Earthquakes, Huxaburgers, Aka Tombo & Chapel

Why hi there lovely readers, allow me to recap since my last post up until the 21st of June.

Who else felt the Earthquake in Melbourne on June the 19th! It's the first one I have experienced as Australia generally does not experience earthquakes so to everyone who lived in the inner suburbs/west side I'm sure they only felt a rumble and slight shaking as I did, and if anything it was more exciting than scary. Though I'm sure it would have been a vastly difference experience for those at the epicentre (Moe, over 100km from where I live) as it was 5.3 in magnitude I believe, something around that.  Which, to anyone who lives in an earthquake ridden country, is probably nothing.

On the 21st of June, I met up with the lovely Sylvia for lunch at Huxtaburger on Smith Street. I'd never heard of the place until that day and damn were the burgers SO good. Perhaps I was particularly hungry as well. But the meat patty had a very distinct flavour but I'm not specialist on seasonings/herbs so I can't describe what it was. It was good, that's all you need to know.

 The 21st was also the day of Tracey's birthday, so we all went to Aka Tombo on Greville St.

Tracey, myself and Jenny.

Sushi platter to share, complimentary of Tracey. Unfortunately, I, being the freak that doesn't eat sushi, could not share in everyone else's enjoyment. I did try the egg sushi thing on the platter. I'm not sure of what it was called but it was egg, with rice and a bit of seaweed to keep it together. I did, however, still pull off the seaweed ha. Must say that egg was really tasty, which means a lot since I generally don't like egg unless its scrambled and extremely fried.

My Chicken Teriyaki

Tracey's Wagyu Beef.


After eating and dessert (which I thought I had pictures off, I'll have to go look for them). We headed off to Lucky Coq on Chapel to celebrate (for want of a better word) Pauline's month long trip in Europe which she is now currently undertaking. The best part of the night was when Daniel turned up unexpectedly at Lucky Coq. Initially I was annoyed because he had ignored my texts for the past 3 hours, or, he says he doesn't look at his phone (excuses excuses -__-).

When I was with Sylvia I had planned on leaving a short while after getting to Lucky Coq but perhaps it was a mixture of me being excited to see Daniel and me just generally having more energy at night. That I decided to go to One Six One with everyone. Got back home around 1.30am so not too late at all.

That was one of the most eventful days I've had in a long time. It was nice seeing all my high school friends again but also Lucky Coq and One Six One seems to be the place of choice to go on a Thursday night so I also happened to see people from high school that were in different year levels. That was probably something I would have liked to avoid because these are people who know who I am and I know who they are but we've basically never spoken so it's not like we're going to start out of no where now. I can be incredibly socially awkward.

That's all for now, there will be another post in one or 2 days.

Love Lisa.

Jenny and Pauline's 19th + Updates

Friday the 16th was Jenny and Pauline's birthday and they celebrated it at the Hilton, South Wharf.
They went clubbing afterwards but since I had recently recovered from being ill I decided to head home early and met up with Daniel and Crown.

Pauline and Jenny. Aren't they cute? (LOL at the tv..haha late night televison)

Jenny and I

Emily and I



Yesterday, I had delicious pho at MeKong on Swanston St with Daniel.
Granted the soup base is laden with msg, having it once in a while can't be too bad for me..right.
I ordered my favourite, Beef and Beef balls and I had a 3 colours drink too. Yum!

For the past 2 weeks, I've been trying to stay on top of my studies, it's going alright. I can't imagine how much I'd be struggling if I had to do another subject though. Lucky for me I'm underloading.
The day of the GAMSAT is also approaching, only 3 days to go. Eek.

Love Lisa.

With My One & Only

The nights of cooking paella and falling asleep to berry scented candles:
I was in charge of marinating the chicken, which was an experience in itself while Daniel did the chopping and dicing. We were trying to mimic Nando's paella, and we did a decent job :P

The day of my haircut:

Photoworld, just like the old days :') but photoworld sure has upgraded recently, so many new game machines. Daniel also won me a tiny totoro, which I find to be the cutest plushie I've ever come across.



Then to Meshiya for ramen, well in the end I ordered don because just thinking of the curry and the chicken made me drool. We also decided to try sake, it was interesting, tasted like vodka but more of a rice flavour (for obvious reasons).





This weekend I'll post about all my recent purchases (by recent I mean last few months), and my my there's more than I can keep track of.

Love Lisa.

Tokyo Teppankyaki & Cafe Giraffe

TUESDAY
It was Tracey's 19th on Tuesday night, dinner at Tokyo Teppanyaki on Chapel St. Unfortunately I did not bring my camera, but here is a photo from Tracey's cam.

