Home sweet home?

It is time to set up the plans to be back home. Well, as I had said before many changes has happened here, Obviously that they are not my wishes. One of them is that, I have not worked for a couple of weeks at IT company and It is not likely to be back there again, you know the business here is not going well and as result the unemployment rates rise up sharply. The financial year is going to finish at the end of this month as consequence the companies must plan the new projects, budget and everything for the new year, however the most of them have confirmed that will reduce the staff hour, ask the employees to take leave and the worst is cut staff. So here I am indefinitely at home without job so that I keep on working at restaurant at the weekend which it has been good enough to pay the ordinary bills, although if I need some skateboard stuff such as decks, wheels and skate shoes, I will need to withdraw from my savings, but that is alright, I ought to have a fun sometimes and enjoy this moment here.
Therefore I have decided to start the IELTS preparation again and stop studying the business course which is awful and useless if you wish learn something and Also I study at home after school in order to take the exam and get a good result as I need. Well, I hate that damn exam.
Meanwhile I am planning my backing trip to Brazil I do not even know when I would stop over, heaps of facts make me confused with the options and other factor is that at the end of the year the flight ticket becomes the double of the price. Everybody wants to see the relative at the Christmas and it is likely to run out the ticket. I should buy it before too longer.

My skateboard and Digital Camera

Many changes....

Well, well, well, Since the last time that I have written here, a plenty of things has changed. Firstly the weather, the temperature decreased sudden and I got my warm clothes that were in the bags and I have turned the heater on at night and also kept the window completely closed during, I had never needed to use the heater in Brazil before, even thought when I was in place where is really cold there.
The other changing was that I moved out from my flat, after long months there, I decided to get out to a new place, in fact I knew this place a long time ago, moreover heap of friends of mine have lived in it and I used to come here where I live now. The place is a big house with several rooms, bathrooms and a huge kitchen where is great to make dinner with the mates. All rooms have TV, microwave oven, a small fridge and sink. You can do a snack in the room, although you are not able to cook properly. Therefore my flatmate is Indian and Kiwi citizen for more than 10 years when he left India and one curious fact is that he is Catolic so that there are some saint pictures in the room. To be honest I had never thought about a Catolic Indian before I knew him, that is interesting. He said where he comes from in India the major of people are catolic, awesome, isn't it? On the other hand, he smokes and drinks as anyone else does.
As a consequence of the winter season here, I am bored and got back to work in Petersham permanently, in addition I would like to save more money I might need it to go back to Brazil or travel in anywhere. I have not thought about this, however I guess it is better begging saving it, honestly I would want to travel instead of going back home in particular a Spanish speaker country. I am conscious that my English is poor, on the other hand I wish to learn Spanish soon. Furthermore it is really similar with Portuguese that I believe that 3 months studying it will be enough.
When i was living in the city I used to complain about the noise of the traffic, police, ambulance and the garbage collector, here it is not so different, of course that is much lesser than the city, however at the weekend we can hear everybody leaving the night club nearby my new house. Also the place where I live is closer the Oxford street which is the hottest gay spot in the city, Australia or world. So the shops, cafes, night clubs whatever here is related for the them and the shop windows are definitely creepy ahah, in fact nobody cares about this and everybody respects all here.

Photo: I took that picture when my mates lived here in order to tease them, but as you know, I live here ahah! Look at the flag on the top ahah!

Skating at Hyde Park!

Nothing special!

