Hello June

 Yay to the first of June!!!!

Another month has gone past and let's all say hello to June!! It's the month full of pressies............. for me! But I don't like it :( because I am getting older by another 365 days :( :( :( super sad...

Just to brighten up my mood from the recent "incident" at work, (I got told off not caring enough for my patients because I said NO I don't want to go and see a patient afterhours...........................) I went for a hair cut... And you know what?!?!?!

Not many people have noticed the change.

I think it's very short now.. When I was washing my hair this evening, my hand was trying to grab the hair that nolonger exists........ But it looks very health less damaged now. Even Q said he cannot tell what I've done to my hair. Funny enough, just before he went offline, he said "I like your new hair"!! Hahahaha. Adorable ♥


Ciao to my old hair welcome new hair!

Btw this is the old style just before I went out for a hair cut. I haven't taken any photos of my new hairstyle hence you cannot see it..... Don't look forward to it too much ya, just like others you probably won't be able to notice much difference.

TC is on the way~~~

Yay... Q's back!!! with my pressie!!!!!

I can't wait till June to come.....  a month and three days to go. Woot woot! 

Just to make things clear, he's not coming to Sydney.

But my pressie is!! Yayyyy~~~!!

with Jason and Erika

Pancakes on Rocks

I was there with my good good friend Jason and his gf, Erika. Man, finally I got to meet her, after years of anticipation!

Erika and Jason

Erika and I both ordered Chicken and mushroom crepes - yumyum!

Chicken and muchroom crepes - Creamy chicken and mushroom, topped with a crunchy coating of parmesan cheese

It was served with their special tomato sauce and sour cream. Sour cream.... wasn't their special, it was just an ordinary sour cream but I thought tomato sauce was a bit different. It was a bit more "chewier" than the normal sauce. I quite liked it.

Jason had the fresh mushroom crepes - whereas my crepes was slightly grilled, his wasn't - it looked very nice. Last time I was there with another friend and I remember that it did not taste like vegetarians dish. I really liked their basil cream sauce! (food is all about sauces)

Jason's fresh mushroom crepes 

Erika and Jason with Hot 'N' Troppo pancakes 

Our dessert was awesome - I was never a big fan of grilled bananas but this was nice! Even picky Jason (sorry!) enjoyed it very much (I think) hahaha. It was so good to catch up with them despite the rush of catching bus due to the trackwork. Times like this I really miss my Dunedin life. It is getting more and more difficult to make good friends as I'm getting older - we all have our own circle of friends. I wish in the future I can live closer to my good good friends and have the reunion often. There's nothing like having good old friends around you!

Mini's day out!

After a long time contemplating whether I should take him out or not, I decided to take Mini to our date. He has been a groomy boy recently, I thought I should let him get some fresh air, though most of the times he was inside the bag surrounded by blankies!

We had dinner at Lowenbrau, Rocks, CBD. Lovely atmosphere, lovely beer, lovely food, lovely companion!!!

My bridesmaid San 

Yes... my bridesmaid loves drinking (sorry!)

Me!

We were having a blast taking photos and reading menu..(silly menu with all the German words) then suddenly, Mini popped from San's side! How did he get there!!

Mini's entrance to the scene

San and Mini

Mini has started charming San... hehe

Then our drinks have arrived.... 

Oooo I've never seen this at home.. what's this??

Oooo bad bad timing the drinks came too quick before Mini got into the bag! So I had to distract him.  He was climbing onto me to whisper...  can I try???? And my answer was NO, obviously.

Good. Dinner came and San and I ate in peace. Mini was back inside the bag.

Hühnchenschnitzel - crisp chicken schnitzel served with french fries and Lowenbrau's special herb mayonnaise

Jägerschnitzel - chicken schnitzel on mashed potatoes, topped with mushroom sauce and served with a side salad

Great meal, great conversation... then Mini unzipped the bag himself and jumped onto the table. Hmm what is this I wonder?!?!!?!!!

Hmmmm maybe it wasn't such a good idea to take him out. I quickly picked him up and took a photo. OK! now let's go home...

Say cheese!

He took this as a souvenir from the restaurant... 

I'm going to show this to Bori and Pekpek he said

Excited Mini!

Once again, I can't believe what I did...... I must be going crazy! My ♥ for Bluebears are growing bigger and bigger. What to do!?

with Mini

Mini is a happy happy boy after a date with auntie Sansan and me :)

Watch this space for his "wild" outdoor outing!!

To be continued-

Balloons!

 It was captured by ME in Sydney CBD

Gorgeous little girl in red somehow reminded me of myself when I was a little girl

I also loved balloons when I was little...

but now?

