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Hullo!

So first off, I must apologize for slacking in updating this blog... However, I do have an excuse... I mentioned that I started work at that CD place, and thankfully I've been getting shifts everyday (besides weekends) since I started... so while that leaves me little time to travel around Melbourne and see more of the city, it also gives me the money I'm going to need to see places like Kuala Lumpur (ooh) and Singapore (ahh)

The past few days at work I've been shifted from working in the warehouse to working in the office... basically they needed help mailing out catalogues, so I had to pack envelopes with catelogues and order forms and stick mailing stickers on them... Went through about 2500 envelopes in two and a half days of work!











All in a day's work!

Anyways, besides work I do have a few stories to share! I want to apologize to all the vegans/vegetarians that are reading this in advance because what I am about to post next you may not enjoy... In my last update I posted that I tried shark! I subsequently posted that I was going to eat kangaroo next... semi-jokingly... well anyways, I was at a pub last week and they had "Peppered Kangaroo Fillets" on the menu... obviously I had to try it... and oh my goodness it was delicious! Roomeat as Aussies call it has to be the best kind of meat I've ever had... *maybe* ostrich comes close...

Kangaroo!

I find it kind of funny that I've eaten kangaroo in Australia before I've seen a live one... I'm still waiting for a wild kangaroo to jump out of the bushes and try to box my face in... now THAT would be a story to tell! (apparently it happened to some dude a couple weeks ago... it was on the news!)

Oh and yesterday I went to this spoken word show put on by this dude named Henry Rollins... the guy pretty much said EVERYTHING I believe... like seriously... this guy stole my personal philosophy and espoused it to everyone else in the room! I must admit, it was pretty cool to hear everyone cheering and clapping for things that I've believed in for awhile... his basic message was to travel, see the world, eliminate ignorance, educate yourself, and change the world for the better in the process... sound familiar?? I THINK IT DOES!

Anyhow, he said this one bit that I thought was very well put so I'm gonna paraphrase it here... people say changing the world is a fool's idea... that we're so set in our ways in so many things like war, violence, racism other oppression etc... but really so much has changed in every century in our memory... and so much can still change in our century... it's only 10 years old! and as we all know, ten year olds are very impressionable... so go do something to change the world! raise this century like its your own 10 year old kid... shape it to become one where we do actually make some kind of incredible progress, like eliminating racism, or slowing down climate change.... it's only impossible if we say it is and do nothing about it!