Fujiya, BBQ KING Firecrackers and PHILLIP RUDDOCK

Firstly, before I forget, I saw Phillip Ruddock today at Chinatown. Bahaha. He was surrounded by a crowd of people at a freaking intersection (the start of Chinatown at Market City).  At first, I just noticed the crowd as I was walking towards George St. I mouthed a swear word when I had to propell through the crowd of sticky people and immediately regretted it because I saw a channel 9 camera pointed in my direction.  Sixty minutes? STOP FUDGING FILMING WHERE THE BLOODY TRAFFIC LIGHTS ARE!  Then I saw Phillip Ruddock.  Tick. Two famous people in one week.

WHAT HAPPENED TODAY.

So earlier this morning I was ranting on about how D lost my logbook, etc- well this morning, we both took action and drove to the RTA and bought another logbook. Apparently I just fill out all the hours I did before (wth). I think that's utterly stupid. How easy would it be to fudge hours. Gaaah. $13. Which came from my wallet (wallet and purse = same thing Rohan) and I think it means NO DRINKS FOR BELLE THIS FRIDAY- which is a pity because I'll be in the city all morning and afternoon. Sigh sigh sigh.

After that, I drove to the docs to get a referral letter to some breath test clinic.  I think M had some helio-something bacteria a while back.  I did some research, and apparently, if it's left untreated (killed), it would cause cancer. So I suggested we all get tested sometime this week so that we can be cleansed asap and prevent any unnecessary death. Got there, waited for eons, came out and drove to the dentist (lol) to get a radiology referral letter for K. 

D & I stopped off at home, before heading out again (yes, I drove alot today) to yumcha. Waited for another couple of eons before a table was finally offered to us. Ate $40 worth of food. What the hell. So expensive. I swear I didn't eat that much. T_T;

After that we went home, chilled for a bit, then drove M to Thornleigh and drove out to city with D &K. Yes. I drove even more. :D  By then it was about 5ish and traffic into the city was a breeze. Got there in no time. Geez. I should use bullet points or something. This sounds so disjointed.

• Walked to Ichiban Boshi
• Found out they were having repairs and won't be open until Friday (or something)
• D&K&I had a little debate about where we should go for dinner. K suggested Kinokuniya (yes, I'm serious. D said Gumshara, and I suggested Fujiya)
• We went to Fujiya (after much persuasion) and we didn't regret it at all. All the tense frustration and irritation was stripped from our bodies once we walked into the extremely tiny front door.  Why? Because looks are deceiving.  The outside of Fujiya (the place above Delafrance on George) looks shabby, but the interior is a different story.  It was so spacious and awesome. So serene. It was really quiet when we got there.

Practically the entire floor looked like this. May I suggest we have a big group dinner here sometime? It's so close to work. xD

D: Lemon Squash, K: Calpis (lol) with peach, B: Calpis with grape

K: Sushi Udon Set

B: Salmon- I just craved sashimi so I ordered a whole lot

D: Sushi and sashimi set

When I say I like japanese food, what I really mean to say is I like to eat raw fish.  Seriously, it is like the greatest thing IN THE WORLD- except it may give you the worst.  Worms. Gosh. But I thought, TO HELL WITH THAT, if I die from worm explosion, at least I'll die half happy. :) 

So when we were all content and full and jolly, we came across a blockage.

BOY WAS I GLAD TO SEE THIS. MARTIAL ARTY BOYS IN THEIR FLUFFY PANTS. WOOHOO. I love them. This is why I love Chinese New Year. It's a combination of some of my favourite things.

Fluffy pants and sequins.

Kidding.

Really, I love firecrackers and lion dancing. I also love the fact that men can wear fluffy pants and look manlyish at the same time. With sequins too. lol.  K & I had a good chuckle about this before we realised D was missing. :O Turns out he was across the road.

So we followed him, and got front row seats. Freaking awesome. There were three bunches of firecrackers which were heaps long. At least 5m long each.

When my internet connection improves, I'll upload my CNY video onto youtube to show you how freaking awesome firecrackers are.  I did that last year and triggered this HUGE martial art discussion between martial arty people. Great fun.

After it finished, they got a huge round of applause and we got the car and drove to Thornleigh before going home.  I DROVE SO MUCH. SO HAPPY.

TWILIGHT PARADE IS ON SUNDAY!

fml

I NO LONGER HAVE ANY EVIDENCE THAT I DROVE APPROXIMATELY 60 GENUINE HOURS.

Why? D wanted to keep my logbook "safe" during the hols so he put it in the house- AND NOW IT'S GONE.

