We had dinner at Kobe Jones with the gang.
Good sake, Good food and the BEST is Good Friends.
Number One Special (LL, thanx for the recommendation)and Dynamite Roll are highly recommended
more alcohols were consumed after dinner….
KX & JC= Good Company 
Posted: July 29th, 2006 under Photo Journal.
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Posted: July 27th, 2006 under Photo Journal.
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Everytime when we go to the ski/sowboard shop we will end up buying anything that we can convince ourselves that “oh.. i need this for this and that or so and so have this and I find it very useful so I am going to get one for myself” and the list goes on and on and on.
DJ and I have been snowboarding together for 3 season oredi and assuming that we should have enuf gears by then… but wrong! we never stop buying all this cute little gadget that you can find in the shop. It’s very addictive….It’s all about fashion and cool gears…
Last 2 weekend I was whinging about the blardy weather and later that afternoon we took our snowboards to the shop for waxing and tuning. Guess what we bought during that “quick” trip to Skiman BOB…
We’ve done more damage to the Devil’s (credit) card. I need to call 666 for balance enquiry… 
Gud nite…muaks
Posted: July 24th, 2006 under Spending money.
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I saw this “robot” made out of milk crate at this building near my office. It’s a good idea to re-use the milk crate for something creative (or not?)
Well after all it’s good to re-use unwanted, no value, junk for creativity or could it be classified as a form of art?
Posted: July 24th, 2006 under Photo Journal.
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Babess!!! I am here in June’s home.. hahahaha.. no.. not drunk.. but her Mac DAMN KENG weii.. can take so many type of pictures …. Mahahahahahahahahahaa… Kaixin
Posted: July 20th, 2006 under Photo Journal.
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Walked home in the dark. Stop by the bottle shop to pick up some beers for DJ – yes I am the delivery girl.
We had curry vegetable for dinner. I am going to cook for tomorrow’s dinner tonight and I think I will go to bed again at 11pm. I can feel my body is slowly deteriorating due to work and I am desperately looking forward for my NZ holiday.
Tomorrow’s dinner will be a vegetarian dish that my mom taught me. I usually eat this dish during the 1st day of Chinese New Year. I have not celebrated Chinese New Year with my family for almost 4 years and I know that I won’t be going back next year as well. YES I work during CNY = how pathetic my life can be in Melbourne. Waa…I miss home! and also my angpows…$$$
KX will be arriving to Melbourne tomorrow…*very excited*. This is her 2nd time coming to Melbourne. Can’t wait to see her
Posted: July 17th, 2006 under Journal.
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Stupid weather! I’m cursing because there’s a leak in our car…the roof rack is probably not mounted properly…fugg #$%^!!! We went to VW to see if they can help us fix the problem but all their service men have left for the day
VW Service hours are as the followings :
Mon-Fri : 8am – 4pm
Sat: 8.30am-12pm.damn we were 5 mins late and everyone have gone home
DJ was really worried…very worried about the car
Here I am sitting in front of the computer blogging on a Sat arvo…this is really pathetic…
Life in Melbourne.
I am sharing some of my thoughts, rants or things that I find that is new to me. I am actually surprise to know that my lifestyle has changed 360 degrees. I came to Melbourne alone to start a new life, learn to be independent and to see what’s so good about living aboard. It is not fun at all.
I used to be able to sleep of 4 hours and still look fine but not anymore. I may look younger than my age is but my body is functioning like an old fart. I think the weather & the laid back-ness in Melbourne does play a big part of my drastic lifestyle change. My 8 hours sleep is very important to me now otherwise, I feel like sh!t the next morning.
Being in my late 20s, I am still getting pimples. -_- Argghhh!!! This is really ridiculous. I blame it on the bad weather in Melbourne that might also cause my hormones to go haywire.
My first job in Melbourne was working in a Chinese restaurant at Chinatown and got paid $50 per night that makes me realized money does not grow from trees. When I was offered my first full time job in a clothing company I knew I had to start saving money somewhere. So in order to save some money, I decided to bring left-overs from dinner to work for lunch because an average cost per lunch is about $7. I don’t think I will ever bring lunch to work if I was to work in Malaysia.
