Lair of Flying Green Song Rabbits

I still remember how you guys like to say I'm not open enough to you all.

And maybe it's true that I'd rather keep all important things to myself, I'm an introvert y'know, despite a rather social one.

But that's ok, the playful me has also learnt to accept the serious me, so ask me something and I promise I'll try to answer honestly =3

PS: I know what you guys like to ask, but let's just say that you won't get anywhere asking about boys.

It just doesn't work orz

Serena post something T_T

You haven't finished posting Mr N's trip's photos or when we went out last week!

I have nothing to post about cuz my life is boring T_T




I've been drinking/eating this for the past week or so every 2nd day practically. It's ground beef and tomato. My mum puts this with a tablespoon of water in a little ceramic pot then into the pressure cooker cuz our other bigger ceramic pot broke and add some water in the pressure cooker. Then it's cooked for hours until all the juices come out to make the soup. It's really good barely any need for salt and what not. Apparently good for my iron levels cuz I now don't have enough haemoglobin circulating so am now anaemic (well 3 months ago). Gonna go doctors in 2hours to collect my blood test results to check again and to get my blood glucose test results back. I hope my iron is up cuz the pills are giving me stomach aches T_T.

We recently got someone to do this to the backyard:


Now we can leave the table tennis table outside and stuff. Dad goes he wants to revamp the garden and put flowers instead of vegetables but he said that a week ago.....

My dad's favourite ritual now is sitting outside on a chair looking at the garden while reading the paper and drinking tea or lying in the hammock and reading the paper on the weekends.

Ah tis life.

I have also been lazying around on the couch with my mum and my bro's blanket watching Chinese "documentaries" about how this little boy started cooking and preparing food and doing housework when he was 6 cuz his grandma was sick and he had to take care of her.

Or about how this girl got tiny little springs inserted into 32 parts of her body cuz the village doctor said that will help her epilepsy.

Also been eating this:

Mmmm mano gelato..... so good with a chopped banana as well. Rice pudding with caramel is good too....

I have this new thing for dairy food.

Oh I've found a recent love for sporting lots of jewellery and heavy machinery around my neck.

Ebay goodies come to mama.

lol behold:


Aren't they so pretty in a tangled mess?

Last night/this morning (cuz I had to put another coat on cuz when I slept it dented the nail colour!) I've been painting my nails this mixed colour. Two of the nail colours in my Sheer set of OPIs are quite similar so I added a dash of Italian Love Affair and voila perfect light pink colour:


I am rather perturbed that I still say "my boyfriend broke up with me" instead of "my ex-boyfriend broke up with me." And felt irked when I saw him sitting with some girl on a bench.... just a tiny bit irked.

Had a lot of fun with Jie on Wednesday cuz minglez ditched us to earn some more moolah. We went to eat Thai at um.. shit forgot the name of the place and I didn't bring my camera. It's near Chinatown. Food was good and cheap. Only cost us about $15 each for a main, dessert and a massive drink.

I had something that looked like hainan chicken rice and Jie had this chilli chicken rice with an egg. We shared a plate of coconut ball thingos... They were quite salty at first but I rather enjoyed them later on. The place was full packed and like a 4m line developed by the time we finished eating.

Later we walked to Townhall cuz Jie wanted to try the new Blossom perfume from DKNY. We went and got a bunch of perfume sniffy cards and this lady said she really liked my shoes =)

Later we went shopping a bit mainly just looking around. We went looking for the highest heels we could find to compare but the highest pair wasn't in our size and Jie refused to try on shoes cuz she goes she has stinky feet cuz her shoes were dirty XD.

We also went by Alannah Hill and Fleur Wood and some others but didn't go in cuz we looked poor lol. Then we assaulted this mannequin's wig by feeling it cuz the mannequin had such good hair!

I am so bored recently I can fall asleep within 10min on the train... I even sleep in one of my tutorials lol.

Also kinda got in trouble with the 2nd year coordinator of nutrition cuz I was sending audio files around to everyone of the lectures I recorded and it was apparently illegal due to copyright and various other "personal reasons." Bummer. Good deed gone.

Ah spring how you came by so quickly with your gentle warmth on my semi exposed back and then quickly reminded me that spring is about the continuous rain....

Time to really figure out that Korean site and buy my combat boots to fight this weather...

Farewell my lovelies.

Back to studying =(

So Father's Day is coming up and I have no idea what to get my daddy.

