Went to watch Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen last night. It was… meh, okay. I won’t say too much about it because I don’t want to give away any spoilers, unlike some people *cough* Kelv *cough*. One thing that was great was Shia (of course!) and it was funny seeing Dwight from The Office make an appearance (Love The Office).

I was really excited to get this Transformers hologram cup, I have a bit of a thing with cups and mugs, not sure why but I love em. Anyway, $16.50 for a Large popcorn and 2 Large frozen cokes in these cups, I was pretty stoked. However I was suppose to get two different cups but the lady at the candy bar was a bit ditz. Gr…

Last night was probably one of the weirdest nights out that I’ve had in a long time. Being Charles‘ 28th birthday there was a big crowd, and along with a big crowd … a lot of beer.

I don’t think I’m allowed to divulge the happens of the night, but let’s just say it’s a night that I won’t forget, though at times I wish I could forget. The only details I’ll spill are that there’s the involvement of sushi, feet, arm pits and a lot of wasabi. You can fill in the blanks.

The venue for the night was Wagaya, which is this really cool Japanese restaurant in Chinatown where you order food from a touchscreen menu, which probably explains the constant flow of Asahi. No need to get up, you just touch the screen and they bring it right to your table – genius if you ask me. I can’t vouch for the food because I actually didn’t eat there, had dinner arrangements elsewhere, but I got there just in time for the antics.

After about 4 hours of craziness, the owners were probably trying to chase us out of there. The best way to do that? Simply present the longest bill I’ve ever seen!

Whenever my cousin is in town he always wants to eat french food. Probably because there aren’t that many good French restaurants in Perth, or any restaurants at all besides Malaysian / Singaporean places.

The other night we headed to La Brasserie on Crown Street in Darlinghurst, this classy Parisian restaurant with real French waiters. I loved their accent, but it did make it a bit hard to understand what was in the days specials. I started off with the French Onion soup – boy is it thick. It comes served with a thick layer of bread and cheese on top and when you get into it there’s a ton of caramelised onion inside. I probably wouldn’t class it as soup though, it’s more gravy than soup. Even though it’s really rich and intense, it’s actually really delicious but I could only get through half of it, thankfully my cousin loves soup so he polished it off.

For mains I went with the safe option of Steak and French fries. Yes, that’s right real French fries – which look exactly like Maccas chips. Yumo!

The steak was covered in this rich red wine sauce with a lump of flavour infused butter on top. As you can see from the picture, that yellow lump on my steak, it isn’t a slab of corn cob – that’s butter! Really nice butter!

All in all the food was very nice. A bit too rich for my liking, but you really do enjoy that first bite.

Another new cafe has recently opened near my office – Maestro Cafe. It’s this tiny little cafe, I don’t know how they operate in such a small space, but they do and they make one mean coffee.

I only tried it because the sign out the front said it was “organic” coffee and I thought what the heck, I’ll give it a shot. I’m glad I did. The coffee there is awesome. They use Crave Coffee and the name really does sum it up, you do crave for this coffee. With bright yellow cups and umbrellas it’s one coffee you can’t go past.

I love eating eggs for breakfast, but the only time I get to do that is on the weekends. Most weekends I just opt for making scrambled eggs or sunny side up. I’d love to go for the healthier choice of poached eggs but I never do because they’re like impossible to make.

There are some weekends, like this weekend, where you feel like googy eggs. It’s so much fun dipping your toast into googy eggs, it’s kind of like chocolate fondue but with eggs and toast. Yum! The frustrating thing is that I can never get it just right. The egg always turns out a bit too raw or too well done with the yoke starting to go solid and hard. I’ve tried to many times and I every time I complain about it to someone I get different advice, “Oh you should boil it on high for 7 minutes”, “Put it in the microwave for 1.5 minutes”, “Pour boiling water and cover it for 10 minutes”. Well I’ve tried it all and it never turns out. The only way I get soft boiled eggs is if I go to my grandma’s place and ask her to cook me a soft boiled egg, which she gets right every time!

Thankfully I found this little beauty – the “Egg-perfect egg timer”. All you do is put it in the water as your boiling your eggs and it will change colour as the eggs cook. I’ve tested it out on all three levels – soft, medium and hard and each time it’s been egg-perfect. I enjoyed a lovely soft boiled egg this morning and a medium egg (pictured above) yesterday.

All I have to do now is find a gadget to help me make poached eggs.

