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Starting With Goodbyes

By Justin Tang

January 10^th, 2015

Intro

So I’ve decided to start a journal of sorts. Just a quick intro post for now. I’m not the best at writing and I’m barely decent at taking photos so you’re going to have to bear with me while I work out all the kinks. At 2:00am on the 13th of January, I’ll be leaving sunny Brisbane to study abroad for a year in England. At this point my goal is to go 50/50 for Europe, a tough task but I believe. Aside from my camera and clean sweaters, this site is now probably the coolest thing I own. Am I supposed to write my thoughts on this or just my stories? Right now, I have neither. Hopefully in the future I can come up with some hella dope, deep and punny titles to all of my posts.

Did everyone watch Gone Girl and Whiplash? Damn son. Engaging.

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Write your story here. (Optional)

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Prep

I actually sort of enjoy packing. I arranged it all neat and awesome purely so I could get a cool ‘Essentials’ picture for this post. It’s not all there but I like the shit I own, not going to deny it. I’m won’t go into depth with it but there is a lot of sweaters (not all included in photos). I brought my Jim’s and Ray-Bans just in case the sun happens to show up and I need some fresh polarised accessories. Shout out to my pharma-sis who hooked me up with meds and bathroom living things.

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FeelS

Well, it’s only a year and they usually fly. A lot has happened in the last two years so I guess we’ll just have to see as we go. Time to move on from certain things and onto new ones. Right now my biggest fear is dying from a sunshine deficiency, maybe the sun will come with me. That rhymed. I’ve also heard I may have to drink fish shits to stay sane. My friends are hosting a going away party for themselves on the 8th of January before they leave for the Americas. I’m hoping I can just snake in there and steal some farewells. I’ve already done a bunch of those in West End. (6/1/15)

Right now, the soon to be leaving part is hitting pretty hard. I still have another day before I leave but I won’t share this until then so bye Mum and everyone else. I’ll miss you all. See you in 2016 when I come back broke as hell. I’ll be expecting a lot of people to shout me Grill’d.

P.S. The Australian Dollar is currently at a five-year low. On the bright side, there isn’t a lot of math involved in dividing my money in half.

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I will be staying in London for two nights.

Optimistic and excited. I’ll just leave this here.Stay tuned.

Footnotes

Photos by Me

FootNotes

Photos by Me

© 2026 Justin Tang

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