rosemary...

boleh tak gambar pokok pun jadi entry???



ni pokok rosemary bukan saya yg beli tp mr evil yg beli (tp i yg pilih pasu kolor pink). beli kat camden craft market masa time my parents datang. satu pasu ni $10 jerk. ada mcm2 herbs lagi jual. ok lah...so far masih bernyawa lagik pokok ni. cuma dah tak setinggi mcm dlm gambar. salu guna utk marinate lamb.

my dear, nanti b4 flight back to m'sia jgn lupa bawak masuk yerk pokok ni.

Day 4

yeah..gonna skip day 3 coz its gonna be mundane and monotonous....weekend is here...and i have to struggle one more saturday before ditching this island....

I have solved one mystery..why i'm feeling depressed and miserable..not bcoz the mrs is away and enjoying heavenly food in AS...but i've been listening to lots of depressing songs...the story goes like this..since i want to finish up my download quota...i've been on a downloading binge of mp3s and movies and games. Frankly speaking, i'm not up to date with the current tunes, so i would go back to songs i've listened during school days...the likes of Metallica and Nirvana...yeah..the tight jeans and big mullet hair...rock on!!....most of their songs are abt death..or suicide or something horrible and alot of screaming....maybe i was trying to relive my younger days with those songs..but it gave me headaches instead.....so i did some research...meaning googling and looked for a lesser deafening music and found couple of good albums with a more relaxing tunes...such as jack johnson, newton faulkner and pete murray....their songs are manly..not lovey dovey type but full of happy thoughts....thats the best way i can describe it...another artist i found is Kimya dawson...her song was featured in the movie Juno - Anyone else but you, in the closing credit where Ellen Page and Michael Sera sang the song....kinda quirky but fun to listen....but i like this song better...



Ok..coming back to my weekend...didn't do anything productive at home except for figuring out how to be more effecient in the kitchen...i so plan to cook more oven type food so i would reduce the usage of the frying pans with greasy oils on it...With the oven...i can just cover the baking tray with tin foils and let it cook without any human intervention....the cleaning process will easier buy chucking the foils away...less grease and other gooey stuff....

Starting June till Sept..sydney got this art thingy going on all over the place..so i decided to go out and check it out..I went to Pier 2/3 in walsh bay...1 km from the Rocks.....and there was like 3 exhibitions...and i'd pretend to be an art connoisseur...so bare with me on this

1. The car crushed by a huge boulder....i didn't see any description on the meaning of it...but i can assume to be more careful and obey road signs..rocks falling from the sky 1km ahead


















2. A wooden box with cone like attached to it...i did read the description..but i still dun get it. But who am i to judge....


















3. The coolest of all.....art are usually weird things one see with eyes...well that's my lame uneducated ignorant interpretation...but here it's about surrounding yourself with sounds...and sound only....this duo artist setup about 40 or so speakers around the wharf...speakers on the chairs..hanging from the ceiling...on the floor and audience would just sit around this old looking speaker and listen to a 30 minutes story....it starts with a single narrator voice from the old speaker...talking abt dripping blood ...creaking floor...wind gushing..kinda like a thriller movie...then thunderous sound of waves and musics in between the scene....the way they set up the speakers really engulfed me in the story....coz the sounds travel between one speaker to another...so a footstep sounds like somebody really walking around you..or away from you...it did scared the living daylight out of me on certain scene....it was so immersive....after the show ended i checked out the sound system..it got 20 units of Yamaha DSP amps...whoaaaaaa....i need to get one of these....mental note...put this in my wishlist...




Okay...enough adventure for 1 day...tomorrow should be more interesting i hope.............

Cockington Garden

My sista reminded me few times to visit the Cockington Green Garden. eventhough the place tutup officially pukul 5 tapi last visitor kena masuk the latest by 4.15 sbb nak pusing2 dlm tu takes times. we arrived like a few minutes after 4.15 so i have to merayu giler2 kat cashier tuh mintak bagi masuk. sib baik dia bagi jugak last2. walaupun sekejap jer but still puas hati tgk miniature gardens dlm tuh. at least ada something worth visiting kat canberra.

miniature soccer field

forgot her name but thanks a lot dear for allowing us in. terus my father beli souvenir byk kat gift shop ni

