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6th Feb: Morning started off with yum cha and shopping with the birthday girl aka BFF Jane. Went to Dotti and the dress she wanted was GONE! NOOOOO! But luckily there was another dress she liked. PHEW! Rush home only to find out my rainbow cake was eaten! So had to attempt another rainbow cake. Unfortunely, it didn’t turn out as great. As I was strapped for time with dinner being less then 2 hours away, I try to cheat and layer the mixture. It turned out ok but some parts of the colour bleed into each other. Icing the cake was a big mistake. I tried to cut out the layers and wanted to put colour icing in between to make it more rainbow like. BUT the cake was fairly warm, so by the end of the night, the cake was WAY TOO SWEET as the icing has soaked thru. But it was the effort that counted at least.
- 12th Feb: Spend the day with my boyfriend. He spoiled with me a Stitch doll, Spot doll and two fake roses to represent each year we dated. This might be a yearly thing so once I get another one I can put them in their own vase. At the moment, they are sharing a vase of a few fake roses mum and I have brought. All different strangely enough. I went non traditional and got him something he needed – an iron and a purple ironing board. Yes, non traditional. Also shouted dinner at a Chinese restaurant. I don’t usually eat at a chinese restaurant, only been maybe 5 times in my life. Now I realised why, it so damn oily! I was completely turned off even tho I ordered the duck because I didn’t know what else to order.
- 13th Feb: Parents started off their morning going to Cabra for food. Luckily we prepared our offering food the night before, so I was able to set the table and do the prays. Kim came early this time round and it was a shock to see him. He so damn tall! 180cm+ I think and his only 16 this year. He seems a bit more confident although his posture is very bad. He such a good kid. He has a goal, to get band 5/6 for maths. I’m proud that he thinking about it and going to try although he going to need to put in a lot of effort to improve his current marks. His next goal isn’t looking so good. He wanted to do 3 unit maths to make his mum proud of him. Sweet as it is, I don’t believe it is a wise idea. I rather have his mum being proud at him for getting into university rather than doing 3 unit maths and not potentially doing so well. It may appear his going to follow into my footsteps into IT but focus more of the developer side. There still hope for this boy <3 Amanda is pretty much same old same old.
- 14th Feb: Chuc mung nam moi! It’s Tet (aka vietnamese/chinese new year aka lunar new year) and we started the morning off with some offering and prays. Instead of relaxing we ended up working.
- 19th Feb: Katherine (Phil’s girlfriend) organised a surprised 24th for Phil. It was so sweet of her and he organised it a month beforehand too. Party was at Mizuya mizuya.com.au
where she booked a karaoke room and we can order food by a touch screen. Pretty much like Wagaya but with Karaoke. It food was nice, but much prefer Wagaya. It was a fun night, although I was really tired from early morning and rushing around all day. Also I got major blisters (9 in total) from walking to Pyrmont to Town Hall in my Bett’s heels. I think I’ll stick to my Naturalised heels next time.
- 25th Feb: I’m so excited. After 3 weeks of interviews, I have landed myself an official offer at Accenture.

Still have to read through my contract clarify some details, but I start on the 15th April. EXCITED
So in between those events I can remember I’ve been:
- Watching Valentine Day with BFF Jane
- Watching The Wolfman with Ken thanks to MX free tickets
- Lunch with BFF Greg after my 2nd Accenture interview. Exciting that I get to see my BFF Greg more often since he finishes work at 12pm and my lunch is at the same time and work is only across the street!
- Interviews Interviews Interviews
- Working working working .. long hours hard labour .. thank-goodness I’m not a dressmaker and been making progress with Open-Opportune
- Cleaning cleaning cleaning … been trying to declutter. I’m getting there. my wardrobe is left and I’m half way there!
long post hopefully more regular post soon …. and new layout!
6th Feb 2010 Morning started off with yum cha and shopping with the birthday girl aka BFF Jane. Went to Dotti and the dress she wanted was GONE! NOOOOO! But luckily there was another dress she liked. PHEW! Rush home only to find out my rainbow cake was eaten! So had to attempt another rainbow cake. Unfortunely, it didn’t turn out as great. As I was strapped for time with dinner being less then 2 hours away, I try to cheat and layer the mixture. It turned out ok but some parts of the colour bleed into each other. Icing the cake was a big mistake. I tried to cut out the layers and wanted to put colour icing in between to make it more rainbow like. BUT the cake was fairly warm, so by the end of the night, the cake was WAY TOO SWEET as the icing has soaked thru. But it was the effort that counted at least.