After a stressful day at work, I went to my second home which is the Hyde park and after a couple of hours of skating with the buddies, I got home and ate a delicious muesli with milk, honestly I was pretty lazy to cook the dinner and also I have not spent money with food take away or fast food. Fortunately I met my Korean neighbor and her friends, In fact I had texted her and bothered so as to follow them in the Korean restaurant nearby our building. I was afraid of hanging out with them, because last time that I hung out with Korean guys, as consequence I learned a plenty of Korean words. On the other hand, this time was the opposite so that we spoke munch more English. I would not eat, however I could not stand looking at them eating and therefore I assisted with them! It was a funny evening and after the restaurant we bought some beers and stopped by in my flat.
Next day, on Saturday I helped Alan to move to Pyrmont. Notably he has not been a nice flatmate so that is the second time that he has been kicked out by the flatmate of him ahahah! However the new place of him is awesome, he has got the own room, cable TV, only one flatmate, Moreover privacy in living there, though it misses Internet connection, he has already figuring a service provider. Then I came back home in order to take a rest and skate soon, however I received a call from my previous job, the Portuguese restaurant in Petersham. They had called once before in order to work there again, but I did not accept the proposal which is to work every weekend, though I was in doubt to accept it and earn and save money, but this Saturday was a causal opportunity so as to I worked and Indeed It was so much fun, because I know what I have to do it there exactly, In addiction I can talk to the customers, but that day I was there to teach the new young waiter who was embarrassed and lost, however he will survive there, I did ahaha!
Although it was a warm day on Sunday, I went to Waterloo in the afternoon with Louis an Australian skater who taught me how to use the Dictionary T9 in my mobile which helps a lot to write even faster. He spent the most of the time sit on floor under the tree than skating properly, otherwise I could not stop skating even with my big toe hurting, because last time that I skated there I hit it on the smaller rail slider and there are bruises and it is a bit swollen. Even though I enjoyed a lot in the mini ramp made of metal which is a shit hot! I dream with one in my backyard!

The weekend before the last one!

 To sum up, the weekend before the last one I went to celebrate the Leandro`s birthday at Kings Cross and I did not know that we must be a little bit dress up to get in the pub and night club there. In fact, it needs to wear shoes and a cool shirt that is all and I met my other mate in the way to the party, by the time he watched me wearing skate shoes, T - shirt and pants, he got mad at my skater style and therefore I went back home to change the clothes. That pissed me off!

  On Saturday was really cool, skate fellow and I would go to Waterloo, however nobody did and we were at the Hyde park skating in the sunny afternoon, meanwhile I set up the digital camera on the tripod and recorded a plenty of time our tricks and falls, later I upload something in the YouTube.
Finally on Sunday I woke up early, cooked my lunch, tidied up my room and went to a barbecue at the Bronte beach. To be honest, it was boring or I was bored, it was like to be both, so there were some former school mates and others who I did not want to talk to them, because I have not been in the mood to make new friend. After that, I got back to the city with some friend by car, however I did not get off in the city and so in Redfern which is nearby Waterloo that is synonymous with Skateboard and fun.

Devil in my flat!

To begin on Friday as usual I played pool with my friend Alan who lost the match as all of us know that and that time the excuse was that he has been ill, bullshit, he deserved that! I ought to respect him, because he bought an Wii and I wish to play it more. 

The house became a hell on Saturday morning when I realised that the Mongolian flatmate was so drunk who slept wearing clothes and in addition the room smelt pure alcohol. So I got up and ate my breakfast that was cereal, muesli, sugar and milk. I have to admit that I am keen on this combination. 

   After the meal I went to assist Alan with the new toy which was a huge LCD TV and I should have got my skateboard to help us to come with the big box which was heavy as well. Then he paid me a lunch and we set up the Wii, laptop and TV, in the end we played it.
   By the time I got home, the Taiwaneses who are cooks and flatmates also said to me that the Mongolian twisted a Taiwanese`s special cooking spoon and punched him on the face. In fact I did not figure out what he meant, but I realised when I saw the Mongolian guy totally drunk in the balcony. He pissed everybody off such as breaking the toilet stuff, throwing up and spending the whole day on the sofa, taking the cigarette from the guys, drinking his and the guys` bottle and put down and damage the bed.
   Therefore, I just hid my laptop in safety spot and I went to hang out with friend at a birthday party nearby my flat and moreover I would not stay at home to look after any drunk to annoy me. 