Those were seriously some of the most painstaking hours of my life. PLUS MORE actually. T_T; I'm sure I had about 20 hours of "learning" hours D didn't count because he was teaching me to park.

DAMNIT. If it were 2 years ago, I would have already gotten my Ps.  Eff you RTA.

Shall visit RTA today and fish out $X.XX or $XX.XX to get a new one- and possibly start from scratch.

I'm hoping for some good news from the RTA people telling me I can just forget about those 60 or so hours, but seriously, as if.

Gonna drive there now. T_T;

PS Guise, the Twilight Parade is on today, and NO IT IS NOT ABOUT TWILIGHT (in bold just incase you think it's about Edward Cullen *shudder*).  My boss, my workmates and some friends will know that I've been keen to see this parade which is happening tonight.  CLICK HERE to see what I'm talking about.

It's like the mardis gras but the gay are replaced by chinese decked out in funky clothes.

The parade starts at TOWN HALL and finishes in CHINATOWN and there will be FIREWORKS in Cockle Bay. So if you have free time tonight and want to come GIMME A SHOUT (in this case, over the phone please) and join us (miss weenie and I) for a very, very interesting night filled with RED, CHINESE, and starved acrobat kids from China who wear red.

OMG EXCITED. :)

Mamak

Hi folks :)  (I don't think I actually say that word IRL because it sounds a bit weird).

I felt the need to boast about what I did the other day before my memory fails me and I forget or something. Rex has a nice recount of this day, and you can read that HERE. Diti has one too- and you can read that HERE. All the photos posted up here are from Samantha's camera 8) Thunks.  I haven't touched my camera in ages- lately I've been thinking that it's not so bad afterall and maybe I should just hold onto it for a bit longer before a better camera comes along... :/

But before I go on about my visit to Mamak :D, Winnie has a JOB at DJ so you can all visit her on Boxing Day or something. I was on the phone with some people at Forrester's Beach  8) and they were having a pillow fight. T'was loud, and I couldn't hear her properly- I just heard David Jones. So, yay. :) Employee discounts. :D

SO, on Tuesday, I woke up nice and early and headed off to the optom- tried on a pair of contacts which were of the wrong prescription, chucked a mini tantrum in my head. It was such a waste of time. I could have been sweet talking randoms on the street into buying red ribbons for World Aids Day- but noo, I was stuck in a silly room jabbing a finger into my eye. Bah. Humbug.

After that, M + I returned a couple of DVDs to E library and I walked to the station and bumped into Harry.  He was on his way to a music interview- something to do with composing in the future. I misheard at first and thought he was going to an interview for a musical =_=;. (I need hearing aids) Got off at Town Hall and went our separate ways. Then I decided to give Lis a call to see where I could meet up with her and sim, and when I did... well, I didn't really recognise her. Ahaha. Lis spent last week in Japan, and I bet she spent everyday shopping.  On Tuesday I was standing outside St Andrew's Church/Cathedral looking for her. I couldn't see her. But I saw sim talking to a stranger by her side. But it turned out to be no stranger- it was lis and her fashionable self. Hahahaha. I still can't get over it :P Seriously, you had to be there ;D

We walked to Eating World and spent about 10-15 minutes contemplating whether we should eat but then luckily Sam arrived announcing that we should eat at MAMAK. WOOPDIDOO.

Photos are from Sam's fb. She's in Hk, I have no msn, so I've just copied them from there w/o her permission. But she won't mind :D

TADAAA Finally :D

Fried Rice. Too much spice D:

Chicken curry?

Hokkien fried noodle - this was pretty good. I think it was supposed to be migoreng..

ROTI :D

OMG- best roti in the world. Coconut + pandan + icecream = LOVELOVELOVE

 Bought a 500ml bottle of Vivar Nanowater  because it had nice packaging. *-* Yay materialism.

Getting hot again today. D:  See you all soon!

TEETH-erific Plans

Dental appointment tomorrow. I hate dentists. They really love to poke around my sensitive teeth and make me scream inside really, really loudly.

What's worse is that I think it's either at 8 or 9 in the morning. Ridiculous hour. We're stuck with these stupid times because we didn't book early enough as everyone's rushing around trying to get their eyes/teeth fixed before they leave the country for holidays.

WHT

Woke up at 8, got on my day clothes (hair + face + teeth) in less than 5 minutes. I had a big day today... washing dishes. *gag*  However, I'm just glad I didn't get stuck with sweep/vacuum/steam chores today. To successfully clean a house to my expectations (I don't normally clean, I like living in my pig stye- but when I do, I like it to be extremely clean), I take hours.

