Lisalicious

Drawing on the Melbourne street

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:12:00 +0000

There are so many talented people in Melbourne street.

Painter, singer, instrumentalist and etc!

This is one of them.....drawing with crayons!

--Sunday photo--

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Pie in the Sky at Mt Dandenong, Victoria, Australia

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:22:00 +0000

This post has been long delayed.

I am so lazy and tired nowadays from work and traveling that I've totally neglected this blog. I hope all of you still here with me, checking on me, on and off. DO you????

Anyway, last year myself and BH went uphill to Mt Dandenong (something like you travel up Genting Highlands, etc) to check out this very famous Pie In The Sky shop that sells good meat pies. They got many awards before and have a few shops around Australia. So, yeah we traveled up to check it out.

We went up with the aid of Google Map but little did we know it leads us to some kinda funny road where all of it are so narrowed and some are even closed! So in the end after a merry-go-round we decided to try our luck with another route that looks more promising. Mt Dandenong highway! I guess the map wasn't up to date =_=

So up we go and here we are!

There are many type of pies and even some cook with beer and such. Sounds pretty cool to me! I heard about their infamous pie in the soup, but we didn't order that.

Well from the entrance this is what you will see straight front and the menu / cashier will be on your right. They have 2 floors.

Next to the cashier will be the pies and cakes.

Here is their menu on top of their cashier.....

Well, we went in and the place were packed. I think they are always pack as they are very famous for their pies!

So here we are waiting to be seated and I took this opportunity to capture a cute little uncle here.

And we were seated.

My surrounding!

Next to me, they show us their award, lol.

And there is this corner where you serve your own water or tea. Refillable. (Top pic)

We were given the menu and here are a few snapshot of it.

We ordered our meal!

Beef Burgundy

MOI!!

side dish that comes with it, I think ...lolx
it's some pea soup that taste so yummilicious!!!!!

We were so happy and satisfied after!

haha! so more food post???
Any good meat pies in Malaysia???

Food, wine, coffee and life in Melbourne

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:43:00 +0000

We usually refer to Penang Island, Malaysia whenever we’re looking for some good cheap eats. Food that is very authentic and very affordable that you can’t get it anywhere with that combo, anymore. I do love the authentic food in Penang such as their most popular and on-demand asam laksa, char kuey teow (with prawn as big as your eyes), rojak and etc. Anyway, I do see some changes right now compared to the last visit many years ago in Penang. Prices have increased and the normally big prawn has reduced in number as well. Plus, you’ll see people hiring maid/helper/migrant to cook in their stalls whilst the actual owner does the ordering around. So I often ask how one can actually hand-over such a tedious and vital task to someone they hired from other country, and would it taste the same anymore?
Well, after staying here for almost 5 months (time flies) I begin to love the varieties / abundance of food available here in Melbourne. Due to the earlier migrants, we have many type of food available that are authentically originated from where they came from. For example, I can get very good Vietnamese food here, good Hong Kong dim sum, great Italian food, some very good German food, Indonesian food is very similar but much better than Malaysian and yes I can get Malaysian food as well. The best part of it will be the fact that the chef or owner of the stall/shop are not exactly the locals there but migrates from wherever they came from. Thus the food they prepared is very much authentic to their country’s taste and I can tell yeah it is extremely awesome licking food here.

Melbourne love their wine, coffee and love drinking coffee. They talk about coffee and weather daily. Especially weather though as the weather changes dramatically, daily thus making everyone having some common topic to talk / joke about. I wasn’t able to get use to it as we don’t usually talk about boring weather all the time in Malaysia and our jokes are much more interesting and sarcastic then here. LOL. Hope I am not creating bad vibes from my opinion. No offense intended.

One thing that initially I couldn’t get use to will be that they have to great everyone and ask How’ya doing all the time, and chat about weather and weekends or the day before to be courtesy or polite. I mean, I am not such a jolly and happy person in the morning mainly because I am still half awake without my good morning coffee and whilst I am preparing my coffee, I do bump into few colleagues where I need to do some small chats with them, put on a great big sweet smile and look at them. A 5 minutes making coffee can become 15 minutes. It was pretty daunting for the first month as I am not use to that. Why? Most place I’ve worked in Malaysia, we are completely zombified early in the morning and normally wouldn’t chat too much until we get our morning coffee or settled down in front of the pc and more alert later in the morning, right??? In fact, I sometimes finds it lazy to walk into any shop when I was shopping (if not too many customers) just to avoid facing the friendly salesperson who will say Hi, how’ya doing and etc. LOL.

