Surprise!!

Its starting to become a tradition that I take Moishii out for his birthday every year. Last year it was dinner at Grotta Capri followed by dessert at Max Brenner. The year before, it was souvlaki at Brighton to celebrate our first trip to Greece. Well this year, I thought I'd up the stakes a bit. About a month and half to 2 months ago, I asked Moishii to pick a date for his birthday "day". After alot of pestering and nagging, he finally chose the 11th November. Excellent. Now I had a date to work with. So the information I gave Moishii was very simple. Catch a train to the city and I'll give him a cab charge home. No driving. Wear something casual, bring a light jacket incase it gets cold and make sure all the cameras are fully charged. So for the last 2-3 weeks, I keep getting questioned about what's happening, where are we meeting, what are we doing and WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON???

I kept tight lipped and when the day finally arrives, I start having a bit of a freak out that SOMEONE was going to oversleep and miss their bus and therefore miss the train etc etc. I mae multiple calls that were left unanswered. FINALLY someone wakes up and gets their ass on the train (after catching a cab because public transport is just too hard for some to deal with!!). After alot of confusion because someone couldn't count and therefore I almost ended up on the wrong train carriage, I broke the news. We're going to Manly. This is when he freaks out and starts screaming that he wants food and he'll starve if he has to wait til he gets to Manly. I tell him to just get a drink and we'll grab a proper lunch when we're in Manly. "Cheeseburger?" is the response. Long story.

We get off at Circular Quay and buy our tickets, grab a donut and quickly took a few happy snaps. The purpose today is to be a tourist. We were both born and raised in this city, but yet we're complete oblivious to the beauty that surrounds us. Today, we're going to see it for the first time:

Our beautiful city

As we're on the ferry, I pull out a few sheets of paper and gave them to Moishii. As he starts to read whats on the paper, he starts freaking. "WHAT IS THIS?? WHATS GOING ON?? WHATS HAPPENING?? WHAT IS THIS????".

I had bought a Jet boat voucher for 2. They give you a big bunch of waterproof gear, life jackets, strap you in a boat and then starts speeding across the harbour at 80km/hr whilst doing 360 turns and leaping over waves etc. BUT.....there's always a BUT. There was a little hiccup. I had booked this tour thing in Manly over a month ago. Using the ever helpful rain forecast on SMH, I was positive the date I booked the tour for was sunny. I've check the weather once a day, and as the days go by, the chances of rain happening on Saturday kept getting higher and higher and therefore canceling the whole thing. I eventually got to the stage where I was checking the weather 3-4 times a day. But Mother Nature was on our side, the weather cleared up and it was a glorious 28 degrees. However, a few days ago, I got a call from the jet boat company basically telling me the tour is canceled this weekend. Not because of weather, but because THE BOAT BROKE DOWN! I swear what is it with us and boats? How is it possible for him to JINX and break a boat without even trying??????

So the plan B of the day was to get totally tanked. Oh, did I forget to mention that I was carrying a pack of cowboy shots in my handbag, and that we were having shots at 11am in the morning before we got onto the ferry? So once we got off the ferry, we quickly searched for a restaurant so we could get some food in us before it was time for the 2nd shot of cowboys.

He checks out the food list, I check out the cocktail list

Long island tea....wait.....no.....Ice tea

Fush and Chups

After lunch we walk across the road to have our shot of alcohol and then do some sight seeing:

Moishii and his shot

Yes its his birthday, buts its not always about him. I think after all my stress and organising, I should be allowed to shop! So we hit the Manly Markets where I pick up a ring and 2 necklaces.

By the time we finished with the markets, it was just after 2pm. It was a bit too hot for milky cowboys, so we hit the local pub by the beach for a bit of refreshment:

Didn't take us long to finish that.....and by about 3:30 we were on the streets again exploring the streets......

By this time we were exhausted. We sat by the beach for awhile to recover, but I think its a combination of sun, heat and lots of alcohol. I was dead tired and all I wanted to do was roll over and sleep. So we did the next best thing. We hit Max Brenner for some caffeine and sugar hits.

Cappucino

Dark Chocolate Mocha

After our sugar hit, we head back towards the city for dinner where I had a table booked for 6:30. But first, we needed more touristy photos.

Antonia Kidman and her husband! God I'm good with a camera!

