People whinging about the lack of updates =P though I have to say, it hasn't been all that eventful this past week. It was my brother's birthday on Saturday though, but let's start from the beginning.
(btw, how hot is it today?! I'm sitting here in unbearable heat, silently damning the heat and summer in Sydney =_= it's currently WINTER in Japan and Hong Kong- two places I'd much rather be this Christmas than here =( But my brother just turned the air conditioning on... don't think I'll survive summer without one ^^'')
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It's Christmas soon! Have to say, I've been really lazy with presents this year and haven't really gone shopping for any. Or if I did get any, they are either small small things that I randomly see, or bought online. I really have to stop buying things online!! Now I realise what people mean by "one click and there goes $xxx(x)". I guess I'm not that bad... the most I've spent online was about a hundred, and they were all tshirts from threadless t's.... AND 70% of them weren't mine anyway.
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Back a few entries ago, I went to FL's house to make quiches, tshirt recons and what not. Also made this- a book cover for a very old book which I bought... online... and it was second hand, so had to glam it up with a self-made book cover. It's not because I'm giam that I went and bought a second hand book... it's just that it's so old that it's not even in print anymore, so all that's available are second hand paperbacks or hard covers that costs over $200 or something crazy like that. For a small little children's book called "The Otterbury Incident". I was never read that book when I was a kid, was more interested in Enid Blyton and Nancy Drew.
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Random brunch before work... this was white choc and raspberry muffin.
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=D Time to show off my new toy~ while my brother went and got a new camera and lenses and whatever else that drained his bank account, I randomly went and got a psp (I did blog about this before). Can't really see in this photo, but this is near my pathetically tiny Christmas tree with the PURPLE (must stress the word purple, because that's about 80% of the reason why I got it, haha... might just name it Purple from now on) psp, the first game for it- given as a Christmas present from tt =D and it's a real game because it *cough* cannot play the other kind of games yet *cough*. And next to it is the big fat poodle thing that we won from the machines =D
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It doesn't look all that great, but it's a quiche made from very few ingredients one night when my brother and I were poor and had no food in the house. I think all we used were eggs, milk, flour and miscellaneous ingredients found from the fridge. Have to say though, quiches taste a lot better with cream rather than milk.
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Moving on to Saturday! My high school friends had a reunion/Christmas outing thing going on the same day, but unfortunately, it clashed with my brother's birthday, so... blood is thicker than water afterall, as my brother constantly reminds me =P I had to celebrate my brother's birthday instead. We planned high tea at Swissotel, with his two friends, Madara and Nadleeh (nicknames, from anime... I highly suspect Naruto and Macross, but I'm not too sure).
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My brother told me Swissotel was mainly for backpackers or something, so we really weren't expecting anything big.
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But since it's buffet high tea, it can't be that bad right?
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Unlimited helpings of sandwiches and desserts.
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Creme brulee is always good, along with some cakes, scones etc.
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Chocolate fountain, but we were pretty full so didn't really touch that. I really liked the fact that tea was also self-serve, and you can choose between teabags and 6 selections of tea leaves- Earl Grey, Lady Grey, English breakfast, Orange Pekoe, Green, Russian Caravan and one last one, can't remember. We had a pot of Earl Grey and Caravan, which tasted like tobacco tea because it has a smoky aroma to it. I still prefer my Earl Grey =)
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Swissotel has really nice clocks everywhere. There was another one like a huge watch face...
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Certainly doesn't look too much like a backpacker's hotel ^^''
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Where we had high tea.
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No one was playing, but I suspect this place will have quite a nice atmosphere at night during dinnertime.
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Two levels of wine.
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Next, we headed over to botanical gardens for... none other than a photoshoot. Note: not me. My brother and his two friends. I tagged along =D It was awesome walking through the streets and looking at people's facial reactions.
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I never watched Macross, but Madara is posing with a lion. I don't know why. Btw, they self-made all their costumes, including this one.
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Madara and Nadleeh- very obvious who Nadleeh was cosplaying as... =D
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It's Miku! From Vocaloid! =D That wig was super heavy, and check out those mini mouse platforms =D
Then my brother and his friends went off for a surprise dinner for another friend's birthday later this month and I went off to meet tt after work, but I wanted to have a look at the street that hung bird cages since I heard about it from a friend...
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This really reminds me of CCS, the movie (those who are hopelessly lost already- dw, it's another anime) where they went to Hong Kong and there was a street with all the bird cages... poor Nadleeh is scared of birds, so even though there weren't any real birds inside the cages, there were sound effects of it... ^^'' can be pretty creepy... especially at night =P
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So after the photoshoot, we went into Intercontinental Hotel to use their bathroom (to get changed).
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Shall explore hotels one day. It's pretty nice, and Usyd has a graduation ball happening in one of the halls. Why didn't we ever get a graduation ball?!
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Christmas trees decorating the hall where the graduation ball was going to happen.
My brother and his friends went to Kasumi (the izakaya with the soumen machines) while tt and I went to Sushi Rio. Haven't been there for a long time, but felt like something healthy and fast, like sushi. We decided that rather than grabbing plates from the belt, we'd just order handrolls.
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This was their scallop and omelette handroll... for $3.50 each, this was actually really really good.
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Second handroll- mine was a typical avocado/salmon and tt's was a battered prawn one. Mine felt healthier =P
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Took this one from the belt- squid (or octopus, I can't tell the difference between those two, ever) salad. This was like the one we had in Singapore at Carnivore, except that was self-serve unlimited octopus/squid salad and it was dried tomato flavored.
We ordered about three handrolls each and two plates from the belt, along with green tea, and the cost was around 10-ish per person because the green tea was free. Was really filling too, and the scallop sushi was seriously good... a nice healthy and filling dinner for that price is hard to find these days ^^''
It's been too hot recently to go out and tt's always busy working, so I've just been home reading books, playing tactics and stoning, but since my sister is coming to visit for Christmas tomorrow morning, the next post might be more eventful~ Oh, and there's Christmas dinner to make too =D We get a real turkey this year!!