sorry guys.. as much as i would have loved to complete the 30 day challenge.. i cant.

i dont have “spare time” at work like i used to… so…

im guessing this is the bit where I tell you my posts will be far and few between…

-_-

 

on a different note:

 

today i was on a train more packed than yesterday. It was so packed that there was no where to even to hold onto something.. but no fear, i have an awesome skill of being able to stand on a train and balance. I dont fall over when the train is moving and stopping.

I was sad also… the train was still packed 3 stations before the end of the line. Man- how many people who live far out catch the train in? It seems like a lot.

 

 

Today, as some of you know was my first day at work.

It was an odd experience because not only was I the knew girl but I was also entering into an industry that I have completely and utter no idea about. The last time I put myself in that situation was at the end of 2008. I suffered the whole “i have no idea whats going on” for about 7mths before the company went bust. 

After that, I went back into an industry that I was well trained and understood.. and stayed for almost 4 years.

 

It was also a weird experience to catch the train… although I was lucky today because I didn’t need to start until 10am, so i wasnt caught up in the entire peak hour train thing..

I was however caught up in the evening peak hour train… where I didnt get a seat until closer towards my stop(and my feel killed)..

:/

 

it’s kinda nice not to have to drive and have to deal with peak hour traffic… but im guessing im going to hate it when the train is jammed packed like sardines and seating next to mr. creepy

Your earliest memory

 

I vaguely remember when I was really young- actually I was in kinder and I was hammering nails into a piece of wood. I’m sure that’s not something that they let kids do anymore and how they figured that was safe for kids is beyond me.

But in my true clumsy style, I hammered my own finger.

Perhaps that is why I am hesitant around hammers.

 

-_-

 

 

I’m a tad nervous…but very excited.

Tomorrow I start my new job.

Who would have thought.. this is where I’d be.

 

I’m sure it’s going to be interesting… not sure I can say that it’s going to be fun.

I hope my new colleagues are nice. I always find that I end up working with a bunch of twats who are either really anti social or on a different wavelength.

 

It’s also going to be an interesting experience catching the train to and from work. I haven’t done that in almost 6 years.

wow.. how time flies

Somewhere you’d like to move or visit

I’ve always wanted to go to the UK.. to both visit and live there. I don’t know what the fascination is but I’m totally in love with it. Probably doesn’t help that I spend countless hours watching “Escape to the Country”. I can hear Mr_54632 groan… he HATES that show. But I love watching the English countryside… and all the lovely homes that they show.

I once asked Mr_54632 if there was ever a possibility that we could move to the UK for a few years for work. he said “we’ll see”.

 

I hope the “we’ll see” becomes “we’re going”.

That would be exciting!

 

Bullet your whole day

• woke up and got out of bed at 10am
• ate breakfast, did the laundry, vaccummed the house
• left the house at 12 to visit mum in hospital
• stayed until 5… then trekked all the way to the westside for dinner
• ate at a Mexican place
• watched a movie- Springbreakers….. worst movie ever. Never going to get 2hrs of my life back ever
• went to Dessert Story for dessert
• came home to blog this

Put your ipod on shuffle and write 10 songs that pop up

You know what the sad thing is? I have never owned an ipod. I don’t listen to music much. Not even in the car . I listen to talkback radio. It might be nerdy or old people style but I’m so sick of listening to the same 10 songs on the radio.

And I don’t download music off the internet because I don’t know how to. Ever since Napster shut down(and then restarted again)- remember back in those days.. I stopped downloading music. These days you gotta use bit torrent and that’s all too hard and too much for me.

 

wow- what a fizzer.

 

Discuss your first love and first kiss.

I would like to think that Mr_54632 is my first true love where I know we both wholeheartedly love each other equally the same and are as crazy about each other.

In terms of the way I feel for him, it’s very hard to describe…but…

 

I’ll discuss my “first” love or what I thought was love. It would have been my third bf (I know i’ve dated way too many men).. This relationship lasted approximately 2 years and the love that I felt was almost very much one-sided. I was obsessed with a man who clearly didn’t care. It was very sad when i think about it now. I treated him with all the love and care in the world and I was always an after thought.

