In Other Words

Initial Mistakes

So I completely buggered up last night. I’m very annoyed with myself, actually. We were taken to this big house party by Ken (the flat caretaker) and then I proceeded to get ill and vomit into the kitchen sink. That while I had only had two beers while I had been there (I might have drunk them a bit too quick and starting up at 1 o’clock didn’t help much either, I imagine.)

That while Ken had tried to take us out the night before and Liana had gotten dehydrated and had needed to go home early as well. I imagine that he’s a little annoyed with us planning to go out and then get sick on him. Not our intention, of course, but we must appear like really boring people when we do that.

In fact the last four nights that we’ve tried going out have all bunged up. The first time we fell asleep and didn’t wake up till the morning. The next night I had bruised my toe so badly that I could hardly walk (let alone walk to the bar district). The next night Liana got sick and the one after it was my turn. Three more days and we’ll have buggered up a week of nights out.

Well at least I know that I shouldn’t start so damned early anymore. I guess I was just too excited with getting a new life started in a new place and as a result I got so drunk that the only thing I did was vomit.

There sure looked to be a lot of drugged up people at that party. Quite a difference from little old Singapore. One doesn’t have to hide it over here, after all the worst that can happen over here is a quick slap on the wrists and a cop taking the drugs off of you, that is as long as you’re not dealing anyway.

Hopefully we’ll manage to find more similar parties, because they would be damned useful to build up a bit of a social network. I’ve noticed that people are far more approachable after they’ve swallowed a few pills or snorted a few lines.

Oh well, let’s not dwell on the past. At least I’ve been driving a little bit these last couple of days and am happy to report that I have lost absolutely none of the skill that I had before. Yes, that’s right, I’m still as bad as always. I tried to take one bush along for a ride (unfortunately the bush of the owner’s of the car) and I demonstrated my skillful ability of completely ignoring curbs as I park.

Actually it wasn’t all that bad, the many thousands of kilometers in Europe seem to have remained. Also, this place is damned easy to drive. A lot less traffic then in Singapore and the rest of the people seem to at least have an idea of what they are doing, despite the fact that a good percentage of them don’t even have their permits.

If you’re wondering why I haven’t updated each day, well that’s because we don’t have day to day access to the Internet. It’s odd, not having continuous exposure to the world wide web. I’m managing ok (no withdrawal symptoms yet), but I do feel like I’m beyond that scope of civilisation. Kind of nice now, but I wonder how I’ll be holding up in a couple of months.

Even if we were to get internet it would be a modem connection, so no just downloading a newspaper will take far too long. Oh well, at least we have a really nice garden to while away the hours in. That makes up for a bit.

For those that are interested, still no progress on the job front. Still, things could be worse, like I could have fucked up our visit to a house filled with like-minded people. Oh wait, I did.

posted by Symbol @ 26.12.04