Saturday
I have finally purchased a car, and am going to the bank every day for the next 4 days to withdraw $500 a day (ATM Limit) to pay for it. It was $2300, and it is not me at all.
It is a Mauve Hyundai Excel, which is a little like an old Ford Escort. It is two doors, and a lift up boot lid (so I guess that you could call it a 3 door sedan)
It’s got dents and scratches everywhere, and not much inside is going for it either except it does have air-con, and it is cheap to run. It’s stereo doesn’t work very well. I’ll have to have a little tinker with it and I’ll be able to claim lots of petrol/mileage to pay for it.
If it breaks down, oh well, I’ll have to rethink my plan.
So that was the about the best bit of the day. I did go to a shopping mall (could of been the Florida Mall by the size and type of shops in it). I had a look around Target, and K-Mart, before wandering about inside, looking at places like Foot-Locker, The Body Shop, and a River Island (their cloths still don’t fit me here). I popped into the food court and had a large bowl of Mie Goreng (just like in Indonesia). I think the server was amazed, as I asked for it in Indonesian as well.
After that, I popped back home to look at the internet, to try and find some more properties to live in.
I found a place where there was a room to rent, with a BBQ, and a pool, and Broadband. I thought that was excellent, so I arranged a time to visit it. It was near the main bit of the city.
I drove down there, and met the man who was renting one of the rooms in his apartment. He seemed a little funny, and was a little camp. (I thought “Give him a chance, I need somewhere to live”. While he was showing me around the house, he was pointing out things such as “There is an iPod”, and “There is the Fridge”. Oh dear, I was thinking. He showed me the room, which was alright.
I can hear you thinking, what is the problem??? The next room he showed me was the store cupboard with some power tools in it. “You can make some cupboards, if you want”. And then the bathroom. He pulled out some sort of spray bleach type bathroom cleaner, and then said that he expected everyone to use the spray on the bathroom wall, during their shower. I could still put up with that for a while.
Then while chatting I asked if he was working – (I had already found out that he was a photographer – he takes arty shots of food such as asparagus, and an orange segment.) His reply was that he wasn’t working, as he was on medical disability benefit. Alarm bells started ringing, as at that point, while he was making me a coffee, I spotted a couple medication bottles in the cupboard. I recognised the name of the one of the drugs, and had to know more.
When I asked why he was on medical benefit, he told me that he had some major psychiatric problems (under control at the moment), because he smoked to much drugs when he was younger.
I have decided that it isn’t the place for me. He might be alright, but I am not going to risk it.
Anyway, that is how my day has gone. Very poorly, but I did laugh.
Supper was fish and chips, but not Cod. It was Red Snapper, and that was very nice.
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