Morning Dog Call

Everybody has morning call from friend but i have dog call from my dearest dogs, Trio and Yume. I set my alarm clock at 6am and they woke up the same time too but today i am rather tired as i slept at 10.55pm yesterday instead of 9.30pm yesterday. Well well well that is because my fav tv show, NCIS is showing on tv. Sorry got a little bit of side track, i am saying that my dogs bark to wake me up from the living room but think they have failed as i woke up at 6.45pm instead. it is so freaking cold in the morning . it is very hard to wake up when you are lying on the bed under a nice warm blanket. They fell asleep again, i think after they barked for awhile. I woke them up instead, to ask them to go to the toilet with me while i do my usualy morning routine and they pee and shit. The smell of the shit is so overpowering until i have to spray the air freshener to saturate the bathroom with my air freshener.

After my shower, i get myself dressed and style and hair and i ask my dogs for opinion on my hair if it is all right, and they look at me for awhile and nod their heads which is amazing to me... Am i dreaming? Ant, wei and Janis think i am.... sleep walking. it is so real i am positive i am not but am i?

ok time to work again.... :) gd morning and have a nice day.

My vinyl collection as promised

Good morning to all my dear friends, i am too tired from the Singapore Day. I am tanned now and got sunburnt on my face. Silly Terence, i can;t believe you post such a unglammourous photo of Ant and i eating chilli crab so messy...argh...Hmm never mind. can' be bother recently. I can;t wake up yesterday morning. This morning i have woke up early to check on the apartments on lease now while Ant has woke up to go to gym. i have no time to listen my vinyl this weekend. I do have the Phantom of the opera too but didi not take photos of it. SHifu the 'Andrew Sister" is really nice i played it all the time. I would get more vinyls as time goes by when i see the one i want or even when i go back to Singpaore. I prefer to Play Nat Cole and Frank Sinatra most of the time as they are jazz and it really make you feel relaxed at home.

Congratuation to my client who change the design brief again, well this client is unique as they can sketch in a very crude way over my drawing and design. My boss and i have to sit down in the office to resolve all the changes and the problems i have faced with the brick dimension which i really do not appreciate that at all. i treat that as a challenge to myself. Well i have had enough of my crazy incontentment of the Government Project. Sometime i have no idea what i want exactly too, when i am given the chance to do Dubai i am like argh crazy client , so ironic ... i am going to go with a flow and take leave on Friday and go cycling probably with Asher since he is free too.

I have booked the test for my driving for both the Hazard perception test and driving on the road test in mid Nov and mid Dec respectively. The timing for the driving on the road is pretty crazy on the wee morning at 8.40am where there is a lot of traffic. i am so gonna be dead which i can imagine for 30 mins of test will seem to be like an hour. My instructor is like ok we have to practise more. probably gonna use my lunch time to go for driving.

Have a nice week ahead to all my dear friends.

Singapore DAy- Future

It shows the future of the Singapore and how it is going to be like. This is exactly what i have been missing out and is time for me to update myself. The sauces and shirt are given to us which is included into our goodie bag. i can make my own satay, nasi goreng and kaya toast. :) hehe ok bed time for me now as tomorrow there is driving lesson for me. i m losing one hour today in few mintues time bugger.... good night.

Singapore Day Goodie Bag

There are a lot of stuff in the goodie bag. i have only took photos of the stuff which i wanted to talk about. There is NE water something very familiar to all of you. For people who have no idea what is NE water, it is actually the treated grey water. The 'chup tek' is the childhood game which all of us would know. There is the childhood eraser too. The tissue pack is really cute with the singlish word 'wan'= want.

Singapore Day In Melbourne 08

Today the weather is perfect. The queue is extremely long which i have expected outside the Sydney Myer Music Bowl. I have never seen so many Singaporeans in Melbourne before till this event. I am really surprised apparently. I met up with Leslie, Ant, Wei, Terence, Gloria, Janis and Adrain at Sydney Myer Music Bowl to go for this "I Love Sg" convention. Ant and Wei were as usual always late but this time round i am partly the reason why they were late as i left the e ticket to this convention at home and they have to help me to print it from their place. We queued for almost 20 minutes to be able to get into the place. First stop we were approached by representatives from URA to tell us more about the opportunities to get back to Singapore to work with them. Maybe we do have the faces of the architects. We headed off to collect our goodies bags which is shown above. I will reveal in the following blogs of the contents in the goodie bags which remind me of my childhood. There is road street post showing 'City Hall', 'Fort canning', 'Rochchester Park' , 'Newton Circus' and a lot more which will lead us to the food stalls from the place.  The food stalls are designed like the food court.'Fort Canning'- Sydney Myer Music Bowl is the place where the concert from Singapore music and drama school, PCK cast, Tay Peng Hui, Daphane Khoo performed today. You be appalled that there were Singaporeans from Sydney actually flew to Melbourne for this convention as Wei overheard the conversation of the strangers beside us. 

