Category: Finding Myself – Adelaide

My journey in discovering myself in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia while fulfilling my dream to study overseas.

Rejections after rejections

December 29, 2011 sweet surrender 4 Comments

WOW! Got rejected today! HAHAHAHA! Crazy girl! Got rejected yet still so happy.

Man… It took me months to find the courage you know… Finally I asked him out for coffee and he rejected me by giving me this respond, “I have a girlfriend, so if I have a coffee with you, she might get upset.” Oh dear! That is soooo embarassing.

I had missed out chances and chances, didn’t see him for more than 2 months, finally today he turned up at my workplace for lunch. Good thing it wasn’t a very busy day, so I got the chance to chat with him. It’s not easy to finally open my mouth to ask him for coffee tomorrow. I chatted with him, then when I wanted to ask him for coffee, I didn’t know how to say, so I excused myself to clean up the tables. After cleaning up, I went back to him and asked him about his plan for tomorrow, he said that he got no plan so I asked him whether he would like to join me for a coffee. That’s when I got rejected.

Oh well… It may not be real but just as an excuse to reject my invitation. Anyway, at least I asked. If in case it’s just an excuse, if he changes his mind, who knows… Then again, I won’t be seeing him or him seeing me until after CNY 2012. No big deal.

AWWW! My dream guy rejected me. EPIC FAIL! Always I’m the one rejecting people back home, now it’s my turn to get rejected, karma ;p Not the first time I got rejected here but being rejected by my dream guy, that is sure something to remember, the whole process was quite hilarious too, can’t help it but to laugh at myself when I thought of it.

When will I finally found my prince charming? Oh please come my way… Please, please, please… Never make any new year resolutions but next year I will have one, “Get into a REAL relationship with the right person”. I have one more year here, it seems long but it will soon end. By the time I’m back from Korea, guess I’ll have less than a year to stay. So scary when think about it.

Anyway, 2012 is coming real soon!

Finding Myself - Adelaide, Heart Matters

Moscato Nights

December 28, 2011December 30, 2011 sweet surrender No Comments

Had moscato nights since after exam.

First, it was on 10th Dec. SF gave WM and I a bottle of Oliver’s Taranga Small Batch Wines 2011 Moscato before she went back to Malaysia. Both WM and I decided to have it before WM catch the very early morning flight back to Malaysia. She stayed over at my place. We celebrated the end of exam.

We started to drink around 12am. One bottle, two girls shared. We thought we couldn’t finish the bottle in a night but apparently it’s not that much.

Then, at around 2am, another two friends came to my apartment after attending their friend’s bucks night. Frankly, I really enjoyed the night especially with someone who had showered me with all the affections I need but at the same time, he confused me heaps! I guess it was all due to the influence of alcohol he drank earlier on before coming over. It’s hard to know whether it’s real or otherwise. I didn’t dare to inquire about the actions when we met few days later for lunch because it might be embarassing or might give him a hard time since he might not remember about it. If I asked, it might feel like I’m attacking him instead I told him he was annoying when he asked me whether he’s funny or not that night -.-” how silly can I be?!?! I made thing worst!

Then, few days after that, again, I guess my acts turned him off when he paid me a visit sigh… I wasn’t feeling well and I didn’t know how to tell him because I’m not good at that. I’m “trained” all these years to be strong, be independent and not to bombard someone I like/love with negative things because I don’t want them to worry about me due to the type of relationships I had previously. I pretended that I’m okay but ended up as if I’m giving him a cold shoulder the whole night. I really do know how to screw things up. Then again, I do have some suspicions as well. I have this feelings that he might not be single but I never asked. It’s so confusing really… Oh well… After the visit few days ago, I guess it’s over… Time to move on?

The second round, it was on 22/12, it was winter solstice but another girl friend and I drank for Christmas *LOL* I didn’t know my friend wanted to drink because of Christmas instead of winter solstice ;p All these while I thought it was for winter solstice. Apparent she didn’t know it was winter solstice that day.

She bought a bottle of Gossips Moscato Sweet Lips, double brie cheese, avocado, and water crackers. I love the cheese! Found my favourite cheese. YUM! Too bad I don’t remember or take note of the brand of the cheese. All I know is that it’s quite expensive, AUD40+ per 1kg (it was on special). The moscato was very SWEET but surprising cheap! Only AUD5.99 for 750ml! Alcohol here is much cheaper than other drinks here.

There you go… Two moscato nights with the girls.

