What a day

I dreamt a lot last wed night. I dreamt of going back KL to pack my belongings and bring back to Melb. lol. I also dreamt of my friend, Tricia who is coming down from Sydney this coming Sunday. In my dream, she was driving all the way from Sydney and drove me all the way back to KL. Lamo dream. haha...

But my dream ended and my reality nightmare begin when i heard someone's trying to open my room door. I heard Jeremy's voice talking to someone over the phone. Thus, I woke up and open the door and see what's going on. Soon after i open my door, Jeremy who was still in a shocked on his face asking me,

"Aren't you suppose to work today?"......

A moment of silence.. (Still blur and half awake)

SHIT! "What's the time now?" i asked.

"12 something d" he said. OMG. I was supposed to work form 12pm - 7.30pm that day and it was already 12.20pm by then.

I quickly grab my phone and see wat's wrong with it coz i've already set my alarm to wake up at 9am.

What the hell... "EMERGENCY CALLS ONLY"???????

My hp wasn't working at all. Even my alarm. What happened to it??? At that moment, i really panicked and dunno wat to do. Soon after i restart my hp, i've got heaps of messages of missed calls i've got from my workplace and friends. Without wasting my time, i quickly called to my work place to let them know my situation. And i was all prepared to get scolded.

Mr. Supervisor: Hello, ........................(Name of my workplace) Can i help you?
Evonne: Erm, hi is that *****?
Mr.Supervisor: Yes, i am.
Evonne: This is Evonne. I'm so sorry, I'm not sure what happened to my phone, it's just.... ermm... ermm... Can i come later?

I wasn't sure what i said to him as i was still so so blur. But apparently i can tell he was pissed off with me through his voice tone.

Mr Supervisor: You don't need to come for work. I've already got someone to replace you.
Evonne: Oh.. ermm.. well, okay. I'm so sorry about that. Bye.
Mr Supervisor: Bangs the phone. (Not even a bye)

Ouchhh......!!!

I know it was my fault, but but... i din mean to do that though. All bcoz of my stupid hp. If it wasn't because of that, i would have gone to work d. Sure affect my reputation infront of my supervisor n manager d.

But lucky still, this Mr. Supervisor that i was referring to wasn't my branch supervisor. He was there for 2 weeks just to replace one of my manager who was on leave. By means i won't need to face him d. lol. I told another of my supervisor about my situation. She was actually on training to become a supervisor. Luckily she did not scold me or anything. She tought something bad happened to me. She said since this is my 1st time, it wouldn't really affect me. Hopefully lah.

Relieved.

I nearly gone mad that moment. My day became miserable bcoz of that.Sigh.

I've learnt a lesson through that. Never trust mobile phones. lol. I rely too much on them d. Must buy an alarm clock d. Incase something similar happen again. Hell no! That would be my 1st and last time experience.

My bread is slowly killing me....

I was doing some research for my publication assignment. Coincidently i'm doing a book about food recipe and i found this article which shocks me!

Is Your Bread Slowly Killing You?by Beth Scott

If you eat white (or any kind of store bought) bread, there are a few things you should know before you put that next slice in your mouth.

For example, did you know that the inclusion of hydrogenated oils, artificial preservatives, emulsifiers, additives and other chemicals in bread became standard practice in the mid 1950's?

At this same time whole wheat flour was replaced by bleached, enriched white flour. In this process, grain is bleached and sterilized with chemicals to make it white and soft. It is then artificially "enriched" by adding vitamins, minerals and other materials destroyed in the chemical process.

Despite what you may have been told, trying to “enrich” something with the very vitamins and minerals that were removed from it in the first place doesn’t make it anywhere near as healthy as the natural, unrefined version.

When you think about it, it doesn’t even make much sense.

It's also a growing practice in many bakeries to replace white flour with substances like alum, ground rice, and whiting. Alum is the most commonly used of all these substances, because it gives the bread a whiter color and causes the flour to absorb and retain a larger amount of water than it would otherwise hold.

