The suburb where we are staying is five minutes drive from the beach, 30 minutes drive to my work place in the morning and close to shops, a shopping centre and a leisure centre that has a big gym, an indoor pool and a sauna. Our house is a gazillion time bigger than our old cottage back in Crovie and with our shipping containers still on their way, it still feels a bit empty - except for our bedroom, the fridge and the kitchen cabinet. I have bought a few plants to put around the house to make it looks liveable, as well as weekly fresh bouquet.
I don't know what we need a big house for, but knowing a lot of paintings are coming and the agent - and the landlord, are not too fuss about us putting them up on the wall, I'd like to think that those empty walls will be put into some good use. My surfboard is being put in the third bedroom until I know where to hang it. Some incoming boxes might go in there too while in the process of unpacking, which will take ages.
There is a big palm tree in front of the house, along with a rose bush, some lavender plants too (to keep scorpions away, I supposed...), three wee bamboo plants, a big giant Christmas tree at the back of the house and other random plants that I don't know much of. I am thinking of getting into gardening once I am done with cleaning the house, pulling off the weeds and killing centipedes. I heard tomatoes are easy to grow.
An old friend whom I met back in Aberdeen five years ago came to visit last week. Sudeep was in Perth for work and became our first guest in the house. What better way to welcome him than cooking a good old Malaysian beehoon? :-) It was a nice catch up. We also have a barbeque invitation coming up. It will be good to finally introduce Charlene and her family to my Scottish lad.
Workwise, everything is great. Everyone at work is pleasant, helpful and friendly. Due to the private and confidential nature of my job, I can't elaborate much except that I am looking forward to learn more about Australasia's geology and the business aspect of the industry. I have a lot planned for and I am so happy to be a part of an entity that really looks after its employees AND having fun at the same time. I am also looking forward to be in KL in the next few weeks for work, which means I can fly home to visit my folks in Sarawak. Result!
My weekends are mostly spent outdoors. For example, last week we went to Yanchep National Park up north to see some koalas. I spotted some wild kangaroos and Jamie took the opportunity to take the photos of a big kangaroos family including a mama roo and its joey. There are plenty more of national parks for us to see. It's great being animal lovers in Western Australia.
Every few days, we would go for coffee after work. Sometimes we drive to the beach just to watch the sunset and body boarders attempting post winter waves before driving back home. By the way, did I tell you that Perth is the sunniest city in Australia with over 3000 hours of sun throughout the year? Not only it's a pretty cool fact, it's also means that we just moved from a sunny spot in Aberdeenshire to the sunniest place in Australia. Awesomeness. One month on and loving it!
Before I continue ranting about the greatness of life, I shall leave you here picturing the millions centipedes dying outside our house that is now protected by centipedes killer (I don't know the real name to it, it's a kind of chemical that you spray around the house to kill and woosh the bugs away). No, no spiders or scorpions yet. Just centipedes. Bloody centipedes. And shall I leave you too a very cool and funny website about this creature of Australia? Click here to enjoy. Until next time, see ya later alligator!
I don't know what we need a big house for, but knowing a lot of paintings are coming and the agent - and the landlord, are not too fuss about us putting them up on the wall, I'd like to think that those empty walls will be put into some good use. My surfboard is being put in the third bedroom until I know where to hang it. Some incoming boxes might go in there too while in the process of unpacking, which will take ages.
There is a big palm tree in front of the house, along with a rose bush, some lavender plants too (to keep scorpions away, I supposed...), three wee bamboo plants, a big giant Christmas tree at the back of the house and other random plants that I don't know much of. I am thinking of getting into gardening once I am done with cleaning the house, pulling off the weeds and killing centipedes. I heard tomatoes are easy to grow.
An old friend whom I met back in Aberdeen five years ago came to visit last week. Sudeep was in Perth for work and became our first guest in the house. What better way to welcome him than cooking a good old Malaysian beehoon? :-) It was a nice catch up. We also have a barbeque invitation coming up. It will be good to finally introduce Charlene and her family to my Scottish lad.
Workwise, everything is great. Everyone at work is pleasant, helpful and friendly. Due to the private and confidential nature of my job, I can't elaborate much except that I am looking forward to learn more about Australasia's geology and the business aspect of the industry. I have a lot planned for and I am so happy to be a part of an entity that really looks after its employees AND having fun at the same time. I am also looking forward to be in KL in the next few weeks for work, which means I can fly home to visit my folks in Sarawak. Result!
My weekends are mostly spent outdoors. For example, last week we went to Yanchep National Park up north to see some koalas. I spotted some wild kangaroos and Jamie took the opportunity to take the photos of a big kangaroos family including a mama roo and its joey. There are plenty more of national parks for us to see. It's great being animal lovers in Western Australia.
Every few days, we would go for coffee after work. Sometimes we drive to the beach just to watch the sunset and body boarders attempting post winter waves before driving back home. By the way, did I tell you that Perth is the sunniest city in Australia with over 3000 hours of sun throughout the year? Not only it's a pretty cool fact, it's also means that we just moved from a sunny spot in Aberdeenshire to the sunniest place in Australia. Awesomeness. One month on and loving it!
Before I continue ranting about the greatness of life, I shall leave you here picturing the millions centipedes dying outside our house that is now protected by centipedes killer (I don't know the real name to it, it's a kind of chemical that you spray around the house to kill and woosh the bugs away). No, no spiders or scorpions yet. Just centipedes. Bloody centipedes. And shall I leave you too a very cool and funny website about this creature of Australia? Click here to enjoy. Until next time, see ya later alligator!
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