Best Boss Ever.

I 've finally told my boss that I have to leave Boost.

I am leaving not because I hate working there, but cause I got kicked out of Panda's student accommodation and have no where else to stay in Canberra. Not renting a new place cause it just isn't worth it (will incur a VERY much higher cost).

Upon telling him, his first reaction was "Where you staying now?" (he heard wrongly and thought I am homeless). After knowing the whole story, he said he will try to dig out his contacts to see if they have a place for me to rent for AUD500 a month.

In the end can't find any. Not unusual. Cheapest rent here I've heard is AUD800 a month.

So we had a chat a couple days before. He ask me what are my plans when I go back Melbourne. Considering I can't leave Australia for good yet due to my stupid visa problem (still need police check up which might take up to 2 months).

I told him I'll be rotting away, being all jobless cause no one will want to hire me as I have a possibility of not being around during summer. I jokingly said I can slim down naturally as I'll be starving myself for 2 months cause have to depend on savings.

Instead of laughing, he looked very worried. He said he will help me and he really did (have to highlight cause I've heard enough of people volunteering to help but in the end disappear/no news!).

He gave me a lot of shifts so that I can earn money from him to last me till November.

He said if I am still around during summer, I can come back Boost Canberra anytime and he will take me in.

He also said he will be my referral, and if I want to work in Boost Melbourne, he call me to get the boss there to call him so that he can try to get me a job there.

I told him to give shifts to new people to train them up as I will be leaving at the end of the day.

He replied "I can train the new people anytime, but you have only two weeks to earn enough money to survive".

All these left me TOTALLY SPEECHLESS. I was touched beyond words. Felt extremely guilty,too.

I've been sharing a lot of stuffs that are not very nice about him with other colleagues, almost threw a fit and storm out of the shop halfway working cause argued with him, and despite all these... he still cares.

I have had bosses who cut my shifts drastically from 5-6 shifts to 2 shifts weekly solely because they heard that I am going to quit, and they rather train new staff, or pay old staffs who are staying. Never even ask about my well being, future plans.etc.

Gosh, I ♥ my boss now. He's the best.

And he pays REALLY REALLY REALLY well. Next two weeks's pay can last me 1.5 months. On top of that he's very generous with gift cards, and even profit earned..10% will be given to us as "bonus/tips". Where to find bosses like this?!  A lot of bosses I know of, would rather keep their profits to themselves.

I really want to stay now. sigh.


Glad I did him proud :

My manager and I got our shop's first 100% when HQ (headquarters) sent a spy to rate our shop for QC (quality control) !!!! =D

Goshh

Been working ,my gosh I really hate this week's shift.  

Sunrise shift at 8AM is definitely not for me. Every morning I wake up with mood swings, was late, got nagged.

Talk about work, my blood pressure seriously will go sky high. 

Freaking hell fuck guai lous. Guai lous/orang putih/ white people /ang mohs are indeed a whole bunch of fucking lazy people. I will fucking not date a guai lou EVER !!!!!!! Maybe I am unlucky la, or my boss is, hired all fucking lazy people.

They are all selfish, put themselves first and all.

I have to scoop yoghurt and all for Boost drinks, our fridge is kinda spoilt right now, so all yoghurt are rock solid, so have to use a lot of strength to scoop.

Girls usually avoid the yoghurt station, which is natural, I would try to avoid, but not as obvious and as often as them. If I make a drink, I make sure I scoop la. But guys also freaking hell , runaway instead. ZZZzz.  Make drink half way go stop at scooping cause they don't want to scoop.

Instead all my Malaysian friends (4 Malaysians in the shop now) and I if we work together, all of us plan to take turns to scoop, cos they (white people) are obviously USELESS.

With Panda gone, another one on holiday, and 3rd one can't really work so often past few days cause his gf was leaving AU so he took a few days off...my gosh, eventhough I've been standing there scooping whole day say from 8am - 5pm...all them won' t even care, Instead they're are freaking happy !! 

If I see them, they have damn a lot of drinks to scoop, I ACTUALLY HELP. WHY AM I SO FREAKING NICE?!

SO FINE, I endure all these, because moneys good, but DAMN my right hand now hurts like mad, and I get so exhausted from work. 

Worse thing is that I fucking hate my boss la. see me kena bully at work, somemore say 

"SCOOP FASTER".

HONESTLY, I ALMOST QUIT MY JOB TODAY. ALMOST STORM OFF THE SHOP. 

But instead I shouted, CAN SOMEONE SCOOP. I can't stand it anymore.

SIGHHHH TOMORROW LONG DAY AGAIN.

Nevermind, I am going SYDNEY again next Thursday.

FTS. 

terribly exhausted !

Ah, been working like mad since Wednesday and will be working everyday until next Monday. Next Tuesday = DAY OFF!