So we quickly take another shot of alcohol before jumping onto a bus back into the city. Not before we get into a fight with the bus driver though. Moishii asked for a ticket to Town Hall. The bus apparently doesn't go to Town Hall. Like bullshit it doesn't. We caught the bus all the time throughout uni and even to this day. Just because it doesn't go along George St, doesn't mean it doesn't go through Town Hall MORON. He tried to kick us off the bus saying he doesn't go to Town Hall when I screamed at him to just give us a god damn ticket for 2 sections! FFS how these people even manage to operate a bus is beyond me.

Anyway, we get off the bus, and walk towards the restaurant. Before we walked in, we had to stop and pull out the video camera. I basically told Moishii that the owner at the restaurant is absolutely insane. If you go in, he'll grab whoever is at reception and make you dance the Zorba with him. Crazy Greek guy basically. So I had the video camera in my hand, turned on to film A Current Affair Style. Moishii walks in and tells them we've got a reservation. I walk behind him with the camera in my hand. As we walk around the corner, suddenly there was a huge "SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!" followed by a Kabillion poppers and manic laughter. This is when Moishii turns around and screams "FUCK!! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!!" and tries to run out of the restaurant. Thats right, I had organised a Surprise Birthday Party for Moishii. And its the first time that its actually a SURPRISE!!! See? Thats how a Surprise Party should really be organised. You do NOT tell people that you're chucking them a surprise party and that they need to act surprised when they rock up!!

The whole story of the crazy owner was a lie. It was to get the camera off him without him suspecting. All the alcohol we consumed was partly to get him tanked so he wouldn't catch of to what was happening. I had wrapped the presents and purchased a whole heap of props and poppers and passed them to Christine during my dinner party so she could bring them all on the night. After alot of confusion and flash lights going off like it was the paparazzi from hell, we finally got seated. This is when I pointed out to Moishii that there was something on the wall.......



HEHEHEHEHE I had photochopped a number of photos, passed them on to Christine so she could print them out and arrive early at the restaurant to stick them up!!!


And we continued Moishii's tradition that we always dress up the birthday girl. This was no exception! By the time we had him all dressed up, all he wanted to do was have more alcohol. So we ordered a bottle of wine imported from Greece just for Moishii. In the meantime, it was present time!!

I also got him a scrap book with all our photos from when we first met!

90210 and Prison Break from the gang

Whilst all this was going on, Moishii kept looking around screaming that he was confused and he doesn't know what was going on. Apparently he was still looking for the crazy owner to jump on him when I told him he doesn't exist!!! After sculling a few glasses of alcohol, he finally calmed down after about 30minutes, just in time for the food to come.

Diethnes Special Platter

Christine begged for some Moussaka to be included in the platter since she was still craving it after my low fat version of it! hehehe It was good, but apparently mine was better. But my favorite had to be the vegetables. MmMMMm

Mixed dip for 2

Greek Salad

The portions were huge and we really struggled to get through most of it between me and Moishii. We had to enlist the help of others and managed to make a decent dent in the food.

Some of us did anyway......

Of course a birthday isn't complete without a cake! I had to pre-order the cake and asked the bakery to deliver it to the restaurant for me, which was then one big fuss as to when they can deliver and when the restaurant is open. In the end, we got the cake, and it was the best mud cake you will ever eat!!

Now that we've gotten all the food out of the way, it was time for another tradition. Time to make a complete fool out of ourselves whilst capturing it all on camera!

The Tongue shot

The "Lets get Jiggy" shot

"GUS!!! PUT YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM!!"

After making a complete fool out of ourselves, we decided to head off to the City of Sydney RSL for some cheap drinks. It was also the last chance to get Moishii tanked. So we walked in and they had they funky sign in machines. You basically write your name onto the paper thats attached to the machine. You then press a button and it will feed the paper through the machine and print out the code to make sure you've gone through reception correctly. So we were all signing in and all had our sheets of paper. It was just Moishii that was left and he kept bashing the button to try and print the paper out. I go over and help him press the ONE button that is on the machine when he insists on jabbing the button as well. Suddenly the paper is fed through the machine, semi jams but we managed to pull it out. Instead of printing the time and code onto the paper like everyone else, it prints out "Test Print".