This enables the factories to produce bread imitating that made from a higher quality flour. This tainting of your bread with potentially harmful chemicals such as potassium bromate, emulsifiers (both commonly used in bread production), and alum is definitely not in the best interests of your health.

Do you know why your store bought bread has such a long shelf life?

It’s because of a particular emulsifier used in making the bread. It’s mainly used as a softening agent and tends to deceive buyers as to the real age of their bread.

This emulsifier can hide the fact that your bread is deteriorating (it certainly doesn’t stop the process) for a few extra weeks, but the harm it does to your body (and the potential harm in eating the stale bread) makes the cost of this ‘convenience’ very high.

Is it possible for you to protect yourself and your loved ones against unhealthy and harmful bread?

Well, buying any bread from a store is certainly not the right choice to make. Even if you buy commercially produced whole wheat bread you're not getting healthy food.

Much of what passes for whole wheat bread is actually white bread colored with caramel. If the first ingredient in a loaf of whole wheat bread is unbleached enriched flour, then you're not truly buying whole wheat bread at all, just white bread (loaded with chemicals) that is disguised as whole wheat bread.

There is only one true solution to ensure that you avoid these problems. And that is to bake your own healthy whole wheat bread. This is nowhere near as difficult as it sounds. In fact it’s dead set simple.

All you need is a good proven recipe, and an expert guide to show you the way. I’ll be happy to provide you with both.

OMG. I was so sad when i finish reading this article. I LOVE BREADS!!! It's just part of my life. I had bread since i was young, n especially now i'm in Melb, i rely so much on bread. I can have them for brekkie, lunch or even dinner.

How am i gonna survive without bread? All the while i consume wholemeal and wholegrain bread as i heard a lot of ppl telling me that white bread is not good, its fat, more carbs... But wholemeal bread is just the same, its a white bread with colored caramel. *Sigh..

What else can i subsititute with bread? Any suggestions?

Unfair.....

It's a Tuesday. Went to work as usual today. Was praying hard so that i won't get to arrange the new stocks for drinks again like wat i said in the previous post. But i was all prepared to take the stocks already because new stock for drinks arrive every Tuesdays. *Sighhhh...

Reached my work place and saw my manager. My heart was beating fast. Adrenaline rush. Pls, pls dun ask me to take..

"Evonne, the drinks were late today".....

Goshhh... i was so grateful to hear that from my manager. God heard my prayers. Amitabha. lol...

But does that mean i dont need to arrange the stocks later on? God helped me once again by making the day busier. During the peak time ,e.g. lunch hours, all of the staff cant even leave the food counter, no toilet breaks either. So, it's good. I still can avoid from the stocks. muahaha..

When it was almost 2pm, the crowd became lesser and lesser. It's time for "someone" to go down the store room and refill the stocks in the food counter. Who will it be? Predicted, it's either Rachel or me. No one else will do it except both of us.

Suprisingly, my manager ask another girl, Ruth to take the stocks today. That was a pleasant suprise, i told myself. I quciky went and told Rachel abt this. Before we could really enjoy and celeb we escaped from the stocks,

"Rachel, can you go down to take the stocks with Ruth?" says my manager.

Oh no, Rachel kena again? But i tot Ruth was the one incharge already, why she asks Rachel to go with her?

Then only we realise that Ruth who has been working there for more than half a year, has not been to the store room and take d stocks before. Today was her 1st time doing it. How fair was that huh? Rachel and I worked not more than 2 months already went down more than 10 times. How could she escaped for so long?

UNFAIR...UNFAIR...UNFAIR...UNFAIR...UNFAIR...UNFAIR...UNFAIR...UNFAIR...

Little did we know, my current supervisor who worked there for 4 months only went down once. I bet some of the girls never even went down before. How lucky!

