Week 35: Backpacker hostels (except Zackry's guesthouse, Langkawi) sucks balls.

greetings from hobart! i've been here since thursday of last week, and frankly, i'm starting to get really shit bored of the place and i can't wait to get off the island. don't get me wrong though, hobart is a FANTASTIC place...scenery-wise. but activity-wise, it's rather lacking. at the moment i'm staying in a backpacker's accommodation, the tv's broke and the whole damn place is fucking old and scary AND dodgy - considering that i was staying at the leisure inn the few days before (which is suddenly looking a whole lot 5-star to me), sigh fml.

anyway, been spending my days at the australian antarctic division for training and doing other miscellaneous stuff. suddenly i'm all the more keen and excited about my trip just because there were so many fabulous pictures hanging on all the walls throughout the division! and i met tons of highly interesting people there who told me stories of their past experiences down south - it seems like i can never run away from doomed alcoholics because the aad personnel (or anyone under its banner that's heading south anyway) are all drunkards. it's true. they were telling me how much alcohol they already have stashed for the season in antarctica and i'm caught between being highly amused and impressed. at least i know people who will now gladly offer me some (they found out that i had none and pulling the sad asian girl face always works).

HOWEVER, work and shitty (ok la actually it's not that bad - the place is relatively clean and there's a lot of people moving about BUT i just KNOW that i'm gonna wake up tonight and see 'something' staring at me fuck man i'm sleeping with my lights on) backpacker hostels aside, i had a WONDERFUL weekend here in hobart! i'm not gonna delve into too much detail about it but needless to say, without this weekend, i would've probably gotten sick of hobart way earlier. highlight of the weekend: mt wellington. best fucking spot EVER. i mean, not the best spot for fucking (although, it might actually BE the best spot), but ah, you get my drift. loved it!

ok la..this is shit. i'm gonna retire into my dingy four-walled single-bed room and read up on my papers. and probably go to sleep early, sleep of which i'm severely lacking.

and oh ya! the research station that i'll be going to (Davis Station) is actually 6 hours behind eastern australian standard time (sydney, melbourne) and 3 hours behind malaysian time. AWESOME! for once i'm gonna be the one telling people NOT to sleep so early!

ok good bye, till my next weekend WHICH I CAN'T WAIT FOR!