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Twilight and Werewolves?
Friday, Oct 23, 2009 7:04PM / Members only
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That's how it is
Sunday, Oct 18, 2009 9:37PM / Members only
Disclaimer: The first half of the entry was written by one known as Vivian (in her attempt in soiling my good name)....only believe about 80% of what has been written, ok maybe 85%.
1. Ever since meeting Aiden, I have adopted his methods of perving and looking / acting like a complete sleaze. I now perve like a guy - I stare at girls from the bottom up: legs, ass, boobs and then face. Sometimes I don't even CARE what she looks like. On that note, Aiden, stop perving at models eg Grace Huang. I'm still here you know!
2. Aiden has a habit of hugging me to sleep, but then when he reaches like a beta-level of sleeping, which is characterized by him snoring away, he pushes me aside like some used doll. He will then continue snoring loudly and attempt to kick me off the bed. But all is well the next day, when he wakes up, rolls over, hugs me and doesn't remember what he did the night before. What a (typical) man!
3. Although he is a strapping young lad, Aiden has a bit of a belly issue. So, we've decided to put him on a diet regime, which will be a healthy mix of carb-less meals with lots of vegetables and no meat! Hopefully he sticks to it, because it will be good for him...and well, um, I still want to be able to hug him.
Aiden's side of the story: It's seriously not that big, it's only when I eat, I become slightly bloated, and I look about 4 months pregnant - it's water retention! But inorder to satisfy the 'well wishes' (demands) of the girl (the queen - "mate, if I wanted a bitch, I'd get a dog"), we spent the whole of Sunday night finding salad to eat. All night, because we started our search at 10pm, and in Sydney, most shops and restaurants close around that time (it is pathetic in comparison to Asia). So we searched high and low, far and wide, at pubs and bars, Haymarket Hotel, Maloney's hotel, even the thought of going to a strip club just to eat the "buffet" crossed our minds (I think it has a salad bar - I..would not know...because I have never been...hahaha). But alas, nothing could be found. (Who the fuk eats salad, when McDonalds is open 24 hours....)
But since Coles is for Coleslaw, and S is for Vivian shouting at me ("We're eating SALAD!")...we decided to go to Coles, which is the only place that opens past 10:30pm, and ended up with a Caesar salad (and about 2 packet of chips, a pack of sliced salami and a meat on a stick thing hahaha so much for the no-meat diet - that's how I roll Viv!)
On another note, we went to BBQ City and we took a little souvenir with us
What's inside?
- hahaha hardcore rice stealers! The manager of the store was standing at the entrance. How could we hide the rice......
Luckily, we had a clear plastic bag with a container inside. Much to our (discrete) ninja skills, the rice container was placed inside - with the manager staring straight at us, and a couple of restauranters looking at us (it was not subtle AT ALL hahaha). When we got to the exit, the manager looked at the bag ...with a certain glint in his eyes. We were prepared to drop the bag and run for it, but he simply said "Oh Thank you very much".
We passed phase 1, but then there was still the staircase, which we were once again prepared to drop everything and run. But we passed the entrance / security cameras smoothly. But we knew, once we were closer to Chinatown, we would be free from the grasp of Little Korea, and the rice would be mine!
We not only thank BBQ City for the lovely korean food (and the korean music videos with the korean girl popstars ~ Hot!), but this time, thank you for the rice container which I shall treasure and keep it along with all my other spoils!
Yes, this duck is simply adorable!
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Food Pron
Sunday, Sep 27, 2009 7:45PM / Members only
For the past few months I have accumulated a fair share of food or food related pictures.
There is a story to every picture, I guess a picture is worth a thousand words, and with food pics - you'd know that it conjures both memories and smells of the past.