Oh I'm so scared of it. I am scared that it'll POP when I touch it.

So I try not to go near it. 

And yet the upcoming big event will have lots of balloons... I feel so brave even coming up with the idea.

la la la♬

my logic

Wine is made to be drunk. I am drunk.

Therefore...

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am I wine?

in my dream...

Q is off to Chicago tomorrow.. woooooo so lucky. And guess what happened in my dream last night..? 

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I went to Chicago too!!

We got off at the airport. And the first thing we did was running towards this big mall for shopping! I found some lovely colours for my eyes (geeeez) and I couldn't choose what I wanted. I was tossing between the pale pink with gold base and baby pink with purple base... Do they make any sense to you? Anyways, Q told me to buy them both!! So I did!!! kakakakaka

Then we realised that we only had Aussie and Kiwi $$$ and no US $$$$. So we were walking around to find a bank.. and we ended up in this place which reminded me of Timezone. Each different game machine was actually the International EFTPOS machine!! Whoa... the States is such a cool country to live! I thought. There I found my bank's EFTPOS slot so I helped to draw some money out... (Yessss I put my Aussie card in and it gave me US$$$). In my dream I thought it was Jackpot... but soon I realised that Aussie dollars are almost as good as theirs.. meh.

I'm travelling all around the world in my dream. The day before the Royal Wedding I was in London to see the parade! I remember that Kate and Will decided to do some treasure hunting event to celebrate and I entered that competition. I was actually panting in my dream (I remember!) looking for the right room among the hundreds that looked the same inside the Buckingham Palace. At the end of the event I was rushing to find the bank that's opened for an exchange.... (Why am I so practical in my dream?!) and ended up tiptoing on the rubbish bin to see the parade because I was too late to stand in line...

You know what's so annoying thing about them??

Both times I got woken up by my.... stupid alarm! Grrrrrrrrrr 

I wish these dreams come true soon!

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I am back!!

It's not that I was being slack for the last few days. I was quite unwell... and this is my excuse. Gosh when was the last time I felt sick? This is why such words like "unwell", "fever", "weary", "diarrhoea" or "sick" do not go well with me. They just don't come with me. I'm very strong and I don't feel sick. That's me.

.....Except for this time.

I wasn't lying in bed hugging Kleenex tissues getting temperatures measured every hour or so. That would've been luxury to be honest. I was at work buzzing around in the swamp of patients. Worst comes worst it was super busy weekend I could barely sit and enjoy my lunch. Thankfully losing the appetite helped me to keep my digestive system empty throughout the daytime so I didn't have too much trouble at work.. but the trouble starts in the evening when things start being digested.... Did they ever get digested? I'm not sure but they all came out pretty quickly.. I was running to toilet every 10 minutes or so and it was a torture.

Man I'm so disappointed in myself for falling sick. I thought I was a superlady! Hope no more is coming...... *fingers crossed*

Great timing

Oh no such a great timing for germ infection!! Many people around me are done with flu... and I cannot believe this but it's my turn now! I started having sore throat yesterday and today ended up with headache and muscle pain as well... Lucky enough my voice is still in one piece so it won't be so obvious at work tomorrow. Everyone else is having their time off for the Easter but I'm working.. Is this not unfair enough?? Why is flu coming to  me now?!!?!?!? Such a great timing this is all I can say. I admit, at times I wished that I could be under extreme stress with flu so that I can.... lose weight but oh please not now.. I won't be having any days off for the next 2 weeks or so!! :'(



I'm ready for my work marathon though, my fridge is well stocked up with fruits, meats, veges and milk... Oh and guess what happened just then... I was getting the water jug out from the refrigerator to take some medicine and I dropped the jug... and the kitchen floor got flooded... I think it was at least 1.5 L of barley tea puddle. My PJ smells like it now. Great..................

I just hope I can earn some good money for the next 5 days of public holiday... I'm in the stingy mood to save for my house!

HoLiDaY

I'm on my holiday... from............ NOW!

8am GP vaccination >0<;; ouch ouch. The doc was trying to have a friendly conversation with me.. left arm yes... she wiped it with some alcohol swap.... feeling very cold and instantly I start getting tingly... then she was asking me what I do for living. I said I work at a dental clinic.... then as she's injecting into my arm she's asking me, "Oh, are u a nurse?" and I said.. "........... yeah... something like that...". One I couldn't have a decent conversation while a needle is jabbing into my arm, and two, I didn't wanna tell her the truth because then she'll laugh at me for being a wuss. I whine a lot too. Just like my dad, when I told him about it he said "you should love your needle"............ people think we love needles!! Hell no.................


