Laughing Babies

Was just browsing on YouTube earlier and happened on this video. I've seen it before but it's such a cute video I just had to share it with you:

My Holiday Is Coming Up!

It's only another week before I'm flying off to HK. So before I go, I thought I'd post up a "last post" then hopefully I'll be back with lots of photos and stories to share with you.

About 2 weeks ago, I was on MSN and speaking with a friend who's in HK at the moment, and he happened to have a flight attendant friend who was with him at the time, and she and I got to talking with each other..... and she totally sparked my interest in becoming a flight attendant!

When I was younger, I'd always thought, 'Hmm, flight attending... that'll be really interesting. Too bad I'm too short to be an FA... :( ' And that's where it usually ends.

However, speaking with Tammy, she told me she herself is only 158cm (I'm 159cm tall) and to work with her airline, you only need to have an arm-reach of 208cm on barefoot. Now I'm still not too sure whether that means both arms or one arm, but I can definitely reach 208cm with one arm.... but not both arms... i can only reach 205cm :(

Once I found I had the required arm-reach for the FA business, my thoughts started running away with me......

That night, I was like, 'Yes! I want to try and be a flight attendant!' I spoke with my parents, Dru and a good vet friend of mine and every one of them were like, 'Yeh, go for it!', which really surprised me, especially when it came from my parents as I would have thought they'd be totally against the idea because it means I would be away from them for extended periods of time.

However, once I got my head down from the clouds and thought about it more thoroughly and had a good chat with Dru, I understood that if I really wanted to follow this dream, it would mean long periods of time away from Dru and this obviously wouldn't be great for our relationship. So having agonised over it for about 3 days, I've decided to let it go and leave it be.

I know some people are saying, 'Why are you basing your decision on another person?' I've really gone over this so many times, and have had so many conflicted thoughts on it.

I don't want to say no because of my relationship, but yet at the same time, I don't want to not consider it for obvious reasons. At the moment I'm really happy with our relationship and I don't have much cause for complaint and, yes, although things could change between us in the future, at this point in time, I'm happy with what I have, and have no desire to 'rock the boat' if you will.

So unfortunately, no flying around the world attending to peoples' needs on a plane for me.

*takes a deep breath*

Even thinking about it now makes my heart toss and turn.

If I wasn't in a relationship, I would so try and see whether I would get accepted.

Anyhoo, let's change subjects now.

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At work today, I was in such a weirdly good and singing mood, it really freaked a lot of people out (I think). Or perhaps they were just annoyed/freaked out with my singing... *LoL*

I'm not sure why I felt like singing so much today, I couldn't control it!

Maybe flying to HK in a week has something to do with it? I can't wait!!!! Janice is coming to HK too! Finally we're in HK at the same time! Shopping, shopping, shopping... here we come!!

So weird, her boyfriend and I area flying out on the same day, but different airlines, so she'll be driving both of us to the airport!

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I'm going to change my hair colour again tomorrow! I have a complimentary hair colour from Redkins :) But the blowdrying component will cost like $40 or something... how dodgy! I can dry it myself thanks! So bloody expensive for a blowdry.

I'm thinking that when I got to HK, I will do something with my hair - either cut it shorter, or perm it or something.... got an idea to do like a body wave on the lower half of my hair and leave the upper half straight. I have a really good vision of what it will look like, but whether it will be achieved or whether they will screw it up, I don't know. So that's still just on the cards for now.

Anyway, better go to sleep! Be back in a month! :)

Varekai and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

This has been in my blogger drafts since 5th of October:


So Dru and I went to Cirque du Soleil's Varekai on that Friday.

It was wonderful! I would go see it again if it wasn't so expensive! No recording devices were allowed into the big top so no photos to post up. Sorry!

I actually was supposed to finish work on Friday at 7pm. Varekai started at 8pm which would've given me 1 hour to get from Parramatta to Moore Park. Normally, on Fridays before public holidays or school holidays, work gets really busy for us. Weirdly enough, although it was both the Friday before a public holiday AND the Friday before the school holidays, it was actually really really quiet. We didn't have many consults in the evening and I even got to leave work 5 minutes early!!

I could've left much earlier than that but because I was on with my boss I was too scared to ask to leave early in case heaps of people come in just as we were closing or something like that. (People love to do that, especially on Tuesday nights when I'm usually on by myself in the last half hour. Hardly anyone comes in when there's 2 vets there... as soon as the other vet leaves at 6:30pm, everyone decides it's 'Time To Go See The Vet!') Anyhoo, back to the story, I left work at 6:55pm and actually got to Moore Park at 7:45pm; the traffic was just amazingly smooth, no traffic jams at all, almost all green lights. It was wonderful!