Something new to me – “food and wine” banquets where every dish are matched up with different wines. I found out about this when I was working in a Chinese restaurant. I didn’t know that Gelato/Gelatin was actually Italian ice cream and teh ais is actually thung lai cha (ice milk tea). I had my first Nando experience was in Melbourne. Damn sad rite…
Living expenses in Melbourne are quite high compare to other countries. Rent is calculated per calendar year.
Eg: if your rent is $200 per week, multiply with 52 weeks and divide it by 12 months which equals to what your rent is supposed to be.
Calculation: Rent $200 per week x 52 weeks = $10,400 / 12 months = $866.67 rent per month.
Makes a lot of difference even if it’s an extra $5 a week.
Transportation :
Parking is so expensive in the city. A half an hour parking could easily cost $3.50!!
Public transport – One thing good about the public transport system in Melbourne is, all train; tram and buses services are connected. A daily ticket cost about $5.80 (for zone 1) and a monthly ticket is about $90 (I think).
I guess you can actually live in this city without a car.
Clubbing scenes are way much better in Melbourne despise the cover charge that does not include complimentary drinks. Compared this to KL clubs/rave events where you pay a cover charge of RM30 – 50 + 1 drink FREE.
I haven’t actually work in Malaysia therefore I cannot compare the work life in Melbourne.
There are bound to have this 2 commonly asked question at work during Friday and Monday.
“What’s your plans for the weekend?” & “Did you have a good weekend?” Funny tho that these questions are asked by everyone in the office.
I started appreciating food after I met DJ (he loves cooking and he is 10x a better cook than me 
). If it’s not for him I will still be paying $8.60 per plate for a Hainanese Chicken Rice and $2.00 for a freshly made roti canai in Melbourne but if I were to convert this money to RM I can have chicken rice and roti canai for the whole month! Damn I miss the hawker food in Malaysia.
Did an analysis on the cheapest food to eat in the city is Shanghainese cuisine (steam or fried dumpling 15 pcs for $6.50), Vietnamese pho (~ $6.50 perbowl) or HK style cafes. Cheap and nasty food but the serving portions are massive. I guess it all comes back to what you get for what you paid. Beer is cheaper than coke or bubble tea. How does that work?
Spring rolls are a popular entrée in all Asian restaurants. Which I find is peculiar because every second table in the restaurant will have an order of spring rolls as a starter. I don’t recall spring rolls is an essential starter when I dine in a Chinese restaurant back in Malaysia. Maybe spring rolls is categorized as Australia’s national entrée dish… ha-ha I’m just making it up.
Culture wise, definitely an eye opener to me. Almost everyday there are bound to be something new to me. I noticed that it is ok to kiss in public and walk bare foot during summer.
Giving a friend a hug – This is a very common culture procedure in a western county which I got adapted to it very quickly but when I give a hug to my friends (especially guys) in Malaysia they tends to be quite shy… *scratches head*.
Okay I think I have to stop here… the rain has stopped and I’m going out to get my snowboard waxed….
Ta ta and have a lovely weekend
Posted: July 15th, 2006 under Journal.
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I’m counting my days to go back to a place where I call home and I am really excited about it. The reason so is (are) because:
1. My best friend’s wedding
This is the main reason why I’m going back. I’m very happy for Joanne and also very excited too! Shit I don’t have anything to wear and what shoe should I buy. ^_^
2. To organise my wedding
Damn I don’t even know where to start. Here are some of the top top priorities that I need to do when I go back. Bear in mind I have only 5 days to complete all tasks listed below and there are more to come o_O
I need to source/book/look for:
• Going away dress
• Reception
• Flowers
• Invitation
• Favours
• Make up artiste / hair stylist
• Bridesmaid’s dress
3. To spend quality time with my family
I always think that I will never have enough time to spend with my family but don’t you think it’s kinda funny that now I have to make appointments with my parents because they are practically fully booked with exercise classes, line dancing classes, facial courses (only mom, dad is not Mr. Vain) and karaoke- ing with their bunch of new found friends -_-
4. To enjoy sometime of my own away from my other half
Don’t worry there’s nothing wrong with us. Is just that once in awhile I do need to have my own space. *_*
Can’t wait! and also another thing that I didn’t include in my “to do list”… S-H-O-P-P-I-N-G… ha! for those who know me well enough this task is always a must do no matter where I am
Good night. Yeah it’s almost the weekend…
Posted: July 14th, 2006 under Journal.
