Warning: Another Long Post!

I've been in a bit of pain since last Monday's game ... after the guy hurt my head my neck's been really killing me, kinda a dull burning pain going up my neck .. it comes and goes, but when it comes, it's annoying .. cos it's affecting my right ear too :o/ i prolly shouldn't have done 2 hours at the gym and kept with the heavy weights :o/ I also played squash y'day which prolly also wasn't the best idea but it didn't feel as bad beforehand .. just afterwards it was sore again :o/

Wrap up of the past week or so:
Last Sunday
Visited Nicole cos it was her 21st and I'd missed her party .. was good seeing her, cos I haven't seen her in ages - that weekend, I saw 3 of my hs roll call buddies who I haven't seen in a while! Was good :o)

Monday
Start of a v long work week :o( Got injured at frisbee, grandparents came along but watched another game so not to embarrass me or make me feel self-conscious .. that was good :o) Then had dinner - think it was bitter melon stir fry and stuffed tofu .. hehe v asian but quite nice - the stir fry was bitter but tolerable :o)

Tuesday-Thursday
yeah stuff happened .. um testing testing and more testing .. me being v tired and run down and grumpy and sore .. hehe i wasn't the best person to be around then :p

i made a lemon and passionfruit cheesecake - i'd made it for Pat's dinner but didn't put enough gelatine in it .. this time i put enough in and so it set okay .. my grandmother wanted to watch me make it :p not sure why seeing as cream cheese went flying all around the sink, but it's nice she cares :o)

things were v hectic though on Thursday .. I didn't get lunch at work cos my workmate was leaving at 3 that day and wasn't going to be in on Friday and i needed him to help me out with heaps of my testing and run all these jobs etc - stuff i dont have access to .. so we worked our butts off all day just trying to get things done

was meant to play touch on wednesday but we won by forfeit (yay i didn't have to play :p i suck at it :p) so that was good :o) .. we were going to have a practice anyways and check out the competition but we were all so busy that that idea was panned ..

i did get to take some frustration out at boxing Wednesday lunchtime, and Bernard, my boxing buddy, said that i'm punching harder and my technique has improved - wewt! First time we've partnered up since i finished up at SL :o) though i still went to hard at the start and hence was pretty gone at the end of it ;p

Friday
found it really hard to motivate myself on Friday to do work .. i think cos Thursday felt like Friday and i didn't have a deadline anymore with my workmate gone .. hmm plus our systems were up and down all day long too :o/

A grad from next year's intake started with us on Monday .. He started early (silly boy :p) and asked me + the other grad in our area to lunch twice but i turned him down both times as I already had plans - was going to organise something today but he's away this week apparently ... We all went down to see where we're sitting soon, as we're moving floors and I had an okay desk - ppl can see my monitor a bit, but i had a good window seat .. BUT, a manager said she wanted my seat instead so i had to swap with her .. my manager told me and we went and had a look at it (Keng + JY came along as they were visiting at the time) and the desk they were going to give me was bad! It was right at the door and EVERYONE would be passing and seeing what's on my monitor etc ... it was a bad seat .. so my manager said I could swap with the new grad as I get preference cos i've been here longer :p haha so I switched! ah i'm bad! his seat's okay, ppl can still see what's on his monitor, but i can at least shift my monitor a bit so less ppl can see what's on it (hopefully? i doubt it though) .. it's sectioned off a bit more than the other area, but all i have is a view of a wall ... and it's a long rectangular desk, not the L-shaped one ... hmm hope it's okay, i really like where i'm sitting atm and i like my neighbour too! really nice guy who i can ask q's to all the time :o/