What the hell? How on earth do you stuff up the printing?? There is ONE BUTTON on the machine. All you had to do was press the ONE BUTTON and you still stuffed it up!! Like OMG!!! YOU BROKE THE BOAT!!!

We quickly race up and order ourselves some drinks:

As we're sitting and enjoying our drinks, some guy walks to the piano situated next to us to try and play it. There was some electronic thing that was stuck to it, and I made a comment earlier that it could just play music and the guy probably sits behind the piano pretending to play. We were trying to work out how the thing works when the guy plonks down on the seat. He starts pressing buttons randomly and managed to get a song to play for 5 seconds and then stop. Then suddenly Christine decided to throw some advice into the confusion and she screams at the guy that "YOU PROBABLY NEED TO INSERT SOMETHING!". There was an awkward silence followed by fits of laughter. Suddenly me and Moishii offered Christine up to perform. We told everyone in the bar area that Christine will sing a Delta Goodrem song whilst lying across the top of the piano. We managed to get everyone to cheer her on and clap. Not that that would get her up to perform. We were so disappointed. So disappointed in fact, that I needed another drink:

So disappointed in fact, that we decided to put my pineapple into her handbag. HEaEHaHE

The night ended quickly after 11pm. We were just too knackered and Christine didn't want to sing. The people even cheered her on as we left! We told them that Christine will be performing at 8pm next Saturday and that we'll see them again! HAHAHAHA

As we were going home, as a final event to celebrate Moishii's party, we had a big "CHRISTINEEEEEEEE" screaming session in Christine's car. Even Cookies joined in eventually!

Happy 26th Birthday Moishii!!!

Remember, 26 is only 1 year away from 27!! But its OK, our cut off age for Mykonos is 28. We still have 2 more trips to make!!

The last hurrah

I only just realised that I haven't blogged about our last day at the Gold Coast. Don't know why since it was the most stressful day we were there! So after all our waking up at all ungodly hours, on the day we had to check-out, we could actually sleep in a bit. It was the first day that I wasn't the one awake and all I wanted to do was sleep in. FFS I was there for so many days, I had to choose the day I was going home to sleep in! I eventually putter out of bed only to find out all the alcohol is gone and all we have is a huge chocolate cake. And chocolate cake for breakfast just made me want to heave. So instead of throwing it away, we decided to give it to Anne and her assistant Cherry. Yes its her real name. So, me with the camera in tow, A Current Affair style, we head down to the reception to give the remaining cake to them. Not before we had a good argument as to whether we should take the writing off the cake first. Would someone listen to me? No! So here we were, camera in hand, standing at reception with Moishii struggling to explain why we had "Happy Mykonos/Olympics anniversary" written on the cake. You know, if you bothered taking the writing off, you wouldn't have to explain! Anyway, I think they were catching on to us as they kept looking at the camera. Oh wells.

After the whole explanation as to why we have a cake etc etc, we finally understood why they had a look of disgust on their face. Because we had insisted on breaking off bits and pieces of the hand to eat, what remained looked like a headless woman chucking a leg spread...... *cough*

With that clarified, we went back to the apartment, screamed our last "CHRISTINEEEEEEEE" from the balcony and dragged our luggage downstairs. Anne had agreed to lock our luggage up for us whilst we go exploring. We thought they had a luggage room, what they had was this:

Don't ask me why they had crutches in there, but this room was a junk room! We barely got our luggage inside the room because it was so full we couldn't open and close the door properly!! So we stow our luggage away and decided to go have a relaxing breakfast. The moishii screams for a coffee before we even sit down. This is what he gets:

Nice.....but look at what I get when I order 10mins later:

Tehehehee I'm flattered! Its great to be a chick sometimes!! Anyway, breakfast came and it was the first time we sat back and slowly enjoyed our meal and RELAXED.

MmmMMm bacon thats crunchy, cripsy and still juicy all in one go!

We decided to give away a cake so someone can have sweets for breakfast! But it does look good doesn't it? MmMMm strawberries.....

So after eating, we wandered around the streets to do more sight seeing, photos and buying some souveniers. This was when we encountered HER:

Don't ask me why we found it so funny. We always find things funny. But its kinda hard not to shake your head when she goes into a big spill about how her name is partly turkish but she's not turkish but she's glad to know that Moishii is Turkish. Like what the?? Then there was a whole big commotion when Moishii said he was flying off to Turkey tonight and that he was thinking of buying something for his cousin. Of course this resulted in her trying to make us buy half the shop! God why can't you just keep your mouth shut!? Its like you blurting to the woman that you're making a documentary?