Dru met up with me at Moore Park, it was a funny story:
Dru was having a few after-work drinks to pass the time until it was time to go to Varekai and I rang him as I was reaching City Road to see if he wanted me to pick him up from the pub, he said no, he's already waiting for the bus... Number 395... oh look there's the bus, yes yes I'll meet you there! So I continue driving to Moore Park and when I'm almost crossing over Anzac Parade, I see a bus, number 395, in front in the right lane. As I drive past it, there's Dru standing in the aisle! How big of a coincidence was that?! I quickly picked up my phone to call him except he saw my car first as he looked out the window.

Wow, that was weird. But cool.

So we made it on time to see Varekai, I even had time to get some food before going in to see the show! It was the most perfect timing, as soon as we sat down, the show started.

It was a great night, I definitely would go see Cirque du Soleil if they come into town again. They do some amazing acts of acrobatics!

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Regarding Priscilla, Queen of the Desert musical:
I got free tickets from Dru's work on the Wednesday after Cirque de Soleil for the preview screening that Friday.

IT WAS SO GOOD.

Although there was a tiny hiccup at the very last scene where the bus broke down and we had to have a second intermission for 10-15 minutes whilst they fixed it up. But I'm sure they've fixed that now. I definitely would recommend seeing it if you're interested.

A nurse from work went at the end of October and she agreed with me that it was fantastic! So go see it!

<-- Sorry took so long to post... I've been lazy.... AGAIN! It's a never ending cycle -->

On My Day Off...

As I've mentioned previously (I think?) I am rostered off on Wednesdays. Fortunately, one of my close high school friends has also switched to get Wednesdays off. Previously, I had no one to go out with on my days off... I just had to go to the gym, walk around the shopping centre, surf the net and rent videos to pass the time by.

How boring, huh?

For the past 3-4 weeks, we've been going out for coffee (well, a hot chocolate or juice for me) and the such. It's sooo good! We even got our hair done in the city!

Today started off with coffee (a sour lemon drink for me) in Castle Towers and then she told me that she was meeting up with her parents afterwards to go yumcha at Rhodes. She asked me if I wanted to go if I wasn't doing anything, so since I had nothing else to do, I said yes.

I've never really met her parents much, I've occasionally seen them out at dinner and stuff but never really talked to them as such. Well. I talked to them so much at yumcha, Janice hardly said anything.

After yumcha, they went to Ikea and Binglee to look for some stuff and Janice and I went to visit her boyfriend who was working nearby some 5 minutes drive away. We grabbed another coffee (an iced chocolate this time) and disturbed his work for a little while until her parents called to let us know they're ready to buy their stuff and go home.

I wore high heels the whole day and by this time, my feet were starting to be quite painful. Luckily I didn't get a blister! I thought I was going to though! My big toe was really starting to hurt with every step I took.

Anyways, so that was pretty much my day off.

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On another note:
I'm off to see Cirque du Soleil's 'Varekai' tomorrow night!! I'm so excited!! It's my birthday present from Dru :))) I hope I finish work on time tomorrow, because I finish at 7pm in Parramatta and Varekai starts at 8pm at the Entertainment Quarter in Moore Park! I would so die if I got there late. I'll have to drive really-really-fast! I really hope it won't be too busy! *fingers crossed* I'll let you know how the show went!

Grey's Anatomy

It. Is. So. Damn. Good!

I just watched the last 3 episodes of Season 2 and it was simply fantastic!

Heartwrenching, beautiful, moving, suspenseful. And very sad in some bits. Yes, it made me cry. (surprise, surprise)

There's enough medical jargon mixed in with drama to get me really drawn in into this series. I'm not too sure why I love watching it so much. So many people have said that this season of Grey's wasn't as good as the first season but I totally disagree. I remember being so excited when they announced that the second season was finally here, I anticipated the coming of that Monday night at 9:30pm for weeks!

I've been waiting patiently every week to see another episode of GA, currently, they've just shown episode 21 and we're waiting on episode 22. When I accidentally stumbled upon episodes 25, 26 and 27...... Well..... I just couldn't resist!!

I mean, who would?!? Right?

It meant skipping episodes 23 and 24 (and I for one really, really hate that; I hate even skipping a few minutes of a movie, I always rewind it back to to see what the one sentence I missed was), but it was really worth it.

Even though I now have red swollen eyes.

It was sooooooooooo good!

HK Shopping List and A Few Other Things

For when I go to HK, my shopping list so far includes:

• Camera - small & compact, high megapixel, video function. My brother does have a camera which I borrow on occasions to use, but it'll be nice to have one of my own.
  
• MP3 Player - (Dru has my iPod Mini at the moment) cute and small, holds a lot of songs. This item is still a +/- for me, as I'm not really sure whether I would use an MP3 player all that often. Obviously I'll have to really convince myself that I'll use it before I could convince myself to spend the money.
  
