Blog death

Yeah. Once again it has finally hit. Basically nothing new since the last post.

I did finish and pass Clinical Placement, but only with a Pass grade. Nothing more to be expected from a 5 week stint though. Which reminds me, i shall have to email the supervisors to ask about wether i'm allowed to re-do that assessment at the end of my next 5 weeks as I would certainly be more competent then.

After that my life routine was:

1)Wake up.
2)Make something to eat. Most of the time I'm lazy, so its just 2 or 3 slices of plain toasted bread. This usually lasts me the whole day. No surprise why really.
3)Sit in front of the computer for hours on end till butt gets sore. Shift in seat to relieve soreness/numbness. Resume staring at computer.
4)Use the toilet/ take a shower and mantain hygiene. I may be lazy but not THAT lazy.
5)Resume position in front of computer till 4am in the morning.
6)Crawl into bed when the first light creeps in between the blinds.

Rinse and repeat for the next 2 weeks. Then off to Melbourne for 3 weeks of quality time with the family.

In Melbourne, I ate lots of dim sum, hung out with family and cousins, toboganned down a snow-icy slope, watched porn for free (followed by, horrendously, a woman giving birth. You get the full view of her hoo-hah with the baby's head popping out. Squirmed in the chair a little and decide never to have children. Ever.) at a museum and drank waaaaay too much (single origin! :D)coffee for my own good. In rankings for a skinny mocha:

1. Ethiopian Yirgacheffe @ Jasper's, Fitzroy
2. Ethiopian Nekisse Microlot@ Brother Baba Budan
3. Guatemalen something something @ Brother Baba Budan
4. Non single origin, Genovese blend @ MART 130
5. Sumatran (or was it Sulawesei??) @ Brother Baba Budan AND S2 Blend @ Sensory Lab (Its a tie!! :D)
6. Kenyan M'bee @ Seven Seeds, Berkeley St; AND
7. (and it was so bad and oversweet that it burnt all the way down) House blend @ Brunetti's, Lygon St

Got back to Newcastle yesterday. Have resumed the same routine as before going to Melbourne. Only that I have been going out with some friends so less time spent in the chair.

Sadly, I found out that June is going off to Tasmania next week *sobsob*. One less friend in Newcastle. Boo. Oh well, time to pick myself up coz Foodservice placement starts next week!

2 weeks of madness, followed by a 3 week break, followed by 7 weeks of hell. Ah, I love my life *starts planning suicide*.

Sydney and Sickie

Wow I am travelling alot these days! Back from Melbourne only to warm my bed for 2 nights in Newcastle before zooming off to Sydney for the weekend with Linny.

When I got there on Friday morning we met up and had lunch at an old time favourite, Dining Bar Musashi in Pitt St. Haven't been there for a long time ever since Din Tai Fung was discovered nyeheheh. Walked around the city abit, then it started raining. So we made our way across Hyde Park, paused to watch some angry old Italian/Greek men playing giant chess, passed a cathedral which I didn't even know existed and then we arrived at the Barracks Museum. Oh, we didn't really know how to pronounce barracks... was it beh-wrecks or bah-rahks like Obama? Lol.

Then we made our way to Balmain to Linny's cousins place. They've got a really nice place facing the waterfront. We got ready to go out and watch Wicked !!! Somehow I felt the cast was singing or speaking unnaturally fast, the only problem is I can't remember if its fast compared to the last time I watched it in Sydney or compared to the American Wicked OST found on Youtube. Nevertheless its always nice to watch Wicked. Fiyero was definitely kissing Elphaba alot more this time (and longer too!)!! O_O.

After the show we went across the street to Chat Thai and had dessert. Mango sticky rice pudding!! And yau char kwai with pandan custard. Mmmm...

On Saturday I took Linny to La Rennaisance cafe at the Rocks. We both had ham and cheese croissants (which i still say are the best i ever had!) and she had a rose macaron. We nommed it all down at the waterside, with the seagulls eyeing is hungrily. Yikes. After demolishing the food, we walked to the Observatory, bummed around a little, played with a large telescope and then we left. We made our way back down to the Rocks where they had markets and bazaar going on. Plenty of things to see and buy. We managed to see a guy hand blowing glass, and he made a glass slipperstilleto! Went back to Balmain, and Linney's cousin took us to dinner at Churrasco's in Coogee, which was a brazillian BBQ place, or a churrascaria. Hahah I am a pig I ate so much I nearly exploded. To the point where I could not stand up straight. Then we had to walk uphill to get to the car. And when we got into the car it started sliding backwards downhill a little!!!!! Too heavy lol.

