Onset of Weekend

The weekend is just around the corner, well, it is here, and I always maintain that people in Melbourne sort of try to let their hair down during the late hours of Friday, Saturday and for the brave few, Sunday as well. They can do various things, go to parties, stay up late, get involved with someone in a relationship, get out of a relationship, be single, go away somewhere mindlessly, meet your fiance's parents, go clubbing (!!), get invited for a rock concert in the corporate box, fight with customer service of your ISP, get punched in the face while travelling in the tram and lots more - it is as if people work 4.5 days just for the weekend to come. And not to say of a long weekend, thats what the state of NSW had last weekend because of Labour Day. We Melburnians were not so lucky, had to work. Long weekends for most is one extra long drinking binge, starting on Friday evening and continuing till Monday afternoon by which that person is knocked down senseless.

BTW, someone did get invited to the corporate box of Rod Laver arena this weekend for a rock concert - ME. I dont know what I am going to do there, listen to music, obviously, and then... No idea. Fighting with customer service - that is also me, no end result to that. I could complain to the Telecommunications Ombudsman, well - I know how that is going to turn out.

Talking about long weekends, Christmas Day and Boxing Day, if they fall on weekends, we get extra holidays in the course of the next week, so to compensate. I remember, Gandhi Jayanthi for this year was on a Sunday. I am not complaining about the extra holidays that people get here, just that sometimes, we have nothing else to do, especially, if you hate gaalivanting around town with unknown people at late hours.