I started out a bit anxious as I still couldn’t do many of the elementary moves properly, let alone start intermediate! But turning up to class, the anxiety was replaced by excitement and adrenaline!

We ended up learning many new moves like the boomerang (which was harder than imagined), the full Jamilla (spinning tuck), and the Angel… And some combo stuff for our routine (I was freaking out cos 30 seconds in and the combo had 4 or so moves in it, and everything was moving so quickly!).

Class turned out to be tiring, challenging, but so much fun!!! It left me very high and I’m super psyched for the next class!

Hurricanes, Darling Harbour

Coke ($3.85) and Mojito mocktail ($8.80)

Mammoth T-bone Steak 650 grams ($48.40) + Monkey Gland Sauce ($2.75)

Combines two premier cuts in one delicious steak

Hurricane’s Beef Burger with chips ($20.90) and monkey gland sauce ($2.75)

Made with 100% pure beef, prepared fresh daily, packing 300gm of lean beef into every burger, basted and char-grilled

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Pics at Seafood bar, Bondi Beach:

Salmon with side chips

Steak burger with side chips

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Pics at Bondi Beach

Hardly the weather for going to the beach…

Mr AG’s masterpiece in burying my feet

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Two posts today, but Mr AG just sent me this pole dancing video that I thought was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! Oh my, what incredible strength and talent! Such a captivating performance!

About a month ago, I saw posters advertising for the one-off 3 hour burlesque workshops, was interested, and signed up. Unfortunately, they called up to tell us that the workshop was cancelled. I opted them to transfer me to do the next workshop, which I did today!

People arrived, and we made conversation with one another, until our instructor arrived. Turns out, we were having an instructor from the Pole Dance Academy (the place I go for pole dancing)! ♥

The first hour or so, we had some warm up moves mixed with some basic burlesque moves (a bit of hip rolling, body rolling, some floor work, and playing with the feather fans). Then we kicked up a sweat by doing our dance routine to ‘Lady Marmalade’ and had a bit of a break before getting back into it. The last 45 minutes, we arranged ourselves into groups, and made our own dance with what we’ve learnt, and performed it to the group.

Overall, the workshop was heaps of fun and a bit of a workout (especially the abs when doing floor work); three hours passed just like that! I wish this was a longer course!

When Miss Jamie told me yesterday that she had received an email notifying her that Opeth is coming to Australia at the end of the year, I had to do a retake. Did she say… Opeth?

“Opeth is touring in December. I thought you might be interested” She started, “Tickets are on sale tomorrow.”

I jumped. Heck YES I was interested!!!

I just didn’t think Miss Jamie would’ve paid attention to it since it wasn’t her music taste, but since hearing me mention them a lot, I guess she remembered.

And… I usually check these thing regularly (or receive band newsletters)… But don’t know what happened this time; I had completely missed it.

So, thank you Miss Jamie for taking note of what I like and for letting me know it’s on!!!

Come today… and Mr AG was on the Ticketek site.

Guess who’s going to OPETH?! ♥ ♥ ♥

Image courtesy of Opeth

Miss Fera, Miss Jamie, and I had a date night for a catch up since (A) we haven’t seen Miss Fera a lot since she finished, and (B) we haven’t done it for a while. We settled on going to Bondi Junction (rather than Randwick again) with no plan in mind, but the night couldn’t have worked out any better!

We wandered around and I suggested to have Ramen Kan. While Miss Jamie had it before and didn’t like it, she was willing to give it another shot since she didn’t order ramen last time. So we beat the busy time and got a table straight away, but weren’t given a menu for a while (which was even better since we had SO much to talk about and weren’t in a rush to order).

When we got our menu, we got soft shell crab and agedashi tofu to share. Miss Fera got the Crispy fish noodles, Miss Jamie the tonkatsu shoyu ramen, and I ordered a teriyaki beef udon rather than the other beef udon (I thought I had that one before, but checking back on my previous Ramen Kan post, I realised I had it twice in a row!).

Soft shell crab

Agedashi tofu

Teriyaki beef udon

Tonkatsu shoyu ramen

Crispy fish noodle

The food was a bit on the salty side (especially the crispy fish noodles), and Miss Fera didn’t end up finishing her meal. However, we did enjoy the (very filling) meal!

Ramen Kan
3/25-33 Bronte Road
Bondi Junction NSW 2022
Phone: (02) 9387 5691

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After food, we went into Bondi Junction Westfields with an intention to walk it off… We ended up window shopping (everything was closed), mostly stalking shoes for Miss Fera’s yellow and navy dress. After a funny encounter with one of the securities (who probably think we’re weird or suss or both), we ended up sitting in the shopping center and chatted the night away… it was heaps fun, and like a slumber party without the pillows, jammies, or location. We called it a night approaching 11 PM.

At long last, we hear from the busy AC (who if not caught the travel bug, has been busy with work), and even offered a breakfast outing with the rest of us RC members (Ag buddy, ZW, and I). So even though a 9 AM start was quite early for a Saturday, we looked forward to catching up over bacon & eggs, of course.

And early I was, subconsciously waking at 5:30 AM thinking I was late, slept again, and still had excess time by the time I got up (I’m not even that early for uni!). Apparently, I was not the only one who was early; Ag buddy was also early… she even turned up to Central station 20 minutes early, despite having trackwork on her train line.

Anyway, due to good reviews, we decided to have our breakfast at Cafe Ish, an Australian/Japanese cafe at Surry Hills.

