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

lazy saturday..

my lazy worm is really active today.. as soon as i woke up, i didn't feel like doing anything and i was only staring at the ceiling with my blank mind.. luckily jen called in.. haha! but at the moment, i still don't feel like doing anything but just hanging around in my bed and with my laptop in front of me. i have lots to do, some cleaning, some tidying and most importantly i need to study! but looks like it's all set aside for me. it's really not often for me to stay in my bed with the nice weather outside and i could just do nothing. well i decided to do some update about me here.

i had a nice dinner with my all gals collegues after work last night. at a greek restaurant called stalactites along lonsdale street. it's one of an award winning restaurant for 2008. we headed there as soon as we finished work and the restaurant was already full with people. luckily we didn't need to wait for long to get a table. they don't take bookings if we are less than 10 or something like that. anyways we tried their pita bread with mixed dips, mixed platter and also a greek garden salad. i love the pita bread alot, it's so much different from the ones that we have outside, it was delicious and match it with the dips and meat, it was awesome.. the mixed platter has chicken, beef and also lamb. i personally like the chicken ones, cause the beef and lamb was a bit too dry for me. overall it was a meaty dinner, it was good that we had a plate of salad. haha! i wanted to try their dessert but i was too full by the end of the dinner. too bad! will go and try there again. next time will bring dear to the restaurant, and prob try the souvalki. wanted to take photos with my collegues but they all ran away when i took out my phone. haha! so only took photos of the food.. i had a great night out with them last night.

still winter..

well the weather here has gone crazy! we were having 19 degrees during the weekend during winter time! everyone was so happy to see the bright sunshine.. and tried our best to soak in some of the sunshine. haha! but sadly it's getting colder now.. well as for work, we're getting busier and i'm trying my best to learn as quickly as i could.. been bit slow at work cause i kept on missing out some small details.. not too good with small details thingy. gambateh mel!! same goes to the ppl in uni.. ^^ must start to do some reading this weekend for my cpa.. awww... feel excited to start studying again, let's hope that i won't fall asleep when i start to read. haha! a short post for now.

xoxo