Oooo love this version

Can you imagine me:

Love metal rock music??

Yeh, a few of my friends can't believe that; Do I look like one of those who love sloppy lovesick boyband music??

I love this version of Pokerface...
makes you wanna jump around and rock your head to the beat!!

Fringe was on!!

I don't believe myself that I plunged into the Fringe and became a helper as well. Fringe: lots of music, comedy, rides, performance, show.... Time to chill out, have drinkings with friends and family.












I WAS A SURVEYOR FOR THE FRINGE!! How I came about being one is such a loop that it began with myself -.- . A few friends were looking for jobs and I just randomly sent whatever I see to them. The Fringe was one of them. The lady called my friend,R, and asked her to bring a friend; guess who was "the" friend (in case it's not clear enough, it's me).

It has been 5 years since I have done survey; walking to random strangers and hope they can spare 5 minutes to do a survey. 5 minutes is just an estimate; truth for most survey "as long as you say yes, the 5 minutes will stretch to 15 minutes... hehehe". Well this survey really took about 5 minutes, I've done one within 2 as everything was a no.

I guess it's easier to do a survey with a friend rather then walking alone and asking strangers to fill up the forms. There are people who don't want to do surveys and some don't like to be asked about their household income. It is true that it's tedious but surveys do help the organisers to understand the progress of this event and improve it for next year.

Anyway, after 3 hours I finished my assigned 25 forms and got paid $50 Fringe voucher. Got myself the Fringe t-shirt as a remembrance. Will I do it again?? Once and never again for this year... I'll reconsider next year... hehehe

















A colleague gave me 2 tickets to Sammy J the comedian performance which is held in the Bosco Theater inside the Garden of Unearthly Delights. The show was about 1999.. when everyone was panicking due to Y2K... and him; a life of a teenager... very unique quirky show...

Delay post

Happy Chinese New Year to Me!!

Reunion dinner by myself... I have to say that this is the most expensive instant noodles that I've ever eaten; roast pork, roast duck, bbq pork, bak choy and abalone... hehehe



ps: slow post.. just uploaded pics from camera... =P

In to the frenzy....

I have become one of the little fishes that plunged into the "Stephenie Meyer" pool... I have finish reading all these books and I LOVE FULL MOON and BREAKING DAWN!!!

Twilight was a slow read for me as I try to recall who acted as who in the movie and trying to remember the scenes from the movie. It wasn't as exciting to read as I'd watched the movie already. The movie squashed a few conversations from the book into one scene in the movie. BUT I love Full Moon. So much more emotions and actions.. the intensity of the love between the main characters... Eclipse was okay I think, after the peak in the second book, the third one seems a little bland... But Breaking Dawn is superb!! It makes me wanna be a half human half vampire too....

Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautnar are definitely a good cast for this teenage lover story movie. While every teenagers going fan craze at Edward, I prefer Jacob; he is very upfront about his thoughts and much more dependable. I am not about to go crazy at Taylor; 1st he is 11 years younger than me while Robert is only 4 years... I think I would prefer to go crazy over Robert than cradle snatching Taylor... hahaha... but never say never =P

Stalking?

Funnie and awful at the same time....

I read this article [oscars] and I can't help but grin... reporters and cameramen must have been keeping a close watch on the couples last night...

Healthy Breakfast

1st of all.. Thank you J and C for this nice breakfast..

Chianti Classico; Best Breakfast Restaurant for 2008

I LOVE THIS PLACE.... I had dinner with my friends here before; the meal was scrumptious... Unfortunately I didn't take any photos.
This time around, it is breakfast. One of the healthiest breakfast I ever had...

Freshly squeezed blood orange juice...

Lightly poached cod fillet and asparagus with a poached free-range egg and hollandaise sauce and a sliced of bread (taste like homemade)

Eggs Benedict – poached free-range eggs and leg of ham sitting on toasted muffins with hollandaise sauce

Traditional Eggs Florentine – spinach, parmesan cheese and free-range eggs baked in béchamel sauce

ps: I ate the cod... so healthy =)

Where is Originality??

