Stand-up @ Glebe

Hello again!

Just came back from Glebe! Oh what a fun
night..:) Not much has been going on here
lately, as the weather is getting now
colder as we are moving towards winter
and many people here have assignments due
(as we might recall, ahem, I already
returned all my assignments for this year :))
But tonight saved the week!

Well actually the whole day has been really
good, in the morning I went to uni, had
a lecture on Internet Commerce and from there
I went to the Cairns Travel Agency to book
our trip with Elisa!!!! So now we are definetly
having a great plan for the month that she'll be
here..Brisbane, Hervey Bay and the Fraser Island
Safari, sailing at the Whitsundays, Magnetic
Island romantic retreat for couple days, Cairns
with snorkeling and just enjoying the warmth..
can not wait!!! :) It's going to be quite
expensive but experiences like that you just
can't measure in money. Anyway, now all the
hostels and activities have been booked
and front payment OK, now just have
to arrange some funds to pay for the
whole thing :)

In the afternoon we went shopping with Cristy
the flatmate for some pizza ingredients and
she and Bethany had made some mint-chocolate
slices earlier, and we had a yummy pizza-night
with chicken, bbq-sauce, mushrooms, bacon..
and of course some mintchocolatethingies :)
I didn't have any plans for the evening
so I just sat here on my computer wondering
what to do and leafing through
a website about stuff going on in Sydney..
and I noticed that in Glebe they were opening
a new stand-up night at Hotel Roxbury,
which is just 20 minutes walk from here!
As it was 20 to 8pm, I had to rush a bit
but just made it in time there to see the
show start! 6 beginning stand-up talents
were competing, some celebrity stand-up
comedienne MC and the main act by another
one..didn't know them beforehand but have
to admit they were good, got all the laughs
I went there to get I can tell you :D
So funny..

But alas, as all nice things come to an
end so did the evening end as well and I
had a nice long walk around Glebe back
here and now am ready to go have a shower
and go to bed early..tomorrow we're probably
having some sort of welcome-back party to
a guy that came back to Geegal from overseas,
so should be fun as well..for the weekend not
much planned yet, I'm attending a charity
casino-night arranged by a course for
event management from Kuring-Gai, a UTS
campus up North Sydney, if the weather seems
OK and I can talk Chris in to going with me
might go and check the Blue Mountains
on Saturday or Sunday, if first snow is on
the ground yet :)

What else..hmm, end of last week was lot of
out-going happening, but beyond that not much..
on Thursday it was Ibrahim's birthday that
we celebrated having cake , after which
we went to see Mission Impossible III
with people from Geegal and chilled at the
courtyard playing Tom Cruise and stuff,
on Friday it was Claire's Birthday which was
pretty cool :) We went to Burdekin Club
on Oxford Street, and from there to King's Cross
and the Empire..didn't stay too long but
grabbed a pizza slice from a grill and walked
home :) But it was fun to see again all the people
I met when I first came here, hadn't seen them
for AGES! Saturday..hmm..we definetly did
something on Saturday..OH YEAH! Alana had tickets
to Home nightclub, there was some weird artsy bands
playing so we went there with her and Sarah,
Michael and Ibrahim were supposed to join us but
didn't show up in the end..the bands were REALLY
weird so we just went down to HomeBar, which is a little
terrace on the side of Home itself..and from there back
home around midnight or so..Homebar is in Darling
Harbour, was really nice to be there as well again
during nighttime, it's just so beautiful there with
the bay and skyscrapers and the bridge..
Sunday I didn't get up to much, had a long walk in
the harbour area and CBD and read my new Terry Pratchett
book I borrowed from Cristy's friend Lei.
Monday we stopped at Scubar just to have few beers
but in the end spent there most of the night..:D

Yesterday I did absolutely nothing, felt it was
time to chill a little and not be out and about
all the time, just went to the International Business
lecture and tutorial, chilled here playing the
guitar..one of the best feelings after a long
weekend of late nights and even later mornings..:)

It's kinda weird how at the moment I don't actually
feel the need to be around travelling and doing stuff
all the time, but just really really waiting for
Elisa to get here so we can do the trip of a lifetime
with her here..but Sydney itself is tightening it's grip
harder than ever..I just so enjoy being here, around
during the day just watching people and walking the streets,
or at night checking out nice restaurants, clubs or bars,
or just here at Geegal hanging out with friends..starting
to understand that soon it will be over, and I'm wondering
will it be in the end as hard leaving here as it was leaving
Finland..(well, in some aspects not at all as hard as I have
Elisa here leaving with me, but I know I am going to miss so
many people so much..)

That it at the moment, now off to shower and
bed, read a book for a while and then sleep!