30th June 2008

I Ate some of Richard's honey macadamia's- MMMMmmmmm YummO! I could of finished the whole container hehe...

Other nuts i also love are almonds, salted macadamia's, cashews, normal peanuts (salted!!) and pistachios' (yes, salted aswell) lol

And you know what goes EXCELLENT with nuts? Soya Crisps- YUM! ahh salty goodness hehe

29th June 2008

Me & Richard were heaps naughty today. Maccas for breakfast, PIzza hut for lunch, and maccas again for dinner weeeee junkfood highhh lol

We ordered a cheese & anchovy pizza, Richard's idea. I wasn't too keen on the anchovies but i thought if i didn't like it i could pick em out for Richard to gobble up.

I had anchovies on a pizza once, i didn't know they were anchovies until i saw my friend picking them out of her slice, so i tasted it (on its own just the anchovy) and it was damn nasty! Since then i had a negative view on them

But, if they are eaten with something else and not just their own- it's not bad!!

We walked over to Pizza Hut from his house, and then walked over to the park to eat it and had some Schweppes Agrium softdrink, and a bottle of mandarin juice. YES mandarin juice!! It was nice!!

28th June 2008

Richards cousins - Allan & Alex - Or Alex & Allan- i always mix them up haha. Nah Allan is on the right - i can only tell because he is slightly chubbier, and Alex is the one that works out etc.

COuntless amoutn of times where one of them has been at an event and i always mistaken them for their twin :o

Very embarrassing, i knew twins at school but could always tell the difference between them cos one wore make up and the other didn't haha.

If i ever had twins, i would NOT dress them the same, that just makes them grow up having same personalities/dress sense. I would want them each to be their own individual!!

27th June 2008

Ahhh Scrabble :)

Me & Richard played a game tonight, and i kicked ass!!! *Kicks hunni's ASS*!!

Betty: 298
RIchard: 126


WoOOoooohOOooOO!!!!

We sometimes play online at yahoo games aswell, so fun!

BTW, it's almost passing one month for project 365, i'm definately going to go wrong with my labels for numbers lol each time i post i put the post # in labels. So far in June i just follow the actual dates... i'm dooomed

26th June 2008

A new tuna flavour i tried today- Sweet Mustard Flaked Tuna in Olive oil-Delish!!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE tuna, you can eat it in sooo many ways.

Like:
1. in a sushi roll with cucumber & mayo
2. in a toasted turkish bread roll with lettuce cheese & mayo
3. in a toasted sandwich with cheese
4. in a sandwich with tomato slices
5. in pasta bake
6. in salad with olives yum
7. in an omlette
8. with maggi noodles (topped with cheese, which melts because of the hot noodles yum!)
9. in a sandwich with avocado
10. with rice topped with peas or corn (or both heehee)

That's all i can think of right now.. but i have tuna probably.. 2 times a week sometimes more.

Ever since i stopped eating red meats and chicken, tuna became my meat alternative ^.^ Otherwise its vegies & tofu all the way

25th June 2008

I love ordering stationary at work! I also get a dairy milk chocolate piece everytime aswell so cute :)

We order from Office National, who are pretty much around the corner from us so we get our order the next day!

24th June 2008

These are my gym buddies Jeremy Alicia & Nhuy! We met up & went for a 6.5km jog around Bonnyrigg/Mt Pritchard, took us about 45-50minutes!

GOOD WORK GUYS! I was lagging behind but Nhuy & Alicia were powering on ahead, and Jeremy was in between, and Richard was next to me :)

Afterwards we went to Nhuy's home to watch Kung Fu Panda courtesy of Jeremy's illegal DVD ripping skills haha & we snacked on popcorn & juicies~

Hopefully this becomes a weekly thing!! I had heaps of fun :)

& people, come in your PAJAMA'S NEXT TIME!! heeheeehee

23rd June 2008

Miss Tee is over from Singapore again, (she's our accountant overseas, takes care of all the accounts side of Usha Martin All over the world thats Australia Singapore Indian Bangkok Dubai!!)

