The Ticketek Trauma

I have always been, am and will be a pure Swiftie. I HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO HER SINCE I WAS BORN.

No, I haven’t, I’m not that old.

TAYLOR SWIFT ISN’T OLD EITHER, THAT’S NOT WHAT I MEANT, I PROMISE.

I had been hoping she would somehow, miraculously perform close to where I lived since the moment I shifted to Australia, it being an influential music industry and all. And when my phone tinged with a promise of her landing on Sydney’s sunny shores in February 2024, I was ecstatic. I was bouncing off the walls, so very, very sure that we’d get tickets because I had signed up to whatever membership required to be able to access presale and general sale tickets. I even briefed my father on his mission, and he cancelled all his work calls on both days. My mum promised to log into Ticketek at her workplace, because according to the news, about a minimum of 4 million people would pounce on a ticket availability of only 450,000.

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S.T.A.G.S

Greer McDonald has always been a loner, a geek. Getting into one of the most prestigious schools in the country should mean that you have an established social status, but she probably forgot that smart people can be snobs too.

And bullies.

As she struggles to fit in at the school, exclusively known as S.T. A.G.S, she gets a strange invitation from the “popular” group for a weekend of hunting, shooting, and fishing.

Even weirder?

The other misfits like her are also invited in.

But then, she soon realizes that nothing is what it seems, and what’s being hunted isn’t the wild game, the boars, or the stags…

It’s them. The misfits.

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To-Do List-Long Car Rides

Long rides in a car, whether it’s in summer or winter, spring, or autumn, with a sibling or without, there are quite a number of things you would require for a journey like this. In my list, dear readers, with an additional bonus, I have included tips to engage yourself when stuck between two age groups, because that’s the unfortunate situation I usually get sandwiched in. Enjoy!

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