nothing much to say update

haven't really had a chance to blog. I've either been playing FF XII, or catching up on anime. Don't feel like doing both at the moment, so i'm just gonna do a short post.

I'm enjoying my new routine nowadays. I'll have breakfast in the city before heading off to work, or just buy something and eat in the office. Study/work for the rest of the day, and then head off the the gym. The new Fitness First gym is excellent... on the 1st two times I went. This week its just been ok. Starting to get more packed. They are doing too good a job at promoting it... aihs. A lot of people from the other FF gyms are starting to come to this gym. Nooooooooo........ It still ok I guess, there is still enough room and equipment, unlike the FF that I went to in the past 2 weeks. Have to q to go in...and then q again to use the equipment as well. Annoying.

Only other bit of news is that I did my 1st exam as part of my certification today. Completed a 80 minute test in less than 20 minutes. I actually finished in about 10 minutes, but just redid the exam as a check. Got 80% for it ^_^ A good result I guess... but I wanted at least 90% ^_^ Next exam!!

Very unusual speed control method

hell yeah!

I spent part of the morning doing some much needed spring cleaning. Don't have to grind WoW anymore since both me and Thos just reached our target PVP rank earlier this week. We have soooo much free time now. Well. Not really, since I just got Final Fantasy XII and already spent almost 20 hours playing it since Friday o_o

Decided to take a break from it this morning, so got around to vacumming my room and also cleaning the bathroom. Squeaky clean now... the picture of the basin would have been blinding if it weren't for the poor lighting. ^_^


Just an extra... this is what Thos looks like after his weekend training:

Doesn't even bother going to his bed...just crash on the living room floor...

after a comment by a friend, i just realised that the picture of the pretzel looks very much like a well-placed string of poop o_O wet too...

eewww... now i can't get that picture out of my head when I eat the pretzel.

I've started making use of my fitness first membership already. I went for a workout on Sunday, and today too. I actually went yesterday as well, but I forgot to bring a change of pants o_O

I didn't do much both times though. I just wanted a short workout on Sunday, so just hit the cycles for a bit. As for today... it was just damn packed. Can't wait for the newew gym to open up. Should have more equipment.... and hopefully the people who already use the Town Hall gym stays there :p At the very least its closer to work... so I can get there faster after work :)

Actually maybe not. I'm suppose to start my assignment at one of BG's clients this week. One of the big banks in Australia, so that would be cool :) At least I've been told I should be starting this week if all goes well. If not... I just continue camping in the office, study the material, and eat the pringles and biscuits in the pantry. Which reminds me of pics I took of my lunch:

Baked, not fried

A Cin City pretzel... yummy! although the pic doesn't look too good.

The Aussie fridge

Cinnamon coated goodness

Today was a fairly good day. Melbourne Cup, so no work got done in the afternoon as usual. Got a free meal at work too. One of the owners actually went through the trouble of setting up a wok in the office to cook stuff. Quite a lot of stuff. There was some kind of pastry puff, sausage rolls (with real sausages...not the mince sausage crap), satay sticks, meatballs and several different type of spring rolls. And its all home made as well. Quite impressive. Oh... and you can't forget the beer too.

I don't know anything about horse racing and the odds, but I won the office sweepstakes! Its only $50 though...pity it wasn't back at my old office. The pot would have been much bigger. Oh wells.

I also signed up for...

Fitness First!!

The monthly fees were pretty cheap. Only $36.95 for a passport (all gyms, all over the world) membership. Theres also the one off $70 admin fee. Only bad thing is that its a 12-month contract, but you can freeze the membership for a couple of months. And also transfer the membership as well, so shouldn't be a problem. Now that I'm paying for a gym, despite having the facilities at my apartment or just jogging in the park for free... I don't have an excuse for procrastinating. Must get value for my money ^_^

best thing about working in the city? the food! got a lot more stuff to eat now compared to when I was working in Liverpool or at the data entry place. so shioks. Although I've still been eating roughly the same stuff lately.

I've been having either a sausage/egg or bacon/egg sandwich every morning for breakfast. Its pretty good cuz the bread is fresh... very fluffy too. and buttered to the max :) Either that or I get a pretzel. Which is pretty good as well. The ones with glaze on it looks damn ons as well. I'll take a picture of it the next time I have one. Its almost like Krispy Kreme.

Lunchtime, I usually hit the foodcourt at Sydney Central (which is the same place I get the sandwich and pretzels anyway). Usually just have some mixed rice dish. Theres a Thai place that has caramelised fatty pork. Bloody good! And they have cheap takeaway too. $4 for a pack which consists of 1 dish & rice/noodles. Tasty and cheap. I've been having a lot of that lately.

Theres also the Laksa House in QVB that has ok Malaysian food. Not as good as the on at Hunter though... but getting to Hunter from where I work is a pain. Roughly 10 minutes to walk there. Not really worth it when there is plenty of stuff around my area to eat.

Oh. And theres going to be a new Fitness First opening soon near my office. Just about 2 blocks down the street. I might just join that one, since it might be cheaper. Some sort of opening promotion. Gonna pop by the Sales office tomorrow or something. Not sure if I should though, since I won't be working in the office later on. Oh wells. See how it goes.

yay! managed to finish off my work...sort of. Maybe like 85% done. But I think I figured out the problem on the way back home today, so should be finish by tomorrow morning if all goes well.

I also got paid for 7 days worth of work! I think I got overpaid though... not that I'm going to complain anytime soon. When I got my payslip it, I asked how it was calculated. I'm just paid at a daily rate at the moment, and they don't really bother with timesheets and stuff, which is cool. But based on what I got for 7 days, I seem to be getting paid a $48K base which way off the mark. Well... I'll find out the deal on my next payslip

BG had their "techie brekkie" today. Its a monthly meeting where all the consultants get together and have a meeting over breakfast in the office. The topics would usually be recent challenges during the course of work, and how it was resolved. And someone usually does a presentation on same aspect of the product as well. It does seem like a good practice to adopt... although I would probably get annoyed with it eventually if it wasn't for the free food :)

Had to wake up 1/2 hour earlier for this meeting, so I'm feeling pretty tired now. Gonna hit the sack early.