Her favourite food is Harry De Wheels, but since it would take TOO long to get to the cross we had it @ Orange Grove Instead. My sister came along and Richard met us there. I had yummy seafood pie with potato peas onions & cheese, Richard had the vegie pie with the same toppings, Miss Tee had a Creamy chicken & mushroom pie, and my sister had a hotdog. MmMm yummo!!

Try the seafood pie - it's awesome!! (not you Lis haha you must be scrunching up your face right now hehe)

22nd June 2008

*SpLaT*

This is what happens when you don't read instructions haha. Tonight me & Rich cooked Cottage pie for my sisters since my parents went out (them party animals)

I bought the packaged gravies that you just heat up and snip the top off and pour out. & i didnt snip it before chucking it inthe microwave and KABOOM - what a friggin mess.

21st June 2008

My first time at Lasertag tonight. I thought i'd be scared cos Richard told me it was a dark room haha and im claustrophobic!!

It was unlimited play for $35, i had a massive stummy ache for some reason a sharp pain came & went, Richard got the same feeling :( We're thinking we ate a bad prawn at dinner just before @ dinner.

I was panicking at the start of the game so i was running around like an idiot (until Richard saw me his like 'no running babe!) haha i NEVER listen to instructions =/

I came like 2nd last i'm such a loser!

20th June 2008

Tonight i headed up to the city for a farewell dinner & drinks with Leonid. Dinner @ Pancakes Darling Harbour, then drinks @ the Establishment.

It was a fun night met some cool new people, & it was my first time at the Establishment! I was stressing on Thursday night as i was shopping around for something nice, since my wardrobe lacks anything nice looking lol.

Ended up buying a white blouse from Supre and teamed it up with my big fat brown belt. which are by the way soo uncomfortable after you've eaten a massive meal lol

Leonid is leaving on Friday 27th June, so goodluck with your trip & make sure you come back with heaps of photo's & stories buddy!!

By the way look how shiny my face is, i Hate it!!

19th June 2008

Bowling tonight with the usual group again. (left to right:King, Hieu, Richard) & they are holding up P-K. Also Shirley Trang & Theresa came along.

Look how happy he looks haha i was undecided about what photo to post, as i also took a pic of my starbucks coffee with coconut loaf (Lee it was DELICIOUS!!!)

I played one game while the others played two (i'm in tightass mode till i get paid next week). I got one strike in the whole game haha go me! (sarcastic tone lol)

Richard beat everyone (AS PER USUAL)

Richard beats me in EVERYTHING AND I HATE IT!! He beat me in monopoly, he beat me in scrabble, he beat me in scrabble online, i always lose!! ALWAYS!! WITHOUT FAIL!! HAHA

18th June 2008

This is what was there when i got back from the gym tonight: some kidney bean soup, & potato gems (my sister just brought them out of the oven).

Guess what i chose? ^.^

& i had two of the potato gems! So NAUGHTY!! haha

Since i don't eat red meat, i need my protein so my boss's wife packs extra protein type foods so that i can take some home/eat it in the arvo @ work, so sweet of her! I LOVE her lentils & bean soups it's like authentic indian cooking!! Can't get any better then that!!

Worked out an hour of weights & half an hour hardcore cardio on the cross trainer today!! Feeling great!!

17th June 2008

Meet my friend Nhuy Pham! She has the same last name as me hehe. I met her at the gym, we both did kickboxing classes and were partners in the class, and became friends after that!

She's a really cheery gal always love hanging out with her she's got such a positive outlook on life always living life to the fullest

We met up for a jog tonight around Bonnyrigg, got beeped at 4 times! (yep we kept count haha) we jogged 6km in 45 minutes - she's a little pocket rocket i was left behind eating her dust haha

Afterwards we went grocery shopping at woolies! We're such health freaks standing there reading labels.