Soon after Rachel and Ruth came back with the stock to be placed in the food bar, they need to go down again to rearrange the new drinks that came late today. I can tell they were tired and not willing to go down again. But atleast they have each other. What about me? I'm all alone ehhh... My manager even told them,

"Normally Evonne will arrange the drinks but they came late today," =.="'

Shitness..... Wat did she meant by that????? means i'll incharge to arrange the stocks from now on????? Kek sei..

Rachel and I gonna complain to another branch manager soon if we sees him. Hopefully he'll understand how we felt.

Sigh... If i could find other better jobs, no way i would stay there. Gave me nightmares only..

What's Happening..

Left my blog unattended for quite sometime after uni resumes. Been quite busy with uni assignments as well as my part time job.

Lately i've been thinking whether can i cope up with my studies while working. This matter has been bugging me for quite sometime. I have 4 different subjects in my new semester. 2 of it involves design, 1 of it linked to business and another one will be compiling my portfolio. To be compared, this semester should be easier and more relax than the last one. All i need to do is to manage my time properly so that it won't affect my studies. Anyhow, i limit myself to work only 2 days a week. Not more than that.

I always remember what my aunt told me, "Study is your first priority, and working is just part time". My mum also told me the same thing. But hopefully everything goes smoothly as i don't want to loose the job or affect my studies as i've never tried working while studying.

Speaking about work, everything seems to go well. Enjoyed the experience and collegues started to be more nice and friendly towards me. Its a good thing tough. But the only thing i really dislike is, there's only girls working in my work place. The only guy i saw working usually work during weekends. I'm not sure why they seldom hire guys though. So, which means, the girls will need to do everything from A-Z. What i meant from A-Z was, we need to re-stock all the drinks/utensils/foods from the store room/fridge. Like this morning, my manager asked me to go down to the store room and arrange the new stock for drinks.. I wasn't too happy about that bcoz there was this new girl there, and she could ask her to do it, why me? Why not her? Just because she is new? But i did everything when i was new too. This is so unfair....

OK fine then, i'll go down. I'm not suprised that she din ask anyone to help me. Atleast b4 this i went with my ex-supervisor and both of us arrange it. But now, I'M ALL ALONE.

My manager told me " Not too many new stocks today, only 42 boxes"....

I was shocked to hear that.. "ONLY 42?" what the hell... Wat can i say? I can't say NO. =.="'

I was cursing all the way there. Can't help it though. All the Coca-colas, Sprites, Fantas, mineral water, bla bla bla... are waiting for me to arrange them into the store room. It ranges from the 600ml, 390ml, 250ml cans..... all in dozens... I nearly hurt my wrist when i was carrying the drinks. Luckily i managed to save myself.... Really lucky escape...~~

All the stocks were really heavy, as in REALLY HEAVY.. sigh... its obviously a guys job. n how can they expect the girls to do it? *Sighs... Shit happens.

Now pray hard that they have newbies coming in...More guys please.... Save the girls from being tortured...

One year old..

Time flies. My baby couz just turned 1 few days ago. It was just like yesterday when i saw him in d hospital when he was first born. Too bad i couldn't attend his 1 yr old birthday party. :(

My mum told me he knows how to baby talk d. Sometimes he would mumble n sing himself. awww... how cute! In chinese tradition, as a grandmother, she needs to buy her grandson his 1st pair of shoes for his 1st birthday. My mum and my aunt brought him to buy his new shoes b4 his birthday on behalf of my grandma.. Can tell my cute baby couz was so excited abt it. That cutie even flirt with the shoeshop's salesgirl by smilling with each n everyone of them. All his cute action made all of us gerammm at him n will start pinching on his chubby lil' face.

Look at their eyes..

Like father like son..

1 happy family.. another one coming out soon in Nov... hehe...


uhh... cut cake luhh...


Happy Birthday Ivan! Muaxxxx.... from ur couz sis who's far far away now...

Honeymoon's over, Nightmare begin

I'm stepping in to the 2nd week of my 2nd semester.