There are lots of other little things that I’ve feel it’s significant enough to have the need to get use to but I think I might have gotten used to as I do not remember what is it about to blog it here. Anyway, the common fast food chains over here (that we have in Malaysia) their quality, size, taste and menu are very different even though there are common menu setup internationally. Also, they have differences in fries as well, as they have it in chips. Chips and fries are available for consumer where chips are bigger size fries and fries is the normal Mc Donald fries. We call it fries in Malaysia don’t we, any size or etc but they have chips or fries here. Oh yeah for your information, they call Mc Donald as Maccas here. No idea but yeah, Maccas. Their Maccas breakie means Mc Donald Breakfast. ^__^

Now, the best part of all would be the slang differences apart from culture differences. I am having problem understanding the Australian slang in the beginning and not to say I am not now but it was tougher earlier like a big culture shock. The funny thing is that the locals here have problem understanding mine too! This is the toughest of all! Imagine sitting in a meeting room full of 10 of them that have their own slang! Wow, my brain was pretty fried up for the 1st week when I have full day meetings for whole week. Came back mind-blowed away! Now I am still experiencing this on and off!!!

Do you want to know more about the differences and the culture?

Definition of Yum Cha

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:51:00 +0000

It has been awhile since I've actually blog a long entry. Well, I am pretty sure my most valuable loyal readers are leaving me one by one now.

And this post would be a short post compare to my other long winded soul searching post. LOL.

Well, since I've been in Melbourne I found myself having a little bit tough time adapting to the culture here. Not that it is too tough that I couldn't do it but I do need time to do so, and only 5 months is not enough. On top of that, I find myself and BH has culture differences as well. Me being too Malaysian and him being Melburnian (well he has been here for almost 10 years since his uni, thus adapting too well now! LOL). So basically, I am feeling overwhelmed in both ways! ^_^ Work and home.

Anyway, I think as time passes by I would like to share the distinctive culture differences between Malaysia and Melbourne with you. Well, if I can remember all and haven't adapt to all before able to forget about it later :D

Well just to share with you on something that I picked up in the beginning when I just arrived, which I was a bit confused when the term was used at first.

Yum Cha.

Malaysian uses this term when they want to socialise in mamak (the day when mamak was introduced to us), sitting in mamak chatting till wee hours drinking the tarik or milo ice, eating roti canai and nasi lemak! hahaha….those were the days for me and I believe still is for you. However, Melbourne or I should say Australia itself uses this word when people want to eat dim sum dishes and Chinese tea in any Chinese restaurant in the morning, you know Hongkies style.

Well definitely still the same concept in socialising but the time allowance will be much different as mamak is 24 hours and yumcha restaurant will be from 11am - 3pm only, and the price as well!

And I love to enjoy the yumcha here in Melbourne, looking for good cheap eats Chinese Restaurant! I believe Malaysia has a fair share of dim sum restaurant around but I got to say that the quality and taste here is as good as Hong Kong's style! More varieties too!

So who loves "YUM CHA" (dim sum) in Malaysia???? Oh yeah, know any good place????

A dead possum

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:48:00 +0000

Found it so sadly dead on the grass when we're on our way to watch Avatar.

It's fat and big size. Thought it was a small puppy someone left behind.

It has ants all over and stink of rotten flesh.

Looks like rat to you?

Avatar is the great movie of the year, 2009.

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:33:00 +0000

I was convinced to go after reading so many good tweets and FB comments about it. Thus, I went together with BH and 2 of my friends to the Melbourne IMAX (Melbourne’s Biggest Screen).

Truth to be told, it was my first 3D experience on screen, lol!

Avatar is one smashing movie with smashing story line. For the producer to write this script and it is within his hand for almost 10 years awaiting for the right technology to create an amazing movie as such…..it is completely genius and abso-bloody-lutely awesome!

I don’t know about you but I walked out with my mind stayed in that Cinema or perhaps Erywa for about 2 days before I managed to ‘call back’ my mind, LOL. It is that influential. I am so gonna get the dvd to watch again.

Oh yeah the cinema has no seating number so basically we got to queue and get in to get whatever seats that were left for us.

