A Peek Into My Life in Aussieland!
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uhh.. artichoke is kinda.. ewwww... therefore you'll like it.. i mean, you like the evil that is broccoli
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Oh, and one really really strange thing I encountered... a few weeks back, I woke up one morning, put on my contact lenses, and realised that, lo and behold!... I couldn't see well!!
So, I thought I had placed the L lenses in my R eye and vice versa, so I switched, but still, cannot see clearly!
So, I re-switched again, thinking that maybe it's one of those flukes. I still had blurred vision!
OK, deep breaths, opened up a new pack of disposable contact lenses cause maybe the old one's really old liao!
Biangz, the world still looks blur to me! So I switched sides again thinking that maybe I got them wrong again although they were clearly labelled L and R. Still can't see!
PANIC!!!!
Up till today, a few weeks later, I'm still stumbling around with blurred vision.
I have to squint a lot and sometimes, squinting doesn't help either.
One of my friends suggested that maybe, an incident at work that happened recently just shocked me so much, the stress affected my eyesight! She reasoned that if one can be shocked till one's head of hair turns white overnight, why can't the eyesight get afflicted? 
Don't know if there's any medical truth to it or not but I'm going to ask the next friendly doctor I see. Too bad the docs here are all busy and most of them aren't exactly approachable.
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what did you see ? ... -
use glasses lah...
take the docs aside and ask.. else you end up giving someone the wrong medication and we have to go over there and bail you out of their prison
just kidding...
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Why don't you just go get your eyes checked
Maybe your degree jumped or you got *touch wood* "lao hua yan"
Seriously I need to change my glasses as my degree definately went up -
is it possible to get both myopia and "lau hua yen" at the same time ? ... -
One simple reason - too blardly expensive!Originally posted by elindra:Why don't you just go get your eyes checked
Maybe your degree jumped or you got *touch wood* "lao hua yan"
Seriously I need to change my glasses as my degree definately went up 
Plus, I don't really want to face up to having my specs and supply of disposable lenses changed. I know it's crazy but a lot of money went into making a new pair of specs and the contact lenses before I left SG because I was warned by more than one well-intentioned person that optometrists here are darn expensive.
There's good and bad to life here... and this is one of the bad.
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Originally posted by the Bear:uhh.. artichoke is kinda.. ewwww... therefore you'll like it.. i mean, you like the evil that is broccoli
Well, I'm not so sure I wanna try Artichoke, to be honest, cause a patient and her family told me that after eating artichoke, one tends to stink up the room with noxious odour emitting from the posterior orifice.
I'm just keen to have a spoonful of it just to try though, y'know! Try everything at least once. -
Erm... rather, what did I NOT see!Originally posted by Fatum:what did you see ? ... -
and what makes you think broccoli won't?Originally posted by Rhonda:
Well, I'm not so sure I wanna try Artichoke, to be honest, cause a patient and her family told me that after eating artichoke, one tends to stink up the room with noxious odour emitting from the posterior orifice.
I'm just keen to have a spoonful of it just to try though, y'know! Try everything at least once. -
I meant .... what was the shock about ? ...Originally posted by Rhonda:Erm... rather, what did I NOT see! -
Yes it isOriginally posted by Fatum:is it possible to get both myopia and "lau hua yen" at the same time ? ...
My mum has it -
The shock is... my eyesight deteriorated drastically overnight!Originally posted by Fatum:I meant .... what was the shock about ? ... -
Hihi Rhonda!Originally posted by Rhonda:There's no Sobe here. I managed to get Vitasoy at A$0.70 a packet though, so not bad! Or a 1.5 L (or was it 2L?) bottle of soyabean milk locally produced by one of the soya bean factories here for just A$2.20.
I've read the recipe for making tao huay before. I think that packet of stuff is some coagulant (hopefully not platelets! hahaha! ) that converts the soyabean milk into tao huay. Probably in the gelatin family but a milder version.
