Melbourne first week back
Hate:- everything is so expensive:
- 30c a litre for petrol in Bahrain... $1.60 here.
- packet of Dunhill lights in Bahrain $2... $10 here.
- lots of stuff has gone up in price
- $100 for al Fakher shisha tobacco? You have to be joking. $5 for 150gms in Bahrain :(
- even newspapers have gone up in price. $3 for the Fin Review? :(
- uni. almost all my friends have left and i am a loner and everyone is young and fresh looking and annoying. and i have to study. argh.
- St. Ali has been sold. double argh.
Lurve:
- Shanti Bhagwan. Well it's another decent cafe on campus. We needed it. Havent been back to Castro's Kiosk yet... too cold.
- Barretto. The first decent cafe on campus. The big windows, warmth, powerpoints and free papers (Fin Review!) to read make me happy. So does the coffee and generous loyalty cards (every 7th free!)
- Food. Glorious foooooooooood! A1 Cafe, this new Jap place near Hardware Lane, lots of other places... can't wait to eat everything!
- Coffee. Good. Espresso.
- Baba Brother Budan (or whatever it's called). The new cafe opened by the St. Ali's guys... goodness.
- Readings! Borders! Books!
- Uni, despite the above complaining it does feel good to be studying... or shirking studying... again
- Family. Nuff said.
- Friends. Missed you guys. Thanks to the guys that I've hung out with these past few days that have helped me with readjusting. Thanks for the big hug you gave me when I arrived on your doorstep, you don't know how much I needed that hug. Thanks for the snide bitching, remarks and comments about my chin, you bastard... I missed you. Thanks for showing me the new cafe and trooping around the city with me making wisecracks. Thanks for speaking some 3arabi and reminding me of the good times, shukran. Thanks for lending me DVDs. Thanks guys, and the others not specifically mentioned.
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posted by LX @ 6:12 PM
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