• Puzzles - I know this is weird but the last 2 times I went to HK, I came back with some really nice jigsaw puzzles which came with their own mounting frames and everything! It was cheap(ish) and these puzzles look really nice. The ones that you can buy here look dodgy, doesn't come with a frame and are expensive.
  
• Clothes
• Shoes
• Jewellery

That's all I can think of at the moment. I'm sure when I'm over there, I'll be buying stuff left, right and centre.

Oh and the food in HK.... *yum!* Japanese food over there is brilliant (the places I've been to anyway), the food is innovative and interesting, the Maccas over there even sell iced lemon tea and fried chicken wings, KFC sell really yummy chicken rice dishes and Pizza Hut have new "toppings" on their pizzas all the time. I guess they just cater to the Asian population over there...

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On the way home today, an ambulance passed by with its sirens blaring and watching everyone in the fast lane panicking to move into the slow lane to give way to the vehicle, it reminded me of an experience I had in peak hour once.

We were on Parramatta Rd (near Burwood) going towards the city at around 8-8:15am. Normally at around that sorta time period, the road is heavy with traffic and that day was no exception. We were travelling in the fast lane when suddenly, we hears police sirens wailing on behind us, so we moved in to the middle lane to allow the police car to pass by. My friend (being a quick thinker) quickly pulled back out into the fast lane behind the police car and wah-la! we were nicely cruising along behind the police vehicle, moving quite well through traffic, instead of being stuck in a traffic jam. That was smart, wasn't it? I wouldn't have thought of it myself.

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I had a case of a cat today, which was so constipated that it actually vomits when it tries to poo. The poor little thing. At least it didn't have some other fatal disease which would kill it, I suppose. Better to be constipated than to have renal failure or something like that!

Interesting, isn't it? *hehehe*

It's difficult to think of something really interesting to talk about when you're stuck in a place all day, no access to internet, and just looking at animals all the time.

Tomorrow is my day off (I have Wednesdays rostered off), and I'm just going to go shopping with my friend. Luckily she recently started getting Wednesdays off so now I have someone to go out with!

Last Wednesday, we went out to the city and got our hair "done". I just got my hair coloured and my fringe cut, and she got her roots coloured, got a cut and a treatment as well. I spent $110 just on my colour and fringe and my friend spent $210. I promised myself I won't be getting my hair done again until I go back to HK. Last year when I went to HK, I actually paid HK$700 (which is equivalent to around AUD$120) for: colour, treatment, straighten, cut, shampoo and blow dry. Look at how much more I got for my money in HK!!!! Although I did spend like 5-6 hours at the hairdresser. The hairdresser was really cute though..... And my hair to this day is still really straight and nice, and really long now too, it's already down to my lower back. Thought about cutting it, but I always do then I regret it, so this time I'm holding off.

One day I'll cut it.... Maybe.... One day.....

It's Been Too Long!

My friend recently commented that I haven't written anything new on my blog site for waayy too long a period of time. So I got a sudden urge to put up a post!

I have no idea who still reads this since I haven't posted anything since May, which was like 4 months ago.

Nothing much has really happened in the last 4 months, except my birthday came and went, making me 24 years old. I can't believe I'm in the mid-20s range! I feel old :( I had 2 small celebrations: a dinner with my family, and a dinner with my girlfriends. Three weeks later I held a steamboat dinner at my house which was half birthday dinner and half just catching up with people I hadn't seen for a while. It was a really good night, we had the steamboat for dinner and then we played poker afterwards.

There's a big increase in the popularity of poker recently, one of the groomers at work even go to poker tournaments and recently won the chance to go down to Melbourne for a tournament. If she wins that one, she gets flown to Las Vegas for a tournament. How good is that?? But I guess winning is a little difficult, it really depends a lot on luck and stuff.

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Work has been okay. Can you believe it, I've been working as a vet for about 8 months now, it's very quickly coming up to a year already. Time flies by so fast, you blink and you'll probably miss it. My weeks fly by and suddenly we're almost at Christmas-time again. Last Christmas I went to Jervis Bay. This year..... Dru's friends want to go to Jervis Bay again, but I probably wouldn't be able to take the time off. Plus I'm going to Hong Kong for the first half of December, which means I probably shouldn't take time off so soon after my 3 week long holiday!!

I'm excited about going to HK again though, I only just went Sept last year, which means a year ago I guess, but this time, one of my many cousins is getting married! I'm so excited! But I've still to find a dress of some sort to wear to the wedding. I haven't really been to a wedding where I actually know the bride and groom so this will sort of be a first for me, and I know it's going to be a lot of fun! Plus the shopping in HK.... *mmm* Just thinking about it makes me drool a bit... aaand makes my bank account go a little green around the gills.... I guess I really have to control my spending once I'm there.