If you try it, tell us how the process was and how it tastes!
PS. Have been toying with the idea of purchasing a mini soya bean milk processor to make my own because the ones here are too darn diluted.
I tried it last night. The packet contains sea salt in liquid form. Just add, stir, put a lid over the bowl and microwave (on medium low for 6 mins) or steam, and you get tau huay.
Maybe I'll try to make my own tau huay by adding table salt and see if it works. I think the soya milk has to be thick though...vitasoy may not make it. -
I got lao hua yen too
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aren't those used as laxatives?Originally posted by elindra:Epsom Salts -
Hee hee........no lah, I really love reading so please continue to write.Originally posted by Rhonda:Hellooooo, littlestream! Looooong time no see! Glad that all's well with you and happy to see you back online!
It is a cozy pad... to me. It helps to keep the blues away and I usually spend a lot of time at home so it's a good investment to surround oneself with nice things. Moreover, the stuff were all bought on sale, including the TV! The sales here can be super-duper good, man, unlike in Singapore where the sales appear to be a 'token' rather than the real deal.
A shopaholic like me can be quite happy here in Melbourne, especially with my proximity to town! Of course the range of stuff offered here isn't as wide as back home, but when it comes to grocery shopping and shopping for household items, Melbourne's good! 
Bear's sis and I have been afflicted by the Supermart Syndrome - whenever we're stressed, or whenever we cho-bo, we like to go to our neighbourhood Cole's and spend time looking at the aisles and aisles of products on sale. Moreover, every week, there are specials on offer so my larder is very well-packed. I still plan my meals impromptu and I improvise often and because I cook for one, it can get quite challenging! For instance, if I get a bag of carrots at the Richmond Market on Saturday for just $1.50, for the next few meals, I have to somehow incorporate carrots! It was cute though - one Saturday, an Asian lady and me were looking at leeks - two bundle for $3, one for $1.80. So she approached me to split a bundle and we both went home with a bundle each for just $1.50! Economies of Scale at work on the micro level!
I'm into the 2nd week with bloody three more bwee-bwee carrots left! I could've sworn they seemed to have increased in size since I last saw them! So, bo bian, I can't keep rabbits so I can't throw the carrots at them, so today, to entice myself, I used a special Butterfly Mould on my sliced carrots so I get Carrot Butterflies!
Oh see, you ask me about my life and I get so carried away! OK, OK, I zip up liao... for now!
Huh? Are u sure or not? The carrots can become bwee bwee one meh? Eh, ever thought of cooking and then freezing them up? I don't but my friends do, especially those who end work later and by the time they get home, it late to even start to cook from scratch. But hey, butterfly carrots. Sounds good to me. Can show pic?
Yeap, we do that at the supermart too, like 3 bunch of spring onions for 99cents. Like what am i gonna do with 3 bunch? So, we split with other shoppers too. Wah, looks like supermarkets are your playgrounds now too eh? Well, that's about the only shopping I do. -
Rhonda,Originally posted by Rhonda:Sometimes, I wish that I had colleagues who are adventurous enough to share home-cooked food with each other. I'd love to try some of their food cause I've not tried it before, and to cook it myself would be a risk cause, what if I don't like it?
I'd love to try stuff like Artichoke, Fennel, etc at least once. These are vegetables we never get to see in Singapore so I'm really curious.
Like, couscous and polenta, have always wanted to try those but I'm not about to enter the supermart and purchase one packet of those, nosiree! Cause what if I don't like them? It'll be such a waste.
Oh well, I'll get to know a few more colleagues better and then see if they're into some meal exchange kinda deal so we don't have to cook every freakin' time!
fennel tastes like anseed almost liceqish (sp?)like... artichokes are very nice... you just eat the outside leaves (not the whole leaf, ya pull them apart with ya teeth) and the hearts are nice in salards (you can get jars of them brined etc at the supermarket once you find you like them)
polenta is also nice, with lots of butter and cheese. grilled or just runny with osso buco (see: http://www.newitalianrecipes.com/osso-buco.html)
have you tried stuffed vine leaves yet?? they are absoutely delicous!
as you've guessed rhonda the australian food is as we have lots of cultures in this country!!
