The End.

Will be home Friday night, being a massive weirdo about it and not sure i want to come home. Hopefully that will sort itself out asap. All my things don't fit in my suitcase which is a bit of a stress. I wish mum was packing for me, she is an excellent suitcase packer. See you all very very soon!

free as a bird

so it is all over, i'm no longer an intern for the devil thank god. (what a lot of religious reference in one sentence) anyway since i finished on friday i've been out, drank too much, come home slept all saturday, saturday night and sunday morning. then i watched hot rod a movie that was entertaining enough ran/walked on the treadmill nearly had a heart attack had a super long shower went to the yacht club for a swim and to meet dad even though there is a pool here... there were children wreaking havoc everywhere and i couldn't face going in. had an argument with dad, came home, ate cheese and pate and now msning with jeremy my best online friend. 

so thursday yasmine finished at the magazine and then i did on friday. friday was so strange. my boss went bananas. he didnt know what day it was or even that it was production week. he was talking jibberish and asking random questions. and as soon as i asked him anything he would be like ahhh my brain isnt working yet... and then i asked him if any of the graphics had been done so i could check my pages after a ridiculous sulk from him the issue before and he was like my brain is frazzled . and i was like i just want to know if it has been started or not... and he says Just give me ten minutes to sort my brain out im not really functioning coherently at this point in time. Then I will answer your question. i was like... right... then he talks to a friend on the phone and cant answer anything the friend is asking and then he walks out, an hour later we get a call saying he is in hospital for the next few days... so we finished the magazine with out him. it was quite nice actually, not having him looming over. 

after i left work at 9 (record early) i met yasmine in central to have a look in the shops, found a grey leotard at h&m which is part of an aids campaign and was going to buy it to tease al with but decided to wait and see if i have any money left (im living purely off allowance from dad) at the end of the week. 

then we went back to mine so we could shower and get ready and weren't ready until 12.30 but oh well.. we were going to a house party and thought it would still be going. but they had gone out already to some african bar and we were on our way to meet them. yasmine whipped out her camera and made me pose with lkf in the background... and then out of no where these hooligans jumped into teh frame and they were arustralian so we befriended them. and one of them was a member of one of the big clusb that you either have to be a member of, be with a member of, or pay $60 aus to get into. i stupidly forgot my id cause i havent had to use it when ive gone places on the list for work so they haven't asked. it was very embarrassing, had to spend $20 going home and back to get it. but it was a fun night. we danced a lot, had lots of free drinks. yasmine the trashbag spewed everywhere and took photos of randoms who told her to go away. 

yasmine leaves tuesday night and kony is going to taiwan for 5 days next week so i will have nothing to do but write my stories in cafes... 

36 office hrs approx until it's over

three days left in the office. couldn't come soon enough. i'm really so so over it. wing finishes tomorrow and yasmine does on thursday. then lucky last, i finish on friday. finally made something of that bloodybeetroots interview, it was challenging but i've sent it off to the editor, done and done. the food feature this issue is on (molecular) mixologists very similar to molecular gastronomists but dealing with cocktails.


last night i wined and dined with yasmine and kony, it was great to have kony back! we immitated the train man, who was some old guy who was grinding and licking the poles on the mtr, i wanted to link you to the youtube video but i cant find it.. oh well,

went to lantau on the weekend to chillax, it was nice. very bizarre combination of people but was lots of fun. hottest day of the year looks cold in the photo..

the end. x

T minus Twentythree

Counting down the days until I finish my internship. It is taking freaking forever. Today there are 8, well 7 and 4ish hours left (not including the weekend). All the interns are about to go to the printers to see how magazines are made.
We have a new intern, Irma (pronounced Erma) the boss is out of the office so we went for a staff thai lunch.
Yasmine is finally about to finish her tiisis, thank god, im over it so I cant imagine how she feels. I’m working on my last articles, happy to see the end of them, especially the neverending food reviews. Poor waistline!
Mum has gone back to Melbourne but managed in her 10 day stay to get me going for early morning walks. It’s the walk of death. Down to psychoport (Cyberport, weird place, massive empty mall – always deserted) and then back up to the apartment. It is pretty much 30 minutes of steady uphill with a steep down hill at the start and at the end. My ghetto thighs are not happy.
I’m so sick of the clothes that I brought with me! I think im going to have to burn them when I come home and have options!
Mum took all my cooler weather clothes home with her when she left cause otherwise my luggage will never make it home, it is certainly over the 20kg limit!
I’ve decided to spend the week that I have after yasmine leaves and before I leave writing my collection of stories, sitting in cafes and finally seeing all the movies I have free passes to! That’s all for now, to the printery!
Peace out brussel sprouts x

bum of the joke

just quickly

eugh im so frustrated that i can't keep up with who i've told what. all this technology! phone, sms, skype, email, facebook and this blog have me completely confused as to what i've said here and what i've said to someone in particular some other way. it's very stressful as im sure you can image... maybe no? 