Here is me posing with the poster outside.

So this is me wearing the biggest ‘spec’ ever preparing for the movie.

A trip to Sydney and what is the difference compared to Melbourne

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:36:00 +0000

I have been pretty bad lately! I was having shopping spree and making sure that my pocket is drilling a bigger hole than it should for me.

Awesome!

Anyway, I went for a trip to Sydney last weekend with BH (thanks to him for sponsoring it) and went there for a shopping spree for myself and our place. Wow you wouldn’t imagine the amount that I’ve spent there or BH lol. Anyway, shopping always does that to anyone isn’t it?! Like freaking drill a hole to the wallet/purse/pocket.

It was an enjoying few days trip whilst BH attended his meeting there. However, having myself without laptop is pretty a killer, lolx.

Anyway, weather in Sydney is very consistent compared to Melbourne. What will be the differences between both states? Well, to be honest I would prefer Melbourne. Sydney basically reminds me of KL. Busy, fast pace and busy. You will have bus honing you or car driving so impatiently that they might over-turn any moment. I am not being stereotyping or bias here but seriously I find it peaceful and safe on the road in Melbourne and people here are much friendlier. Anyway, I do like the fact that Sydney has more Asian where I felt much ‘home’ with. I don’t know, but the Australian slang is not too heavy over in Sydney, thus people just don't care about it. ^__^

Well to summarize the differences would be, Sydney has more tourist and more Asian than in Melbourne.

What do you think? Or if you have a choice which state will you visit/tour?

Would you change your hairstylist every time you plan to have a hair cut?

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:38:00 +0000

Or do you have a few hairstylists in your list that you would go to, any of them when you want?

Well to me, I had only one in Malaysia that I’ve always visits whenever I need haircut, hair coloring or etc. Never once did I bother changing to another after a few disastrous experiences in the past. The thing is that I need a good hair cut that I feel happy with and confident after the cut. I don’t want to feel sad, angry or pathetic after a cut, thinking I just had have a wonderful hair cut that make me look like a horrendous pig.

So, I am pretty choosy and rather happy to stick with the same-old hairstylist for ages, even when he decided to have 15% increase every year that nearly cost me my purse every time I visited him. I used to be able to have a haircut together with hair wash without feeling the pain or guilt of paying for it, but this year it was too crazy to consider the cost for both the service, thus I’ve only chosen for hair cut and exclude hair wash (do it at home before going).

Now that I am in Melbourne, it has been 3 months after my last hair cut in Malaysia. I just had my hair cut last week after a long procrastination in fear that I would come out feeling like an alien if I did it here. I was so tempted to fly back just to have my hair cut but I am no Paris Hilton. So, I went to one last week. Well, it felt like I was a little kid having my very first hair cut, feeling anxious and afraid the whole time. Took 45 minutes and I came out “alright”. It wasn’t as good as my hairstylist in Malaysia but at least he didn’t screw my hair up this round. How much it cost? It was about $70 for haircut + hair wash. Reasonable? BH said it is the standard price for any saloon haircut here. But, $70 convert to MYR is like almost MYR200 to me. *sob*

Oh yeah, I did a very painful (to my purse) and exciting thing this weekend!!! I bought myself a Christmas Tree!! I mean WE bought ourselves a Christmas Tree!!! Yipppiiee!! My very first Christmas Tree. The feeling was pretty hyperventilating and painful all together, LOL. The most painful is yet to come as I haven’t purchase all the needed ornaments, decoration. The last thing to do is spending the time to decorate it. I heard it might take up to 6 hours just to get to what we want. Hahah!

Will take a photo and post up here to share with you all!!! Stay tune!

So what will be your plans for Christmas?

Social networking nowadays is amazing

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:09:00 +0000

It is amazing how internet or social networking has evolved. I remember the time when IRC was the hype and people meet each other in the chatroom, and subsequently face to face. I remember how few of my friends did a small gathering with others from IRC in some places for a drink or so. We get to meet so many new friends and of course it was safer back then. No stupid cases of rape or kidnapping involved.

Now, we have Twitter gathering happening from all over the world! That is amazing as we can find people who we will never be able to meet if it is not for Twitter. Twitter not only makes us connect but it let us have some little ‘conversation’ like inside that 140 character space. Plus what you tweet for the day, everyone is following and the best part is how they response to it. Getting to know another by following their life on Twitter. It sounds freaky but then again, it’s pretty amazing to me.