Unfortunately I don't have many friends over there, but hopefully I'll meet up with the few people that I do know.

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I'll have to leave it here for now, I know it's not a long blog, but it's a start... I promise I'll be back soon ;)

The 1,000km Service

I think the red in my hair is already starting to fade a little bit. Although Dru says it's still quite red if you look at it under the sunlight....

I booked my car into Ryde Toyota (cos that's where I got my car) last Wednesday and I sat in their reception area for 2 hours waiting for my car to get serviced and the review mirror panel on the left side looked at (more about this later). Well fair enough I was waiting since 7:30am and the boys don't even start working until 8am... I just sat there in their reception area knitting... and knitting and knitting and knitting! I almost finished a scarf by the time they finished with my car!

The panel where the left review mirror sits on had some white blotchy bits on it when I got it from the dealer, so I told the guy to have a look at it and see whether it needs replacing or something. He comes back and says 'Yeh the boys looked at it and just gave it a polish with *something something* and the blotches are gone! So it doesn't need to be replaced.'

Well, I get it home without checking it properly and when my dad had a look, he said he how come this other panel's a little scratched? Bloody hell, I knew I should've checked it before I left the place! So I brought it back on the Friday afternoon and the guy finally relents and said yeh ok, we'll order that in for you and when it comes in, we'll let you know and we'll replace it for you.

At least they're offering to replace it for me! :)

And no name for my car just yet, maybe she'll never get a name. Naming cars are a bit gay isn't it?.....

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Helen's jetted off to Korea for the next 4 weeks or so, the lucky woman! She better bring back lots of photos of her trip over there!

This girl, she doesn't even let us know she's off on holiday until I try to make plans with everyone to meet up. She's like, 'Oh I can't make Friday.' And that's it! I had to ask her why not before she told me that she's going overseas!!

Although I guess when I made plans to go to Hong Kong in September last year, I told them just a week or so beforehand, but at least it wasn't a day or so before going away! We couldn't even meet up for dinner before she left *sigh*

We'll meet up whilst she's away anyway. Which reminds me, I need to start asking around about this upcoming weekend!

The Car Wash

My car was so dirty cos it rained and dirt stuck all over her so I washed my car on Sunday, well, Dru helped me wash her at his place cos he had just finished washing his car when I arrived. This was the first time he had washed it since he bought it second hand in Nov last year. There was this big patch of oily stuff on the inside of the passenger side windscreen - it was so gross! I told Dru so many times to clean it, but he's so lazy and hasn't cleaned it til now.

Lucky I rocked up at the right time to get my car washed too! But then it rained on Monday and Tuesday so it got kinda dirty again :(

I've finally driven 1,000km so my car needs to get the first tune-up. I'll have to book it in for next Wednesday.

I still haven't thought of a name for my car yet, it'll come to me later I guess. I haven't exactly been thinking much about it lately.

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I wanted to dye my hair for ages, but I've been holding off for ages. Finally, yesterday I just made up my mind to dye it!

It was brown:

Now it's got a red tinge to it:


Does it suit me?

All Things Good and Nice... and Bad

I think I'll only be putting out monthly posts from now on.... it seems like that's the way it's heading to be.

I've been going to the gym almost religiously (at least 5 days a week, which is pretty good for me. Me, who hasn't really exercised properly since Year 10!) for the past 2-3 months, I even had a personal trainer. It was a bit expensive to have a PT though.... cost me $65 per 1 hour session. It was worth it though, I've lost 1kg, which isn't much I know, but more importantly is that I feel pretty fit and I've started getting quite good muscle definition. I've been mainly doing cardio, core exercises and resistance training on my arms and legs.

But it's still a long way to go before I'll get to where I want to go.

I think my upper arms are slimmer.... *hehehe* My upper arms has always been quite fat, nowadays, I'm not sure whether it's psychological or whether my arms really have gotten any slimmer, but I think it looks less fat... And my thighs....

Maybe it's just that they're not as wobbly as they used to be!! Yeh, I think that's it.

Or maybe I'm just kidding myself.

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Anyhoo, on another note, I've got my new car and it's soooo cute! Surprisingly, I haven't taken any photos of the sexy thing yet, but I've been meaning to do so, just haven't quite had the time.

Hopefully take some this weekend. Need to clean her up though.

Is it fashionable still to name your car?

Hmm, if it is, what should I name her? And yes, my car is definitely a "her". She's too sexy to be a boy. Gosh, I'll really have to think about this. And let you know what I come up with.

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Today at work was so busy for me.

We only had 3 dog speys, a rabbit castrate and a leg amputation, and I only did one of the speys, but my first consult case was a cat with bilateral kidney cysts, which I had to do xrays, FNA of kidney and blood tests to find out it was kidney cysts, then the cat ended up being euthanased anyway just before I finished at 5pm.