anyway when i was saying to nicole yesterday 'ah he is really sick, you know how he was having an obnoxious conversation on the phone in the office (in the middle of all the other female staff) and asking his friend what flavour lip gloss the girls had on their nipples the other night... to which she replied WHAT? and i realised the trouble i was having sharing my stories properly. 

ah just you wait when i get home im going to drop so many inappropriate/bizarre work stories without even realising you don't know what i'm on about...i imagine. 

ok so here is a quick and snappy list of things happening in my life at the moment 

- our office phone has been cut off since my boss wont pay his bill, he is complaining and 'sticking it to the man' unsuccessfully - we just look stupidly unproffesional and i dont think the phone company minds too much. oh he has also been threatening to sue them. makes for entertaining listening when im trying to work, my boss describing all the lawsuits coming their way to someone who clearly has no idea who he is or why he is yelling.

- for the upcoming issue we're writing a food feature on food at touristy venues so tomorrow and monday we're off to the themeparks to try everything and then spew it back up on the rides. woo hoo! 

- mum is coming to visit on friday morning, yasmine is sleeping over thursday night and i expect we will be in no state to greet her let alone go to work.

- i threw a tanty at work today cause sneaky yasmine wouldnt come with me to an indian restuarant for the restaurant reviews section of the magazine. we have to do 12 an issue so time is a stretch but schemer over there somehow always manages to convince me to come with her but then is always to busy to come on mine. oh well, i have revenge planned, on friday when we're feeling terrible she has an appointment at a thai restuarant with a very very enthusastic pr girl. she thinks i will come but i will leave her high and dry. well that is the plan, chances are i will be dying to get out of the office and jump at the chance to devour pad thai. mmmmmm

- two down. im not actually sure if this was on here or not already but my boss has a nasty streak (hadn't noticed?) anyway he is a massive bully and always finds out what to use to hurt you... naturally i'm five steps ahead when it comes to psycho babble and ive taken to arguing with him. he actually doesn't seem to mind. i think he quite enjoys it actually. anyway yasmine is onto it now but a few weeks ago he caught her unawares early on a monday morning sitting her down to an hour chat about all her personal flaws. aside from informing her that she will never get a job in belgium due to the recession and helping her by telling her that while she is working at 60% if she wants any chance at success in her chosen field she will have to work $200 he also said that had he hired her she would be fired by now. thanks. anyway that's sorted now, she is fully on top of everything so that he cant fault her again... 

it was kony's turn today. not sure exactly what he said but it was something about her being in the wrong major and how she doesn't have the capacity... something like that. the poor girl has only done one year at uni and yet he's using her to create ads for company's paying him to make and then display their ads... well mr boss isn't very articulate and tells kony bizarre and vague ideas he has for the add. she works like a crazy person (well at least more than me) and then surprise surprise she has missed the point and it doesn't match the idea in his head.  

unlike yasmine she isnt being assessed and doesnt have to be here. like me? oh well, i see the light at the end of the tunnel, 17 more work days. woo. but i hope she doesn't leave, she is really fun. 

-oh i got to drive dads car the other night, only like 10ks but still it was stressful as. the trafic here is hard to predict. people dont indicate and just nose-in infront of you... really ahve to pay attention. ah well. done and done. it was pretty fun. 

oh whoops, this was meant to be a list. 

anyway, i've gotten back into tv in a pretty big way (for me anyway) saw gossip girl finale tonight - teary eyes at the end. tragic i know. cant wait for australias next top model tomorrow night oh and spooks. that vampire show -true blood is terrible but such an easy one to watch. oh and the kids movies haha. wow i should stop before you all realise how uncool i am. 

i think its time for my detective novel now. night x

lots of racing ahead and dragging along

although right now the thought of writing another one of these things makes me feel unbelievably tired i figure i may as well do it now while i watch urban legends, giving me an excuse to look away in the scary bits. whoops couldn't look away and now i have tingly skin.. and dads asleep. scary, huh? 

it's all really confusing at the moment, i cant wait to come home but i dont want to wish away the time i have left here, i have really enjoyed it and the longer im here the more i really feel at home in this city. i wouldnt mind coming back to work here. it really is great. 