- I'm sure this is a Roti, but here it's called "Rizza". They're probably bootlegging it and cashing in on the ignorance of us Sydney folk! Regardless, its still absolutely delicious, I'm sure I can eat 2, but for $17.80 a slice - I'm happy to just have one. Reminds me of the restaurant just infront of this one, who boasts to have "The best steak in town"...but when you ask for the steak, they'd say "We don't have anymore steaks left", you ask "So what do you recommend?", they'd say "Try the chicken, the chicken is good", you say ok. But then when you look around, everyone is eating "the chicken" - its a fuking conspiracy! 
- A "rice dumpling" that Alison brought over by the truckloads. Her mother hand-makes them and sells them during the Chinese "rice dumpling festival"? haha I don't know what its called. But Alison apparently made the 15 that she gave me, and the rest (a whole van full) was going to the good citizens of Chinatown. Testimonial: It was delicious for the 3 mins that took to consume it, and not so delicious during the 4 toilet trips that followed soon after. 
- "Islam Beef Buns" in Hong Kong, There's 3 shops in Hong Kong, and noone knows which one is the 'most authentic' - they all claim to be 'the most authentic'. But as long as it tastes good - Who cares! 
- boiling hot oil....my tongue tasted like burning! But it's worth the pain.
- We had 6 each, and that was just the entree! Christ, that's actually quite alot.
- Chicken Teriyaki at The Haymarket Hotel. Really nice...especially the sauce! I have a crush on the sauce. But its $8.50 though, that's a slap to the face for 10 pieces of chicken, I can get a whole chicken for $10 at Coles! hmm I think I mentioned something about price before, I must sound like a tight-arse haha
- Mixed Sashimi Salad...another wonderful dish, once again the sauce is brilliant, its not just mayonnaise! 
- This pizza was ridiculously big! It took 1/2 an hour to make, so I savoured every slice. I even went as far as to save half a piece for 'dinner. It's a 'family' pizza, but it only took 2 (great) men to finish it! Yes, our consumption is equivalent to that of a small family. And we also drink like real men should! It reminds me of a story about Thor - the great Norse God of Thunder! Where he dined with a bunch of rock giants and ate 12 salmons, 10 cows and 8 gallons of beer - now that's a real man! 
- Our usual 'Wasabi' challenge taken up to the next level - "No soy sauce" allowed. 
- Don't look disgusted Juan, you cheated mate, you dropped the wasabi on the ground...FAIL!Its amazing how Juan was the ONLY one who held his chopsticks 'the proper way'! The rest of us went the lazy way and did the 'X' method. How do you hold your chopsticks?
- Lunch with Lou, I convinced Lou to open a bottle of wine, after the Sangria. It was well-worth it, after trawling for 2 hours in Surry Hills on a quest to find a decent restaurant, but none were found. We needed something to quench our thirst...
- Authentic firewood pizza, wedges and spag bol! Sometimes the easier the 'dish' the harder it is to perfect! The chef did quite a good job, or maybe it was the wine talking...
- This is not food, or anything of substance. It's my work desk, I don't think I even took this picture! -
Stressful Situations
Friday, Sep 25, 2009 10:38PM / Members only
I'm outraged, I'm furious, I've lost it...yes, you may hear splintered wood settling in the background, I have destroyed my office. A light breeze coming through, window's smashed etc. You get the jist...
Work for the past few months has been nothing but stress, there have been victories here and there, but on the whole, things are just pushing me over the limit.....I am starring in my very own Steven Seagal movie, I call it "Boiling Point" and then the sequel "Beyond Boiling Point!" - which just happened today!
After getting an email at 11pm "We need to move forward, our company can't afford to stay as it is right now. Show me what you have to offer this company, I don't care what and how you are going to do it, but give me results please!" - I feel as though something called pressure is pushing so far up my ass that when it spits, its coming out of my mouth...
It doesn't help when all that responsibility is on my shoulders...and I am not getting paid enough to go through that kind of shit...
I am not having fun, I have been given unachievable challenges that are making me feel I am inadequate in the field of achieving - although nothing is unachievable, closing 4 blocks of advertising in 2 days is quite unachievable and I just feel I'm not pushing myself hard enough either or taking my job seriously....