I just wonder if in any case Twitter decided to shut down? Hahaha …..

What you think will happen to all of us?

Anyway, I have been pretty busy lately as work has based me on location that requires more than an hour travelling to 2 hours if traffic is pretty bad, one way. It has been a crazy time adjusting to the cycle. The best part will be I am not sure how long the project will take.
You can see I have left my blog unattended for 2 weeks now. I feel bad. I should blog more. But unfortunately, this weekend I caught myself some kind of bug and am down with un-wellness. Guess how much is the cost of visiting doctor here? It is AUD70 by default but can go up depending on what others you needed to be check on / injections or such. Mine cost me AUD100.

Crazy yeah?

Zebra crossing

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0000

Less than 2 months to New Year 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:22:00 +0000

Christmas is only next month and that fact dawned on me yesterday whilst I was doing some planning for the next 6-8 weeks. And how on earth is it already November without me realizing it, or perhaps I am still in the mind of Oktoberfest??

This year, I will be celebrating Christmas in Australia with BH and few friends. Last year I had a great Christmas celebration with friends that I've known thorough the years, we had great Monopoly session as well, and it was my first time playing the game, mind you.

I know some people over here has already starting to buy presents and decorations, it is something that I probably need to pick up. As back in Malaysia, we mostly do the celebration outside having booze and counting down to the Christmas at Eve's night. Right? I will share with you how I will be going through the Christmas this year in Melbourne, soon. So, stay tune.
Now, I was really 'shock' at the fact it is already mid November (soon), as I have totally forgotten about the fact that this blog has turn ONE YEAR OLD now. I've conveniently forgetten about the date when I've first started this blog (bare in mind that I have an old blog that age more than 5 years old) and perhaps due to that I no longer keep track of how old the blog is. But nonetheless, after realising that it will be another 2 months or less than that before New Year, it shows how time flies so fast that my CHEWAK is a year old.

A lot of things had happened since the day I started this blog. I would never imagine that I will be residing in Melbourne and living everything behind in Malaysia, especially Teddy my wonderful alpha-male dog (there is many reason why I had to). I've gone through a few changes in life, from getting my MBA and promotion at work, meeting the man in my life, as well as the decision to migrate over to Melbourne. Yes, many who reads my blog may wonder what I am doing here in Melbourne. So now you know.

Anyway, there were so many life changes event in my life for the past 2 years that I thought for a minute there it was so hard to deal with. Well, I stumbled across many poop-holes and grenade along the way and I had this notion of 'giving up' on and off but thanks to many friends' support and my own free-will, I've managed to pull it through.

Now, if you ask, how I am in Melbourne now? I am telling you I love the place, although there are so much things that I need to adapt too, the culture, the people, the slang, the working environment and etc. There is one point that I misses home so much that I nearly bought the next flight home, just to be with my Teddy boy (parents & friends will kill me on this statement, lolx). However, looking at the cost at Air Asia website, I can feel my purse digging itself a big hole in there.

Seriously, I do really miss Teddy. Now, how can one don't miss him when he look so darn cute????!!!

Can anybody sponsor me back home??? ^_^

psstt...I suddenly have a fetish over anime -_-"

I am a guest blogger in Jeroxie.com/addiction!!

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:49:00 +0000

Thanks to Penny aka Jeroxie.com I was given the opportunity to be a guest blogger in her food blog.

I stumbled on her blog while searching for good cheap eat outs in Melbourne and learn that she is twittering as well, thus I followed her and so it begins the Twitter friendship journey :D

So basically I follow her blog for a lookout on good eat out, yummylicious. On top of that, she adds in her own recipe as well that is very easy to learn!

Well, to read what I've blogged in her blog, check it out here.

So, any of you have this guest blogging experience before and what you think about it?

Would You Join Me In Facebook Networked Blog?

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:12:00 +0000

Follow this blog

Do you tweet too much until people who follows you finds it annoying?

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:50:00 +0000

I have one particular blogger/twitter/plurker friend who we happened to get to know each other via blog hopping few months ago and eventually get to chat via plurk. He plurks a lot about his daily stuff and thoughts in plurk.com, and nonetheless I am amazed by the amount of response he gets in every plurk of his. He sets his plurk to update twitter as well, but without realising that a lot of people has added him or response to him in twitter (people like me).

