Monday, March 27, 2006

i'm in Perth now! currently 8:48am here, but I'm still working on Sydney time... so I woke up at 6am here.

Flying here wasn't too bad. There was an empty seat next to me, so it didn't feel too cramped. But flying to Perth seems like such a waste. 4 hour plus flight, and you still end up in Australia. Sheeesh. I think flying to NZ is faster.

I'm just gonna take a break for today. Do a bit of research online, and I'll drive down to Mandurah tomorrow. I think I'll just go down there for 2 or 3 days to have a look. I'm not exactly optimistic, but see how it goes la.

I'm on dialup modem right now. So damn awfully slow... after having used broadband for the past 2 years or so, I can't imagined how I lived with dialup last time. I'm never going back to the dark ages!!

Thursday, March 23, 2006

the showerhead broke off...


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its kinda gross inside. rusted to the max. the rust was actually why it dropped off... and I gargle my mouth with the water when i'm in the shower. eeewwww. ignorance really is bliss.

Sunday, March 19, 2006

I would say its been a semi-productive weekend. I went out with my work colleagues on Fridy night. It was one of the project manager's bucks night. We had dinner at "I'm Angus" at Cockle Bay. Not a bad restaurant, but a tad disappointing. We were in a big group, so we were forced to have a set menu.

I had calamari for an entree, and steak for mains. The calamari turned out nicely. The batter was crispy and the saltiness was just nice. And the calamari was tender too. Although I expected better from the presentation. Using an oversized plate is fine, as long you decorate it. Leaving a third of the plate empty isn't. Should at least decorate it with some salads (not that I would touch that. Could have decorated it with the passionfruit dipping sauce (which was quite nice).

The steak was only so-so. The $5.95 steak from Shark Hotel looks and taste roughly the same. Not bad, but dissappointing. The meat was ok, but the chefs charred the outside too much. And the mash couldn't beat what I had at The Three Weeds. Oh! and since it was a buck's night, we had the buck drink out of a tit straw, and he had a ball & chain attached to him at the start. At the end of dinner, he had a blowup donkey strapped around his waist, and he had to walk around Darling Harbour looking like that.

Adjourned to Men's Gallery after that. No buck's night is complete without a naked females. Although honestly, MG is rather boring. Only 1-2 nice girls out of the lot. The rest not to my tastes. Aihs... I think the club that I went to in Melbourne was a lot better. Bar 29? Club 69? Can't recall the name. It had stage shows and most of the girls were hot, so it was a lot more interesting. At least I know I won't be the type to hang out at these kind of places much in the future. Much rather be laming at home rahter than pay a cover charge to go these kind of places. Or maybe it depends on how inebriated you are at the time. Hmmmm.

Saturday... had an appointment with another mortgage broker in the morning. Opened up some different avenues in regards to my property investing. I have to mull over a few things now. Good and bad I suppose. Might have to reconsider my investing plan. More on this, when I know more. The rest of the day... cleaning up the house, anime and WoW.

Sunday... nothing much to do. Read some comics that fatty left behind. Got my hair cut. Looked at property listings. Regular sunday stuff.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

I got off work early today. Had to send a guy to the airport, so just went home instead of going back to work. Heheh.

I had an appointment with a mortgage broker yesterday. Aussie Home Loans. Not bad. The meeting took much longer than expected, so I ended up with a 2 hour lunch break ^_^ Learnt a fair bit from it. I should be able to get a loan up to $300K approved. Only problem is my employment status. I'm not really permanent with the company, but I'm not really a contractor either. It should be ok as long as the banks don't really question it. Even if they do, I think I can get get a letter from the company with ermmm... some details omitted. Heheheh.

See how it goes. I'm gonna lodge for loan pre-approval later this week, or maybe early next week. Don't really have much tiem in a way. It would be best to have a preapproval before I go to Perth. Wouldn't kill me though. After playing around with the program I wrote (to pull property listings off the web), I think the prices of the area I'm going to look at is pretty high. Oh well. I'm headed down there anyway, so its not a loss even if I can't find anything.

I'm gonna start looking at information services now. I need to have proper historical data regarding property if I want to be serious about this. Forums are so useful in this respect. Already found a few agencies that looks promising. Off to work then...

Monday, March 13, 2006

i've decided over the weekend that I'm going to throw myself on to the property bandwagon. and not just think about it. i'm gonna do something about it. I did a little research on WA property (mainly South of Perth) and decided that I'm going to start looking there.

I just booked my flight to Perth at the end of the month. Applied for a week's leave from work. And I'm lining up appointments with a couple of mortgage/home loan brokers this week.

I'm finally taking action. About bloody time as well. I'm not entirely confident that I can come away with a good deal during this trip, but its definitely going to be a learning experience. Plus I get to take a break from work as well! Getting quite excited over this. All the best to me! ^_^

Friday, March 10, 2006

its finally friday. it felt like the weekend will never come. work felt a bit stressful this week. a lot of annoyance that just ticks me off. thats the shitty thing about the work I do. I have to juggle both my purchasing role, my network/computer admin role, and also implement the now-not-so-new accounting system. And recently just finished organising the company's new telephone network. Switched over to a digital system. I'm actually going for the administration course in about 15 minutes, which is why I've got time to sit at home to blog.

In a way, I don't really mind the workload that I have. Its just that I can't hardly sit down and complete a task without being interrupted with something else. If I'm trying to work on the accounting system, some random guy will come up to me saying they need a part urgent! yesterday! now!... I get the goods in that day itself, and it often just sits on the floor for a couple of days o_O wtf?!

If I work on processing my purchasing paperwork, or work through my quotes. I get interrupted by someone saying printers aren't working. Printers are down cuz someone clogged up the pipeline with a few 100MB print jobs o_O ARRgggghhhhh!!! Check the damn print queues!!!

When my contract ends in April, the company is gonna have to give me a huge pay rise... or I just don't do purchasing anymore. But even then, I'm gonna have to get a pay rise if they want me to stay. Put myself on a 60K package ^_^

Enough of a rant, have to leave for my training course liao.