Cant believe my holidays ended after 2 freaking long months... Kinda miss my holidays though. I enjoyed it though sometimes it can be very boring thorughout the days . But life goes on. Cant be having holidays 24-7.

B4 stepping back uni, Jeremy n I plan to go somewhere to "farewell" our holz. After hesitating where to go for so long, both of us gave up. We just can't figure out where to go aside from city. Argghh... In the end, we decided to stay at home.

Coincidently my hse mate, Yumeko need to go Vic Market on tat same day. She asked whether do i have any plans to "commemorate" our last day of holz. I told her initially we have but doubting where to go till we gave up. She suggested to go to the Melbourne's Observation Deck to have a look. Since she said there's this voucher where we can buy 2 tics for 1 price, so off we go to the deck.

Apparently, there wasn't anything for us to do in city, no point for us to hang out there so early. We reached the deck abt a quater past five. Purposely chose this timing so that we could see the sunsets and the night scene as in winter, the sky would turn dark b4 6pm.

The tic to the deck wasn't expensive moreover with the voucher and our student card. Each of us paid $5 only.. worth it! So enthusiastic to see the blue sea once we reached the top of the deck. It wasn't as tall as KL Tower nor KLCC coz it was only 253 metres tall but still we managed to capture the city of Melbourne.

The building.. Looks like ordinary building only rite...


The 1st sight we saw when we walked out from the lift... Tadaaa!!! Big blue sky n sea...


More views...

Can even see my work place...

Us....

Us again....

Sunset luuu....


Groupie...


Looks like lego from top..

Got myself a small souvenier... cost me only $1 .. Its a chromium with Australian map n a koala on it. I'm not sure how the machine does tat, but apparently we get to choose for our own design n i chose this!


Finally the night arrives... Magnificent view from top!


Wrap up our day at Lygon St. for dinner.

Us looking at the menu... (fyi, i've gained weight.. can tell through my big round face) :(


Food arrives.... Too hungry d, dun care abt diet 1st... lol..


After dinner, to our desert....how to loose weight lah...btw, the gelato ice-cream tastes sooooo good!!


Say byebye to my honeymoon holidays n hello to my nitemare.. haha...

Gunung Buller

Suppose to post this blog ages ago but due to the unexpected incident that happened to my modem, gotta postponed it till now.

Went to Mt. Buller, one of the highest mountain in Melb last 21st July. It was quite an awesome experience for me though i've been to Lake Mountain a few weeks back. The mountain was wayyyy bigger than Lake Mountain. 10 times the size mayb?

We woke up at 4.30am this time as we need to depart from city at 6.30am. Meaning we need to catch the earliest train to city. It was freaking cold tat morning that we barely could walk. We wore 5 layers again which made us harder to walk. lol..

Took this pic in d train. Can clearly see our puffy & panda eyes. *Tired tired..


When we reached city, we saw this particular building was half missing covered by fog. Can imagine how cold it was tat day.. Look at the sky, still dark dark one..


Initally all of us din plan to ski. We just wanted to b the sight-seeing tourist as the skiing package is too expensive for us students. From renting the gears to the lift entrance will cost us a lot. Coincidently we saw one of our classmates at the meeting place b4 departing. She told us even if we dun ski, we still need to take the lift up to the mountain only we can see the magnificent view.

After much hesitating n doubting, thinking since we are here in Melb, we agreed tat dun waste this chance to ski. Winter is once a year and we are here only for a year. Without wasting our time, we rushed to the nearest ATM machine to cash out.

We decided to SKI!!

We departed from city at about 6.45am n it took us abt 5 hours to reach Mt. Buller. On our way there, we stopped by a place which i forgot the name to rent all our skiing gears. That place was crowded with all the tourist buses and people! We were given an hour to settle all the renting n stuff. Even then, we exceed the time given as the queue was too long.

After everything settled, we got back to our bus to continue our journey. From far, we could see the mountain d. We were so excited about tat. Btw, it looks like the "Evian" water bottle's mountain. lol.