At first, we didn’t head in because between Cafe Ish and the neighbouring shop, there appears to be a video shoot of some sort. And we thought we’d wait outside a tiny bit since ZW hadn’t arrived yet.

After a while, we walked in but weren’t served a seat, so we randomly resided at a table. The waitress came by and asked if we were ready to order, and we told her we wanted the menu. And then she came by 2 minutes later to ask if we were ready to order drinks, to which we replied that we hadn’t decided yet. Two minutes passed, and she walks by to ask if we wanted to order yet, so on impulse, we ordered our drinks (Ag buddy and I ordered an orange juice each, and AC an English breakfast tea). Another waitress came by, and we told her we ordered our drinks, and that we also told her we were waiting for a friend. So, they relocated us to upstairs to accommodate the 4 of us, which was a lot comfier!

By that stage, I was feeling a sense of urgency and unwelcomed by the place.

Anyway, ZW finally arrived, and the waitress saw this as an opportunity to ask if he wanted to order a drink, and he just replied no. We sat deciding on which “breakkie ish” meal we wanted to order. At the end, AC decided on a Little ish, whilst ZW, Ag buddy, and I went for the Big ish.

We had to tell them our preference of bread (white or whole grain), and the way we liked our eggs. Somehow, I remembered to ask them to cook my meal with extra virgin olive oil rather than butter (lactose-issues), but completely forgot that scrambled eggs are often cooked with milk (argh!)… Until it came out looking creamy (commented by Ag buddy). So we clarified with the waitress, and they tried to accommodate for intolerance. In the end, Ag buddy agreed to do a swap with me (she had poached eggs), but her toast was buttered, so the waitress offered us another piece of toast. Everything worked out, but man was I in the mood for some scrambled eggs!

Orange juice ($5.5)

AC’s Little ish (fried egg)

Quattro Stelle bacon, 1 egg, roast tomato and toast ($13.5)

Ag buddy’s Big ish (poached eggs)

2 eggs, bacon, tomato, croc sausage, mushroom, beans, toast, fried potato mochi ($24)

ZW and I ordered Big ish with scrambled eggs

2 eggs, bacon, tomato, croc sausage, mushroom, beans, toast, fried potato mochi ($24)

Aside from previous issues, we all had an awesome meal! The orange juice tasted fresh, the food tasted and looked lovely. My poached eggs were cooked perfectly, the croc sausage tasted very different (it was quite spicy actually), the bacon, oh what can I say to bacon… I just love bacon! Not a fan of beans, so I just ignored it and can’t comment. ZW was yet again the lab rat and tried the potato mochi for me, and to his suspicions, it did contain cream/cheese. So that was something I also didn’t eat. But everything else was great!

And! The waitresses practically left us alone to the point where we actually found it hard to grab their attention. Complete 180 degree, but I liked it better this way!

We had the most random talks, which were often accompanied by loud laughter. One example… we had dubbed one of the doors “the jump of death”… because it looked like you had to jump down when exiting that door (click on picture and you’ll see why).

Door (see back story)

Anyway, we had a nice and filling meal, and continued our journey out the door by walking for about an hour, burning the food off while having more random chats and soaking up the lovely sun (by the way, how beautiful was the weather today?!).

Cafe ish
82 Campbell Street
Surry Hills NSW 2010
(02) 9281 1688 ‎

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So so so!

So excited about this I had made a new post about it.

Last Friday night out with the girls, after saying bye to NM, we popped into Gelatissimo for a quick treat as I know for sure there’s always sorbet for my poor lactose-intolerance self (haha, self-pity). Self-pity pretty much ended there when I spotted a new flavour that looked FANTASTIC!

Chocolate sorbet.

Chocolate sorbet.

Chocolate sorbet.

I had to order it! And it was fantastic!! I think due to the lack of milk, it turned out more like dark chocolate, but I’ve pretty much gotten too used to not having milk that this chocolate was normal to me. Instant favourite! On the other hand, the strawberry flavour I ordered to accompany my chocolate was just okay.

Princess KZ (left) and my sorbet (right; strawberry and chocolate sorbet)

So the next day (Saturday) at Burwood, Mr AG and I popped into Gelatissimo again… This time I didn’t hold back and ordered two scoops of chocolate sorbet. Yum! ♥

Double chocolate sorbet:Indulgence!

And today, after AC had to leave for work, I suggested to go Gelatissimo again to get more of the chocolate sorbet (just can’t have enough!) and lychee sorbet as my other scoop… ZW got a lychee sorbet as well and whilst he really liked it because it was really sweet, I thought it was overly sweet but quite tasty. ZW’s green tea didn’t gt a mention, but I think he liked it. Ag buddy got a scoop of white chocolate, and she said it was really creamy and indulgent.

ZW, Ag buddy, and my sorbet.

So, spring has just started (despite today’s warm warm weather), and already I’ve had so much dessert (mostly sorbet)! I feel like such a glutton! But I love it!

Another beautifully-weathered (warm) day in Sydney! And I dressed according to the weather.  I wore my Nirvana top (black with a yellow Nirvana writing and smiley), yellow shorts, black runners and black bag… So black and yellow all over, which is very much like a bee but not very “me”.

Anyway, this morning, I stepped off the train at Central and I saw an irregular reflection of myself in a yellow and black stall… I had no idea today was Diabetes Buzz Day!  Funny coincidence; I totally belong there today!

Image courtesy of Diabetes Buzz Day