Part 7 : Joes Place

A quick flight to sunshine coast, great views of the australian coast line from the air. continuous beaches. Basically chilling out and hanging with joe, ness and jez. This place is like wow. soooo much space. good to just hang out, take in some sun, swim on the beach and watch some movies.

Song: Not original music of my creation.
The Mission In Motion - "New Skin"
please purchase if you like it. cheers

Part 6 : Final Packing

After coming back from Canberra I am tasked with the impossible. Packing all the rest of my stuff away so that I can leave tomorrow. Sore from a muscle strain I find lifting heavy things or awkward things ends up being a pain in the ass. Also there is a certain order that things need to be packed away and where it is they are going. It eventually got to the point where everything I looked at what either being thrown out, placed in storage at my sisters place or in my pack coming with me. It quickly turned out that everything except my lappie, camera and a few select items of clothing ended up being packed away.

Visa rules for Youth Mobility Scheme
1600 pounds in your bank account for 90 days consecutive
Australian Citizenship
Between the ages of 18-31

ps quachangkham is a chick :D lol

Part 5 : Cheshers

After a 2 hr drive south i arrive to the Oaks flats bowling club to meet with my cousin JAmes and his dad, my uncle Raymond. I have met my uncle other then when i was a small child and this was only the second time jihad caught up with james.

It was a strange yet familiar experience spending time with my direct but distant family. We started out having a beer at the bowls club, Uncle Ray being some sort of local champion before moving on to his place soon to be followed by more beers.

We spent most of the sunday telling stories about my dad and trying to track him down by contacting all of the brothers and sisters. It seems that the Chesher family has a small issue when it comes to keeping the family close. My father the master of them all somehow managing to keep him self uncontactable to the entire family for the best part of 25 years. I do believe that I was probably the last to see him at a caravan park in griffth when i was 5.

Part 4 : Thank You Shine

Thank you all to the people at Shine who I have worked for over the last few months. It was an awesome experience working with you all and i hope that you go well with all the shows coming up.

peace

Part 3 : Farewell Dinner

As all traditions we hold within our small group of friends. Everytime someone leaves then rain hail or shine we go to Kellys Steakhouse in Bondi and see a movie. Last time it was joe moving to Queensland and we saw Kick Ass. This time it was me and we saw The Green Hornet. (the 3d sucked in it and it could have dealt without it)

I highly recommend getting the Scotch Fillet but i hear the ribs are good. And for your information no. we did not go to a titty bar. although that would have resulted in a interesting night. :D

Part 2 : Bedroom Packing

With only 1 week of work and 1 week of sorting out final visas, I now have to start the pack of my room. The last couple of days have been a heat wave averaging over 40 degrees across Sydney. Being hungover from my farewell did not help at all and so i procrastinated and decided to pack on the Sunday instead.

n.b. My apologies for moving the camera so much. Its like when your on the phone and you start pacing. will work on that for the next one. Also implemented a new process down-converting to 720p h264 and added titles. each clip is now 35mb for 1 min rather then 500 mb resulting in a much quicker upload to youtube.

Cheshmonkey

Part 1 : The Oaks Farewell

Welcome to Cheshmonkey journey to the west. In this blog I will be recording a short video diary every 2 or 3 days of the events occuring during my travels. Hopefully i can be entertaining which also allowing you all to follow my journey from Sydney Australia, through to Noosa in Queensland and Darwin in the Northern territory before leaving OS. First stop Vietnam, the Laos, then Istanbul before settling into a full year of London.

Thank you all for following and wish me the best of luck. Cheers

Cheshmonkey