9am I started my spring autumn cleaning. Pre holiday clean should I say! It feels great to come back to a neat house after the holiday where you don't have to worry about its usual mess.

11:40am at work. I was only supposed to see one patient but ended up squeezing three patients. I couldn't believe that I had to do wisdom extractions on the day I was leaving...! with my sore arm from the vaccination :( They told the patient that if he makes it within 10min then I will be able to do it for him...!! sigh.... I got cranky at it but once again I get hyper when the teeth popped out...

1:20pm rush to the bank to withdraw some money for my parents... Geez what's wrong with banks! They say they do not have Kiwi dollars OR enough Aussie cash.. so only had to get smaller than what I wanted to get.. Oh well. I'll give them less money then. Yeahhhh more for me... lol

2:00pm at home again. Final laundry to do and last minute packing... Horrible arn't I!! I'm the queen of procrastination in everything.. packing... cleaning..... studying.... except blogging! At the moment I havn't procrastinated yet....  :)

Sydney life.

After a long day out with make ups, massages and shopping, I landed in city with two of my besties for dinner at Wagamama. Initially we were wanting to have Ichiban Boshi but it was too packed. At the end, no regret choosing Wagamama for our dining experience thanks to Sansan!

For the entree, we had tori karaage. You know, tori as in bird (of course here it means chicken) and Karaage (deep fried), it's self explanatory. I felt a bit like "alcohol-ish" and saw the phrase 'prepared with sake' hence the order but.............. my blunt dull tastebuds couldn't pick up any sakeness from it.

tori karaage

For the mains, Joe had teriyaki steak soba - Nice!  Unlike others even the soba tasted so good, definitely more than just the noodle. I think they must've marinated the soba for quite some time. It had that "deep" teriyaki taste embedded in it. The plate had lotsa veges - baby bokchoy, red onions, snow peas, beansprouts, chillies and coriander. Quite healthy too.

Joe with his main and cocktail - haamonii pure shochu with passionfruit juice and freshly crushed pineapple

 

San and I had the chilli chicken ramen - it was all good apart from the fact that it wasn't chilli at all. I wished they didn't chop up the bean sprouts too much as it looked like chopped noodle. I prefer it to maintain its long and slender figure just like how I wanna look........... hmmmm getting side tracked again here.

Chilli chicken ramen

Like I mentioned earlier I was feeling very slightly "alchol-ish"... to satisfy the craving my choice of the cocktail was Squeezed apple and lemon smash cocktail. It sounds like a juice doesn't it... ya... it was juice. There was no EtOH I don't think...... But there was definitely freshly crushed apple - very rare to find in cocktail. Yumyum!!  On the menu it said, this cocktail is certain to leave you wanting more ............... yeah. To taste more alcohol!!!

Squeezed apple and lemon smash - immersed with zubrowka vodka, freshly crushed apple and lemon

San's one was passionfruit mojito. I quite didn't get to taste it actually!! (San san did you know?!!?!?) I was so hungry by the time the food has come to the table all my devoted attention was towards my food.............. and by the time I realised that I haven't tasted her cocktail, it was all consumed by her. Hahaha. It looked really nice, and the menu said, this cocktail is certain to make you feel the passion. Hmm I wonder if she really felt the passion. If you think this menu is a bit cheesy, you haven't heard everything... as the picture sows it, Joe's one is called Pure Japanese Passion, and it read, this cocktail will leave you feeling truly zen................. really?? If a total state of focus that combines a total togetherness of body and mind can really be felt by drinking this cocktail... I bet ya I will be here everyday drinking it. It'd make me reach the enlightenment earlier than my dad, whom is trying very hard so he can be there after going through lots more reincarnated lives.

Passionfruit Mojito

The food was great but the highlight of the today is.... this!!

Hahahahahahaha

I'm totally banned from putting this up on fb so here it is on my blog. Do we look like Alaskan ladies? I'm cracking up as I look at this photo... this surely will stay very valuable and non-deletable for us for a long long time!!

Ori gui

Yay I met up with Nika, Sue and Taehwan aka the Lee siblings for dinner tonight. This occasion was to farewell Nika who will be off to Korea and Europe for a few months..... lucky her. Wish I can fly off to Korea and Europe too. Hopefully my turn isn't too far away.

We went to this place called Toseung in North Strathfield. It is relatively new and the setting was quite neat. One of the common and the most important rules for the successful business in dental clinics and restaurants are that they have to give customers/patients a positive first impression.. and this place was good at it.  Everything is nicely decorated with wood and modern Korean atmosphere was good. Oh the suction was so awesome I didn't smell a thing when I went in!! (Perhaps because there wasn't many people at the restaurant yet???)

