn't wait for the weekend to roll around. Friday night was the most fun I've had since... well Christmas and New Year I guess, with a boys outing around Darling Harbour, taking in sun-down at Bungalow 8 and the Loft before being unashamedly the first on the dancefloor at Cargo Bar. A slightly later night than anticipated, but a well earned wind-down from the first week of work in 2007.
S
aturday, Sydney was treated to an absolute pearler of a days weather. I met up with a new friend Katy, and the two of us went for a visit at Toronga zoo. Really quite a different zoo to any I've been to before, with some great views over the harbour and city - as well as some cool animals, favourites being the huge leopard seal (something I'd read a bit about recently) and the platypus's. The sun's hot gaze was fended off by a great breeze, though most of the animals seemed unfazed - except the echidnas that seemed to have dug a hole so deep that they wouldn't or couldn't be coming up to the surface any time soon.Sunday was an easy day capped with a BBQ on a rooftop in Newtown and some quality much needed quiet time where I got a chance to kick off a novel I've had knocking around for ages.
As I enter my final week of my contract, I can only wonder where this roller-coaster of a section of my life will take me in the next 3-4weeks. It was nearly a year ago that I finished up in South East Asia and dropped into Perth, WA - I had no idea back then I'd still be in Australia a year on. As much as some unpredicatble stuff has happened, this has really been the first time I've had no idea about how the future will shape itself. I'm looking for another new job right now, that may then give me the chance to stay a little, or a lot longer... on the other hand, if I don't get that kind of opportunity, then I must leave the "land down under" for the "land down under and to the side a bit" at the beginning of February to pursue the next phase. Watch this space and wish me luck...
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