Barry Trotter

ok .. maybe i meant Harry Potter ... picture this ... 8:59am on a saturday morning ... hundreds of harry potter wacko's in Border's Melbourne Bookstore waiting in a snake shaped line through the book isles yelling 10 .. 9... 8 ..7 .. 6 ..5 ..4 ... 3... 2... 1 YAY~!!!! YES .. i was yelling that too ... got caught up in the moment of the harry potter countdown ... i think all up i waited 1hr to get my hands on the lastest hp novel ... only to find out from jenny that i could have gotten it for the same price minus the huge line at myer that morning ... BUT .. myer wouldn't have given me a free ballon PLUS an owl soft toy =) ...

Oh yeah .. also finally took barry up on his invite to play pool at his golf club which kinda turned out to be a cookin session where we kinda abused the fact that barry was closing for the night and the last person there .. so we kinda helped ourselfs to the huge fridge to make curry ... chicken parma (yes stav .. a parma) ... chips ... onion rings .. satay sticks etc .. and yeah plus the bar too ... ... OMG .. felt like i was gonna explode since i already had a beautiful dinner made by my lovely gf prior to heading to baz's golf club which is conviently located somewhere in the woods/country .. yes .. it was impossible to find.. baz was try'n to guide me there on the phone while i was driving and when he asked what i see to gauge where i was .. i replied " ummm ... looks like farm land to my left .. and i see 3 huge towers that look like silo's on my right" ... hahah other helpful hints baz gave was like " look for kangaroo crossing signs" haha ....


IKEA buddy Daniel returned home to Vietnam on the same saturday morning ... we had a good bye dinner for him on wednesday at a crown buffet ... hmmm yeah .. the food wasn't great ... but it was fun to catch up wif him before he leaves ... Daniel and I started IKEA at the same time around 2 yrz back ... and we both had a fair share of IKEA forlift accients heheh ... see ya buddy...

In unrelated news .. AKBLUE 2 wins in a row .. heheeh hopefully this will put us in the top 4 haha .. this game marked Cuongs return to the lineup ... and made zero impact with a HUGE AIR BALL on his first shot ....at least we won right ??? haha ...

RESTURANT REVIEW:

friday night dinner took mica and I to Wagamama ... ended up paying $60+ plus for dinner and the gyoza's weren't even half as good as the ones we made ourselves... hmmm i had the chilli ramen (not filling .. but nice soup base) and gyoza's (crap .. as stated above) and mica had the chicken katsu curry (ok ..the chicken wasn't as dried up as other places) and the chilli squid (weren't that great.. i just ate it cos i was still hungry after my food) ... but i think this kinda sums up the place pretty well ... when mica asked for more red pickles for her katsu curry .. we had to pay EXTRA~!!!! ... yes .. very disappointing .. the only thumbs up is that they offered me a membership card when i was paying ... and told me that i get a free meal on my bday... hahaha ..

Arts and Craft (First Post)

Yes, Mica has finally decided to add a post.

I have been so busy with work, project,Teddy (our rabbit) and the Condor Heroes (remake) that I have not had the time to contribute anything so far.

On Saturday, I made what I felt was stupendous progress on my project so I decided to give myself a whole day off on Sunday. After a very long lunch at yumcha, a lot of tea and two toilet trips later I found myself at Lincraft with Ed looking for fabric to make a DIY corkboard.

This was the be all and end all of my arts and craft phenomenon. It was a soft padded board made from 2 pieces of cardboard, sticky-tap, thumb tacks, pins and an array of ribbons and stickers. I pulled, padded, pinned, tacked, taped, measured, cut, stapled and kept my rabbit at bay from chewing on the new cork/cardboard. In fact, Teddy was so excited to watch me at my creative activities that I decided to make her her very own pillow board. Ironically, as soon as she was given her own, she lost all interest in the thing.

It is now Monday night, that evening of carefee thoughts now leaves me with a decorative piece next to my bed, a post subject and not that much time left to sleep.

Ed, hope you enjoyed this.

