ThePaperKites.

Last night, I went with a few friends from uni to ThePaperKite's concert @ The Forum.

It was the band's final stop on their 'States' Tour around Australia and it was pretty sweet that they ended the tour in the city where it all begun.
Doors opened at 7 but the pre-lineup, which included the likes of Robby Miller and Georgia Fair, didn't play til around 8pm.

It was really funny because we kept bumping into people we knew from high school and other friends of freinds - making the night all the more interesting.

The Forum was a pretty small, yet intimate venue. They had naked statues of men everywhere, which was kinda weird. But aside from that , the entire time I think I was standing maybe 4 metres away from the stage. Their voices. 

They revisited some of their old stuff from the Featherstone EP but they played most songs off their States album which was released only recently.

Some of my favourites were: Featherstone, Cold Kind Heart, Young and Tenenbaum

But my favourite song of the night would have to be Bloom.
It's been my ringtone for the past year and i'm still not sick of it. Never gets old.
I like this rendition better than the studio recorded version. Dat 5 part harmony. dayum. 

 

In other news, the mighty-Hawks won the Grandfinals.

yay. 

Choo.

I had a pretty big weekend, baking at Bels' on Saturday night and then gym, church and an 18th on Sunday. I had actually planned on studying this weekend for my flag test on tuesday, but that plan obviously went completely down the drain. 

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After accidentally sleeping in too late on Saturday morning, I did like 3 hours of anatomy revision before heading to Bel's for dinner.  

Bel is one of those people who is just awesome at life and it's common knowledge amongst those who know her that she's the first person you go to whenever you want any sort of baked good. Even though I haven't known her for that long, I really value the fact that she me lets go over on weekends to bum around in her kitchen while we cook and talk about nothing in particular. 

We'd baked a few times before for peoples birthdays together this year and I guess it kinda unintentionally became a thing. 

We usually do some kind of cupcake, macaron or cake, but that day we mixed things up a bit and did something savory for a change. 

Bel suggested the Jamie Oliver's Salmon Filo Pie. 

It was quite a simple recipe but it was so nice. As the name suggests, it wasn't your typical shortcrust with puff pie. Personally I wouldn't have done it any differently because the crunchy, flaky texture went really well with the feta, salmon and zucchini filling. 

noms.

Because it was just the two of us eating, we still had more than two thirds remaining after we were done with it. many foodcomas were had that night.

Next time, we're going to attempt a different pie, possibly even rendang or curry pie...

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I guess you can imagine my amusement when I spotted this car's number plate just as we were driving home from uni today.

Choo.

Dinner&DessertStory

It's not often I get the chance to hang out with my family for dinner on a friday night. It's also not often that we go out on a friday night. I'm not sure what the occasion was but who cares. I wasn't paying. Asian food ftw.

I forgotten the name of the place we went. But it was a restaurant close to TheBooth in Box Hill - Another place I really like to go for dumplings with friends from uni.

Anyways we ordered 4 mains:

House Special Chicken
Jiew Yim Pai Guat
Combination Seafood Hotpot
Spicy Eggplant Hotpot 

The dishes were pretty standard. I think the only dish I was really impressed with was the House Special Chicken. It didn't look all that impressive when it came out. But when I took a bite expecting it to be dry and bland, I was unexpectanly surprised at how full of flavour it was. And in the end I didn't care how it looked. I also really liked the fresh ginger and spring onion sauce they served with it, but I could probably be content just having the chicken even on its own.

I'm usually used to being served soup before my mains at a honkie restaurant and then having some kind of sweet soup and fruit afterwards, but I was surprised that this place only gave us the latter and there was no soup entree served at all. But whatever, it wouldn't have changed the fact that we couldn't the dishes we ordered anyway.

When we'd finished our meal, I watched as the lady came and cleared all our dishes and took away our leftovers to place them in takeaway containers. She also took away our rice bucket, which was still half full. It got me wondering.

Why don't they ever let us takeaway the rice too? What do they do with the leftover rice in the bucket? surely they don't put it back... 

Ugh. whatever.
I'd rather not know.

By the time we'd finished dinner it was about 8pm, my parents still wanted to go to Spotlight to buy curtains and we still wanted to bum around BigW while it was still open. So we all reached a consensus to meet back for dessert at 9.

I love going shopping with my sister. She's quite the fashionista i'd have to say and it's lucky we're the same size because it means we can wear each others clothes. haha She also has a bit of a knack for finding things which are on sale. I'd say i'm pretty lucky to be so close with my sibling but having said that, it's sad that we don't get to hang out as much as we used to.

Anyways, my sis and I bummed around BigW for an entire hour looking at all kinds of random things.
My sister went in search of earphones coz she lost hers (of course). We came across this pair of headphones for 4 dollars which were in the shape of a fly. Why would you want a fly in your ear? #whateven

We also went in search of bike helmets, because our current ones don't fit our massive heads anymore
But we found these amusing ones instead.

We didn't buy anything in the end because we realised that neither of us had been smart enough to bring money.

Afterwards we met up with our parents for dessert at Dessert Story and the night ended on a sweet note, as we ordered the only dessert worth eating there.

No 61. Mango Snow Ice.

Choo.

GettingFit

The last time I checked in was more than a year and a half ago. 

I think it's fair to say I suck at this whole consistently blogging thing. 

I think i'm gonna try start this up again.

Just so people know that I am still alive and kicking. 

So this semester we have a subject called Exercise Health and Wellbeing. 

It's a pretty fun subject where we basically learn the principles of exercise prescription for different patient and client groups with different goals. Plus our classes mostly involve of us simulating client interactions and doing exercises in the Gym

Pretty sweet eh?

The minimum amount of exercise recommended by the ACSM for adults is:

 150 mins/wk of moderate-intense exercise

How much do you do? 

Feeling inspired guilty, my friend and I decided it was time to work up our fitness levels
so we can stuff ourselfs with whatever crap we want.  so we can prescribe exercise more effectively
And so far it's been pretty good.

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Tues: 1 hr BodyPump group exercise class

Wed: 50 min Resistance Training @ Uni for U&L Limbs

Thurs: 1 hr Cardio and Core Exercises

Fri: Rest

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I've been going alot to the Monash Aquatic Centre before and after Uni

Got membership when it was super duper cheap on the localgroupdeals.com site

It's $29 and includes full gym access and group exercise classes for a month.

trials: the cheapo asian way

The first group class I went to was the BodyPump class.  Our instructor was this shockingly over-enthusiastic guy who had the resemblence of a buffer, more elite version of Mike Ross from Suits. He must have known we were new, because he kept turning to ask us how were were doing though his microphone. so embarrasing. Mind you, 20 minutes in my friend and I were almost dying.

Lift your knees! Lift them up high!

no.  

The choreography was so confusing as well,

half the time I felt like I was just aimlessly wailing my arms in the air. 

So much FLAIL.

This fitness frenzy may be shortlived. 

But we'll see how we go...

Choo out.