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4 days of conferences and lots of food

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Hi darling <3 I’ve been so busy the past week! I’ve been going to conferences for 4 whole days, learning so so much meaw

I started with this one here in Melbourne

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This one was for free, so it was much smaller then the last one I went to, which cost several hundred dollars. Smaller, and people seemed to be trying harder to sell things to us rather than help us. That annoyed me a tiny bit. I did learn a few things but they’re only useful for work. I like these things better if I can learn things that help me too.

Next I went to this one in Sydney! This one was expensive, the tickets cost $900. dizzy

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But it was easily worth all that money =) Especially when I didn’t pay for it, haha! I learned so much, I wrote a summary of the conference that was still 2000 words long! Covering topics on user experience, personal development, how to use web development skills to do things for phones and desktops, advanced web techniques, so much darling :D   I met a few really cool  people, maybe 7, and they’re all really smart, full of ideas and fun grin I was messaging and hanging out with them all conference so I kept running out of battery around 3 or 4pm each day =O Hehe look, I took a pic of one of their shoes!

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And the conference was fully catered, all you can eat! I ate as much breakfast as I wanted, as much morning tea as I wanted, as much lunch as I wanted, as much afternoon tea as I wanted. And the food was different every day! Except for afternoon tea – it was always ice cream and lollies drunk

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Sydney is so beautiful too. Darling Harbour with its clear water, beautiful restaurants, paths and parks full of beautiful people, it’s great. I didn’t get any pics of our hotel or the surrounds because I kept running out of battery each day. But, I did get this one surreal shot in Chinatown slow

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We did so much exploring – my coworker was lost a lot and didn’t really know his way around Sydney so I was leading the way most of the time. And since I was in the lead, of course I went looking for toys in-love

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And we went looking for food and games too ^^; I think I spent $40 on Tekken, and my coworker spent $40 trying to win a Yoshi toy from a skill tester machine meaw When I finally got back to Melbourne, I had lots of pretty food with my friends – you’ll have to meet them one day darling. Ahhh…I’ll be really sad if I have to leave them behind TT-TT

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Bad hair.

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Hi darling,

So much happens these days, I should really make a habit of writing in here so I don’t forget – I often forget by the time our weekend comes around and we just spend time together no-waigif

The only thing I can think about is my horrible haircut right now. I went to my favourite hair salon, the place that cut my hair that you really like and hoped I would get the same girl again. She was there, but I got served by some older lady. That’s sometimes good, sometimes bad. Sometimes they have lots and lots of experience. Other times they’re boring and don’t care very much about their job.

Or maybe it’s not her fault. I came in to the salon straight after work and looked terrible. I haven’t had my hair cut in quite a while – it’s really so important that I cut my hair regularly baby, it suddenly turns ugly once I go from 7 weeks to 9 weeks since the last cut. I walked in with ugly long hair and also my crappy work uniform. I must really have looked like I don’t care at all about how I look so maybe she was lazy.

I think, from now on, I’ll never wear that ugly shirt again. I’ll look for some nice work shirts soon. =B

I hope you’ve been well darling blush(or-fake-smile)

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Worried

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Hi darling,

I was really worried when you said you were going to the hospital. TT-TT And then you would stop replying and I would just have to sit and worry if you were ok. I’m glad you’re ok now, but I hope we can maybe prevent that stuff happening in the future.

You remember those healthy air purifiers I showed you that should remove bad things from the air – and you said you wanted one in red. Well, I found one want

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It’s red and nice looking, diba? =)

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Busy week

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Hi darling ,

It’s been a really big week for me. We moved the company websites from USA to Sydney last week and everything broke on the way and that kept me really busy. It’s annoying that it’s impossible for things to move and work perfectly in their new home but I guess that’s part of why I have a job.

