Incomplete food diary for this week cos of the rush in preparation for the trip to Joburg and most of Sunday was spent in the air towards South Africa. There will also be no meal and dump records for next week til I'm back from Joburg.
monday
B @ 9.30am: mocha
L @ 1pm: penne with tuna and mushrooms in cream sauce, mocha
Dinner @ 7.30pm: homecooked fried noodles with eggs, enoky mushrooms and chilli in a yangzhou fried rice paste
dump: nil
tuesday
B @ 8am: 1.5 KrispyKreme donuts, mocha
L @ 12noon: 6 inch subway melt, 2 cookies
D @ 7.30pm: KFC Zinger burger, 3 wicked wings, 1 small mashed potato, a few fries
dump: nil
wednesday
B @ 10am: cappuccino
L @ 12noon: McAmerica burger
D @ 7pm: 2 packs of frozen meals (1 pasta thing and 1 beef thing), a pack of potato chips
dump: nil
thursday
B : cappucino
L @ 4pm: 3 sushi rolls
D @ 8pm: vietnamese beef rice noodles soup
dump: once
friday
B : mocha
L @ 1.30pm: spaghetti carbonara
D @ 8pm: chicken schnitzel with salad and chips
dump: nil
saturday
FORGOT
sunday
FORGOT
food diary: 23 - 29 june
last dinner
me: hey let's go dinner?
colleague: nah, I'm tired... am almost dead
me: what if it's your last chance to have dinner with me?
colleague: why so?
me: I'm leaving for South Africa in a day's time. it's so dangerous there... what if I die there?
colleague: no you won't. you girls go ahead. I'm really tired...
me: if I really die there and you never see me again, you will regret not having dinner with me tonight for the rest of your life...
food diary: 16 - 22 june
monday
B : nil
L @ 12.30pm: prawn laksa, mocha
Dinner @ 7.30pm: fettucine carbonara
Supper at 10.30pm: 1 pear
dump: once
tuesday
B : nil
L @ 12.30pm: pad thai, mocha, orange and carrot juice
D @ 8pm: chicken schnitzel with salad and chips
dump: nil
wednesday
B @ 9am: mocha
L @ 12.30pm: 1 pack instant noodles
D @ 7pm: half a plate of fried rice with an egg, mouthfuls of thai green curry
dump: once
thursday
B : nil
L @ 2pm: 2 prawn vietnamese rice rolls, mouthfuls of vietnamese vermicelli
D @ 8.30pm: sukiyaki, 1 gyoza, mouthfuls of okonomiyaki, 2 pieces karaage chicken
dump: nil
friday
B : nil
L @ 1pm: 2 pieces thai fried tofu, thai fried flat rice noodles with vege and chicken, mocha
D @ 9.30pm: homecooked BH's special pasta with tomato soup, chopped carrots, diced tomatoes and onions, stuffed olives, sausages, minced chicken, mushrooms and macaroni
dump: once
saturday
B : nil
L @ 1.30pm: sichuan cold yam jelly noodles, 2 small cups of tsingdao beer
D @ 7pm: vietnamese beef rice noodles soup, 2 small deep fried springrolls, 2 small slices or red bean pancake, 1 fried dumpling, 1 fried pumpkin ball
dump: nil
sunday
B : nil
L @ 1.30pm: caesar salad with king prawns, cappuccino
D @ 7.30pm: homecooked noodles in japanese curry sauce with enoky mushrooms, crab sticks, diced tomatoes and an egg
dump: once
the Flickr game
Saw this on Beakee's blog and thought it interesting so here goes.
How to play:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into a Flickr search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker and make a cool mosaic to put on your blog or flickr. Simple enough!
The questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favourite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite colour?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One word to describe you.
12. Your Flickr name.
And ta-da! Here's my mosaic:
I had a tough time picking a pic for almost all the questions cos there were just so many that I liked. The last one shocked me. I didn't really have a choice for that one since only ONE photo turned up for the search 'monkeycrab'. It was a photo Strawberry posted - one of her sending a half awake me at the airport at 6+am two years ago when I left Singapore for Sydney.
