rainy days..

it has been raining quite a bit lately.. it's good cause we had shortage of our water storage and it's an awesome weather to sleep in and tuck under your warm comfy quilt.. oh wells it's not so good when it's raining early in the morning when you are all set to start the day and ready for a day's work.. haha! and also a night that you need to study hard? well can't be too picky on that. i'm still happy that it's raining.. ^^

well i want to share another eat out experience i had last saturday night. haha! not that i want to become a food critic or what so ever.. but just enjoy the process of sharing my experience. hehe! maybe i should start on a food blog and intro all the places i go and food that i try.. stay tuned on that. wait till i finish my exam. anyways i went dinner at a korean restaurant called hwaro. it's korean barbeque kinda place, with really modernize atmosphere. nice place for a gathering with friends but must pre-book for a table. the place is really full and with different session times. the food portion was rather small though, but the service was pretty good, helped around to cook and cut the meat into small pieces. their marinated meat was yummy, with a bit of burned edges of the meat, two thumbs up! they also used a special kind of rice, not too sure what is it, it's a little purplish colour. and their rice wine with lemon, that was something interesting and tasted pretty good. all in all, we had a nice meal with a leftover smell of what we had. haha! time for more studying.. gambateh!

i know what?! i shall reward myself with a superb good meal after my exam. hmm.. let me think where will it be!

away mode..

i was on away mode.. although i still check on the blog updates all the time, i didn't have time to have a good write for the past few weeks. there was alot happening. well dear was here for the past two weekends, we had heaps of fun and some nice time together. but i still went for work and he went to the library. tried to be hardworking. haha! anyways we also spent some time exploring some places for some good food. my promise for dear. ^_^

finally i got the chance to bring dear to fifteen for dinner, a famous restaurant owned by jamie oliver. i ordered the slow roasted pork belly and dear ordered the pan fried salmon. it came out really good, the pork was roasted just nice, the meat still juicy and with the crisp outside, accompanied with some sauce. don't remember what was the sauce. and dear's salmon was done really juicy and tender, not overcooked at all. we also tried their rose and also the sauvignon blanc. well the rose was alright, tried better ones before. the sauvignon blanc was good, it was from spain. the service was not so attentive when the place was occupied, we went there alot earlier and it was all packed during dinner time. we also tried their dessert, one was the lemon tart and also the the triple cream cheese platter. the cheese tasted really good together with the fig jam, something like that. and the lemon tart was yummy, always can't say no to dessert. haha! the pastry was made just nice, i always love the pastry part. goes well with the mascarpone at the side. well we ended out fifteen experience with a whooping bill.. hahaha! nah.. just kidding! it was a fulfulling meal with alright price.

another highlight that we had was going to takumi japanese restuarant which is famous of wagyu beef and with a bit of contemporary theme. it's a must try i should say. i got to know about this restuarant from the newspaper before that and i went online to search about it in eatability. i did my homework. haha! anyway there were quite alot of good reviews on them. so jen and i decided to have a try after he got the good news! haha. i was daring enough to order the asahi beer, it's on special during 5-7pm, and dear ordered a champagne. then for entree, we ordered a beef stew and also the soba salad with sesame dressing. and the mains we ordered the seafood platter, the eye fillet and also a vegetable platter. oh i forgot to say that it's grill your own, we have a hot plate in the middle of the table and with charcoal. the entree was superb, the beef stew that we ordered just melted inside our mouth with a taste of spice, really yummy! and the soba salad was absolutely delicious, both of us just love it!! it was highly recommended ones, if you're not that into wagyu beef. with the grills, it was nice experience except it gets a bit hot at times when u're grilling. but the taste was awesome, maybe it's due to the charcoal. they also provide three different kinds of sauces to come with it, one is sesame sauce with salt which is nice with vegetables, and one is suitable with the beef and another one is suitable with the seafood. both of us also ordered rice to come with it. by the time we finished all of the mains, we were all full but of course we still had some more room for desserts. i ordered the green tea pudding with green tea ice cream and dear ordered the sesame one. it was delicious! the attention to detail in their presentation and the mixture of taste of the food was just perfect. very nice experience with great attentive friendly waitress. nice experience and definately gonna go back again! i'm happy to share the experience. haha!

the other one that we went together with my collegues during the weekend, was hu tong chinese restaurant. recommended by my collegue that their xiao long bao is yummy! so we ordered a few dishes with rice and some dumplings and also xiao long bao. and the xiao long bao just melted inside my mouth with the juicy sauce inside. it was made really good and i have to say it was by far the best ones i've tried. didn't know xiao long bao was actually that delicious. haha! we also tried their fish head soup. aww.. that was also another good one, it was so fresh and also not a bit of fishy smell at all and even not the gingery taste. well done for that! their food has a bit of spicyness, but it just goes really well with the food. probably will go and try the other dishes as well. just a quick update but it's all about food. haha! no pictures this time cause the food was just too good to stop and take pictures. hahaha! anyway miss lots!! need to get back studying now.. only three more weekeneds till my cpa exam..

another weekend!

i've fully recovered from my cough and flu. but unfortunately a few of my collegues caught my virus. feel bad.. :P anyway hope they get well soon. the weather has been really unstable for the past week. take care ppl! i've been trying hard to study my cpa course. exam is next month but it feels so close. maybe cause i can't really study much during the weekdays and by counting only weekends, i don't have much time left. have to catch up more. thanks dear for helping me with that. good luck with yours as well. and get well soon! love ur company today..

