Adventure Time

It's been an interesting past few months.  After kick starting off the Neko Nation tour in Adelaide things have not slowed down a single bit in my life. With shows all around Australia including Brisbane last weekend and only Perth to go.  There's been no weekends off with Chinatown Harajuku no Yoko kicking getting launched last month and working at Kodomo no Hi Festival.

These last 2 months have taught me a lot and that I'm basically pushing my limits incredibly hard to the edge, I'm a workaholic and have no problems admitting that as my social life is an absolute wreck at the moment on having no time to see people and those times that I do I'm either too sick or working at social occasions.

This tour has been a blast and I've learnt a lot from it, it far from feels like repeating the same show 5 times over, each show is quite different, there's so many different people on board, different venues and different crowds, it's absolutely crazy, fun and amazing to travel around and do this.  While I'm glad I have the chance to do this, I'm proving that I'm not doing well to cope with all this.  Not only does the show involve a lot of work but that's on top of the store, my day job plus my new projects.

I'm now seriously looking at my future plans for the year and looking at dropping out of Tokyo Hardcore soon.  There's so much stress coming from here that it makes sense to start dropping my commitment out of here soon, especially with the number of hours going into it and myself not getting really much out of it in terms of personal satisfaction.

As such I'm looking to really need to make a move onto continuing my studies since my transfer didn't work out originally I'd like to give it another shot since I would like to start to get a proper career going.  Neko Nation and Tokyo Hardcore doesn't exactly pay the bills and the job that does isn't likely to last much longer, unless you all decide to throw away your Internet banking and embrace cheques again!

I'm leaning towards finishing off my commerce degree although looking at switching from accounting to marketing.  I think lots of people laughed and joked that I couldn't be an accountant and the path I'm going down is proving less and less likely to suit an accounting role.  In general, marketing has been the one subject I seem to be very highly obsessed with, I seem to be analysing so many marketing campaigns just for the fun of it, that I probably should actually consider doing this for a living.  I only studied marketing once and I got over 90% in my final exam and pretty much virtually dominated the class in terms of work and participation on all the optional work as well.  I'm pretty keen to go back to university and prove myself since while I don't miss assignments and exams I wouldn't mind giving it another crack.

I have intentions to finish off this year quite hugely and with a bang although for now, it's time to figure out how to get through this hectic month and let things quieten down soon as I work my way to recovery.

Neko Nation Brisbane - May 2012

Flying to Brisbane is always a fun experience, I was very excited for the Brisbane show, Brisbane produced our most successful city launch and this time we had a few more tricks up our sleeve with the likes of S3RL, Triex, more catgirls, sushi, lighting and sound, so it was going to be a very exciting show to put on.

The event turned out to be an absolutely amazing night.  It was a huge achievement to do things a lot bigger and better.  I've heard good feedback about the event which is good since I was a bit nervous it wasn't the case as this was probably the most stressful show on the tour due to constantly being needed all over the place, so I didn't really get to enjoy the event as much as I would have liked compared to other shows, however it does happen from time to time.

I stayed at a famous geek/party house in Brisbane and got to spend some time in the city checking out MOS Burger which served some nice burgers with amazing Japanese style service.  Benjamin did an epic job as a host for our time in Brisbane and I had an absolute blast.  Sadly it got cut short when I fell pretty ill the next day, the one downside about this touring is the glamour, travel, fun and adventure is also plagued with lots of hard work, stress and emotions, which has really caught up to me again, so I'm going to have to take it easy despite a crazy schedule ahead.

I had a blast in Brisbane, S3RL, Triex and Lacehunter in particular pulled off some incredible sets (while I struggled to pull off a set as well as I'd like too.  The massive conga lines and the absolutely epic dancing and crazy crowd that makes the Brisbane show so unique and impressive.  Now to get better and get ready for the next show in Perth!