:: -*the baby blues-* ::

food haven

Friday, February 29, 2008

so, it's official. i've put on 3 kg in 2 weeks from all these food that ive been eating everyday. no wonder everyone puts on weight when they go overseas. but i still miss kuching kolo mee though :( ive really gotta cut down on my eating.

vietnamese food:

vietnamese pho at bankstown (raw beef with noodles)

prawns and spring onion spring rolls

broken rice with pork, vermicelli salad and crab omelette

western:

a small, comfy pasta restaurant; full everyday and there's no booking or reservations allowed. and all must be present before you can take a seat.

rocket salad

proscuito ham with cheddar cheese & rocket

tomato brushetta

linguine with mussels

duck ragu

spaghetti bolognese

beef lasagna

creme caramel

the famous and most expensive breakfast, bills:

blueberry muffin

traditional bacon and eggs and orange juice

this is the famous harry's hotdog stall near the street. stars like adrian grenier and nicole kidman have been there. many others too, but i forgot :)

hot dog de wheels

tiger pie (mash potatoes, mushroom pie, mashed peas and gravy)

the famous sydney fish market:
the seafood rich in abundance

5* guilaumme restaurant in sydney opera house, circular quay:

the appetizers:

oyster bar

smoked salmon with caviar

sashimi platter

proscuito ham

main course:

chicken with mushroom & asparagus

octopus risotto

steak with mushrooms

today's officially the last day of summer! it hasn't really been summer with the 4 days of continuous thunderstorms and chilly winds. i can't even walk across the road with the strong wind tunnels and everyone's umbrellas are turning inside out. so i really don't see the point of carrying the umbrella cos in the end, cos you can't seem to walk forward, and you end up getting wet while you try to turn your umbrella back the right way round.

anyways, tomorrow is the celebration of the 30th anniversary of mardi gras! and in 2 days would be my first week of hectic course from 9-5 everyday, and on tuesday i have to travel to two campuses at 3 to travel down to the city sydney law school, and ill be done at 6 pm. :( ergh. im not looking forward to it.

anyways, have a great weekend people!

(5:26 PM)

the real intro-welcome :)

Thursday, February 28, 2008

sorry guys for the late, slow, pictureless updates that i've been giving u since i came down to sydney. its been 1 month 7 days since i got here and im so sorry i havent even posted up a thing!

okay, ive taken 976 photos since i was here, so this time im gonna give you a piece of sydney!

ill just leave the photos to do the talking this time. enjoy!
p.s. there will be an overload of photos.

by day:

(the view from my apartment) see the lil white thing there in the centre in the first pic? tht's sydney opera house! and below it's sydney city :)

central city: town hall and QVB

the priceless view of sydney opera house

sydney harbour bridge with chris looking all emo-ed.

view of the city from the northern suburbs

the eastern suburbs

... and how can i forget bondi beach! pretty small surprisingly. the sand melts between your feet btw.

by night:

sydney opera house and sydney harbour bridge

city by night

'australian day' in the city

circular quay

i'll post up food the next round :) cheers

(11:10 PM)

i have an *IDIOT* sign slapped across my forehead-

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

something happened today.
and yes, im gonna make sure it doesnt happen to me again.
i guess ive been pretty lucky the first few times but this time God decided to punish me cos of my carelessness and ignorance.

my apartment door has an auto lock device thing, so once the door slams shut from the outside, you cant get in unless you have a key. so, yes, obvious enough, i got locked out of my apartment.

and, not only do i not have my handphone with me, but i dont have any money (except a miserable dollar in my pocket which cant even buy a bottle of water), no phone contacts that i memorised, and no apartment or spare key.

don't even think about how i got myself locked out of my own apartment. and yes, i tried to see if the concierge had a spare key (which i was *so* confident tht they did, just like most hotel rooms do), but they didn't.

and the time i got locked out was 1 pm. so i have to wait 4 SUPER LONG HOURS till chris gets home, and the thing is i cant even call him or leave him a message cos i dont have money to make a call, or a handphone, and WORSE STILL, i don have his hp number.

and the worst part is, i was wearing these huge soft furry slippers that were a size of UK 11. -.- and i honestly thought i could take a stroll around the city penniless (still not so bad rather than sitting outside the apartment door like a stalker).

and i havent even had breakfast. nor lunch. and a dollar in my pocket. HOW LAH.

in the end thank God my father's friend was with me (which is how i got locked out in the first place), so she gave me 20 dollars to surf the net and wait for chris to get home and also get a bite to eat.

that didnt really excite me cos going out in furry slippers made me bring a huge load of unwanted attention from others. even now. so now im here, typing away and waiting for my lil brother to get back.

i left him a note btw, asking him to get me. God, please don't let some guy walk past the apartment and read it or take it and throw it away. :( and im thinking to myself, "how am i gonna take care of my lil brother?!" :( and its raining outside- heavily. i wanna go home!

and i have so much stuff to do back at the apartment. and im tired now. and, and, i had a short revelation of wanting to have superpowers to climb or fly up to the tenth floor and climb in through my window.

chris, PLEASE please don't come back at 6. please.

ive learnt a BIG FAT lesson. and a conclusion that i'm a real dumbo.
my dad's gonna kill me when he finds out. cos he reminded me once about the door. and i just made that mistake he asked me to avoid, a million times.

not a great thing to remember during ure first few weeks in sydney.

(3:30 PM)

life's just too short.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

oops. and i forgot.
happy cny everybody!
this is my first year that i'm not back at home. =( and there's not a single celebration here in sydney. but all the casinos are filled with chinese- i guess the gambling frenzy in them just can't run away.

i miss all the kuih already! ergh. dad, buy me a ticket to go back to kuching please? :)

(8:35 PM)

bugger

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

okay, this was seriously not what i expected to write on my first post in sydney.

im so sorry guys tht i havent been updating.
i dont have broadband right now.. ill prolly have it in the middle of the month, and if im unlucky, ill only get it by march so ill post up pics then!

anyways, sydney is a beauutiful city. no doubt about it. adjusting here atm.. the weather is sunny on some days and the breeze is just so cool but for the past few days its been raining like mad.

i just moved into my apartment! pretty run down and very dull and been cleaning up the place scrubbing off mouldy areas full of FUNGUS everywhere! the cleaners are really not doing their job. so my dad painted the house to make it brighter. :)

sorry if some of u can read this blog, like joey! i dono how to operate this blogger thing. im def. not an expert on it, so yeah, i hope u can read it soon!

ok i only have 5 mins left. so, im gonna log off now. will post up more later! xxx

(10:25 AM)