I like my mosaic. I think it's nice. How will yours look like?
flemington & ashfield
Went for dinner with a couple of others. This time we ventured all the way to Flemington just for pho (vietnamese beef rice noodle soup) because a friend of a friend recommended a particular vietnamese restaurant that has a perpetual queue. So we went with the undying belief that wherever there's a queue, the food must be good.
The pho is not bad, better than the one in Pasteur's @ Chinatown, but still a notch below what I had in Bankstown. We made a promise we will go to Bankstown the next time. That is if a particular someone is available to bring us there lor.
We tried not to finish all the noodles so as to save some tummy space for dessert at New Shanghai Chinese Restaurant in Ashfield (directly opposite Ashfield Mall). We couldn't get over their red bean pastries we had a couple of months ago.
This time we had 1) the deep fried pumpkin balls. The crust is actually pumpkin mashed with flour and sprinkled with sesame with a sumptous filling of red bean paste.
2) and the fried dumplings. This dish is normal. There was plenty of soup spilling out when you bite the skin open so beware of squirting hot liquid when consuming it.
and lastly 3) the red bean pancake. We came back to this place specially for this. The photo below may not do it justice. It's really good. You've gotta try it yourself.
So... eh YOU YOU YOU! When are we going to Bankstown again ah? Huh huh huh???
chunie's big day
Chun's big day 2007:
and in 2008:
We went to the same restaurant - Juju's at Kings Cross for Chunie's birthday for both years. The only sad thing is that Joy and BH are not here with us this year. I had several flashbacks of the conversations we had in this same place on this same day last year.
This year, I was honoured to be invited again!
So in appreciation of the exclusive invitation, we chipped in and bought him a nice dinner and a special birthday 'cake'.
Mr Chun was one of the first few friends I made when I first arrived in this foreign land. I remember there was even a night when I went crying to him because I was so stressed out by a shitload of things. He is even my housemate now (although not for much longer).
I really have to thank him for all the times he was there for me. You're a great friend, man. Happy 27th!
wishlist for the big day (updated 20 june)
Updates in red below.
With the Big Day approaching in less than a month’s time, it’s time to do the annual ritual wishlist. It took me a long time to prepare this list. Each time someone asks me what I’d like for my Day, I have no answer, simply because there is nothing that I really need right now that can be bought that I cannot do without. But well, there are of course still stuff that I crave for and now’s the time for you peeps to demonstrate your love for me! Haha.
Here’s the wishlist as of today 9 June 08:
- updated 20 June: SIN-SYD return tickets for my mum and grandma to come celebrate my bday with me or SYD-SIN return tickets for me to go back and celebrate my bday with my family. [I think I have a taker for this already. ;) ]
- a new mobile phone. This is purely because I think my current phone is going to die soon. I do not know what phone I would like next but a slim small Sony Ericsson or the same Motorola Razr as my current one will do. I don’t need fancy functions, just basic calling and smsing functions are good enough for me. [updated 12 June: Now I want the iPhone!!!]
- a new camera that’s better than my current crappy one. Of course I would like to get a DSLR. But that’s too much to ask for a bday present right? But if you’re feeling rich, drop Dante (his blog is http://www.depixel.blogspot.com/) a note cos I heard he’s helping a friend sell off his DSLR and many lenses at a damn good price. [updated 20 June: I have a taker for this so item has been struck off. Although the actual gift may not happen immediately...]
- Phantom of the Opera tickets. Of course, I can’t go watch alone hor. So the tickets must come with companionship, with perhaps a nice dinner thrown in too.
- Deathnote 3 DVD. I’m not sure if this is out yet?
- maybe a black iPod nano? It’s not really a big want for me but I’m running out of things to add to the list…
- Or just pick any item from my list of etsy favourites? (Anything except clothes should be ok.)
