Concerts, comedians, and some jazz...
I know I should really do this on a Sunday night or whatever, to sum up all the things I do in the week. But, there is really nothing wrong with Thursdays so here it is. A new thing i'm trying - writing about things other than Korea haha (but there will be Korean stuff in here hands down).
Flight of the Conchords - Sunday
Myself, Nay, Jacqui and Steve all went to Flight of the Conchords on Sunday 15th at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. It was one of the funniest nights I have had in ages! So many lol's all over the place! I even enjoyed the car ride in :)
Unbeknown to us, Arj Barker was also there and was up first doing his comic thing which was hilarious. I really like Arj, I think he is super funny so I was really excited when we heard over the loudspeakers that he would be up first before the Conchords.
I just realised, not everyone knows who they are...
So Flight of the Conchords are two blokes from New Zealand, Brett and Germaine, who play funny songs on the comedy circuit. I have no clue how they got started, but they ended up with a t.v show, called Flight of the Conchords, which is set in New York and is basically just different episodes of their escapades in the city trying to get music gigs. Arj Barker is part of the show, he plays their friend Dave.
The different songs that they wrote for the show, they played during the concert. They talked in between about random things, and were all round funny. I can't remember all the convos they had, but I laughed at all of them.
They played my two favourite songs, David Bowie in Space and also the Rhymenoscerous song (I dunno what its called). They didn't play Carol Brown which is Nay's favourite so that was a shame. Another downside was some dick head in the audience who kept calling out "Nigel". He was super annoying and I wanted someone to shoot him, or punch him in the face. But the guys handled it really well and brushed over the whole thing.
All in all, I would give the concert 4 out of 5 pawprints. The jerk in the audience kinda spoilt it, and there wasn't very good food. The other downside was out seats which were kinda shitty. In saying that, the whole of Rod Laver was sold out and the audience were all having a really great time. i brought a tour tee to remember the event :)
4/5 paws
Arrival of the National Police Check! - Wednesday
Finally I can stop whinging about this!!! I know for a fact all my friends are super tired of hearing about this, so I can officially say that the CRC is back! It came in the post on Wednesday after me freaking out over emails that were finally answered by the AFP. I got one email from them saying that I should receive it this week, and then a text message Monday telling me it was posted. Then, on Tuesday I got another email to one of the ones I had sent them, saying that it was processed on the 26th June and supposedly posted out the following business day. This woman is clearly a lying idiot, because I got the damn thing on Wednesday. So I can put a paperwork update in here too, as I have more to say about this...
Paperwork Update
Tuesday, I liberated my degree from its lively glass frame and went with mum down to Officeworks and got 2 colour photocopies made. I got one extra to save the hassle of getting the thing out of its cage again if I ever need another copy made. Anyway, I think it cost about $3.20 or something like that... Didn't break the bank :) Then on Wednesday I went with Kirsty to get the Notary stamp on the copy of the degree... This whole process was stupid and expensive. It turns out my Aunty was not able to sign the copy of the degree, because she is not a registered public notary person. So I did a Google and found a guy in Box Hill who was able to do it for me. His name is John Pearce, and he is a Solicitor and all that, and is also registered to be able to do the notary stuff. We went to his place (he also has an office in the city, but works out of his home office some days too) and sat in his office. He had 3 different stamps that he used to legitimise my copy, and had a cool stamp thing that pressed into a waxy stamp. I guess this is what makes him legit??? Anyway, I got both copies done to be safe, and it cost me $88. Absolute rip off. We were there for about 7.5 minutes or something. John was a nice guy though, and gave me very specific directions on how to get to the Melbourne Passport Office to get the Apostille stamp.
I got home Wednesday from John Pearce's place and checked the mail. Nada. I was emo as, getting ready to have another cry over the whole thing. Then, Georgia left to go somewhere and called me as she was heading down the street. She had seen letters in the letterbox, and it might be my cert. I ran outside, down the driveway and viola! There it was! My CRC :D
So i emailed Jean and let her know that the everything should be in the post to her sometime on Monday. She was super happy for me. As was everyone.
Then today, Kirsty and I went into the city to the passport office (she knew the way, having had to do an emergency passport pick up a few years earlier) and we found a really close park and headed on upstairs. We lined up behind some annoying people, including a weird looking child that kept staring at us. I handed my documents over, proceeded to the cashier and handed over $120 for the Apostille stamps. I will go back in on Monday morning and pick them up.
So this crappy paperwork saga has cost $208 this week, not including the printing, petrol and other rubbish costs. I will do another total cost tally soon.
And thats that. Paperwork update done for now. At least thats the last you should hear about the CRC. It was a clean record by the way... I am a model citizen :)
Dinner and Latin music - Thursday night
And now for tonight!
Bec and myself went out for a bite to eat and a catch up. I hadn't filled her in on the latest with Korea, and I wanted to hear about her uni stuff so it was good to get together. She had seen in the local paper that some Latin band - Soleal Q - were playing at the Treble Clef in Chirnside Park. Now, I am not usually one to take pics of food but I want to start doing this sort of write up.review thing for the blog so I have started to record my food pics. Unfortunately I only remembered that I wanted to do this when we had finished most of it, so when you have a look at the pics keep in mind they were really big serves, and there was a lot more colour originally :)
The Treble Clef Jazz Lounge is located at 17 Paynes Rd, Chirnside Park. They have jazz bands playing regularly, and tonight happened to be Soleal Q. They played Latin jazz, from all over the place, but I remember him saying Venezuela so there you go.
This was the Trio of Dips, which, as you can see, actually had 4 dips. We got the beetroot dip, pumpkin, homes and balsamic. The bread was fresh and tasty :) There was heaps of bread too, def enough food for 2. Cost $17
This was the Chicken Strips, there were 4 on each side and we could have easily just had these and not the dips. But we ordered already so we HAD to eat them. They were the tastiest chicken strips ever. Maybe they were a bit generic, but still really yummy. They came with 2 dips, a plum sauce one and some white one that was awesome. There was a heap of lettuce for garnish but I ate it :) I love garnish lettuce... This was $15.
The drinks were kinda expensive though, I got a Rekardlerlig Cider which was $8 and Bec got a chambered and lemonade which was $12...
The band had their music up a little loud, we couldn't really chat while they were playing. In saying that , they were really talented and I enjoyed the music. they started sometime after 8pm and were going to be on until I think 11.30, but we both were pretty tired so we skipped out early. Then I came home and I have been online since... Go figure.
Anyway, all up it was a good night and I would recommend that place. I will probe go back sometime and try some of the other things on the menu. It was a pretty limited menu, more snacky things that meal but they were big serves.
http://www.treblecleflounge.com.au/contact.html
I rate it 3/5 paws.
Anyway, that will do for tonight :)
Hope everyone else is having a nice week!
xx
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