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Ben’s Birthday (:

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As promised, a blog post in a day with pictures (:
A post that was supposed to come a month earlier. That shows how lazy I am, maybe I can blame it on the winter here. You know, winter just makes people lazy.

It was his birthday last week (pending post) month and we had a japanese birthday dinner because we cant help craving for japanese food after watching that hongkong sushi drama.
For the entire week I crave for sushi and it didn’t help, I miss sushi zanmai even more.
We went to this Japanese restaurant in Crown called Nobu, a restaurant opened by a celebrated Japanese chef, Nobu Matsuhisa and Robert De Niro himself.


* Sushi bar, I just love sitting there taking a quick look at these sushi masters doing their thing in between my meal. (:


* Tuna Tataki with Tozasu $22


* New Style Salmon Sashimi $18.5


* Sea Urchin $10, Japanese Chu-Toro $18 if I’m not wrong , and King Fish $5.


* Black Cod with Miso $45.5 (boyf’s favourite)


* Lobster with Wasabi Pepper Sauce $60


* Kurobuta Pork Belly with Karashi Su Miso and Nashi pear $37

Dinner was great, especially the Tuna Tataki and Salmon sashimi. *orgasmic*
But we both agreed that we should have ordered something else instead of lobster and pork belly because there really isn’t much for us to rave about on both the dishes.
Maybe we should just stick with seafood next time but nonetheless I love the dinner.
The bill came up to about $250 and if you ask me if it’s worth the price, I cant say that it’s not because indeed the food is good.
But I’ll never like the idea that it is actually that expensive.
Since it’s the boy’s birthday, I guess it’s okaaaaayyyyyyyyy. (:

We came home after dinner and I surprised him with a cake and the present I bought him all the way from Malaysia. Which is a piece of art. Yes you heard me right, a piece of art.


* Birthday boy with the lousy birthday cake I bake when he went to class that afternoon.


* Tadaaaa!! Cute isn’t?? ngehehe, really look quite like the both of us :D

And of course, camwhore a little :P

As for his birthday party surprise, well………..
Long before his birthday I asked myself, what kind of surprise should I give him.
If you didn’t know, I love giving people surprises. It makes me happy (:
Anyway, two weeks ago my friend suggested to have a barbecue session at our place.
But I suggested the following week instead with the excuse that we are short of cash but in fact I secretly told them that it’s Ben’s birthday next week. (:
Everyone agreed and keep it as a secret from the birthday boy,and he still thought that it’s because we’re short of cash.

BUT! BUT! BUT!
This blur friend of mine, accidentally spill it out when we’re having our coffee.
my blur friend: next saturday barbecue right? for your birthday..
me: stare at him intensely.
my blur friend: no meh? i thought it’s for your birthday
me: staring at him even more intense my eyeballs almost fall off with the thinking that i’m gonna kill him anytime soon.
ben: huh. for my birthday meh. *looks at me*
me: (FML!!!)
my blur friend: ooooo……………ooooooo………..sorry.
me: kill me please.

i’m not sure if i wanted to kill him or myself. like O-M-G!!!
Pfft but nehmind I planned for a back up surprise right away. I secretly changed it to friday without the birthday boy noticing.
Informed everyone secretly, and even asked my blur friend to ask him out on friday itself so that i can stay home alone and prepare everything.
It was quite a mess due to the time constraint.

I prepared all the marinates the day before.
Beef, lamb, chicken, prawn, and squid. Typing it all out now here reminds me how painstakingly I prepared all of these.
And the most horrible of all, is no doubt the friggin squid.


* I was cutting the squid into half and half way through I saw something looking back at me. I shriek so loud and throw the eerie squid back into the sink. The squid ate the fish and it’s still inside WTF!!!! I know it’s just a fish but it really is uber disgusting.

Enough of the squid. On the day itself as I planned, boyf went out without me and I stayed home preparing for the food all day. My kitchen looks exactly like a war zone that day.


* let’s barbecueeeee.


* cooked creamy tomato spaghetti, baked mushroom, caesar salad, …..


* …… and baked egg, potato and cherry tomato.


* Man, I love the candles here in Melbourne I wanna buy them all home!! So special!!

Fat Ben, I’m such a good girlfriend right? *flips hair*
ngeheheheheheheh

Hi Giraffe

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Gosh, I feel so lazy to blog!!
But my boyf forced me to, which I don’t know.

Ben: Faster go blog.
Me: Tomorrow lah, I’m very lazy.
Ben: Blog now lah. You’re a professional blogger, later no more follower.
Me: -________-”’

Since when am I a professional blogger whatthehell!
I’m a professional housewife LOL!
I always need some oomph to blog, I cant just blog like that.