Are things so limited that we lost originality?? We recycle other people’s idea and trends over and over again. Is that it?? That is all we have??

While everyone is busy celebrating CNY, I got thinking, Valentine’s Day is round the corner and I have no idea what to do/buy. I’ve been receiving emails from different companies promoting their latest stuff and ideas for oneself or as presents and they seemed to be about the same. Will it be another perfume/ jewelry/ clothes/ accessories?? I guess this is the time to stick to traditional gifts and it won’t go wrong…BUT traditional gifts (flowers and chocolates) seem to be uncreative/ unoriginal.

HhhhMmmmm fussy aren’t I??

Crazy weather!!!

Heatwave is in and I am roasting and gonna be roasted for the rest of the week... temperature is soaring and hanging at 43C or so... was 45 yesterday, 43C today, 40-ish again tomorrow and about 39C over the weekends..... #$#@$#!#!

Here is a piece of [information] on the heatwave! Electricity cut off due to high demand...
62 suburbs had their electricity cut off (mainly east and south suburbs off the city); this include my work place... I was entering data half way when it happened @#$@#...I was on the last sheet too... On the bright side, I've got electricity at home! YAH!!

My Fav....

My favorite Korean Restaurant in Adelaide is still Koreajung along Leigh Street...
It the same restaurant with the raw crab meat dish; [Gae Jang; seasonal]
A great place to have dinner during winter, definitely comfort food. Their complimentary side dishes used to be unlimited refills, but now you can only refill them once...

Korean raspberry wine; a refreshing sweet drink at the side...

BBQ korean style...

Barbecue vs Barbeque

Sometimes the food looks better than it taste... I guess this is one of them... The actual barbecued meat is just okie, nothing fantastic.... but the side dishes are quite good...

In To The Year 2009

Everyone start off their year with different hopes & aims. Pigeon and I started the year with a promise....

A promise only he and I know; shhhhhh.........

Long rest....

It seems that nearly everyone I know are having a longggggg rest away from blogging.

To the end the year 2008, I put myself up into a detox program (10days)...
Not the brightest idea... hehehe.... it was meant to detox the body, instead I developed allergy rash on the 7th days and had to stop detoxing immediately... I don't know if it was due to work, face cream or the detox program... I only had rashes on my face and no where else -.- hhmmm


What to do next? Pump my "clean" body with steroids!! -.- The rashes did went away =P... good ending of 2008 in Adelaide =)

Has it been a year already??!!

You know that there is something wrong when there is traffic jam just off Chinatown at 6pm on a Friday night. Traffic has always been "moving" and not a stand still every late night shopping Friday. BUT that day was just ridiculous; should have walked. Parking luck was on my side that day, after 1 round around the roads, I found a park... wheeeeeeee.......

Classic Adelaide is Back!!! Welcome to Classic Adelaide 2008!!!


That more or less explains the jam. They've closed down a few roads for the classic car show. In my mind: who was that @$#!#%# who chose to eat in Chinatown today!!!
On the bright side, I saw a few nice wheels.... rows of Ferrari and Benz...

It is a little annoying when every one just stood there blocking my camera view.... these are the best pics I could take without any strangers head blocking half the car.















Above: Black Ferrari & Black Maserati
Below: Black Benz & silver Aston Martin



















Above: Red Jaguar & Cream Jaguar
Below: Ferrari (I think, but why is it a France flag and not Italy flag behind?) & Alfa Romeo


















This looks a little familiar, might be the car I was stalking last year in my carpark... hmmmmm


I might just make it my annual carpark paparazzi behaviour.... This year was a lot less classic cars in the carpark of my apartment...

Finally uploaded pics from camera...

YES!!! I finally decided to transfer the pics from my camera to my laptop; clear abit of space. So let me just start off with some random pictures taken = just because.....

When bored; I was blog-hopping into people who are staying it Adelaide on the computer... Friends & strangers do blog about the same things, it's just the "timing" is different...