12th Feb 2010 Spend the day with my boyfriend. He spoiled with me a Stitch doll, Spot doll and two fake roses to represent each year we dated. This might be a yearly thing so once I get another one I can put them in their own vase. At the moment, they are sharing a vase of a few fake roses mum and I have brought. All different strangely enough. I went non traditional and got him something he needed – an iron and a purple ironing board. Yes, non traditional. Also shouted dinner at a Chinese restaurant. I don’t usually eat at a chinese restaurant, only been maybe 5 times in my life. Now I realised why, it so damn oily! I was completely turned off even tho I ordered the duck because I didn’t know what else to order.
13th Feb 2010 Parents started off their morning going to Cabra for food. Luckily we prepared our offering food the night before, so I was able to set the table and do the prays. Kim came early this time round and it was a shock to see him. He so damn tall! 180cm+ I think and his only 16 this year. He seems a bit more confident although his posture is very bad. He such a good kid. He has a goal, to get band 5/6 for maths. I’m proud that he thinking about it and going to try although he going to need to put in a lot of effort to improve his current marks. His next goal isn’t looking so good. He wanted to do 3 unit maths to make his mum proud of him. Sweet as it is, I don’t believe it is a wise idea. I rather have his mum being proud at him for getting into university rather than doing 3 unit maths and not potentially doing so well. It may appear his going to follow into my footsteps into IT but focus more of the developer side. There still hope for this boy <3 Amanda is pretty much same old same old.
14th Feb 2010 Chuc mung nam moi! It’s Tet (aka vietnamese/chinese new year aka lunar new year) and we started the morning off with some offering and prays. Instead of relaxing we ended up working.
19th Feb 2010 Katherine (Phil’s girlfriend) organised a surprised 24th for Phil. It was so sweet of her and he organised it a month beforehand too. Party was at Mizuya where she booked a karaoke room and we can order food by a touch screen. Pretty much like Wagaya but with Karaoke. It food was nice, but much prefer Wagaya. It was a fun night, although I was really tired from early morning and rushing around all day. Also I got major blisters (9 in total) from walking to Pyrmont to Town Hall in my Bett’s heels. I think I’ll stick to my Naturalised heels next time.

25th Feb 2010 I’m so excited. After 3 weeks of interviews, I have landed myself an official offer at Accenture.
Still have to read through my contract clarify some details, but I start on the 15th April. EXCITED) My start date has been push back until I complete my degree.
So in between those events I can remember I’ve been:
- Watching Valentine Day with BFF Jane
- Watching The Wolfman with Ken thanks to MX free tickets
- Lunch with BFF Greg after my 2nd Accenture interview. Exciting that I get to see my BFF Greg more often since he finishes work at 12pm and my lunch is at the same time and work is only across the street!
- Interviews Interviews Interviews .. something to fill up my time from now until my start date
- Working working working .. long hours hard labour .. thank-goodness I’m not a dressmaker and been making progress with Open-Opportune
- Cleaning cleaning cleaning … been trying to declutter. I’m getting there. my wardrobe is left and I’m half way there! Must really sort them out since I can’t find specific pieces of clothing I need/want to wear.
- My car turned 1years old! Washed and vacuumed but it just had to rain.
- Celebrated our 2 year anniversary <3
- Dinner at Longrain with my two BFFs – Greg and Jane <3 to celebrate me finally getting a proper job! wOoO! <3 you two! It was a wonderful dinner. I highly recommend if you have a money to burn. It is well worth it.
- Eating out quite a lot more, especially with my parents. I think we are going to make it a weekly thing but I don’t think my stomach can handle that.
- And Macquarie University study period has started again. I’m up-to-date thank-goodness. Well actually, since classes were today, I’m behind by one weeks worth of lectures
Well that was a long post hopefully more regular post soon …. and new layout!