I Like You Better When You're Not Around

I think I shall now rant and also post up food I cook... makes it easier to deal with the transition from work to home ;)

But seriously... I much prefer it when the devil spawn isn't around... I get more work done without having to answer every single god damn question... Questions that are easily accessible...

For instance, devil spawn started a group MSN message asking, "Do you guys know where Black Rock is?"

A question that could have easily been answered if the devil spawn opened up a web browser and did a quick search on Google Maps... much quicker as well... rather than selecting each person to invite into the conversation to ask a stupid question.

My days at work are long and laboured... punctuated with a quick lunch for about 30 mins, and then it's back to work again...

I work an ongoing shift with no breaks, and I tell the devil spawn that I'm overwhelm... it just smiles at me and declares it will be leaving to go to the gym... WTF... seriously....

Everyday is a positive reinforcement to why I left so many moons ago... why I'm back is beyond me...

Back to my lunch... I made Lamb Chops with a minted mash...

Mash - potatoes, milk, salt, butter, chopped mint and Parmesan Cheese
Lamb - I do this countless of times... so I shall just leave off mentioning it...

I liked my towers of Carrots and Cucumbers!!...my very own C&C... cycle & carriage... *lame* I know... forgive me.. my brain is fried....

True Colours

Pretty, no? I was playing with some salt and somehow it ended up star shapped!

Thanks Ms Tinymouse for your luck.. I somehow think I survived it =)

I finally am getting some sort of life back. From all the solitude of the last 6 months, I suddenly hear about 2 job opportunities and I start temping for one of them tomorrow.

Sure, it's a 2-3 week thing. But it's better than nothing!! And to the other one... fingers crossed!!

So well done ME!...

*pats myself on the back*

Ode to Connex...
Today, as I waited on the platform...
We were as one gathered around like a flock of crows...
Settling in staring up...
All in black...
All eyes questioning...
When will it come, where will it be...
Head scratching...
Patience dwindling...
Like vultures descending on their prey...
We wondered...
O'Connex train...
Public transport from hell...
Where the bloody hell are ya?!

Troublemaker

Brrrrrrrrr.... Somehow, I got a chill last night.

Somehow, the covers were pulled onto the other side of the bed.

Somehow, my entire right side was left open to the freezing cold.

Somehow!

Seriously... if I fall sick from this, I know who the blame.

The evil comforter stealer.

Wait 'til he comes home... he's gonna receive such a huge whack on his head with my smelly "lam cham" bolster... he can cough his whole lungs out... just you wait...

Hrrrrmmmmmppphhhhhhhh!!!!

Anyone that takes his side by saying I need to build immunity to the sickness and cold will thereby get a whack on their head as well.

If it's my Gigolo a.k.a. nerdykid.. he gets a slap on his eyebrow!!!

Seriously...

GAH!!! (That's my best Mr.Goon impersonation... for the uninformed, Mr.Goon is a police character from Enid Blyton's 5 find outers and Dog mystery series)

So how is everyone else's morning today?

I shall now procede to go hunt for some rashers of pig and embryos of flightless birds!

The Morning Report

I have just come to realise that the last 12 posts and days have been food postings!!
(The above picture is a plate of "Spanish Donuts" from Tender Trap [a place which I've yet to do a proper review, only because I'm trying to accumulate the photos :)], a Tapas restaurant/cafe at Chadstone shopping centre.)

When on earth did this become a place for me to showcase my talents?

I started this blog to rant and rave about my daily life... but also to chronicle my daily adventures (not that I've been having any)...

But I guess cooking has become part of my daily life...

Slowly, I can feel my brain oozing out from my ears from lack of usage... I need to work... why won't they give me a job?!

Marvelously unconsciously incompetent (according to said model, I much prefer the term subconsciously incompetent)... but oh well...

To date, I have been unemployed for nearly 6 months... I've found so much time and love and joy from everyone around me...

Makes me kind of wish that I never get a job... Kinda!

But I miss the interaction. I miss laughing about jokes that only you and your colleagues will understand. I miss making fun of clients. I miss working. AND, I miss the money.

Sitting at home watching the telly and surfing the Internet, is no fun when you CAN'T actually shop online.

Window shopping is really really depressing when you can't afford the dresses inside.

Eating out becomes so much more intense figuring out where to go for good value and then getting a glare from the Boy when you suggest somewhere cheaper...

It's no fun. No fun at all.

Going home to Kay Elle won't even make a difference, as I won't be able to afford to hang out. Mum might pay for all the food and groceries... but... I don't want to be molly coddled...

I WANT TO SHOP. I WANT TO OWN. I WANT MY LIFE BACK!!

I hate the fact that certain people are jumping for joy that our unemployment rate last month was only 5.8 percent... tell that to the 21,000 people who lost their jobs last month.

Shine with your happiness at all of us sitting at home, despair and gloom hanging over our heads. Bills coming, because, the rent/mortgage, water, gas, electricity, phone bills still need to be paid.

But despite all that. I'm lucky. So very lucky.

