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Last Monday, the 12th of March I started my first job after arriving back from Korea.

I am now working for the Department of Justice, Victoria

I also started studying Hapkido again.

In the next two week I shall be moving house.

I need to find a share house in the inner city (ideally) or failing that somewhere 5 – 10 km out.

Basically anywhere where I can get internet, park my car and be able to ride my bike into the city.

Today it hit 40 degrees Celsius in Melbourne. Too bloody hot!

Combine that with a power-blackout from bush fires and you have an unpleasant mix

The Christmas / New Year break has ended and its back to a hunt for a job.

Next week I will follow up on what it takes to become a security guard.

At a minimum you have to have a Level 2 license which is a two week course. It seems the Salvation Army will pay for that.
The instructor at the Salvation Army has a friend who runs a security firm.
This friend will say if he thinks you are suitable for security work or not.
So at the very least I should get a security license, level 2
Level 3 is Crowd Control.

Hopefully a job, even a part time one would be wonderful.

Watched the Korean movie Red Eye, a horror film set on a train

The cast was good and I really enjoyed the train setting having travelled on trains in Korea many a time.
It brought back pleasant memories of train journeys to Seoul sans ghosts.
So would I recommend you to go out and get this movie?

Not really, it’s an entertaining diversion, but there are much better horror films out there.

Yesterday I attended the funeral of Uncle “Digger” in Lake Bolac.
It’s pretty close on the heels of my father dying. It seem only yesterday that life was full of weddings. Now the previous generation is getting into their seventies and nature is taking its course.

I was surprised to learn that Uncle Digger worked, turned up to the local council road crew for thirty years. In todays world that would be quite an achievement.

I have changed hosting providers to dreamhost and I will have more to say on that later, all positive!

I have the wordpress blog up and running now, just a few tables have to be restored for everthing to be like it was.

The table post2cat contains a list of all entries (posts) and their categories. I haven’t been able to successfully restore this .. yet 🙁

Well I am back from my father’s burial.
Dad, died on Sunday, 12th of November, 2006. He was buried on the following Thursday.
We had a memorial service for him at the Uniting Church which was well done.
Relatives and friends from all over the state attended.
It was an excellent opportunity to remember the attributes that made up the man we called “DAD”
There can only be one and I am sorry to see him pass.

Today, I lost something irreplacable

My father died this Sunday, the twelfth of November, 2006. May he rest in peace.

While he wasn’t the sitcom sort of Dad, … I still loved him dearly and I shall miss him.

Just before I left Korea I received official confirmation of passing the black belt test.

When you get your black belt you get three things:

(1) an ID card (this one with fake birth-date)

(2) A new dobok (uniform) and off course, (3) the black belt