Soaked everything in uber hot water, then hand wash with detergent, then pop into the dishwasher = voila clean dishes/bowls/cups/etc.  Then comes the ritual of cleaning the sink, cooktop and cupboards, because- well, maybe it's just our place, but when the place is sticky or sweet, a mass of ants will invade the kitchen and that is super bad news to everyone.

Just when I was washing our sponges, I heard some rapping on the door. I answer, its Sam. A minute later, we (Sam, Cat, I) are heading towards E.station.  Bought our tickets from a really nice (what are they called.. ticket master? lol) guy sitting at the booth selling train tickets (==; wow, feel so braindead after watching so much tv) and got to H.station in NO TIME. Then we switched trains, got to W.station. HOLY CRAP. SUCH A GOOD LOOKING PLATFORM. Have you ever seen trees sticking out of the ground where waiting benches are meant to be?

Driven to bleb's place and commenced out One Tree Hill Season 2 marathon where we watched Nathan and Haley battle out their relationship + lotsa nasty comments coming from me. :)

It's not fun watching teen dramas by yourself. Especially ones that go for 7 seasons.  I shall go on to mention some of the highlights of season two. Some of you *cough bleb* may not agree with what I think [about Felix] but too bad :)

HIGHLIGHT #1.  Seeing 2 players soften up and get together
HIGHLIGHT #2.  Seeing Felix. Yes. Felix.
HIGHLIGHT #3.  Dan getting a heart attack.
HIGHLIGHT #4.  Mimicking Whitey/CMM's gayish accent. OH and the way Peyton says awkward "akwaRRRd"
HIGHLIGHT #5.  Bitching about Haley because she infuriates me so much.

AAAHHH teen dramas. I cannot wait until the adult seasons.  Will be watching Flash Forward soon. WOOHOO.

OKAY. So today I realised how much I like to munch on stuff while I'm watching tv. At home I'm used to munching on nuts + fruit + junk, but lately we've been lacking in the latter, so I've been munching alot on cereal. However, today we munched on cucumber and carrot sticks. Oh and a couple of bags of asian chips. Which are fantasmo.  Hostess' parents prepared an uber aesthetically appealing meal for us (presentation! trays n all!!) but I was being stupid and obsessed with helicopter tv shows so I forgot to pack my camera. 8)

MANY THANKS TO BLEB :D:D Sam and Cat for another really fun tv day. :)


Moving along, today I'd also like to talk about LOVE for materialism.  Since I was very, very young, Material Girl has been one of my feel good songs ;D (At first it was just catchy- but now.. it's still quite catchy :)  I find that I'm a highly materialistic person- I love my technology (even though it does hate me sometimes), I love my toys, my stationery, and well, of course my favourite actors.  Without it, I feel bored and empty I guess. My phone has been dead for the past couple of days and I guess I'm devastated because I use my phone alot more than I should. I rely on my phone to check most of my emails- the occassional twitter, the rare blog post, the latenight facebook, and of course my love to communicate via text and calls to friends. Without it I feel REALLY bored and out of touch.

Haha. And now my parents have virtually taken over my laptop (link to tv to watch) and going on the net from the PC is slow and such a bother- I feel like it's harder to keep doing what I normally do on a school day.  What triggered me to really think about it today, was when I found my Samsung Z400 (mobile) in my drawer. Earlier this year it was damaged and we figured it was cheaper to just go on a plan and ditch my original phone. This is going to sound really weird- but I regret not fixing my old phone because I really love it. The entire design of the phone is just so ME and the monkey dangling off it doesn't suit any other phone- perfect size, weight, the buttons are really nice to press, and the camera is of surprisingly good quality.

Shan't talk anymore. Miss you guys :) but at the moment, I'm missing my book more. Almost finished The White Tiger. Finally. :)

Karaoke, Kasumi, Bosco's, Bondi- by night and day

HELLO WONDERFUL PEOPLE

I have been so busy/pooped I haven't really had time to blog. The past few days have been quite fun, and I can't believe the end of the HSC feels so far away already.  Hope you're all doing well/ everything is running smoothly. I feel like I've left everything to the last minute- NO NEW CAMERA- but it's okay. I'm considering purchasing a DSLR in HK at Fortress in HK where its cheaper :D.  Mum wants a DSLR too because her photography interest is growing at an extremely rapid rate.

So .. yes. This will be interesting.