Sucks. Hateeeeee working many days in a row. Wanna continue my 3rd day in Sydney also, no more energy to make my pictures smaller.

3rd day got more pictures somemore. More exciting and fun filled , too! Cause I met up with my friends from Sydney. Quite fun la.

And my friends from Melbourne drove 8 hours down to Canberra on Tuesday, lucky them that I didn't have work that day, and brought them around. Even though they are the ones who drove. Even though the GPS led the way, but still, I brought them around !!! heheh.


AHHH

Been groaning about so many 10am shifts this week, and working for 8 LONG hours...dammitttt, roster for next week just came out, and I'll be starting work at 8 am, 9 LOOOOOOOOOOONGGGG HOURS!!  FMyLife !!!

Am soooooooooo not a morning person !!!!!

So hard la to earn money :(

Back in canberra.

But I just booked my next flight to Melbourne. What to do, its on SPECIAL !!! AUD79.90 for return ticket.

Wanna blog about my trip but guess what -_-. I left my memory card inside Eddie's laptop IN MELBOURNE!!! But at least it's better than bringing out a camera without memory card la. Hate it when that happens! 

But yeah, I am officially super broke. Budget to spend $250. Ended up spending at least $500-600. Almost $600 for a freaking 8days hols !!! EXCLUDING flight tickets and everything. In total this 8 days hols cost me almost $1k =( Fkkkkkkkk

I am back in Canberra, not only empty handed (it was a very expensive food trip) but also super broke. Like really...no money to eat at all!! Got la. $20 to last me for this week until this Sunday when my pay comes in. Start work tomorrow. ZZzz.

So I've been eating leftover snacks...chocolates, cereals + soy milk , nuts, and CHEESE for meals. Not too bad lah, all quite filling. 

I bought this cheese right before I left Canberra for my trip. 

Actually I bought it more from out of curiosity. 

Thought it'll make me eat slower , cause look so fun to eat and all (or me eat less)..I like playing with food, but this cheese is seriously YUMMY !!! I just feel like eating it like a chocolate bar, rather than 'stringing' it. 

If you're those kind that eats margarine/butter just like that, or put A LOT of butter /margarine on a small appetizer bun ( I usually use the whole 1serve butter/margarine pack for 1 bun)...this cheese is MEANT FOR YOU. 

It taste almost like them, except it's cheese !! Really yummyy. I finished all 4 of them within 1 day. =/

Not buying it anymore. Seriously, mindless eating has to stop !!!  When I like something, I can't stop eating it. AIHHHH!!


I miss my Sydney trip .... sighhh

I want to relive the times I had in Sydney!!!

Made a big HOO-HAH !

Meant to blog a couple of days ago (2 days ago to be exact) - until the fateful moment I cut my finger. Before everyone starts screaming "DRAMA QUEEN" on top of their lungs, just going to clarify that this is quite a serious cut compare to normal cuts I had!

Working in Boost, and being a klutz, I cut my hands almost everyday I work! It's like a miracle if I don't cut my hand two days in a row.

Back to the story, well , I cut my hand while cutting oranges, cause I was busy talking and not looking where I was cutting, and before I know it, I cut my finger with as much strength you would use to cut an orange !


Thank God for my hard nails that kept me from chopping my own fingers off. I know I should've looked where I was cutting, but my best friend was going to break up with her bf, how can I possibly stop yakking during that prime time of talking, right?!

So it was around 8pm when I cut my hand. I quickly put on a plaster and stop the bleeding.  Well the low quality plaster didn't keep my blood in and I had to wrap another layer around it...blood can even ooze out from the bandage that was wrapped around my plaster !

Two dots on the side = my blood ! I know in my heart that this is no normal cut, but I chose to calm down first and then see how later.

Around 1am, I open my bandage cause I was expecting it to at least dry a little already, but I was wrong. Blood was STILL pouring and my wound was still very much raw. Both my hands are covered in blood, unprepared with NO PLASTER AT ALL, I looked like I killed someone!

Took a wet tissue to cover my finger, instruct Panda to fold cotton cloth into a square so I can make my own plaster and bandage it around my finger again, but damn -_- she don't know how to do it, she cut the cloth too big but I thought to just try luck and put that chunk of cloth on my wound and bandage it up!

Ended up the cloth was not tight enough around my finger, blood was slowly wetting the whole cotton cloth, I had to use the bandage and tie the lower part of my finger to stop blood. I panicked. I took a gross picture of my bloodied tissue and asked for help ON FACEBOOK!!! Not that I am seeking attention ok , but my family was incontactable. If only I get to call my dad, all these wouldn't have happened.