Now, I am just wondering since when is it that what we tweet should be 'control' so that it doesn't annoys our followers? At first I thought the amount of advertising twitters that we have around the globe should be the annoying type of tweets because they plainly talks about their products or someone's products or something whatever that we would not be interested to try it on, thus unfollow (since it is all about adverts).

The thing is that he said I should tweet moderately and that my current amount of tweet is annoying to him. Sigh. The thought that came into my mind is either he doesn't follow many people that didn't flood much of his timeline or he can always un-follow me. Yes, you have a choice to unfollow me (you know who you are ^_^) and I am not promoting you.

So people who follows me in Twitter, did I annoy you? You can always unfollow you know? It's just a simple click =p

Did you have anyone share this type of thought to you before?

follow me?

When you break up with your partner do you clear the stuff that you have at each other's places immediately ...?

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:02:00 +0000

Confusing post ahead and highly recommend you to take a coffee so that it helps you with some information digestion.

When you break up with your partner do you clear the stuff that you have at each other's places immediately or leave it and do not bother about it or leave it there and take it as and when you remember what was left behind?

I do not have the tendency to get into such hassle in leaving my stuff behind after a break up. Mostly I will clear it all at once whether it is just a few things to collect or unimportant ones. Basically I feel that once that 'we broke up' it is wiser to clear the stuff so nothing is left hanging or going through the trouble / embarrassment to ask for it, later. Whatever for? Whether it is an amicable break up or not, I will still clear it up because my ex no longer has the responsibilities to keep the stuff I put there nor he is required to safe-keep it or I do not have the 'rights' to do so anymore, in any case he is with someone else in future. So with that thought, I must as well clear everything up just to 'finish our business'.

In fact the worst part of a break up is that if I am the one doing it, I pre-empt a lot of things that might happened thus I will be organising everything to make sure the important stuff are already back in my place before approaching him. Cruel of me? But then, let us be realistic.

Why I blog about this? Well, a girlfriend of mine shared her recent experience with me about her current situation. *no more details about it*

I find that it is not wise at all for any party to help their 'ex' safe-keep anything after a break up, and left the thing there while waiting for them to claim it back in the future. Why bother doing so? Why still keep the responsibility to help to safe-keep the things, even if they asked? Why waste the space? And suppose that you have a new partner with you now and then out of a sudden your kind ex wanted back all the stuff he/she left behind that he/she asked your help to keep. Whether it is a lot or not. But yet, the hassle of gathering everything that was left behind (which you thought at first was only a few but apparently when he/she asked another time about something else, it's not all yet). It is worse if let say this 'ex' is the one that you do not wish to talk too anymore. And, it disturb both you and your new partner's life. All the hassle for nothing.

The point is, breaking up should be done wisely and cleanly (this is what I believe in) so that nothing is left behind which will affect the other party's future well-being. I believe that the only responsibilities left for someone to do after the break up is not as simple as safe-keeping the stuff for them, but to make sure that both party's future well-being is not affected by each other anymore.

In fact, even if I did left something over that I've totally forgotten about and that my ex remind me of that stuff, I would just ask him to throw it away (even if we remain friends) and apologise for didn't clear that up earlier (it is also my responsibility to make sure I didn't disrupt his current life with his partner, if he has one). Seriously, whatever that I have bought before I am pretty sure I can buy it again, even if that stuff has sentimental values. Unless it is so sentimental that you can't live without, then ask for it and make sure nothing is left behind anymore (but then if it is so important, I think you would have pick it up right after the break up). It is not kind to keep stuff at your ex's place and ask for it after 8 months later and still expect the things to be there for you to collect. What if it was thrown away or misplaced somewhere? See the hassle and more heartaches later over 'stuff'?

Am I confusing you? LOL, I think I am as I just wrote this in a blurt.

What do you think?

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GOT BOOBIES?????

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:26:00 +0000

I received an email from Alice in Wonderland talking about an unconventional boobies campaign. No, its not about campaigning how big is your breast size and etc, it’s basically an awareness campaign about what boobies will do to you if you do not check on it as often as you should.

