today zoot and i needed to photocopy some documents before putting in a tenancy application. at the internet cafe, we encounted a fobby pimply girl (FPG). this is our tale...

FPG: can i help?

zoot: we just want to photocopy some things

FPG: twenty cent.

me: does the copier accept other coins? like 50 cent or dollar coins?

FPG: twenty cent.

me: yes, i heard. but does it take other types of coins

FPG: no. twenty cent.

zoot: can i change my dollar coin then?

FPG: see first. i think we have not many. how much you need?

zoot, mildly irritated: a dollar. 

FPG: you want how many copy? you want dollar?

by now, zoot's patience is wearing a little thin: 7 pages, i have 2 twenty cent pieces. i need change for a dollar

FPG hands over 5 20-cent pieces and zoot puts a coin in.

FPG: u copy 7 page all the same?

zoot: no. 7 different pages.

FPG: put in coins one by one. 

so, under the watchful eye of FPG, zoot beings what is quite possibly the most inefficient photocopying exercise i've ever ever EVER seen. and after what seems like an eternity, it's my turn. 

me [pointing to what looks like a multiple-document feeder]: do i feed the documents in here face up or face down? 

FPG: you want how many page?

me: 7. can i feed them through the top here? 

FPG [looking at me like i'm retarded]: you put one page, there.

other random asian woman with kerazy hair ve-e-e-e-ery slowly: you put page in there

me: right. okaaay. i got that. it's a photocopier. 

then, much to her chagrin, i pop all 7 of my twenty-cent pieces into the machine so i can copy in a more efficient manner. and i can feel both her and crazy-haired woman staring at me, so after i'm done we leave in a flurry of paper and irritation. 

but then we handed in our applications and probably got distracted by shiny objects and it was all okay again.

hmm i'm pretty sure i posted a couple of days ago, but i don't know where it's gone. so anyway, i'm re-posting it.

actually it was mostly to toot my own horn for making a green and gold meal for australia day.

my advanced australia fare

can you see it? green veggies and a golden sunny-side up! or what would have been a golden almost sunny-side up had it not been brutally murdered by bboj. add to that a yellow shirt, green flipflops, yellow skin and a green bag, and really, we are teh l33t3st aussies evar!

i cooked again tonight! i'm really turning into some kind of kitchen wizard..ess. i'll probably tire of this in a few weeks but for now i'm making full use of my new cookbook and being an excellent home maker. that's right bitchez, i make the home.

tonight's culinary delights from left to right: roast chicken and avocado melt on thick toast, fried haloumi cheese, japanese potato salad

gooooooooooo girlie !

today noelle and i woke up at 7-ish, had breakfast and left the house at 8. then we walked for an hour, and were back round 9. and then we're going to view 2 houses! OMIGOSH NO WAI!

dinner was a success! and the rice was good too.

today i bought a rice cooker. of course you can cook rice in a pot on the stove the old fashioned way, but yesterday i tried and the minute i put the water in the pot, i forgot all of the mothership's instructions and the rice was a little more porridgey than it should have been. although zoot reckons it was more ricey than porridgey so it wasn't too bad for a first attempt.

so anyway now we have a rice cooker. the lady at kmart was telling me how to get the rice just perfect, which to passers-by must have seemed strange because it was a white lady telling the asian girl how to cook rice.

tonight on the menu, chicken with soy and balsamic vinegar dressing. from my new cookbook. we shall assess the results later on in the evening! wish me luck.

it is my last day in perth! ack !

because i cannot afford custom-made calf-skin louis vuitton suitcases designed by marc jacobs when i travel, i have to make do with a plastic samsonite suitcase with a custom design by lynette and stuart.

the human body is not equipped to eat a cookie after a nigella lawson macaroon.

well, not this human body anyway.

i love macaroons! and lynne baked me a huge macaroon. it is tasty and she is luvverly.

nom nom nom nom nom

in other other news, i did my civic duty and called 000 to report a fire on south street, heading toward riverton. the fire brigade then said they were on their way.

in other news, this is a very stupid loser friends thing to do:

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

in case you didn't already know, tiger airways is rubbish! but sister is in singapore safe and sound now. so it's all good.

mun has fixed the blog alignment! he is our hero o(≧∀≦)o thank you mun!

in other news, lynnie loo 2 leaves for china TONIGHT!
byebye little sister, we will miss you ρ(。 。、 )

it is working! more or less. i have no idea how to make it so that the 2 columns are further apart but i guess i can leave that for another day. unless somebody wants to help? (n_n)

i would very much appreciate that

decided to change my blog template, so it's going to take awhile before it looks exactly the way i want it to. mun complains that the old layout was really hard to read and i know it was but i was too lazy to do anything about it before! but now that i have an immense amount of packing to do ...

so i suspended my wow account (until the next expansion) so that i would be able to fulfill my resolution of being more outdoorsy this year, and so i can focus on uni etcetc blahblahblah. BUT THEN! mun told me about patapon and it's by the same people who did locoroco and seriously how damn cute is it ?! so of course i have to upgrade my psp and wait patiently for the US release because now it's only in japanese. and in the meantime i have other games to play. DO I REALLY NEED THIS?! probably not. but old geeky habits die hard.

the best part about working for dad is being able to take post-medication naps. hurray for naps ! i just have to deduct the naptime from my timesheet.

and we're back! hello, my 10-days neglected blog. pictures from tasmania were oh-kay...there was way more sightseeing, and i'm nowhere near as energetic as i was last year when we got back from kalbarri. so i haven't done the mandatory photo-stitching, and lots of the pics were just of us being silly. hah!

it was an excellent trip though! tasmania does have running water, lots of it in fact buttons. the lakes are superfantastic! we went white water rafting (of which there is no photographic evidence because our camera would have gotten very wet indeed), horse back riding, kayaking in the sea (of which there is some photographic evidence), o.d'd on oysters on new years eve .. and then there was the day we were lost and bushwalking for 7.5 hours that i'll tell you all about when i see you.

it was great! very memorable. tassie is a pretty place. and probably this is still holiday mode talking but i think this will be the year that the bunny goes outdoorsy! as a first step, i have suspended my wow account. *gasp* yes. indeed.

anyway, it's photo sorting time! as usual with flickr it's all back-to-front, so i'll start you off on the first pic here, and you can work your way backwards. and it appears that flickr uploadr has put them in not-quite-chronological order. yay. mildly confusing but you'll figure it out.