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My first night ever out in Darlinghurst. And I call myself a local home owner of the area...

My two favourite white girls (haha, clear distinction I'm using tonight) and I went to our usual catch-up cuisine, Chinese @ Fu Manchu. And drinks in protest of V-day (and to celebrate my becoming perm and Sarah getting accepted to do a Masters!!!)

Service. So-so. Got two orders wrong. Didn't serve our wine quickly enough and overcharged us.
Food. Average. My mum makes better dumplings. And we got 4 for $12. She could have made 40 for that price. With a better chilli oil too.
Wine. Awesome. Rose. So smooth and buttery and completely drinkable.

Pre-drinks at the Passage. I have walked down this street so many times house hunting and visiting my place but I have never noticed this cute little bar perched on Victoria Street. Delightful place, small, cosy and just the right amount of things on the menu. A little beauty.

We're going to go to Dubbo and Taronga because of my free passes and because we want to. Random but its going to be awesome.

Stopping by Messina before home was also awesome. Long queue though but always worth it!

Tenant. Problems. Paramedics. Police. Roof. Damaged property. Ongoing Saga. #Time to kick them out.

And here I was all ready and settled and winding down my weekend.

Let's start from the beginning.

Saturdays have turned into a bit of a baking day recently. This time in was mini cupcakes and ANZACS (just a whole month late...). More so for enjoyment than anything else.

Made ANZACs with dried pawpaw and white chooclate this time. They were really good. Golden. Crunchy on the outside and chewy inside. Nomnomnom. And pleased to say that Carmen and Justin helped this time... i only had to supervise! Great team effort I think. So I as usual, let them take away. HAHAH.

Saturday evening was supposed to be a catch up in the shire with amanda. but hey as expected, a cancellation. So went to burwood to hang with janice for a bit. Finally watched Iron Man 3 and tried out the new pho place on burwood road. We haven't done this in a while and it was good to just... be. Nothing too deep and nothing too argumentative. ;) I've missed that. And Star Trek was better for the record.

I spent the day with Mandy exploring the rocks and having devonshire tea. It was really good and relaxing and laidback. Went through the rocks markets, made our way to pitt st mall for a little bit of shopping and then headed to market city as well. I bought a new Oroton Umbrella. Because everyone said it was a good idea to do so.

Feet were a little weary by the end of the day but something we should do more often.

So I guess to sum my weekend, it was a weekend of catching up with those that I don't see as often anymore. Sometimes, life just gets in the way.

Came home to find that my sister had taken over my room. Grr... so went to play with maxxie and nessie. it was hilarious. Dad was fixing one of the doors and maxxie kept coming inside. And nessie was too good so she stayed outside but got jealous when he came in. So kept having to carry him back outside and he kept coming in. then they played pretty rough on the grass. a little scary to watch but at least my puppies don't eat live chickens!!

Anyways, I am sure I will find out more information tomorrow. But in a nutshell... one of my tenants, crazy idiot, tried to get around/climb/scale the gated-fence on the rooftop to get to the off-limits area. Why? Don't ask me. No idea. And he fell or somehow managed to get himself unconscious. Police and paramedics called. Gate had to be dismantled. Paramedic paraphernalia left everywhere... what the hell goes on on the weekends? Extremely annoyed. . . . . .

For a moment, I thought this would be a less challenging and hectic year that the last. I have quite safety and confidently ruled that out.

It's december!!! Who can believe it!

It's been a very very busy week for me.

Baking baking baking, sorting out  some real estate issues, work, catching up with friends... oh how life gets in the way! ;)

Been my busiest week yet in the kitchen. 4 days straight of pretty much non-stop baking. Not to mention 37 degree heat on the first day of December. CRAZY!

And we were even crazier baking from sun up till sun down... and then some.

It's that time of the year when I usually reflect on what I've done (and a lot of the time, what I haven't). I'll get around to it... soon. Just need to take a breather!

So many things have happened, are happening or hopefully will happen. Some good, some bad, some necessary.

Picked a real estate agent for tenancy.

I feel like I went through a break up with the other one. And I won't return their calls.

LOL!

pretty standard to do yum cha or lunch with grandma on Saturdays.

Then spent the afternoon with mama and papa cheung!

so we went to see open houses... went to an auction and checked out another place n darlinghurst.

then arvo-teaed it at IKEA and bumped into my favourite niece and her parents :)

saturdays are clearly too short and sundays come around way too quickly.

boo!