Okay that’s all I can think of now. Drop me a note (email: monkey.crab@yahoo.com) to reserve the item you wanna get for me to prevent doubling up ok? (OMG this sounds so commercial la!) Or you can get creative and surprise me!
Ps: I have moved to a different address. So please do not send me any presents to my old address. Email me to get new address ok. Having said all these, I will be really sad if I do not get any presents. Then I will probably go bang my head against a wall or something cos arrrgggghhhh I will then come to a sad realisation that I’ve got no friends!!!
i was delirious
Last night, I was having one of those fevers where I was nauseous, felt hot and cold and my head felt like exploding all at the same time so I went to bed at 8.40pm. In my delirium, I had lots of weird dreams.
I found myself playing the flute. I played all the songs from the Phantom of the Opera musical. I was in a symphonic band for four years in school. I played the flute and the piccolo. It's been twelve years since I touched the instruments. Or tried to read a music score. I struggled a bit initially trying to sideread the score and to get the fingerings right. After a while, it was like I never lost touch with the instrument, with music at all.
In the midst of it all, I find myself teleporting between taking artistic photos with a brand new DSLR in my old house in Pulau Ubin, trying to fly an aircraft by taking off at the edge of a cliff, and concentrating on making no mistakes in the musical performance in a concert hall filled with thousands.
It was stressful, fun, exciting, scary, nostalgic, and most of all, exhausting.
work travel for the next 2 weeks
24 June:
Sydney to Melbourne
Melbourne to Mangalore
26 June:
Mangalore to Melbourne
Melbourne to Sydney
29 June:
Sydney to Johannesburg (South Africa)
Johannesburg to Lanseria
4 to 5 July (tentatively):
Lanseria to Johannesburg
Johannesburg to Sydney
Total number of hours in the air = 30+
Total number of hours on the road = 6 to 8
stones in the balls
Overheard a minute ago:
(In response to a male colleague's claim that he worked til 1.08am the previous night)
A female colleague said:
hangar party photos
Because it was a company event, you'll see a lot of those decent-just-stand-next-to-each-other-pose-and-smile kind of photos.
Such as this: with Management.
And this: with the SPY team that happens to have the nicest guys in it.
And this: the all girls Corporate Comms & Chairman's Office team. Are they HOT or what?
Only Eliss has the guts to do creative poses like this (it's cute! I like it.):
And I think I look the best in this photo. The smile and the tilt of the head. I look so demure I couldn't believe it's me LOL. Now you know why I said I leveled up on the feminine-o-meter right?
Overall, it was a really tame night. No stories to tell. Bleah. But I enjoyed the relaxed conversations with people I don't normally get to interact much with.
code geass
I am at the 10th episode of Code Geass now. 13 more to go, I think. It's unexpectedly good. I was thinking of saving the remaining episodes for my next Mangalore trip the week after next but it's so difficult not to keep watching it episode after episode.
Plot summary from Anime News Network: The Empire of Britannia has invaded Japan using giant robot weapons called Knightmare Frames. Japan is now referred to as Area 11, and its people the 11's. A Britannian who was living in Japan at the time, Lelouch, vowed to his Japanese friend Suzaku that he'd destroy Britannia. Years later, Lelouch is in high school, but regularly skips out of school to go play chess and gamble on himself. One day, he stumbles on terrorists 11's who've stolen a military secret and is caught by a member of the Britannian task force sent after them, who is Suzaku. As the rest of the squad arrives, Suzaku is shot for disobeying orders, while the military secret, a young girl, gives Lelouch the power of Geass, which makes anyone obey any order. While Suzaku is secretly made the pilot of Britannia's brand new prototype Knightmare, Lancelot, Lelouch becomes the masked Zero to lead the rebellion to destroy Britannia once and for all.
