#and dandy

An older piece I found from when I was exploring different styles last year~

If you guys ever look at the background in the behind-the-scenes clips of Garth Jennings talking about the making of Sing 1, there is a blurry concept art picture of Buster wearing a WHITE TUXEDO pinned to the board! I just thought that was neat.

awww don't worry anon! it'll be fine

So for context, a month ago when Queen released their Australian tour tickets, sis optimistically managed to grab herself tickets to see them in Perth. This is all well and dandy until you realize that I don't live anywhere near Australia, let alone Perth - I live in a completely different continent; Asia.

It's concerning how much of my hopes are pinned on this concert like whenever I'm down and tired from work or just from struggles in my daily life, I remind myself of February 23rd 2020 when I'll hopefully, all fingers crossed, get to see Queen and at the same time kinda travel. I forget that all that is still tentative and subjective to the outcome of my Visa application.

My aunt came over and we spoke about Australian Visa applications and I was slapped with the reality of possibly getting denied for my Visa application because 1) im still a student with no proper financial backing (as in like I can save up enough but yknow I don't have like a fixed monthly income cause I only do part-time jobs) to prove that I can finance myself for the trip, 2) I'm going alone, I don't necessarily have a sponsor or someone to visit so basically this whole application thing can just go so wrong. I've been so accustomed in believing that if I want something and I work hard enough for it, I will get it but now all my hopes are pinned down to the Australian government's judgement and it's just such a nerve-wrecking thought.

So in summary, my whole 2019 has been devoted to working my ass off so Australia will grant me the permission to see these idiots:

Gotta love professionals who know what they are talking about, especially if it’s your money you’re trusting them with, huh?

It took them a few days to figure out what was wrong. Once they did they moved the money to another part of the account from where it COULD be moved now. Which brings us to the current timeline of “the money is getting ready to being transferred”. Technically it’s supposed to take 3 to 4 days (are those business days? cause they’re never working on Mondays either...) and according to my partner’s mother about 1,5 of them should have already passed.

Best case scenario would be that the money arrives here on maybe Friday. On the other hand we took out money from that account when we cashed out on the credit card yesterday while the transfer was in progress. Which means worst case scenario would be the order bouncing again, because now there’s less funds available than we want to transfer. Which would mean more delay delay delay.

Ugh.

My partner’s mother will try to add some money to the account in hopes to prevent the transfer from bouncing in time. This is such a mess.

Today’s account balance reads 8 CAD. They deducted another $ 5 overdraft fee when we added enough money to be in the positive. Of course. (I miss my German account where this was not a thing)

On the plus side I managed to reverse a 70 CAD charge on my Dutch credit card and pay off the remaining few Euros I apparently had neglected to pay. Gotta love when those “your payment is late and we will punish you for it” e-mails are coming in from out of nowhere at the worst possible moment. I’m not even using my Dutch credit card anymore! 

Let this be a lesson kids. 

If you move abroad, like far abroad make sure you

a) have a bank that has lots of experience with international online transfers, that is easy to use and fast

b) stay far away from the Caisse d’Epargne

c) don’t forget about that zipcar account you made on your old credit card when you arrived and either cancel it or move it to a local account asap