Last night was pretty awesome. My boyfriend and I had dinner at Bavarian Bier Cafe at the Entertainment Quarter. My dinner was delicious and Robin's plate was a bit of everything. This was followed by watching "Tropic Thunder" at the La Premier lounge where we got treated as VIP. I was nice enough to give someone our free complimentary wine. It wasn't exactly the best of wines that they have. Sucks.

Today, Robin and I attended the UTS Open Day. I wanted to see whether this university was worth going to. I plan to go uni and try and see if my work is able to fund for some of it. It would make my life so much easier.

I really should be studying or making a start on my 2500 word essay and computer accounting, plus budgeting assessment. But, as always, I am procastinating hardcore. What else is new. I am ebaying and waiting for the clock to strike midnight so I can pick up the boys from their endless night of drinking.  

Anyways, I'm off, going to lie down on my bed and hopefully just read my book, or try and start my essay!

Thankyou Mr Tubby for cleaning my room. I didn't expect you to do such a good job. My room was spotless. My shoes were neatly organised and my clothes were folded and packed away and a massive hello kitty blanket that just layed over my usual blanket. How awesome, and I didn't have to do anything at all. Thanks Sweet Cheeks. Love you.

I am so tired and sleepy. I have to do filing and archiving of these expenses. Hmm, should I wait till Monday to slave-drive Kim-Chi when he comes in to do work experience with me. ha-ha! Yes, I think that's what I will do, for now and concentrate on finishing the audits!

What else? I am blogging a lot more now that I am more and more sleepy at work. It's like I have to find ways to keep myself up or entertained. On that note, I want to go home and sleep, but at the same time, I want to head to the La Premiere to watch a movie. It should be fun. Complimentary sparkling wine, popcorn and coke!

I just had Yum Cha with Mr. Tubby. Yummy! That lunch was delicious, and not that expensive.
Mango Pancakes and Egg Tarts. *drools.

I'm so excited. Robin is taking me to watch "Cinderella on Ice" next month.

This week we are going to watch a movie at "La Premier", I scored myself two tickets plus free champayne which is all thanks to my former boss, Myriam. Love it. I have to use this by October 2009, otherwise it will go to waste.

I'm so bored at work at the moment. I have a shitload of expense auditiing to do and it has become very, very tedious. In the meantime, I am just doing my "other" work which is what I do before I audit them. This is where I select the random employees to audit. How cruel.

I think I just prefer to read other people's blogs than maintain one for myself. But I guess I should put more effort in updating this, since my oldest brother is now living in Brisbane and needs updates on how the family are going, and for Maria and Franz to be kept updated about the wonderful life of Robin and Arianne. Agh. Now, I am just rambling on about nothing. Boredom is killing me at the moment.

Work is so unproductive today. Just auditing these endless travel expense claims. This will never end. Seriously. Yet, I love working here. I think I am having one of those "bad days".

I even resorted to reading my previous blog that I created ages ago, not that it's very interesting, but it was fucken hilarious. *memories. ha!

I won an award at work for doing a good job. I scored myself a $500 Coles Myer Gift Card. That's pretty funny considering I was on sick leave for the last 2-3 days of last week. I come back from work and scored $500 worth of shopping! OMG. That's so awesome.

I remember coming back from my study leave, I scored 2 x $150 Coles Myer Gift Card from my work. It was just in time for me to use them at Brisbane. I love my work. It's so awesome. Although, I already spent the 2 x $150 vouchers. I am now just awaiting for the $500 to be in my hands so I can go shopping.

Decisions, what to buy. Clothes, Cosmetics, Bags, Shoes.. OMG, its an endless list of wants or I can just buy myself a new season wardrobe. Hmm.

Friday:
I got my new phone in the mail. It was awesome. Delivery went as planned and the eBay seller was just reliable. I am so glad I sent it to my work address to get couriered, otherwise, I'd most likely get it tomorrow or something like that instead. Started using the phone on the night and it is fucken awesome. It's a touch screen and its so cool. Love it.

Wow, we had my end of financial year party near star city, we didn't stay long, but there was free champayne, white wine, red wine, and beer and other non-alcoholic drinks. We arrived at about 8pm at the venue and left in an hour or so.

Robin and I headed to star city to wait for Denise and Karl to arrive, so we started playing the tables (just blackjack), we started it off with $20.00. For a good one hour, we were contstantly up and down, in the end we won $100. We decided to walk out with the $100 rather than end up with a loss for the night. Afterall, we ended up just having fun.