Anyway, we managed to escape without spending cent. We headed on over to Infinity which is basically a place with about 20+ "rooms" that are filling with various lighting special effects that gives you the illusion that you're suspended 1000000km above ground amongst other things. No photos here since we screwed up the ONLY photo opportunity and you can't bring anything into the place with you. But it was good fun. It was expensive, $30/30mins, but I enjoyed it! This is my second time and it was even better than the first!

After the whole infinity thing, we decided it was time for another coffee. All we wanted to do was sit, and relax whilst the time passed. Suddenly, we hear this "SCCCHHHRRLLKKKKUUKKK" sound next to us. We both whip around to see where the sound was coming from:

Basically, this lovely lady did this "hocking your phlem up but also simultaneously choking on the phlem whilst sucking the snot from your nose" type noise. And it was LOUD. She was a good 5m away from us when we noticed her, god knows why she didn't burst a vessel sucking/hocking the way she did. To this day, we're still arguing as to whether she was hocking something up, or sucking her snot through her nose, or just choking on either one of those things. Its one of the most disgusting sounds you will ever hear, and it basically put me off my coffee.

Since we didn't want to put anything into our mouths after the whole bodily fluid thing, we decided to walk to the other side of town. We got heaps of lovely pictures, including a shot of our apartment:


We had a nice relaxing stroll in the sun and enjoyed the breeze....but do you know I have issues with "Relaxing"? I can't relax. I come from a family that in our spare time, we work. We don't relax. So after all this relaxing, I was getting a build up of something. As we walked past the wax museum, we contemplated running in, taking a photo and running out without paying a cent. But there was a guy standing right by the entrance, so I did what I thought was appropriate. I told Moishii to turn on his video camera and film. All of a sudden I grab his arm and scream "OMG!!!!!!! ITS CHRISTINE!!!!!! CHRISTINEEEEE!!!!!!!" followed by a full bolt down the street. My blood curdling scream basically made the guy almost wet his pants. I felt SO MUCH better after that.


Especially when we found Christine's new sugar daddy:


The wind had picked up significantly after this so we headed back to the apartment to grab our bags and wait for the transfer. Now when we booked our transfer, we weren't allowed to pick the time we wanted to get picked up. We give them our flight number, they TELL us what time they will pick us up. I am always very safe when I travel and try to get to the airport ATLEAST 1hr before departure for domestic flights. We almost didn't make it to the airport because of the bloody driver because he tried to run a red light! Its not like we were actually in motion when he ran the red light. We were sitting at a red light, and suddenly he thought it'd be a great idea to drive into the intersection! THIS GUY ALMOST KILLED US!!!

So we FINALLY get to the bloody airport and theres only 45mins til departure time. We run into the airport and theres a HUGEEEEEEE line at checkin. Luckily we were able to use the Virgin Blue express check in machines and got ourselves tickets. We just had to check our luggage in. As we line up to check our luggage in, the line to get through security just grew and grew behind us. I start freaking out as theres over 100 people lining up to get through security. This didn't include the 100 people infront of us trying to check their bags in! To make things worse, we look at the monitor and it says our flight is at gate 8. Our ticket says we're at get 7. When we finally get to a checkin counter, we ask the attendant and she says we should be at gate 9. And if thats not bad enough, the reason I'm so panicking is because I'm scheduled to arrive back in Sydney at 7pm, and I have an 8:30 volleyball game that I needed to get to! Meaning I had less than 45mins to get off the plane, get our luggage and go home, change and then go back out to the city for volleyball!

We line up to get through security, at this time, there is only 20mins til take off. We wanted to push in, but the thing is, EVERYONE is in a rush to get on the plane so it wasn't going to happen. Suddenly the line splits into 2, we debated jumping into the other queue but ended up staying in the main queue. This is when the other queue moves. Groups of people keep passing us and by the time we're near the security gates, theres absolutely no one behind us, and the line has shrunk from 100 people down to about 20. Looks like we got caught in the worst of the jam. We had originally hoped to get to the airport early and grab something to eat as I didn't want to eat so close to playing volleyball. By the time we got through security, there was 5mins til take off. I grab my bag and make a made run through the terminal only to come to a skidding halt. There is a HUGEEEEEEEE line for people to board the gate. By this time my whole body is trembling and my hands won't stop shaking because I'm so stressed about missing the flight and therefore missing the volleyball game.

