Vivid Sydney

Posted on June 6, 2013 | Leave a comment

Sydney is a great place to enjoy an evening out on the town with various events happening all over the city and surrounding suburbs. Its a simple matter of finding them since some are larger than others. Vivid Sydney is one of the larger events that happens every year.

Vivid Sydney

Vivid is a two week long festival which uses the city as a canvas and lights up the evenings with its spectacular immersive light installations and projections, street performers and music at Sydney Opera house. It is a festival of lights, music and ideas held at Darling Harbour.

It starts at 6 PM every night and visitors can walk around Circular Quay and Darling Harbour enjoying the various interactive light displays and the projections. The Aquatine show is a must watch!

I was dying to go and finally found friends who were ready to go with me. I went there for 3 different days to enjoy the sights and sounds that Vivid has to offer. It was simply an amazing experience. Took a lot of pictures and made some really cool videos.

Anyway, Vivid isn’t about words, its about visuals so enjoy the pictures.

The best feature out of the entire event was the Doctor Who light show which blew my mind! I walked to Circular Quay right after work at 11 PM to catch the last show and made it just in time. Here’s the video. Enjoy!

 

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Job Situation

Posted on May 10, 2013 | Leave a comment

Like I mentioned before, getting a job in Sydney that pays your bills and allows you to save is extremely hard to come by and with the 20 hours per week restriction on students it is almost impossible to make more money than $350-420 per week without breaking the law and working beyond your allowed hours.

The employers who pay a minimum of $20 hour are many but as soon as they hear student visa the hourly rate drops to $13-17 if you’re lucky. Some employers like to exploit this fact and give you $10-11.

Be prepared to get night shifts and afternoons when you start off. Consider it hazing as these are usually the undesirable shifts that older employees aren’t too keen on doing. Oh yeah and weekends as well. It is rare to find a boss who understands your situation and is willing to help out.

I went from a decent job to a crappy job to a job where I don’t mind working nights or evenings simply because my boss is pretty nice. He’s fair and understanding which is awesome.

I’m working as a cashier at a retail store and its paying the bills and giving me enough time to study and do all the other things one needs to do.
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