Hey hey cloudy day

The rain looks like it's here to stay
Gumboots on! Come out and play


sunday 20th march 9:46pm
It's sunday evening and I have that gray feeling you get when your weekend or holidays are almost over. You wonder what you did with your time, and the answer is Not Much Really.

It's the end of the holiday blues! and it's cold and grey and boring, and being stuck inside makes it doubly boring. Anyway, introducing one of my new resolutions for 2011:

spend as little time around computers as I have to

At work you need the computer. Five days a week I need the computer. Five days a week I need to be sitting down on me bum! So for the other two days and every other waking moment I'm going to be spending my time outside (if please, mr rain goes away......) (go to melbourne!) and walking around and staring into the faces of my friends and family! Gosh I am so glad for my iphone, I am in the process of teaching it to run my e-life. yep my e-life ....if you're under the age of 70 and have friends, you know you qualify

Ps. I have decided that when I'm old I want to be surrounded by my loving kids and grandkids, and I will be strong and healthy (like my crazy 80 year old grandma) so I can go travelling around the world with my grandma and grandpa friends

I woke up this morning...

And my hair had gone bonkers!

After three years of long, low-maintenance tresses, short hair is a bit unpredictable

Short hair? Australia says yes:
- hair dries in 20 min instead of 2 hrs
- it takes less time to brush your hair

Boo to short hair:
- when you wake up you may have 80% of hair on one side of your head sticking out horizontally
- Like umbrellas, eyelash curlers and toothpicks, hairbrushes are one of those personal items that I never learned how to use, thanks to straight Asian hair genes inherited from mom n pops

Every morning I have about 10 minutes to get up and out the door and today was no different. Soo there was no time to fix my hair, and noow I'm stranded in the city with my hair still stickin up everywhere like a boy who doesn't own hair wax and this wouldn't be too bad if I wasnt going to a SDH's birthday tonight (meeting up with EN and JS later) and my beach bag from this morning was too big to take out tonight so I ditched it and picked up mum's, and although her brown leather bag is not too uncool for school, at the same time it's not really my style, it even has a little fancy gilt brooch on the front.

So now I am sitting in the new city Westfield in a cafe charging my phone cos it died and I think I can now sympathise a bit with how dogs must feel after they've had a bath and their fur sticks out fluffily everywhere. And wearing this bag, I also have that sense of wearing something you haven't quite grown into yet like when you're a kid trying on your mum's dresses and lipstick that you snuck out from her room and then you look in the mirror (and you're like hello there sexy mama you looking gooood)

These posts are getting more and more random. I blame it on this whole idea of being able to blog from your phone! Soon, nutcases with no sense of quality blogging will be able to post up anything they feel like, whenever they want, and the blogosphere will be inundated with useless random crap like rants about having bed head and photos of themselves that no one wants to see

So to conclude this post I have here a photo of my hair this morning

A day in the life of..... (aha, a post! haha)

nerdy nerdy nerdy

chocolatesuze's back to school birthday orgy today...... where I met a science teacher, an art teacher, a scary teacher, a french exchange student and a walking talking blackboard with chalked up drawings of flaming genitalia, as well as a busload of students (in order of appearance)

http://blogs.thewayitcrumbles.com/
http://www.noredmeat.com/
http://theninjareview.com/
http://penguinsaysfeedme.blogspot.com/
http://www.eatshowandtell.com/
http://www.noodlies.com/ (thx for the LLB =)
http://nommynomnom.wordpress.com/
http://www.sugarssweetblog.blogspot.com/
http://idreaminchocolate.wordpress.com/
http://www.greencilantro.blogspot.com/
http://nomnomnibblies.blogspot.com/
http://aficionado-x.blogspot.com/
http://brunchlunchmunch.blogspot.com/
http://www.atablefortwo.com.au/
http://spoonforkandchopsticks.blogspot.com/

BOO to the lame-o who did not come (s/2) and to those I didn't get to talk to
And hahaawtf at the name of this blog: The Digestive Tract Blog
http://tinyurl.com/thedigestivetractblog and it's not actually a blog lol??

Anyway it was great to meet y'all and see a few familiar faces - I now have a couple of blogs to add to my following list as soon as I get outta blog hiatus (ie. drop a job). And actually it was really nice to just relax in the cushy warm City Hotel instead of workworkworkaworking. Now I should.. say something funny *hides* hahasuze okay I have nothing more to say, except

Lemongrass prawn skewers, so good! thx nuffnang for the food and
Viva le food blogging :-)





... actual photos pending non-laziness.

HO HO HO MEERRRYYY (PEANUT BUTTER) CHRISTMAS

Photo of a peanut butter smiley face, taken before it got its vegemite tan ho ho ho

Hope you guys all have a lovely merry christmas
surrounded with family friends and lots o' food! =)

Deviantart Favourites Dump

sexy picture on deviantart


Don't you hate it when your friends have lives = =

YOU GUYS AREN'T ALLOWED TO HAVE LIVES. especially not when I'm sitting at home bored mindless because I have nothing to do (except accounting homework.... and boooy am I NOT going to do my accounting homework just coz you guys have lives)

Ahh, what should I do.... HELLOOOO BLOG ~~!

spongebob so cool



And my favourite:

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs!!

'Cloudy with a chance of meatballs' is a movie about a town where hamburgers, waffles, icecream and cookies fall from the sky as rain.

I'm sure there's more to it than that but WHO CARES I'M SOLD.
It's already my favourite movie and I haven't even seen it yet

'When my town fell on hard times, all anyone could afford to eat was sardines. And because sardines are super gross, this was my chance to show everyone what I was made of
... Conversion of water into food.'

