Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Last Day of Winter!

It's the last day of winter, so somehow I feel obliged to blog. It's the last day of the month! There's something exciting about a month coming to an end and a new one starting. Maybe it's just me. September is going to be a horrendous month of assignments due and heaps of other things to do, but! There's always the Melbourne conference to look forward to. That's happening in about two week. Never been to Melbourne, so it better be good. Shall have to research on what restaurants to try out in the short time we'll be there... and there's the Tim Burton exhibition too!

From Week 34-36, 2010

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Chef's Gallery- Appetizers

There's so much I want to post about, but laziness always kicks in before I get around to writing the post. Was actually reading an article online about a Singaporean food blogger who apparently went into a restaurant and, after eating, had a bad attitude towards paying and expected the meal to be free because he was a food blogger.

The media stirred it up big and everyone got really angry, calling food bloggers modern day beggars with a DSLR, but truth was, he was invited to a tasting session and brought 3 friends along. Because he was invited, he assumed it was going to be free, but it was only free for him and +1, not all his friends. He then tossed his credit card on the table grudgingly, and someone from the restaurant, displeased with his behavior, called some rival food bloggers and told them about it. They then wrote up scathing posts about him (chance to bring down a rival?) and it felt like they were kicking someone who was already down.

The world of food bloggers isn't so pleasant afterall. It's becoming more and more commercialized, which is really sad. Shall look at food and be comforted that no matter how terrible and low this world becomes, there will still be good food around, and that matters a lot.

From Chef's Gallery- Banka's birthday

Tuesday, August 24, 2010



Not actually my breakfast, only the tea in the tumbler and the piece of mooncake is. The rest? My stash of food at uni. Some sao biscuits, some digestive biscuits. Chocolates, a can of chicken, a microwave meal of curry and jasmine rice, and a muesli bar.

At least my brother won't be able to get his hands on these food! =D

Chef's Gallery update next~

Monday, August 23, 2010

Sunday, August 22, 2010

It was city2surf back two weeks ago! Can't believe time has flown by so quickly, it's already been 2 weeks since the long run, and it only felt like a week ago. Time flies when you're too busy to realise time is going by. I've done the whole "stare at the second hand tick one full circle around the clock face" while waiting to clock off after work (because when I work with efficient people, we tend to finish everything at least 5 minutes before our shift ends) and each second goes by so slowly.

Imagine, I took more than 100 "second hand goes round clock face" cycles to run 14km.
From Week 31-33, 2010

Friday, August 20, 2010

I have less than an hour before my bus comes for work, so this will be a quick quick entry!

Into my third week of "sickness", but it's getting better. Apparently, everyone at Giant Steps (school for kids with autism where I'm currently doing my placement) are having the same thing, both teachers and students- bad cough, nausea, some even throw up, unsteadiness in limbs like legs and hands... and I thought I was just extra clumsy theses days. At least my appetite is back!! Yay for food! Just got a tumbler from Starbucks the other day. It's really sad, I've been wanting to get one for ages, but never actually took the time to go buy one, until I spilled coffee on a white shirt while trying to hold too many things along with a takeaway coffee cup on the train.

From Week 31-33, 2010

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Someone actually said my blog posts are too long, which... I guess I can agree with. My "short and fast" entries always end up longer than planned. Today's will be short, promise- because whatever I've been sick with, it's not going away. Dimetapp, the cold and flu elixir, does not work. Someone from work has caught pneumonia and I conclude that I've caught the same thing from a look at the symptoms, but haven't had time to see a doctor, so it'll have to heal naturally. Unfortunately, being sick, my taste buds have gone crazy and refuse to taste properly, which is very woeful because eating no longer brings the usual joy =(

It's ok though- looking at it reminds me of the past pleasure food brought =) Now I understand how Kuroyanagi felt when he couldn't taste food (shame on you if you haven't watched Yakitate! Japan before.)

From Week 31-33, 2010

Friday, August 13, 2010

Still sick =( Though it was wonderful receiving my payslip today and finding it more than expected- thanks, Paid Personal Sick Leave! Yes, it's my first time calling in sick to work (last week) and first time getting paid for being sick, so that's at least something to lift up this damp, sick and tired soul.

Had a really big dinner last night, the biggest I've had in ages, since sick= sacrificing meals for more sleep. Actually, I should be sacrificing some blogging time for sleep too, have work 6:30am tomorrow, but it can't be helped- am too much of a dedicated blogger (stop scoffing, you.)

From Week 28-30, 2010

Monday, August 09, 2010



It's time for Dimetapp again. Funny, managed to skip all the other symptoms of sore throat and running nose, and got straight to the cough and headache part.

So after skipping dinner twice in a row, running 14km yesterday, collapsing into sleep for about 15 hours after and waking up to go to work half an hour ago, had to get medication afterall. Fever's probably going to kick in while I'm at work, as it always happens..

If anyone annoys me at work today- beware. Am in the Grouchy Hamster mood. I heard bad things happened at work yesterday while J, J and I were at city2surf.. If she does the same to me today, she's going to get it. Somebody's gonna get hurt real bad..

Friday, August 06, 2010

From Week 28-30, 2010
Have some koala cookies~ I know I've been lazy with blogging, but heck, it's been one hell of a week. Imagine waking up at 5:30am for three days in a row- from Tuesday to Thursday, and having a 12-hour long placement (which is in reality 15 hours if you include travel time).

But hey, it hasn't even been a week since my last entry. At least it's not half a year =P

Sunday, August 01, 2010

Wow, this blog post is almost an entire month late! It's already August, and I'm still trying to catch up to the present, which actually won't be too hard, considering how I'll have no life for the following few months or so. It's good to have such a large backlog of stuff to update on, or else this blog will be very much dead.

Oh, August already... the last month of winter. It's sad that winter's gone- it's always been my favourite time of the year where you can huddle in front of the heater and be all comfortable in bed, snuggled into a ball in the middle with layers of blankets over you. (Digressing, I must have slept about 12 hours last night. Marmie came into my room to check on me, thinking I was sick or that I fainted, because I slept through dinner, woke up for an hour to watch Iron Chef, and went back to sleep till this morning). Summer's the worst and it's fast approaching =( but I suppose with summer comes my sister's much looked-forward-to wedding.

From Week 28-30, 2010