It’s funny, because I was thinking about this relationship the other day when I was driving past Flinders St station. This place has a bitter memory where I remember almost 10 years ago, where I was standing around waiting in 30+degrees waiting for my bf …. and do you know where he was? Apparently out shopping on Bridge Rd, Richmond with some female friend who had given him a lift from his place and was supposed to drop him off in the city.

I waited for a REALLY long time (approximately 2hours AFTER our designated meeting time). I tried calling him and he never responded and I’m not the type to just “go home” and I literally waited it out. 

I was extremely worried that something had happened to him but when it turned out that he went shopping with this girl. It made me EXTREMELY angry- which I was very much entitled to be. I don’t know why he couldn’t have just said “sorry, my gf is waiting for me” and bailed on her.

This was towards the end of our relationship where I was fed up after being treated like absolute dirt that not long after we had broken up. I remember him trying to negotiate with me that he wasn’t going to “hang out with this chick” anymore if it meant that it saved our relationship. 

Do you know what was ridiculous about it? This was considering when this girl first came into our lives (I never met her and I cant even recall her name nor does it matter) was that I could tell that she liked him but he was adamant that they were friends…and obviously running off to go shopping with her and making me wait really irked me. Then one night where he was at her place playing monopoly with her sisters, she told him that she liked him. W T F? She knew he had a gf and yet still carried on telling him. Did I want to punch her in the face? At the time I did… but then I realized that he wasn’t worth fighting for because he wasn’t a catch, he was a financial, emotional and mental drain.

We should have broken up long ago but I was too chicken to deal with the hardship of breaking up, and I thought I loved him… and that he loved me. In the end, I stayed around and waited (because I’m a sicko) and let all the bad things pile up where I just hated him and hated myself… It worked in the end. I was able to walk away from him and not feel any pain from breaking up. Basically you give someone an inch, they take everything.. and true to his nature- he was a dog…

Obviously my 3rd bf wasn’t my FIRST kiss. My first kiss was the most awkward experience ever. It was with a guy that I didn’t extremely fancy.. and when I think about it now- I should be extremely insulted considering he tried to chase my friend but failed and then I was his second (perhaps choice)…anyway.. it was pretty funny experience considering we kept bumping heads (apparently he had done this many times before) and I was obviously a newbie. 

Something for you to giggle about… about a month afterwards- I tried to call him and his mother picked up advising me that her son had gone to “monkhood”. Seriously my friends laughed their heads off -”Trust you to send a guy to monkhood” BAHAHAHAHAHAH -__-

 

 

As I type this.. I have 1hr and 9 minutes left before I can officially say goodbye to my job and the industry that I’ve been working in for the last 5-6 years goodbye.

Like my OTHER job of working in the bedding industry(where I was working as a casual for 8 years), this is definitely a chapter of my life I’m waving goodbye to and hopefully never coming back.

In saying that, I have been very fortunate where I’ve been able to grow, learn and get promoted into better positions where I never thought it would have been possible. Hard work does pay off in the end.

Personally I believe this industry has a very limited lifespan. There are definitely not enough passionate people in the industry that care enough to understand the complexity of the tax that dictates how things need to be done and there are definitely a lot of psychopaths who get employed in this industry.

I’m not sure as to why that is the case. In the 14 years working (yes I’ve been working since I was 14 and 9mths), I have worked in so many different industries and worked with so many different characters but the people in this industry really takes the cake in employing a lot of the weird, the crazies and the damn right scaries.

The decision to leave although perplexing wasn’t hard to make. I really hated my last manager who drove me absolutely insane because he was a downright bully and perhaps had a bit of schizophrenia (or something) but when I changed over… I knew after the first day that it wasn’t right. I didn’t feel like I belonged and when my manager who was a GUN left- I knew my tenure here wasn’t tenable. 

In the end, I had to reflect- especially when my mum became very sick… do I stay working in an industry that I hate and with a bunch of people who don’t make the effort to have a conversation on a daily basis. Each working day is a chore and most days I spend it being somewhat bored but always worried that I’ll be penalized for not doing enough because there is literally nothing to do.

OR do I leave and find something new to learn and hate life a little less?

