Food for love

i would love so much for this moment that my camera would act less cocky with my pc than it does at the moment, then you can see what kind of food i am talking about, from the prettiness, to the delicacies (well here in Australia anyways…) to the sheer prettiness of the waitresses who serve me ^.~.

In my family, we have this tradition with food. on sundays we had gather as a family and go out hunting for food that had suit our urges, as well as do groceries for the next few days and what not. sundays, was pretty much a family day. although as i got older, i stop going out with them on many a sunday, and didn’t get to enjoy as much fun food that they found.

with my extended family, i am especially close to my maternal side of the family, with my aunts and all. it’s a tradition with us that should anyone of us distant relatives visit (aka from singapore to malaysia or malaysia to australia, you get the idea..) the first and the last night in town would be full of food. we would visit restaurants and order without any hesitation whatever’s good on the menu.

the last few days, i have been just going to flirty gorgeous (which by now i guess everyone should be familiar with.. talk too much about it XD). i especially saved my tummy and sleep till later just so i could try it out, and it’s absoutlutely gorgeous.

see on monday nights, flirty gorgeous gets 2 indian ladies in their kitchen to make a curries night special. with 3 condiments and 2 curries of your choice, naan and rice, and a drink to go with all that, it was suppose to warm you up for winter yet fill you too…

oh it’s filling all right. while the servings of the curry seems small and every other serving seems small, the total amount of food is still a huge arse australian serving size. i cried when i had to leave my chick pea curry 2/3 eaten… it was that good. plus the fact that the chicken curry and the yoghurt thing and everything…

nevermind, trust me it’s good… it’s authentic and it’s spicy and it makes me feel all sad that i am missing singapore food… and only singapore food and the transportation. T_T

sometimes i feel guilty i don’t miss singapore more, or my friends more. yes i do miss them, i just don’t miss them all that much like most people say they do.

anyways, i have been waking up early lately, sleeping early too, but only 6 hours of sleep… doesn’t seem so good. by 4 pm or so, i am a little tired. which means i should hit 9 hours of sleep or sleep slightly later or something.

for today, i was just tired out before noon, so i went off to flirty gorgeous for lunch, wanting to try something new on their menu, while testing if they have wi-fi. obviously i found none, i suddenly realised the laptop that the lady bosses use at flirty gorgeous has a green lan cable. blah…

The duck i chose to have today though… omg… it’s another great dish, needless to say. the duck meat was cut in such a way it looked like a beef rump steak at first, with the sauce and all. but the meat was succulent, tender, juicy and mmmmm… to my regret and shame, i practically swallowed the duck whole, saving just a few seconds to catch my breath, because it was that good.

my mood went up by a few notches ever since.

not that i was particularly down, but calling apple technical support was the worst ever experience i ever had. i am not racist or anything, but i reckon people who are going to be on the phone with customers should know their a from their s and their l’s from their r’s. the guy spent 10 mins just trying to spell my name alone, and another 10 trying to spell my email address because we couldn’t understand each other…

next he treated me like a complete idiot who called the technical support just because it was the first number in hand. i am not saying that most users who had call technical support are not tech-idiot, but usually we call because we had tried some stuff and obviously couldn’t get things working.

he had me put in the install cd, and kept trying to make me find the customise button which doesn’t exist on my tiger upgrade install disc he had me put in. and when i said i cant install the entire os on my hd because i already had a better version of it and the disc recognises that (get this, i told him i have 10.4.1 and the cd actually is more intelligent than him). and he kept having me double click the hd to try and get it to work, and behaving like i was the idiot since i couldnt find the customise option that allows only certain stuff to install. i was trying to find my apple works which disappeared when i upgraded.

he kept putting me on hold too, just to read from his manual, because he kept giving me mechanical answers as to what to do next and since my answers were not typical ones, and since he obviously didn’t hear that i upgraded it with an upgrade disc instead of it coming normally with a tiger, he couldn’t figure out why his manual got stupid on him.

what got most annoying was his asking me to do a spotlight search for the program. it sound like he came to conclusion that i was an idiot, that i probably had the program and just didn’t bother to search for it before calling technical support. or that i just freshly got my ibook and decided to call technical support to make them remember me as the difficult customer, forever etched into the history of apple technical support.

after another 10 minutes of being on hold, to which i could actually get some eggs cooked and stuff, he finally realised the problem.

and so did i. -.-

wow apple.

appleworks is appleworks. whatever basic language it comes in, u can just label it as a pulldown menu.

WHYYY did you have to label it appleworks languages? in normal circumstances, that would have meant, to me, as a language pack to appleworks.

GOOD WORK!!!! -.-”

i still love their customer service on the sales consultant side, i still love their products. its the technicalities i am being upset at.

anyways, photos wise, i am grabbing a cable online for my phone. so whether or not my phone decides to interact at some stage with my pc in the next week or so, by next week i am hoping that i should have the cable at this time, and then, the photos will flood again.

and goddamn, i love posting from my ibook, since there’s a widget for posting here, hehe. ^=^

have a fun weekend. i know i haven’t been posting normally, just been busy with stuff..

picture by james cridland @ flickr

EDIT: before i forget, i just heard/read about the devastating news in london. condolences from me to the people who got involved. it’s a sad day indeed that again terrorism has struck on such a devastating scale in a major city who should be celebrating their win for the Olympics bid.

the good thing is, my friends and their families are well, wade included. <3