There were Bak Ku Teh, Ice Kachang, Chendol, Bak Chor Mee, Lasi Lemak, Claypot Rice, Chicken wings, satay, Chilli crab, Laksa, Mee Soto, mee Siam, Kaya toast, chicken rice, chicken bryani, char kuey tiao, hokkien mee, Mixed Curry chicken rice and spaghetti. Oh i almost missed out Army ration food. Hee Hee.. I have no idea when spaghetti has become part of Singapore culture food. That is kinda of weird. I tried bak chor mee first, slightly different from what i ususally have but the meatball is nice and it does not has the weird porky smell whichi have had in other cafes. i really adhor the smell , seriousily the meat over in melbourne almost turned me to become vegetarain soon. The mushroom of the bak chor mee is nice and yum but slightly different from the usual one which i have had. The ice kachang and chendol are good. i really miss ice kachang a  lot indeed. It is my fav dessert back in singapore. we had chilli crabs and that was the most unglamourous moment. it was really messy eating that. I think my white jacket must be hungry too and  had some of the chilli crab sauce. We queued fo the mee soto and laksa stall afterward. Yum, mee soto something i missed too but they did not flew in the black chilli sauce that came with the food. It was kind of fun as the stall holders actually spoke to us in mandrain, "Ah girl ah, are you from Singapore? Eat more, and etc". it is kinda of funny and nice feeling. It has been so long since i heard people actually speaking singlish and mandrain over here. . We went to lay the picnic mat and rest for ahwile to see the concert. We had claypot rice after awhile followed by we went to the different booth of the Ura, HDB and MINDEF to see the updates and glimpse of the future singapore.

I had like a little shock here and there as it has been a long time since i have gone back to Singapore. Well i really feel good that there is this event here to update me. We had hokkien mee which served us with a big prawn but the noodle was not the noodle from singapore unfortunately.Nevertheless, it was still enjoyable. i had chicken rice without the chicken because i hate white chicken , i gave all my white chicken to wei and ant. hehe i am contented with just the rice. we had a lot of food today in small amount. My poor legs are aching so badly now as we have been walking and queueing for food. i have forgotten to mention that the food are all free. All of us got sunburnt. i do not get sunburnt but i do turn darker. THis is the sacrifice we have to make. I am really thankful to the hawker centre chefs who are here to cook for us today. i know they must be very tired. 

we watch the PCK cast  performing on stage live in Melbourne which is really bringing me back home instantly for that moment. the ministers are here too to give the speech. This event is held in NY last year and this year it is held over in Melbourne. There is a lucky draw and the first price is the ticket back to Singapore. 

i have never felt so happy and contented which i have had before today. It is really ashamed that there are some singaporeans who leave their litter all over the park which makes our reputation looks like nothing on earth. Well, that is just the minority. More photos of the events will be posted later  when Ant has passed me the photos as this time round i did not bring my camera as i just want to enjoy the food and concert.

1am in the morning

It is about time to sleep. Waiting for my hair to dry before i get into my cozy bed. My 'Frank Sinatra' vinyl has just finished playing on my vinyl player. I have been collecting "antique" ever since i stepped foot onto Melbourne. I will update the photos next time of my collection. I think Ant would say "La... ney where are u going to put this old junk again, it is time to do spring clean we have to throw what we have to throw but u keep keeping eveything. we  are running out of space, yar ra etc etc... ". maybe he would say that but i have totally no idea.

I had my fav. calamari and cesar salad at La PorCetta just now. It has been such a long time since i have been there. The interior layout changes a lot. It  is a pretty nice place to eat. Sometime i do think it resemble Sofia as if they are owned by some big mafia and they are trying to serve an enormous portion of food to us which is so dirt cheap and worthwhile. Maybe they trying to launder the mafia money. Just kidding of course, full of imagination as always.

Office work today is hectic today, rushing like crazy. Builder seems to like popping by the office by giving a last minute phone call with a lazy aussie accent, they are lazy in pronouncing the word clearly which i really adhorred it. Nevertheless it is weekend again.

Daylight saving is coming again on Sunday which mean i am going to lose one hour of sleep.. My poor darling beauty sleep... ok i am going to zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......good night everyone and have a nice weekend ahead....

7.30am

Almost packing my bag to head off to work now. The sky seems a bit grey today but with thin lines of shimmering golden sunray shining thru. today weather would be just nice for spring. It is about 16 degrees now but it will be going all the way up to 23 degrees today. i have just done my reseach on my dog's deworming product and probably i will get that for Trio. It is about 60 bucks which is really nice.  I really love going to the SOuth Melbourne market at time when everyone is so nice and you can see dogs everywhere with their owners. it is very pet friendly. Victoria market has that too but it has become too commercialize for me right now.

i was  rushing on my presentation and i realize the drawing i sent is missing on some stuff which is critical to client's requirement yesterday. crap i hate it when there is some unstoppable broken radio keep looking over my shoulder and keep asking, "laney, how's it going?" , i am happy to make changes but they just simply have no idea the changes lead to a lot of other changes and it takes time. It is almost incredible that the client or whoever has a poorer memory than me. it is so amazing that sometime u just feel like laughing the whole day when you just have been given the order to change. I hate the feeling when i am rushing and i realize because of my rush i missed out on some stuff and my checking is so vague. Nah think i gonna trained myself with a imaginary earplug that is stuck to my ears and focus what i was doing. 

Gonna go . Well tonight i am trying new recipe soup, yam soup with sweet corn. Hope is good. i have prepared all the ingredients in my slow cooker and it would be ready soon later in the evening when i got back home. Time to go to catch my tram.