I also had a dog that's had ear infections for like 3 years, it was a polyp and it was removed at the beginning of this year, but it's still getting ear infection in that ear... I'm so frustrated about what to do with it! I'm going to sedate it soon and have another good look down the ear to make sure the polyp hasn't come back. I can't think of anything else to do!

Then I had a Rottie come in with a humungus hot spot on the left side of the neck/face and I had to sedate it to clip it up really nice (cos it was flinging its head around) and clean it up well (there was a huge piece of pus stuck onto a part of the hot spot) and I had to go through with the owner about flea control (it had fleas galore! also getting itchy on the back, probably part of why he's got this hot spot) and how to treat this hot spot.

The sedation went pretty crap, the dog's heart rate was too low so I had to reverse part of the sedation straight after I sedated it and then he started going that bluey Domitor colour so we had to hoist him up onto the dental table in order to put him on some oxygen. Then we discovered that both his ears were a little too dirty (another reason why he's got this hot spot?), but cytology didn't show an infection, so we just cleaned it up well. This dog's bill ended up being almost $300 cos he needed oral antibiotics as well as topical cream, plus flea control, sedation and ear smears.

*takes a breath*

Does that sound pretty easy?

Now that I think about it, it doesn't seem like all that much, but it was a rush here and there and everywhere for me, I was like 'Oh I need to call this cat's owner, they called me about their cat half an hour ago ', 'Oh I need to get this done because his owner's coming in at 3pm and it's already 2:30pm!', 'Oh crap this dog's heart rate is 48 bpm and plus he's going blue, we better put him on some oxygen!!!!', 'oh shit, this cat's got renal failure as well as bilateral kidney cysts, and I need to tell the owner the best thing for this cat is euthanasia'...................

What a crappy work day, but everything was done before I finished up at 5pm, so it wasn't so bad. One thing I do need to do tomorrow is to type up one of the cases I had today, but was too busy so I forgot.

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Yesterday was my day off (I get every Wednesday off) and so I went to the gym in the morning, did some shopping afterwards then went home for lunch (I'm broke at the moment so trying to save every bit of money I can!). At about 12:30-1pm, Dru called me and said that he had free tickets from work to go to the Status Quo and Deep Purple concert happening that night from 6:30pm.

Now, rock concerts aren't exactly my scene, but I thought, 'Hey, free tickets, why not??' So I had to drop around to Dru's house, pick up some casual clothes (he wears suits to work) then go to the city and meet up with him.

We quickly ate a $7 steak dinner at a local pub near his workplace and then headed over to Horden Pavillion where the concert was playing. I paid $6 to park my car on the street and then proceeded to nap during the whole entire concert.

Aren't I a lovely concert goer?

With all that rock music pumping in the Pavillion, there I was, leaning against Dru's shoulders and nodding off to La-La-Land.

I swear I have something with loud noises and falling asleep!

My mum used to tell me that when I was just a baby, I would be sleeping soundly throughout her Mahjong sessions with her friends. All her friends were amazed at how I could be sleeping so well with all that racket going on.

Nowadays, I sometimes feel like sleeping whenever I go to parties with loud music, when I go clubbing, at rock concerts... But sometimes I really do fall asleep during these events...

How embarrassing!

There's everyone else at the concert, screaming and jumping and dancing around...

And there I am with my eyes closed, sleeping. But hey, I woke up at the end of almost every song and clapped along with everyone else, then went back to sleep again.

Ah well.

I think it was an okay night, nonetheless. (Apart from the rain because the bottom of my pants got soaked)

However, next time I may just give rock concerts (especially rock concerts where I don't even know the band/s that are playing) a miss.

Even if I were to be given free tickets.

And Another 2 Months Later......

I'm getting worse and worse! It's difficult to keep up your blog when the main thing you do all week long is work and work and work and work. I hardly go out much, apart from going out with Dru... Every now and again we go out with friends but I hardly take photos much and it seems so boring just talking about how the night went.

Just this weekend past, Rob, one of Dru's mates, had a birthday celebration. He organised for a session of go-karting at Kartatak. I've only been go-karting once before in Melbourne, but that was 3 years ago...

However, Sung (once again) dislocated his shoulder that morning. This was his fourth time! He's waiting for a shoulder reconstruction in October. Poor, poor Sung.... If you've ever been go-karting, you'll know that it takes both hands to grip the steering wheel and steer properly. Even with 2 hands it is really tough and everyone's arms were hurting afterwards. So Sung was definitely out for go-karting. He was also supposed to be our designated driver for the night, but obviously, he couldn't drive that night, so everyone had to work something else out and I drove myself and Dru instead.

It was heaps fun though!