While you're gone...Day 2

6.15am - Alarm clock rang...snoozee
6.30am - Alarm clock rang again...snooze....
6.31am -it's difficult to move my butt without somebody pushing and shoving
6.55am - defrost the chicken wings....
6.58am - helloooo 353 buses...
7.15am - Loaf and Leaf..the guy already knew my face....just like the kedai mamak " boss, mcm biasa"
7.20am - punched in...but i wrote 7.15am instead...hehehe

bla bla bla

1200 - arlene wants to cooked me seafood pasta at her place....i was stunned...my unconcious mind is saying..foooooooood......she knows i cant have pork or wine..so she gonna get prawns in eastgarden and also basil pesto...yummyyyy....10 minutes later... i realised i can't eat at her place with the utensils she'll be using...aiseymennn...my judgement is easily clouded whenever food involved...sigh

1.00pm - walked up to her and slowly declined her offer..explained to her why..i volunteered my place for her to cook...but another problem..she gonna have to bring Tia..her puppy..her weird and clueless dog as arlene always put it....so there goes my free lunch or dinner....

bla bla bla

4.15pm i'm outta here...rushed back to maroubra...

...my mind went blank..i dunno wat i did after that..sorta auto mode...but yet i still remember not doing the dishes...i can see it from here...no smell yet...that's always good news...maybe i'll do it tomorrow...but i'm running out of teaspoons...mental note " need to buy more teaspoon"....and another important mental note " need to get a dishwasher for drimba" -

received a newsletter from optus..my prepaid mobile phone - 3G iPhone is available starting 11th Jul....i'm very much tempted to get it..but after thinking abt it...8GB of memory really a rip off...my 80GB ipod is way much better and lot less cheaper....i still have 40Gb free space...or maybe i should consider this...bravia full HD with a free PS3 to boot.......decision..decision...

11.30pm - snores....i mean dun think i did..but nobody can prove me otherwise...

While you're gone...Day 1

The daily memoir of a husband without the madam around...

615am - alarm clock rang...snooze
630am - 1st , 2nd and 3rd alarm in dopod rang...snooze
6.40am - shit.........
6.58am -missed my 353 bus to bondi....damn..damn..damn
7.08am -took 317 bus to bondi via the long boring route
7.45am - stopped by Loaf and Leaf for my raisin toast and large flat white with 3 sugars
8.ooam - arrival....sigh...manage to survive the morning ordeal
8.05am - damn..forgot to defrost my dinner...arghhhhhhhhhhhh

bla..bla...curse..curse...coffee...curse..curse..bla..bla..bla

3.00pm - signed off and walked to Linda's - my fav tailor here...need to repair my jacket- AU45...ouch
3.15pm - the 400 bus to eastgarden arrived and i decided..what the heck...better get my lunch cum dinner there
3.45pm - walked in to mansour's...they called yesterday evening..the flannel bed sheet i ordered is in.. the lady said there was a huge screw up in the ordering but they managed to saved one for me...sheesh...
3.50pm - went to the food court and ordered fish and chips....so 1 meal is done...many more to go till 13th jul
4.30pm - took the 353 bus to my place....saw the dirty dishes...been meaning to do it since morning...but nahhh...it can wait till tomorrow
7.00pm - switched on the tv...it's Air Crash Investigation.....owhh crapp....i dun want to watch it..but it is soo tempting..wifey usually be screaming whenever i watch this series..but nobody can stop me now...i'm gonna regret this later....or sooner....
8.30pm - channel surfing...and watched House MD..the rerun...wat the heck..i'm bored...the thinkpad is still busy downloading movies and games..need to utilise my 50GB of quota by next week...
10.20pm - called wifey..she had grilled fish or wateva they had.....i hate u!!
10.30pm - counting sheep...1...2....3....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz



















pic : day 1 destruction....those are from day 0 stuff

the Parliament....

tadaaa...surprise??!!! yeah...it is me updating...the beauty of auto-publish la kan. anyway, i'm trying hard here to prepare a total of 14 entries while i'm parted with my dearest mrs thinking pad. it will be a short entry though. i'm planning to put one or two pics or more from our melbourne-canberra roadtrip yg sampai ke laaaa ni ada org tu tak buat2 langsung review. all the entries are not in any particular order...sukahati ai nak letak gambar apa dulu kan. plus maybe ada la a few entry yg tak berkaitan ngan roadtrip tu.

anyway, to start with...kat bawah ni gambar kat parliament, canberra. i didnt expect we can actually tour inside the house itself. punyer lah lama tour dlm tu sampai nyaris tak leh visit cockinton garden. so, the green coloured one is for the House of Rep while the red or maroon couloured one is for the Senate. kalau kat m'sia yg hijau tuh kira DR and merah plak DN. the last time i duty rasanyer in 2006, giler lama. i bet this time around mesti best duty parlimen.

i dunno whether kat sini they have govt officers on duty during the sitting. sbb mcm tak nampak any allocated seats for them. plus tpt duduk kat belakang tuh mcm tinggi sgt kalau nak passing2 maklumat. but then, tak tau la how the system here work. kalau kat tv nampak mcm malap jer both halls, tp bila tgk betol....wah cantik nyer....nampak modern sgt.