The Knightmare Frames are so Full Metal Panic-ish. And I thought some of the characters look so Bleach. Like the orange haired girl who is so Inoue. And a guy, I forgot which one, who sounds exactly like Ishida. I kinda miss Bleach now... dunno where it's at already...
food diary: 9 - 15 june
People ask me where all the food I eat go to. I reply I am super energy efficient. All consumptions are utilised at maximum efficiency. Hence not much waste haha.
monday
B : nil
L @ 1.30pm: homecooked spaghetti aglio olio style with bacon, mushrooms and chilli
Dinner @ 7pm: homecooked BH's special pasta in tomato soup with carrots, tomatoes, mushrooms, olives, onions, minced chicken and sausages
dump: nil
tuesday
B @ 9am: sausage and egg mcmuffin, hash brown, chicken pie, cappuccino
L @ 3.30pm: aussie burger with the lot
D @ 8pm: spaghetti carbonara
dump: nil
wednesday
B : nil
L @ 1pm: McEurope burger, fries, cappuccino
D @ 9pm: sausages, chips, vege
dump: nil
thursday
B @ 9pm: bacon and egg mcmuffin, cappuccino
L @ 4pm: 1 unagi sushi roll, 1 smoked salmon sushi roll, 1 prawn sushi roll
D @ 7.30pm: salt butter corn ramen
dump: once
friday
B @ 9am: nil
L @ 11am: bacon and egg mcmuffin
D @ 7pm: sichuan cold yam jelly noodles, spicy hot pot with quail's eggs, enoky mushrooms, cod roe fishballs, luncheon meat and sliced beef
dump: nil
saturday
B : nil
L @ 12.30pm: 2 packs of microwavable cheese snack (beef)
D @ 9pm: 1 sausage, handfuls of chips, some cheese, 1 prawn
Drinks from 9pm: 1 glass of wine, 5 beers, 1 shot of B52, half bottle of smirnoff
Supper @ 2am: century egg congee, pipis in XO sauce
dump: once
sunday
B : nil
L @ 12.30pm: beef hor fun, orange juice
Snack @ 5pm: 1 chocolate bar
D @ 7.30pm: rice with shredded beef, soya sauce chicken, salt and pepper calamari, eggplant hotpot
dump: nil
hangar party (updated again at 8pm)
We are having our annual hangar party tonight! $10 for BBQ and endless flow of booze at our Sydney hangar where we park and maintain our aircraft, how cool is that? I hope the weather is good (we had a hell of a storm last year, not good at all) and that we gals will have a ball of a time later. Woohoo.
[Updated at 8pm]:
All dressed and ready to go now!
yum yum easy macs
If you have been following my food diary, you would have noticed this "microwavable cheese snack" entry popping up so often it almost seems that this snack has become my staple food.
I had my first encounter with this Easy Mac when Eliss and I went grocery shopping more than a year ago and I went "Eeeeyer, this kind of food can eat meh?" when she grabbed a couple of boxes of it.
Then I had my first taste of it - it was part of the stash of food Joy left for me when she went back to SG for good - and it was sooooooooo yummy! Ever since then, I've been having lots of it. Izzy has a hidden drawer of Easy Macs in the office as well, which makes accessibility to these snacks very easy!
Now, there are 3 flavours: cheese (this is the original flavour), chicken, and a brand new flavour BEEF. The beef one is good good good and I had 2 packs of it for lunch today.
I know many people have been nagging at me for my large consumptions of such instant rubbish food. I am fully aware of the nutritional contents, or the lack of it, of instand foods in general. But the lazy me just can't bear the thought of having to spend hours cooking up something and washing up afterwards for a meal that is consumed in minutes by me and myself alone.
Back when apartment Unit 39 (no more U39 now! sad!) was a bustling hive of activity filled with BH's, the prawn's and JTOBT's laughter, I would painstakingly whip up an entire dinner complete with meat, vege and soup. BH and I sometimes got creative and did exotic weird concoctions that always turned out delicious. I will always remember the PERFECT fish 'n' chips we served on the dinner table cos of some impulsive thought at work one day. And the huge pot of BH's special pasta that sold out and made us a little profit in the office - that was totally unexpected!