Me: i should get some dip, i LOVE garlic dip do you like garlic dick?
Nhuy: Oh nah i'm not a fan of garlic dip..
Me: oh my god, i just asked you if you liked garlic dick
Nhuy: hahhaha nah Betty i'm not into garlic dick.. you must be thinking of Richard hey?

LOLLLL garlic dick >.<

Anyways i ended up buying

-french onion dip
-hommus with lime & coriander dip
-vitawheat sandwich size
-3 mandarins (which they charged me as oranges, which was cheaper woohoo haha)
-raisin toast
-soy milk
-a mushroom
-2 cans of mustard flavoured tuna

$18 all up!! Everything's so expensive nowadays!!

oh, HI TRANG! ^.^

16th June 2008

Meet Leonid Guan (whatta name aye?) He works for IBM as a Unix System Administrator, and freakily enough he works in the same building as my boyfriend lol Richard is on level 5, Leonid on Level 11. & RSVP.COM are in the same building heehee.

Dong dong is what i know him as, we met in highschool through my ex-boyfriend, kept in contact for abit after highschool, then lost contact, then gained contact then lost contact & now - trying to keep in contact for a longer periodof time lol.

He's heading to India for one month next Friday, lucky guy! I would LOVE to go to India, NRMA travel magazines have a special on at the moment for 2wk tours around the North of India, for like 3 grand or something. Something i'm considering... just need to discuss with boss first!!

It's hard for me to take leave for more then a week or two because no one can replace me here ! My workmate can KIND of take over so i guess it wouldn't be that much of a problem. I went away for a week earlier this year and when i came back it wasn't so bad! Catching up on work and all.


He's having a farewell dinner & Drinks this friday me & Rich are invited, so this should be fun :)

15th June 2008

An awesome wall paper in the back of a small clothing store in the middle of chinatown. A pretty korean girl was sitting at the desk when i asked if i could take a photo of the wall she quickly ran out of the way lol

14th June 2008

Meet my Parents.Tonu & Hongsen Pham.

My mom looks sooo happy there she was wearing a new outfit that my dad bought her & it was so cute!

My beloved Richard took me & my family out to eat tonight @ the Meat & Wine Co in Parramatta. It was really special cos we all had heaps of fun & the food was great. & my parents being asian & all were saying that the place was too expensive lol. When we usually eat out it's cheap meals that cost us under $30-$40 altogether!

They usually don't eat out at expensive places but sometimes i like to spoil them, and on this occasion oh boy did Richard spoil them ^.^

Thank you for the dinner & the great night hunni *MwA*

13th June 2008

9.55pm (they were 5 minutes late!!) THE PRESETS PLAYING LIVE @ ENMORE THEATRE NEWTOWN!!

They were AWESOME they played a few old tunes as well as new (even though they were touring just after the release of their new album "apocalypso"

Saw sooooo many drug fucked peoples i wished i was one of them lol. I got standing tickets, & met up with SHirley & Tyrone. Had so much fun!!

It got soooo hot & sweaty in there i was like dripping sweat by the end. A night at the Presets was equivalent to a night at the gym seriously haha

12th June 2008

Meet Joanne! She comes in twice a month to clean our office. She is the nicest lady i know we always have little chats whenever she comes in.

Today she came in with a fundraiser box of caramello koala chocolates yummy! I bought a mint one for Richard, & two caramel ones for me & my sister.

She also told me that the latest pot drug bust @ St Mary's - happened two houses away from her!! She said that her neighbour had sold the house to an old asian couple. They moved in, started renovating heaps, (they installed inter cooling in the house, so that nothing could be smelt from outside, they got someone to illegally place the power lines away from the street pole and into their house so that the amount of electricty being used wouldn't show up on government meters).

A year later a younger asian couple moved in after all the renovations, and there was no furniture no nothing came in or out of the house. Neighbours had their suspicions and dobbed the house into the cops, from there a whole year & a half of heavy surveillancing of the house, to finally raid them yesterday afternoon!

Joanne said that it smelt so bad when they took all the plants and placed them on the front lawn, and there were like huge trucks coming to take them all away. This is crazy happening two houses away from your home!!

