Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Coachella Propels Us Forward




Here are two sad testaments to abruptly leaving a country - the chair had a "FREE" sign on it.







Rupal and I are in Sydney, Australia. Describing the events leading up to this would be incredibly boring due to the administrative nature of packing, selling, shipping, and moving; we will try our very best to keep this from being a laundry list of things that have happened, and rather paint an engaging (get it, engaging) story of how drasticly our lives have been altered, and hopefully shed some light on the whereabouts of Jimmy Hoffa, Osama Bin Laden, and perhaps Waldo.



Here is the first rule of moving internationally - I think it was invented by a physicist. It's called Murphy's Law. Basically whatever could possibly go wrong in any given situation will go wrong. I think Murphy's law is dependant upon making assumptions, because he was a physicist. And a complete jerk.

Assuming these are good ideas would lead any mathmatical formula to blow up:
  1. Rupal moving to Sydney without Josh
  2. Rupal moving to Sydney without a visa
  3. Rupal moving to Sydney without a return ticket
  4. Josh moving to Sydney without a job
  5. Josh selling all of the crap he has accumulated from being a packrat for 26 years
  6. Josh spending his last 2 weeks in the US traveling MDW->LGA->MDW->ORD->ALB->LGA->ORD->MDW->STL->CHI (via train)->MDW->LAX->NAN (FIJI)->SYD
  7. Just to clarify, that is 13 airports in about 16 days
  8. Shipping over 500lbs of womens shoes and pashminas
  9. Dr. Veramendi getting a doctorate
  10. Dr. Veramendi sending chest x-ray's the the Australian government when this is his sole responsibility
  11. Dr. Veramendi being one of two doctors in Chicago who are certified to do this task
  12. Dr. Veramendi not being the most incompetent doctor on planet earth
  13. Giving Josh enough free time to have any creative expression whatsoever
  14. Proposing to the woman you love 3 days before she flys to another country, continent, time zone, date, and season
Things we've told ourselves:
  • "Making false assumptions is a part of living, right?"
  • "Some day we'll look back on all this and laugh laugh laugh" (What Rupal said at 9pm when I was on the floor pinned between the two wheels of my new bike while trying to move it down stairs with a heavy spider plant).
  • "Why is everything so difficult in this country?"
    • Why do all apartments come with dryers, but not washers? Actually this is a government mandate. Any flat's which have a washer connection must have a dryer in the apartment.
    • Why do no apartments come with fridges? No reason. Just to make things difficult.
Best Idea I ever had:
  • Starting a joint bank account the minute I'm unemployed
Just so you don't stop reading now, here is our photoblog. fotblog. Picturlog. Pictures:

Why my last day of packing was so difficult



Welcome to Fiji



Welcome to the Blue Mountains



Welcome to Asian food paradise


Cut Copy - Bring Like Neon Love Is Right


We live THATAWAY about 4 blocks East of Hyde Park


Randoms of Sydney - Paddy Markets, crazy tree sculpture, and MC DONALDS?????


If you were wondering why our visas were held up:

Rupal killed this poor baby kangaroo. The Aussies weren't too happy about that.


So now we are busy with setting up our new flat. Last night the "relocaters" made 4 stops! We now own a fridge, a washing machine, a bed, a patio table and chairs, and a tv that is basically hand held. Send some love!

6 comments:

Andrew Broyles said...

Good to see you're settling in. Remember: if you're having trouble meeting the locals, they love being called descendents of convicts.


Rups, freeze some of that kangaroo meat and send it overnight for a bbq this weekend.

HSOJ said...

Thanks for supporting the comment section Mr. Broyles. I'll eat some bbq for you on the queen's birthday this Monday (national holiday). PS - we already own a propane bbq! Cheers to my full time job being "home maker".

kimcome said...

Nice to hear that you finally got there. Hope everything go well with two of you.

How will it be like to eat kangaroo meat? Hmm..I just imagine.
Let me know when you know anything about that.

Huddles said...

Did you really kill a kangaroo!??! Now that's a great one to use for 'two truths and a lie'...

Anonymous said...

you guys are the best!!! I love it! Sorry about the Kangaroo. Not at all suprised about Rupal's temper though.
Love you xoxox
Anny

Sandip said...

Get it? Ann-onymous>