Apparently there were huge delays and we haven't even started boarding let alone take off! I think it was Sydney's way to ease me back into the rat race, because by the time I got on the plane, I would've throw someone out the window if they were delaying us from taking off. We eventually get into the air and I ended up scoffing cold unsatisfying sandwhiches just so I have enough energy to play volleyball when I land. When we get off in Sydney, I make a mad rush to the baggage claim to get my stuff. I even left Moishii behind. I grab my bags and run for the taxi stand only to get caught up in another line. And with my luck, I got a taxi driver that had no idea where Hume Highway was. Its his 3rd day on the job, and he doesn't know where he's going. OMG I'm going to get lost! I start screaming directions at him and at 7:45pm I arrive home. I run in through the house dragging my suitcase. I throw my suitcase on the floor and run into the kitchen to let my parents know I'm home. This is when Mum insists I eat something before going out again. In 30 secs, I scoff a bowl of food and practically choke on it. By 7:50pm, I had changed and was in the head speeding towards the city. I get to the game on time, but lets say I was NOT relaxed first day back at work!!!

Such is life

After close to 2.5months of planning, detailed verification of vital details, checking and rechecking and triple checking every single daye, it finally looks like things will all go according to plan. Then I get 1 phone call that totally throws everything out the window. ARGH. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.....I think in the back of my mind, I knew that anything that can go wrong, would probably go wrong with my luck. Such is life I guess. Lets move on to plan B. But first, come up with a plan B.

A Dinner Party SoRMuiJAi style

Nothing is never "normal" in my life. And a dinner party isn't any different. When I invited a bunch of friends over for dinner, I told them that the cuisine of the night would be Turkish and Greek. and to go with the theme, everyone was to rock up in costume. Now, Moishii and Christine know me, and they know that I'm not kidding when I'm expecting people to rock up in costume. Whilst Gus, well, I think Gus knows I'm not kidding, but he's hoping to feign innocence and get away without a costume. But I know Gus better, so I had a costume preplanned for him. And the same with Alan, since Alan thinks I'm on acid when I demanded that people rock up in costume. He doesn't actually think I'm stupid enough to go through with it. Well guess what? I'm stupid enough.

I finally get to wear my belly dancing costume!!

Moishii the confused belly dancing terrorist

"OMG you guys are frickin nuts!" Christine

"OK, this toga has lowered my testosterone levels by like THIS MUCH"

"God, why did I agree to come??"

Now since I've got everyone dressed up, and I was doing a Turkish/Greek night, we thought we would take it all the way. We're eating on the floor! Too bad I was missing the traditional turkish cushions. But Moishii helps spice up the place with a whole range of Turkish decorations. But it probably wasn't the best idea to put pointy wooden spoons ALL AROUND THE FLOOR because I practically put one through my foot every time I walked through the place. So we had the belly dancing music pumping through the speakers, a chick in a G-String belly dancing on screen to set all the guys in the mood. The punch was made and the food was ready. Lets chow down!

Setting up on the floor - Note the deadly spoons along the edges

Dolmades

I accidently left the vineleaves soaking in the pot of water I cooked it in for too long. That unfortunately diluted the taste. Might have to make another batch soon to satisfy my cravings.

Babaganoush

Now, I haven't made babaganoush in yearrrrrrrrrs. The first time I made it, I didn't roast the eggplants anywhere near long enough, I put toooooo much garlic and I basically ended up throwing the whole pot out. Yes, a pot full. This time, well this time I was smarter. And I came out yummmmm! Even if I do say so myself. I had roasted them over an open fire long enough to make the eggplants soft and silky giving it a lovely smokey flavour. I spiced it up with just enough garlic and lemon to give it a pungent tang. I just had some for lunch and it tasted even better than it did last night. Next time I'm going to make it a day in advance!

Cacik / tzatziki

This was alot easier to make than I expected. I went a bit to happy on the salt though, but definately will make it again next time!!