*vrooom vrooom vrooooooommmm!!*

I've got more photos than that but some are a bit blurry and all the rest are similar except with different people in the photo. It's Dru in that photo there. I've got a few videos too, except I don't know how to post those up in a way that you can view it... If anyone knows how, please let me know!

After go-karting, we went to Cafe Pacifico, a Mexican restaurant in East Sydney, for dinner. Finding parking was a bit of a bitch. Luckily we squeezed in between a car and a driveway on a sidestreet close to the restaurant.

It was a really nice place, the food was pretty yummy too.

This is one of the entrées. I thought it looked like a starfish! Very cute!

I didn't take any more photos of food afterwards as I was too busy stuffing my face with food. We were sooo hungry after that go-karting session!

And lots of drinking was occurring. Sangrias and tequilla shots!

There's Sung in the background with his arm in an immobilising bandage...

I got so excited when chatting to Jackson at one point that I spilt Dru's red drink all over his leg and mine... even though I only drank one drink the entire night. How bad is that? I wasn't even drunk!

Robs had like sooooo many shots of Tequilla! But was still standing by the end of the night, so the alcohol wasn't as strong as we thought it was.

Here's the birthday cake!!

Out came the party poppers! (Is that what they're called?)

It was a good Saturday night!

We were supposed to go back to Marie's place for poker but Dru and I had to head off to his place to pick up some Johnny Walker and I knew it would be a bad idea. When we got back to his place, we were soooo buggered we didn't bother going back out to Marie's as it was a good 20minute drive to her place... I was heaps tired and Dru wasn't legally allowed to drive. Plus I had to work the day after on Sunday. And I needed to sleep - my eyes were slowly gluing themselves shut on the drive home.

After work on Sunday, I drove back to Dru's place and gosh was I tired! I was micro-sleeping the entire drive down... so bad of me, I know!! I thought that when I got to Dru's I could get some good sleep, but nooooo... Sung rang and said he wanted to go watch the footy at Canley. I should've stayed back and slept but I went along with Dru anyway.

Why?

I don't know. Now that I think about it, it seemed pretty stupid of me to go out. I should've just gone to sleep!

On Monday, Dru's mate Tam and his fiance Leanne threw an engagement party at the Eastern Bar in Bondi Junction and we had another really really late night. This time Dru offered to drive so I drank... and drank and drank and drank! I actually drank so much that I felt sleepy enough to sleep on the couch in the bar. How embarrassing! I hope no one took any photos of me while I was passed out on the couch!

Anyway. I think that's enough for me for the night. There's another engagement party coming up this Sunday. Plus, I'm picking up my brand new Toyota Yaris YRX this Saturday!

**BEEP BEEP!!**

Sorry It's Been So Long!

Gosh, talk about neglect! I just realised that it's been a month since my last blog! Whoops... I guess working full-time is making it difficult for me to keep everyone updated on my comings and goings, plus I'm just usually at work, so really it's not all that interesting... just work and stuff, lots of sick dogs and cats.... which I'm sure you wouldn't care to know about.

About 2-3 weeks ago I decided to go join Fitness First to get fit and hopefully lose some weight in the process. I actually said yes to a discounted 3 sessions with a Personal Trainer which costed $60 for the 3 half-hour sessions (originally was $120, which is like waaaaayyy expensive!) Told him I would like to work on my upper arms and also the abdomen/bum/thigh region.

The first session wasn't so bad, he introduced me to the Rowing Machine and also tested my flexibility and strength. I am not that flexible.... Nor strong.... Then again, I already knew all that. My thighs and arms ached a bit after the first session but I was quite busy for the rest of the week and hardly went to the gym the few days after.

My second session... oh, my second session.... he worked me out so hard that the day after I actually couldn't sit down normally because my thighs couldn't hold my weight as I sit down due to the acute soreness and pain. I would just plonk down into the seat and then had to use my arms to help me rise out of the chair. I used a lot of Dencorub that night.... It was a painful 3 days... Luckily I saw my trainer again 2 days after the second session and he spent half an hour stretching out my muscles and kneeding out the knots in my leg. The next day, it was amazing, almost overnight the muscles were almost back to normal. Now I just got to meet up with him one more time to discuss his assessment of me. I don't think I can afford to keep him as my trainer - I just ain't that rich :P

So apart from working and going to the gym, I've met up with my high school friends. I went to this really nice chinese place called Chinta Ria in Cockle bay Wharf. The food was soooo yummy, and I never knew the placce existed, even though I've probably walked past it many many times.

Then one week later we went out again to Kobe Jones, a Japanese restaurant on King St Wharf - another place where there's lots of yummy food! I wanna go back!! Prices are a little high but the food's so yummy it's worth it!

Genie, Janice, Me and Helen at Kobe Jones

Dynamite Rolls at Kobe Jones

Then after dinner the girls and I went to a few bars for drinks. I think I drank the most out of all the girls.... my face was soooo red! Eeek! It's terrible! Janice's face was quite red too but she cut down on the drinks and went back to normal.