Loads of my friends commented, some annoyingly joked about it, which pissed me off, but some are really helpful! Thankful to have friends like them. But I didn't have a first aid kit at home, no ice, no nothing,,,

With my fingers are growing purple from all these,I was dizzy also, shivering in a heated room (I hardly shiver- I always feel hot!) , and I am prone to fainting... so I've decided to go ER (Emergency Room).

Cause if I do faint with blood still oozing out, Panda is TINY and won't be able to carry me , an ambulance will have to come...that's $500 gone at least + so much more drama!

Anyway, reached the hospital, fuck my life. Like REALLY!! I got an African rude nigger to attend my finger. I won't call people names for no reason ok, he was seriously TOO MUCH.

When I sat down in this chair, he call me to show him my wound. I did, and he immediately try taking my bandage out. Ok- it's fine, BUT DON'T GO PULLING THE BANDAGE OUT, IT HURTS YOU KNOW!!!!

So I pushed him away (auto reflex), and he said "SO YOU GOING TO TAKE IT OUT YOURSELF HUH, FINE". And stood there. I was using only my right hand to take out the bandage, I was obviously struggling cause IT HURTS, and at one point of time, I needed a scissors to cut this piece of bandage stuck to the cotton.., I asked for it, he said "No". WTF!!!!!!!!!

He came over without warning that he's going to just PULLED THE PLASTER OFF MUTHA FUCKER !!

My cut finger !!!

And he pulled it outwards!!! Obviously my wound open EVEN MORE.

The cotton and plaster thing did come off , but fuck, my wound was like this human waterpipe. Blood just leaked like hell over the dustbin. He put a plaster over it and ask ,

Nigga : " Have you got a Tetanus shot". In nigga accent. 
Me : "I am not sure"
Nigga " How old are you that you don't know? Australians learnt about this shot when they are in Year 9, how can you not know? Did you grow up here or CHINA?" FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me" I don't know ok, my dad is a doctor, every year I get shots for GOD KNOWS WHAT, how you expect me to remember all of them? So what am I getting from this wound? Do I need to stitch it?"
Nigga " Yes you need to stitch your wound up as you can see the blood isn't stopping" in my heart im like YAH MY WOUND IS BLEEDING LIKE FUCK, HOW TO STITCH? WOUND ALSO CAN'T BE SEEN CAUSE BLOOD KEEPS COMING OUT. 
Me" I don't want to get it stitch. Any other options?"
Nigga" Glue, but depending on the doctor"

He was way more rude than how I actually put it la, lazy to write the whole convo. So I stormed out and desperately tried calling my dad again but FAILED, so I called my whole neighbourhood, all my beloved close cousins to help contact my family cause I just can't get through to them!

In the end I follow my instincts, and decided to leave. I've seen my dad sew patients wound up before, they were bleeding but not as much as mine, their wound was more broad. My finger is tiny, stitch what? and furthermore the plaster is keepin everything intact!

Soooooo I left, but made sure I wrote like a 2 page complaint letter, explaining my ordeal over everything, and got home by 5pm.

Went to hospital to get a plaster and 2 panadols only. fuck Australia. Second time I go ER, same shitty treatment.

Wow lengthy wordy post ! Going to Sydney in an hour's time, soooo excited and won't be able to update for a few days. Max a week !

Why so cheating one!

Sigh, been cheating a lot on my diet lately. Had Kinder Bueno yesterday, and KIT KAT CHUNKY in Cookies and Cream flavour TODAYYYYYY!!!!! 

Just suddenly crave chocolates! Been snacking A LOT on nuts also....and nuts can make me bloat up within a night! Diuzzzzzz.. And I have about a week's supply of nuts. In form of mixed nuts, nut bar, and  also in form of small 1 serving kinda boxes like : 

to control my nut intake (it's also the exact nut brand I have right next to me, tempting me to savour it!). 

Honestly, eating from a bag..regardless of it being 100g to 1kg , I can finish it all in one sitting. 

Nuts are soooo addictive! 

Anyway, I've been working a lot lately, it's exhausting. Regular customers commented that I look tired today, and so, I skipped gym today (eventhough I ate chocolate yesterday and today!). 

But I had a good workout session yesterday night, body ache whole day today morning =D 

Anyway, I also bought salmon to pamper myself :

Cooked my stupid tofu with my mushroom.

I impulse-bought my tofu, thinking it's healthy and I should consume more of it. Then when I had it in my fridge, it was sitting there for 3 days, and me not knowing what to do with it (don't know what style to cook it with). Then I just take out only and stir fry -_-.

I like tofu but in fish soups (too much work and time consuming) , claypot tofu (too fattening), fancy steam tofu with meat on top ( C.B.F.) ...hahaha in the end stir fry only loh.

