kalin

Lots of things around here are a continual suprise, no matter how many times you see them. Every day a van comes through the area beaming out some sort of music and voice, I’ve no idea what it means. It appears to be some sort of garbage collection. There are alot of company vans and trucks around with loudspeakers always blasting out something (also very popular leading up to elections).

There are always people around sitting in parked cars, resting, on a phone, or sleeping. I’ve no idea why this is so popular, or why they are parked there. It’s an unusual place to sleep.

The most continually suprising thing is the age of people riding bicycles. Some of the people I’ve seen around have looked over 80 years old and are still just riding around like it’s nothing. I’ve only very rarely seen people even over 40 riding bicycles in Australia. It seems to keep everyone fit and healthy, quite a good thing.

Last week I applied at Q-Games for a job, and got a Programmer Test which I spent a couple of days doing. Yesterday I went for an interview which seemed to go pretty well. There wer four people on one side of the table and me on the other; a little intimidating at first, but it ended up being a fairly comfortable and casual sort of chat.. a few of the questions were in Japanese, but I understood most of what was said and was able to answer with rudimentary responses. So now I am awaiting a response to see if I get the job!

It seems like a nice place to work, DS and small PS3 projects. Small turnaround on projects is a definite plus after my previous work; years on one project is just too long and large teams are difficult to maintain — communication can breakdown easily and lead to an array of other issues.

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