Here's a clipping from ABC news:

Officers found 900 cannabis plants and hydroponic equipment in this morning's raids on five homes in St Marys, Oxley Park and Colyton this morning.

A man and woman were arrested at a house on the Great Western Highway in Oxley Park and a toddler was removed from their care.

Two men were also arrested at the St Marys homes.

All four are being questioned by police.

It is the third day of raids in the area in less than a week, as police target hydroponic cannabis labs in homes as part of Operation Yalumba.

The operation started when a tip-off led police to a $1.5 million cannabis seizure at St Marys on Saturday and to $500,000 in a house yesterday.

Police will remain at the houses today to dismantle the drug labs.

11th June 2008

Every morning i fill up my 2litre jug and make sure that i drink it all by the end of the day.

Did you know that your body is 60-70% water?

Your pee should be a light yellow. If it's a dark yellow then you're not drinking enough water.

If you're trying to lose weight, it's a good idea to drink cold (or iced) water. As your body will burn more kilojoules trying to heat up the cold water, therefore you're burning more energy by doing nothing ^.^

You might think that's too much water, but it's equivalent to a glass every hour, or half a glass every half an hour might be easier for you. I just take a couple sips every 20 minutes or so.

Also, water keeps you full- and prevents you from snacking. If you ever feel hungry, you might not actually be hungry you might just be thirsty. So if you ever feel abit hungry, drink a glass of water and see how you feel after 5 or 10 minutes if you're still hungry then you need to eat!

10th June 2008

Haven't seen fog like this in a while, it's so beautiful. I just wana walk into it and be lost in a maze of fog - but you can't lol.

Reminds me of school disco's when they turn on the fog machine, it's got this awesome smell to it who know's what i'm talking about ??

9th June 2008

Me & Richard tried cooking canneloni today (thanks to Lis! & some of the recipe on the back of the box packet hehehe)

Some bits turned out still hard because i didn't have enough sauce to cover it all with, but Richard seems to think it was delicious ^.^

Anything with pasta in it is so easy to make at home i reckon, you kind of can't go wrong!!

Food is so expensive these days no wonder people tend to eat take out more often. 3 bags of baby spinach costed us $12!!!!!!! $4 per bag !!

But it was so fun making it, i love cooking things with my boyfriend :)

8th June 2008

Meet my friend Dougal. Richard named him lol, he got me Dougal a few months ago Dougal is part of the cancer council merchandise.

This is him sniffing a nasty vegetable steam bun that me & Richard were eating. We got it from this new place in Canley Heights, they must've recently opened because i've never seen it before.

NEVER going back there for buns again!

7th June 2008

Me after my 20 minutes jog around the block.

Two years ago if i tried jogging around the block i'd manage to get past a dozen houses before collapsing from heart failure lol i used to be sooo unfit.

I could jog non-stop for 20 minutes today - part of my training for the city2surf in August!! My plan is to do this atleast 3 times a week. There is also an oval about 10 minutes away so i can do laps there as well.

Woke up & surprisingly it was sunny~i had heard forecasts of cloud & rain for this long weekend. I hope the sun stays out to play for the next three days ^.^

6th June 2008

The sun decided to come out for abit this afternoon. Can you see the evil clouds chasing after it ?!? Pure evil. I hate the weather!!!

In winter i complain about the cold & in summer i complain of the heat - why can't it be Spring all year around hehe ^.^

Winter Pro's :
Hot choccies w/marshmallows = yum!!
Cuddling up with a blankie/sharing body heat with someone :)
The snow
Less sun (less skin cancery stuff)
Skin stays pale (i hate tanning!!)
Nice winter jackets & scarfs

Winter Con's :
Inevitable weight gain >.<
Too cold to want to go out
Finger's too cold to type (at work)
Too hard to get out of bed in the morning
Wearing too many layers makes your look fatter

This is my desk @ work, & consider this clean!! lol. We have an external accountant that comes in once a month. I do most of the work already, he just goes through any issues that i have, and reconciles everything.