Taste quite horrible, cause the tofu taste is too strong! Don't know what kind of super organic and authentic tofu I bought. Some more I stir fry only without much taste. In the end, I chow down everything with Tobasco sauce. YUM.

Z END.

Sighhhh...

All flights out of Melbourne/ NZ/ Tasmania are cancelled/delayed because of the ash from a volcano in Chile that is about to erupt but still not quite. It's like farting only, waiting for the shit to come out.

I've got a holiday planned next week (June 20th), going down to Sydney from Canberra. I am not directly affected, but Eddie will be flying down to Sydney from Melbourne!!!

I've been looking forward to this 8 days holiday with Eddie and friends :( It's still a week away...........it's ONLY a week away (geddit?) !!!

This ash cloud was from the volcano on June 5th !! It's June 13th now. 1 week....more ash?? Please stop being constipated, volcano. 

......

Talking about healthy food prices, time to eat my own words....they are really expensive :(

Cherries = $10 !!!! 

Organic kiwi  x6 =  $4.99!!!

AUD52.15 on mostly fruits!!!! How la..

Wanted to buy Blueberries, but a 3/4 cup of blue berries = whopping $9.99!!!  wth!!!

Too expensive!! :(  I tried to think of ways to afford everything organic, but I can't. This AUD52.15 bill is the highest price I've paid for my grocery for 1 person , and only 1 item is organic. 

And I am not done buying some more.. the reason I stopped shopping was cause the cart was getting too heavy. Going to quit eating cereals, and start eating oats instead. They are toooo high in sugar........! But wait till I finish my cereals first lah, sighhhhh. 

High cost of living sucks. 

Lesson not learnt.

Just 2 days ago, I weighed myself, and felt extremely depressed, cause I didn't see any significant weight loss, even though I look slimmer physically.

I whined, talked to a few people, asking them why did I gain weight instead?! In fact I weigh lighter when I was fatter. Don't tell me I have loads of muscles now after 5 weeks of exercising vigorously and work?! Why my fats are still as clingy as ever!?

Even though weight is just a number, as long as my physique improved....... but I have always been very dependent on the scales to give me a rough estimation if I lost weight or not...because I don't quite believe what people tell me. To me, whatever positive stuff anyone say to me, are just white lies.


Mirror = TRUTH! 

So whenever I say I am fat, I NEVER expect people to say "No la, you're so slim and pretty and tall and fair..etc" .

Anyway to cut the crap, yesterday I had a sinful dinner T.T

First staff meeting for Boost Juice, to introduce us the new manager. A few staff didn't turn up, a few staff left immediately after meeting...but the boss already ordered 6 pizzas !!!!

6 pizzas to share among 7 remaining people. Panda and I really wanted to leave, but we felt bad somehow cause we're quite close to out boss (heh, we're good at ass kissing).

We ate in the dark!! Picture quality sucky cause it's pictures are from my BB.

I had....5 sinful slices!!! :'( TBH, I can eat more, but I stopped at 5 slices. Why some girls eat so little ???Make me feel like a pig because I can finish 1 whole pizza by myself !!!!!

Well,  the calories of 5 pizza is equivalent to 1 k calories. Gosh, I am heavy and yet I ate 1k calories for dinner.

Went to gym after that nasty fatty meal until the gym close. Burnt about 700-800 calories on cardio !!! Was so guilty that I powered up on all my exercises (rowing, elliptical , threadmill) and burnt that amount of calories within 1 hour 20minutes! My highest personal record ever!!

Then today morning have cereals (200 cals) and a nut bar (225 cals) , lunch had Sumo smoke salmon salad half wrap ( 350 cals) and a few Boost smoothie (600 cals)  ...I think I kinda overshot my calories intake for today, so went to gym after work (-700 cals ), and had 1 nut bar (225cals), 3 apples (210 cals) and 2 orange (100cals).

In total I consumed 1210 calories today!! Sigh , my BMR is only 1.4k (meaning when I lie down on my bed whole day, my body burn only 1.4k calories).

T.T But apples and oranges should'nt be too damaging T.T

Muffin top ! :(

Didn't go to the gym yesterday and today...worse part is that, I felt chubbier already.

Been working a lot instead, and my body was extremely exhausted.

So was in the mood to watch Biggest Loser Australia 2011 today..the concept this season is really interesting. The personal trainers have to spend the first week, living in the house of the participants (ie obese people), eating what they eat, and not exercising at all.

It was a shocker...when they weigh themselves after 1 week.

All the personal trainers gained at least 5kgs A WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy #$@%$#%# !!!

I thought the more muscles you have, the higher your metabolism...some more the personal trainers didn't really eat exactly what the obese people eat..they puked it out..so how?! How did they gain 5kgs in A WEEK!