We headed to Men's Gallery for the rest of the night, and Denise and I had a couple of vodka and oranges and our attempt to tip the beautiful stripper. She was very nice, she was actually the only "nice" one there that had the perfect body, not too skinny, not too fat.

Saturday:
We went to Ash's place for his 8th Birthday at his place to have BBQ. Went to the park with the kids to go on the swings and watching Robin and Robert versing 2 little kids playing tips. Watching Robin run was hilarious. Mr. Tubby run! ha-ha!

It was Elaine's hen's night that night and I found it to be quite boring yet, I couldn't be rude and not attend. So I went with Georging to "La Campana" which is some spanish restaurant along Liverpool Street and the dress code was purple. Far too cold to flaunt it or to wear a dress, so I ended up wearing a purple dressy halter top and marcs baby doll skinny jeans and heels. Nothing too flash. After the restaurant, we headed to passionflower for ice cream. Yes, ice cream on a hen's night. So I guess the hen's night was more of a girl's night out then a proper hen's night. The clock stroke midnight and I was ready to head home, so Gigi and I walked to star city from Passionflower to catch our ride, whilst the rest of the girls headed straight to Kings Cross for Elaine to see some strippers.

Sunday:
Went to parramatta with sister and little brother and Robin met up with me shortly after. Our plans didn't go to well to go to the fish markets this morning. Anyways, just a small little fight that shouldn't have happened, but everything is all good now. Well, I am very glad that it is. Now, I'm just back at his house and using his internet to go on and start blogging again.

I'm so tired, I'm just going to go for a nap now. I start work tomorrow at 7am. Help. I'm also falling sick as well.

Yippee!

I just bought myself a new phone last night on eBay.

I bought the Samsung F480 which is a touch screen phone and slimmer than the apple iphone. (Hell Yeah!), I also bought a little cute pink pouch for it and a pen to go with it so that I can avoid using my tiny fingers. How cool is that. I can't wait to get it. Come on Australia Post.

I'm actually down at reception and doing none other but answering the phones all day and trying to focus on doing my own job as well. Quite hard, when there's no decent printer near you. And all I am thinking of is how soon will my new phone arrive in the palm of my hands, I do hope the delivery is quick.

Wednesday:
Robin and I met up with Alyssa and Minh to have dinner at Hooters, and we had something different which was not very filling but extremely oily. On the bright side, we had extra room for dessert which never happens. So the choice was whether to have dessert at Hooters, Max Brennan, or somewhere else. We chose "somewhere else", we ended up at Lonestar. We had a hot fudge brownie with icecream on top (except me, I had to get the ice cream seperate). Anyways, that brownie was rich in chocolate and was very delicious, yet so filling.

Thursday:
Were getting broke, well, I mean, the boys wallets are extremely getting upset. The four of us again ended up out and had pizza at Belfield, that was some nice handmade pizza. I forgot what the name was called, "Alysons" or somewhere near there. Apologies for the mistake. On top of that I am extremely stuffed.

Finally, I can't wait for tomorrow, it's Friday, and its my work function for the end of financial year party. Yay! Free Cocktail Drinks! Free Beer, Free whatever the hell you want. ha-ha!

We made it.
I must admit it was one hell of a road trip.

I will try and keep this blog simple and short. My entire week in a nutshell.

Friday - 1 August 2008

Congratulations to my baby for getting his green P's back! He met up with me for lunch and ate at some cafe at North Sydney, which didn't go so well, but it was good seeing him that day. He picked me up at North Sydney again, followed by seven long stem roses at the back of the car seat with a handwritten letter to me which made my heart melt. Surprisingly, I can read his fast handwritten ever-so-messy writing. Your my sweetie, babe, love you, always will. Your the best thing that ever happened to me.

Saturday - 2 August 2008
Star City Buffet with my sister and her boyfriend, followed up with going to the Endeavour Room for free drinks, literally out of all the nights to be out, it had to be the day before the road trip, seeing we got home around midnight or so. Minh asked us to drop his car off home whilst he and Alyssa can stay out late to go clubbing, so we did it. Drove all the way to Minh's house and back to Liverpool to sleep. Robin slept over at my house to help me pack up for the road trip and worked on my car whilst I had my sleep since I had the first shift of driving to Port Macquarie.