House of Rep

The Senate

my father yg suka bergambar...just like the daughter. but my father is the berani type, dia ajak mat salleh amik gambar sekali.

the mushroom swiss

dear darling evil....
yesterday i had beriani and murtabak singapore kedai victory (think so) kat umah kak niza. sokedai tu stillbukak....jgn lupa masuk supekor dlm your one week itenary...itmust be weekend tau. now, i'am at klia enjoying my mushroom swiss...ehheheehehehhe

luv
your cheeky wife



ppl.....i'mgoin back to AS so mmg takdak internet access sodon't miss me yani. but i have set a autopublish entries sbb i know yani miss me too much.

chiowwwwwwww

huhuhuhuhuhu....

dear darling evil....

i miss u olaydi. and sorry i can't resist buying my own toy kat duty free shop.
enjoy the cookies dear...satu mlm i tak tido buat surprise kat u...ahahahahah

your beloved lovely adorable beautiful cheekywife
muahhsss


sempat lagi online kat airport. my flight delay tp tak lama...45 mins jer. yg best nyer just when i want to inform my brother abt the flight delay, credit plak abis. tak pasal2 kenal recharge anoither $15 and yet cannot make full use of it.

updated:
delay lagik....130 plak....mati kutu laa iiiiii. 

leaving on a jet plane....

cookies - done
frozen daging kicap - done
frozen daging merah - done
frozen marinated chicken drumsticks and wings - done
2 weeks groceries - done
packing - done kot


dear darling evil...

miss yaaa
luv yaaaa
take caree
jgn beli new toy....ahahhaha

yg benar
dearest wife

the archives....

kepada mereka yg menggodek2 my previous years nyer archives.....sorry abt the font colour. zaman dulu2 layout lain and terlebih rajin nak tukar2 font colour manually kat each entry.

hepppp!!!! tgh godek yerrrrr...ihihihih

BJORN AGAIN live in Sydney Opera House

malas la nak story....more pics here

eh....mcm cantek plak gambar ni kan

recaps of everything....

malas la nak update..so let the pics do the talking. a week before exam....cs and ej came for holiday. so me act as their unofficial tourist guide....lama jugak tak kuar jalan2 so i balas dendam those few days with them...

Day 1
Day 1 tour around the city jerk...they arrived early morning 6 am plus. sampai umah kol 7. tido dulu sat then tghhari kuar. so limited time but lots of damage done.....hahahaha

i ask mr evil to come immediately after work to help me with my shopping bags - location: QVB

one down....and one more to go....hopefully (wink)

Day 2:
ronda2 harbour bridge, opera house and fish market. no shopping2!!

yani kata i rawksss!!!

Day 3:
final day gi paddys and bondi jerk....SHOPPING

banyak gile cs beli tshirt

buying my fav french pastry at bondi organic market. mamat tuh sampai dah kenal i. almost every thursday i tayang muka...hahahaha

more pics here

Then last week, azie dtg for a course kat city. dia duduk kat shang ri la. timetable dia full...only free after 430. so tak leh nak buat apa...suh dia extend....tak mo plakk...ahahha. so yg paling penting, i bawak dia dtg umah...

somewhere in the city masa nak amik azie. quality most of the pics are not that good coz somebody forgot to change the manual setting.

i have to put this pic..ntah apa motif azie korek idung will smith

dinner at home...i sempat buat mee mamak, cheesy windmill pastry and jagung rebus jerk. sorry azie.

azie with her new jug that i bought many many months ago

gambar ni nak tunjuk kat ayoi...azie pun bawak twisties utk i....ihihihihih. siap ngan cup noodle lagik....thanks azie!!!!

more pics here

Movie Marathon

I suddenly have the energy to write another entry in less than 24 hrs...that's quite a feat...or maybe coz the mrs are not dominating the thinkpad....maybe...

Anyways..last weekend...i mean last last weekend we had a Queen's Bday on monday so it was a pretty long weekend..god save the queen!! and usually the tv shows here are pretty much crap so i decided to watch one movie after another...i end up watching 13 movies in total..averaging 4 movies a day..not that bad though....do note i was trying to watch as much as comedy as possible even if its crap...i just wanna relax and and enjoy less serious- horror - thriller movie...dun want to watch thinking movie for the time being........

1. 21 - its not the tv series 21 jump street...but a movie abt blackjack con artist...based on a true story..not that bad coz i like watching kevin spacey....

