Got to hang up with my cutie boyfriend yesterday.
Funniest thing happened: he was due to arrive around lunch time and my little brother coincidentally called me around half past to go pick him up from a friend's place after a big night out.
Thinking that I'd have enough time, I went to go pick up my brother and when we returned home, we found adam's car in the driveway but no adam.

I opened up my garage door, and littlebro went inside first to come face to face with the boyfriend.
Turns out I forgot to lock the front door (because it's usually never unlocked).
Apparently, adam had thought I was hiding in the backyard and so hadn't heard the doorbell ring. Lol.
Living dangerously :P

Adam made me swim again, even though the skies were overcast (again) and the water was cold (again). But at least now he knows I'm not kidding when I say that 15 minutes in the pool feels like half an hour.
We also watched episode two of fresh of the boat which has been consistently hilarious so far, before heading into Jan's neighbourhood for some shanghainese food. We went to our favourite Taste of Shanghai and ordered xiao long bao, pork and vege wonton, vege noodles, fried man tou with sweetened condensed milk and of course, watermelon frappe. So scrummy.

His hair was also epic.

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We ended the previous night around 2am after an in depth what would you rather: 75% chance of an intruder versus 25% chance of a ghost.
Needless to say, I did not sleep alone in Jenny's room last night.
Instead I shared the couch with Dom who had to bear with my teeth grinding. Sorry Dom!

The next day we woke up to an overcast sky, with plans to snorkel. hmph.
As it started to rain, we decided to drag out our saturday brunch for as long as we could
The service and food at Globe in coogee were okay, it took awhile to get our orders right and it was pretty busy. I had the guacamole special with poached eggs and...you know, same old same old.
The company made it worthwhile though :)






By the time we finished brunch, the light drizzle had stopped so we thought we might as well brave Clovelly.
Jade and I were super super super reluctant to get into the water, which was really cold. The type of cold your body never fully warms up to. Also, the waters were choppy as anything, which was in direct contrast to what I had been told about Clovelly.
Anyway, Pickelle volunteered herself to go first while Jade and I watched from the sidelines. At one point, she started laughing and we thought maybe Jan and Dom had broken her. But apparently she was just having heaps of fun?
Jade was kind enough to hold my hand and slowly brave the cold waters (before quickly diving back out again haha)
Thus, my first adult snorkelling experience happened. And you know what? I didn't hate it.

There was heaps of seaweed and algae as a result of the waves and currents, but it was actually really exciting see the schools of fish. My favourite of the day was probably mr. stripey.
Towards the end, I had a little bit of a scary moment when the water went down my breathing pipe and I couldn't get it all back out. So I stood up (thankful for the shallow waters), but the waves were so relentless I kept getting pushed back into the rocks.
But phew, we all made it out of there in one piece!

Thanks to Dom and Jan, our experienced and knowledgable instructors of the day for making me feel safe at all (most) times!

Then after surviving the Australian coast, we went back to Coogee for a feed at Moo Burgers

I had to make a mad dash because a miscommunication meant adam had left his house to come pick me up before our meal had even arrived. 

So I went over to adam's for some herby chicken and chocolate fountain fondue, before heading back to Pickelle's to find the kids playing Pandemic and then it was out to Dove and Olive to catch up with a friend heading to Brown University for a postdoc position. There were spiders and pear ciders. 

Got home around 12, completely and utterly knackered. 

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I had an epic weekend, so taking monday off to recover and recharge

 Friday night, we had an nice little chinese new year gathering at pickelle's
 We gave ourselvs a little early mark after throwing berry bliss lollies at each other, and scraping knees
First, we headed off to coles and the asian store to pick up groceries before going over to pickelle's apartment for cooking
She pulled off a yummy meal for the eight of us (the spare ribs were ultra yumyum in my tumtum) and we even made tong yuan
Tab's were the most consistent and rounded, followed by mine, and then pickelle went for a "marbled" effect, if you get what i'm saying

I think we must have downed 3 bottles of moscarto
And we caught glimpses of a game of Cards Against Humanity as we rolled the glutinous flour 

Highlight of the night goes to Jan's fingering card in response to women's best friend, which opened up a whole new level of intimacy
Love these crazies.

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We've started a running club - unbelievable! Well when we started talking about it is was only a handful of us and then, nekminnit, there's nine of us running the centennial park circuit.

Here are some pre-run photos:

Here we are post-run: 

Silly me.

I've been using the Couch-to-5K app for tracking my running and was up to Week 6 Day 3, so when I started running with Janice at the same time I was expecting us to keep time since we're on the same day.

Forward to about 10 minutes in when I'm struggling and I check my phone and there was still another 17min! Gave up on the spot!

Turns out I accidentally clicked on Week 8 Day 3 - in Jan's words - what an idiot!

It was really hard today, and I really got to work on my stitches :(

Afterwards we all piled into the cars, stinky and sweaty and headed towards NARUONE which still wasn't open. Ended up somewhere random and had the most random D&M sesh with out half of the table. It was v nice.

Also, immaculate reception?

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I took this little cutie for a trip to cabramatta the other weekend, because he's never been
I must confess that I didn't expect that I would ever be able to convince him to eat vietnamese food, but I think I've got a convert
(Praise the power of pho!) 

First stop was PhoTauBay where we got the standard raw beef pho, and some pork mince wrapped in rice noodles (so yummy!). I also ordered an vietnamese ice coffee even though I'm really not supposed to :P

After that, we headed towards the main street to check out the shops.
I was a bit sad that we went on a bit of a cooler day, because I didn't feel like having my normal sugar cane drink. I did get my normal sweet potato and banana chips to go though.
I couldn't stop munching on them, and they eventually got taken away because I had no self control.

Then, finally, we went on the hunt for some good ol' nam neoung.
Had to call up dom at this point to ask, and he was amazing and even highlighted which shop it was for us, from the photo I sent him of where we were standing! How cool is that!
(Still think Bankstown nam neoung is better though :P)

Before I forget, it was also the most hilarious drive ever because we wanted to avoid the traffic on John street so we kept going around it but having to take the biggest loops ever because you could only turn left.
I think we must have gone around and around for 20 minutes or more.
Good thing I was the one driving :P

Also, penis!

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Had a little random catch up with my westies/lab201/masters faves last weekend

It was just so lovely to get to see the two of them, since I don't get to see them that often 

Had the sweet corn fritters, though my heart was after the pancakes

I don't usually feel regret but...I wish I had ordered the pancakes 

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Weekend brunch - oh, how I wish I could quit you!
Miss wynwyn flew off for some hawaiian fun today, so the group of us high school friends made a last minute decision/choice/judgment to have brunch
Cherry decided to bring Johnson along, and it was probably the most inappropriate brunch to take him along to, I mean, what didn't we discuss?
It was like an agenda taken straight out of sex and the city - laser hair removal, menstruation, protection, with a standard bitch session to top it all off. Felt like I learnt a lot haha.

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