...

No, not that one. I mean the one who impregnated my mum somehow when she was still on the pill. o__O

ANYWAY!

Should I trust Deals Direct and buy a GPS thingo from them? I'm so not bothered to go shopping... T_T

I was never good at writing anything long. If you've read my EE2 major work, you'd understand what I mean. I mean, WHAT WAS I THINKING?! Everything was so choppity choppity CHOP CHOP CHOP!

This Christmas, I'm asking Santa for a sandbox so I can draw circles and build castles in it and such.

I also want a Ceiling Cat to watch me fap.

Well not really, because that'd be kinda creepy and oh so wrong.

Not that there's anything wrong in consensual exhibitionism, but that's not really my cup o' tea. What's wrong about Ceiling Cat is that it is non-human. Did you know that the local elders of a village in southern Sudan ordered a man to marry his goat because he was caught having adult relations with it? Soon afterwards, the goat had a kid. No, not a sad abominable human-goat shadow of a Minotaur, but a goat kid. The goat died several months later from choking. No, not choking on her husband, but on a plastic bag. True story.

Oh, and if you were wondering how I knew about that, I'm not some sick fuck who searches the net for animal porn.

I should really get back to studying.

I hate uni.

So, back to the original topic, GPS from Deals Direct. Yay or nay?

THIS WEEK'S PONDERMENT: Can exhibitionism ever be consensual? If so, provide examples.

I want to run away...

... and find myself in some secluded beach house where I can escape responsibility.

My Plan for LIFE:

Travel the world winning various major lotteries.

So I'm back.

Hmm here's a few things I haven't posted.

Went to opera house a week or so ago for my sister's choir performance as part of Pulse (western Sydney something or another).


Rushed to Opera house after uni. Photo taken during the interval for the back view but it didn't show up with flash -.- and my mum cut off my shoes T_T.

I wanted to wear a pretty dress but couldn't find anything... so instead wore this full floral skirt... my mum accuses me of trying to wear really bright colours now cuz I know I can't wear them when I'm old....


Opera house so pretty inside!! My sister's one of those purple dots in the back.


She's super tired afterwards.

Wednesday after I finished my group assignment or rather decided to abandon it for "important reasons" went to meet up with Jie and minglez for some lindt cafe lunch. They went to Little Snail for lunch and had like snails, veal, dessert.... 3 course meals... I didn't go cuz well nothing there for me to eat cuz I've turned vegetarian and am detoxing >.>


Dark iced chocolate.


My lava cake. This is prob the most expensive cake I've ever had considering it's portions.... $15 for a small scoop of icecream... miniscle strawberry and 2 sticks of chocolate and a lava cake with hot chocolate sauce on it that isn't that much bigger than the scoop of ice cream (looks bigger here due to perspective). But let me tell you this is divine. You can still see the ground up vanilla beans in the icecream and the cake was total melt in the mouth... YUM.

With the dark iced chocolate it was too sweet to have altogether but the drinks were heaps better than Guylian!

Thursday went with minglez to Myer and shopped for my mum's birthday present. Minglez had the brilliant idea of hand cream so we ended up buying this:


It feels really nice on! It's not too oily or sticky like the other creams we tried.

We went to typical asian restaurant again for dinner with family: Prince in parra.


Peking Duck. I wanted duck, dad ordered peking.. It was alright, we had half a duck and all they could cut off was 6 pieces of chicken/skin.....


2nd half of peking duck dish. Since duck was already cooked having it cooked again in stir fry made the meat a bit tough.


Small abalones each. I'm not a fan of these. They taste good but I reckon abalone soup brings out the taste of abalone the best.


Stir fry sea cucumber with seafood bit. This was really nice. The bit attached to the sea cucumber was this prawn and fish ball I think. Those seafood thingo. It was just the right chilliness with really crisp snow peas.


Sweet and sour pork for the kids. It was nicely cooked but I hate how meat like this you can bite into it and not realise a mouthful of fat came with it cuz you can't tell with all the sauce -.-


We didn't have that much to eat that night so we ended the night finishing almost all the dishes and had dessert.

Also had the obligatory red bean soup and oranges that I didn't take a photo of.

The waiter, who knows us and freaken tries to rip us of all the time and is just looking for big tips cuz my dad is loose with his money -.-, asked if I was my dad's niece. My mum said "doesn't she look like him?" and he said I was too pretty to be my dad's daughter. Awwwww how nice XD.

