On Uni summer holiday???
Hero have recently hinted to me that he’d “like it very much” if I could come over and visit him in Cairns for the Australia Day public holiday. Poor guy is again sent to oversee a project in Cairns.
This hint, despite the fact that we will see each other when he comes home to the Coast the following week after Australia Day week.
“I want to show you where I used to work before,” he told me. “And I missed you.”
Can’t argue with that. But I pointed out to him that I’m moving out and will have bonds and extra costs to pay. If I were to head to Cairns, I will have to bust my butt working. This is a concept that Hero still can’t get used to—the fact that I prefer paying my own way. His idea was, I am his girlfriend. If I need money from him, he won’t complain. So why worry?
“You know I’ll pay for you to come over if you want to,” he hinted again.
My idea is, I don’t like troubling people if I don’t have to. Also, if we want to be calculative, he pays for almost EVERYTHING for me. I want him to spend his hard-earned money on himself. Have been bugging him to maybe buy himself a sports jacket. But my man couldn’t care a hoot about himself. If he have to sleep on the floor, he will. He just needs food, beer and a place to sleep.
I told him it wasn’t necessary. He already paid for our trip to Mackay to visit his family, and then he’s paying for my phone bills. His rationale was that calling is usually his job, and because he was stuck in Mission Beach with a prepaid plan, I had to do the calling.
“Nah, babe. If that’s the price I have to pay to have my baby here…”
Do I have a gem or what?
That aside, I need to know if I am needed at the bakery for Australia Day. We are severely understaffed now. I’ve been taking over three extra shifts until we find one or two new person. The thing about that job is…it’s not hard but there is a lot to do. And if you’re not quick and efficient, you’re going to suffer a hell lot. Customers don’t stop coming, and you don’t stop moving. And if you’re slow, you’re going to annoy a lot of people. The computer system takes a while to get used to too, and I’ve been memorizing the price so that I can just sum purchases up in my head. It’s just too much trying to navigate my way around the system. Also because I’m Asian. Stereotypes say my brain calculation is faster than the computer. I say, amen to calculators.
I have to wake up early tomorrow morning to head to the City. I have to start enrolling to Griffith for next semester. I’m sure that is added inconvenience compared to just continuing postgraduate in my current Uni but it has to be done. Moving institutions…arrrgghhh!
I don’t think both of us can stand being apart for so long already. And if he can sacrifice much for me, I can sacrifice sleep and trips to get things done.
Commuting takes a toll on me especially because I’m usually the one travelling to see him. He have considered coming down several times but I told him it wasn’t going to be easy for him, seeing that he works. I work too, but my shifts are in the afternoon, so going back to Brisbane in the morning is in time enough for afternoon shifts.
The problem is that I feel misplaced every few days. Uprooting myself from Brisbane to be in Gold Coast, and then just when I feel comfortable enough in Gold Coast, I have to return to Brisbane again. And vice versa. It unsettles me.
So yeah, being busy now to settle some necessary things is good enough if it means six months from now, I’d have an easier life.
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