today i went to jells park for picnic bbq. a simple one with some sausages and corns. tasted good! spring time would be great for bbqs.. but with good weather though. haha! there was strong winds and drizzles when we arrived there. and we had to run away early before the thunderstorms came. anyway a simple day, with great companions.

sicky me..

omg! i was missing in action again! haha.. well i was sick for the whole week actually, been really tired and sicky.. i'm feeling better today which is awesome! i guess i was not coping well with the cold weather before that. sometimes it gets all warm and sometimes it just gets all crazy with rainy and windy weather. well i was stupid enough to not taking any sick leave at all. :P let me re-cap what happened with me for the past two weeks.

oh yea, remember that i mentioned that i was going to mt dandenong with a few visitors from malaysia two weeks ago. family friend, so i got to meet up with my junior, davis and his brother wilson. we went to skyhigh mt dandenong and also miss marples. and also lunch at hog's breath. it was a whole day of food and scenery and cold weather. at night we even had mud crab noodles for dinner! yummy yummy.. and on sunday i also met up with a whole group of juniors cause it was eugene's birthday. i was the oldest among them. haha! anyways nice catching up with them. aww.. the weekend was too fast for me.

last week i did attempt to start studying my cpa course. i went into the forum on their website and i was amazed that ppl are getting started already. i'm kinda way behind the schedule. will need to catch up a bit today... i better do it now! :P

nightmares..

i woke up this saturday morning with terrible feelings.. that was really horrible.. the work is daunting me even when i sleep. that's really not a nice feeling at all.. i really tried all kinds of ways to relax myself. i had a chat with dear, read a book, listened to my ipod, played some games before i sleep. yet i woke up with such stressful feeling. i guess i'm giving myself too much pressure?

hope that my outing today to be tour guide for some malaysian visitors can ease off my full brain of stress.

crazy cold weather..

the weather in aussie land is getting crazy!!! yesterday we had serious warning by the govt to go home early because there was strong and serious winds and thunderstorms and hail, the authority was afraid that the bad weather may cause disruption on the transport system as there are lots of commuters taking the public transport to work and back home. i was unfortunately at work until 5.30pm and it was predicted that the bad weather would hit city by 5pm. luckily by the time i finished work, the weather was okay. apparently the strong winds had came before that. thank goodness! the train station was all empty. fortunately i arrived at home safely. i think the rain and strong wind continued on during the night. but i was tucked under my quilt. cosy and warm. as for other states, it was all different story. queensland had a record high of temperature with 35 degrees during winter period. wow! it led to talking about global warming problem and stuff like that. is that true?

anyhow below are some photos. first one is me before a hair cut just before the day of my birthday. i think so. haha! anyway all freshen up now. the second one is my present for myself. a marcs jacob's bag. love it! take care ppl!

birthday bash..

well i'm supposed to write about it ages ago. haha! anyways remember that i mentioned that i had three days of celebration for my big day? well here's some to share.. on saturday night, 8 of august i had a dinner celebration with all my friends, at hogs breath, a famous steak place. i like the steak there with a massive size. we had a party menu with appertiser which is potato skin with some salsa,cheesy and bacon inside and also garlic bread. for main course we had a selection of steak or the chicken. and for dessert we had the chocolate mudcake, which is super duper yummy one! overall it was all good, but the service for that night was quite poor due to the crowd at the restaurant for the whole night. by the time we finished our dinner, it was already around 11pm. gosh!! i was so full that time! haha.. anyway after that we headed to daniel's house to cut cake. i had the most prettiest and luxuriest cake in my whole 24 years. it was a cake from brunetti. and also the first time that i didn't get the cake myself. haha!

then the next day i went out for lunch with my family, cause mum and dad work on monday so we had our family celebration during sunday lunch. then i went out shopping with mum and sis at southland. i was being good that day, i didn't buy anything. haha! on monday, which is the actual day, i went to work as usual.. of course i had some special treatment on that day. i made some mistakes with my given tasks and i was able to get away with it. haha! lucky me.. and in the afternoon, my collegues celebrated with me with a black forest cake, another cake! haha.. then later at night, i went out dinner with a few friends, with ck as well. we went to try a new place at little collins street, it's a sushi train restaurant, first time i had it in melb. it's called sakura kaiten sushi. it's a really small restaurant but it had really nice atmosphere and settings at the place. not many tables as well. matt preston, one of the aus food critic went there before, as for his critics for the restaurant, i think it was just so so.. but i had a great time eating all types of sushis there, and their raw salmon was my fav. their sushis are modified for western taste buds and also modernised. they added some cheese inside the unagi roll i had. haha! something interesting. but the prices of the sushis are a bit pricey, as compared to the ones i had with dear in brisbane. haha! about 4.80 per plate and only about 3-4 serves per plate. the sizes of the sushis are rather smaller, but very nice presentation. the service was awesome though! the waitresses are very attentive and friendly. overall i had a great time eating the sushis there and i also tried one of their bentos. i had an enjoyable evening and ended with a nice talk with dear. and i love the special gift from dear.

so all in all, i had splurged myself with nice dinners, great celebrations and awesome gifts! felt really blessed.. thanks for all the love.

love,

mel