Then my mum said, the other day this family friend of ours saw my dad and me and didn't say hi until my dad approached her cuz she was "pretending not to see the lady my dad was being seen with." LOL. She thought I was a young mistress my dad was having an affair with XDDD WTFFFFF.


Went to auburn to buy this cake and saw Serena there =).

Chestnut cake and my mum turns 42 =(.


Happy birthday mummy! I'm sorry I pulled out 13 white hairs in one night and prob sent you crying at night about old age cuz my fears have got to be genetically related right?

I just realised we all were wearing stripes XD


Weee my legs look longer =)

So these few days I've been quite cheery despite what others may feel is sad news. I have come up with a list of possible reasons for this to either justify/explain my feelings and now present to everyone this multiple choice question which you all must answer!

Midori does not feel as sad as she should this week although D and I are no more because:
a) I knew it was gonna end sooner or later from the very beginning and so it wasn't that painful as I had not anticipated it would last this long in the first place.
b) I had a suspicion this would happen since a month or so ago and hence had built up some emotional protection for myself and went over in my head what it would feel like before.
c) I haven't seen him since and hence there is still every possibility I could break down then. I haven't been out really and walked along the same roads, places and had those emotional flashbacks. I haven't packed everything he's ever given me into a corner so did not need to go reliving each memory as they went into that corner. And hence having not rethought through the good times we've had i am not capable of feeling sadness.
d) The drifting happened slowly but surely so was not one massive blow hence not hit hard.
e) Actually super sad inside but unable/don't want to show it and hence have convinced myself I am not actually sad at all
f) Didn't like him as much as I suspected and hence not fazed by breakup.
g) Cried it all out in one go, no more tears to cry anyway so why bother.
h) I know why it happened, I got all the explanations I need and hence I am at peace as there is nothing I still have unanswered.
i) The shock was too much I don't know how to deal or how to feel and hence feel no sadness.
j) I am emotionless I feel no pain.

Hmm now to have at least 10 readers to poll on which they think is true cuz I can't figure it out!

So a-j which will it be?

Walking home from uni after only one tutorial, I meandered my way while re-reading Artemis Fowl 4 behind this limping old man. I briskly walked past him to get home, only to realise that the door has been locked from the inside. Sighing once again, I jump over my balcony and open the door to my room to be greeted by my curious cat waiting for an opportunity to poof outside and run off again to play in the sun.

A normal afternoon.

Oh and a peacock that escaped from the Japanese Gardens was walking down the footpath on the other side of my house before turning into my neighbours front lawn.

It was nestled on the grass with its tail feathers sprawled around it.



I followed it up the street.

But I'm okay.

I'm okay.



Then why can't I

Sleep.

Eat.

Because it's easy to be strong

in front of everyone





but myself.

When Mr. N was here, we spent most of our time doing touristy things but also eating all kinds of food and killing his tastebuds. This will be an extensive review on all the restaurants and cafes that we went to, at least, whatever I remember of it. It has been a month ago!

Oh did I say extensive? I meant, LONG TO READ.

Day 1 consisted of wandering around Royal Botanical Gardens while we wait for our room to be ready and cleaned. This took ages, plus N's luggage got lost in transit and was currently sitting on the other side of the world in either Los Angeles or San Francisco *fail*

We were both not hungry until dinner in which I thought it would be a good idea to play it safe and go to Pepper Lunch. Boy, did I underestimate his deprivation. He wasn't too fond of Pepper Lunch even though he said it was "okay", I take that as a not okay T_T

He prefers Indian curries. I have to agree with him, although Thai ones are pretty good too.

For some reason I didn't take a photo of breakfast but oh well. It might have been at Pancakes on the Rocks. Personally, I am not fond of POTR. I never finish my pancakes because it's just so overwhelming, even the smallest plate. That morning I had a savoury breakfast pancake meal and I must say, I don't like my eggs benedict. I thought I did - poached egg smothered in Hollandaise sauce and bacon served with a hashbrown and pancake, yum! - but I tried it and it was just horrid. Maybe they just make a bad eggs benedict, but I am not going there again unless it's for pizza or sharing a sweet pancake. They make nice crispy pizzas just the way I like them.

So the first photo of food I have (other than Pepper Lunch, which is boring you all have been there) was at the Chinese Garden of Friendship at Darling Harbour. The little teahouse they have there is called The Teahouse.