On Sunday we went to Cabramatta. I have heard about the town on various foodblogs, its somewhat a mecca for all thing asian or Vietnamese. We got there around lunchtime, stepped out of the tarin station, and were greeted by a wafting aroma that could have only come from ASIA. Having no map or sense of direction, we just followed our noses and the masses of people to the main street and Cab. We could hear the ching-changs of a lion dance troupe which is surprising as the last day of Chinese New Year was way behind us. Nevertheless we went to kaypoh before finding a shop to eat. While walking around the main street food-hunting, you feel as though you're no longer in Australia. I felt like I was at home, walking around Petaling Street, or maybe some street in Thailand's Pra Tun Nam district. You'd have butchers and fishmonger shops with very un-vegetarian friendly displays right next to the clothes shop selling pasar-malam worthy clothes. Something you don't see at the local Aussie mall everyday. And the smells that mix!! Meaty rankness and the smell of dyed fabrics (and somewhere in the background, the faint smells of herbs and spices from the Pho noodles that beckon you to come and eat)! And the noise of the people yelling to sell their wares or trying the make themselves be heard over all the noise in fast Vietnamese or Cantonese.  An assault on the senses.

We found a Pho noodle shop at the end of the street and had some lovely Pho. The soup was yummy, yet very clear. Delicious. And I also learnt you should never leave iced Vietnamese coffee until the end of your meal because by then its a diluted watery drink that doesnt have a semblance to the awesome drink it is when it was first served. All that kau-ey goodness, all gone :(

After lunch we walked back down the street, Linny got a sugarcane drink (they add orange juice in their sugarcane juice!)  and I got some custard puffs. Shopped around a bit, got away with bargaining for a dress! Then we took the train back to Sydney because the shops close at 5. Somehow, thats the only Aussie thing about that place. Oh, and the free and clean public toilets too, haha. Back in Sydney we hung around home a bit before heading out for a late night supper at Mamak in Chinatown. While queuing up to get in I was oggling the boys in the window who were making the roti when who should tap my shoulder but Stuey. Fancy seeing him there. Anyways, we got in, and I got a standard roti chanai and it came with 2 curries and a small dollop of sambal. The sambal is so delicous! The dhal looked deceptively mild but it made me sweat! The curry was ok but I didnt finish it. Chicken satay was quite good too, but then again I hardly eat satay so I can't be a judge of that.

You do realise at this point I was supposed to be back in Newcastle lol. But no, Sydney was too good to give up.

On Monday we went to the Fish Markets in the morning. I had 1/2 a lobster mornay, an oyster mornay and an oyster kilpatrick, and a grilled scallop. I also got a box of cooked whitebait. Lin had a cold seafood platter that had some cooked prawns and a whole lobster. She also had the oysters mornay and kilpatrick and a grilled scallop. We got some fruit and we made our way to Darling Harbor. We walked the bridge that crosses the harbour and then crossed to Chinatown. Walked around the clothes shop abit, it seemed that the whole of Sydney was on sale sale sale. Bought some tea from Ten Ren teashop. Went and got some eggtarts and char siu soh  from Emperor Garden cafe to bring back for Lin's cousins for dessert :D.

Attempted to get some food at Adriano Zumbo cafe but FML when we got there the cafe was closed!!!! So we went to the shop instead to see what we could buy, and the only appealing things left were the macarons (the cakes were to funky for my tastebuds). Was prepared to buy some black sesame macarons when i saw a fly land on the macarons. Zap. Instantly my desire for anything in the shop dissapeared. So we made our minds up to try again tomorrow. Then we, the heroes that we are, decided to try walking back to the apartment using small "shortcuts". And so we ended up at the wrong side of Balmain, utterly lost and without an inkling of where we were. After calling for help and directions we finally made it back after an hour of walking around aimlessly.