But im also really looking forward to feeling clean back in melbourne, even if i dont shower there for a couple of days it isnt like this. here my skin always feels slimy or super dry from the aircon. not fun. another thing i miss is nailpolish. i havent been wearing it here which does make me feel a bit naked. actually, after this (and urban legends) i will go and put some on.  

so this issue of the magazine is frustrating because instead of production taking two weeks it is taking three this time around just to balance total magazine out put for the year. massive pain because it confuses everything for us and all the people that regularly deal with the magazine.im relieved that i only have another 24 restaurants + food feature places to go to before i finish. my poor poor waistline. 

last night we went to an ice cream launch party which sadly did not provide alcohol but never mind, there was ice cream and some really fun people. there was harry from london and coco pop the number one dragqueen in hong kong. all in all two of the more enlightening people i've met here so far. afterwards we guiltily lit up disapointed to not be drunk already. then we bumped into this guy rayphil we met, totally nuts guy who started talking to us outside the supermarket. he told yasmine she should be a model and then shared his own modeling history, enjoyable for both i imagine... haha.  

 

then we popped into the shops, deciding not to go out and i bought some zip earring. fun for the whole family! 

and then we saw some brilliant advertising/marketing/whatever it falls under - brilliant!! 

finally a fun night out of dancing. a-trak is here on thursday so we got four free tickets to dance the night away. im so excited. there are lots of fun events coming up, the week after there is also the DJ Magazine China launch party and cocopops drag queen show which i think were going to. lots of seedy days ahead at the office. cant wait. thaithai hangover cures will have to be reinviented cause i dont have anyone as comfortable as caroline to lie on and there arent any of those soft water bottles here. also the juices arent quite the same. but i have found some good fresh juices around the corner from the office. 

last week yasmine made me venture into these bird parks on the hottest day of the year so far. it took freaking hours and at the first one, after we visited the aviary she insisted that there was another one there where you can walk in amongst the birds, it sounded like torture to me but we walked for ages sweating a lot trying to find it until some helpful guy told us we were at the wrong park. eugh. horrible day, especially when you take into account my dislike of birds. 

another thing to get me through the days ahead is the latest frankie which mum sent up with dad today. it really has made me happy. ahh this movie really is horrible. so many gruesome scenes. its the one at the moment where she is on that ride where you go through the tunnel and there are all the dead bodies and shit... you know... 

any way 4 more weeks at the magazine and then another two of freedom. maybe dad will come to beijing with me for a week? i'll ask him in the morning when he isnt as angry at me for my hour long phone call to rosie (he doesn't know about the second yet) and then a 30 minute one with stobes, silly girls who cant use skype getting me in trouble!   

mum is coming next week i think, i got tickets to hofesh shechter so im going to make her come with me to that. Also im desperate to do some winter shopping at lane crawford's last season outlet. you know how it is here... if it is not brand new its impossible to sell. winter shopping galore for me!

my hairdresser is going to kill me. my hair is so long and ratty they will want to chop it all off in punishment. so i'm thinking of hacking my hair short for winter. 

dad is back so now the house isn't as lonesome but he is very grumpy so that is a bit of a downer. plus there is nothing on tv. urban legends is over so now i'm channel surfing again. ok relocated to my room, thank goodness we now have wireless internet, it was torture without it! i think i will rock it old school in a sec and write about my feelings and shit in my journal. haha journal i cant believe how much ive actually written in it. 

but you know, i really love this city. it feels so safe and open to new things. and people work really hard but they really have fun too. i think the best thing about this internship is that it really forces you to meet different people doing different things. and wow, there are so many people doing such cool things. and that was a really wanky sentence, i should probably delete it cause i can imagine teasing emails and if not you all rolling your eyes at the computer screen. 

i know there is something i wanted to say but im forgetting what it was. ah annoying. im glad i get back once uni assignments and exams are over though, that means no one has any excuse not to be fun, even you no money/no time caroline. 

im actually getting a bit loopy listening to too much tegan and sara, not good for my health im sure. 

oh well miss you all, will see you all too soon (and then probably want to escape you all!!) 

love kisses etcetera...