   On the other hand, at the party I was honestly really lost, so that, I knew a few people and I have not been in the moody to make new friends and talk the same topics which often comes up.   After almost two moths I drank a beer, because I have not been felt the stomach well these days. Surely I was persuaded by Caio who had tried many times that, however he won. 
  Notably, I opened the door and I saw the Mongolian on the sofa drinking again, but the flamates put a medicine in his drink and consequently he slept until Sunday morning and we had a bit of peace.
   Despite the fact to be Sunday I woke up early so as to cook for my neighbour Yu Jin, a simple the simplest Brazilian food which is rice, beans, fried chicken and salad. Meanwhile the drunk guy was on the sofa sleeping under the medicine effect. So Yu Jin who is my Korean friend and I walked around of the Rocks and Harbour Bridge and took some pictures. It was fun, though Yu Jin came back home soon to work at the stadium. I was still avoiding to be at home and for this reason I took a bus to Waterloo, but before I came back in the flat, the Mongolian had sworn at the Taiwanese guy so that they had fought in the room. To be honest I did not give a shit.
  Surprisingly, there was nobody in Waterloo, indeed there was a few guys and I had skated a dozen of minutes and the rain started, so I sat beside an English guy that was cool, however it was really tough to understand him! Oh, poor is this English which has no longer improved.    Sudden, the rain stopped and the floor was so warm that got dry quickly.
  I started again and meanwhile the English was bolstering me, despite I was not in the moody to skate well and also felt very tired. After all I played Wii with Alan and finally I went to bed, but before I had talked to my mom who always asked to fix anything in computer of her in Brazil, oh Gosh!
  When I arrived from my job on Monday my flat mates said to me that it was really hard to kick the Mongolian out, I would go to forget to say that he does not speak English and he did not figure out that he should get away but, in the end, there is always a happy end, So He left the flat in the afternoon at around 5. Obviously he did not understand why he was kicked out and at 6:30 his Mongolian mate and he knocked the door and asked us what had happened that he was kicked out? And that time he realised, because his mate translated and he saw how many shit he had done here and pissed us off. This is my exciting life!

Photo was taken from Harbour brigde.

At the weekend! Who cares?