We ordered half a duck and 2x beef ribs which came with complimentary side dishes. It was enough for us so I did not get to find out whether it is refillable or not. They gave us 동치미, which is white kimchi in cold water. Oooo havn't had that for ages. Yumyum!! 

We grill the raw meat on the charcoal fire, which supposedly tastes better. The reason being that when charcoal burns, it creates infrared lights which has higher heat energy (physics anyone?). This means that the infrared lights will make sure the meat gets cooked well rather than getting burnt on the outside. I don't know. I'm just blabbing. I don't know a jack about lights all I know is that charcoal can be quite useful when the fridge stinks. Also you can put it with the rice when it's cooking and it tastes better. So it must be good.

The meat came out and I have to say I was a bit disappointed with the quantity. All of us got quite full and it was the right amount that we ordered, but still, I raise my curiosity over the "half a duck".... maybe they used a duckling rather than a duck...? 

Last time I tried ducks was when I was in Beijing a few years ago. We had the ORIGINAL Pekking ducks and received the certificate saying we've eaten the 71943790th duck since the restaurant was opened. (Geez not sure if that's for real).... Anyways the taste of BBQed duck was quite different from that of Pekking ducks'.... it tastes like.................. err............................HAM. Yeah. Ham....  very fine soft tender juicy ham unlike the ones you get from Wollies. It was yummy.. better than lamb!!!  I forgot that I am supposed to go on a diet for a while.. This is why it will never work for me... *touch wood*

 Taehwan and Sue

Taehwan, Sue, Nika

Oh man I'm so full.. It's been 3 hours since I've eaten but still I'm very full. Luckily tomorrow's my off day I can stay up a bit longer to cool my tummy down. Arghhh all those times I tried to shrink my tummy... I think it's regrown back to its original size........ but no regret. I live to eat not vice versa!!

Piano

Way back home in the afternoon...

my footsteps slow down when I am on the first floor

Someone's playing the piano again

Practising diligently.... 

Yesterday was Bach

Today is Haydn

She must be at least Grade 5.

Music flows well... then it stops awkwardly

The piece isn't complete yet

But this comes more friendly to me

I like it :)

Whenever and wherever I settle down,

I should get myself a piano first

Living with music... will make us stay forever young

♬

Apple said YES

iPad2 is launched tomorrow in Australia. 


If I had no patients I would've gone for the launching event in Town Hall... Just to take some photos of desperate Apple addicts. Once again I repeat.. everytime when I want to take time off, I'm so busy... :( I can count a few who will be lining up from 6am in the morning to buy one. All the best to you and sleep early tonight.


This is the news that I got from Macrumors.com.
In the States, Apple is paying close attention to all iPad2s that have been returning after being purchased to make sure that there are no major production defects. The story comes by way of an individual close to Apple:

[Apple's] focus this week has been to troubleshoot all the iPad 2s that customers are returning to the stores. One iPad came back with a post it note on it that said "Wife said no." It was escalated as something funny, and two of the VPs got wind of it. They sent the guy an iPad 2 with a note on it that said "Apple said yes."

I wonder how his wife would react?? She cannot possibly say No means NO, or well done we've got a free iPad yay! I'm quite interested in finding out what happened afterwards. Let me know if any of you guys ever find out.  

Been playing with iPad for some time now, and I came up with my own personal conclusion.. that it is a toy to kill some time, on the train, at the bus stop or in the waiting room of GP's clinic. Or, when you feel so lazy on Sunday mornings and wanna mingle in bed, it's the best thing you can have. But in saying that, everything has two different sides to it... we are currently using it in clinics to do the treatment presentation to patients, and they are finding it very "formal" and easy to understand. I guess the choice is yours but I feel that my laptop can do almost everything that iPad does... I am quite interested in Face Talk, but I don't think the quality of the photos/videos aren't that great... laugh laugh at VGA.................... 

iPad 3 iPad 3 iPad 3.... come out soon!!!!!! Maybe then I'd consider on the investment.

fun day out

When was the last time I was playing poky machine?

Mmmm I think it was at Gold Coast Casino.

When was that?

Mmmm I think it was back in 2005.

So it's been 6 years.

And I'm back!!!! woot woot

The moral of today is... know your limit!

You can question this statement... in many various ways. 

Yes I know.

Well if you've taken it the wrong way,

then there's gambling addiction for you. 