Anyway, we had lunch at this really nice cafe with a cute name called Giraffe Cafe.
And the food taste pretty good too.


* feels like home, a cosy home which is really different from FullHouse cafe kind of home. Those are boring.


* I like how they put a tree trunk inside the cafe, from floor to ceiling. I would love to have a huge ass tree trunk in my house, not the house I’m staying of course. Some dodgy looking house.


* Their coffee taste awesome with ice-cream in it. Normally I drink hot coffee here but this ice coffee taste a little like what I drink back in Malaysia. Of course, not the crappy kind of coffee.


* Chicken Risotto. Actually this is the first risotto in my life, never cross my mind to try one out before. Remember the first time I saw a plate of risotto was when Aaron ordered it and I was thinking, why does his meal looks so much like a vomit wtf. I don’t know why risotto do not look appealing to me, but boy it taste heavenly.


* A-nothing-to-rave-about-bread-pudding.


* Candid.

I find out that cafes here in Melbourne, even if you randomly picked one they wont really fail you.
Unlike the ones in KL, I really dare not randomly walk into a cafe.
Man, I’ve tried some and the food just taste so bad. Service is bad, food is bad, everything is bad.
There aren’t much good cafes in KL, or more like in Cheras.

This Giraffe Cafe, they do not really have a kitchen.
It’s just a small open kitchen right in front of the entrance door.
And there’s just two lady working that day, so they have to basically do everything from cleaning up to ordering to cooking.
It kind of makes me feel, hey maybe it’s not THAT hard.
But of course, there aren’t much choices to pick from the menu.

I wanna have a cafe of my own too, can I? *puppy eyes*

Happy 4th

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Reading back what we wrote to each other when we’re so far apart brings back the sweetest memories.
Despite all the misunderstandings and disagreements , I still feel truly bless.

At times when I’m mad at him or upset over the things he did or did not do, I questioned myself why am I here in sucha place feeling really upset.
But what’s a relationship without a little bit of argument?
We just had a rather huge argument two days back, the worst in these four months I reckon.
Mad, piss, upset and everything else. Not only me, so was he.
We prolly hated each other at that very moment for not understanding one another.
It’s hard really, to back down and see the situation from another dimension. Especially for me, or both since we’re equally stuborn.

But of course, after every argument things just gets better. Or so I hope.
At the minimum we understand how each other feels about some particular things.
Again, sometimes its just me being me again who is craving for undivided attention.
As my bff suggests, being my boyfriend is not easy (prolly the toughest job in the world wtf). Because I’m hard to please, in terms of emotionally.
But I try not to be whenever I come to my senses. I need more sense.

I always said it’s not easy for me, but I know it’s not easy for him too.
It is never easy for two people to come together, giving all the love, compromising, understanding, and sometimes even putting down our own ego.
I truly appreciate him for everything.
Wanting to bring me around, wanting me to try good food, and so much more.

I might not be the best girlfriend in the world, might also not be the easiest girlfriend to deal with but I’m constantly trying.
Or maybe if not the best, at least a really good one.
Thank you for the memorable four months. Time flies and I still remember the very first day (:

Love you loads.

Just Us

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PFFT!! I wonder how long it’ll take for the internet to be here.
I want wifi so that I can whatsapp and everything else. I cant even watch youtube videos now, torturing. ):
Anyway, here’s some lousy picture updates.

The broadband isn’t working when it’s plug into my laptop resulting in me losing my patience and the mood to blog.
Just a few pictures of us and nothing else.


* a fun mirror right outside a pancake shop, pancake parlour.


* short and chubby.


* this is…


* just us…


* doing what we…


* use to do…


* back in malaysia.

abusing his iphone app,bwahha.

it’s mid april already!! time is passing real fast this month.
it’s hitting me again, i know there’s still such along way to go before i go back but it feels the opposite for me.
sometimes i feel like i’m starting to lose myself again when there’s disagreement.
i’m not quite the person i am 3 months back.
might be just a phase.

gahh, i don’t even know what i’m saying here.
i’m gonna go make teh tarik now.
bye.

A month seems short yet long enough.

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I’ve been away from home for almost a month now.
If you ask me have I been adapting well, my answer will be yes. Pretty good.
If you ask me is this easy, my answer will be ‘not so easy after all’.
Of course, not the holidaying, enjoying, and the waking up during noon part. That part is of course, very very easy.

All my life I’ve been staying under the same roof with my family and only my family. By family I mean my mom and my brother. And dad which is half of my life.
I’ve never stayed with uncle or grandma or anyone else for that matter.
It’s like all my life I stay with my mom and brother, I’m extremely comfortable and too used to their way of living and habits and all.