2. Be kind rewind - Jack black stars in this movie...still dun like jack black but its kinda funny

3. Chaos Theory - A superb drama/comedy abt chaos....i just wanna watch Emily Mortimer since i watch her performance in Lars and the real girls...she's cool

4. Failure to Launch - suppose to be a funny movie..but i kinda lost it...

5. Jumper - even Samuel L Jackson can't save this movie...stay away.....utter disappointment...young Darth Vader just can't act

6. Street Kings - Keanu reeves just getting older in this movie...at least u got forest whittaker and Dr House as the saving grace

7. The Darjeeling Limited - I dun get this movie..i dunno why...not that funny..but it does inspire me to do KL - Spore via Senandung Malam train...

8. HeartBreak Kid - The Farrelly brothers going at it again but failed miserably....but as usual I like Michelle Monaghan..she's cute...hehehe

9. The Bucket List - meh....so so comedy...

10. The Spiderwick Chronicles - i thot it would be like Narnia or Harry Potter ..but i put too much expectation on it.....Mary Louise Parker took a back seat in this movie compared to her Weeds tv series...loved that series though

11. Vantage Point - some critics hate this one coz the premise of the movie was the different view of several character within the span of 23 minutes..sorta rewind fast forward rewind thingy. it does get tiring but something different than the rest

12. The Forbidden Kingdom - i was expecting pure kung fu movie from HK but instead it came from Hollywood...really waste of talent

13. The Man From Earth - ....I highly recommend this movie to anyone who liked 12 Angry Men - a masterpiece where the movie location was only in 1 place...the jury room....i always wondered can anybody come up with a movie using only 1 location...and this movie delivered with a simplistic prop...the living room...its a sci fi movie mind you...no CGI..no monster/space ship and laser shoot em up..just pure intellectual conversation between professors abt Ice Age man......yes...its a thinking movie..but it was mind numbingly entertaining....it will just blow ur mind away......a very good sci fi movie....

fin

Hobbies R Us

Since i was a kid...i always wondered what's my hobby...in school..whenever teacher ask abt it..i'll give a lame answer..reading book..or listening to music..but never collecting stamp though..that's uber lame...gosh i can't believe anybody would do that in these days...who send snail mail anyway!!

Anyway..couple of weeks ago...that same thought came to me again...what is my hobby...i mean...things i do diligently day in day out...full of passion and conviction...Does a person's hobby change during his lifetime...is there such term as hobbies nowadays or is it interest..or stuff you do while ur not bored....then it suddenly struck me...like eureka...archimedes would say...i dun have an exact hobby...I think i've changed my hobbies like i changed my clothes...and most of the stuff i do are based on my friend's interest or the current in thing for that period of time....i dun exactly have my own..or is it the norm...to follow what other poeple doing...and copy paste...

After further thinking abt it..i notice there's one similarities on all the hobbies or interest i've ever tried....a common denominator..again..the bulb on my head light up....it's all involve new toys!!....let me explain...

Hobby:
1. Computer
Started off while I'm waiting for my A-level results...the thought of having an internet connection with a speed of 14.4kbps was so enticing....told my dad...or rather lied to him abt the advantage of having the computer and internet at home...my sis can use it for their homework...read the newspaper bullshit...and 1 week later..i got myself a computer and the whirring sound of those modem dialling tone was so heavenly peaceful....

2. Gaming
I'm a gamer..the 1st computer game i played was Tomb Raider...Lara Croft was so freakingly sexy though during that time the graphic was crap..i mean it's just polygons and more polygons...Then later in MMU, played Counterstrike...also since everybody was playing it...so i joined in...then while in IBM, i bought myself a PS2 slim....played it for 2 month...and it just collected dust...even the thought of playing a game just to tiring for me....That brings me to my current addiction...bought myself a Nintendo Wii...it's not a high tech piece of innovation..but for the price i payed...heck i liked it...

3. Books
OK...not that i love reading them till no end..but whenever i found myself a good book...i just can't stop my self..i even finished all series of Shopaholics by sophie kinsella.....but i did stop myself reading her latest book...I finished Da Vinci Code in one go...that's when i realized its just a waste of money....Biz book are little bit slower...like the World is Flat...took me 8 months to finish..almost cheated my way out of it by going thru the youtube version..early this yr bought Mitch Albom's book in some sunday market for 5 dollar...and just recently ordered online a book titled The Diving Bell and the Butterfly....based on a true story and just watched the movie adaptation...haven't read the book yet..saving it up for my flight back home...but wat inspired my was how the author wrote the book...He suffered a massive stroke, paralyzed and was only able to blink his left eye.....So he wrote a whole freaking book by blinking his eye whenever a helper pronounced the correct alphabet....the helper would say..a..b..c....he blinks.. and so on....not a thick book but i kicked my self writing a 500 word essay...he died 2 days after the book was published....such a beautiful determination of the mind....but many moons ago when smartphone are still in the drawing board....i got myself a PDA...yes..sony clie...its already discontinued...but i loaded tonnes of ebook in there....then couple of months later i realised pen and paper are way much more productive!!..faster and cheaper...............