I don't want to exercise my life away (its really tiring), I want to eat food without counting the calories , so hard to enjoy life ! Either you eat happily and look really sad , or eat like a bird and look good.

Furthermore, in 3 weeks time, I'll be taking 1 week off gym , going for holidays (Sydney and Melbourne)...eating ....not really moving...I don't want to gain all the excess fats I've lost!!!

How to get the best of both worlds? :'(

But tomorrow I am going to the gym for hoursssss , to make up for lazy yesterday and today.

Oh oh, hehehe,

the pants I wore up there..

2 months ago when I was back in Melbourne...I can't even button that jeans pants! It was sooooo freaking tight, even breathing out all the air from my body + sucking the tummy, I just can't button it.

So I brought that pants over to Canberra, I tried it today, and woohoo, I can wear them again! =D Just that I have a slight.."muffin top" . hahahaha. 

Never mind, soon it'll be hanging off my butt like the picture up there! Just wait! 

Going to buy weighing machine soon! Panda and I have been in denial...and didn't dare to weigh ourselves, hence no weighing machine in Canberra at all ! Another 1 more month...I'll be buying it no matter what ! 

A treat!

Woo, its a brand new week, and in 1 week of dieting, you can indulge yourself in fatty / high calorie food approximately 3 times/meals.

Today's Tuesday, and I already indulged TWICE. haha.

Yesterday had fried mihun, curry chicken and fried honey chicken.

Today, =D breakfast ~

At a famous breakie place in Canberra:

Pronounced as "sai lo". Why all these words white people can pronounce when these words sound like chinese, but when we teach them actual chinese words they can't really pronounce. weird. 

CARB & SUGAR HEAVENNNNNNNNNNNNNN :

But even though I let loose a little on my diet, I still eat moderately....(I hope). I don't go entirely crazy with my food and its portion. I didn't eat 3 meals at one go =]

Out of all the choice, I chose ONLY this chocolate thingy :

 T.T The old me would've chose at least 2.

Really yummy !

It's rich and not too sweet. Just nice :o)

Panda's choice:

 Black Forest.

Hehe, even though I only ordered just one Chocolate pie/cheese thingy :

My plate has some smoked salmon and mushrooms.

Heh!

But not too fatty (I hope). Cause I've read somewhere that a slice of cheesecake can contain up to 700calories !!!!!

Arhhhhhhh. My cheesy chocolate thing should be around 400calories?! Lucky it's for breakfast.

After breakfast I went to work, barely ate anything and only sip leftover smoothie for 7 hours, and then ate a raisin bun +  70calories yogurt for dinner!

Not too bad huh !

But skipped gym today =( Supposed to go, but finished work late, and was extremely exhausted.

.....................

Remember I kept bitching about my new boss?
Well, today we bonded.
An irresponsible colleague of mine left work 3 hours early because she's lazy. She gave some lame excuse la, but to cut story short, SHES FKIN LAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So only me and my boss managed Boost Juice TOGETHER!!! My boss is new to Boost because he just bought this business 3-4 months ago. I just turned a month old in Boost today.

From 3pm till 5pm, people just keep coming. Just two of us. Running from register/cashier, to making the drinks (at least 4-5 drinks per time), to washing the jugs, to refilling yogurts (for the drinks), to juicing fresh fruit. WE BOTH DID IT.

Sales for that 2 hours was AUD520. Thats about at least 100+ drinks in 2 hours for 2 person ! It was intense and finish work 2 hours later cause of cleaning.

And my boss said "Wow, we did a good job. Some more your only about 2.5months old. But we did it !"

hehe, I am only a month old, boss.

But he was really impressed that WE (both him and I) made it, just the two of us, and we chatted while cleaning.

There were times we feel like giving up, and my boss even had the "Closing Early" sign standby, but it was just sooo busy that we just do whatever is on hand first. By the time the crowd died down, it was 4.40pm. 20minutes more to the actual closing time. So we might as well go on.

Morale of the story - suffer first and feel happy for enduring.

Yogurt Trend.

I know 'yoghurt' is spelt as 'yoghurt', but I prefer spelling yogurt and it's a valid word and meant the same as yoghurt minus the 'H'. I don't know, it just looks wrong when you split yoghurt into two words its yog-HURT. It's healthy stuff ya know!

I've never been a yogurt person until the invention of Froyo - frozen yogurt. It was Love at first bite - I was hooked to froyo, spending AUD10 per Large yogurt almost everyday in Melbourne.

Since I moved to Canberra, I've been deprived of froyo. The only shop that sells froyo here...it doesn't even taste like one, and it's a sandwich shop that sells them.

So I've decided to find a proper substitute that would actually curb my cravings, and then I found THIS:

It's LOVE. 

