It was THE BEST 4 days while it lasted

The monkey came to visit Sydney for 4 days.

Thursday

Met him at Chat Thai. His favourite place. The nom nom nom begins!!!

Chat Thai round 1- Spring rolls. Spicy fish cake dish. Lodt Shong Singapore.

Passionflower - Durian, black sesame, green tea, lychee ice cream.

Walked home along the Pyrmont wharf. Weather was cooling. So happy to see him. Couldn't stop smiling the whole time.

Friday

Maccas breakfast + baklava

Fishmarket - Sashimi, soft shell crab, oyster mornay, scallop mornay, grilled prawns, seaweed

Chinatown night market - lamb skewer, chicken skewer, tofu skewer, japanese pancake, chee cheong fun

Twisted noodles - extremely spicy noodles, hong kong style coffee + tea

After heavy lunch at fishmarket, we came home and watched a movie before heading out to the nightmarkets at Chinatown. Bought our food and sat outside the Sydney Entertainment Centre as there was a school concert going on and there were so many kids outside just warming up and doing random performance. Chinatown food was meant to be our dinner but we weren't full enough so we went to this hong kong noodle shop for more food. hehehe....

Saturday

Home (a thai restaurant VERY similar to Chat Thai) - Pad Thai, sago rice flour dumpling with ground peanuts and palm sugar

Chat Thai round 2- Desserts: Young coconut kuih, pandan kuih, coconut girdles, banana fritters, sweet potato balls, Lodt Shong Singapore

Food court in city - Sushi

Gelatissimo ice cream

Prawns + Pork Wat Tan Hor cooked by Me!!

Went to the gym and the pool in the morning before starting our food journey. A day filled with lots of dessert, snacks and window shopping. Visited the new Westfield Pitt St Mall, watched street performances, went shopping at Rebel Sport, hung out at Darling Harbour as I had to collect my cousin's Santa Suit for the Santa Run the following day. Dinner was at home and I cooked wat tan hor with lots of egg sauce, just how I liked it :) And then we watched Knight and Day before heading to bed.

Sunday (our 27 months :))

Fish market: King prawns fried noodles. Soft shell crab. Raw oysters. Oyster mornay. Salt and pepper calamari.

Lowenbrau Mango Beer

Baker's Oven Cafe at the Rocks - Chocolate Hazelnut Slice

Japanese BBQ buffet at Chinatown - Beef tongue, special beef ribs, shabu shabu, beef harami, gizzards, takoyaki, jellyfish sidedish, seagrass sidedish, almond jelly, green tea and sesame ice cream, chicken, beef loin, deep fried prawns...

Went to the fishmarket pretty early and some of the shops weren't open. Walked around the fishmarket, stare at live seafood soon to be eaten...killed time and then EAT! Walked along Anzac Bridge after fishmarket as we were so full. Got home and slept like pigs after. Was meant to go to the Botanical Gardens but it was raining, and hence the sleeping. Caught the bus to Circular Quay and sipped Mango Beer and Lowenbrau. Walked around the Rocks markets and we were mainly killing time and trying not to eat much in preparation for our 40 bucks Jap buffet at night. Came across this bakery at the Rocks and couldn't resists the slices and bought one.. no regrets!! We then walked around the malls again before heading to our buffet. Huge feast. A 90 mins limit to eat 40 bucks worth of BBQ. It was so good. Ate till my max. I know because I threw up 5 mins after we left the place. We were also calculating the ala carte dishes and we have definitely ate more than 80 bucks. Hehehehe....

Monday

Pie face pies

Egg tarts

Chat Thai round 3- Beef ribs with rice. Egg noodles with chicken coconut curry and lime. Fried bread dough sticks with kaya.

Cold rock ice cream - peanut butter ice cream with cookie dough.

His final day in Sydney. *sigh*

Still eating our hearts out despite the massive meal the night before. It was raining again but it did not stop us. Best snack discovered at Chat Thai - the yau char guai and kaya. I can so just go there for breakfast next time because this snack is only sold from 10am - 12 pm. I am so glad we tried it today. MmMMMmm!!! Sent the monkey off at 4.30pm....