Helen, red-faced Me and Genie (dunno who she was checking out....)

I think I'll finish off this entry with that last embarrassing photo... Need to go sleep now!

Dru's Media Sales Friends

Ok I haven't updated my blog for like more than a week, and I'm sorry. But I really haven't been doing much apart from working......

On Friday, Erik had originally planned to go out to Gas Nightclub (some event was supposedly happening there) but when he went to pick up the tickets on Thursday, he realised that the date was 17th of Feb, NOT the 10th of Feb. So it seems that I'll be going out clubbing this coming Friday night instead. Erik was sooo so so so so embarrassed that he got the date wrong. He's said that he owes me a drink or two this Friday because he stuffed up *hehehe* That's good cos I'm poorer than he is :P

So therefore since clubbing wasn't on anymore, I went out for after-work drinks at Bungalow 8 with Dru and his new bunch of Media Sales course friends from uni. I met so many people that night! But Dru kept bumping into other friends and leaving me alone by myself that I had to be friendly and make conversation with everyone. I actually remember many of their names and the faces they belong to... which usually is a difficult feat for me. (Only because there's so many people and so many names and faces to remember!) They really were nice people though, so it wasn't too bad. I hope I meet them all again soon!!

There was one guy there called Ewen who was a big source of entertainment for all of us there that night.

The reason why he was so entertaining was not because of his ability to talk. Ooohh no.

He simply could not hold his liquor.

We started drinks at about 6-6:30pm and he had one beer at about 7pm, then Dru, Ewen and I went for dinner at James Squire. During dinner, Ewen was already seeming a little tipsy and saying a lot of things he probably wouldn't be saying if he was sober. And that was only with one drink! He says that he doesn't like to drink anything with alcohol in it, so I guess his liver was just very unskilled at detoxing alcohol in the blood stream. After dinner he had only another half a beer and that was it for the night. And by the time he was getting to the halfway mark on his second beer, he was quite out of it.

Example: One of the girls asked him something about a guy named Paul and she pointed in Paul's direction. Ewen looked in the general direction she pointed, saw a boat (he probably didn't hear what she said) and said, 'It's a boat!' It was just totally irrelevant to the question asked, and we couldn't help but just laugh at him. It was kinda cute, but just sooo funny cos he was drunk!

During dinner, he asked me when Dru and I are getting married, conveniently when Dru had gone off to the toilet, and I said that he should ask Dru instead. His reply was that he's already asked Dru but what did I think? I doubted that he really did ask Dru that question but I hounded him about what Dru had said anyway, but he wouldn't tell me :(

I asked Dru but he wouldn't tell me either. Oh well.

We left at around 10-10:30pm but I got home after midnight cos we had to take a train to Cabra then Dru had to drive me back to Parra where I'd parked my car outside my workplace, then I had to drive myself home whilst Dru had to drive back down south home. We both had a quick nap on the train and we almost didn't wake up in time to get off the train!

I wore my new heels and got the worst blisters on both my big toes!

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It's Valentine's Day tomorrow..... I wonder whether I'll get any flowers?!

I hope I do!!!!

My Saturday

I had a pretty good, eventful Saturday. One of my friends from high school, Natalie, has just come back from Denmark last month and asked me on Friday whether I wanted to go out to lunch with her and several other high school friends on Saturday.

I had earlier already asked Genie, Helen and Dru to go out to dinner on Saturday, sort of to celebrate my getting a job. So now I had lunch at 12pm then dinner at 6pm. But I thought, 'Hey, why not go to Castle Towers a bit early so I could go get a blood test at the Medical Centre, then shop around a bit for some work stuff, THEN meet up for lunch and make good use of my time?'

So it was already getting to be a bit of a full day on Saturday. I bought new tops for work and had 4 tubes of blood taken, had lunch with 4 high school friends whom I haven't seen for like 5 years, caught up with what everyone's been up to, where they work now, so it was a pretty good lunch. Too bad I didn't think to bring my camera with me.

I booked dinner at Temasek at 6pm. Dru was a little late in picking me up and we still had to pick up Helen before we head down to Parra.

I hate being late for anything, it's just something that I don't like and haven't liked since I was in high school. Must be the way I was brought up *shrugs*

Actually we made it to Temasek about 6:05pm, which wasn't too bad. Genie called to say she'll be about 15 minutes late and then she didn't know how to get into the carpark behind Temasek. It can be a little complicated if you're not too familiar with the area.

Dinner was great, except that out of 3 dishes, one was a curry and one had chili in it..... and I can't really take much chili.... :( Dru, Helen and Genie had no problems, all three grew up eating quite a lot of chili. I was there fanning my mouth out and could only eat one of the many Singaporean Chili King Prawns. The Serai Chicken was very nice though... *mmmmm* Yum! Just thinking about it makes me want more of it. I love lemongrass-flavoured dishes!!