With the weather getting colder and colder it seems that all you want to do is stay home under a warm fleece blanket with a nice cup of hot chocolate. Especially with all this wet weather we’ve been getting, the thought of going out for a big one doesn’t sound appealing at all.

Thankfully I’ve recently discovered the ultimate at home cup of hot chocolate – Lindt Hot Chocolate Flakes. In my books, Lindt are the best chocolate makers and I’ll argue with anyone who would suggest otherwise, unless your Willy Wonka, wouldn’t argue with Willy Wonka or an oompa-loompa.

I was really impressed with the Lindt hot chocolate, and that’s a lot for someone who doesn’t have a sweet tooth, I’d choose a packet of chips over chocolate any day but it’d be a tough choice if it was a cup of Lindt hot chocolate. It’s like drinking a cup full of a Lindt ball liquid centre. I’m drooling just thinking about it.

Part of the appeal is that it’s made of chocolate flakes, not powder. When you open the packet it looks like a hundred crumbled up Flakes. Seriously yum!

With the weather getting colder and colder in Sydney I thought it was about time to start unpacking the winter gear. It’s not just us humans who are feeling the cold. My little tropical fish were starting to look a bit small, I think they’ve either contracted in size with the cold weather or they’ve been shivering so much that they’ve lost weight. Either way I’ve turned up their heater to keep them nice and toasty, but not too toasty. When my mum first got guppies she set the heater a bit too high and lets just say her aquarium phase didn’t last very long.

Along with the fish my little pup (well she’s not really a pup anymore, she’s 11 years old now) Sammi was feeling the cold too. When I came home the yesterday she was on the fleece blanket all curled up in a little ball, the poor little baby was so cold.

Here she is in this years winter jacket. I love that it has a hood with faux fur trimming, kind of makes her look like an Eskimo. Next time I take her out, I’ll have to make sure we’re not wearing matching jackets.

Had a couple of late nights this week so I when I saw this “rejuvenation” drink, I thought it was just perfect (and it’s green, who doesn’t love stuff that’s green).

I’m a huge sucker for marketing, so all you have to do to make me buy stuff is make it look pretty or give it a cool name, like “The little bottle of water”. It could be the dumbest thing ever, but if it’s got a cool name – I’m sold.

I hope this company makes other flavours of water because I’m not 100% sold on this one. It’s apple, lemon and lime flavoured, but I think it’s a little bit too much on the sour side. It tastes like you’ve just eaten about 10 of those chewable Vitamin C tablets. But hey, it’s a rejuvenation drink and I must give it to them, you do feel more awake after drinking it (from the shock of the sourness).

If you like green apple warheads, you’ll like this.

Was having a few printing problems this morning, the red light kept flashing which usually means it’s either out of paper or there’s a paper jam. I checked the paper and the drawer and it was all good. I was perplexed.

After a bit of frustration and banging it finally printed something… sort of… When the print first came out I wasn’t entirely sure what it was. I thought the ink was burnt so I had a closer look, I mean a really close look. So close that when I think about how close my nose came to a squashed cockroach, I feel like gagging. Gross.

It certainly gives the term “technical bugs” a new meaning.

We went over to Maree’s house for dinner the other day, she cooked up a mean lasagna. I’m talking 6 layers of meat; veggies; AND spinach and ricotta, all in one giant lasagna.

It’s been a while since we were over Maree’s and a lot has changed since the last time we were over. Furniture’s been moved around, cars have been sold, and the most interesting of all was this neat little yellow scooter out the back.

This little baby is an Eazyride electric scooter that makes next to no noise. It’s seriously quiet. If you ever need an escape vehicle, this would be it. Though it’s not a quick-dash as it’s max speed (according to the gauge) is 50km/hr. Besides it’s brilliant quietness, another plus is that it doesn’t require any gas or petrol – you simply plug it into the wall to charge the battery.

Now why does it have pedals?
If you find that you’re running a little low on juice, you can start pedaling and give the bike an extra push (especially when going up a hill with 2 cases of beer on the scooter – true story. Not me though). The pedals are in a bit of an inconvenient spot, you might feel like your trying to pedal while on a horse because of the width of the scooter. But because it does have pedals, it means (under the current law) that you don’t need a motorcycle license or any license at all for you or the scooter. That’s right no rego.

Would be an awesome investment if you didn’t have a license or car. It’s priced around the $1400 mark.