Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne

 Finally had a good chance to properly check out Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne and my personal opinion of what I've noticed, found and liked about these cities so far since I'll be spending a lot of time in all of them.

Melbourne

Melbourne has had this thing against for sometime but Susannah told me that it would eventually grow on me and to be honest now that I've gotten a chance to finally hang out there instead of working it really is becoming a magical and wonderful place.

I will admit there has been some disappointment on my end as people have seemed to have overhyped Melbourne way too much for me but now that my expectations have been brought down a bit, I'm starting to properly enjoy it for what it is.

I won't bore everyone with details but it's interesting to see how different of a city Melbourne truly, it's insanely massive, expensive and definitely not for the feint of heart.  It's taking a while for me to understand how awkward and bizarre the city but it does have it's lovely charm, I've met some great people and I'm looking forward to coming back again.

Highlight of Melbourne, there's been a few but I've enjoyed VnV Visage a lot, it's been a while since I've walked into a store where I've had a sudden compulsion to buy lots of clothes and also there was an amazing nightclub that we were given a special invite and VIP treatment too which we're definitely planning to put our next Neko Nation in 2012.


Perth
I might be all yay, Adelaide but I've generally referred to being part of Perth and it's still going to be a big part of me.  I've definitely enjoyed my time there and I'm definitely looking forward to coming back here in September, even if most of my time is spent on Neko Nation and other business meetings.

Perth has been great to me, I've enjoyed the lifestyle and how easy it is to get around and it's strangely quite modern compared to the other cities around.  It's pretty much been a home ground and testing ground for much of what I have done until I've decided to make the move to Adelaide and I have definitely missed seeing friends in Perth which sadly, I got closer to quite a few just after I left but there's not much I can do.

There are a few things I'm glad to get away from, the horrendous shopping hours, violent nature of Perth and of course all the bogans.  There has been pluses since Perth has the best arcades by far, a kick ass Ikea and the alternative nightlife and rave scene is actually quite amazing compared to what we have in the rest of the country.  I'm looking forward to making my return here soon.

Adelaide
I may have struggled with this city for sometime but it's slowly starting to feel like my new home.  Basically Adelaide beats all the other cities for me quite simply because Susannah.  Oddly enough though I do have a bit of a history back with this place which made me fall in love with Adelaide.

My first trip to Adelaide was in 2009 for DJ Sisen, GPKism and Aural Vampire, ended up going by myself and just decided to go in there and have some fun and meet some new people.  The people in the club were very friendly and actually cared about the music.  Go to a goth gig in Melbourne or Perth and I've more or less gotten to the front while most of the crowd are happy to watch from 8 metres back because it's closer to the bar.  There was a crazy feeling of actual love and passion which I hadn't seen or heard about in any other city.

What really struck me was how much this continued when I arrived here, a lot of people from Perth have been a bit blown away by the amount of work I did back at home but it's not too odd in Adelaide, I know plenty of people involved in their own businesses and it's very exciting to talk and deal with a lot of these people in the fashion, alt, events and anime scenes.

There has been a much epic first half of a year in Adelaide, if in short small doses but it's been fun and amazing exploring the place.  It's a bit insane how old the place can feel at times and there's so much in the way of abandonned buildings here, you seriously do feel like this place looks like it's from the 80's a lot of the time.

Overall everything has felt really nice and comfortable now that I have settled in, I've felt a lot more safer here and so happy to be part of this wonderful city.  While we don't have much in terms of the rave scene, the anime/geek scene here more than makes up for it, it's massive here and they know how to run conventions, having experienced a fair few now.

Adelaide is really becoming this truly amazing place for me and now that I'm starting to meet and hang out with Susannah's friends it's getting a lot better for me over here.  ^^

Saccharine and Catalystic HQ Update!

What an interesting week it has been.  Not quite sure where to start exactly but maybe a fair few shorter paragraphs about things will be good.

Found an ITG machine and a working USB.  Getting close to nailing hard 11 footers so I'm not feeling too flabby and hopefully will start to be getting fitter soon!


Neko Nation HQ has been insanely busy trying to get lots of things sorted out, while I can't say much, there's a lot going on behind the scenes preparing for a lot of events coming up, I'll be most likely doing at least two shows a month!  Considering all the shows are going to be very different, it's a lot of work but we're making some real progress in terms of growing Neko Nation.

Tokyo Hardcore is certainly quite interesting, got Angellic Pretty on board so things are going insanely well.  We've got a fair bit of work before Manifest so I'm looking forward to heading down to Manifest later in the month.

Went raving last weekend, it was actually a lot of fun despite being so unfit and maybe not getting into the music as much as I would it was great to see what Adelaide's rave scene is like.  It's quite small, must admit it's one of the things Perth probably does better but Perth doesn't have a pretty rave girl quite like Susannah,  ^___^

Also falling in love with Ikea, if the cheap furniture, maze, frustrating assembly, $1 hot dogs weren't enough, then it's becoming one of my new favourite brainstorming places, we've dreamt up a few fairly interesting new project ideas which is quite awesome in regards to not having to have a full time job in regards to doing other projects and events.

Geek culture is insanely awesome here, I can not begin to explain how interesting it is to see such a huge thriving anime, gaming and geek community here.  It exists in Perth but I'm still in major shock how open it really is, it's really such a great city for me to be in because of this.  I still can't get over the massive 8-bit Icarus graffiti which is attached to the bottom.

Been exploring a bit more of Adelaide including getting a nice view of the Hills, Hahndorf, sushi, the epic banking services.  It's becoming a nice place, I'm not going to make Perth vs Adelaide comparisons but to me I'm starting to find Adelaide a bit more of my home, it's still missing proper friends rather than relying on bumping into Susannah's friends but it's actually quite nice here.  ^__^

Having said that I'm looking forward to returning back to Perth for a short while next month.  ^^