When we got back, Mei was preparing a home cooked meal for us. I was having a mega sore throat signalling the start of a cold. It was really warm so we went for a dip in the pool and had a girly talk time while swimming about. Got back, had a shower, and enjoyed beef in bulgogi sauce, fried eggs, and stirfried choy sum with rice for dinner with my osmanthus green tea. Delicious! Then we had the desserts. Yum.

By Tuesday I am being forced to go back Newcastle. I seem to have forgetten about my need to go back and do work lol. We went to Balmain for breakkie at Adriano Zumbo cafe. Then we walked around the shops. Went back, packed and headed for the train station. Was a pig and was tempted to stay behiond for dinner at Miso @ World Square. The train left at 5.15 you see, but the restaurant opens at 5.30. So the restaurant wins. I had a tonkatsu and salmon sashimi set and Lin had an unagi bento. It was deliciousssssssssssssssss.

Got a 7.15 train back to Newy. Had to get off at Morrisset because of shitty trackwork. From there it was bus services to train stations. We got off at Broadmeadown at 10.20-ish. The bus was supposed to come at 10.28. By 10.50 no bus arrived, we were sitting on a crappy bench in a dinly lit street where the only other thing moving around was a stray cat. Creepy. So I cannot tahan anymore and called a friend to pick us up. Got home. Went to bed.

So this morning I am here, nose rosak and all, typing this. OMG I wanna go back to Sydney! I just hope Linny isn't already thinking that as she sits on my bed reading my Healthy Food mag :D

Me!bourne

Yay I'm back from 2 happy happy weeks in Melbourne. Mainly coz I got to spend some time with the family :)

First we had reunion dinner on Chinese New Year's eve at Chinatown. There were celebrations there with lion dances at nearly every turn and firecrackers going off about every 10 minutes. Our dinner was at Kum Den Cantonese Restaurant, tucked inconspicuosly in a narrow alleyway in Chinatown. Yeah, my mom picked it because it said "Cantonese" (with us being Canto and all). But I think also because there werent any Hainanese restaurants around (her being one) lol.

Then the next day we had italian at Lygon Street. OMG I AM SO MAD I WANT TO HURT SOMEONE! Lies! Lies! Lies! Whoever said there is great Italian food at Lygon is lying! The experiences I had there was enough to put me off eating Italian on Lygon forever (sadly, this means missing out on the good Italian restaurants, if any =_=)

The first experience was after I got bullied into a restaurant by a bald Italian(?)  man. Basically some old bald dude with a heavy Italian accent which after a while i realised could most likely be put on. Oh and nearly every restaurant on Lygon has some bully outside their restaurant trying to harrass you into their restaurant while you're trying very hard to decide between the dozens and dozens of Italian restaurants which make up Lygon Street. So yeah. It had the word "Spagheteria" in its name so I thought they probably make decent pasta. Heck, which Italian restaurant doesnt? And they had Spaghetti alla Vongole on the menu! I was dancing in my seat. HAH! Big effing dissapointment. First the pasta was completeyl tasteless, they didnt use ANY salt. And I couldnt taste any hint of wine at all! And the second bit! Omg i want to cry ok. They completely chargrilled my clams into oblivion. I was so lookign forward to nice juicy bits of clam meat in white wine, and all i got were dried, burnt, black little crisps of what were clams, all shrunk into the size of half a pea. WTfreakingF.

Just so you know on a scale of 1-10 i rate it -100000. Michelangelo's back home did it so much better *drools while remembering*. But yeah. Next time we tried another place that did NOT have a big bully standing outside. Pasta was a tad better. Not the best, in fact very mediocre standard, but compared to the disastrous evening before it was way better. We ate with gusto. Oh, and the fettucine was amazingly chewy. Yum.

The next day we moved the Micchus into her new apartment. There I saw familiar face, some guy from SMDU. But he clearly ddn't recognise me. I don't expect him to anyway lol. Rented a car and then we went to Phillip Island. There we saw a koala upclose (it was crossing our path and we went as near as we could without getting into swipe-range), then we went to the penguin parade and saw the peguins! And now was baby season so there were so many fluffy, fat brown baby chicks!!! Or penguinlets, as i like to call them. So cuuuuuuute!! One small one was waddling around waiting for mommy penguin to come back and it waddled all the way up to me!! Just a short wire fence stopping it from hopping into my shoe. I was very tempted to reach out and grab the ball of brown fluff and take it home with me.