'You are about to be crushed by a giant corn'

[giant corn cob drops from the sky]

LOL

But seriously, ladies and gentlemen according to all reviews this meatballs movie promises to be smashingly delicious! even googling "cloudy with.." with words like "terrible" and "overrated" doesn't chuck up a single legit hit :]

so go watch it! and then have dinner at a nice Sydney restaurant afterwards haha (Norita has refurbished their 'real food' menu! which I have yet to order from but from memory they still had unagi don/takoyaki on the menu, and they do a lovely sweet hot taro drink, ooooh I crave)




Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
In cinemas in Sydney in 3D, September 18th

How To Stop Procrastinating

YOU PROCRASTINATE, DON'T YOU.

but why? well according to youtube, it's because
1. Your work is boring
2. Your brain is full of other things you have to do
3. Your work is boring (hang on isn't this point one)
4. You have ADD (I think the video is right)
5. You are afraid that you suck

How do you STOP procrastinating? Youtube says you should
1. Just do it

In conclusion, youtube knows all
and studying is boring
B O R I N G
boring

I'm sooo not procrastinating.


Presenting my friend, Elizabeth

How To Kill Your Food Blog

"yeah I guess it's been a while since I last blogged...
how many days? er.... about...... *runs out of fingers* ;;


...and now we have a guide on how to kill your food blog ---->

1. Eat out five times more often than you blog so that you have a massive backlog of photos to post

2. Make sure you do NO homework for the entire uni semester so you have six months worth of lectures to learn leading up to exams

3. During exams put your laptop in your cupboard. Don't make it easy to access - bury it deep under your old clothes and broken tennis racquets

4. Go on an extended overseas holiday. don't take your laptop. whilst overseas, avoid internet cafes like the plague

5. Bring back half a suitcase of PS2 games and magazines, all of which have nothing to do with food (EDIT omg except for the one about kaya toast and teh tarik in singapore mmmm)

6. Stay at home. Exist on bananas and muffins. Do not check your email, do not find out about interesting new restaurants in Sydney, this could excite you into writing up a new post



heh lots to blog about!
<3 hot weather in malaysia

KOREAN RICE FACE. and George St Pho Shop Wednesday Grand Opening!

Here for your entertainment is a lesson on how to make a Korean rice face

To make your own rice face you will need:
- a pot of rice (preferably from those korean round metal pots)
- two garlic shoots
- a dab of chilli sauce
- half a mushroom cap

Take your ingredients and assemble on plate
Optional extras may include kimchee hair or beansprout eyebrows
Talk to your face
take photos
then eat!

Congratulations, you have just eaten your first Korean Rice Face!

KOREAN RICE FACE!
Made at BBQ City on Goulburn St (korean restaurant below LIVE karaoke)

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In other news,


A new George St pho shop is opening on Wednesday, 13th May, ie. TOMORROW - and to celebrate, everything is 10% off. So if you're in the city head down for some cheap pho and to check out the hot viet waiters waitresses Sydney's newest vietnamese restaurant!

GIA HOI pho shop Grand Opening, 709 George St, Haymarket (02 9211 0221)

How to get there:
It's down the road from Railway Square, near the Great Southern Hotel
Or you can walk up Ultimo Road from Market City, turn right and head up George St for a bit
Maybe they will have Grand Opening balloons to help us out, I hope they do cos I like balloons

Iced Durian at Cafe Joy on the road down to Haymarket, Sydney

Who loves durian?
You love durian, I love durian.
WE ALL LOVE DURIAN!

Iced Durian Dessert at Cafe Joy, Sydney, $6.00

There are a string of interesting eateries on the road down from the bus stop to Haymarket campus. There's the place with grapes stuck all over the ceiling, the bun shop that nobody knows about, a Thai restaurant that always has policemen sitting inside slurping noodles, and then there's Cafe Joy.

Cafe Joy is the only eatery in Sydney (that I know of) that sells real iced durian. I have a vague idea that they also have a menu of normal Malaysian-Singaporean meals (char kuay teow noodles, laksa, etc) but these details PALE in comparison to the wonder of iced durian in Sydney.

The day we finally found time to go and have our durian dessert, it was disgustingly, blisteringly hot. The good thing is it made eating our sweet, velvety, crunchy (ice), pungently aromatic iced durian one of the most wonderful experiences in the world.

The best thing about this dessert is that it's literally just shaved ice and durian. Pick up a spoonful and it's pure durian at its best - deliciously cold and sweet, interrupted only by the crunch of ice.

The price is also pretty decent, considering durian is expensive in Sydney, with one fruit generally priced at $4/kg.... so one big Thailand durian will set you back around $15. Only Thai durians are sold in Sydney's asian grocery shops. I have yet to try an authentic Malaysian durian because they're not fleshy enough for our importers to bring here, but my dad assures me they would blow me away.

Banana Bread at Michel's Patisserie

'Babana Bread' at Michel's Patisserie

:D

About Foodchaser

HELLO TRAVELLER

you have reached the dumping ground of one university student aka Grace's photo collection of coconut buns, ramen, sushi, cakes and other stuff (still mostly food related ahahha)

when not blogging, Grace is generally
- catching up on lost sleep
- reading calvin & hobbes, picture books, kelloggs cereal packets
- plotting a revolution of the sydney culinary scene through enoki mushrooms
- avoiding studying in general

grievances, fanart and random thoughts may be addressed to foodchaser-at-gmail.com

thanks you (:

Panda, who is going to follow me around until Jennifer Goh receives a handmade bento box <3