She owns this site where you can buy her stuff and donate, as it is Pink Ribbon Products. “Check out our pink ribbon products on sale at our online shop! For every purchase, RM10-15 will be donated to the National Cancer Society of Malaysia (NCSM). “

As Alice quoted, “The core mission of the campaign is to remind young women (and men!) to conduct regular breast self examination i.e. "check your boobies””

Well, in this case if you have boobies (or even if you don’t, guys) you should consider spreading this campaign in your blog to create awareness on how important it is to take good care of our breast, regardless the size (or do a favour for yourself). It’s an amazing God’s creation for human race, to feed their younglings as well as to bring an upmost confidence in women, beautifying their body to the eyes of the beholder. Ok, cut the crap, I mean it is for your own health, or people around you. So we should take good care of it and spread the awareness.

Hold on, did I mention about Breast Cancer Awareness Month for October?

So, we’d like to get more bloggers like you to join this campaign and make a bigger impact in the society. Help spread the word and remind all your friends out there by placing a BOOBICON on your blog! ~ quoted from Alice

Well, do you know you'll get your blog listed in her site as well? Check it here!

So, what have you done before or will do for this Breast Cancer Awareness?

Hutong Dumpling Bar in Melbourne CBD

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:54:00 +0000

Last Sunday, before a long walk to SouthBank to check out a place, BH brought me over to HuTong Dumpling Bar in CBD.

I love the dumplings they served there. We were so hungry as we haven't taken any breakfast and the time was 1130am, but the moment when we stepped into the place at about 1145am-1200pm the place was nearly full, downstairs. That was fast!

We ordered 3 dishes but I only managed to take 2 dishes photos and forgetting the last dish, as I was so busy enjoying the delicious dumplings and not to forget their Shao-Long-Pao!

MOI

BH ordered from the special items in Menu, mostly listed with photos of the dishes

Our SHAO LONG PAO!!! Super yummy!!

They even teach you how to eat it!

Wanton with hot chilli.

This is very good but for those who dislike oily food better not go for it, as for me, I love it!

Peering over the chefs inside the kitchen preparing for all the customers

Overall, we had a satisfying 'brunch'.

I just wonder where is the best dumpling restaurant in Malaysia? I had one in Dragon-I and I am quite satisfied with it :D

***sorry you need to click on the topic above link to see the comments, I accidentally set this post without comments link here**

Facebook cracks me up sometime

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:35:00 +0000

CHEWAK: is freakingly sleepy but cannot sleep, can someone help
BROTHER: yes, try slapping ur face 5 TIMES!!! 5 TIMES!!!! :P
GOOD FRIEND: if that doesnt work, try knock urself out.. haha :P

My friends are really awesome people even including my brother, LOL. Look what they replied to my status above.

Also, I have setup my twitter to update my Facebook, some application available in FB that can let you update your twitter to your FB status, in a limited amount (according to the application).

SOMEONE message me:
you make so many comments, that my homepage is just full of your comments only.. cant you just make one long comment and stop??

and I replied:
Simple. U can hide me :) or delete me from ur list. Bye

Thus, I got this kind message in my Inbox from someone who recently added me (or became my friend in FB), shown above.

Well, I guess I do spam too much in my Twitter. If you do follow me in http://twitter.com/chewak, and if you think I spam too much on your timeline, it is ok to unfollow me.

Pancake Dessert House in Melbourne

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:20:00 +0000

Last weekend, BH brought me to this Pancake Dessert House (once again) to devour the so tasty dish that he loves, which is also my favourite.

Well if you must know, it is at Mid City Arcade on 200 Bourke St (Shop 18 to be precise).

We ordered the below dishes and I must say I love it nonetheless! We tried this Shark Fin Soup, our first time and we like it straight away.

It is in fact an economical food in there where you can get varieties of good food. I think we should stop ordering the same dish all the time and try others as well, if you tried before, do let me know which one taste good yeah.

Yummylicious!!!!

Anyone tried this before?

So anyone can direct me to good food in Melbourne?

Divorce is everywhere, is marriage truly real nowadays?

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:38:00 +0000

When we were young, we were fed by so much fairy tales such as happily ever after or knight in shining amour or even princess in the far-far land. I don’t know about the nursery books nowadays but back then, it teaches everyone about how a couple should live happily ever after, if you notice or still remember.

And thus we grew up hoping for one great love. A love that will completely swept us off our feet and totally left us breathless, with a great hint of happiness forever (if immortality exists).

