Benito in Sydney?: Working whilst everybody is sleeping

It is very unsual for me to be up till 7am if it is not for watching good downloaded tv series or revising my head off for an upcoming paper or maybe even rushing to complete an assignment. However, this time, on both Thursday and Friday night, I had the lifetime experience (you may beg to differ) to work as a night auditor in a hotel at darling harbour. The shift was from 11pm to 7am. CHanging my body clock the day before I had to do this proved difficult, as I was doing normal hours from Mon to Wed.

It's really a whole new different game of working in dead silence. Yes there is the occasional walk-in guest checking in, or some telephone calls from guests, however for most of the other times, it was just, silence. I found it to be a very calming experience. No one to bug me or phones going off the hook everywhere in the office. Working in silence seems effective for me, except for when the droopy eye-lids start to set in at around 4am. However, I managed to pull through for both nights and I witnessed the most amazing thing ever. The city of sydney (such an amazing view from the darling harbour) lighting up naturally. At 5:30am it was still quite pitch black. 5:40am, starting to light up. 6am, completely lit up. Amazing to see a city naturally lit up.... sounds boring but when you are the ONLY person seeing the scene, it's pretty damn priceless.

My greatest feeling was that I can finish work now while the rest of the rat-racing citizens of Sydney has to go to work! I took some photos on my way back home.

The Rocks.