Thursday, April 30th, 2009 at 1:18 am
HG left to work at 7:30 in the morning. I got up not long after that to unpack my case and had a shower. I got the second set of key from the reception on the way out along with a map of Brisbane. I left the apartment around 10:30am. It was very sunny but not too hot. I walked down to Fortitude Valley to meet HG for lunch. His office is near Chinatown so I went to a Chinese supermarket nearby to check out their stocks. They have huge selection of Asian products but very disappointed in fresh vegetables. There are a lot of Asian restaurants around there including Thai. We had Chinese food for lunch.
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 at 3:23 am
HG got a job contract in Brisbane for 4 months. We started dealing with this offer since the beginning of March but the process of negotiating and visa took so long. We finally got visa last week and he left Scotland on Saturday morning. I could not join the same trip because I had to send my passport to the embassy for visa evidencing after the visa was granted. The passport came back one hour before HG left. So he booked the flight, chose the seats and booked the chauffeur-drive for me. That was great because I would have done those myself which I was not looking forward to.
The oldies came on Friday afternoon and decided to stay until I left which at the time we didn’t know when yet. Mum had her concert on Sunday night, so they had lunch on Sunday and left for the concert and came back around 11pm. After they left for the concert, I had a lot to do in the house, watered the garden, cleaned the house, washed the dishes, took the rubbish out, etc. I finished everything by the time the oldies came back.
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Tonight I found a new way to cook teriyaki chicken. I usually did it on the frying pan but I bake it this time. Normally, I would just marinade with the teriyaki sauce and some mirin but this time I put more ingredients including grated fresh root ginger and garlic. It is very tasty. If you are looking for something to cook, check out this recipe on my recipe page. Happy cooking!!
Sunday, February 1st, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Yesterday around 2pm one of my friends in Thailand asked me about English translation for a sign for his shop. So I looked up in Google for it but all the results from my search were flagged ‘This site may harm your computer’. So I asked my husband to try and he got the same error. I thought maybe it was because of my search keyword.
After a while I need to search for something else and again I got the same error and couldn’t click to any link of my searching results. I told my husband about it on MSN (we used MSN to communicate because he was upstairs and I was downstairs) about it and he gave me this 
emoticon stated that he had the same problem. He was a bit angry and thought it was my fault. I felt so guilty. He was thinking about scanning his PC and reformat. After that I kept trying with a lot of search keywords and finally I could get the results without the error flag. So I told my husband and he was cool about it. Later that day after dinner, he found the news about this incident on BBC. I think what Google was trying to do is good for the future search and hope it will be trustworthy, so I forgive you, Google!!!