Well, as we grow we met our first love along the way and thought that this could be our real true love together, forever. But then, it introduced something new to us, “nothing is forever” (even if immortality exists). Thus, we begin our journey in testing and trial of many relationships with fear in us, telling us that it might not last. We have turned skeptical in life and condemned the fairy tales of happiness ever after. And then we asked ourselves, will anything actually last? Will any good stuff / times actually last? Every time we come within reach of break ups we get more and more skeptical as we kill the hope little by little every day.

To spice up the skeptical thoughts from the above, as marriage was introduce eons ago to sealed 2 love birds, on the other hand divorce is replacing it with an amazing momentum that is even faster than any F1 racer.

I begin to see the trend of divorce lately around me in a freaky rate. Do you?

I do feel sad for my friends who are going through it.

With this trend, I do wonder whether is marriage vows still binding and should we even get married? What do you think?

Don’t worry I am not in the midst of mid-life crisis or marriage dilemma. It’s more like what my friends are going through affecting me.

I am stuck with intensedebate

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:22:00 +0000

Many months ago, a lot of you actually complaint about how my intensedebate.com commenting system actually didn’t post your comment after you have submitted few times.

Now, after some new categories and new functions given by intensedebate I just realised that a lot of the comments actually fell under SPAMS folder. Almost 60 comments through the year. Somehow, one advertiser who wishes to advertised on my blog, her comment was swallowed into the spam folder too. The worst part of this is that users of intensedebate wasn’t given the function to check the spam folder to clear or un-spam those. But yeah, now that they gave, I found all of your comments in there. So I had to click unspam one by one to approved it.

I guess from now onwards I will need to check the intensedebate often to avoid a lot of you getting into spam folder. Wonder how their spam system works =_=”

Anyway, thanks to all of you who tried so many times, I felt bad to see how much effort you all put to comment and yet intensedebate decided to swallowed it. LOL. So bad of it.

I hope from now onwards the system is good enough to show everything and that I have the control over it rather than none at all.

I can’t change the commenting system without losing all the wonderful comments from you all, thus I am stuck with intensedebate.

Anyone knows how to backup intensedebate and transfer to blogger.com?

I am losing readers, commentors and followers

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:00:00 +0000

......in a very weird way.........

Once I remember I started out blogging planning to blog about my life, my thoughts and events that happened around me, perhaps with a little bit of ranting and musing to spice it up as well. In fact, I’ve so wanted to blog about my relationship, people around me, my co-workers, people I know online and etc. I also wanted to blog about many other personal stuff here. At first, I wanted to go anonymous but after much pondering, I would love to share my life with my close friends who follow my blog. Thus, I started out with bits and pieces of my life, and throw photos to spice up the blog.

As the blog grows so does the readers / visitors. That got me excited on continuing to blog on this blog. I wanted to let it to be personal, however many things in life has changes my way of blogging in here. Although I am no longer anonymous however I have turn my ways of blogging into very general on my personal thoughts. In fact, BH started to lose interest on it as it has turn so less personal and too commercialize. Well, I wouldn’t say it is commercialize per se but it is no longer personal, period.

It’s funny how some topics in my blog attract more readers than topics about me. Such as? Check out this category “Question of life”

If you do wonder why my blog has turn out less personal, here let me share my experience with you.

There are friends who came to me telling me please do not blog about them (I do blog about our friendship). Why? Because their girlfriends do not like that I mention about their bf and they get into arguments after reading it, thinking that we still keep in touch. Well, if you do follow my blog you will notice I have blogged about few good guy friends that I have, with certain issue that we need to stay away from each other. Well, honestly I didn’t do anything but I guess the girlfriends just felt threaten with my own existence, that’s all. So out of respect and care of friendship, I stayed away and change my way in blogging.
Then, I have readers that wrote to me telling me that they are not able to visit my blog often anymore or no longer can comment, thus they apologize about it. I did ask why. They solemnly share with me about how their girlfriends do not like them reading my blog. It’s like fixated to this person who writes the blog. Seriously! I truly got a few readers sending me that!
Then, I have this one reader telling me that “does your partner reads your twitter or blog and do you mind?”. I replied, I don’t mind at all. And asked, why? He simply said that it is a bit uncomfortable if partner does that. I guess, he must be worried on how the partner will take it if he replies to girls or comment on girl’s blog, like mine? Sigh….
And then, I have someone who dropped by my blog commenting on my chatbox (it used to be in the blog until some spammers decided to spam it, so I took it out), telling me that I should be aware or be careful of this doctor guy (who has very good comments in fact in my blog), because he tricks young girls. That commenter stays anonymous and never really explains much, so I assumed that she could be his wife? LOL.