Well, the weekend started when I came back home from my job and I had to decide whether I would buy a skateboard deck or not. So I sat on my bed and checked the bank account and the future expenses in order to ensure that I would not have a tight budget at the end of the mouth, therefore after a plenty of calculations, I figure out that I could buy it then I ran towards the shop, by the time I got there, the store was with the lights off and closing, Fortunately there was a friend by chance buying a deck as well as I chose mine. After that my friend and I arrived at the Hyde Park where we usually skate with the others fellows who were impressed by my new skateboard deck, but it does not matter in a few days will be damaged again, we had a great time skating there.
Although I got up midday, it was an exciting day, firstly I cooked my lunch and went to meet the buddies, but in the way I met Tim who was going to check out a room nearby Taylor square indeed it was so funny when I look at him the other side of the street with the luggage on the skateboard and he pushing the skate so that we were to see the single room which was not so bad, I thought a bit dark and the house mates are weird, Despite of that, he liked it. I hope that he feels better now and begins a new life, because he has been really depressed at the last house and also he is unemployed. Later we took on the train from Museum station to Green square where the closest train station to Waterloo that I did not know is. I used to get off at Redfern which is really far from the Skate Park. In fact the reason to be at Waterloo was a tribute to Shane Cross who was died by a motorbike accident in Melbourne two year ago while Ali Boulala other professional skater as well was riding the motorbike. Neither of them were not wearing helmet and also Shane had a blood alcohol level of 18 while Boulala had a level of 162 (one hundred and sixty two) as consequence one died and other behind the bars. However at the Waterloo everybody was skating and enjoying and also Dustin Dullin bought a bunch of pizzas which ran out quickly.
Finally we came back to the City and spent a lot of time in the Hyde Park waiting for the parade which we did not watch, because there were a bunch of folks in our front and we were talking with other guys as well.
After the parade Tim went back home and I hung out with Caio who was my school mate six months ago. To begin with, Caio would like to drink beer, but I have not drunk for age in order to not feel my stomach in a good condition to drink as I did, Despite of He insisted on going to drinking all the time. So we went to walking around at Surry Hills, by the time we were coming back, two Australian women who were sitting on the stairs in front of the house called us and one of them got my skateboard and showed what she could do with the board. Honestly she was pretty good and said to us that when she was at around ten years old, she used to do it.
We were there for at least one hour and we went away when suddenly we had seen some guys running and heard they yelled, as a result we looked at back they were fighting and consequently one of the guys crumbled a beer bottle on the head of other one, but they were so unlucky that the two police cars were besides of them and they arrested half of the guys, meanwhile Caio and I were watching the cops action when a cop woman asked the arrested guy if we were his mates also and then the asshole said that we were, I thought he did not see us exactly in the dark street and said that.
For this reason the cop woman called us to come over there, but immediately I told her that we were just walking and it was clear that we did not know anyone. Finally she said just to get off from there. We stopped by Oxford Street in order to eat something. Although I thought the night was over, a friend of mine called me to meet her mates at the Hyde park nearby the Cathedral, by the time we got there, we laughed a lot, because everybody was drunk and some of them were falling asleep on the floor and other were making our night much more funny than we hoped. At the end some started crying and after that we were assisting with taking them at home. Caio had receive a call from a school mate, naturally we gave up to help the stubborn drunk guys to take home and our last spot of the day was Pyrmont where I saw how good is that house with a pool table in the living room, though we did not play, because it was at 4pm, who knows next time, that sounds good.
On Sunday rained and I was at home doing homework that pissed me off and others stuffs whole day until Leandro came over to copy some movies.
To sum up, it was a pretty cool week end, for sure that could be better, though I enjoy it as well as I could do it.

Photo: Unfortunately, I have not taken pictures, so this one I took at the Hyde park wearing the Chilean mate's sunglasses.

Sharks are still hungry

It has been sunny and warm this means a perfectly time to enjoy bodyboarding at the beach, however the hungry sharks are still biting the surfers as it is noticed yesterday there was one more case. A fifteen years old young surfer was bitten by shark that can be the white one breed, despite of that the guy has been going fine after doing a surgery that took four hours. I have to admit that freaks me out the fact to be bitten by one but also I miss my bodyboard, Although I can not stand in the water enjoying while any shark is likely to bit me off and Therefore I have spent my spare time skating, to be honest it has been safer nowadays around here, despite of I hurt my ankle while I skated, it does not seems too safer as well. 

   In addition on Sunday was a perfect beach day, although Tom and I went to Waterloo skate park  and for our surprise there were a few guys who got off soon in order to the warm day which looked like the hell, by the time it is practised any sport. In the same way, Tom and I came back home soon also, because one hour was good enough to makes us exhaust as well as we were starving in that sun. I could have gone to the beach and kept on the safety sand that would be enjoyable and relax.

Photo: while the guys were skating, I took this pic which is a Church nearby the Hyde park. 

We had a peaceful flat

February was a wonderful month at home, we were with a half of the flatmates here, because the others mates were travelling in Thailand which is their home country, However the heaven has finished the first one has been back and the Thai couple are likely to be back tomorrow. They are excellent buddies, but the flat will be full again as a consequence there will be more people to share the bathroom, TV, stove and moreover less privacy which I consider the most important. Therefore we were few people and  some skateboarders fellows came in here in order to watch skate videos that was pretty cool and at that time I sincerely felt at home, though it was not. Indeed it is a big deal when there are a bunch of guys in the house and it becomes uncomfortable for all if you come over with my friends. In fact I avoid that situation and still dream with my own flat.