I realise this post is long overdue-

WEDNESDAY:

Bosco was wonderful and has already posted about this :) READ HERE

My story- Trained from Epping - Central. There was a massive delay because there was some guy who didn't want to get off the train- but was "forcibly removed" afterwards. Took them ages. How long does it take for a bunch of guys to get one guy off the train. T_T; Was supposed to meet the others at Syd K- and I was going to get off at Town Hall- except this train didn't get there; it terminated at Central. So I got off and got on a city circle train. Big mistake. Stopped at Museum, St James, C. Quay and Wynyard before getting to Town Hall. Next time I'm just walking from Central.

Met the others and karaoked.

lol Yoon's expression.

We got an extra 20 mins, all thanks to Michael's korean ethnicity. :D  Then when the time + 20 mins was up, we departed to get to dinner on time.

Ate at Kasumi Izakaya 8) Interesting place for dinner. Slightly disappointed they didn't have the noodle slide thingy- that I had seen on GYF's blog. :( Nevertheless, we had a good time- especially after a round of drinks ;)  Lemonade Midori (Rex), Strawberry mocktail (Bonnie), Green Tea Milkshake (Sam), Coke (Lis :P:P), Sunset coast (Mindy), China Blue (mine) and I forgot any others. xD  And of course we ordered food.

My view. xD

Lemonade Midori, Strawberry mocktail, Greentea Milk Shake, China Blue

Forgot what this was. Some kinda chicken entre.

WOO Drink sharing. Normally- I'm against this sort of saliva swapping- but I let loose; all in the name of experimentation

Yakisoba I think

Beef something. Terriyaki? Gosh. I've forgotten

Teriyaki Chicken

Takoyaki anyone?

Japanese Fried Rice with Shrimp

Ooh these there interesting

tip

about to get run over

mamak. didn't go- wanted to though

instead...

gelatissimo!

On the train home- we were uber loud- and borbitch was talking about oral sex and chimpanzees; i looked around, and everyone was giving us disapproving stares. ==;

that concludes my recount of wednesday,

which brings me to Thursday

Sign out day- Originally, my plan was to rock up to school super late- because I wanted to go to the mini party at Mawson's place (okay not a party- just lunch). However, I was up bright and early and got a call from the bestie- so I sprinted to school in my mismatched clothes, odd socks wild hair through the bush. It was quite an ordeal. Was attacked (not really) by a couple of spiders which happened cling onto webs I had run through. :( I was shrieking and slapping wildly at my legs while still running. I had forgotten how to stop and I just ran all the way to school :( 

Signed out with Cheryl (well- she finished WAY earlier before me), got my $100 and we headed off to C. Court for some lunch. Haha. All this walking/running had made me ravenous and I treated myself to an upsized ultimate burger meal. MM-MM. THEN, Cheryl called Ambert to pick us up and take us to Connie's cos we were too full/fat from eating. :D

Watch movies (lol the neverending story was so gay), and rent, and played monopoly before going home and resting my weary feet. After dinner I sat on the couch and fell asleep almost immediately. :) I don't recall watching any tv that night.

FRIDAY

Woke up early to catch the early bus to meet everyone at school to go to Bosco's to plan our HK trip.  Got to school at 9ish. Saw Bosco, and we just sat around for ages with Lee, waiting for the sleepover people to wake up and amble to school. We waited for ages and then found out Sam was going home first, and Mawson/Drew were already at Bosco's house! LOL!  THEN, Quentin, Bosco and I caught 3 buses to get to his place- and had lotsa fun. His house is way cool.  PICS

There are shrunken. Ask for bigger ones :)

LOL DREW'S FACE!!

Mawson taking over Shanghai

lalala. Then I had an optom appointment. Right eye has gotten a bit worse- no biggie. I am as blind as a bat anyway.  Went home- then went out again to Bondi. M wanted to see the Sculptures.

B: It's night time. You can't see anything

M: I want to go

B: you won't be able to see anything

M: I want to go

B: tomorrow morning?

M: NONE OF YOU WILL WAKE UP IN THE MORNING

B: Then just take D

M: HURRY UP AND GET IN THE CAR.

So we went.

The thing about going to see the Sculptures at night is that everything looks like this.

Bondi is beautiful at night. But it's even better during the day.

WE WENT the next morning. Left the house super early- used the cross city tunnel- $5 toll, bitches. $10 parking- bitches, $25 breakfast at McDonalds- mmm. BE-YOO-TI-FOOL.

OHMYGOSH

THIS POST HAS TAKEN AGES.

NO MORE.

I'll save it for tomorrow ;D I have photos from a Poporo lunch with K yesterday. So yes. :) TILL THEN, TAKE CARE, GLAM UP/GET SOME SLEEP EVERYONE.