We should do high tea again when we're all free. Tea and scones is always fun. I've tried making scones before but they're not nearly as nice as when they're put in a straw weaved basket with different jams and cream.
The polygon of life
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| The triangle of life Alyssa posted before is too simple. This polygon is closer to real life. Real life is actually a circle, too many points to count... |
I'm doing my tax return as I write this blog. And now I just realised it's bloody 2am and I need to wake up in 5 hours. Argh.
- Jenny
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Two consecutive posts?! Bound to happen since I'm on holidays. I just watched a few episodes of Mad Men and now I'm in bed. I don't have work till noon tomorrow so I can blog a bit.
Can someone please revamp this layout? I tried but I made it look like a teenager's diary. Teenager's diary might be cooler than what I've done. I also added labels to each of our posts.
Alyssa.
This is not entirely about food
So it has been almost three months since my last post but I'm finally on uni break and so I thought I'd use this time productively to update. May and June weren't great months for me at all. They were in fact probably the most two tiring months of my life. Actually, May was the tough month, June was the month of trying to get back on my feet. The good news is that life is slowly returning back to normal.
Work and uni occupy majority of my time as per usual - nothing new about that. I don't know how I managed to work till 10:30pm and then head to uni to work on my project till 3am. I did that 5 days a week in my last 2 weeks of uni. Looking back at it now I'm not sure where all the strength to finish came from... I think I was thinking of this:
Uni break feels great though. I'm trying to absorb every minute of it. I don't even mind that I'm working 6 days a week because at least I'm not coming home to uni work. I can just empty my mind and watch TV. Yes, I have so much TV to catch up on. Today I watched an entire season of Mad Men and I forgot how good it was.
I ate out a lot in June/July so here are some photos of Sydney eats.
L-R: Fried chicken pieces from a Korean shop in Strathfield, the KFC double which wasn't so nice.
Belgian waffles at What The Fudge in Canley Heights.
L - R: Family dinner in Burwood celebrating Dad's return + sister's discharge from hospital, my favourite dish at Bau Truong in Cabramatta.
Brunch at Ichiban Boshi, QVB.
L - R: After work I run to a bakery in Chinatown that slashes prices on cakes before they close, BBQ pork with noodles from Sedap in Central Park food court post-project submission & zero sleep.
Hmm, not a photo of food but what my days in the computer labs looked like over the last 2 weeks of June.
Dinner at Taste of Shanghai, World Square. My goodness xiaolongbao is amazing.
My go-to lunch break meal: $7.80 at Menya, George St.
Yummy monthly dinner at Spice I Am, Darlinghurst.
Celebrating the end of the semester at Tapa Vino with prosciutto and sangria.
Ending with a watermelon ice block I picked up from a Japanese grocer.
I started playing dota 2 with a workmate. He's been teaching me how to play and honestly I didn't think I'd like it as much as I do. It's still frustrating to play at times because there's so much to learn, but it's been interesting so far. I am dying all the time but we only ever play 1 on 1 so it's not too embarrassing. I was excited to play with Spencer actually (who is my first ever online friend btw, I think it's cool) since he introduced me to the game, but our timezones are so different that I guess it's just hard to find time to play together.
Umm what else is new... well I can tell you all what I'm doing for the rest of the week: working and devoting my time to TV, probably going out for drinks on Friday night, and sleeping over Chloe's on Sunday through to Wednesday when I go back to work. She took annual leave so we could have a 3 day weekend so we'll probably chill in the spa, watch The Grand Budapest, go to Liverpool with her Dad to pick up Indian desserts. Gosh, I miss jalebi.
I was meant to go to the snow next weekend with my family but I forgot to take work off and now it's too late. So, family is going without me, which I don't mind too much. I want to work actually. I've been trying to save up for a new camera for the past month but it feels like forever since I last bought something for myself. It'll be nice to stay in for the weekend and save some $$$. Pump up some music at home and hold a party for one.
Alyssa.
Smartphone, SmartTV, Smartwatch...
It's been a month since I've updated, and it's been two months since Alyssa has updated. "I will try to write a post once a week or at least once a month!" she said....
Anyway, I haven't mentioned that I started kung fu class 2.5 years ago. Gotta fill in the gaps! So! I started with jow ga, which is a similar style to hung ga (think of earth benders in Avatar: The Last Airbender or Tekken's Feng.) And I just started wing chun a month ago. No footage yet of me doing forms; maybe there'll be one next lunar new year. But I now go to kung fu classes 4 times a week.
Last Tuesday, I went to see Vivid for the first time. (Well, second time but I only saw one light show last year and it was disappointing and the night ended with me at a cheap Internet cafe playing Warcraft Dota with 2 offline friends. The last 4 words saved me from ultimate sadness.)
Ew. That is terrible quality. For better (still bad, but not terrible) quality, go here.
Yesterday I received my Pebble smartwatch! Along with showing me the time (and date), it can also receive notifications from my phone (it supports iOS and Android) via Bluetooth, such as calls (and being able to accept or reject it), messages, and reminders. Because the display uses the same technology as the Kindle Paperwhite, it can last for several days before needing another recharge. So if you're wondering why I didn't wait for the Motorola's Moto360, it's because of that. Also, having Bluetooth on will drain the phone's battery more, especially if your phone doesn't support Bluetooth 4.0 yet. My phone already can't survive a full day without needing to be charged.
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| Charging up my smartwatch for the first time. I was also playing around with watchfaces. |
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| Tells me the temperature as well as the time and date by default. The temperature data is received from my phone. If I've disabled Bluetooth on my phone, the weather graphic will be replaced by the classic loading icon, which I will not show because this post already contains enough pictures. |
I also bought a mechanical keyboard so I can type longer without feeling my hands cramping up, especially when I'm coding. It's also a lot noisier. Haha.
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| The new keyboard. Looks like the old Apple keyboard, yes. It also has a numpad, and three 2.0 USB slots. Which is good because my two 3.0 USB slots on my ultrabook are taken up by this keyboard and mouse. I need the extra USB slots for other stuff. |
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| The Macbook keyboard. I also had to put labels on the Control and Option keys because I never remember the symbols for them. |
Technology aside, I have been eating well. Tonight I had a wagyu burger with beer-battered chips.
On a more honest note, I've gained a soft spot for mango pancakes since my trip to Queensland during 2013's lunar new year and would order some whenever I go for yum cha. I've been frequenting the new Vinh Phat place at Cabramatta.
Can someone else update now? Fill in the gaps, people!
P.S. I found our MySpace link and have put it on the sidebar, along with a shortcut to create a post (after logging in).
Jenny
