Sunday, September 23, 2012

Money and Life

When you have money,everything is within reach. (Well not everything but almost everything)

I usually DONT BUY any branded goods or if those marketer prefer to use the term 'affordable luxury'! However, since Club21 clearance sale I have slowly 'upgrading' my wardrobe. Gone are the days of Diesel, BUM, Cheetah LOL! Now its FCUK,Quiksilver,AX,Superdry

2 weeks ago, Chadstone vip sale which was very much anticipated as it brings about huge discounts on almost all stores in Chadstone. I spend almost $400 that day the good that I buy are:
2 Guess T-shirt for $40 (after 50% disc), and trust me the q was long,but luckily went i went there,the q was bearable
1 Superdry hoodie and T (after 30% disc) for $112. Superdry T-shirt in Malaysia are retailed at a ridiculous rm$180 each, and I just got em after conversion of 3.3 at rm$116. More costly than what a T-shirt should cost!Even the non sale price of $165 is still slightly cheaper than Msia
1 FCUK short pants for $47. I have trouble finding pants to fit my small waist LOL!But luckily I spotted this!
1 Armani Exchange T for $35. I just buy for the sake of the brand LOL!
1 pair of laceless Onitsuka Tiger Mexico for $104

Freaking long shopping receipt right? I can afford to spend this much thanks to a few factors. I found $50 in campus centre,nobody came to claim it and I can claim it! Won $80 from Crown playing pokies (my biggest win ever). If i didnt earn this much xtra $ I wouldnt have spend this much

Few days ago I rewarded myself for earning a big bucks from CFD trading (risky but rewarding) by buying a CK slingbag for $140 (after 60% disc). My earnings was around 300+, I think it was a risky move but the market decided to move in favour of me! So far I have earned $400+ from CFD,despite suffering several huge losses in some of my trades!

Oh and did I say that I just changed my phone to HTC One X thanks to a good upgrade deal from my telco Vodafone!

You might think that my spending are crazy but wait till you listen to some of my other friends buys and excursions around the world. They can afford that since they are sons/daughter of a businessman, while Im just a son of a 6-6 worker!

As a chinese saying 'same people different fate/luck'. With this I end my posting, Selamat Hari Guru to my teachers in Brunei who have taught me since Primary 1 up till Pre U level. Thanks cikgu semua

Cheers have a great time ahead!

Adding up weight

Hey hows it going,hi people. Its been rather busy months and weeks and finally I got some 'breathing space' to blog a bit.

Dont know if its amazing or not to you,but I think that its an amazing thing that I finally hit the 50kg threshold!. The last time I breach the 50kg threshold was way back in 2010, when Im on a cruising trip with 5 meals a day LOL, it went up to 52kg!  Lets hope that I can maintain this momentum of gradual weight increase to an ideal level, with more eating and constant working out in gym!

Right let me get on the main point, more eateries that I have visited and my comments on it
Went to Springvale with friends for dim sum yesterday at Goldleaf. This restaurant got quite a few branches so google em out if you want to try em. The bill came up to $184 for 7 people with char siao bao,sharkfin gao,hargao,siew mai,meatballs,roast duck,mixed charsiew siewyok,fried calamari,eggtart,tripe,chicken feet, err and what else I forget the list is too long! I personally think the portions are huge and the eggtarts are nice

Dollar for dollar comparison its quite reasonable.I dont think you can eat this much of stuff in Msia with $185 for 7 people!

On Friday nite, went to Bistro Vue to celebrate Tyler birthday. Its a French inspired 'finedining restaurant'. Ordered veal and sadly it doesnt taste like veal, more like schitnzels!I thot it would taste like ginger venison but i was wrong!

Some other eateries that I have tried are
Claypot King - normal chinese style food.1st claypot meal in melbourne and a proper watercress soup!
Petaling Street - ate the whole fish with rice
Papparich - Papparich in Ausssie is doing roaring biz.sometimes need to q for 30min just to get a place!
Shark fin house - one of better chinese restaurant around.went for dimsum, fare slightly worst off than goldleaf
Sichuan house - freaking spicy but luckily still tolerable for me!
Auction room - breaky place.tried Halamari tea,quite special taste.ate bacon with toast and egg
Ping's dumpling - normal chinese food.recommended in Student guidebook.portions huge, but bad luck for me the seafood chow mein only got fishcake,prawns,fishball (not a single sight of sotong or fish!)
Stalactites - Greek restaurant. pita bread, roast chicken
Yami Yami Korean Restuarant - korean food, bulgogi was so so!
Birdman - breaky place
Seng Hing - normal chinese food in caulfield
Proud Mary -breakie place, the list of tea was wow!
Noodle Kingdom - another dumpling and noodle place
San Churro- famous for churros and chocolate. the chocolate was very kaw.around $13+
Pacific BBQ - charsiew siewyok roast chicken
Monga Sweet Cafe - hk style cafe
Menya Ramen - eel fried rice
Nasi Lemak House - finally found a more proper pan mien than Jalan alor one.a bit far near melbourne uni! comes with a bowl of soup, that way I like it(but no sayur manis lol)
Hudadak Korean BBQ - fried chicken

Most of these eateries are considered 'Cheap Eats', with exception of the dimsum joint:Sharkfin and Goldleaf! A meal less than $20 or around $15 is considered reasonable!

I have to thank my friends for bringing me to taste so many types of food in different restaurant, and intro me to breaky!

In my next blogposting, Im going to blog about some of the happenings and some of the 'luxuries' that I started to buy LOL!

See ya,and have a nice day!