It's the best watery yogurt I've ever tasted !!!!!! It has actual strawberry bits, and the best part is it has very low calories! Only 66 calories per serve. It's a 1kg tub, I did the calculation and....the total calories for the whole 1kg tub is ONLY 376 cals!!!!!

That's very little for 1kg.....100g of "low fat/baked not fried"chips is already 492 calories.

Oh well. I finished that 1kg in less than 24hours. Infact...lasted only 2 meals (dinner yesterday and breakfast today). It's insanely addictive!

Then cooked : 

for lunch and dinner.

It's super healthy eh. The only ingredient was cherry tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, chicken meat, spiral pasta (100% durum wheat & organic , ie more protein than carbs)  and salt and pepper. Tomatoes are extremely healthy and aids weight loss ! =D

So yeah, still dieting and gyming for 6-7 days a week ! Losing weight is hard but...

I'll quote Fitness First :

"Motivation is what gets you started, Habit is what keeps you going".

It's kinda my habit now to go to the gym, 1 day without gym makes me feel all guilty!

A Student's life in Canberra, AU.

Although I studied my whole university's life overseas in Melbourne, it doesn't have the campus feeling. I lived independently, renting a place off someone's house when I first arrived in Geelong. The final 2 years, I just moved into Melbourne city, renting a place from an agent.

Since coming to Canberra, and bunking in with my bestie in her student accommodation, I actually felt like I've missed out so much being a uni student! Why did I become so independent so early?

Staying in student accommodation here, all you have to do is just pay 1 flat rate of around AUD1k for a single studio. No water bills, electricity bills nor gas bills to worry about. And you can on your heater 247, shower 3 times a day, and sleep with the lights on ALL THE TIME with no extra charges!!

Anytime whenever your pipeline gets blocked, all you have to do is just report to the receptionist. THEY get their plumber to fix them FREE OF CHARGE!

Each time postmen comes, the receptionist will collect your big bulky parcel for you. No need to find a free day to drop by to the post office to collect it.

It's just so convenient !!!

What made me want to write this is that exam season is approaching, and every room in this whole building gets this :

this is just half the sandwich. Panda ate the other half before she left for work.

It's just so supportive of them.

Furthermore, if you were to have left your key in your room, all you have to do is call the RA (residential advisor). He/she will open your room for just AUD10.

If you were to move out, all you have to do is just pay a compulsory AUD100, for everything, including damages done to the property, broken lights, and cleaning.

If you're renting privately or from an agent!? I got locked once and it costed AUD160 because we need to get a lock smith. I don't use heater at all in Melbourne because bills will go up sky high. Don't cook much because its electric stove - not as cheap as gas. The last time we moved out of the old property , AUD4K bond, becomes AUD2k.

They ate AUD2K - to repaint walls, for cleaning, all the damages lah , as opposed to AUD100 that you have to pay to move out in a student accommodation.

If you're a uni student, try staying in a student accommodation. I am not sure if others are as good as Unilodge Canberra, but shouldn't be too much of a difference!

My body's in pain but I like it =]

Two days ago, after work (5.30pm), after working out ( 7.30pm) and after dinner (fish and veggies ) went for a girls night out. Boy, I had a great time, but how I wish I didn't indulge in fast food and loads of alcohol.

I had at least 3 drinks :

Had to help Panda drink because her tolerance for alcohol is horrible !

My new friend from Canberra and I  :

SHE'S ACTUALLY FROM GEELONG, MELBOURNE! My "hometown" in Australia!  Funny how we meet in Canberra, and her primary school (Roslyn Primary School) is the kids school I walk past to get home everyday in 2008. Nostalgic.

Well, Melbourne club is shit. In Canberra, after club hopping 3 times (every club is walking distance from each other), I've found one comparable to the clubs in KL !!!

 It's called Academy.

Freaking niceeeeeeee, music's good, ambience is beautiful. Only thing is that it's AUD5 per entry, BOOO. Every other club in Canberra its FREE to enter. But beats Melbourne club anytime, cause Melbourne's expensive, AUD15 AT LEAST ! And the ambience....kinda sucks, they never improve!

Pizza sellers outside :

 It was tempting.

It's like every shop was calling out to me to buy PIZZA, and it's only AUD2 or AUD3 (depending on flavours and shops) per slice ! Cheap and yummy looking.

Melbourne should have this! Rather than us all having to go to Melbourne Central to have our supper after clubbing. Actually, maybe not. Cause we might still be tempted to go to restaurants, after eating a slice of pizza outside club. That'll be adding calories !

Better be the one selling then! Good money I assume cause so many people were doing it!

Well, time to weigh my 'food sins' now. Its bad :( The amount of alcohol I consumed its at least 500-600 calories over there. Since I have calories deficit cause I went to the gym before, it's all good.

Until I decided to eat McDONALDS.