It was so fun though,

I can hear the monotone sounds from the machine in my head right now

ding dong.. didididong!...!! 

*kaboom* - when you've won some free games

Then..

dididididididididid..... - money rolling

Beginner's luck, I put $10 and won $20.

Should've stopped then.............lol

Blah blah blah

Why are things the way they are?
Why is almighty so against me..?

When I wanna b busy, I get no work and I become a bum.
When I cannot be bothered to work I get continuous influx of patients (like today).

Today I was hoping to come home early to do my laundry. Felt like changing my duvet to the white one with flowers so was looking forward to this evening................ Then I got very busy and now it's raining!!!!!

Also, I was hoping to have enough time to go to the gym but I guess IT'S TOO LATE NOW hmphhh

I feel so negative today. You know, when it starts pouring down from heaven you cannot really stop it? Once migraine comes it's hard to get rid of it? Oh by the way speaking of migraine... I was told that tiger balm on the forehead actually helps a lot. I wanna see if that really works for me too, asap. Not that I want migraines though. Man I've been contradicting myself so much today!!!! What's wrong with me!!? After all I'm only a female.....a lady who worked hard on Saturday. Akkkkkk I want my life.. where has it disappeared to?

Pooh I got side tracked big time....
So yeah just like the heavy rain and the deadly headache my pessimism continues. Most likely due to too many root canal treatments!!! When you try to find hairline canals for the whole afternoon on every single patient that comes to you, you'd feel for me.

Let me grab a slice of cheese and a small piece of toblerone. Then trust me, I'll be the cheerful bubbly JungHee again. Oh no...... Mini is running towards me, he heard me saying CHEESE!!!!!!

Mini before cheese

There's no conclusion to draw from today's entry. The summary is that I'm gonna eat some cheese and choc without going to the gym...


Ps.it's very hard to type on iPad. Im using only two fingers......like a 60yo elderly woman.

Mini with cheese

Bobbi's Party!!

I went to Bobbi's Party today. It was held in the CBD for 2 hours. Bobbi's professional team led by Sebastien Tardif, the regional director of artistry at Bobbi Brown were doing the off counter hands-on workshop on make up. I should really be attending workshops on dentistry but.... oh well....... I thought it's not a bad idea to widen my view, gain some skill and feel special!

I really love their foundation.. I 've always had difficulty choosing the right colour because  my skin doesn't have much yellow pigments. So no matter how well the colour matches with my neckline.. I always look "yellow/tanned" because of the yellow tints from the foundation..... but today I found the one that doesn't make me look so yellow! When I told them my problem they said that's because my skin colour is more like "porcelain" - man I love that word!! rather than "pale". Ooo porcelain... like Porcelain veneer with shade A1! Sounds so awesome ya ;)

 Sebastien demonstrating

It was relatively exclusive and there were less than 10 of us. It was really hands on, as close as it can get. They recommended me pale very pink colour for blusher and lip colour... and I got it...!! How daring..... So if you have time to meet up with me then you will see me all pinky pinky.. lol. Hope you don't get shocked.

After the "Bobbi's Party", I went to Martin Place... There're always lots going on around that place. Clumps of people wearing suits bustling around the city makes me feel my life is too free. I got caught by a group of people from Energy Australia, and they asked me to spin the colourful circle. It was so lame.. they were using a high heel to mark the area that is to be selected. They asked me how to save power with the fridge, what kind of power we are using in Australia and etcetc... I scored full mark (yippii... duhhh) so I got lotsa goodies like digital thermometer, sand clock, calculator and some stickers...

Then the next stop was T & C. I was going to collect the bracelet that was to be fixed... Silly people, they fixed the chain but didn't shorten it!! -_- Was I wrong in having high expectations on the jewellers working for T & C? Was I wrong to think that they are somewhat more special than others..?? Can't they read the instruction that's clearly written? Arghhh I have to go back next week again......Grrrrr

Poor Mr Tiffany 

Of all the times that I've been here, I've never noticed a man carrying a clock on his shoulder before. Poor thing it looks very heavy. I guess all the time I was rushing into the building so didn't get to look around the place?? haha.

There was a group of people raising money to help Japan. By the time I got there they've finished the fundraising and were lining up for a photo session. This guy with a huge lens like bazooka (Nikonian) was taking photos. Sweet! I tagged along right next to him and went *click click* hahaha

The autumn is here! I can clearly see that on the leaves though the weather remains very warm. Everytime I go out to city I cannot believe how beautiful Sydney is. The balance between antique, nature and cosmopolitan is simply amazing. It's really a lovely place to live and I'm fully satisfied that I am here!