Hi there! I have decided to start writing a blog again. This blog is meant to be about the new things that I experience everyday in my life and since it is the beginning of Sunday 11/10/2009 right now I shall highlight on the things that I did this week.
Last Sunday was my friend Gabriel's birthday. Also, my friend Jocelyn from Brisbane was in town. So, early in the morning, I went to see her off as she was leaving that day. She was staying at Travelodge in the city and it was my first trip there and I was pleasantly surprised. It was a really neat place and very affordable too... I highly recommend it to anyone who is visiting Sydney
Next I went to get Gabs' present and bought the first thing from an apple shop. Had an utmost embarrassing moment as I was paying at the counter. The guy took some time to process my payment and then handed me a white apple bag with the product in it. I then stood there and waited for my receipt and the guy started chatting to me about what I had bought and what products that we find interesting. I was wondering what was taking him so long with the receipt and so politely kept having the small talk with him until some other customers came to ask him something and after they had left I decided to ask him about the receipt and he said that it was already in the bag... oh my god! I was standing there for 5 min and the guy probably thought I was chatting him up... I didn't know how to retreat from this embarrassing position so I decided to fake a phone call and then ran off quickly. Never going back there again!
Sunday was also the grand final of rugby league... So we started celebration with watching that and yes it was my first time actually watching a final of a rugby match... had to do it sometime in Australia I guess... Then we went to this Spanish restaurant called El Bulli for tapas. It was awesome! Had snails for the first time and had a good variety of food with lots of Sangria... my favourite was the Patatas El Bulli, the best potatoes I have ever had. At the end of the meal, we were given a shot of something like alcoholic apple cider to down which was pretty cool.
On Monday, I met up with my friend Jason, a Korean ex-classmate who now works at RBA. Two new things that I did that day: i) tried Madang, supposedly best Korean restaurant in Sydney ii) bought two books at Kinokuniya (first visit there as well). Madang was good... Jason introduced me to cold noodles (pic on the left) which was very interesting as it was icy cold and the noodles were really stringy that we had to cut it off with scissors. I steered from getting my normal favourite bibimbap and went for a kimchi soup with rice cake and it was nice... I thought that it was quite ordinary compared to the other Korean places I have tried but then again apparently Madang is popular for its BBQ, so I will definitely try to go to BBQ again.
Last Sunday was my friend Gabriel's birthday. Also, my friend Jocelyn from Brisbane was in town. So, early in the morning, I went to see her off as she was leaving that day. She was staying at Travelodge in the city and it was my first trip there and I was pleasantly surprised. It was a really neat place and very affordable too... I highly recommend it to anyone who is visiting Sydney
Next I went to get Gabs' present and bought the first thing from an apple shop. Had an utmost embarrassing moment as I was paying at the counter. The guy took some time to process my payment and then handed me a white apple bag with the product in it. I then stood there and waited for my receipt and the guy started chatting to me about what I had bought and what products that we find interesting. I was wondering what was taking him so long with the receipt and so politely kept having the small talk with him until some other customers came to ask him something and after they had left I decided to ask him about the receipt and he said that it was already in the bag... oh my god! I was standing there for 5 min and the guy probably thought I was chatting him up... I didn't know how to retreat from this embarrassing position so I decided to fake a phone call and then ran off quickly. Never going back there again!
Sunday was also the grand final of rugby league... So we started celebration with watching that and yes it was my first time actually watching a final of a rugby match... had to do it sometime in Australia I guess... Then we went to this Spanish restaurant called El Bulli for tapas. It was awesome! Had snails for the first time and had a good variety of food with lots of Sangria... my favourite was the Patatas El Bulli, the best potatoes I have ever had. At the end of the meal, we were given a shot of something like alcoholic apple cider to down which was pretty cool.
On Monday, I met up with my friend Jason, a Korean ex-classmate who now works at RBA. Two new things that I did that day: i) tried Madang, supposedly best Korean restaurant in Sydney ii) bought two books at Kinokuniya (first visit there as well). Madang was good... Jason introduced me to cold noodles (pic on the left) which was very interesting as it was icy cold and the noodles were really stringy that we had to cut it off with scissors. I steered from getting my normal favourite bibimbap and went for a kimchi soup with rice cake and it was nice... I thought that it was quite ordinary compared to the other Korean places I have tried but then again apparently Madang is popular for its BBQ, so I will definitely try to go to BBQ again.The 2 books I bought were Anne Enright's 'The Gathering', the winner of the Booker Prize 2007 and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. You see, I have never been much of a book reader let alone a book buyer so that was an experience in itself for me. As for reading them, I have tried reading The Gathering only to lose my patience as to find out what happens and found myself skimming through and zeroing in on the interesting parts, in other words, cheating. Now that I know what happens in the end, I don't have the motivation to fully read the book anymore... sigh... As for Madame Bovary, I have not started it yet so I will do my best to not cheat and read it from cover to cover.
On Tuesday I went to Wagaya, a Japanese restaurant in Haymarket. It was a really nice time I had with my friend Michael as we bitched about our problems to each other. It was also a long awaited late night trip to get supper that Michael had promised me many moons ago. And since Michael lived in Japan for some years, he was the perfect companion for me to try out a Japanese restaurant. The interesting thing about Wagaya is the electronic menu and ordering system that it has. And the dishes came very quickly as well. We tried some interesting things such as Wasabi raw octopus (pic on the left) which I found yummy, chicken gizzards, octopus pancakes, squid pizza (didn't like it) and Nagoyan fried chicken.
The rest of the week was a blur to me partly because I slept through most of it and hardly stepped out since it was raining incessantly. Got food delivery from a Thai place at my suburb... nothing spectacular just typical takeout like Pad Thai noodles and fried rice
Ok till tomorrow night hopefully I will do something interesting tomorrow if the weather permits ciao!
On Tuesday I went to Wagaya, a Japanese restaurant in Haymarket. It was a really nice time I had with my friend Michael as we bitched about our problems to each other. It was also a long awaited late night trip to get supper that Michael had promised me many moons ago. And since Michael lived in Japan for some years, he was the perfect companion for me to try out a Japanese restaurant. The interesting thing about Wagaya is the electronic menu and ordering system that it has. And the dishes came very quickly as well. We tried some interesting things such as Wasabi raw octopus (pic on the left) which I found yummy, chicken gizzards, octopus pancakes, squid pizza (didn't like it) and Nagoyan fried chicken.The rest of the week was a blur to me partly because I slept through most of it and hardly stepped out since it was raining incessantly. Got food delivery from a Thai place at my suburb... nothing spectacular just typical takeout like Pad Thai noodles and fried rice
Ok till tomorrow night hopefully I will do something interesting tomorrow if the weather permits ciao!
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