My friend wanted to pig-out and she bought a lot ! Imagine 20 piece McNuggets, 1 Chicken McBites (something like popcorn chicken) , 1 large fries, and 1 apple pie. Shared among 2 people. We finished it.

I ate 1 apple pie, 3pieces of nuggets, 3 pieces of McBites,  and half fries.

I used online calculator to calculate the amount of calories I've consumed AT 2AM....

....

FREAKIN  600+ cals !!!! =(

The next day , I bloated up instantly, regardless of me working out at least 1-2 hours 6 days a week for the past 2 weeks.

So the next day, after work (shift ended at 5pm), I told myself to DOUBLE UP WHATEVER SHIT I EXERCISED). I did.

Worked out for at least 2.5 hours. Burnt 700calories purely on cardio (threadmill, elliptical, rowing and exercycle), and I did a lot of weights and abs exercise. Hopefully, I lose 1k calories over there =D That's 1.5x more than my usual exercise routine.

And when I woke up today, ugh, my body is in PAIN. My arms, my legs, my abs tummy. I feel crippled.

But it's a good pain. Signs that I've worked out pretty much almost every part of my body.

I am going to the gym later AGAIN.

This is what I had for breakfast :

Low fat cereals with low fat milk.

That''s about 250 calories I think. Or 300. Better to overestimate than underestimate.

Heading to the gym in 2-3 hours time. =)

Actually, I don't know how much I weigh , but...even if I know, it'll be embarrassing to tell it out here. But I am planning to lose at least 5 kgs!

Counting calories consumed is my daily obsession now.

A LIFE !

This week work like mad.

It's now 3.30am. Tomorrow got work again. ZZzzz.

My temper's pretty bad lately =(  almost want to pick a fight with a fat girl in this club I went to. I may be fat but shes at least twice my size :@ 

She danced without caring which foot she stepped on (MY FRIEND'S) , or who she whacked with her gigantic arms (ME). Imagine a fat girl in a crowded club la, simply flinging her bloody hands and stomping her foot everywhere. I don't know how many times I got whacked and pushed. It HURTS ok! 

Actually I kinda shouted at her (she didn't hear - club too noisy) , but my friend (who's foot got stepped on by that 100+ kg girl) kinda calmed me down, and I ought to be ashamed of myself cause I think getting　ＳＴＥＰＰＥＤ　ＯＮ is worse than helicopter fat heavy hands whacking everywhere. 

Ok I got to be patient. 

At work also, kinda can't tolerate my boss, and shot him an irritated look. He noticed.

UGH !! =( 

Continue tomorrow. 

GOTTA SLEEP!

I really can't stand my boss, even though he's paying us quite well. LE SIGH.

PS. Rant abit.
HOW LA. Everyday get nagged. My boss is new to F&B .He just bought over the business. Don't know anything, yet want to teach me the "right method".  Methods he learn from his bloody training by Boost. Truth is, everyone works better in different method, not just the supposedly "best method" written in black and white. That shit is just for noobies who don't know anything, and thats like a starting point for them.

For eg. I wash jugs damn freaking fast already using my own way, and he has to nag me saying I wash them the wrong/slower way.  So he forced me to use his way, FINE, I did. In the end , guess what he say? "WASH JUG FASTER". 

WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF Don't let me use my own fast way, but call me wash faster when clearly his way is fucking slow la! PISSYYYYYY THINKING BACK.

How laaaaaaaaaaaaaa everyday I dread work cause of him. Sometimes I think its better to work at a lower paying job but you know, you look forward to work everyday.

I think my temper's horrible, because of the accumulated impatient feeling I got from work. Sick of it.

I feel like a timed bomb about to explode @ my boss. Sigh, and its just 3rd week since I work.

3 weeks of intolerable naggings, wow, I've done well actually. 

Barely 2 weeks in Canberra

I have :

1) Finished reading a book (Shopholics Takes Manhattan)
2) Finished 1 season of Korean Drama ( Dream High)
3) Finished 1 season of The Simpsons (Season 20)

What else ?

4) Visited the gym 3 times (Never did so in Melbourne for the past 6months)
5) Does grocery shopping EVERYDAY !

Infact, time passes very slowly in Canberra! Barely two weeks since I am here, but it felt like I've been here for a whole month!

I miss Melbourne  !

But time flies in Melbourne. Won't have time for anything ! Everyday is just going out and spending money. Eat out. Work like mad (cause pay is lower, have to work more hours).

Anyway, my slimming plan is in progress ! =]  Hope it'll last. Even if it doesn't ....at least PLEASE HAPPEN AFTER I LOSE 5 KGS!

heh.

I fail as a Chinese.

Working in a foreign country, especially in Canberra, whereby white people > Asians (unlike Melbourne), its very common to be stopped by Asians, speaking their "mother tongue language" to you.