Finding Myself - Adelaide, Food Porn, Heart Matters, Personal Events

My Yen Chinese Restaurant

December 26, 2011December 28, 2011 sweet surrender No Comments

Had a farewell/graduation dinner with those from my workplace and their families about a week ago. We had it at My Yen Chinese Restaurant loacted at 74 Belair Road, Hawthorn. It’s one of the oldest Chinese restaurants in Adelaide. I took a bus there, almost missed the stop. Really hate taking public transport even though the system here is good. I’m such a spoil brat ;p

I have no idea what the actual food we had, just let you see the photos hehehe…

It was such a BIG dinner! We have 12-course meal! Surprisingly our table cleared most of the plates but not the other tables hehehe… We’re such big eater. There’s a plate of cracker (not sure is it prawn crackers, could be) for you to savour before waiting for the food to be served. It’s kind of tasteless.

Left: Steam oyster with ginger & shallots.
Right: Salt & pepper squid with shredded chicken meat.

Left: Hun siu chicken shark fin soup.
Right: I’m not sure what’s this hahaha… I heard there’s abalone in there. *shrug* I only know there’s mushroom and green vegetable. I’m not familiar with all these rich people food such as abalone, lobster, shark fin, bird nest, and so on and so forth *LOL*. I don’t eat these back home and never dream of eating them unless it’s served in a dinner banquet. We don’t buy these stuffs to eat at home.

Left: Lobster with noodle with ginger & shallot, love this! My first time having lobster too.
Right: Pei pa duck.

King prawn with macadamia nuts & snow peas and Seafood fried rice.

Left: Steam coral trout with ginger & shallot.
Right: Roast chicken with num yu sauce.

Left: Red bean soup, extremely sweet but it tastes good because haven’t have one for soooo looooong…
Right: Red wine… I don’t like it. It took me whole night to finish half glass of red wine and stained my lips badly -.-” I prefer white wine but will avoid drinking any alcohol if possible.

What a night! So much food! Also, so much rich-people-food in a night ;p Overall, the food was great.

Finding Myself - Adelaide, Food Porn

Merry Christmas 2011

December 25, 2011December 26, 2011 sweet surrender 2 Comments

My first Christmas in Adelaide.

Photo taken after 12 hours of Christmas’ eve cum birthday party at a friend’s house.

At 10.45am, 24/12/2011, my friend came to pick me up to do a bit of last minute shopping for the BBQ marathon of the day, karaoke whole day too. We started BBQ at noon.

The weather was scorching hot. Damn hot! Worst than Malaysia. I’m such a good girl, didn’t even touch single alcoholic drink 😉 It was also birthday party for 3 friends.

Left: Group photo of the girls at the party. Some left earlier, these are those still there at 10.30pm. Most guys were drunk already. Most of the girls were sober because not many of us drank.

Right: In fact, some of us left the party at around 8.45pm to catch the Christmas Light Show at Salisbury. It was dissappointing. Was hoping to see lots of houses with colourful lights but we were greeted by only 2 houses.

This is one of the houses.

This is another one. Drove so long and only saw two houses with the lights. Well… Along the way, there’s random houses with Christmas lights but they were not as great as these two. Not sure all together how many at this area but we only saw two major ones.

We rushed back to the party before 10.30pm to join the birthday celebration. We’ve been basically eating and drinking (including non-alcoholic drinks) for almost 12 hours before calling it a night. The poor guys were out there BBQ for us and we ladies all hid inside the house for air-conditioning. It’s sooooo hot.

Christmas morning, went to church. It was so hot in the church and felt like fainting -.-” Twice! After the service, we had tea break, yummy cake!

I’m leaving Adelaide soon… Gosh! It’s getting closer and closer. I’m still not that prepared to go to Korea. My packing not really done yet, no idea what to bring.

Going to have another BBQ tonight. Will prepare for tonight now. Merry Christmas and Happy new year!

Finding Myself - Adelaide, Me, myself and I, Public Events

Carols by Candlelight

December 22, 2011December 25, 2011 sweet surrender No Comments

Last Sunday night was the annual Carols by Candlelight at the Elder Park. Was curious about it so decided to went there to have a look. Some more, it’s just opposite the place I’m staying.

Soooo many people. You have to donate when you go in, I think you can donate whatever amount you want. I think… Was caught by surprise that we need to pay to go in and I didn’t have much money with me. Thought of leaving but at the end we still went in since we’re already out and there’s no place to go.

I’m there!

It was raining non-stop since the morning and finally the weathe cleared in the evening.

It was quite cold that night, brrrr… Didn’t wear much so went home before it ended. Besides, I didn’t pay attention there too, was busy talking with my friend. Heard fireworks but didn’t bother to check it out as I’m already so tired after picking cherries under the rain that afternoon.