Seriously, I think my blog has lost its own personalities after encountering so many issues. It’s like I need to be careful of my writings in fear that my friend’s / reader’s partner may see/read it. It is not like I should becareful if I hurt anyone or BH in my writings. Kinda absurd in many ways.

What do you think? Should I continue my own way of blogging and ignore them? Do you encountered such problems before? I truly never mean any harm to people, you know…. I didn’t even bash or rant about anyone.

Do you notice anything changes in my blog?

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:33:00 +0000

Well, just recently I got myself hook up with Fireworks 8 software and learn the technique of ‘designing’. Wow sounds professional there. Anyway, it is truly fun when you get to learn most of the function and you slowly create the stuff you’ve always wanted to do. One by one, I re-vamp the look and feel of this blog.

Well as you can see, I’ve added nice little looking badges for Twitter, Facebook, RSS and Email at the right side as well as the top 5 posts for you to click on, based on Google search and the most commented.

I even have this small little Welcome board on my blog!

I designed it in a way to portray a little bit of spring feeling as it is spring now in Melbourne. However, I am not quite satisfied with the look yet, so will be tweaking here and there, on and off.

Do you like the look? Or any comments on how to get it better? :D

Happy Spring Time

I just wonder what if I use this as my blog banner? What do you think? I didn't create this, it's more like using lots of images to combine into one........

click to enlarge

Well you got to love Melbourne for the weather though….

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:19:00 +0000

Melbourne’s weather is always crazy in the sense that you can see / feel 4 seasons in one day. I guess some of you may have heard about Sand Storm in Sydney or Hail Storm in Australia recently, last month. Sydney was hit by it. It looks like almost ¼ of the sand from the dessert part of Australia flew over and covered the whole city. I heard some of my friends saying their colleagues need to vacumm their house and etc, a difficult task indeed.

Just like today, I can see the day started with very strong wind and then some rain. Two hours later it started to shine. Sun blazingly on earth and then suddenly there was 10 minutes of heavy rain, this goes through a cycle for the whole day and you wouldn’t know when the rain hits you again. The wind can even blow you away or more like blow your pants off.

Any of you experience the weather here before?

I was diagnosed lately with IBS symptoms

noreply@blogger.com (Lisalicious) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:45:00 +0000

(WOW sounds like some kinda STD virus hahaha!!)

Now, if you wonder what is that stuff all about? Read the below explanation before you guess. Lots of my friends actually guessed it as “Insensitive Bitch Syndrome”!!!! WTF.

People with Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) suffer constipation, diarrhoea (sometimes one alternating with the other), abdominal aches and pains (often relieved by passing a bowel motion), abdominal bloating, and flatulence. The symptoms can last days or weeks, and can seriously interrupt people's work and social lives.

Anyway, it all started 2 weeks ago from …….well it could be the PURA Milk I had a day before or it could be the late lunch of Sashimi set I had. I wonder which one triggers it. But from that day onwards, I have been burping nonstop until I burped out the digested food liquid, and had to swallow it back before I started to vomit, in each every meal! It goes on for a week before I went to visit the doctor. So the long winded doctor said I am having minor symptoms of IBS. So he lectured me all about the symptom or what may trigger it (unknown causes) and how to treat it. I lost my appetite and couldn’t eat more than 2 mouths full of food before feeling so bloated. So he told me to constantly feed myself 2 mouths full every time I am hungry to build back my appetite. He gave me the medication and lectured again what each does for me. Very long winded indeed. And in fact before I left the room whilst opening the door, he told me to gain some weight. LOL.

Well, I am still having this bloated and flatulence problem mostly after each food. Some food does settle well on me but some can create such irritating uneasiness in my stomach that I nearly kill BH (let go of my frustration) along the way.

So right now I am still battling over this IBS problem. I cannot imagine I am having this problem. I seriously have no idea what triggers it.

Anyway, I had this awesome looking breakfast set during the weekend and luckily it settle well on my stomach. I shared it with BH.

Anyone knows about it? Have you encountered such problem before, such as the same symptoms but not entirely IBS and knew of ways to cure it? Mind to teach???

damn I suddenly miss my Teddy