more of Melbourne dining

Here are some long overdue photos of the places we've been going to lately.

Chez Olivier L'Epicerie, Elsternwick

Ishiya Japanese Stonegrill, Bourke Street

Little Creatures Dining Hall, Brunswick

Brunswick Street

Monga Desser Lounge, Boxhill

Seattle

My favorite song...at least so far

Seattle by Jason Walker

Who else would be
Calling me at 3 am
Just to tell me
You're still there
The sky's still falling
Tell me what you
Need to hear this time to make it count
And to get you out of

Seattle, I don't know why
You stand under the clouds expecting to stay dry
Can't you see the day you'll ever win
That battle
Is the day they'll take the rain out of Seattle

He's still got that
Hold on you that makes you crazy
Your bags are packed
But you don't really plan on leaving
Why do you wait?
All that city does is bring you down
And you could get out of

Seattle, I don't know why
You stand under the clouds expecting to stay dry
Can't you see the day you'll ever win
That battle
Is the day they'll take the rain out of Seattle

Seattle...

Fall, fall, falling
Oh, the sky keeps falling
And it gets so heavy on your heart
Fall, fall, falling
Oh, the tears keep falling
And you keep staying where you are

Seattle, I don't know why
You stand under the clouds expecting to stay dry
Seattle, I don't know how
I'm supposed to help you if you won't leave town
Oh, can't you see the day you'll ever win
That battle
Is the day they'll take the rain out
The day they'll take the rain out of
Seattle
Seattle

Oh, can't you see
You'll never take the rain out of
Seattle
Seattle

Melbourne

Been eating so much lately. I'll be posting up photos of erm....food and melbourne. Here's a few to start with.

First up, Aux Batifolles in North Fitzroy. Neat little French place, great food.

The walls are lined with various menus from French restaurants of the past.

The menu:

Escargots De Bourgogne A L'ail: snails grilled with garlic, parsley and lemon butter

Confit De Canard Etson Maigret Poele Aux Figues: confil & crispy leg, pan sealed duck breast, served with Iran figs sauce

Lapin Farci Sauce Moutarde: de-boned rabbit, served with seeded mustard sauce and thick ribbon pasta

Profiteroles Au Chocolat

Warm Upside Down Apple "Tarte Tatin"

The shell looking pastry is a French chicken and crayfish pie

Traditional Vanilla "Grerne Brullee"

The following week we dropped by French Lettuce, a french patiserie famouse for their vanilla slice

Cheesecake, sticky date pudding and vanilla slice

The famouse vanilla slice, voted number one in melbourne. Though i prefer the one from Sorento better

As you can see it's not a very big place.

Well that's about it for now. I havent been taking much photos so i'll have to wait for photographers to upload them.

toodles

Bloggin from my new MacBook =)

and yes i is still alive

and loving work

Random photos

Some Random photos in serious random order

Christmas Eve 09

Aaron and Wenying

Left to right:

Carmen Chong (DOB: 1/1/1987 huge coincidence huh),

Koonie and unnamed guy

Turkey and Roast Pork

Salad and herbed potatoes

Chocolate pie and blueberry pie

by Masterchef Joo

Follow by champagne and strawberries yumm

Masterchef Joo doing a Foo Fighter

Final days at 46 Grattan St, Carlton

Bookcase/Dresser

Our workstations.

This is where I spend most of my time when i'm home as I'm too lazy to climb up to the top bunk to my bed so i just sit at my desk wtf.

Wardrobe area

My former non-functional fireplace cum book storage.

Omg what is my swimsuit doing hanging on my bed?

Others

My puppy, waiting for soup goodies

Cuma maharaja dapat makan la, dik!

Attempting a Matt Irwin

This is an original Matt Irwin. I'll go in for coffee someday as it's got pretty good reviews

At Roule Gallete, trying to get a shot of the cute french guy

San Churros Chocolate Truffles from Chee Chang (Christmas 09)

Today marks my last day as a part timer. I am going to miss working in the hospitality sector very very much. It's hard work but it's really fun as well. Today before I left, the current owner at Plush gave me a chocolate cupcake and told me she thought I was the nicest girl there and she liked me a lot from the first day she met me, awwwwwww. And apparently, the previous owner told her that I was his favourite. That explains why he never yelled at me hehe. I wonder why though, I'm a horrible employee considering how many times I pissed my manager off =S.

I'm sitting on my bed typing, enjoying my soy chai. Drinks i'm into now, all thanks to my fantabulous coffee machine:-

Half soy latte (no proper name for it but it's basically cafe latte with half milk and half soy)

Soy chai

Hot chocolate made from expired Homebrand Cocoa powder and Milo

Ok, I'm starting work next Tuesday (4 day week ftw!). Can't say I'm excited. Excited was when I got the call about the offer. From then on, I've been scared, nervous and even feeling a lil bit regretful. I'm scared that I'm not good enough for this job, considering that I don't have the qualifications for it. The position I applied to was for a Software Engineer graduate. Yet, they hired me. My new boss; the guy i'll be reporting directly to; told me before they offered me the job that they're hiring me not because of my technical skills but because they liked me. Hmmm wait.... am I getting jobs just because people like me? I mean, there was once my manager wanted to fire me but the previous owner was against it. Anyway, now I'm just nervous coz new boss gave me some links to learn a new programming language, C# and I haven't started and it's almost Tuesday. Dad doesn't sound too happy bout this job coz he thinks the pay is not high enough and I'm supposed to take up a programming course and pay for it myself. Mum thinks the pay is not high enough as well. Keeps telling me to continue going for the grad program interviews and if I get in, ditch this job. So I told her, I can't exactly go for interviews now that I have a full time job as they're during business hours. I really wanted a R&D position but because of this (very subtle) pressure of getting a higher paying job, I can't enjoy this supposed achievement, meh!

OKay enough writting, this is starting to make my blog boring, pictures to come!

A little humour a day keeps the cancer away

This was a little humour in an article/tutorial I was reading on bug testing (for my interview tomorrow). I spose this will entertain you abit, elsh, while I'm busy job hunting.

After every flight, Qantas pilots fill out a form, called a "Gripe Sheet,"which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft. The mechanics correct the problems, document their repairs on the form, and then pilots review the gripe sheets before the next flight.

Quantas is the only major airline that has never had an accident.

But never let it be said that Quantas ground crews lack a sense of humor. Here are some actual maintenance complaints submitted by Qantas' pilots (marked with a P) and the solutions recorded by maintenance engineers (marked with an S).

P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.

P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.
S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.

P: Something loose in cockpit.
S: Something tightened in cockpit.

P: Dead bugs on windshield.
S: Live bugs on back-order.

P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute descent.
S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.

P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
S: Evidence removed.

P: DME volume unbelievably loud.
S: DME volume set to more believable level.

P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
S: That's what they're for.

P: IFF inoperative.
S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.

P: Suspected crack in windshield.
S: Suspect you're right.

P: Number 3 engine missing.
S: Engine found on right wing after brief search.

P: Aircraft handles funny.
S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right, and be serious.

P: Target radar hums.
S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.

P: Mouse in cockpit.
S: Cat installed.

P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.
S: Took hammer away from midget.