*Mica's FIRST*

Hot Spaghetti

arghhh.. do you usually put chilli paste into bolognese sauce??? .. i dunno... but it was soooo hot i was sweating while eating dinner tonight... but you know .. it was YUM~!!!! ... just the right amount of hotness to make it hot but not unbearable that you can't eat it...

its been a week now since the first post ... where has mica gone??? busy reading harry potter.... OH .. watched harry potter on opening night... she thought it wasn't great.. but for me .. since i haven't read the book ... i have no frame of reference but i thought it was ok ... it wasn't as dark i anticipated .... hmmm i shouldn't say anymore.. don't want to ruin it for everyone ..... =)

My Weekend Plus Monday

Friday night started out well ... went out for viet on Victoria St wif mica ... and everything seemed to go downwards from there .... we got home that night after dinner to see Essendon get thrashed by Geelong by 50pts ... damn .. we were only down by 10pts at the end of the 3rd quarter ... how on earth does that happen .. that doesn't even happen to AKBLUE on our worse night ... hahah ... wait .. it gets worse ...

saturday morning plans were to go shoot around at melb uni basketball courts while mica is at pilates ... ok .. so i wake up a lil later than her so she left a couple minutes before me coz she was running late already ... i remember asking her ..."is it dry outside hun?" .. valid question right? .. since its been raining constantly these days (don't get me wrong ... the rain is great~!!! .. water level storages are now at 32.8% .. wooHOO ...) ... anyway.. she replies back .. "yeah .. looks fine to me .." and then she rushed to class .... so i get outta bed and got changed .. packed some stuff in the bag like my ipod .. change of clothes etc...then went to my car to get my bball shoes ... finally .. all ready to go .... stepped out of the apartment and guess wot ........ the street was freaken wet ... so for a brief moment in my mind i was like .. grrrr MICA~!!!!!!!! ... but i thought .. hey ... haven't played in over 2 weeks... i might as well just go and shoot around in the wet so i can pick her up after class ... melb uni isn't far from mica's apartment and soon i was standing on the outdoors courts only to realize .. "FARK ... i didn't bring my bball with me~!!!!!" .. when i went to my car to get my bball shoes that morning.. my bball was RIGHT NEXT TO IT .... hahha oh well ....just one of those days right??? ..WRONG .. it gets worse ...

After doing some grocery shopping at richmond.. i decided to go grab a pork roll for lunch ..yes .. BIG MISTAKE ... turns out pork rolls gives you the runnies ... actually i knew that .. but sometimes you just give in to the taste and value ... well that cost me saturday night.. i basically slept until mica made me dinner and even then i could only have a lil coz of my stomach ... i sat there watching harry potter that night ... just not knowing when i will need to make a quick dash to the toliet .. or even worse.. needing to go but it being occupied ... arghh wot a terrible feeling ... oh wait .. it gets worse ....

Because i was immobilized due to my state of 'i got a stomache ache .. and if i move .. i might trigger some chemical reaction that might send me to the toilet .. so i'm better of sitting here in the fetal position to stop the pain' ... i could not run away when mica, uyen and glen proposed that we play a game of 'couples' 500 (for ppl would don't know.. 500 is a card game .. similar to bridge i think) ... no .. its not that i don't like the game.. but mica and uyen are extremely competitive when it comes to games .. i've seen them both yell at glen for counting cards during a game .. which led to mica storming off to bed ... well one positive was that we won (yay) .. but this resulted in uyen (i think 3 times) telling glen off for betting too aggressively ... hehe ... but .. oh wait .. it gets worse ...

sunday night basketball ... yes one of the things i look forward to the most during the week and we lost by 2 points .. arghhhh ... oh wait i have to say this .. sorry guys for missing the last game, but i rather i spent that day with my gf =P ...

anyway... wot a horrible weekend ...at least on monday .. our long awaited fruit arrived at work .. yes.. we get fruit delievered onsite to us ... YAY .... i'm happy again =)

My Nerd Library

wow ... 6 months on the job and i already have a mini programming library ... 14 textbooks ordered from work .. yes .. turns out graduates don't know sh*t about what technologies are currently being used in industry ...so i gotta study up ... who thought that after all those yrs of school and uni that i'll be still studying and reading textbooks ... anyway... see the book on the right (SCJP) ... that stands for Sun Certified Java Programmer ..... YUP .. i'm going for Sun Certification .... according to my advisor .. i need some street cred .. so i need Java Certification. Oh .. and that bear in the middle .. thats a gift from mica for my graduation ... he guards/reads my books when i'm gone... hence the glasses..

Have you met Ted?

Have you met Ted? ... Yes teddy is our lil bunny .. she is a netherlands dwarf rabbit and she fits in the palm of your hand ... She likes to poop a lot in shoes ... pee on IKEA blankets .. and hide behind the fridge. We are still considering if we should get teddy a friend but she seems happy with our company. Teddy has been through some scary moments already in her life ... meeting Milo my dog was almost life ending as they played the game of 'Prey and Predator' .... while sometimes when she trys to cuddle up between our feet on cold nights, we kick her accidently when we don't realise she is there hehe ... don't worry we love you teddy =)