After dinner, it was almost 8pm and Genie wanted dessert, so I suggested going to Ziggy's where Dru and I went when we just started going out and had the most yummiest Tiramisu. But Genie wanted to go to an ice-creamery called Cold Rock (or something like that) on Church St, so we ended up going there instead. The ice-cream was quite nice actually, I was quite surprised. They did this thing where you can chose your confectionery (e.g. M&Ms, Clinkers, Gummi Bears, etc.) and they mix it into the ice-cream for you for 70c extra each. I chose Cookies and Cream with Marshmallows...... it was so nice (the marshmallows go all hard, but not as badly as the gummi bears do!) that it actually got me buying my own tiny marshmallows and ice-cream and mixing it up myself at home. It's sorta like Rocky Road without the nuts. So nice!

Anyway, while I was in the middle of choosing what I wanted, Erik calls me up and asks whether I wanted to go out that night to Roof Bar. I did, but I didn't... but I ended up convincing Dru to go with me anyway, but we both had to go home and change first. Lucky there was plenty of time!

Gosh the parking was bad on Saturday night!! I know it's usually pretty bad Friday night and weekends but it was just BAD! *ugh!* Almost wanted to head home after a while.

It was a bit past 11pm when we finally got to Roof Bar, but the place was pretty dead that night. Erik and his friends said it's normally pretty good, but frankly, it wasn't all that great.


I swear it must've been because I had blood taken that morning, but I got pretty bad after only 1 and a half drinks.... and I absolutely swear my alcohol tolerance normally isn't that low. (I swear!) Or maybe Erik slipped something into my drinks....?? *LoL*, I don't know what it was, but I felt so sick. We left before it was 2am... I think. Poor Dru, he was so tired but he drove anyway. I felt so bad :(

He slept until 11-12 the next day!

So that was my jam-packed full-of-fun Saturday. My Saturdays haven't been that busy for a loooong time!

Damn Parvovirus!

Bloody computer, I almost finished writing my blog entry and then it suddenly turned off without warning! And when I clicked on 'recover post', there was nothing there to recover! Dammit! Now I gotta rewrite the whole entry again... and I don't know whether I can be bothered doing it.

I just wanted to talk about my day at work, where I had two cases of Parvovirus! I know that my non-vet friends probably don't know what Parvovirus is... it's a very contagious virus that causes vomiting, severe bloody diarrhoea, anorexia, dehydration and could be fatal if not treated promptly. Everything that comes into contact with the dog needs to be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected with bleach.

The first case was a Mastiff cross that came in late morning. He had his puppy vaccinations but since then hasn't had any booster vaccinations. He was really depressed and lethargic and had some blood in his faeces. It was lucky that I asked about the vaccinations 'cos that's what caused us to think that it might be Parvo, as he isn't fully vaccinated. We didn't do the Parvo test until about 2 hours since he'd been in hospital.... so if any puppies came in after the case, I hope they're okay and haven't caught the Parvo. When he was positive on the test, we had to quickly bleach the waiting room, consult room, the hallway... basically anywhere that the dog had been!!

He had to go on fluids, and a lot of injections... I quoted the owner about $1,400 to $1,900! He's a big boy, so that's why it's so expensive.

Then as soon as I'd stabilised the first case, I got a Pug that only had his 8 week vaccination but no boosters a month after and she had been vomiting and had diarrhoea. When I first saw the case, I jokingly thought, 'Oh yes, this is another Parvo!' However when I saw the blood on the thermometer, my heart sank... I thought, 'CRAP! This IS another Parvo....' We quickly did a Parvo test on the Pug which was strongly positive.

We had to put this one on fluids and drugs as well. Because the Pug is only quite small, I only quoted the owner $700 to $1,200, which is a big difference to the large sum of money the Mastiff cross' owner is most likely to spend.

We haven't had Parvo cases in the hospital for a long while and we suddenly get 2 cases in one day. And I did the consults for both cases... I felt like 'Parvo Woman'! One of the nurses joked that I shouldn't do any more consultations in case I bring in more Parvo cases! *LoL*

I think I got aquainted with that disease quite closely today.....! I had to bleach my labcoat and pants when I got home. Lucky I don't have any dogs at home (although I guess they'd be fully vaccinated if I did have any, so it wouldn't be a problem!) That's one thing I've always been afraid of, that I'd bring home diseases and infect my cats with it!

Anyway, it's getting quite late and I need to go to bed!

I guess the moral of the story is:

MAKE SURE YOU VACCINATE YOUR NEW PUPPIES & KITTENS AND THEN GET THEM VACCINATED YEARLY!