Miserability. Is that really a word ?

One supposes that I am unhappy. But that is not true. I quite enjoy the job, learning and actually doing stuff. I suppose the main problem is the lifestyle. One just cannot revert to another lifestyle that quickly in a short span of time. From time to time, especially those wonderful moments when I am alone in the car and yet surrounded by a crowd of other people in a similar situation, I fall into a daydream of random memories.

Like ..

1. Staying at FredBear's apartment over a whole winter
2. Going to the Royal Melbourne Show
3. Experiencing O-week
4. Running for O-week
5. Playing bridge for a few hours on Wadham 2
6. Looking at a mango mousse birthday cake for the twentieth time
7. Scrolling through all the phone numbers of karaoke joints in Melbourne
8. Cooking randomly at 301
9. Walking to 7-11 at 3 am with ParkyBear
10. Bowling at Chadstone
11. Putting TasBear's bed in the showers at West Wing
12. Shutting up RossiMeow in the Wadham lift
13. Going to Mount Dandenong
14. Winning at Crown Casino
15. Experiencing Central Australia, Adelaide, Sydney, Victoria, Canberra
16. Waiting for a train for 3 hours with ParkyBear in the middle of nowhere
17. Exploring new areas in Melbourne by foot, tram and car
18. Going to the Royal Art Center
19. Making faces on TV at Fed Square
20. Doing self help in the IH Kitchen and imagining a war with the plates
21. My first Commencement Dinner
22. My last Valedict's Dinner
23. Hiding in my Greycourt room for a week
24. Going to university society meetings
25. Doing odd jobs for Dot
26. Learning Japanese and meeting Japanese people for the first time
27. Learning to play pool
28. Trying to play foosball
29. Swimming at Docklands
30. Playing real mahjong with real Hongkies
31. Living in Australian homes for a month
32. Driving around Sydney at 3 am with Star Wars music
33. Eating kangaroo meat
34. Buying a computer
35. Buying my first item of clothing in Westfield's Giordano
36. Picnics at the Royal Botanical Gardens
37. Eating cakes at St Kilda
38. Eating Vietnamese at Richmond
39. Eating Greek at Stalactites
40. Eating Italian at Lygon
41. Eating Lebanese at Sydney Road
42. Eating Thai at Spring
43. Eating Chinese food at more than 50 different restaurants
44. Eating pies
45. Paying 65 dollars for a Japanese meal at Chinatown
46. Walking around Canberra by foot for a whole day
47. Going to a Aussie football game
48. Betting on an Aussie football game and winning
49. Winning on the Royal Melbourne Cup
50. 3 Moomba firework shows, 3 groups of friends
51. My giant dice
52. Having salmon everyday for a week
53. Playing football for college
54. Drinking games in the corridor
55. Staying on the Houseboat for a week
56. Working as a pamphlet deliverer for a day
57. Earning less over 3 years than the cost of my work visa
58. Taking photos
59. Skiing for a week
60. Walking home after 12 glasses of wine
61. Attending IH Balls
62. 3 hour long internal phone calls
63. Attending 100 birthday parties over 3 years
64. Day long shopping trips to look for presents
65. Stargazing at Princes’ Park
66. Touching an Aboriginal Man
67. Go-Karting at Sunshine on my birthday
68. Leading a tai-tai life for a few weeks
69. Sleeping in classes for a year
70. Finding out the best toilet in the university
71. Discovering that Copland chairs were made to sleep in
72. Tai-boxing classes
73. The Spanish festival at Bridge Road
74. Pub crawl
75. Indomee
76. Learning how to use a Playstation
77. Burning out for a week
78. Staying at College Square by myself for 2 weeks
79. Learning to hate maths
80. Trying on 4000 dollar jackets at Bridge Road
81. Walking the runway on Italian NN
82. Dancing on China NN, Greek NN
83. Buying my first mobile phone
84. Learning how to choose pokie machines
85. Watching Chinese movies at the cinema
86. Learning how to mix cocktail and work a bar
87. Trying on 7,000 dollar shirts at Chapel
88. Clubbing
89. Starting my blog
90. Driving around the city at night to find food
91. Going to Gold City in Ballarat
92. Receiving a total of 23 soft toys for 3 birthdays
93. Appreciating good coffee and big breakfasts
94. Singing at the Sydney Opera house toilets
95. Buying 14 pairs of shoes
96. Discovering I received a scholarship by accident
97. Nurturing an Aussie accent
98. Finding out about my OCD disease
99. Sleeping for 18 hours a day
100. Meeting some of the greatest people in the world, and making friends with them.

(Notice my delectable English....courtesy of a timely reminder that I am starting to sound like a Malaysian.)

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