*I drag myself unwillingly back from memory lane* Dreadful as it may seem to have to go through the hassle of cooking healthier food for myself, I have decided to start slow by making some simple homecooked meals on the weekends when I'm in Sydney. (I'm rather ashamed to admit that my resolutions for 2008 were to exercise more - no progress, and eat healthier - am finally getting my fat arse off the couch to start at least something.) I started this "Project Homecooked Food for Myself" last weekend because of some sudden cravings for BH's pasta (and endless nagging from a certain someone *wink*) and hopefully will keep up with the enthusiasm.
For the records, I spent 2 hours preparing one portion (two big bowls) of BH's special pasta for dinner last weekend and gulped it all up in less than 15min and was totally satisfied. Applause please.
wars of the social networking sites
I got this cool shit from my favourite tudi's blog:
I love it. Enjoy!
our wedding wishes for joy
We compiled all our wedding wishes for Joy into a song and made a video of it. Due to many constraints such as:
1) Joy wants me to limit the clip to about 1min+ so she can compile it with all other friends' videos for projection to audience on wedding night;
2) I only had a day (Queen's Birthday on monday was a public holiday) to do the editing; and
3) due to file compatibility issues (see la, I wanted to use my own camera but was forced to use some other camera and ended up not having the files I wanted, duh lor), I was only able to use one particular software without having to figure out the complicated conversions and this software has limited effects;
I wasn't too happy with this final video. It is not as good as what I had in mind to produce. Teppanyaki commented it's cheesy. That made me even more queasy about sending it to Joy.
But. Joy likes it!!! She said: "Jac!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love the video!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's the best video I have received!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks thanks thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Happy. Glad she likes it. It doesn't matter if no one else does. Oh btw, Joy has given me permission to upload it onto youtube, hence you guys please feel free to broadcast to the world. :)
dog charmer & code geass
Lately I've been attracting not men but dogs. No kidding. At the beaches, the shops, the streets, anywhere, everywhere. Random dogs will run up to me wanting to play. When I walked back from lunch with Izzy one afternoon a dog yanked his leash off his owner's (a little girl in this case) grip, pounced on me and tried to drown me with his saliva. Izzy and I laughed cos yeah they know a bitch when they see one. And remember Holly? She used to like to catch me unawares so she could french kiss me. She's one lesbian doggie. Kinky...
My guess is they like my scent - I use Clinique Happy for men (yes I always use men's perfume don't ask me why it's just a personal preference). KT thinks it's just the 'smoky pants' effect (okay that's a private joke).
On something else totally unrelated to the canines, Chun passed me 23 episodes of this Japanese anime - Code Geass. Gosh, I have totally lost touch with the anime world. I don't even know where it's at now for Bleach and Naruto. This Code Geass series can probably be my nightly entertainment when I next go to Mangalore.
the girls got tipsy
What started as a quiet girls' night in ended up an adrenaline pumping pub hop. Many rounds of beers / vodkas later, we called for a taxi to get to the city. Somehow we missed the taxi we called for, and had to hijack one on the streets. We met this cool taxi driver in cowboy hat who had to endure a car full of noisy giggly tipsy girls. But he did agree we were hot.
Dan was really fascinated by the hat!
We were having much fun in the backseat too.
Being his last night in Sydney, my old friend just couldn't turn down an invitation from 4 sizzling hot babes to paint the town red.
We look gooooooooooooood....
food diary: 2 - 8 june
Amazing dump record this week! Btw, here's sharing with you a tip I learnt from a colleague: to avoid having the burning @rse syndrome, put a toilet roll in the fridge a day before you go for spicy hotpot.