And then I’ve to move away from my very own comfort zone, home and country to a place I’m not at all familiar with.
I’m living under the same roof with this someone whom I’ve known for barely half a year.
Sounds silly?
We kind of click at the very very beginning of the relationship (and by that I don’t mean we don’t click now), the spark and all but truth to be told we barely know each other.
Is it easy to live with a person whom you’re not close with (if were to compare it with family)?

Different human being, different habit, different up bringing, basically everything different.
I love watching gossip girl while he love watching his stephen chow.
He prefers eating out while I prefer eating in.
Sometimes I’m more messy than he is.
He keeps playing his stupid fifa while me, cant stand the dirt will vacuum the house and what not.
I find it cold when he finds it hot.
You know, it’s just this and that.

It’s not easy living with a person whom you’ve not live with all your life.
And you just can never help it, there will definitely be arguments.
Arguing about some stupid shits around the house, how he hates it when I’m like this or vice versa.
But is it REALLY that hard? Nope.
Maybe it’s just the first month or maybe not, I’m not sure.
The key is of course, to compromise.
Do I compromise a lot? I cant tell, I’m not sure of myself.
It could be that I thought I compromise a lot when in fact I didn’t, or the other way round.
Did he compromise, yes he did.
He sometimes really make things hard for me but also because of how he compromise, it make things easier.

I don’t know, I just hope it wont get harder than this. For now, it’s good.
Good enough for me, but for him I’m not too sure.
Anyway, I think it’s time for me to post some pictures that have been pending for so long.
Here goes..


* one sunny day. (damn long ago, my first week here)


* australia’s tram.


* they have tons of people performing by the street, all sorts of performance. i like this one (:


* some mango ice-cream dessert thingy at passion flower. looks so nice and inviting but taste like crap. *puik*


* boys love this, that too taste like crap to me.


* blur ass picture from clubbing. more clubbing pictures soon, my camera is not with for at this moment.


* super moon that doesn’t look super at our side of the world.


* ponytail island (:


* not an island, but a place for people to grab a glass of beer and just chill under the Yarra river bridge.


* my latte and his beer.


* happy ben, he likes this place.


* yours truly. quite windy as you can tell.

there’s a whole lot more of pictures but i’ll call it a day for now.
will update again very soon (:
hope you have a great weekend.

home sweet home ♥

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of course, no place is better than the home i have in malaysia.
i wonder how it looks like now, how’s all the renovation going.

but for the mean time, this is the home i’m staying at melbourne.
which is friggin expensive i must say. i don’t get how people stay here in the city, the rent is like c-r-a-z-y.
four hundred per week, sampat!!

but they do have gym, swimming pool, sauna, and a very nice place for you to barbecue along with equipments.
so if you’re a gym person, maybe it sounds more bearable since you get to save up money by not signing up for gym outside.
still crazy no matter what.


* i actually really kind of like candles a lot.


* the third creature who stays in the house.


* the cosy corner. might need to shift the sofa cause we’re planning to get a ‘tv’. probably the only thing that’s missing from the house, a television.


* his workplace and also a temporary ‘tv’ to watch his stupid stephen chow movie and my awesome gossip girl.


* our small and simple dining table with (yes) pink chairs. my idea, of course. it can brighten up the house okay!! and a balcony door behind.


* a divider/bookshelf/a place to keep our shoes and yada yada. that’s our kitchen (my territory) behind, of course.


* entrance door, hello. and some berry berry important stuff which is all ze sauces and spices and whatnot. damn nice compartment can, so easy to take these sauces while i cook. (:


* neat and nice toilet, with our hand towels hanging. (: will be perfect if it’s a bathtub.


* and this is the bedroom, with nothing in it except the bed. i would love to have a side table with erm, a lamp. and that’s a built-in wardrobe with huge ass mirror. please ignore the jackets on the floor, too tired after clubbing to put them nicely. :X

how’s ze house?
a one bedroom apartment.
it’s small, sometimes i miss walking around a bigger home.
like how i can walk from my room to living room to kitchen then to my mom’s room, to my maid’s room back to my room in malaysia wtf.
here i can only walk in and out of the room, in and out in and out.
wanna play hide and seek also cannot larh.
but this home is pretty cosy. (:

if only i can put a green fake plant in the bathroom, it’ll be great.
fake plant can last forever and ever, damn worth it haha.
that’s all for now, i’m pretty sleepy already. plus i might need to stay up for football match, i better get some rest before i regret typing too much here.
have a good midweek people. (:

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