On our way up the mountain, loads n loads of snow by the road side..


Cantik horr... hehe..

The bus driver stopped by the road side when we were abt to reach the mountain top. This is wat we saw....

The ski slope! Walaooo... wan like tat meh.. scareee... i wouldn't dare to ski down lor for sure!


Finally we reached the mountain. We got off from the bus n got our skiing gears ready. Wore all of our skiing boots.

OUCH!!! The boots are killing me. It HURTS! I felt that my legs were no longer exist. My blood cant flow.

I DON'T WANNA SKI NO MORE!

*Sigh... Can't regret ady, we paid so much takkan haven tried skiing then giv up??!!

Wore that stupid boots n caught the free bus shuttle to the skiing area. All of us walked like a duck! Can't even walk properly, even for a small distance..

Finally reached the skiing area. It was a Saturday, n the place was so so crowded. For the 1st time we had our ski boots clipped on the runners. It took us abt 5 mins to clip the boots on to the runner. Pretty hard though.. n the runners were superbly heavy.. Soon after that, 5 of us straight away took the lift to go further up the mountain. The lift ticket itself already cost us $73. Ex horr!!


I was forced to go up the lift alone as there was this stupid trainer who pushed me and dun let me wait for Jeremy together who was at the back of me. I was so angry at him because he had no manners at all by using his ski poles to point on my buttocks!!!! Wat the??!!!! Hmm... No choice but to sit alone lor. I freaked out at 1st as there wasn't anyone with me. In my heart was saying, curse the trainer who pushed me. Hmmph! i know i'm bad but who asked him to push me worrr!!

Once i reached the 1st station of the lift, i skied down! wahahaha.. I nearly fell but luckily i managed to save myself from falling. While waiting for the rest to reach the station, i tried to ski out of the station. I was stuck there for approx 10 mins as there were an upward slope. Same goes to all my frens when the reached the station.

My "ski look".. :P posing only.. lol

Finally all of us were out from the station. We were informed that there'll be a ski lesson for beginners later that noon. Unfortunately, we need to ski down the slope in order to learn. aiyo... why on earth the wanna have it in the middle of the slope? We are only beginners lehh...

We decided not to go for the lesson instead we try learning ourselves. konon-lah..

More posings...

After so much of practising & falling, we were already exhausted n no more energy ski d. The boots already killing me softly, i barely feel my feet d. We decided to stop skiing n play with the snow n take pics!!

Meng Jiunn was still trying his very best to ski. haha.. Semangat-nye..

Lying on the snow again...


The mountain view ... nice nice.. Saw the tiny mini peoplessss...?

We saw a lot of skiers there where they can really ski. Even small kids can ski better than us.. haha.. only 5 of us dumb dumb dunno how to ski. haha.. Snowboard looks fun too. *Sigh.. too bad we can't ski.

Our boots.. my nite mare, dun ever ask me to wear it again. painful!!

Snowman time, but failure. haha.. instead it looks like a snoopy head. lol.


Since we failed to build a snowman, Jeremy made a mini one. Still snowman though. hehe..


A group pic on the mountain...


It was almost time for us to go. Took the lift down again. This time i'm not alone.. haha.. But still scary though.

Cam-whoring on the lift. My hands were shaking as i worried my cam might drop.


We were down the mountain within mins. There goes my $73 for the 2 times lift.

B4 leaving, we skied again down the mountain. Though there were just a slightly slope, i fell countless times. haha..

Spot me!

Another groupie b4 leaving..

2 of us.... :)

Bye bye lor Mt. Buller..

I immedietly took off the boots once i reach the bus. fuhh.. feels like heaven... On our way back, we stopped back at the place we rent our skiing gears. I managed to capture the beautiful sky on our journey back. Nice horr....

All of us slept the whole journey back to city. My whole body was extremely fatigue tat nite.

Anyhow, it was a great experience. Atleast we tried skiing n know how it felt. Once is enough for me. :)

Bed time, nitez!