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DJ gave this nick to me… for him the meaning is in the opposite -
Yeah finally Angela aka Mrs. Pang is in Blogger now…Welcome babe to da world of bitchin’ blogspot…hahaha…
8.30pm
Recap on my Hazard and Perception test that I took yesterday… PASSED!!! 64% … so relief but one more test, which is driving that, I have to take in order to convert my M’sia license.
Write soon… Final episode of Prison Break. Very kan cheong.
9.35pm
I’m back
wtf…the ending of the final episode of Prison Break was like sh*t.
The reason why I got hooked to this series is because of Wenworth Miller and he is HOT!
DJ and I went to attend a workshop thingy organised by the car dealer where we bought our car and I was like more interested in eating the sandwiches that were complimentary nibbles than listening to “how to change your car tyre”
This coming weekend I will be visiting my dentist for my half yearly dental check up and I know what the he will ask me the first thing
Dr Shibata frequently asked questions
1. Do you floss regularly?
2. Do you still smoke?
My answer to him is
1. No… I find it very time consuming but I brushed my teeth twice a day
2. No… not anymore.
Hopefully answer no. 2 will side track him from nagging me for not flossing my teeth.
Every time I go to the dentist, they made me wear this funny “huge” sunnies. I asked the nurse why I have to wear it and she replied, “ It’s for protecting your eyes from the glare”… but I look like an idiot – duh -_*
We will be going for house hunting again. It’s time for us to move to a bigger property to accommodate my clothes and shoes, which are now taking 40% of our 1 bedroom apartment space. Furthermore the landlord is planning to sell this apartment and who knows maybe the new landlord will want to raise our rent.
We cleaned the house yesterday – yes on a Tuesday evening after dinner… damn tired! And today at work I was assigned to work in the warehouse as a kuli. MKH!!! I’ll yan yan yan !!!
Posted: July 13th, 2006 under Journal.
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I’m not too sure if this begining of finacial year starts in July only applies to Australia but I find it hard to get used to.
Anyway…. Begining of the new financial year for 2006-2007 meaning new clothing allowence from work. Yeah!!! My latest claim from work for Spring Summer 07. Look how cute are the dragonflies.
I’m now getting all my summer gear prepared for my next trip back to M’sia in September…
Not feeling too well at the moment. I think I’ve got the FLU… took half day off from work and slept the whole afternoon. Went to VIC Gardens to get some flu tablet. I’m stressing at the moment cuz there’s whole heaps of work load pilling up in my in tray = to massive pimples popping out everywhere or corner of my face! I reckon I have been stressed-up ever since the day I landed in Melbourne. Not sure why I’m stressed. Sometimes I’m all stressed up for no reason which is bad cuz it may lead to fatal *touch wood*
Heaps of stuffs happend this new finacial year…
DJ and I applied for our very first car loan and we have bought our first brand new car. In the end the car is consider his cuz he is so paranoid with my rings and finger nails might scratch the car…wtf???… wah lau he thinks I have CLAWS. Anyway can’t wait till after our wedding and I can get my own dream car except I have to pass the bloody driving test in order for me to convert my M’sian driving license. Oh ya I’ll be going for my Hazard and Perception test next Tuesday = more stressed… but I have told myself if I stressed = FAIL! -_-
Kaixin and her boo will be coming to Melb for 11 days but too bad we wouldn’t be able to join them in Falls Creek. Can’t wait to see this char bor again. We can just talk non stop just like the first time we met 8 years ago.I have given her my shopping list earlier with shit loads of SKII products to be purchased from M’sia but today I smsed her again to tell her there’s change of plan no due to financial issues I have to reduce my order qty down to 2 products and also wedding magazine!
Sorry babes if I’m being a pain in da arse…hehehe…
Anon: Majestic
DJ got me a pair of new googles for my burfday and I find it funny that my birthday present is still on layby at the shop… I’m also counting my days to Queenstown NZ for snowboarding.. ^_^
Message for Miss Double da L
“Lynn, hope you have a good and relaxing trip at Cairns and Sunshine Coast . I’ll see soon”
Posted: July 6th, 2006 under Journal.
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