Sunday - 3 August 2008
The trip begins by filling up the car with petrol, back to home because Mark (older brother) forgot his ipod. We did a stopover at Port Macquarie and stayed at a creepy motel. Somewhat reminded us of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It was actually pretty scary, my brother and I were hiding behind Robin whilst he spoke to the man, and everytime we needed something out of the car, we always told Robin to go down and get it for us. It was the safest way. *smiles. We had Mark spraying Holy Water, and putting a portrait of Virgin Mary and Jesus to keep us safe, and we even slept with the lights turned on. Lucky for me, I had Robin to hug me to sleep.

Monday - 4 August 2008
It was just before 10am, and us three were out of there. Couldn't stand that motel. It was so creepy. This time, we drove a bit further, only to find a more decent motel with a heated spa and pool. Anyways, the boys went fishing whilst I shopped alone. Not many shops to attend to over there, but I did buy the following things:

- Flights of the Conchords Season One
- Black Tights
- Grey Tights
- A singlet silky top
- Foundation
- Mascara
- Two headbands

After my shopping therapy was done, I went back over to the motel and watched foxtel and fell asleep. Woke up and found myself feeling hungry, so I was just about to leave when the boys just came in the driveway back from their fishing trip. So we went and bought a whole chicken and bread, followed by watching The Simpsons, and the heated spa was too good to resist so Robin and I jumped in. However, the pool was far too cold for swimming.

Tuesday - 5 August 2008
Checked out at 10am, and before we decided to go for the early morning drive, we thought we should have a nice BIG breakfast, thanks to Robin for buying the ingredients and thanks to my brother, the lovely chef for cooking the food. Whilst Mark was contemplating whether we should drive to Brisbane or stay a bit longer to do some more fishing, we ended up staying for an extra hour or two for some more fishing and looking at the scenery. Seriously, these boys love fishing. It's their getaway places from their girlfriends nagging.

Arrival at Brisbane at about 8pm or so. It was one long ass drive.

Funnily enough, we reached Brisbane, only to be stucked at Pacific Highway due to roadwork. There are police cars there, but no police men? It was just an indication for us motorists to dramatically slow down. Safe Driving in Brisbane actually.

Arriving at Brisbane was horrible, noone knew the roads well enough to get to A to B. So we stopped at the nearest service station and bought a road map, only to find that we bought the latest edition map which looked VERY different to what the road lines usually look like. So I had to bear it, whilst the boys were driving and I was navigating, we managed to get to the destination with no hassles.

Wednesday - 6 August 2008
Dreamworld with my baby followed by DFO at Brisbane. OMG, their DFO is huge, its twice as big as ours. However, my baby bought me the following items:

- Flat brown boots
- Tony Bianco brown bag
- White, pink and brown scarf for $7.50. *bargain.
- Industrie long sleeve top for him.

After that, I was too buggered to do anything else.

Thursday - 7 August 2008
We met up with Minh (sister's boyfriend) and headed to Surfer's Paradise to play at TimeZone (only they kick our asses in this one), where we had unlimited games, 2 games of dogem cars, lasor tag. We ended up winning a bunch of tickets and got myself a free soft toy dog. It's so cute. This was followed by going to a "Vegetable and Herb" shop whilst waiting for Hog's Breath Cafe to open up for dinner. Having said that, had my first cocktail drink there, skulled that since it tasted so awful sipping the drink, followed by more drinks, a tequila shot, a vodka and orange and two more spirits and I was completely GONE. So much for my toleration for drinks, it's gone to zero tolerance. It was so bad, that Minh and I even told Robin (our designated driver for the night) that he was allowed to turn right on the street. Little did anyone realise, he was driving on the wrong side of the road. It was heart-throbbing scary, like even the opposing traffic was not beeping or screaming, so Robin quickly through a right turn and we finally saw the "island" that was in the way. We ended up picking up my sister and Minh's Sister, Lizzy, at Gold Coast Airport and I was drunk as anything.