Was my grandparents' last night with us that night (they left for melbourne on Saturday) so we went out to dinner .. this place called Phuong at Crows Nest .. was okay, vvv cramped though and i prefer other vietnamese places .. but we chose this one as my sista didn't want to travel far (she's living in the city with her hubby) and this one seemed sorta central for all of us ... oh and the setting there isn't that good .. but it got some pretty good reviews and their food wasn't that bad .. it's just that i like vietnamese pancakes but they didn't have it (i like the one at Towers' Le Colonial where I had wanted to go that night .. or Newtown - Thanh Binh on King) .. and I like being able to make my own rolls (Newtown's Thahn Binh is seriously the best for this - sugar cane prawns and being able to make your own rolls .. yummy! .. except service is shite there)... if only i could combine the Towers and Newtown restaurants :p the mains aren't that great but i'm normally quite full just from eating entrees :p ..

it was too cramped at phuong though (v popular though) and the decor was pretty old/run down looking ... oh and they also dont know the diff between sweet and sour and sweet chilli (just like maccas :p)

Saturday
gymmed it per usual .. had fish and chips for lunch with my grandparents, before they headed off the airport .. Lauz and I went shopping - i lost her in Kmart :p tried having a nap but it got a bit too late before going out to dinner with Alan, Eugene and Viv at Istana, Thornleigh .. that place is nice :o) We bought a samabl fish (had a different name though) and it was $17.10 per 1/2 kilo .. it looked pretty big and we thought that it'd cost heaps but it only came to $25 which wasn't bad - esp seeing as it was heaps yummy! Also got nasi lemak (which wasn't on the menu and the waiter had no idea what we were talking about .. but thankfully they had it!) and some other dishes which weren't as interesting but still quite nice - they had this one dish with really nice silky tofu in it .. yum! Portions were generous too, i'd go back for sure :o) It was better than Kuali I think, cos their portions were bigger and it was just a bit more worth it .. plus, i think their chicken rice had a bit more flavour in it than the one at kuali .. but kuali was still pretty good and their sambal fish was quite nice, same with their prawn dish :o)

tis v popular though, good thing we booked .. the queue for it was sooo long and we had window seats and all these ppl were watching in as we were eating! feels really strange!

Sunday
This was the first day I have had to myself in a while .. went shopping with mum to North Rocks, we forgot it was the computer markets and hence it was pretty packed .. but it wasn't that bad and so did a little bit of shopping there .. I checked out Delta's lingerie range out of curiosity .. hmm, i dont think it's that great .. well i dont think it's good that she's put her name on it and yet she doesn't even design the things! They're okay, but hmmm .. maybe a bit too fancy? the prices are reasonable though so i guess it's good that she's catering for that market ..

Had time to work on my computer too! wewt! one of the things i've had on my list of things to do after the wedding was to install a new usb port card thingy - faster usb port as i keep getting the message saying i'm connecting a fast medium to a slow usb port or something like that .. my computer is so dusty inside! partly cos it's sitting on the carpet, partly cos i haven't opened it up in AAAAGGES!

I had problems installing the driver though :o( I needed to dl SP1 and couldn't so i still haven't completed that task yet :o/ BUT, another task I had to do was to get a bigger hard drive, install a fresh copy of XP on it and get all the SP's etc .. I have all the parts now to do this, so guess that'll be my next thing to do - and then i can install the driver for my port! wewt!

I did finish sewing a skirt y'day :o) taken me a while but i've been pacing myself .. and i've been playing around with photoshop and my new photo printer and am getting the hang of all these things and it feels good to have time to do all of this!

Played squash .. lost all games except one to Leon .. I was losing by a few, then came back from 14-10 to win 17-14! YAY! he beat me the 2nd time I played him 15-11 but it felt good beating him at all (even though it prolly was mainly fluke :p)

AND, I top scored on Road Rage! Wewt! knocked Alan off :p hehehe though he'll easily knock me off again :p We've mastered a really hard location, so we usually can get a top 10 score with it .. whilst all the other locations we're really bad at now :p some are hard, some easy .. but even the easy ones we aren't doing nearly as well in them :p we haven't worked out the shortcuts yet :p

hmm that's it for now .. been slowly writing this post throughout the day .. almost frisbee time - yay! :o) though kinda in the mood for sleeping atm :p