The restaurant was really nice and teppanyaki was an exciting experience, with food flying at your face (literally).

THURSDAY
On Thursday I met up with Michelle and Yeung-ae at MC for lunch at Cafe Giraffe, as per suggested by Michelle, and it did not disappoint.








A decent meal for $10, included a free drink.
Adorable decor within the cafe, it was nice and cosy :)

Love Lisa.

My Shoulder Canes

You'd think it would hurt because I've been gymming hardcore. But do not be mistaken good sir, my shoulder/neck/trapezius muscle has suffered long term injury from:
1. My 10kg school bag (i'm not even shitting you I weighed it)
2. My normal handbag/shoulder bag
In short, I like to carry everything with me. I like to be prepared you know.

Alrighty so this morning Fitness First with the one and only Daniel, and holy shiet I think I was having heart palpitations. Angina anyone? Haha I'm actually not sure what angina is, some sort of heart condition..someone enlighten me.
But 185+ bpm, that's 3 heartbeats per second...my poor cardiovascular system is working overtime.

Then saw Jose & Diana at work, had soup @ 'The Soup Place' (haha), good soup though. Very salty but I do like my flavour.
Also this brings me back to my frustration that one can only describe salt as salty. While sugar is sweet, you know what I mean?
Moving on, Supre in the city is closed -- sigh. Finally I decide I need to buy something from there and poof, it's gone.




Then Zinta's house, and Em and Jenny were there. Zinta had to leave so we went down to Chocolate for coffee. But I got an iced chocolate. Probably so much fat and sugar in that that all my gymming has been nullified. Hmph.




Love Lisa.

Excluded

Always excluded from family decisions.
While I'm gone BAM, we purchase a new TV and sound system.
It's a Samsung LED and not sure what the rest is since it isn't in stock until the end of the month.
Oh it's only a 40", but still if anyone's seen the distance between the wall and my couch, even 40 inches seems huge.

Damn when is my delivery from Urban Outfitters going to comeeee D; From the tracking number it shipped out on the 18th..it's been 10 days come onnn, last time it took exactly a week, but I guess it wasn't during Christmas.

Modern Family (which I am really starting to get into) with Daniel :) and watching him build the Gundam, pretty epic seeing it all come together.

Came home and had jiao zi for lunch :)

*update
Turkey for dinner haha

It was sometime during exams that I finally decided to succumb to the braided fringe hairstyle. It was because my fringe started getting to an odd length where it was difficult to pit up and annoying to have down during exams.
Since I first figured out how to do it, I've gotten slightly better at doing it without a mirror, but still slight struggles:




Photos from em's dinner.







Love Lisa.

Babushka Dolls

Well this is how it began, general wandering around collins/elizabeth st with Daniel.
Saw this awesome little shop in..okay I forgot where we were but it sold babushka dolls and christmas decorations.
We visited the upstairs section of the shop and on our way back down, about halfway down the staircase I saw this creepy with doll thing in the corner of the wall and i was like 'oh my god...' and I guess tried to back away, but in doing so I almsot fell down the stairs..backwards :|
But Daniel saved me ;) ahah, but literally he did, I tried to hold onto some display for support but the glass just slid out, therefore if Daniel didn't save me not only would I have maybe broken some bones and had a concussion, but I would have pulled glass/a variety of babushka dolls crashing down onto me.
That was too much of a near accident for my liking hahaha.

Just happened to see Roger outside ANZ, then Jenny came (or was always in ANZ?)
Anyhow, we had a fairly long short chat (ahah) cept we were standing in the paths of people not only walking in both directions but in perpendicular directions too.

Subway for lunch mmm :)
Then walked to QV and did not end up seeing any dresses D;
But we did find Jenny and Roger at Romanos Cafe, we sat there for 2 hours I reckon.
And the conversation led from candles to club x? LOL I love how conversations flow :)
Then Pauline came for a bit and we all parted ways, and yum Harajuku Crepes!

Just discovered that the name 'babushka' is actually incorrect but just has common use now, they're actually called Matryoshka Dolls :)








Love Lisa.


Noo, I want to cry... LOL :|

One Down...

Seven more days of written exams to live through.

If anyone is actually interested (god knows why) in the details of my english exam;
Single text response: Hard Times 'Who suffers the most in Hard Times?'
Context: Whose reality? (I don't quite remember the prompt, something along the lines of 'sometimes people find themselves living in worlds created by other people?')
Language analysis...well we all did the same one.