I have the Boy. I have my Big Sis and Big Bro (whom at the moment are slightly narky at me, for the fact that I snapped at them after they rang 4 times in a row, whilst I was eating prawns to tell me to watch Jacko's memorial)... bah.. humbug...fine fine... I shouldn't have snapped... but you shouldn't have rung 4 times in a row as well...

I have my great friends... who come over and tolerate my mad behaviour and sometimes my cooking and go away with smiles on their faces... (I hope it's because of me)...

Those that don't come over, spend ages on the phone checking up on me, and on the Internets cheering me up.

So I am lucky. I just like to whinge, and I miss my spoilt lifestyle. I miss being able to do what I want to do.

Maybe, just maybe, I can get used to this...

Ain't It Funny

Just a quick entry.

I had to put this out there.

A couple of days ago, I received an email telling me that I had received a new comment on my Photoblog account. I have no posted on my photoblog for months as I didn't like the new direction it has taken, but haven't gotten around to actually deleting the account.

It was interesting. And made me just think. What on earth are people thinking off when they check out other people's blogs or websites?

You see.. my photoblog started up as a place for me to put up random pictures, but mainly pictures of all the food I've had the joy to experience. Just pictures. No comments or ratings.

This one "viewer" left this message for me:

"I have been going to RT Pastry house at Danau Bus. Center at Tmn Danau Desa for the past 3 months. Everything were great except that one afternoon when I brought along my sister to the shop. She has bought the marble butter cake for the first time and it was TERRIBLE!!! She has to throw it, in the end. It cost RM 14.
Why RT Pastry is charging so expensive on this cake and it taste so BAD. Next day, I have complained to the cashier and she just stood there doing nothing. In addition, my neighbor was also complaining on the marble butter cake they bought from this outlet two weeks later. Please, I urge the management to look into this matter.......your butter cake is a disaster and yet sell at RM14. My contact is 012-283-9939. I hope the people out there do not purchase the marble butter cake from this outlet!!"


Somehow I felt that this commentator was taking out her frustration on me. WTF?

Why do people not do proper research? It would save them some embarrassment.

Heartless

"In the night I hear 'em talk,
The coldest story ever told,
Somewhere far along this road
He lost his soul
To a woman so heartless...
How could you be so heartless... oh
How could you be so heartless?"

Dedicated to a bitch ass who has made a really really good friend of mine suffer needlessly.

I have refrained from blogging about their problems but somehow, this is the icing to the cake. To find out more... do visit my dearest.. err... Gigolo's website

But you know what? Friends, good friends are here for you. They stick around like glue. You may not talk often or see each other as often as you'd like, but good friends are always here to stay and will be here when you need them.

The one you thought was "The One", who ended up turning around and stabbing you in the back, and again for another million times when you turn around to face them to try and grasp at the flailing knife stabbing at you. That one we name the "Devil". Or in your case, the Black Widow.


(image from http://cartoonstock.com)

I am so angry with the Black Widow. Angry for what she's done. Angry for what she is. Angry for what she is doing. Angry for ever thinking she was someone I thought could have been a friend.

Friends do not do these things to each other. More so a lover and a life partner.

How is it possible to be so evil and still be alive? Her day will come, and we will all sit back and watch. Evil will get its due.

I guess I have forgotten that mankind can be evil. I am after all a product of such a said relationship and grew up from a broken family with more sadness and pain than this recent happening.

However, one cannot judge sadness by who suffered more. It is all subjective and open to interpretation.

So don't worry. Just pick yourself up. Heal and lean on us along the way. That is what we are here for.

Be strong. Keep safe. And of course, we January babies are tough stock. We can get through anything.

Hugs and much love...

Human Nature

Sunday always makes me feel sooooo holy!... It's all this going to church and feeling so goody goody.... GAH... I find that most people that are there are in their own "planet" holy.

Not counting the amount of candles they use, the screaming children, the sniffling people... The rush to take an old person's seat... What's the point of praying? When you seem to be accumulating bad karma from your more obvious actions??

*SIGH*

It was good today though, with the Symphonia of Melbourne and guests choir. The church seems really stuck on Joseph Haydn at the moment, which is really good. But all the people "whispering", (I say whispering, but their just really talking softly for everyone to hear) are really rude.

They talk when during the sermon, they talk during the communion, they talk during the singing! I mean.. why? Why do you go to church? I think God tests my patience on days like these.

The Boy decided to take a walk to get his latest issue of "Spawn" and then we had lunch. I had an interesting "Deep Fried Spicy Pork Ribs" dish @ Pancake Dessert House. Really good.

A walk to Big W ventured with a free "Parring Knife".

And someone (the Boy) ahem, is in denial that he is sick. And no it's not Swine Flu...

Sometimes

Aahh... I love this freedom of waking up whenever I want to and eating whatever I like and whenever I like at home.

I like being able to walk to the kitchen and make tea or any other hot beverage because I can.

I like rolling out of bed and not caring if I had a bad hair day.

I like not having to wear make-up.

