I'm back again! the past week has been quite eventful. Work was pretty slow but interesting with the manufacturing rotation going on. Going to work at 7 and knocking off at 4, gives room to do something else after work. Cooked for e-nite, turned out quite good in fact. The turn out was good, and the skit and message was very good too. Food as usual was awesome.. On saturday, woke up early and went for a jog around the maribyrnong river. This time I managed a longer distance than previously .. I should keep the routine up. Because of my running, I was late to pick crystal up to go and buy stuff for the july camp fundraising lunch! Picked wl and caroline up and dumped thm at victoria market before going to pick crystal, then we went to KFL.. bought like 280 DOLLARS worth of groceries.. siao.. the funniest was when crystal was trying to speak to the butcher in mandarin.. lol.

After KFL we went to this garage sale for the tsunami appeal. The girls went crazy over there , some of the stuff were like 50 cents.. haha. Crystal bought a dress for 50 cents! goodness.. and then wl beat her by getting a 2 handbags for a dollar. Bought some cool hats too! Was quite happy with my $3 cowboy hat. hahaha..



after that we went to drop the stuff in church. Went to highpoint for a while after that to shop and then went home to do the sambal for my nasi lemak and also chop and marinate the chicken wings. Hands were so sore after chopping up 60 wings! haha..

in the evening, had sushi festival at sitcom house..

err.. sushi festival with lo sang. hahaa.. damn full after. Then helped to do the ikan bilis and nuts for the nasi lemak tomorrow. everyone was so tired afterwards.

Sent crystal and grace back and then went home to crash.. but it wasn't until 2am that I slept.. haha..woke up at 8am the next morning, went to pick crystal before going to church.. and we were early so to make ourselves useful..

We started preparing at 9am.. for the nasi lemak I just had to put the marinated chicken into the oven and cook the rice .. there were more to do for the chicken rice though. We were pretty relaxed in the kitchen... thought it would have been more frantic.. but in the end everything turned out very orderly .. I think coz some of us has had a lot of experience preparing food for many people before. The nasi lemak turned out better than I expected.. some of the aunties even complimented my sambal! haha.. I can say I'm a true malaysian now. lol..

Was kinda worried that the sambal won't be enough but apparently the nasi lemak rice ran out so fast even faster than the chicken.

After the lunch, the painful cleanup began.. but was made a bit livelier with crystal's remark that we had to clean the esky "with a mop".

so there you go, it was quite a productive and fun weekend! looking forward to next weekend of going back to malaysia!

well, dipso just reminded me that I haven't updated my blog for a while so yeah.. here I am typing away on what has been an interesting year so far.

After new zealand things were pretty slow at the office, so it's an opportunity to chill out a bit.. Have been taking public transport to work in anticipation of the office move to docklands. Nice walks with my colleague to the station has been a thing to look forward to. other than that, I've also travelled to Rockhampton for a week for training. First time in a fokker plane after so long.. absolutely hated the weather there, muggy and sticky - kinda reinforcing my belief of not returning to Msia in the short term.. Don't know how i'll handle the weather there, being so used to dry and cold Melbourne.

Long weekend was a welcome break.. had to take the friday off because of company moving to Docklands.. had lunch with housemate and then went to ocf at night.. Saturday was a day for myself, then on Sunday had supper at pancake parlour. hanged out at brother's house for a time after that which was like at 2am..lol. on monday, went for a jog around the river here, something which I've promised myself to do for over a year.. glad that I finally got to do it! but I only ran half of the circuit and was already out of breath..hahah. after cooking for lunch, went shopping for baby products for my sis.. Didn't know raising a baby would be so confusing and so.. expensive! we were amazed at how expensive it was.. after that came back and later on went to Moomba fest. Took a while to find parking and when we did, had to run to watch the fireworks coz we literally had 1 minute left. The fireworks made it all worth it though. after that met up w net te who was with her cousin then walked to the other side of the river to play games, but alas, the shops were closing by the time we reached there. A long walk back to the car and nervous ride back home as 6 people squeezed into the car.. haha. So there you go,a long and pleasant weekend it was indeed..

Going back to work at a new office and a new view.. it was a pleasant change! I don't really like where I sit though, so far removed from the team. but good thing is that boss can't see when I'm slacking ! haha..