Is this the right mentality?
But maybe it IS time to strike out and really show what I'm made of....
Maybe I should stop whinging and get cracking,,.
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The week that was
Monday, Aug 10, 2009 7:34PM / Members only
It was a long flight to Hong Kong, a tedious 9 hour flight, where I struggled to decide between watching Duplicity or....17 Again. It may seem like an easy choice (I'm sure everyone is cheering for Zac Efron at this stage), but I made my decision like the little girl in the Old El Paso commercial, which is also exactly how I drink - Why don't we have both? But similar to my drinking choices, both turned out to be a regret...because Duplicity was plain bad, and Zac Effron is a downright homosexual (not that there's anything wrong with it!).
I had quite a good chat with one of the air-hostesses, who enjoyed a few glasses of 'left over' red wine with me behind the curtains. I was merely waiting for the toilet, and she was chugging one down, not very professional so I called her on it. Her response: getting a glass and pouring one for me too. And like the little girl in the Old El Paso commericlal, I thought to myself - Why don't we have both? hahaha Nothing happened, I was very much used when after our chat and red wine, she gave me the "feedback form" to fill out - bribing me with wine and women...my only weaknesses!
Taxi-drivers in HK are a funny lot, their perspective on society is quite accurate. I learnt everything there was to know about HK's politics, history, economy, society and entertainment scene in one taxi-ride. Not a bad way to spend $100HK!
You can find everything in HK, it is quite my haven. I am an avid vintage and junk collector, my parents call it wasting money, my ex girlfriends call it "eww what is it?" and my friends don't really give a shit, but I call it treasure hunting. It's merely a past-time, but I don't do it because I want to buy pieces of crap, it is more for the satisfaction of seeing/playing with the old pieces of crap still around (that's why I also like museums). And to think you can actually buy those pieces of crap! - that's a beautiful thing. Easily satisfied? Just easily amused.
The amusement leads to buying a toy for my niece
- Its a hand-puppet, and it wasn't from a junk shop, it was from quite a high-end toy store. There was actually another cow, but it was $3000HK, get the fuk out of here. So I chose this one instead, it was on the display window, and the last one of it's kind. I had to have it! 
- What a curious cow, what a happy moo. The amusement was further amplified, when a woman shouted "Very sweet, very juicy! 3 for $20!" in the middle of Portland Street. It couldn't possibly be that cheap in HK...could it really be that cheap in HK's Red light district? I had to touch it...not only that, she let me taste it! It was indeed very sweet and juicy". Impulse buying leads to...
Tiny, Palm-sized watermelons x 6 - it was seriously watermelons for dessert every night. Excessive....On the way back to Oz, it was yet another long trip. My mother asked me "Why are you drinking so much?". What else am I supposed to do for 9 hours? Seriously.
- But it really wasn't that much. Mothers and their worrying - bah!Asahi "Dry" is a pretty good beer, made me want to buy one of these:
I should tell Yui to get me one in Japan when she goes! The Asahi Beer Buddy! And I am seeing this poster around Sydney constantly, and everytime I see it, I can't help but love it all over again.
Miranda Kerr - Yes please! But placed outside a public toilet? Not very appropriate. But if that picture can be seen on the inside..mate, Tony would live in there!Lisa (a co-worker, who dresses, for lack of a better word, like a prostitute) goes "I wish I had that body". Yes, good for you, but please don't call me a playboy anymore, and shout in the middle of Geogre Street in a high-pitched, borderline ditzy voice "Where are we going?", attracting the stares of many passer-bys, who looked at her, then looked at me. Some may have said 'Good for you', but others would have definitely thought "How much?".
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- Originating from the sandy shores of Sydney, Australia, Aiden is not your regular beach-bum, he is also an advertiser, all round freelance writer, radio presenter and karaoke singer. ...
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