Coban salatasi (Shepard's salad)

This was my absolute favourite salad when I was holidaying in Turkey. Its simple but oh so yummy. I think it had something to do with the tomatoes. I've never really tasted tomatoes until I had them in Turkey. What we have in Australia is not tomatoes. But this is as close as I am going to get to having the salad without going overseas this year. Its sooooooo simple to make as well! Chopped tomatoes, cucumber and parsley. Squeeze some fresh lemon over the top, mix and eat. MMMMmmm

Kofte

I didn't realise how hard it is to get lamb mince in my area. I must shop in Auburn next time. I had to pay $14 for a 2kg leg of lamb, ask them to debone it and THEN mince it, leaving me with less then 800g of lamb mince. However, it was worth it. I don't think it would've tasted half as good with beef mince. I think they turned out alright. Moishii reckons they were nice, but something was missing from the Kofte......it just didn't scream "TURKISH!!!" to me. It was probabaly more "turkish" than "TURKISH!!!". But it was still nice. Just not very "TURKISH!!"

Moussaka

A Turkish/Greek night would not be complete without a big tray of hearty Moussaka. Luckily it was rainy and freezing cold on the night as well. The moussaka came out nice. I haven't had an authentic one is so long, I'm not sure how "Greek" it is, but nonetheless, it was good. The egg plant was soft, and the potatoes had absorbed most of the flavour. I'm going to enjoy my lunch tomorrow :D

I was originally going to make galatoboureko, which is the Greek custard filo pastry. But I lost my recipe. I've searched high and low, and I cannot find my recipe. I could probably make it up as I go, but I wasn't in the mood. I was going to ditch the whole dessert thing. But 2 hours before everyone was due to arrive, it suddenly occurred to me, a dinner party isn't a dinner party without dessert! So I quickly whipped up a custard filo tart thing with some fresh fruit.

Now that dinner was over, we decided to watch our holiday DVD which is dedicated to Christine. I previously blogged about our night out at Surfer's Paradise and left out a huge chunk of our night. I can now reveal what happened. We had been walking around with a video camera, and for some reason, when people see us, they all want to say "Hi!!" to the camera. So instead of just saying "Hi!!" to the camera, we asked them to say "Hi!!" to Christine. We gave a whole range of reasons from, its her birthday, to she's been in an accident and is lying in hospital and unable to come to the GC with us.

So we got heaps of footage hey. So we set ourselves a challenge, lets ask someone to flash Christine, on camera. We even agreed that we were NOT going home until someone atleast shows an ass crack to the camera. This is when Moishii starts to scream that we're never going to get home then. So after dinner and multiple drinks later, we started roaming through the streets of Surfers. We entered a bar contemplating having a drink, when we remember they charged us $9 for a shot the last time we were here. So we decided to go to another bar instead, as we step out of the bar, we're standing around discussing as to where we should go when we hear a "Hey!".

We turned around and saw 2 guys sitting on a bench outside the bar. One of them decided to ask us if we're filming a pornography or something. Without thinking twice, I asked him to say hi to Christine, and if he could flash her for us. He stood up, and proceeded to play with the zipper on his pants. The next thing you know, the guy has pulled his sack out. Yes, thats right. Thinking we weren't even going to get an ass crack, we get a sack from the very first guy we asked. And he didn't think twice about it! He stood up, whipped his sack out, and waggled it around infront of the camera. We make a quick get away whilst laughing our heads off. This is going to be one of those nights. We immediately went to have a shot of alcohol after getting a sack in our face. The rest is a bit of a blur, we basically here is a run down of what happened after the sack.

- We got an ass crack
- We had a shot
- We got a nipple
- We got 2 sets of boobs
- We had a shot
- We got more ass
- Some guy told me he wanted to put his penis between my boobs
- We had a shot
- We got accused of being terrorists
- Some guy wanted to lick my arm
- We had a shot
- We got the sausage
- We had a shot

And so on and so on. All of them dedicating their wangers to Christine. And all captured on film. How good are we?? So when we were trying to find a souvenier present for Christine, we knew exactly what to get her:

"Open it!! open it!!"

"OMG!! ITS SQUISHY!!!"

Then some smart arse decided to throw it onto my ceiling......

Its hanging by the nuts!