Scones with whipped cream and jam, jasmine tea pot (at the back) and...and...oh dear, I forgot what tea I had. Pu-er! A "black tea with an earthy flavour". Either way, it was a good way to introduce hot, Asian teas to the boy (who only ever drinks iced tea unsweetened) which he liked! I are happeh! He got used to it by the end of the trip :)

The scones were still quite warm but it was a freezing cold day so they got cold fast. However I managed to load on the cream and jam and savour the fluffiness of the scone. Mmmm, seriously is heavenly and oh so good! I must search for a cafe that sells cheap but perfectly fluffy and hot scones with plenty of jam and cream!

A little birdy flew by our table and started pecking at the crumbs so N threw our leftover scones and it came closer and closer! It was sweet.




He also threw some into the pond and a ton of koi were jumping over each other and going crazy for them. Then a really territorial duck came and stole all the crumbs and when another duck came it chased it away! What a story!

All true by the way.



Look at the sh*tload of koi.

Then look at the sh*tload of clothes the boy brought over. WTF! He has more tops than I do WTFWTF!




Presents! I got a box of Twinkies ohoho and Porkie got Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories which is not available in Australia and I had to ask for a big favour for N to get it. Don't ask why Porkie got a better present than me, life is unfair sometimes.




So the next day I felt pretty sick and needed some Asian comfort food so it was off to the nearest Chinese restaurant for congee! N took one look at the century egg and went no effing way not eating that T_T I kept jeering him over it, how it tastes soooo good despite how it looks and he was a chicken for not trying it. He didn't even give it a chance! Judging based on looks!



Then a couple of nights later Poh used century egg on Masterchef and said "I can't believe my ancestors ate this stuff" and N looked at me pointedly T_T

Life hates me grr.

Yes I did go to the Sydney Aquarium to see the dugong!




For dinner that night, right before Masterchef came on we went to Hurricane's Grill since the last time I went for Minglez' birthday it was quite good.


Scallops in peri-peri sauce and cauliflower puree, the same as last time and oh, just as good as I remembered! N, who avidly avoids all things seafood promised to try things and he ate it. As for liking, well, I think he was surprised but it's still tastebud overload. Poor thing. There was also herb bread (which is very good, hot and crispy), a lavender martini and beer. N wanted to try some Australian beers.



My fullrack half-and-half pork and lamb ribs. I wasn't sure which I wanted so N ordered for me and got the full rack! So much meat...I ended up taking it home with me.

Next day we walked down to Delafrance on George St for breakfast. Or brunch I should say.


Custom made roll and a hot chocolate (wuss) for Mr. N and a spinach and ricotta pastry with a chai latte for moi.




This chai latte is freaking awesome!!! A tad on the sweet side, but very frothy and creamy made at just the right drinking temperature too. A good amount of cinnamon on top to give it a lovely nutty kick.

Stop by at Delafrance for a chai latte, if you can stand the queues :)

The only thing I can complain about is the space. Very cramped little cafe and it's right on George so it's loud and crowded - not such great atmosphere. But do come for the food and drinks.

Oh random foods we had in our room. N loves his Mexican and was determined to make some 'authentic' guacamole the way he has it at home. He really wanted tortilla chips but we couldn't find any and had to settle for taco shells and Doritos.




Drinks and lots of them. And TimTams!




We were down at The Rocks Markets and brought these chocolate covered strawberries back, as well as cookies and cream icecream and macarons aka Delice from Lindt Cafe.


Dark, milk and white chocolate covered strawberries, icecream, vanilla and coconut macarons.

A little pricey for the strawberries but they are an indulgence! As for the icecream, extremely expensive and you can't really go wrong with cookies and cream. Lindt one had huge chunks of cookies embedded in it, yummers.

Will continue this next time, phew! One week down!

"And there were so many things
I never got to tell you about myself,
things which might have swayed you.
And the photo I never sent, taken
the night I looked almost splendid.
I wanted you to fall in love. But the arrow
kept hitting the mirror and coming back.
And the letters kept dividing themselves
with neither half totally true."

louise gluck

Something revolutionary happened today. I felt like we were taking our first steps.

But I don't believe what you say.

Because it feels more like you're trying to prevent the inevitable without thinking about the consequences.

And we'll end up worse off than when we started.

I think I'll be okay with that.