Friday - 8 August 2008
We had to meet my brother's girlfriends parents. I have no idea why that was to happen. But, we had dinner over at her house and it was the funniest thing, Andrea's (Mark's girlfriend) father just kept insisting my boyfriend to drink alcohol. This was then followed by Pancakes at the Parlour (their version of Pancakes on the Rocks) for their friend's birthday, where Robin ended up tipsy and just kept drilling the life our of Andrea. I suppose there was noone else he could make fun of. I would have killed him if he did it to me. Anyways, the night followed by going to their Casino, (Star City still kicks ass by a long shot). Was meant to meet up with sister and her boyfriend but they were taking their sweet ass time to come to us so we went back to our hotel to watch movies and head to bed early.

Saturday - 9 August 2008
A late lunch with Mark and Robin at Moreton Bay at Redcliffe, where it was just seafood. The one thing I am most allergic too and it was all fresh. Like seriously, fresh from the ocean you can get. Bought half a kilo of prawns, a crab, a dozen oysters and for me, I had the joy of eating crumbed mussells, pineapple fritters, calamari's and scallops which they cook it on the spot for you. For a very long time, my taste buds have not tasted crab. OMG, they were beautiful, tasted it and slowly got the reaction that I was not hoping for, but it was worth it. Oh, tasted the oysters and they were yummy. It's the closest thing to seafood on my list. I just had to enjoy my calamari's while my brother and baby gulped down tiger prawns like it was nothing!

Back to the hotel to change outfits as we had dinner with Maria at her house and finally met each other's other halves. It was good, Dennis (Maria's man) cooked dinner for us and it was great. I usually don't eat spicy food, but that was yummy. Followed by going back to our hotel to clean up. The one thing that I didn't want to do, was to go back to the hotel and clean. Agh.

Sunday - 10 August 2008
Agh, 8am wake up call so we can get out of the hotel to check out and wait for my sister and her boyfriend at 9am and was no surprised, late as usual. Met up with my brother to say our final goodbyes, and it was none other than upsetting to have to let him go to enjoy his life up at brisbane. At least now I have more reason to fly up there and see him.

On the way back home, we did three pitt stops, we stopped over to have oysters at The Big Prawn, stopped over at The Big Banana at Coffs Harbour and Robin gladly stopped over to grab some sugar cane sticks. Next, was the ridiculous drive back home. Got to Sydney at about 10pm-ish, didn't get myself or my baby home till about midnight. After that, I was feeling terrible and felt like I had motion sickness the whole way through.

Having said that all of the above, never again will I do another road trip. I will definitely just take more time off work if it needs to be done again, that is, when my brother and Andrea decides to move back to Sydney because Brisbane is just not for them. Or if I ever decide to have a road trip to Melbourne with my baby and friends. Besides, as Brisbane-siders say, you can actually get fined for jay-walking, driving past that white line and no warning signs for red light camera's and/or speeding camera's much, and lots of teeny-weeny things that us Sydney-siders would definitely get away with. On the bright side, the brisbane drivers are ALL nice, safe and slow. They are happy to give you way, and noone is ever bothered to overtake you, you only get the occassional idiot driver that Sydney always runs into, but that's nothing new. Other than that, driving up in Brisbane is a breeze!

Bored. So so bored.

I love my boyfriend.
He is just hilarious. Makes me laugh everyday.
I am sitting at work just thinking about him.
I miss you tubby!

Last night, our brutal bashings began with the foam baseball bat. Now I know how to bash him up without feeling so bad and/or slack. On the plus side, I get to defend myself with my own baseball bat or cry like a little girl. This coming weekend, we are going to look for shields. They look like they can't hurt, but they are painful. Unfortunately, last night was not our final night of bruises. There's going to be more fun-filled bruise attacks!

Yayness, Road trip coming soon. Sydney to Brisbane, Brisbane to Sydney. Hell Yeah Baby!

On a more brighter side of things, I have a choice of two phones.

1. Hello Kitty PDA phone (available on eBay) or
2. Samsung F480 (available on eBay)

For some reason the abovenamed phones are not available in Australia yet, so I have to get it imported from Hong Kong. Hmm. I prefer option 2, but option 1 is so adorably cute. Fits right in your hand and works exactly like a touchscreen PDA phone and as a bonus, it's Hello Kitty. *sigh. Decisions, decisions, decisions. Well, at least I know that I definitely do not want the LG Viewty KU990 and the Apple iphone. At least, I'll try and be different.

I so can't wait, after this road trip, we have confirmed booked accommodation for Port Stephens, Port Macquarie and undecided where to go for our christmas break. More time off work.

Ahh, well, time to pack up now. I finish work now. Yayness!