Wait....."nut"

We spent a good 10mins waiting for the damn thing to fall off the ceiling! Who knew that you could be hanging by a nut for so long? We were going to try and grab a ladder to pull the thing off (Since I didn't want my parents coming home and seeing a wanger growing from the ceiling!!" when it finally came off! Then it was a whole "hot potatoes" thing where it was throw from one side of the room to the other. Somehow, we found the whole throwing of a fake limp sausage highly amusing......

Like I said, nothing is never normal in my life. Not even a dinner party.

Lets Do Lunch - The Summit

I've been meaning to blog about our "Lets do lunch" thing at the Summit. I'm a bit late, but here it is:

So I met up with Christine on a Friday to do the "Lets do lunch" thing at the Summit. We rocked up really early to try and finish early and head back to work.

I've been to The Summit many times, but always to Orbit bar for drinks and never for the food. Scouring through the whole "Lets do lunch" menu, The Summit was the most appealing one out of all of them. So when the food came, I was a tad disappointed:

The fish was a tad dry, and the lobster dumplings, well, if I didn't know it was lobster, I would've thought it was a ravioli without any filling. I would've preferred 1 big dumpling where you can taste the filling, as opposed to 2 small dumplings without much taste. The dish was pretty average, except for the puree at the bottom. We still don't know what it was, perhaps artichoke puree? But OMG it was good. If I was home alone, I would've licked the plate clean. I think that alone, made up for the rest of the shortfalls.

After we finished the meal, we were offered tea and coffee, and given complimentry mini friands....

......but what I liked most was the tea pot! How funky is the pot??

And the sugar! When they first put the sugar down on the table, I thought they were mini caramel/coconut things and wanted to pop them straight into my mouth!!

So we sat and chatted, slowly sipping on our tea. Next thing you know, more than 1.5hrs had passed and we had to quickly rush back to work. If only we didn't book the "Lets do lunch" thing at the end of the Good Food month, because I would've liked to have tried a few other places as well. Maybe next year......

Bernard Fanning

So I got a phone call late Monday arvo, and the conversation went something like this:

Her: blah blah blah blah tickets to tomorrow night's concert

Me: Excuse me?

Her: blah blah blah you've won tickets to tomorrow night's concert

Me: Oh, what is this for??

Her: You entered a contest for Bernard Fanning's concert and you've won tickets for tomorrow night's concert!

So yeh, I won tickets to Bernard Fanning's concert for Tuesday night. The minute I hung up, I called Moishii.

Me: Hey, are you free tomorrow night?

Him: Why? What's happening? What are you booking? I HAVE NO TIME!!!!

Me: I got free concert tickets to Bernard Fanning's concert tomorrow night at Hordern Pavillion

Him: Who is that? why are you signing me up to freaky concerts! Its an incident waiting to happen isn't it?

Despite his protests, we managed to book the time in to head to the concert. All I had been told was that the concert starts at 7:30 and they have my name at the doorlist. So what do we do? We race to Fox Studios, quickly grab a snack at subway and run to the box office as it was getting close to 7:30 and it was general admission. When we got to the box office, we noticed a sign saying that there are 2 supporting acts before Bernard fanning comes out, which was 9:30pm! OMG! If only we knew that we could've sat down and enjoyed a nice meal as opposed to shoving food down our throats.

We ended up at Strike bar having a drink and chatting before we made our way to the concert around 8pm. We wanted to catch Augie March before the BF concert started. I'm glad we went early because we managed to grab a seat since I'm too old for standing and mosh pitting. Augie March was awesome and I would've loved to grab their CD, but for $30, I wasn't willing to part with my money. BF came on stage and he was an excellent performer, the only problem was we were so tired by 10pm! The depressing thing was, I said to Moishii, atleast 75% of the people in here probabaly came straight from work. Yet they're able to stay awake, enjoy the show even if they're standing. Meanwhile, we're sitting in our comfy seats complaining that we're tired! We're a disgrace. We actually left the concert at 10:15pm, and as we were walking out, the security at the gate said theres no out passes. When I told them that its not a problem, they gave us the look of "Who the hell leaves a concert when its barely half way through??". Us apparently.

I wouldn't mind going to Bernard Fannings concert again, just maybe on a weekend next time. Either way, I was happy I got to go! Free tickets are always a bonus!