Met up with my cousins and took them out for dinner. Then met them 2 days later when we invited them to our place and cooked them dinner. I made carbonara the way it shud be made (without cream >.> *fussy*) and mom pan fried some lamb. Mmm yummy.

Then after a few days loitering around with my parents while Micchy was at orientation (we discovered Richmond, land of Ikea and various Vietnamese goodies... omg beef noodles! *slurp*) it was time for them to say byebye. We spent the day at Richmond, decided we liked one Pho shop better than another, then made our way to the Docklands where I heard from the my cosuin that a Japanese festival was being held. We got there and saw people dressed in yukata. Instantly regretted not bringing mine over to Oz. I heard the Tanko Bushi song being played in the background and quickly grabbed Micchy and we rushed towards the dancing people and joined the line. Ahh.. its been 4 years since my last Bon Odori. I can still do the Tanko Bushi with ease but then they played the Tokyo Ondou and that really tested my rusty bon-dancing skills. The third song was one I never heard of before, but it was very cute. I remember parts where it goes "pon-pon-ponchararin" with rolling hand movements. Google tells me the song is called Tsukiyo no Ponchararin (click for video! its from NHK's Okaa-san to Isshou program). Oh, and again saw the SMDU guy there, camera in tow. Then after 3 days (this morning in fact) it was my turn to bid a tearful farewell to Micchy.

So I got back this morning into my tiny tiny room. Micchy's place is 3 times bigger. I miss Melbourne, the big room space, the countless asian faces (makes me feel at home lol), the city feel, the food. I miss Micchy. But at least I dont feel homesick anymore. I had my 2 weeks of fun. Now i have to get started on real work. Hello assignments. Hello prac. Hello 2010.

Peanut butter & honey sandwich!

I was feeling peckish the other night so I rummaged in my food cupboard and took out 2 things:

A bottle of Vegemite. And a bottle of peanut butter.

I made a Vegemite sandwich. Did absolutely nothing for my hunger, it was like throwing teeny twigs into a raging furnace. Then I made a peanut butter sandwich. Much better, but something was missing.... (something sweet! i thought)

So i took a quick swipe at my housie's bottle of honey (he doesnt know haha) and drizzled it on my open faced peanut butter sandwich, ran back to my room, folded it and took a bite!!

Heaven!! Heaven!! Omg so bloody good even if its such a simple thing!!! 

The bad thing is i want to have more, and more, and more eventhough I am already stuffed I WANT MORE!!!

I therefore label this snack as super dangerous coz its making me go through loaves of bread like a starving cow to a grassy meadow. Plus my housemate is probably wondering why his bottle of honey seems so much more emptier now....

Where I compare Rupe Grint to a nice medium-rare juicy juicy steak...

I just watched the trailer of Cherrybomb (which stars Rupert Grint) and a couple of pics from a Photoshoot which has him looking painfully sexxeh!!

I mean, I'm so used to seeing him as a dorky teenage boy, and now (maybe its the hairstyling?) he looks like he's grown up and finally dishing out some sex appeal instead of dork appeal (which is nice too, but doesnt start you off on a Youtube frenzy *headdesk*

Its also nice to see that he has a good, proper meaty body (something todays young actors kinda lack o_o) which reminds me of Dan Radcliffe pre-Equus days. Not fat, but not thin or rock hard muscular and sculpted *ahemdanielradcliffeeahem*, just nice and meaty :D. Like you could sink your teeth into him and get a satisfying mouthfull, and not chip your tooth off some abs of steel.

Ooh and he's not a hairy beast either, unlike some of his Harry Potter co-stars :P (sorry Daniel Radcliffe, but your chest and belly hair scares me 0_o) But then again they may have shaved it all off for the movie. But why??? Its not very often you see red chest hair and red pubes on the big screen yanno! At least give me that chance to get freaked out!!!

Ok. Back to perving. ~~ *floats away happily*

Sydney: Episode 2

So I went to Sydney again on Friday, that makes is twice in a week now hehehe...

