Anybody knows of a good alternative of a vanilla smelling perfume??

This costs too much for comfort.

Just went to Aussie for around a week recently.... and all I wanna say is that I love the weather.
I just wanted to blog about it because I want to keep it as a memory. I did not take a lot of pictures as I was simply lazy.... Really happy that I met up with my friends living in Aussie as I was trying not to be too touristy.... but I think it ended with me not doing important things like seeing a real life kangaroo and koala bear.

On the first day when I arrived in melbourne after travelling for 8 hours on emirates (oh... talking about emirates.... I think they have more leg space than SIA and their fare is quite reasonable. Note to self to book that in the future), I met up with my friend who insisted that I should start looking around the city right away. So we went to have brunch at one of the cafes. I ordered some mushroom pasta which I don't really like and it ended up him finishing 1.5 plate of food. Frankly, I prefer the lasagna that he ordered. hahaha....

Next up, we went to take a look at the state library which was pretty spacious and very well sectioned. I went to look around at some ongoing exhibitions in the library that are not too draining.... I didn't know that older biology books, they actually have illustrations for the animals or plants beside the description. It is at least a B4 sized book and the illustration spans for the whole page and it was coloured. I also remembered that I saw the religious text that was carved on pretty thin wood bark. It was pretty impressive.

We proceeded to drink coffee at this cozy cafe which had pretty good coffee I thought. I forgot the name but I am sure in times of need, I should be able to ask my friend. whahaha..... we had the ice coffee and the vanilla ice cream was soooo good~~~

At night, we met up with his friend and went to a Greek restaurant. I am rather open to go to "out of norm" restaurants but somehow, Greek restaurant gives me that feeling that I am going to have to eat a lot of feta cheese (I am not a cheese fan so it slightly bothered me). But it turned out that I was wrong... there wasn't really a lot of feta cheese and all the dishes are pretty refreshing and minty.
Somehow, I took a picture of the menu and the place.

So the night ends for Day 1.

 

 

For Day 2, I managed to hop on for a vineyard tour. I was pretty hyped up about it because I never been to one before and actually had thoughts of being a sommelier. The first one that we went was scenic as you can see from the pictures from above... The place was filled with the aroma of the wine and it was pretty cool to see the real stuff.

We proceeded to go to 2 other vineyards. I really liked a Shiraz from Seville estate that I bought it immediately... It was nice sharing it with my family as they liked it as well.

How could I forget to blog about the tasty banana cake I had in the morning. I think I start to understand why my bf's mum love to make banana cakes. She must have had really good ones when she was in Aussie.

 

 

The night ended with a good dinner, oyster shots, johnny walker blue label (I still prefer martell cordon bleu) and a long stroll as wanted to save up on the taxi fare. I really like to take long strolls in cold countries as you get to enjoy the surroundings without getting sweaty and uncomfortable.

 

End of Day 2~

 

smell like salted fish now due to prolonged exposure to the kitchen frying them...

Anyway, any architects out there that are interested to help design a 2 storey high house, resort style~~

When I see the queue at Malaysia customs, I am glad that I am still a Malaysian...

I think my parents are really not very comfortable with me going to and fro Malaysia that often (average maybe 1-2 times a month) and the fatigue just adds up... hahaa.... not to mention I have been involved in chats (aka meetings) that I am not suppose to be in because they are still trying to find a replacement for my manager for 2 months~~

sometimes, it just hits you on how your parents have aged.... although they can still be fiesty at times....

I was watching cna one day and came across this online course website known as coursera. Have been trying really hard to complete one of the courses but it seems to take forever.
Wish I could be more motivated to learn....

waiting

I'm waiting here... standing like an idiot and waiting for lotusnotes to be installed..
a breather in the midst of chaos.....
I should be thankful.....

anyway, since I am so free... I thought it might be a good idea to blog..... but nothing much I wanna say....
been watching interior design shows..... trying to get inspired on what furnitures to get in the future....
saw this table from gizmodo which I think it's cool and I wanna get it

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work is getting the better of me....
which means...... it's time to plan for another holiday... Hahha.... I want to Thailand and Korea.... maybe I should go to both huh... =p

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the solution

leave on time, don't bring laptop, and ________.
=]

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trolls

trolls at work
think I will just heck care already... why waste my time to help and motivate them

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majority overeating..... manzzz.....