Below: The purple flowers of SPRING!!!..... yes my delay blogging action (I know its Summer already)


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Restaurants / food blogging too... Well the "latest" cafe that K & I went was Casual Cup aka C-Cup -.- (some hamsup fella must have thought if the name)

Drinks = interesting names but taste was just so so....
















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Speaking of blogging; suddenly there are so many "famous" blogger that arise from Malaysia, Singapore & Taiwan... It's rises so fast that it's so hard to catch up... was thinking that I'll link them, but this means I have to delete/ change if they decide to stop blogging or change from one site to another; eg blogspot/wordpress/xanga/com ... too much work... just let me know if you're bored and I'll sent some site to you.

Since they've became "famous"... it's natural reaction to read their blog and see what the fuss was about... sometimes the blogs are too -.-||| for me to say anything... it's their blog, they can write/post/ do whatever they want with it... but a whole blog/site of camwhoring shots of themselves from one party to another, from toilets mirror to another = make them famous??!! well, I have to say that some girl bloggers are really pretty...
BUT
There are 2 incidents which left me speechless/ voiceless...
1. blog-hop/stumble into a long-lost friend's blog. She is one of those girls stated above....
2. muscles and cutesy look don't go together... A body builder acting cute is -.-|||.

A few "Hate" blogs have arise as well... it makes me wonder for a moment... Those bloggers must be quite free to dig out all the dirt/ dirty laundry of someone else and blog about it and has a certain level of hatred as well. I'm not complaining, cus I'm one of those busybody that reads these news/updates. Some "hate" / "reality check" blogs can be quite ruthless and hurtful which makes me wonder; sympathetic or serve him/her right? It is quite scary that IF someone starts a new hate blog about me, and every post that I write becomes a new entry of criticism in the hate blog... THE HORROR!!!!

Well, it's good to be not so famous =) heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Joke of the day

True story..... that just happened to my colleague....

Phone rings....
She picked up the phone: "Hello?"
Her sister on the other line replies: "I don't want you... meant to call the other sis...Bye" (click)
-.-..... what do you mean you don't want me..... -.-

hahahaha...... can't say it's rude or unloving.... hey it's sisters, you don't really need the formality of "Good day mate, how is it going?"

Morocan dinner...

Just another dinner, nothing to wow about.... but the cutlery are cute and unique. On weekends, there are belly dancers to entertain you... hehehe...


Moroccan Mint tea = very strong and sweet..... taste rich and alot better than commercial peppermint tea.

No reason / No aim / No path / No moral

Just felt like typing out anything that goes through my brains and out of my head......

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Definition of "Perasan" ..... There isn't any English term that describe this word... BUT I have a good example to show what it is.....

A friend of mine got this email from this guy and showed me... haha both of us -.-| | |.
This guy mass emailed the students taking the same subject; If you are studying in UNISA, taking IMT subject now... you'd probably received this email from him too.... This guy/student memang perasan terhadap dirinya sendiri.....


Dear all,
This is an advanced notification that I will be not available from 12nd Nov and onwards due to exam commitment.
I hope your own studies are going well in the lead up to your own final assignments and exams.
If you have already made an appointment with me, I will see you at scheduled time; Otherwise I will see you on 26th and onwards OR at graduation ceremony.
Kind Regards
YF
(Note*: I erased his name and put his initials at the end of his letter.....)


He probably thinks that he is THE lecturer/ tutor and everyone IS looking for him... delusional...
Sure brightened up my day when I read this...

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I live in a soap-opera life myself.... so many things happening around me, makes me feel like I'm lost in a TV series myself... (so many stories to tell, but telling means pin-pointing; so I rather stick to abstract... muahaha)

For those who know me; I prefer watching any sort of series except gory ones and annoying ones... Yeh, I can't stand the torturing and slashing of humans or animals type of movies or series and I can't stand the type that cause my blood to boil/ high blood pressure (watch "Heart of Greed; 溏心風暴" and you know what I mean)

I rather stick to:
1. the act cute ones, with lots of pretty actors and actress that are in their late 20s and still acting as teenagers... I may roll my eyes at some scenes, but at least I can tolerate and sit through the show =P

2. the crying every 20 minutes... I may laugh at the fake tears and I may cry with them at the really sad scenes... rather have bulging puffy eyes and red nose after the series than sitting in front of the TV fuming and still angry by the time I go to bed... =P

3. the ghost/haunted ones are cool as well... There are the silly/ funny ghost shows which i guess are classified as comedy ... The supernatural/ unexplainable phenomenon ones do struck my curiosity button, define under "interesting" ....

