Have not been updating much as my new job has taken over my life over the last few weeks. But today, bummed around nicely and had some good times with Miriam. Bought some eggtarts and had some coffee!
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Today was our 5 year anniversary. Both Miriam and I felt like something simple, so we just headed to dinner together at Mizu Japanese Restaurant on recommendation by one of my friends.
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In exams so no time for long update. If you want to see some snaps I took in Sydney, head over to my gallery for the full album. Nothing spectacular, just some random shots.
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Some interesting dishes. Wonder how much they cost.

We all know students gets lots of breaks and holidays. Luckily I am still a student and after the mid semester exams, I took a 5 day hiatus to visit my good friend down in Sydney. Didn’t visit many places, but I pigged out big time. Here are some quick snaps of some of the food I got to eat down there, all of which was far better than Brisbane food.
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Have been too busy to update the blog the past few weeks. Everytime I try to, it’s usually either 3-4am in the morning and I am dead tired. Finally have a bit of a break for today, before another busy week starts again. Have a couple of things in the works and pipeline which might be quite exciting, but will reveal them in due time, or when they are finalised.
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BSA is holding an all-you-can-eat Sukiyaki lunch for their members. Those who are members can attend for only $15. For those who do not know what Sukiyaki (すき焼き), it is similar to the chinese/korean hotpot or steamboat, but instead of light soup base with dipping sauce, there is no sauce for sukiyaki since the soup is really strong in flavour. Typically the ingredients include sliced beef and vegetables such as Shitake mushrooms.
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Have been swamped with study and exams lately, and not only that, it has been a rainy week as well. Cold and gloomy, we decided to have hotpot to boost our spirit up. Havne’t had dinner at home for some time now with the family so it was good to do so. Nothing special, just some bought some fish balls, meat balls, tofu fish, vegetables, some seafood and other random stuff and chucked it in the pot or as some people like to call it, steamboat.
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A good few days ago, on the 3rd of June, Miriam and me celebrated her birthday with a quiet dinner at Sono Japanese restaurant in the city. Although I was sick at the time, the food was still delicious and we pigged out on some slightly more authentic sushi and random dishes that we can’t usually eat normally.
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I’ve been severely sick lately and have pretty much been bed-ridden for the last 4 days.  There is no worse time to get sick as I have exams coming up and coming week is study week.  I had originally worked out a study timetable, but obviously that is now out the window, and I have to cope for D-Day.  What makes it worse is I caught a stomach bug, AKA gastroenteritis – usually from eating something incorrect, unclean or not cooked properly.  Essentially food poisoning.  So for the last 4 days, I’ve been residing on top of the toilet seat every 10 minutes working very hard.  To top it off, the fever that comes with it was persistant and would not subside no matter what drugs I through at it.  I even resorted to taking both Ibuprofen & paracetamol together but still not much luck.  Luckily the most aggressive phase is over and I’m feeling a lot better.

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Tried something different on the weekend, and instead of the usual asian food we get, I went with a few gaming comrades to Enchilada’s for Mexican food. If you haven’t had Mexican food, it is essentially lots of salsa, tomatoes, cheese, corn chips, flour, chilli with some sort of meat such as mince beef, steak or chicken.
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One of our good friends, Dan visited Brisbane for the weekend and we had a lot of fun over the last few days. So much that I even forgot to study. Being close to exam time, I started thinking about my study plans but that obviously went out the window. Dan arrived on Thursday, but I was too buggered to go out and meet him since he his arrival in Brisbane was delayed until 10:30pm. The next day after work, everyone gathered at my house and we bummed around, eating, drinking and playing Guitar Hero World Tour, as well as Rock Band.
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So it is approaching the end of May and we are moving into Winter.  Winter in Australia isn’t as cold as winter in some countries.  It definitely does not snow in Brisbane and no matter how chilling the wind is here, it isn’t as cold as the winter in Hong Kong or other parts of Asia.  Having said that, we were all feeling the change in weather as you could no longer walk around at night without at least a sweater, or jacket on.  So, in the spirit of winter, we had a hotpot at my friend’s new house.

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So this is why I was drinking so much Red Bull?  It seems we don’t have this drink in Australia, but Red Bull Cola was found to have traces of cocaine in Germany.

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