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hopeful

hope that you can get through Friday and be my lunchie kaki!!!! HAHAHA

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nuffnangx

as many who follows bloggers or Twitter might already know... today is the launch of nuffnangx. my guess that it combines the social media into one platform is incorrect but I'm still impressed (even though I think it has crashed and still recovering or maybe it's my internet connection) hahaha
but anyway, really smart idea but think they will still need a little tad more time to resolve various issues like unable to claim your blog intuitively or clicking on any options will lead you to set up your newsfeed.

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running nose

the work load has taken a toll on me 
think I am not up to working OT....
God help me... I'm in the wrong career
=p

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no more napping

After taking on the new projects , I haven't been napping... maybe that's the reason why I (think I) slim down 
Should be ♥♥♥ ing it right?? Hahha

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Saturday morning

it's interesting to see the news and pictures of topless duchess
At least now we know hers are natural
=P
Guess the royalties are getting liberal
Hoho

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iphone 5

A nice model... as they said....
Not outrageously upset after hearing what it has to offer But I would have love to have The design
Getting used to S3. It's just the predictive text that irks me the most.. internet navigation useability is I would say average.

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I had a lot of inspiration to blog yesterday because I have been seriously thinking that I am currently wasting my time.... surfing face *stalking people in general*, reading through famous people's blog, looking at twitter and updating the most mundane things of my life (not to mention that I dreamt that my family dog got slaughtered alive and I saw the slicing of the thigh. Oh god..... don't ask me why I have such dreams and never in my life do I want to do such a thing to the dog... I even cried in real life - which in turn woke me up)
Anyways, yes... I am bothered by the fact that I am not doing anything productive in my life - like wasting my time doing this blog as well. Worse of all I think I do not know what I really want to do. I am not a person with a *happening* life. I just like to lie on the bed, read some facebook updates, nap a little, eat when I'm hungry and continue with my life. I don't really like to complain or bitch about other people because I see no value in doing that and it reflects bad on me.
I am however thinking whether I can better manage my finance so that I can spend more comfortable. One day when I was going home, I was thinking..... damn.... should I just take a taxi, it will shorten the trip by half the time.... but when I got off the taxi, I realized I have spent 10 times the amount that I would have spent on public transport for shortening a trip by about half the time. It's not that I cannot afford it and will go hungry after it but it's just whether it was worth spending that money. Money spent so not much more to ponder about anymore.
I decided that maybe... just maybe I should really do some research on investment.... however, I do lack the motivation because I am just a person who is lazy in the first place - Not that anybody care except myself. I decided that I should blog about it..... the journey of my investment discovery.... so that I have more motivation to find materials to blog about and benefits me by having me to recall the things I have read through. I don't know how far I will go about blogging it or how long I can sustain. but I think this beats writing about mundane things in my life and not having any productive information going into my brain. lol 

really seem that writing popular topics can indeed garner more readership....
let's try.... LKY rumours~~~ hohoho

Although it has been repetitive, but... OH AM GEE.... It's August already. I don't even recall what did I do in July.

I vaguely remember watching the semi finals for table tennis and heard that Malaysia lost to China for badminton. Not much emotions evoked because I lack patrotism (the bad of being a PR? maybe?). But interestingly, the reaction by Singaporeans towards the bronze win is varsely different from that of Malaysians towards to the silver win. I think it only goes to show how much foreign talent can bring glory to the country even though it has been like 50 odd years since Singapore won anything in the Olympics and I take it that FTW has converted citizenship in order to represent Singapore. I remotely think that Singaporeans are generally pissed that they are footing the 250,000 bill as well as the president's flight to london to support them. In case you are caught unaware, that's the prize for FTW for winning bronze. In the case of LCW, people are consoling him and thanking him for uniting Malaysia for a span of maybe 1 hour or 2? Maybe LCW should become the prime minister for Malaysia ( sorry.... I am just joking). Lin Dan's comments were inappropriate though.... saying that LCW has to face immense pressure because for china, they can still win gold for the badminton doubles whereas this match is the only hope for Malaysia to get a gold medal. I really don't know whether the comment serves to justify that LCW didn't perform (because of the heavy responsibility that he has to undertake) or plainly bragging about China's ability to win gold medals. Anyways, at least both won a medal.

Late payment of credit card bills.... shit