4. Travelling
Think with the great outback here...i just wanna go out and chill....that's where my GPS come into the picture...its really worth the price...not just the cost of buying..but the cost of you sleeping outside ur own bedroom, the price of eating crappy food...the price of ur happiness..how can u put that in monetary term...its impossible..coz that piece of technology can save ur marriage....seriously....

5. Photography
My latest obsession....so many gadgets in one hobby...the best of all the hobbies i've tried before...see....u got to buy the body of the camera..then the lens....which are mind numbingly confusing..from telephoto to wide angle to macros....then come filters for the lens....the flash gun...battery grips and so many more.....its endless

And best of all.. i think its a culmination of all the hobbies I tried...its a piece of technology from from hobby - 1...i can shoot photo instead of bullets from hobby 2...they say a picture is worth a thousand meaning....so that practically cover book reading...sorta...from hobby 3....it makes me get out of bed and go places..from hobby 4....

so to wrap up my long winded entry for the month...i would like to say - to my wife... can i get a wide angle lens pls?

no title

great show. dah upload few pixs kat FB.

saw the poster and immediately bought the tickets. not as expensive as edward scissorshands. even the best seats pun is way way much cheaper. tp semua dah abis. so dpt seats jauh sket...ok lah tuh.

Fanta Grape - RIP

using mr evil's account i finally manage to kill fanta grape. on fanta grape's last breath, i call up mr evil to watch the moment of victory. when the grim reaper arrived, i sms my eldest sista to inform nieces and nephew abt this moment of truth that i thot will never come. then i sms the other niece...a simple sms "fanta grape - RIP"....seconds later bunches called and we celebrated the joyous occasion...finally all our pets will be no longer victim of fanta grape's atrocities...

to my sista no 2 (accompanied by Mel Gibson from Braveheart in the background)

FREEDOM!!!!!

mr scissorhands...

one of my to-do list before going back for good is to watch a performance at the opera house. so this friday, we're gonna watch a musical by matthew bourne at the opera house. we couldnt get the best price for our tickets...its either derang tipu kata ada tiket murah or mmg byk dah sold out. so belasah jer la. bukan salu pun. mostly performance kat opera house byk yg tak penah dgr so just grab the chance lah since they are showing something that i am familiar with. too bad johnny depp is not in the main cast....ahahahha

a nite out at auburn and lakemba

we went to alexandria again yesterday for my KAS shopping spree. memula plan nak pi on sunday sbb mcm malas nak kuar but then mr evil kuar statement "sure ke...i takut esok barang byk abis"...cheh...so kol 11 gitu baru kuar umah. kire lambat jugak lah sbb we need to change bus at e'garden and jalan jauh gak kat alexandria tuh. met Mr H yg tgh finalise his final shopping spree kot before going back for good this august (or is it july?). i bought a few more cushion covers together with their inner. yesterday...i was feeling green....go green for the environment. ihihihh. then we walk all the way to mascot and had our lunch at the thai rest there. tak best sgt. went back home rehat2 jap and 5pm arlene arrived to pick us up for our dinner get together in auburn. we first went to tarniza's hse in lakemba coz she's gonna drive us there. and voilaa.....jakun i sampai auburn....selang 1-2 kedai ada jer kedai turkish and most of it mmg almost fullhse. i'm gonna go there again...byk kedai yg menarik dah tutup smalam......easy access by train. plus smalam nak parking keter pun kena pusing 2-3 kali sbb ramai org.

this is what everybody had...mine is just single shish kebab....itupun gigih nak abih sbb ada org tuh pi order lamb shish kebab kat i. i do like lamb but i dont really love it as much as i love chicken. ihihihih.



then tarniza bawak tour kat lakemba town...menarik gak. dia tunjuk which rest yg worth goin for lunch or dinner. menarik2....again easy access by train. then dia bawak pi turkish sweet shop. wah!!! impress tgk sweet desserts display dia. we bought one plate of almost everything and proceed back to tarniza's house for late night coffee.

akibat dr smalam i am so pancitt...until today. plan nak pi HRC pun tak menjadi...next week maybe.