Whilst working at Boost few days ago, there's this lady, obviously from China, ask me if I can speak Chinese. My Indian boss straightaway assume I can, and call me to talk to her.

I told her I understand but I can't really speak that well.

So she ask me "那可是什么？“ ("What is that ?" ) pointing at the  wheatgrass.

(I FML-ed in my heart)

ME "ERRR...  那可是wheatgrass"  （"that is wheat grass" - I DONT KNOW WHAT IS WHEATGRASS IN CHINESE!!)

China woman " ????, 可以喝的吗？“ ("can drink one ah?")

ME：”可以啊，你可以喝in a shot glass or mix in your smoothie"  (you can drink in a shot glass or mix in your smoothie - GAVE UP SPEAKING CHINESE IN THE END)

China woman "Oh”

AND LEFT WITHOUT SAYING BYE NOR BUYING ANY JUICE FROM MY SHOP!!

Sigh.
4th year here, did a lot of damage to my Mandarin. I used to be able to speak quite alright with it. In fact, Mandarin used to be this language I was comfortable speaking in, but now...no more :(


I am officially a BANANA - YELLOW OUTSIDE, WHITE INSIDE !

LDR

Sigh.
I hate LDR.
Originally staying in Melbourne, I came over to Canberra, to earn more $$$, but had to sacrifice the comfort of seeing Eddie everyday.

I had to do that, if not, I can't earn enough in Melbourne to live there. Considering the cost of living there is higher and also demand of jobs is more than supply, hence, lower paid job, because it is either you want it or other people will take it.  If I have to stay there and still ask for money from my parents, might as well I go back Malaysia.

In Canberra, I am earning double(of what I earn in Melbourne) on normal days,and triple on Sundays. Saturday rate also higher. Its good money !  The work is not even that busy.

True, we can Skype and all, but it's just not enough !

Its like some part of you is missing.

I can always go back Melbourne at least once a month, but I have to weigh the pros and opportunity cost. I come here with one sole purpose, to yield as much money as I can. Going back can be VERY damaging to my goals... LE SIGH. WTDO.

@ Canberra (Canbo)

Wow, the smoothest and fastest ride ever ! Just when I thought it's going to be full of turbulence. Well got some, but not very severe kind.  Haha. 

Thank goodness I didn't opt to come Canberra using train+bus that will take 10+ hours minimum.  

 AMPLE SEATS!!! :D First time I see so many empty space. (Maybe its cause non-peak or possibly...cause this airplane got bad record for safety issues!)

To kill time, I camwhored in the plane :

I look like a hobo (homeless person) without make up, oily hair and comfy clothings. wtf.

Well the 1hour plane ride felt like half an hour. Time flew super fast. Like I got on to the plane, panic the first 15minutes, and after that go toilet, camwhore, and then before I listen to my iPod, was told off by the air steward to all my electronic device OFF cause we're preparing for landing!

Wow!  I am just amazed that I actually enjoyed this ride without much fear. HEHEHE.

Thank you, plane ! 

And I reached my destination safely :o)

 CANBERRA. 

My friend's room in Canberra,  :

 Hence all the pinky stuffs.

I am actually illegally staying here. HAHA. (my laptop is near my watermelon ! )

It's a one person studio room.

When I first slam the door, the first thing I saw was " YOU'RE NOT WELCOME MICHELLE"

I cancelled "not" and wrote "super"

Just woke up from a nap to  more scribbles -_-.

We both woke up early for my job interview today. My interview is one of the longest and YES, I AM HIRED ! :D

I might start work the day after tomorrow :D What a short holiday. But definitely starting on Monday :)

......

Cause I've been posting too many unglam photos of myself,....going to post some pictures with make up !! LIKE FINALLY !!

Went clubbing few days ago, on a Monday :

HAIH,
Camwhored too much at home, and conveniently left my camera behind.

So no photos T.T Got some la, but stuck at my friend's iPhone. Tiuz.

.....

I am blogging so much! Here for about 24 hours only plus sleeping time and interview, I am already blogging. Proves how boring Canberra is.

But before I left, I've found true friends =D Friends who are willing to go through train + bus rides that's even longer than my flight, to come send me off. Friends who bought me lunch when I was running late with last minute packing + no lunch (no thanks to procrastination). Friends who organised  events just to see me, friends who purposely ask for a farewell cause they want to send me off, friends who just took the effort. EVENTHOUGH, they know that I am not really coming here for good.

I am just thankful for all these friends, and I got to admit, I am quite a bad friend, more like absent minded/too much things going on, that sometimes I tend to mistreat them, but they stood by!!!

They may or may not read this, cause I am not a very expressive person, but I really appreciate all these that was done and thought about !