Photo: sightseeing from my balcony

Bondi Skateboard Contest

Last Saturday as I wrote here I went to Bondi beach to watch the Skateboard contest that was awesome, it was the best vertical competition that I have seen and also the greatest name of vertical skaters were there including a legend of the skateboard Steve Caballero who I took a picture with him as you see it above. He is as important for the Skateboard as the Beatles to the music.

Although they were pretty competitive, the winner Buck Lasek was absolute in the bowl and therefore he won again this year. 

  However two facts ruin the contest, firstly a shower of rain sometimes broke for drying the floor and secondly the women cops arrested two or three guys who were drinking alcohol there. The guys resisted arrest and then the mess was huge.

  

Unfortunately I was far from the bowl and consequently my pictures were not so good, Despite I get almost 200 pictures. I should have taken a digital camera of a friend of mine which is quite efficient for the occassion, By the time I got there, I could not find a seat to me, it was crowded that I had to wait some minutes to take a seat, even though I got a place that I watched 95% of the bowl, because there were many people in front of me. So I hope to be here next year in order to see again.

Photos: it is me and Steve Caballero while it was raining a lot and Rune Glifberg f/s tailgrab.

No Skateboard!

I was coming from office today and I thought about my expenses and I realised that I have to save money in order to wait for my next wage. This month I spent a huge amount of money with school, visa and also a medical exam that was requested by immigration, however the good thing is I am no longer getting my savings from Brazil, because I have spent the money which I have earned here. 

So I thought about Skateboard at the weekend and whether I had courageous to face the sharks at Bondi beach, I would go bodyboarding, in addition It is going to be sunny finally and I am keen on that beach environment. By the time I got home and honestly I was pretty tired, nevertheless I ate something and went to Hyde Park to skate, I was enjoying with the fellows skateboarders when I made a mistake and put my foot on the wrong part of board tail and then the shit deck broke as a result I lost my toy, consequently my weekend as well, hell! by the time I bought this deck, I knew which was too soft and it would break easily and it did. I should have changed it at the first day, however I did not. That`s pissed me off!

Later the Chilean mate came over and said to me that it will take a Skateboard competition at Bondi tomorrow with the top skateboarders including the Brazilian Bob Burnquist and fortunately that makes me happy. Awesome I will be there. Would you like to go? Call me?

Competition website: http://www.bowlarama.com.au/ 

Here I am, mate!

Well, I have been far from the blog during this summer and many things have been going on including bushfire, At first, the summer has been a shame, my friend who lives here told me that the previous one was warmer. It has rained and  in some days was cold. So when I go to the beach, I have to put my jumper in the backpack, Although other fact has scared me indeed, there have been six shark attacks with one guy died and surely all of them injured during this season, by the time I went bodyboarding in Brazil, I used to see turtle, but I am likely to be bitten off by shark here . The last case happened at the spot which I often go. That`s why I said to my colleagues I love skateboard.

Unfortunately my situation at work is the same as at the beginning, the world crisis has done the business dropping dramatically that a plenty of co-workers had changed the job in the office before the company fired them and consequently on last Friday was fired six women there moreover two will leave this month in the IT department, so there will be working there only  . of the staff, However It seems that goes a bit better the IT Department, because we are getting some small websites to develop.

I am turning one year in overseas on 16 March, it is pretty fast the time and the most of my friends have gone back to their country, It is quite weird, because I need to look for another group of mates again, I believe that the solution is to make resident friend. Despite of I Know Skateboarders in the city, I do not hang out with them. We usually meet in the Hyde Park in order to skateboard, Nevertheless you must take care with the rangers and cops, it is not allowed skateboarding in it.

Meanwhile of that I finished IELTS course and I started the new one which is a really shit course, as a result the cheapest one. I studied twice a week with three hours per day, to be honest I really would like to study more as I did at my first school here, that was a shit hot school.

To conclude I will try to write in English here, In addition I get a bunch of friend around the world ahah. If you find out mistakes, let me Know, right?

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