On Tuesday my assistant and I got called into a meeting. It was because part of our website that counts our products was broken and our ebay sales manager was very upset. He’s always upset about everything though. He’s so negative, like your aunt, so I avoid him and ignore most of what he says whenever I can because it only sounds like tantrums to me. I tell him things some times to motivate him and raise his spirits but he seems to be in a hole and I can’t help him out of it. That problem he was complaining about, my assistant and I were already nearly finished fixing anyway.

In general that was a good week at work though. My assistant and I teamed up to solve problems really fast all week. I like being part of a team I had some extra time at work to learn some stuff about eBay marketing and prepare some program to make life at work easier for everyone. it’s so amazing baby, how much money people are spending there. Last week people spent $360,000 on just hair straighteners

I feel inspired to start my own store baby. I can probably find out which products sell lots and then get them and sell them hehehe

I wanna write more but I should get some work done and also eat. I keep forgetting to eat.

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Feel much better =D

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Sorry I haven’t been blogging much – I know that so much has happened in my life that I haven’t put here that I really should!

The important news – I feel great lately =D

On Friday I set out on a quest to add things back into my life that I knew made me happy. Things that I left behind in my home town and didn’t find again here in Melbourne. I made a little plan, something like this:

  • Start going to a dance class, make friends there.
  • Start going to a capoeira class, make friends there.

But things don’t ever seem to go to plan!

I slept in, and missed my morning capoeira class. Not all was lost though, I had a dance class I could go to in the afternoon; Freestyle Hip Hop over at Passion Dance Studio. Then, got a message from an old friend with an odd request:

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Well, how could I refuse! After a couple of hours, I dragged myself out of my room to cut my treasured hair. I hadn’t seen him for a while, and he’s a good friend. It was real good to just talk gossip, rabble about people we knew, about girl trouble, what we were going to do soon, about the stupid Occupy Melbourne Protestors. Ah, Occupy Melbourne, they make me so angry but maybe I’ll talk about them some other time. Ah, Occupy Melbourne, they make me so angry but maybe I’ll talk about them some other time.

And as usual, I ate things =D Chinese dumplings! I also tried a chocolate pizza for the first time from Max  Brenner – I’d heard about how bad they were and had to see for myself.

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Yep, the chocolate pizza was a bit bad. I’ve never bought anything from Max Brenner that I didn’t want to finish before. But I didn’t let that spoil my mood =]

I gave Adam a souvenir from my recent trip to Seattle too – a Michael Jordan t-shirt. He was stoked! =D We parted ways, and I then I had two hours to kill. I decided to try reviving one of my childhood loves – Tekken =]

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I’ve been playing Tekken since 1996. It’s been a source of comfort for me for 15 years now. Since I left Canberra I haven’t really been able to play it and enjoy myself. Well, until now anyways =] I found a dirty, kinda gross looking arcade in Chinatown. I’ve tried this arcade once before but didn’t get a good game. This time though, I was really lucky – another guy was playing, just a little bit younger than myself. These people seem to be the most fun to play with – they play for fun! I had a dozen games or so with him and just felt so refreshed and awesome and happy again. About as happy as a week ago when my dear friend Jen paid me a visit.IMG_7601

And so I’ve realised, that while I’m an introvert, and I really really need my alone time, I really really need my friends too <3 =]

Bad news though. I really don’t  like the new haircut.

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Not so bad

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Not long ago, I used to feel so distressed, thinking that I was such a lousy programmer/designer. I  always compared myself to the design and programming superheroes, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars more than me and were also my age or even younger.

I just conducted an interview today with someone who was being interviewed for the very first time. Isn’t that weird, being interviewed for the first time? She must be 24! But anyway, she was very very nice, but kept panicking, freezing, and commenting that she was screwing up, and apologising for her inexperience. There’s absolutely no way I can hire her, but I feel compelled to help her somehow. And at the same time, I suddenly don’t feel so bad for being such a lousy worker in comparison to my heroes.  No matter how bad things look, there’s always other people that have it worse!