The cutest TV classification I've seen is "Stylist Violence" .... I soooo heart this movie/series..... Why settle for brutal bashing when you can bash people in style?? Which will you pick; Rambo vs Naked Weapon?? even the title makes you lean to one side (esp for the guys)... Just in case you don't know the actors/actress from the movie; Rambo = Sylvester Stallone vs Naked Weapon = Maggie Q... BUT then again if the choice is Universal Solders = Jean Claude Van Damme and So Close = Shu Qi.... I think I rather watch Universal Solders.. hehehe... Of course this is a bit bias caucasian guys vs asian girls... but these are the titles currently popping out of my head ... Given a choice: I can emerge both gender into one movie = Mr & MRS Smith!!!!! YUMMY!!!

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A few of my frens are concerned about me; now that pigeon is not around... Thank you Thank you for your thoughts..... How should I answer?? What do I say?? ... I've turned anti-social and love hiding in bed, just give me laptop + internet + my anime.... tralalala.... If you ask me this week... I can tell you that I'm watching anime title "Strawberry Panic". It's about 3 catholic girl schools that shares the same dorm; a very big boarding school(s) and lots of girl on girl action and lesbians emotions...... To top off everything, mid this week, my gay housemate tried to dry hump/ spoon my straight housemate in front of me.... (And some of you asked how I am doing??)..... Don't worry, I am still sane .....

PS: there is still a duvet between the guys, don't worry nothing that obscene happened... Straight one was trying to sleep and the gay one is the alarm clock.... hahaha what a way to wake up from your nap.. =P hahahaha

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Tribute....

Friends got married... Friends gave birth... Friends passed away...
At such a young age (26)... He passed away ... what is left are memories ...

Rest in Peace M...

Time heals all pain, memories are always treasured...

My birthday dinner at Bar & Grill

If you want a good hearty and comfort meal without overeating and walking out with your tummy bulging out; This is the place to go..

Place: 176 Bar & Grill
Time: 7:30pm, 10th Sept (had to celebrate earlier because E is having his wisdom teeth extracted a few day before my actual birthday, he he won't he able to chew properly)
Occasion: My birthday

My housemates: E & K















First let us cheers to my another year older self!!

The appetiser to share; their 176 Tapas plate

The side dishes we had: Salad, Fries & cooked greens
*note: I didn't order the salad, too much onions = bad breathe and lots of gas ... hahaha
The sides are quite yummy; rockets, pears and cheese + onions do make a nice refreshing salad. The fries are the type that I like, slim, crispy and salty enough. The cooked greens (roasted/steamed/pan fried??) are fresh and crispy as well.

All three of us ordered from their 176 Specialty Steak menu; I had the 176 Mignon (1st pic), but I can't remember what E and K had. Might be a porterhouse and rib/chop... hahaha
There is always a decision to have your steak cooked medium rare, medium or well done. For this place, medium rare would be a better choice. BUT if you are similar to E, who don't like the sight of blood, medium/medium well for the steak. The more thoroughly cooked the meat is, the tougher and less juicy it's gonna be.

Dessert wasn't eye catching enough, then again maybe cus I am a selective dessert eater =P

ooooo Before I end this entry, please remember that the traffic light next to this restaurant has speeding cameras on all sides. It was like having a huge rave party where lights are flashing at that junction on this rainy night.. It is $200 per click for speeding over 10km/hr, so please remember Peacock Road is 50km/hr only, not 60km/hr like the normal roads outside city.