the end

It was my last weekend in Sydney and we decided to go out for Yum Cha which is dim sum but we literally yumed a lot of cha and ate a lot of food... well then again when there are 12 of us... it would mean a lot of food! Quan Yie, Selina, Chia Ling, Xin Yin, Natalie, Chean Yeaw, Chen Chin, Victor Chua, Yen Chiw, Ray and myself went to chatswood for it... We ate till we popped.... okay Ray and I ate a double portion of dan tarts... they were hot and yummy....

Victor's pork rib decided to be cleansed by the tea and needed a bath before consumption... That was the start of the laughs for the day....





After yum cha, we went to yum more cha at T2 in Chatswood Chase... There were 3 samples and we tried each and every one of them... Natalie bought lemon grass tea...


The meal would not be complete if we did not yum some chocolate of some form be it hot or cold... Chean Yeaw and Natalie both fell down while sitting on the chairs... Chean Yeaw cursed Xin Yin and Myself and he had a second fall immediately... moral of the story- dont curse someone unless you want instant retribution...

Chean Yeaw was easily amused by the sugar packets!

maximizing utility

Been hanging out all the Actuarial students for too long now and some of their work is rubbing off on me... Here is me attempting to maximize utility of a fixed cost item...
I decided to get myself a travel weekly as a treat to myself after all the hard work and an excuses to explore Sydney... Got the travel weekly with the train function as well as the price difference was not that great... But in so doing, I had to use it everyday and go out everyday! He he he any excuse to get out of the house... I used the bus to get everywhere and hence I did not get my usual dose of exercise between MUV and Macquarie Center...
As for the train sector, I decided at the spur of the moment to go from Town Hall Station to Chatswood to pick up a can of Hot and Spicy SPAM. Well had to do so isn't it as I had to get value for money from the card! Then of course, it was 545 from Chatswood to Macquarie followed by 292 from Macquarie to MUV...
Ferries were another adventure, Natalie and I decided to explore Taronga Zoo which was great as there was a nice strong breeze but the sun was another story- I came back looking burnt and red!

By the way, I inserted my Travel weekly so many times that the dates are all faded at the back of it... But I feel really good as I think I have really maximized the utility of the card and have gotten as much out of it as possible!

Well it is just about the end of my adventure of being a Master student in Sydney... Wonder where to next... And have to utilize the last few weeks of being able to travel around as a student on concession here...

the end

It is the end of the holidays... It will be good to start uni again... Have been attempting to read my text book for one of my new subjects... It is quite a good read thus far... Well have decided that this semester, I am going to work very hard at the gym... I am dreading my monday nights as once again I have class from 1800-2000 right over tea time as usual... Sigh... Oh well... what can I say? I can't win all the time can I?

Have decided that Krispy Kream Donut Sundae are yummy but bad all in the same breathe... It has Movenpick ice cream and it is really good but it makes me feel really guilty after eating one which hence the motivation to hit the gym...

I guess it is time to go horizontal and am feeling like a barking dog at the moment as my cough is back with a vengeance... Hope sleep will help the cause...

monday rolls by

It is Monday and the week has begun to roll very quickly.... Please slow down a little if that is possible... Time can you please try and crawl for a change instead of being a bullet train? It has been a productive day though all said and done... I finished my assignment and fine tuned the presentation work... Posted some thoughts on the discussions for my online component of the course till I was unable to do so and took it as a sign that I should stop... Went to the library and borrowed 9 books which weighed a lot and ended up getting a Macquarie bag to transport the books back... Walked up the path by the Gym which is the steepest and the most challenging... Was dripping in perspiration by the time I got back home and turned on the fan which is something I have not done in ages... Went out to get dinner with Martha and guess the flavor of the week is pizza... this is the second meal of it in 3 days... Have leftovers in the fridge (surprised?) Anyway think I am going to head off to bed as my eyes are drooping and no amount of toothpicks or super glue is going to keep them open... the price one pays for staying up late to study and when one is not as young as before it really affects one's sleep pattern... Beauty sleep is calling out....Isn't the duck so cute? Got him at the Myer post Easter sale and it cost less than $3 as it was reduced by 75%... Thought that was such a steal....

Day Light Saving

The clocks were turned back an hour at 0200 this morning. That is the end of Daylight saving and the start of the dark days... It is amazing how much difference that hour makes... For once I needed my alarm to get me up in the morning... It was great to sleep in as the sky was cloudy... Rushed out of my house in a fashionably late manner to get to church... Forgot to take my umbrella and it decided to start raining on me... Sigh... Thank goodness for hoodies...

Am now trying to complete my 1200 word essay on Organizational Structure... But am stuck as it is so vague and there are too many points to cover...Wonder if i could put it under different headings or something like that... Brain is rather fuzzy at the moment too...

Was stressed and decided to try out silicon cup cake tins (if you can call them tins)... Found a really easy recipe for chocolate cup cakes on the web and baked them... Didn't taste too bad but will add chocolate chips the next time for a different texture... Who can possibly go wrong with chocolate??? Gave the cup cakes to the boys as well they are after all cakes and generally not good for the waist line... Wonder when the next baking session is going to be... hmmm... Hopefully not in the near future... would be really bad if that happens...

Okie back to work...

bugs

I have decided that there are lots of things that are bugging me now a days and the list is ever growing:

• people defacing the books from the library- hello get your own copy if you want to do that!
  
• rude people on the escalators- don't they know how to say excuse me properly?
• ants- they are everywhere in the house!
  
• weird creepy crawlies that are random and have made their home in the apartment!
• pots that have marks on them
• scum building up anywhere in the bathroom
  
• people calling me a neat freak- the people that know me well must be laughing really hard now!
• tea stains in the teapot or my mug- things have to be shiny not stained
• noisy drunk people outside on the road at 4 in the morning!
  
• the fact that the admin has not gotten their act together and ordered the right letter box key! Thank goodness Martha and I get along so well and we share the one precious key.