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The amazing thing is, it isn't lao hua yen at all!Originally posted by av98m:I got lao hua yen too Sometime last week, I suddenly got my 'good' vision back and can see well with my contact lenses again! Really weird!
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I was just chatting with a student nurse from Hong Kong and she felt the same way I do too with regards to the nightlife (which is kinda absent here unless you have a car and the right bunch of friends), the shopping (we were complaining that the shops here close way too early!Originally posted by littlestream:Hee hee........no lah, I really love reading so please continue to write.
Huh? Are u sure or not? The carrots can become bwee bwee one meh? Eh, ever thought of cooking and then freezing them up? I don't but my friends do, especially those who end work later and by the time they get home, it late to even start to cook from scratch. But hey, butterfly carrots. Sounds good to me. Can show pic?
Yeap, we do that at the supermart too, like 3 bunch of spring onions for 99cents. Like what am i gonna do with 3 bunch? So, we split with other shoppers too. Wah, looks like supermarkets are your playgrounds now too eh? Well, that's about the only shopping I do. ), the fashion (or rather, how slow trends reach here, if at all!), and the food (we miss the dai pai dong / zhi cha kinda food)!
But the great thing is, I'm slowly getting to know people, slowly making friends! Guess I really HAVE to learn about footy since it's so much a part of their culture here that to not develop an interest in footy at all is kinda blasphemous!
And yeah... supermarket shopping has become one of my favourite pasttimes! What else can you do when all other shops close so early? Coles (a large supermarket chain here) is my new best friend! Incidentally, it's also Bear's sister's new best friend too! -
since not much nightlife, sleep earlier and wake up earlier loh
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Ever since I no longer have to work Night Shifts, my sleep pattern is more regular and my quality of sleep is better too!Originally posted by InnoHippo:since not much nightlife, sleep earlier and wake up earlier loh
I don't necessarily sleep earlier, but I always wake up early! The days are longer now cause we have more daylight hours so I love to get up in the morning, throw the door wide open, water my one and only potted plant out in the corridor, and take great pleasure in how sunny the skies are.
Simple joys! -
grow more plants and watch them growOriginally posted by Rhonda:Ever since I no longer have to work Night Shifts, my sleep pattern is more regular and my quality of sleep is better too!
I don't necessarily sleep earlier, but I always wake up early! The days are longer now cause we have more daylight hours so I love to get up in the morning, throw the door wide open, water my one and only potted plant out in the corridor, and take great pleasure in how sunny the skies are.
Simple joys! -
wah your place looks v v nice! u make me miss aus even more
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Yah, there's always 2-sides eh? Erm, si mi footy ley?Originally posted by Rhonda:I was just chatting with a student nurse from Hong Kong and she felt the same way I do too with regards to the nightlife (which is kinda absent here unless you have a car and the right bunch of friends), the shopping (we were complaining that the shops here close way too early! ), the fashion (or rather, how slow trends reach here, if at all!), and the food (we miss the dai pai dong / zhi cha kinda food)!
But the great thing is, I'm slowly getting to know people, slowly making friends! Guess I really HAVE to learn about footy since it's so much a part of their culture here that to not develop an interest in footy at all is kinda blasphemous!
And yeah... supermarket shopping has become one of my favourite pasttimes! What else can you do when all other shops close so early? Coles (a large supermarket chain here) is my new best friend! Incidentally, it's also Bear's sister's new best friend too!
Give time, everything will slowly but surely fall into place.
Spring is round the corner for you eh? It's nice to see some colours. It is my favourite time of year. After a harsh bitter winter, everything mm si brown de si white...so with spring in the air, I welcome the bloom.
Write and tell more.