I like being able to surf the net the whole day.

I love being able to read in bed, or on the couch.

And these are a few of my favourite things unemployment has given me the chance to enjoy.

What I don't like... is the lack of MOOLAH coming my way. I don't like walking into a shop and walking out again because I can't afford to spend.

I don't like being a cheapskate when it comes to food.

I don't like being pitied and treated with false pretenses.

The person who said Money does not make you Happy... must have had a very dim view on life (again, this is my own intepretation and I just want to vent).

But being the puny useless human that I am... I caved in... and bought this Mooks Jacket.... It was on sale!! And they do say that Purple is the new black this year (any excuse will do)



And I found a pretty dress to go with it too. Also on sale from Stussy...




See!! It's not like I lost control and went on a shopping spree and indebted my credit card at the latest GUCCI sale!!... SIGH... why did I not hear of the Gucci sale??? WHY WHY WHY??? CLutches going for $85!!!...

I want to work. I want money. I want to feed my materialistic self... GOD help me...

Friends are telling me I'm domesticated and living the life of a "tai-tai"!! But who's ever heard of a poor tai-tai?? Arrgghhhhh....

Me wantssss to shop and eatttttttttttttttttt.

I miss Nobu.

A Chicken Ain't nothin' but A Bird

And that's a song by Cab Calloway!

More things the Boy won't eat. Chicken wings....

This is with my mum's secret marinade.. yummmmMmmMmmmmm.... I use it for everything, chops, grill, BBQ.... it's delicious...



So anyway... the Boy came online today and I got all excited... I haven't spoken to him properly in 5 days!.. And I tell him... "I miss you babe. I love you!"

To which he replies... "ok." (in small caps!)

SIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

He's got to be the most unromantic and insensitive person in the whole world... DAMN!!....

It's so irritating to be partnered with someone like that. Someone whom when you express your love to, either grunts noncommittally in agreement or says OK. Someone when asked for hugs, turns to you and says, "What's wrong with you?"

Where can I find some potion for romance? Where Where Where???

I wonder if I'm lucky or unlucky? I wonder how it will feel to have a Boy that will come home and surprise me with flowers instead of saying, "I rather buy you a potted plant, the flowers will die quickly anyway."

A Boy that will tell me I look beautiful every now and then, rather than exclaim, "What?! You look the same to me all the time!"

A Boy that will keep me updated on his whereabouts when he's overseas/interstate by at least messaging me once a day, rather than leaving me offline MSN messages telling me to "eat sai". Although for him, that might be his way of saying "I Miss You".

I give him the benefit of the doubt.

For all that, I still love him. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww 0_0

Mmm Papi

*SUPER SPOILER ALERT*

Cheap Tuesday, calls for a night for WOLVERINE!!! Ahh.. I love cheap Tuesday's, although I remember a time when cheap Tuesday was really cheap at $5, and now it's $10 - $11... *sigh*

Oh holy mother of all Gods... Thank you thank you thank you...

To the well crafted body of Hugh Jackman, THANK YOU!!!

I really had my eyes wide open like the owl in the above... GOSH.. there can be no hotter Wolverine than Hugh. That was probably the only thing they casted 100% for the x-men franchise (apart from Xavier).

Look at those muscles.. glistening... shiny... *Drooool*


I think there was drool on my cinema seat and floor with that man running around fully naked in the movie!! GOSH!...

That was the only good parts of the movie. When Wolverine was in the scene, it was all good.

NOW...

Ryan Reynolds played a pretty cool Wade Wilson



But.. but.... Look at the picture below... how is this even possible????


WHY OH WHY DID THEY DO THAT TO MY DEADPOOL???!!!!!!!!!!

I Am outrage! I am so angry!!! I CAN't Believe it... HOW ON EARTH COULD THEY SHUT UP THE FUNNY GUY??!! AND THEY KILLED HIM!!! AND HE USES KATANA CLAWS AND CYCLOPS OPTIC BLASTS??!!!!!!! WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF....

IN which planet does that look anything like DEADPOOL???

Apart from that, I thought the actor, Taylor Kitsch that played Gambit, was super duper hot!



BUT again.... A NEW ORLEANS GAMBIT??? HE'S FREAKING FRENCH!! ARRGGGHHH!!!!

(My Bad. I should have checked. But I was wrong. He is New Orleans born. But he IS missing his Creole Accent.... so.. I got some parts right ^_^)

Okay, and I know they were being politically correct here when they cast Will. I. Am as John Wraith...



That still doesn't justify it...

I thought Lynn whatshername played a pretty good Silverfox. Very pretty!!!


So, they look good standing together for promo shots... but...


Oh, I didn't comment on Sabretooth, because he did a good job. To me. And I'm too devastated to go into what they did to Emma Frost.

GAWD.. I hope Transformers will be a better movie.. but looking at the trailers and realising what they have done to Devastator... *silence*

I only hope.. *fingers and toes crossed* they put Soundwave in, and they DON'T do to it what they did to my Deadpool... *SIGH*