Which is why i had to clean my desk up. But it never stays clean for long, cos sometimes i'm working on like 10 things at once, so paper goes EVERYWHERE.

4th June 2008

Catch up dinner with Peter & Anita @ Habib's in Bankstown.

Pete is a hard working dentist (looks young doesn't he!), and i met him at a rave in 2004? I think it was Godspeed. Those were the good old days!! He's busy man working 6 days a week. But he enjoys what he does so that's all that really matters, but you do need a break otherwise you'll feel run down tired. I feel like that sometimes and i work 5 days a week doing admin/accounts lol.

Anita just got a new job at a large law firm so Congrats girl! We met on livejournal, and realised we lived just 4 streets away from each other lol. Since then we've been buddies, and our birth date's are one day apart!!


I believe it's hard to balance all the thing's in life. E.g friend's, family, boyfriend, yourself, work & play. It's always one thing that dominates, and some thing is left behind.

But i try to balance all these things as much as i can. Catching up with friends is probably the least that i do out of everything, but that's normal isn't it ?? Well, if you have a boyfriend that is..

On the weekend i was part of a discussion about - friends who don't put as much effort into a friendship as you do. Now, my answer to this was 'if someone isn't putting in the effort, then why should you?' If you are constantly calling out your friend, ringing them to chat, keeping in touch, but they don't do the same - then it's obvious who values the friendship more.

And the guy said ' yeah that's true.. but i'm a single guy. When you're single you grab every opportunity to go out with anyone, otherwise you're on your own that night. Where as if you have a boyfriend/girlfriend, you don't need to because you have each other to hang out with.

This made sense to me. I guess i won't understand it from his point of view because i've never been single long enough to feel that way.

I have a friend, she was my bestfriend in highschool. After we graduated, i kept in contact with her kind of. Each birthday i'd take her out for a meal, and i'd ring her now & then for a chat to see how she's going. 6 years on, i realised that i was the only one making the effort to keep in touch..

I'm going to drop her from my life, even though i only see her once a year, i give up on putting in all the effort.

Friend's come and go in your life. BUt true friends stick with you for life.

3rd June 2008

This is the view from my front door. Gloomy rainy depressing weather. & my dad loves his gardening lol.

On the way home from work yesterday i was listening to triple M, & there is proof of a thing called winter depression.

Since there is more cloud & rain in winter, there is less serotonin in our bodies, and serotonin ( i don't think i am spelling it right), this is what makes us happy. Also, winter has been linked to rise in levels of alcohol drinking, violence, obesity, smokers, all the bad things in life apparently come out when its winter.

Ways to avoid feeling sad in winter is to: exercise more(don't you notice you always walk out of the gym feeling on top of the world?!), socialise more (look people in the eye when you say hello how are you today?), and make the most of your time indoors by doing the things you enjoy the most. Whether it's sleeping, watching a movie, making a hot chocolate (with marshmallows! yum!).

I can't wait till winter is over.. 89 days till Spring ^.^

2nd June 2008

I Absolutely LOVE my sandwich toaster! On Saturday i tried my first toasted turkish roll at Liverpool foodcourt. It had avocado, mayonnaise, tuna, cheese & lettuce. It was SOOO good, i bought some turkish bread rolls from woolies last night, and makde the exact same roll for my breakfast this morning. SO GOOD i love how you get the crunch everytime you bite into it. It'snot like a normal toasted sandiwch crunch.. it's just so yum! Turkish bread is the new lebanese bread ^.^

1st June 2008

I Never used to drink coffee. Richard got me into it. First was cappochinos, and now i stick with my yummy soy mocha :) I always enjoy sitting dwn and having a coffee with Richard almost most weekends, even if it's home made. I only usually drink it before midday on weekends (i'm sensitive to caffeine, it'll keep me up all night if i have it after lunch). Otherwise i take decaf! Oh & two raw sugar packets :)