I started work again last week to replenish my savings...so very poor right now boohoo! Work has been fairly busy, for some reason a lot of customers have started coming in. Hmmm, maybe they have noticed that things have changed, with new management and all. I also feel like I am getting ordered around a lot more, actually everyone has...it's getting on my nerves slightly. I guess I'm not used to having a proper boss who has expectations and high standards haha! I will get used to it or who knows, I might even just leave...
Anyway, today is my day off again, which means blogging time =) I've been busy since I got back from Sg...mostly with work, cleaning my room (which gets messy every couple of days), eating, eating and more eating!
In the past week and a half, dorky and me ventured to Freo, where we finally tried the ramen noodles inside the freo markets. They were SO good! I don't think that I was really much of a ramen fan, until I tasted them. The place was so crampt and tiny, but it added a bit of charm to the place I reckon. If you haven't tried them...please do, but go on a Friday, when the markets are less busy =) Also on that day we had our wonderful dose of San Churros, this time we tried the tapas set...oh gosh, what yummy truffles they have =DDD No hot chocolate this time, but it was a good thing, otherwise we wouldn't have finished our desserts!
On Friday night, it was Eva's winter wonderland 21st birthday party =D HAPPY 21ST EVA (for the 8/8/88!!) Such a special birthdate haha, exactly like my cousins =) Anyway, I had no idea what to dress up as and I spent a good few hours thinking and brainstorming...in the end I wore a beanie with snowflakes pinned to my clothes ahaha I looked stupid, but hey...the snowflakes looked cool! I even stuck jewels to my face lol. Dorky wore an oversized hockey shirt..cheh! Eva had hired out a sports club, which had a bar. She did really well with the deocrations, it looked very wintery hehehe! We snacked on yummy fingerfoods, yumyum samosas and meatballs!!! We mingled around, had some drinks and watched some people get very tipsy too...it was all very entertaining =D Then, the beautiful winter cake came out, we all sang happy birthday, with Eva looking so lovely in her snowgirl costume hehe! Then came the speeches, by Tim, Jas, Tammy and her brother...everyone did very well =) We ate the yummy cake, mingled a little bit more then before we knew it, the party was over =( I had a really good time, but I hope Eva had an even more wonderful time! I also took away a souvenir from the night...one of the snowflake deocrations hehe...I hope she didn't mind =P
On a Saturday, my parents and me went car hunting at Melville in hopes to find me my first car =D We looked around Honda, hoping to find a lovely 2nd hand car. After looking around a little while, we were approached by a salesman who took us to see the new Jazz and the next thing we knew, my dad was test driving the GLi model. It lacked quite a bit of power, you could hear it huffing and puffing up hills, so...my dad then test drove the VTi model, which was much better =D so much smoother haha! After alot of discussion and leaving the poor salesman out in the cold, we decided to go purchase the car =D A lovely crystal black Honda Jazz, awww thanks mum and dad! But don't think that I got it for free though lol...I promised my mum to pay for half of it...so there we go, I'm in debt...but yay my first car! vroom vroom vrooom!
That night, Calvin invited us out for a farewell dinner? He had left Dorky's workplace and invited a few ex-workmates for dinner at a korean place called Dae Jang Kum. A very familiar place that I think I had been to before with peeps, but only had water and didn't order anything because it was too expensive? Haha, does anyone remember that? Yes, well we went there and tried the BBQ, which wasn't too bad, it was quite tasty! We also had seafood pancake, a hotpot of some kind, which was awesome! we tried their kimchi hotpot, which was also very good...omgosh that place was so good, fullstop. =D we were all very full afterwards, but very happy. It was quite a fun dinner because dorky's workmate, Jacky? and his gf, who were korean were there and they were teaching us alot of korean things, like phrases and talked about korean food (yum) and they also enlightened us with their very amusing couple stories...they kept bullying each other! Very funny people =) But it's sad how they have too leave Perth soon, I really hope that they find a way to stay...
On Sunday, dorky and me decided to go have lunch at Chenelle's parent's new Shanghai restaurant in Northbridge...where their old cafe was. The interior was really nice, they were going for a hollywood/old china look. The furniture was very nice and we even got asked to go sit in the super tall chairs ahaha, they were so cool! The menu was quite limited though, but everything looked pretty good, so we decided to try the meatballs dish and the pig stomach. Phwoaar, the food wasn't too bad at all..I actually really liked it..it was pretty different from what I expected it to be too. The meatballs were succulent and flavoursome, as was the pig stomach yummmm! Charles was working there too as was Chenelle and her two twin sisters, omg they are all so tall, I felt so midget =( Charles sat with us and chatted for a while and we ended up organising to go watch GI joe that night!
After eating lunch, dorky and me decided to spend time in nb to kill time before the movie. We ended up at Formosa with bbt and watched some Taiwanese game show...it was pretty cool. I love the comfy couches there, but the place is super fobby haha! After bbt, we walked to dae jang kum and ate again, this time...dinner! Hehe, we tried the crab stew this time...it was bloody huge and they really put in a lot of crab pieces in the stew too. The soup was so tasty and the crabs just made it even tastier as we kept eating. In the end we struggled and couldn't finish it =( A dish that was meant for 2 people, felt like it should've been for 4! It was a great meal though =) Once dinner was over, we drove to Carousel and met up with the 2 giants. GI joe was a lot better than I had expected! Not a bad action film at all...at least it didn't drag on like Transformers did =P I wish I was a GI joe too =( After the movie..we said our farewells to the 2 tall ones and home we went.
On Tuesday night, dorky surprised me with a present! He asked me to close my eyes and hold out my hands...and he placed a box in them....a GPS! wahooooo thankyou dorkyyyyyy, hopefully i will never get lost now hahah! What a nice darling he is muahs! Anyway we had planned that night to eat at Ipoh gardens! We tried the fried rice because I'm still in a fried rice phase hehe and also the dry ipoh horfun. They were both yum, especially the dry horfun, I actually like it better than the soup one! Afterwards we went to garbos and flipped a coin to watch either my sister's keeper or the ugly truth...heads fro my sister's keeper it was! As we were about to walk in, Jenny spotted me! Hehe, what a nice coincidence to see her and my old church friends again...we chatted a bit, they told me that they had just watched my sister's keeper and that they cried throughout the whole movie..uh oh! haha. The movie was so touching that I cried 4-5 times, even when i tried to hold back the tears...sigh, i'm just too emotional. Dorky didn't cry at all...grr to him! If you have read the book before and found it sad, then watch the movie...highly recommended =) That was it for the night! Next movie that I want to watch is Orphan =D
Today is Friday and I am now sitting at home alone, wondering if I should start re-writing my resume. I'm going to go hand them out next week...my year off from teaching has come to an end, but now I'm excited to start my career...only scary thing is...not knowing if I'll get phonecalls for relief jobs. Hmm I hope I do, I really need to pay off my car haha! Argh! so much to organise!! Wish me luck!!
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