monday
B @ 9.30am: ginger tea
L @ 11.30am: linguine with meatballs, one third portion of a slice of chocolate cake (for izzy's bday!), mixed berry fruit chiller
Dinner @ 7.30pm: campbell's soup, microwavable macaroni cheese snack
dump: nil
tuesday
B : nil
L @ 1pm: a few mouthfuls of wanton noodle soup, half a slice of mud cake, mocha
D @ 8pm: chicken caesar salad, 1.5 beers
dump: once
wednesday
B @ 11am: microwavable macaroni cheese snack
L @ 1pm: fish ball noodle soup, mixed berry fruit chiller
D @ 8.30pm: shared a bavarian platter and mussels with friends, 2 light beers, 1 thick dark chocolate
dump: nil
thursday
B : nil
L @ 12.30pm: half a chicken caesar wrap, half a thai noodle salad, 1 mocha
D @ 7.30pm: instant noodles, 1 glass of wine
dump: once
friday
B @ 9am: ginger tea
L @ 1pm: black pepper beef stir fried udon, cappuccino, mouthfuls of a plum and apple crumble with ice cream
D @ 8.30pm: mouthfuls of sichuan cold noodles, hotpot (luncheon meat, quail's eggs, fishballs with cod roe, enoky mushrooms), a few rounds of jaegerbombs, B52s and chivas
dump: once
saturday
B : nil
L @ 3.30pm: microwavable macaroni cheese snack
D @ 8.30pm: handfuls of potato chips, mouthfuls taken from a cheese plate courtesy of Danielle, several rounds of beer, vodkas, and weird shots
Supper @ 2.30am: microwavable macaroni cheese snack
dump: twice
sunday
B : nil
L @ 12.30pm: mouthfuls of thai beef noodle soup, 1 cappuccino, a few bites off a blueberry cheesecake
D @ 6.30pm: homecooked spaghetti aglio olio style with bacon, mushrooms and chilli, 2 hard boiled eggs
dump: once
we just yakked and yakked and yakked...
Impromptu friday dinner plans: Someone in office asked "shall we go eat hot pot?" "Onz la." No hesitation. And off we went to the Chun's-100%-LS-hit-rate spicy hotpot place at Sussex St. I really like the Sichuan cold noodles there.
The amount of noise you get when you throw 4 hot bitches in a room is just incredible. The poor male partners got their earfuls of endless yak-yakkings. Maybe we should get ear plugs for them next time.
We then caught up with my old friend at Bungalow 8 for some drinks to flush down all the spicyness from the hotpot. He realised to his horror, that he's known me since I was 19 and that 9 years have flown past just like that *snaps fingers*. *a few seconds of very 感慨 moments* Then I suddenly realised, having known him for 9 years, this is the second time we took a photo together. The first was taken a few days ago when we met for some Max Brenner's chocolate. What have we been doing the last 9 years? How could we not have taken a single pic together all these years?
I had some great discussions and debates with the girls over many rounds of jaegerbombs, B52 shots, vodkas and chivas. I really enjoyed the conversations. It does not mean that all in a group has to share the same opinions on every subject to get along. Disagreeing about something and having an open discussion on various subjects actually helps people understand each other better. Some people have the misconception that disagreements = quarrels. Not entirely true. Through our mini debate on the topic of religions, I have come to know the girls better and I'm glad for that.
You know you have taken the relationship further from being mere colleagues to becoming friends when you can tell each other in the face what a bitch you are and still be cool, shake hands, make up and laugh about it afterwards. I'm not talking about the hypocritical politically correct handshake that means wah-lao-eh-must-maintain-the-pr-cos-we-still-have-to-work-together-leh, but the sincere genuine aiya-what-the-heck-I'm-a-bitch-and-you're-a-bitch-and-so-we're-happy-to-be-friends-and-we-don't-care-what-the-other-bitches-think-of-us kind of laugh. I think the latter is what we had last night.
After the girls and their partners left, I had a 2+ hour heart-to-heart talk with my old friend til 5am in the morning. Ah... the friendship... the many miscommunications and misunderstandings... how the years have gone by... how we became who we are now... the honesty... it's all good. It amazes me how two random strangers can meet in a pub and build up such a strong sturdy friendship that has lasted for nine years and that will last for many more nine years to come (hopefully).
the beach test
Anything related to beaches attracts my attention. So I took this test. Some parts are quite true - read the cold feet and passionate portions.
replying fan mail
I have received questions/comments/feedback via email/IM/sms for the photo I posted in my 'from fall to winter' entry earlier this week. Thanks for all the compliments and tips and here's a short one to address the ???:
1. Yes I took that pic.
2. No it wasn't taken with my crappy Sony T5. I borrowed a friend's DSLR - a Canon EOS dunno-which-model-but-quite-old camera.