We got there around lunchtime so we popped by Chinatown to fulfill our egg-tart cravings, or in my case (since I had that already on Tuesday), char-siu-soh which is a triangular butter pastry with a BBQ pork filling. Then we walked allllll the way to the Sydney Fish Markets because June hasn't been there before and the last time (and first time!) i went there was more than 2 years ago.

There we got some sashimi, which was 6AUD for 100g of tuna... but they gave us shitty cuts :( I think all the good cuts went to the restaurants. It was really fresh though. Then I die-die also wanted to eat oysters. Christies has the most variety, i think. Their oysters are 14.99AUD per dozen. I asked the cute Jap dude handling the oyster bar which one he'd recommend (heck I can't tell oysters apart wtf) and he recommended these teeny teeny oysters called Kumamoto.

At first I felt ripped off, coz for the same price I was paying I could get 12 gigantic oyters like the ones we usually get at a fancy buffet in a 5-star hotel. Those take up 2 serving dishes whereas these tiny babies barely filled up a single serving dish!!

Lucky for me, it turns out neither June nor Eva wanted to share the oysters (I took a dozen thinking they would want some as well). So maybe it was a blessing that I got the tiny ones. But oh man, they were soooo AWESOME. They were really sweet, light and not over-creamy! I don't really know how to explain it in words, but lets just say I polished off all twelve of those babies faster than eating 12 chicken nuggets. SO GOOD!! And I could have eaten another 12 of them easily, had I been richer lol.

When we left the fish market, I passed by the oyster bar and spotted Sydney Rock Oysters, I took a look at the gigantic creamy blob and shuddered. I think Kumamotos have spoilt me now. Damn.

Next stop: Balmain for.... Adriano Zumbo!! WOOTWOOOOOOOOT!!!

I first forced some friends to go there last year (Balmain is unchartered Sydney territory to us!!) all because I heard there was a magicianpatissier who made fantastic cakes (or works of art!) and macarons.

I wasn't dissapointed. The macarons were yummy, there was a wide variety, and he had the more uncommon flavours going on.. (rice pudding flavour had real smashed up bits of rice grains in it!) such as salt&vinegar and wasabi. The cakes are out of this world, and they have interesting names to boot (I still remember one of them was called Ed Knocked Me Up). Macarons go for 2AUD each. I picked one rice pudding and one gandujia&pinenut and one salted popcorn one, the other ones were mandarin&tonka bean, pistachio, chocolate, earl grey, baklava, salt&vinegar, raspberry, and i cant remember the rest. 

This time we paid a visit to his relatively new cafe, and had a yummy yummy fun dish called The Younger Years, which was a hot fondant cake (the cake was so soft, and the chocolate inside.... ooh) served with a peanut butter gelato sprinkled with crunchy peanut caramel. But the fun bit was it came in a metal kidney dish (the kind they make you pee in at the clinic) along with a syringe filled with vanilla anglaise cream and raspberry coulis, which you stab into the fondant cake and inject!!!

We intended to snap a picture for memories, but that cake dissapeared way too fast (among moans and sighs and countless "so goooood" from June :P) that all I had was a picture of an empty kidney dish with some leftover "blood" dripping from the used syringe. :P.

I ordered a mocha as well. Best mocha I had so far.

I heard Zumbo himself recently got back from France after apprenticing at Pierre Herme. Mm. I wonder what new tasty treats he'd make from all that new experience... *slurps in anticipation*

Third Stop: Dinner at Nazimi.

Nazimi is a quaint Japanese restaurant hidden away on the basement floor of a building opposite the Queen Vic. Building. Its not fancy food, but its simple, authentic Japanese food at a reasonable price. I shared a gyoza with June, and had a Spider Roll (deepfried softshell crab with avocado) for myself. Yum.

Had fun attempting to open a Ramune bottle. Gave up and had to beg a waitress for help haha.

After that we made our way to the Lindt Chocolate Cafe at Darling Harbour. They sold macarons there as well, I bought a vanilla, hazelnut, rose and chocolate one (made with Lindt 70% dark choc). They also were 2AUD per macaron. June and her friend got a hot chocolate each. It smelt so good, the aroma of melted fine chocolate instead of the shitty powdery mix ones that come out of the dining hall hot chocolate machine.

