Blog On The Barbie: Walking on a dream...how can I explain?

Song: "Walking on a Dream" by Empire of the Sun

May 23rd

Today I decided to see how the other half live, a.k.a. what my life would be like if I was pursuing something I loved and enjoyed.

I went to Sydney's SAE (School of Audio Engineering) Institute's Open House. I took the free candy and I went on a tour. I learned about Foley artists (they make the sound that you can't really record in movies, like footsteps and doors closing, etc.) and looked at all sorts of cool machines and software that was completely foreign and fascinating to me. I don't really know why I did it, except that it looked cool, and I wanted to, so I did.

Here's a pit where they make Foley sounds:

From Another Sydney Weekend

Anyway, free candy. Sweet. I also bought a kebab from the place next to Scruffy's while walking back to the bus stop. Oh how I love kebabs. It started raining, but I didn't really care. I got on the bus, and all was well.

On the way back, the rain stopped a little so the sun could come out and there was a gorgeous rainbow over the opera house. Unfortunately, I was on the bus, so this was the best picture I got:

From Another Sydney Weekend

But still, it was gorgeous.

When I got home, it was time for Mary P.'s birthday party at Lowenbrau. I got ready and then met up with people for cake. The rest of the crew split up and went to the bus, and I went to grab Tara's friends to take them out. A bunch of people were at the Lady Gaga and Pussycat Dolls concert, including Tara. So I told her I'd grab her friends and get them into the city. We didn't take the same bus as everyone else, but we got there. Abbey and her cousin James were a lot of fun that evening. We were going to go to Lowenbrau to meet up with Mary and the rest of the birthday party, but we were given this look by the bouncer that we should go away and come back in half an hour. I feel like bouncers are taught that phrase and "how much have you been drinking tonight?" I think we would have been fine, but we opted instead to go to The Observer and wait it out. The Observer was pretty much just older guys and eighties music. The three of us had a good time though. Good fun. We then found out that the Lady Gaga crew was getting back to Lowenbrau, so we headed back up Argyle street and joined them.

Reunited, post-concert and post-Observer:

From Another Sydney Weekend

The waitresses have to wear ridiculous clothes:

From Another Sydney Weekend

I had my first mango beer tonight. That was interesting. Considering I don't like beer, it was actually pretty good. Beer-lovers despise it.

Anyway, somewhere in there I ran into Greg and we went with Brendan and Elise to Jacksons on George. I believe I met some Australian applied physics major/grad student who followed us around a bit too. Anyway, we were there for a bit, and then split off and Greg and I went back to the bus stop. On the way we found a broken bus stop window thing and took pictures.