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When Kiteboarders Fail – and Other Great Free, Cruel Forms of Entertainment

August 24, 2009

Free entertainment in your suburb isn’t a particularly vexing task. There’s a few fail-safe spectacles around my suburb which never fail to amuse… Watching angry customers teeter on the edge of sanity, as they wait for service at notoriously slow local cafes When you’re a local, you grow to learn which cafes are unbearably slow. [...]

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Just When CityRail Get Their Train Times Back up to Scratch… THIS Happens

May 24, 2005

My weekday begins any time between 5am and 6am – I like to get to work early, get everything over and done with, then zip back home and have plenty of time to myself in the afternoon. An added benefit of this is that the daily commute becomes the daily “….whaaaa, I just woke up, [...]

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Depplorable

April 21, 2005

Occasionally I catch a train from Newtown to work. Newtown’s a happy, ragtag jumble of uni students, goths, ferals, women who rediscover or redefine their sexuality on a biweekly basis and can’t help but monotonously explain this in great detail to everyone near them, Lifestyle Channel obsessives and homos. It’s one of the few inner [...]

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Kangacore

February 10, 2002

(Scene: a train station. I am happily waiting for my train, when a slightly distressed woman turns from her male friend to me). Woman: Please settle this argument for me. Me: Sure. Woman: You know the song from Skippy? Me: The kangaroo? Man: Yes. Woman: I did not ask you. Man: I’m only t- Woman: [...]

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Public Transport Romance

June 11, 2001

Enduring the daily commute to work via train sometimes has its unusual perks. Note that such events as haggard homeless men vomiting and sly-looking skinny men with hollowed-out eyes eyeing you up and down no longer register as interesting incidents after your fifth train trip in Sydney. During a particularly packed train commute which required [...]

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Uncoordination Zones

April 15, 2001

With a new company to work for, an overwhelmingly exciting new commuting route to work is now part of my daily routine. I’m still yet to draw a conclusion as to how I feel about the new train line I catch: although the carriages crawling along this line are packed to the gills, they have [...]

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A Career Direction Epiphany

February 16, 2001

Recently, I had a job interview for a position in Redfern. It was scheduled at the hour of 9am. I have a hint for all recruiters: if you find someone willing and, in some isolated rare cases, eager to attend a job interview at 9am – employ said candidate without further investigation. Willingness to awake [...]

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Rail Renegades

January 14, 2001

All this unemployment is thirsty work. It’s actually motivating me, strangely, to wake up early. To get out and walk around, to exercise. To buy the newspaper. To pay attention to what’s going on around me. Help. I’m turning into a well-balanced human being. One of my more recent events of anti-slothery involved a grandoise [...]

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Bird of Rage

November 13, 2000

‘Hello? HELLO!’ the insane Italian woman rapped on our door. When we didn’t answer because we’re so scared of her, she moved on to all the other units in our building. Not one person dared answer their door. This is the insane woman who tried to enter Adam and my unit without my permission, as [...]

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Tokyo Has Gone Banana Crazy Mad!

November 7, 2000

Today’s entry is brought to you by: Just when you thought we provided every good or service known to man… you were WRONG! ***** The humidity in Sydney this time of year causes intermittent rain. Sydney’s rain in humid weather doesn’t pour down – it kinda leaks like a weeping sore. There was apparently some [...]

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