Last Stop: Siu Loong Pau (or Xiao Long Bao) at Din Tai Fung, World Square Sydney

Theres a Din Tai Fung back home at the Gardens, I ate there once before and didn't think it was all that special (hey, i'm a Dragon-i fan ok) but here in Sydney when you want Siu Loong Bao, the only place you're getting good ones are at Din Tai Fung!!

June never had them either so this was an excuse to get lunch there!! We had to wait in line for a while, but it was worth it! 6 Siu Loong Paus for 8.80AUD. And they were so good! Quality wise the soup was nicer than Dragon-i! Commence the moany "so goooooood"s from June heheh. And I ordered a fried rice with fried pork to share, and that was 12.80AUD. So for about 10 bucks each, we had a yummy lunch!

I wish I lived in Sydney instead of a butt-hurting 3 hour trainride away.

Ooh and bought some Gyoza skins. Gyoza making time!!

Hold on to your Johnny...

Yesterday I watched all the episodes of Eden of the East (Higashi no Eden).

Omg I love it so much. Maybe because the characters were designed by Umino Chika, so it had that HachiKuro feel to it. Also, the main protagonist, Akira Takizawa, reminds me alot of Morita (toned down a little heheh).

It has some mystery in it and some comedy. Its a nice anime. I wished it was slightly longer than 11 episodes though.

And wheres the romance dammit!! Don't just leave it hanging there like that!

Minus the plot holes, I highly recommend this. 

Right now I have this desperate craving for ToSiLog. Thats a Filipino breakfast(or actually, anytime:P) dish consisting of Tocino (cured pork), Sinangag (garlic fried rice) and Itlog (fried egg). June, Jayron and Ryan got together and made some on Tuesday morning (granted, they used a premix for the Tocino by Mama Sita's). Homg awesome stuff man. Simple, but awesome nonetheless. What a good start to the day.

Then we caught the train to Sydney to watch Transformers 2 at the IMAX theatre. We got here around lunchtime, had a good dimsum/yumcha lunch, and bummed around Darling Harbour. Then we met up the the Sydney Trio and had dinner with them at a Korean restaurant. Then we made our way back to the IMAX theatre and waited till 12.01am. While waiting in line i think we played easily more than 100 rounds of UNO wtf.

And I think I may be going to Sydney again tommorrow. Byebye money! *throws money into the wind and waves wistfully*

Oh yeah. I thought Angels and Demonds was dissapointing. The others who couldnt remember the book thought it to be good though! 

Kimono Quilt!

The other day I was watching "He's Just Not That Into You" and at one scene in Anna's (Scarlett Johannsenn) bedroom, I couldnt help but notice the kimono-print quilt cover and matching pillow cases!! They were so pretty!!! I really really really wanted them!!!

So I couldnt take it anymore and I got into Stalker Mode and scrolled around IMDB and tried to get some leads. I found K.C.Fox, the set director... and proceeded to look on Facebook, my no. 1 stalk tool!

I did find him, but i wasn't sure if it was him... plus I was afraid I'd get a snooty answer since he is some big shot "director" (even if its just for the set lol). Then I found Peggy Casey, the set buyer and I thought she'd be more approachable plus she'd actually know where the covers came from. 

So one Facebook message later, her reply was "We had that bedding custom made. I suggest you find similar fabric and do the same. Thanks for liking it and good luck."

Damn! How do I even begin!?!? I did find a site that sells the fabrics, but I have no sewing affinity whatsoever. Heck, I even have a quilt-in-process thats still in process for the past 5 years!!

Recommend me a good tailor, one who is especially good at making quilt covers and pillow cases, anyone???????

PASTA~!!!!

Not that this post has anything to do with it lol..

Note this is going to be a rave post so if you wanna escape, do it now :P

I heard of Axis Powers Hetalia quite some time ago when reading Harlequinn's LJ and so I already knew it was a manga of sorts based on the Axis and Allies during the World Wars but personified the countries as real people. And boy did she rave about them. But because it was a manga I just couldnt be bothered.

