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My Trip Home to Sydney

Every trip back home is always a great trip. Just when I started to think adelaide was an ok place, i went back 2 sydney and i kicked myself for being so foolish. I didnt even go clubbin this trip back, and it was the first trip back where i havent been clubbin. I was meant 2 goto Utopia but EVERYONE pulled out damit, all well at least i conserve myself for the commin exams. What else that was surprising about my trip to syd was i didnt take a single photo yet i took my camera everywhere i went. That was one of the main reasons i couldnt be bothered adding blogs, cause it meant i just had to type essays.

Everyone had mid sems dis holiday so i didnt go out much and i didnt call ppl out much cause i knew i'd be a bother. So i stayed home, in me new house, and bummed wif my family. It was all good times, it had been a long time since i was home. I had to start uni 3 weeks earlier then most ppl cause of dentistry.

In the first week the only thing i did was rock up to usyd to meet up wif sek Do and beast. Fark, usyd is meant to be one of the least ethnic or asian unis but fark, so many asians, i was soo shook. I had a short lunch with them b4 i headed of for UTS to meet mags, i hardly see mags now, she is so gay never has any free time now cause of her work and uni. We went shoppin and bummed like we use to, then we ate at some Jap place in chinatown. I swear in a month in adelaide u can goto all the restaurants in the whole city, there is no choice or variety and cause of this a lacking of quality. I use to think eatin in syd was expensive, i was wrong, it might be true to say eating at a food court in syd would be more dear than a food court in adelaide but at a quality restaurant, syd is definately not only cheaper but more value for money. The Jap restaurant we went to was filled wif japs, they were so fresh from japan they hardly spoke english.

On the weekend i went wif me family to DFO, mainly to look for clothes for my cousins new born baby boy, daniel, who was born 2 and a half weeks ago in adelaide. But i ended up buyin so many clothes for myself, everything was on sale, i couldnt believe it, there i was at adelaide's harbour town thinkin how mad it was, cant believe i was so deluded. DFO had so many new shops, more brands and cheaper prices.

The next time i went out i think was the thursday, i went out at like 10pm to play poker wif the boys. I met sek's gf there, sek u sick cunt u got urself a mad chick, just so everyone knows shes cute petite and got a nice shaped body, ahahah. Sek got so excited he drove beasts new holden astra and hit a car on the side, losing the side mirror. We did a search later that nite at 3am and i found the mirror under a car. After i lost in the first two rounds of poker we decided to goto maccas cause everyone was so hungry. The maccas next to the kebab shop on parra rd burwood was closed so we went to the maccas at stanmore. Lee was speedin down parra rd when the dirtiest thing happened. Two bok choy (police) were camped under the bridge at rick damelians, where fort street (my old high school) is, the clocked him at 94km/h in a 60km zone, thats 34 kms over, one shy from 35km which would have meant a instant 3 months suspension. But it was 1am and classified as friday, a part of anzac day long weekend, so we scared it mite be double demerits. The fine was like $579, which is freakin crazy, we really need a charity poker nite to help pay for that fine.

The next time i was out was friday, i was initially meant to meet up wif julz but no julz... john needed ur help for an essay.. ahahah dw julz i'll be in syd in july, but u gota come 2 my 21st, cant dog that julz, i meet up wif nugen instead. He had told me Andrew was in hospital for an infected kidney, which the hospital suspected TB, thus the hospitalisation. He was there for 5 days already. Anyways i decided to take this opportunity to meet up wif chez and alice as well. Alice was so nice to pop out of work during lunch and travel all the way from Wynyard to market city to see me and nugen. She had a light lunch, we took a photo on her camera and she was off to work again. Alice u look so professional wif ur long hair and classy clothes...ahahaha. Then me and nugen had lunch at opportos - SOMETHING adelaide does NOT have damit. Slowly do i realise how much i miss out on in adelaide. Chez sooned joined us and then we went to find RPA (roya prince alfred hospital) to visit andrew. I had to steal a bus timetable wif a map b4 we found the place. There wif andrew was his gf megan and le ching. I had planned to have dinner then casino than clubbin that nite wif my postie friends (which included le ching). What a small world running into le like that.

So after the visit, nugen and chez went home and i went of wif le back to market city to meet the rest. Megan had told me off for chosin mummas kitchen for dinner - it was Mai's idea anyways. Andrew told me to goto supperbowl and i got the crew to go there. I couldnt believe the turn out, almost everyone rocked up. And fark, supperbowl is so cheap and what else, it would have kicked any asian restaurant in adelaide by so much of a distance adelaide should be ashamed of itself. I had my camera wif me for the whole day and i didnt take a single photo. Henry and Duy rocked up but only for a little while, they said they had to go fishin in bankstown, everyone was like wtf, where is there water in bankstown ahahaha. Funny bastards, Duy rocked up all the way to us in his 200sx ahahah. After dinner everyone went home except me kimmy and alan. We went star city and put my gamblin plan in effect, but i was so pissed nervous and scared i told jimmy to run after he won $20, ahahaha. We prolly would have won more if we continued but fark who knows, starcity is 2 hectic, i always lose there. My dad called at that time and demanded me home as i had promised to take him to the opthamologist the next day at 9am. I was meant to go clubbin at verandah bar - NOT Ignite, because at ignite it was 18 year olds who want to stab and shoot ppl. Well dad drove all the way to the casino to pick me up and i went home.

I took my dad to the Opthamologist and he said there was nothing much wrong wif dad but we had to take MRI's just to be sure. The Surgery was in the thick of Cabramatta, an area in sydney where u wont see many non asian ppl. We went yumcha there, at tingha, and let me tell u, for a humble old restaurant in humble old Cabramatta, an area of lower socio economical background it would KILL any yumcha in Adelaide, god it would have killed any restaurant in adelaide, it had honkie MTV on plasma screens everywhere, and it had illegals pushing dim sum carts.

What have i learnt from my trip to Sydney? I use to think sydney was heavily segregated compared to adelaide and i use to think it was bad. But boy was i wrong, it is segregated but that shouldnt be the word to use. Sydney is multicultural, everyone prefers to hang with their own ethnicity, yes and rightly so, but the thing is everyone got along wif each other. I didnt realise to now, not once when i was in syd was there talk of compeition, no talk of comparison. And in Adelaide, where the ppl pride themselves heavily on having unity while tryin to act humble at the same time, were really compeitive, or maybe its just the ppl i meet in adelaide. Theres a night club next to tingha in cabramatta, and since its opening i dont think there has been a fight or any shootings, thats freakin amazing, and ppl everywhere goto it now, rich or poor, east or westy. I noticed how i talked to friends in syd, how there was no competition, there was only talk of fun and what ppl had done and where ppl have been out, congratulations of success wif things and offers of help when things are down. And the thing was ppl were from different backgrounds, yet all didnt discriminate. I guess because syd had so many ppl, so many places, if there was something good there'd be something better and something worse, no need for comparison or competition.

Im back in Adelaide now damit, all i have is my krispy kremes to remind me of syd. Another bad thing is i feel sort of old now, i dont feel like clubbin no more damit, but i do feel like raving. Everyone come to GODSPEED on the 2nd of July, a week b4 my 21st, come all.

posted by Quinton @ 10:51 pm