And just my luck, I happened to write an essay pretty similar to the prompt in the single text response, but I can't say that Mrs Badoer liked that essay. At least we discussed what I could have done better aha.
As you may realise, I struggle to be concise, it's just not what I do but I fear that I'll go off on a tangent if I ramble in essays hence I shy away from my usual lengthy explanations.
But apparently I needed to elaborate more on all my ideas, hence why I wrote practically a paragraph per page today, my reasoning being that I'd rather over-explain but manage to cover all aspects rather than miss something that is crucial.
And my context essay just made me laugh, they will either be entertained by my initial anecdote or think I'm insane.

Okay no more about english, it's all done and dusted I can't change anything.
Now who's excited for spesh?! :D Haaa.

Lunch at Liar Liar cafe with Sylvia, Tracey and Pauline.
That just reminded me, haphazard. Ahahha, it was in the language analysis and pauline was saying how she looked it up but she pronounced it hap-hah-ZARD, like each syllable pronounched separately rather than hap+hazard, I barely recognised what word she was referring to ahah so cute :)

Anyways I had a 'pigs might fly' pork hock. Yum yum yum yum.

Love Lisa.

Recap

So what has been happening thus far in the holidays?
(I can't stop using the word thus)

Went to state on Monday, then saw Daniel.

Had an english practise exam Tuesday morning. I guess it went better than expected? Just because I managed to finish 3 full essays, I can't quite vouch for the quality of writing though.
Got my Hard Times sac back, and as expected it's my worst essay yet.
She basically didn't even have any good comments on it, it was painful to read about how everything was wrong. Oh well.

Then we went down to camberwell for lunch.
I got a free boost because it was my name that day ;D
Mmm mango magic.

Went to the doctor's to get my results from the nerve conduction study. No abnormalities. Which is good and bad. Because woo at least my nerves aren't damaged but then how do I account for my loss of motor skills in my hand :S
Sighh, just fingers crossed it won't get even worse until after November 16th.

Today, State again + Daniel :DD
Tomorrow, chinese practise exam. Should sleep soon.

So I've been dead tired, I think i've woken up before 9 every day so far (I had to restrain myself from saying 'thus far') ;(
AND NOT BY CHOICE. Let me stress that. There's just been something I have to wake up for.

Love Lisa.

Olympic Ice Skating Rink

Went Ice Skating today.

I drove there and on the way, my dad had a panic attack because we were on Warrigal Road and there was a massive semi trailer next to me.
He kept saying 'okay okay, don't stress, DON'T FREAK OUT STAY CALM'
Ha really, dad, I don't think I'm the one you should be telling that to :P

Got there a little early but soon Tracey, Jake and Cath were there, along with Amy :)
It was like dejavu being in there, I used to do lessons therefore went there once a week for half a year (I think).
Then Jake's friend Alex came and then Pauline, wait I'm not sure who came before who but :D
Ate a potato cake and shared a bag of potato gems with Cath and Paul mmm.
Everyone kept getting tomato sauce on them haha. Thankgod I didnt, since I had a white jumper on.

Afterwards I bussed to Box Hill with Cath, having a loong talk with her (it was a long bus ride).
Bought a Chocolate Cookie Puff (wait is that what it's called) from Puffy.
Then, met up with my parents outside Coles haha.

Came home to discover one bitching blister on the right side of my left foot LOL
Even worse, you know how blisters kinda have that layer of skin that's detached but still there.
Yeah that bit of skin was more or less gone so it was just a gaping red area of raw skin, about the size of a 20cent coin if not bigger. Miam mian.

I would have taken a photo (ahahha seriously it was gross but amazingly huge) but mum was quick to bandaid it up for me.

So, since 5pm I have been cunctating..LMFAO wow that sounds wrong but trust me, we all do it ;)

It was good to escape my thoughts for a while,
Love Lisa.

Smells Like Chocolate

Taken 07/02/10. Post processing, today. Funny how in this photo I didn't even need to curl it, was inspired to document how nice it looked after being in a bun for over 24hours.

My hair, that is, no thanks to a certain someone *squints ahaha no, although avoidable there is no blame :)

I am beyond tired.

Went back to smith st with my bro because he realised even for a compression shirt S was too tight.
Then went on a hunt for a slim/flip wallet. He didnt find one.
Next wanted to go to JP books (to buy Using language to Persuade) since it's close to my house but it was closed :(

Ate a few 馒头, a corn corb and pumpkin soup for lunch. Was fairly satisfying.

Though am feeling quite dehydrated.
I would also like to shower soon so I can properely wash out the melted chocolate in my hair.

Mum bought discount easter chocolate, specifically dark chocolate as she believes it will benefit us in some way or other.

Love Lisa.