the real world
24th-jun-2009 - posted by dtra
ok, been back for a week and a half now, so i guess it's time to post about how i'm doing back in the real world. i guess it hasn't been that difficult, had a week off before going back to work (which was good), good to have work to go back to, and also good to be able to re-acclimatise back in familiar surroundings. pretty much only had vietnamese food my first week back, oh boy, did i miss that, not sure if i've mentioned it before, but vietnamese food is the best cuisine in the world. came back, and for whatever reason (i guess i was still on holiday), just seemed to keep spending money on stuff, i had stuff that i needed to replace i guess, but nothing particularly urgent, just thought i'd get it out of the way.
everything seems to be pretty much how i left it, nothing ever seems to change at home, and i didn't expect it to, and in some ways probably didn't want anything to (not yet anyway). so, next week is a pay week, looking forward to that, was a bit depressed to be coming home (not in a mental way), but there is always more fun to be had. went to the soccer last week, and saw tim cahill pot two past the japanese.
went to a concert on thursday, deer hunter, no idea who they are, but they were ok, good fun, the music wasn't to my taste especially, but i wasn't repulsed by it, it was fun music. no pictures, didn't really seem like a great atmosphere for taking photos.
anyway, i've played basketball a couple times since being back, and i guess all that altitude training didn't do a lot, cos my conditioning is terrible (probably didn't help that i was drinking at altitude too) as well as being extremely rusty. but, i'm starting to get back into the swing of things, though i have hands like kwame brown right now. riding my bike should also help get me back into shape asap.
so without further ado, the stuff that means something after coming home:
- paying $20 dollars for a steak sandwich and a beer (omg, so expensive!!), but paying for it with a $50 dollar bill, no questions asked
- having too much change
- vietnamese food
- waking up consistently before 10am
- no siesta at 3pm (not obviously anyway)
- eating dinner before bed time
- coca tea!! and mate/terere
- being/getting in shape
- not getting strip searched by every hot latin girl that sees me (well, that didn't actually happen that often)
- not being mugged by 14 year olds
- changing clothes more than once a week
- being tall (in bolivia anyway)
- not being the only chinese person on the continent
- not smelling like smoke 100% of the time
also, from the day i left melbourne to the day i got back, google analytics tells me that i had visitors from 85 countries, pretty nice.
yes, that is a picture of a bowl of pho that my mum prepared for my homecoming.
#33 dtra (david tran)
Last edited at 7:06 24th-jun-2009
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