3. Yes I was lying face down flat on the road, and yes I was lying in the middle of the road taking that pic. And yes, I had someone help me keep a lookout for cars. And yes, I got quite dirty from that.
4. Yes I did some photoshop magic on it. I can't remember exactly what I did but I do know I did some layering and adjusted the colours a bit. You can see the before and after below (click to enlarge pic).
有朋从远方来
Met up with a friend who happens to be in Sydney for a week. I knew him when I was working in a pub promoting wine when I was 19. He became one of my regular customers and we have kept in touch since. He now lives and works in Hong Kong. We seldom get the chance to be in the same place at the same time. Every time I go back to Singapore, he will be somewhere else, and vice versa. So catching up with him here in Sydney is refreshing for us.
Unfortunately I have been quite under the weather these few days and haven't been spending much time playing host. Here in this pic you can see my puffy face and swollen eyes, all thanks to the migraine and fever I am having. Old friends like these are worth sacrificing a few hours of rest for, even if I'm at the brink of collapsing from the painful throb in my head.
food diary: 26 may - 1 june
As you can see from the below and the past few weeks' food log, MacDonald's is my saviour whenever I'm in Mangalore. I had the best meal in weeks on Friday due to my boss visiting in Sydney and I was fortunate enough to catch him back here. It (the dinner) was soooooooo satisfying. Otherwise it would have been an instant meal which is becoming quite a norm now.
monday
B @ 9am: 1 instant coffee
L @ 11.30am: 1 pack of microwavable cheese macaroni snack, mouthfuls of rice vermicelli in tom yam soup
Snack @ 5pm: 1 mini vietnamese rice roll, 1 small quiche, 2 small slices of roast beef, 2 bites off a small chicken drumstick
Dinner @ 10.30pm: 1 pack microwavable frozen pasta thing
dump: nil
tuesday
B @ 8.30am: sausage and egg mcmuffin, cappucino
L @ 2pm: assorted sushi set
D @ 7pm: mouthfuls of fried rice with some spare ribs dish and some chicken dish, 1 yoghurt
dump: nil
wednesday
B @ 9am: sausage and egg mcmuffin, cappucino
L @ 3pm: small plate of fried noodles
D @ 9.30pm: whopper burger, handful of fries, apple juice
dump: once
thursday
B @ 10am: macdonald's hotcakes, cappuccino
L @ 4pm: 1 chocolate bar, a small pack of potato chips
D @ 9pm: rissoles (meat balls) with mashed potato and vege, 1 beer
dump: nil
friday
B @ 9am: 1 bacon and egg mcmuffin, cappuccino
L @ 3.30pm: prawn laksa, grass jelly drink
D @ 9.30pm: sashimi, pork belly entree, angus beef, creme caramel, 2 glasses of wine
dump: once
saturday
B : nil
L @ 3pm: 1 sandwich, 1 cappuccino
D @ 6.30pm: small bowl of udon, green tea, mocha
Supper @ 12midnight: microwavable cheese macaroni snack
dump: once
sunday
B : nil
L @ 11am: eggs benedict with salmon, cappuccino
D @ 4.30pm: spicy beef stew rice noodles
Supper @ 10pm: microwavable cheese macaroni snack
dump: nil
dante commented...
...on msn one night that I've been doing those model-like poses lately (from the paparazzi pics I posted previously).
I told him he hasn't seen the best one yet.
So here it is. Totally candid.
from fall to winter
Today marks the first day of winter. I have forgotten to share these colours of fall that were taken. And all the memories that go with them. It had been an unforgettable autumn. The drives. The walks. The scenery. The coffee. The chats. The colours. The passion. The dreams. Everything. I am glad the coming of winter has not changed anything.
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