Then some time ago i noticed on zomganime a catergory being aired called Axis Powers Hetalia. They've turned it into anime!! YAY!!!!!

It runs only for 5 minutes per episode so its great if you need to watch something fast and hilarious. It is so freaking funny, it had me laughing all the way to the end of the episode EVERY episode i watched (i think my housemate thinks i'm nuts, just giggling hysterically in my room).

In case you were wondering, why 'pasta' as my post title then? Thats because the main character, Veneziano aka North Italia (but often referred to as just Italia) is often shouting "pasta!" or wanting to eat pasta, or building giant pasta figures out of sand! :P He has an older brother, South Italia (often referred to by name, Romano). He looks exactly the same as Veneziano except he looks grumpier and has a different hair color. He doesnt do the pasta thing like Veneziano, but has been seen clutching a horde of tomatoes almost patriotically while threatening Germany. Both brothers are women loving, as expected of Italians :P. And both brothers are utterly useless. Hence the name "Hetalia". ("hetare" + Italia)

This should give you an idea of the immaturecomedy to be expected. This is during WW1 and Germany has just captured Italia (Veneziano) as a prisoner. Italia, being a more than happy prisoner, wrote a song for Germany...

"Germany, Germany, Germany is a great place
 They feed me even though I’m a prisoner
 The food doesn’t taste crappy like British stuff either
 Sausage, cheese it’s all so tasty!
 It's a heaven for dogs. That’s what Germany is!
 But why are all Germans so stern? I feel like I’m going to be crushed
 by their intimidation...
 My heart is so afraid and I’m going to cry. The girls are so big too...
 Is it your hobby to burst barrels of beer everyday?
 Also, please stop raiding my house in swarms. The tourists are way
 too scary.
 German chicks are bigger and better built than me. Yahoo!"

Germany promptly sends Italia home in a box. Ironically, thats how Germany found him too. In a box. Its hilarious. Go Axis Powers Hetalia!!!!

And if thats not enough incentive to watch, they boys are all bishie and its loads of material for the yaoi fangirl! See for yourself! 

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together~

How good is Across the Universe?

Admittedly when i first saw the file on the good old Uni network, i thought it was some crappy sci-fi show aimed at nerdy boys who liked drooling over Princess Leia's golden bikini, and passed it over. Then i read on Aud Ooi's  blog about how good the soundtrack was (its the Beatles, the Beatles!!!!) i decided to give it a go.

And  I was hooked the moment they sang "All My Loving". And I loveloveloved "I Wanna Hold Your Hand".

And I wont be forgetting Bono's singing of one of my favourite (although odd-ish) Beatles song, I Am The Walrus!!! GOO GOO GA JOOB~!

My face is breaking out. I am super unhappy. Its like, instead of getting better after eating the Pill my face is getting worse. I wonder why? Is it because i'm using a generic thats half the price of the original which did wonders (yah they must have used some cheapass fillers thats breaking me out D:)?? Or maybe more stress overall?

Or lack of poo-poo?? Hahaha.

And from your lips, she drew the Hallelujah...

YAY my mid-sem exam for clinical nutrition is finally over!!

Commence rational, less-stressed thinking!!! wheee~~!

First off. The other night I ranted to Simon about my sexual frustrations (Come to think of it, it was also prob due to the stress coz now my libido is like, negative 50. Not even the slightest bit horny. It's prob the Pill kicking in) and he suggested I go over to Adelaide and we shag, since he wants it and I want it.

Haha omg at the time it was so tempting! Brain was confused between yes and no but Sex Drive was saying yessssssss all the way!! At that point I was so up for it, i was checking out flight prices to Adelaide (should've been studying, but procrastination is my forte)

*headdesk*

But now that my head is clear, i dont think i want to pay so much money to go to another state just to have sex with a guy. there just isnt enough pro's for me to go to Adelaide compared to Melbourne.

Hooray for rational thinking :D

I also ranted to Chrissy about it and told him about the whole Adelaide thing and now i think he thinks i'm some sort of cheap slut. (｡＞0＜｡)

Secondly. i am so so so so so in love with Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah song. Oh my god his voice. Is. So. Heartbreakingly. Heartbreaking.

And he was beautiful. I say was because, well, he's dead （ｉДｉ）