Thursday, November 25, 2010
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Flowers from my garden
The beautiful thing about having your own garden is that you have your own lil haven of flowers.
When we bought this place we now called home, it already came with several rose bushes and the past 2 springs, they have been abundant with buds and flowers. I've always liked having flowers in the house as well and rather than spending $12 - $25 for 1/2 dozen roses, I've been cutting off some droopy stems from the bushes and putting them around the house.
Result - A happy lil me
Snap of the rose trellis at the back of the house 645am.
When we bought this place we now called home, it already came with several rose bushes and the past 2 springs, they have been abundant with buds and flowers. I've always liked having flowers in the house as well and rather than spending $12 - $25 for 1/2 dozen roses, I've been cutting off some droopy stems from the bushes and putting them around the house.
Result - A happy lil me
Snap of the rose trellis at the back of the house 645am.
And happy snaps of them in the house.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Social calendar updates - BF's bday celeb November 2010
As always, things have gone a bit slack with the updates as weekends are filled with social activities as we hit the silly season - it is less work, more play now baby!!
It was BF's bday on Sat - milestone of a day, hitting the mid-XX's and all, so it was decided that we take him out for a nice meal and some. Now do tell me, which man can resist getting his teeth into a big chunk of meat?
The place - Squire's Loft, Docklands
The ppl - Usual suspects
The usual suspects
My main meal - Lamb Scotch Fillet (300g) grilled served with hot chips and black pepper sauce 
The starter - Ribs, Beef Sausage, prawns and Garlic feta Mushrooms
The polished off dish of garlic feta mushrooms
Bday cake - Chocolate mudcake!
It was BF's bday on Sat - milestone of a day, hitting the mid-XX's and all, so it was decided that we take him out for a nice meal and some. Now do tell me, which man can resist getting his teeth into a big chunk of meat?
The place - Squire's Loft, Docklands
The ppl - Usual suspects
The usual suspects
My main meal - Lamb Scotch Fillet (300g) grilled served with hot chips and black pepper sauce
The starter - Ribs, Beef Sausage, prawns and Garlic feta Mushrooms
The polished off dish of garlic feta mushrooms
Bday cake - Chocolate mudcake! We ended the night off at Crown Casino, and the birthday boy didn't loose so it was wins all around!
Monday, November 1, 2010
Playing tourist VIC - Tesselaar Tulip Festival
Well I haven't been blogging as I have been too busy - BUSY PLAYING TOURIST!!
Lol, the problem with living someplace is that we tend to get lazy and go with the usual phrase " I'll do it next time, it is not going to run away". Unfortunately, that is not true. Seasons change, ppl change, heck, there might be a mishap * touch wood* and where does that leave us? Regrets.
I have decided that I will not take life for granted, I WILL go and try new things, I WILL go and DO new stuff ~ however mundane, trivial or silly ~ it is all for fun. After all, I am not getting younger by the day.
As such, after years of putting it off - this year Mel and I played tourist and headed to the annual tulip festival in Silvan, VIC. It runs for around 4 weeks and this yr it was on September 16th to October 17th 2010. There is a cover of $18 (Concession $15, Under 16 free). There is usually a theme run to go with the week and when we went it was the Irish Week!
The trip itself was gorgeous as Silvan is on the foot of the Dandenong ranges so it is green, leafy and calming. Silvan itself is well known for its nurseries and fruit farms so I did enjoy my mini road trip.
Will leave with pics till the next playing tourist series :)
Lol, the problem with living someplace is that we tend to get lazy and go with the usual phrase " I'll do it next time, it is not going to run away". Unfortunately, that is not true. Seasons change, ppl change, heck, there might be a mishap * touch wood* and where does that leave us? Regrets.
I have decided that I will not take life for granted, I WILL go and try new things, I WILL go and DO new stuff ~ however mundane, trivial or silly ~ it is all for fun. After all, I am not getting younger by the day.
As such, after years of putting it off - this year Mel and I played tourist and headed to the annual tulip festival in Silvan, VIC. It runs for around 4 weeks and this yr it was on September 16th to October 17th 2010. There is a cover of $18 (Concession $15, Under 16 free). There is usually a theme run to go with the week and when we went it was the Irish Week!
The trip itself was gorgeous as Silvan is on the foot of the Dandenong ranges so it is green, leafy and calming. Silvan itself is well known for its nurseries and fruit farms so I did enjoy my mini road trip.
Will leave with pics till the next playing tourist series :)
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Lunch?
I must say, my blog really hasn't any specific direction when it comes to contents. It is neither a food blog, fashion or travel specific is it?
Random musings and updates sounds more like it..
Today's update is that - I had Char Kuey Teow for lunch ..leftovers from last night. :)
Monday, September 20, 2010
Falls Creek, VIC *Fun Trip* - Sept 2010
After all of the stress at work, we (BF & I and 2 mates) decided to do a weekend away and catch the last bits of snow for this season.
With the recent spate of rain (and the recent road closure due to floods), things could have been quite dicey if it wasn't for the very gorgeous *unexpected* weather over the weekend.
Not to say that there wasn't much drama involved. The drive Friday evening was marred somewhat at Mt Beauty. We were on a 4WD and seeing that we were staying overnight, needed alpine fuel in order to not get diesel freeze up. Getting there at 8pm - all of the service stations *yes, all 2 of em* were SHUT! OMG! On a Friday night! During school holiday times! We weren't the only ones stranded there however, there were 3 other groups also contemplating where to go. After some investigations, we had to traipse back to Bright that added another 1 1/2 hrs our trip, so by 1030pm, you had 4 very tired and very grumpy travellers.
It was all well worth it though, the next day turned out simply lovely. And we decided not to rush, took it easy and - well, will let the pictures speak for itself.
All pics taken from my Nokia phone hence the low quality.
With the recent spate of rain (and the recent road closure due to floods), things could have been quite dicey if it wasn't for the very gorgeous *unexpected* weather over the weekend.
Not to say that there wasn't much drama involved. The drive Friday evening was marred somewhat at Mt Beauty. We were on a 4WD and seeing that we were staying overnight, needed alpine fuel in order to not get diesel freeze up. Getting there at 8pm - all of the service stations *yes, all 2 of em* were SHUT! OMG! On a Friday night! During school holiday times! We weren't the only ones stranded there however, there were 3 other groups also contemplating where to go. After some investigations, we had to traipse back to Bright that added another 1 1/2 hrs our trip, so by 1030pm, you had 4 very tired and very grumpy travellers.
It was all well worth it though, the next day turned out simply lovely. And we decided not to rush, took it easy and - well, will let the pictures speak for itself.
All pics taken from my Nokia phone hence the low quality.
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