Got home..............

And now it's back to normal.

- It feels so empty right now without you

- Thank you for a wonderful 4 days

- I'd say it's the best 4 days of 2010

- These 4 days just reminded me how much I miss you and how much fun I am missing out when you're not with me
- I'm already missing you :(
- THANK YOU :)

*Edit: Walked home through Chinatown and Darling Harbour today and it reminded me so much of you. Those 4 days were really like a long dream that I did not want to wake up from but eventually did.

Wrapping it up!

We are all now holding a Masters of Physiotherapy degree!! (awaiting results but for now.. living in denial and just assuming we pass... :p)

Watch out world!! Here's a whole new bunch of physio-verryyy-pisssts coming to you next year!!!

No longer a student

Hi, I am a student physiotherapist :)

Yeaaaaaaa baby!!!!!

Officially done!!

Party party for the next few days. Tomorrow night is going to be massive!!!!

Bring on Lowenbrau!!!

Went for my very first job interview this morning. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be but I could have done better, could have said more. Was just a tad nervous. I'm glad I revised the knee!

Well, there's a first for everything. At least I'll be more confident in my next interview. Hehehehe.....

It's 2 a.m.

I need to wake up in 4 hours time.

I swear this is going to be the last late night ever for an assignment/presentation!

I thought it was all over before this but I thought wrong. But this is definitely the last one. I just have been procrastinating too much.

Good night :)

and I apologize for all the negativity in my blog recently

because this is the only place where I can pour everything out... that's what a blog is for afterall, right?

What a *toot*

I know I'm not perfect, I know I'm not that smart. I know I'm lacking knowledge.

But I manage my patients well, my time management is the best out of the 3. So don't come into my face and say that you feel bad for me as I have to take over your patients just because you're smarter than me and you couldn't cope with your patient load and assume I won't be able to cope as well.

I don't go in front bragging to everyone that I got a good feedback when I know you didn't get one as good as mine. I keep it to myself because I don't want you to be under even more pressure with your time management. But to say I'm "lucky" with the patients today, even though they were yours previously and you complain about them all the time, you've just insulted me. Give me some credit at least because I have a way with patients. I got more tricks in my hat than yours even though I'm not that smart.

I saw all the patients that you saw and got extra patient load as well. I have a way with patients and I saw all your "bad patients" and I didn't even think they were that troublesome at all. You just complain too much and that's why you don't get things done.

And to "feel bad" for me just because one of your difficult patient refuses treatment from me, that is just so low. I don't even feel bad for myself at all because I did everything I can, said everything one can possibly think of and if patient refuses, so be it. There's nothing to feel bad about or frustrated. Even my supervisor failed to get the patient up.

I'm just letting this all out because I just hate it when people look down on me because they don't know themselves that well and they think they are better than me in everything. I am young and I am not the smartest. But it doesn't mean that I won't be able to do my work as well. It's time for you to wake up and realize the real problem is you and not others and stop blaming it on them.

Just 8 more days and I won't need to listen to your complaints anymore.

What if it happens?

I don't really care anymore.

This is how it has become to. I can live without it.

Sometimes I think if we don't get what we want, all we have to do is pull ourselves away from it. Ignorance is bliss. And soon enough, you don't even need what you desire before.

Don't ask.

Good Luck to all having exams

Hehehehehehe...

I'm so glad mine are over.

Ending with a 5 weeks placement beats studying in the library 11 days straight and sitting for exams, running on chocolate and coffee as fuel, feeding on instant noodles to survive.

Heeeheeeee... that was me not too long ago.

3 more weeks till its over. I am quite tired of dealing with the oldies already. Everyday have to layan them, praise them eventhough you just want to whack and scream at them, sweet talk them, tell them wide lies, and come up with all sorts of nonsense and making up "Dr's order" just to get them out of bed.

By the end of this, I am going to be a great sweet talker with great patience.... and be darn good at holding my breath :D