Second weekend…

Sunday, May 10th, 2009 at 12:50 am

My second week was not as crazy as the first one. HG would like to have lunch with me every day while I am here if possible. So about 11:30am every day I walk down to Fortitude Valley to have lunch with him. After that I either walk straight back to the apartment or walk to CBD to the farmer market on Wednesday or supermarket in Queen Plaza. HG finishes his work at 4pm and walks back home. It took him about 15 minutes. We normally cook our dinner during the week. It was not easy to cook with electric cooker and limited utensils. When I cooked Thai food, I realised that I had to cook rice manually which I had never done before. I always use electric rice cooker. So Google is still my best resource for this kind of thing and cooking rice manually is not that difficult as I thought.

On Tuesday, I didn’t have lunch with HG because I had a lunch date with my Aussie friend, Anthony. We met at the restaurant called ‘Little Singapore’ on Charlotte Street. The restaurant was packed. It was nice to catch up with old friend. Anthony is interested in using WordPress for his website, so he said he might need my help.

Before I left Scotland, I have some work about designing factsheet for the new products that I need to do for my client in Canada but I couldn’t finish it before I left. So I spent most of my time during the day to do it here.

On Saturday we went to North Stradbroke Island. We took the train to Cleveland. Then we walked from the station to the ferries terminal. We used Stradbroke Flyer – Gold cat to the island and then took the bus from Dunwich to Point Lookout. We walked around for about one hour. It was very hot that day. We then stopped for lunch at a restaurant called ‘Fishes’. I had salt and pepper calamari – Szechaun seasoned and flash fried calamari, fresh garden salad, orange and sesame dressing. It was fantastic. HG had Reef & Beef – as above with skewer of sea scallop, prawn, calamari, grilled in lemon pepper. The food here was very good but the order point was very poor. The girl who took our order seemed to have just a pretty face. After lunch we walked down to Frenchman’s beach. The beach was very clean and quiet. We didn’t really prepare to swim, so we just got our feet wet. Then we took the bus back to Dunwich and the ferry back to the main land. This time we took their courtesy bus back to Cleveland station. We got on the train and got off at Ormiston and walked to the park where they said you might see Koalas but we didn’t see any. Ormiston seems to be a nice and quiet town.

We got the train back to the city and went to Irish pub. HG ordered me half a pint of Tooheys and he had 2 pints of Guinness. Then we had Vietnamese noodles for dinner. It was not very nice.

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