 

So the answer was there…

 

And now I get to say goodbye and good riddance.

 

One thing is for sure- I no longer have to make constant trips interstate or overseas.

 

Thank God for that.

 

Even after all these years- I still hate flying

 

I didn’t realize that the same night my friends- Miss J and Miss L and I were going to catch up was the same night that the football was going to be on. Seriously Monday night football? It made the Docklands area chaotic with all the crazy football supporters who braved the cold wind to support their teams at Etihad stadium (on a school night too! UMMM-MAHHH)

We had chosen to try the Thai restaurant apparently rated #1 in Docklands by the people of Urbanspoon (the restaurant tells you this with a sign on their door). One of the ladies happens to live in Docklands is currently “car-less” so we thought it we kept it local(or walking distance) then it made life easy however with the weather change occurring on Monday- we ended up picking her up to drive the 2-3kms from her place anyway.

Nine Elephants (67 Village St Docklands) is not hard to locate but you’ll be hardpressed to find any FREE parking in the concrete jungle that is Docklands especially on a footy night. We ended up finding a place that charged us $8.00 for the entire night.

The Food:

Miss L and I decided to share our meals as Miss J is a vegetarian who’s also gluten intolerant- the running joke is that eventually she’ll realize that she’s allergic to everything except meat and would have to turn to the “dark side”…

Anyway, so we ordered the “Salt and Spicy Soft Shell Crab”- trying saying that quick 10 times. I really enjoyed the dish as it was flavoured very nicely and had the right amount of salt and spice where it wasn’t too spicy or overly salty. It was a good pick.

Miss J ordered the “Tao Hoo Sard Sai”-deep fried vegetables stuffed with homemade peanut sauce. Oddly enough on the menu they have put a GF(for gluten free) but not Vegtarian- Let’s hope that the peanut sauce doesn’t have some meat related thing in it because I would LOL at Miss J. But nonetheless this was very nice dish as well. I really liked the peanut sauce that came with the tofu- and surprisingly the tofu wasn’t too dry or soggy. This was also the last dish that I tried of Miss J’s. Her next dish (which I dont have a photo of was apparently very nicely spiced- and she was drinking loads of water and eating rice to get the “burning tang out of her mouth..poor thing)

For our mains we opted for the following:

Mooh Grob Pad Prik Khing- crispy pork stir fried in red curry paste with green beans, kaffir lime leaves and long red chilli. This was surprisingly terrible. The pork was crispy but also very dry… it was so bad that it ruined the entire dish and I couldn’t taste the curry flavour in the dish 

Gang Massaman Neua- beef slowly cooked in coconut cream , sweet potato, onions, cashew nuts and peanuts. The better dish between the two. The beef was succelent and the curry was just amazing. We really liked this dish out of the two.

 

Our complaint:

I was extremely disappointed when our coconut rice came out. This was extremely dry and if it wasn’t for the Massaman we wouldn’t have been able to eat it. I don’t understand how a Thai place can get coconut rice, or rice in general so wrong. Seriously a place that’s meant to be the “best” in Docklands really FAILED on such a basic dish. 

The other thing was- as this place was an extremely small place, everytime the doors were opened we almost froze. I know there’s not much that can be done about this but it’s probably not recommended to go on a windy wintry night because it’s very uncomfortable to go through as you eat and freeze.

 

What we liked:

The service was prompt and I loved the fact that the waiters kept filling our cups with water. Everytime I turned around to pick up my glass it was always full of water- sometimes i didn’t notice them filling up my glass (that’s ninja style service) as i was in deep coversations with my friend.

 

Would we come back?

In comparison to the many Thai restaurants that I have been to in the past- this just sits somewhere as “okay” but not fantastic. But as the Docklands area is very limiting – and I assume it’s nearest competitor in the same area doing the same thing- this place probably does it better. But if you compare it to what else is available around town than this place just makes the cut of being okay. If it weren’t for the fact that one of my friends living in Docklands I wouldn’t be going out of my way for the Thai food- however if I was a local- I’d be happy.

So yes, as long as one of my friends remains car-less and we have to dine in Docklands, we’ll be coming back again to try other things.