Susie's Blog

I am closing this blog permantly now. From now on the blog will go back to

http://susiewangrocks.spaces.live.com

I put lots of monica and williams photos there!! please come and visit us!!

I bought a new car today. The one only has two doors, very sporty looking. White colour. It's going to come to me in 2 weeks!! I have been searching for cars since this monday. First went to Volkswagan to see Eros the convertable one but dad said it's dangerous. Then to Mazda to see the new Mazda 3. It's pretty and the price is cheaper but i don't feel safe in it. Went to BMW too but didn't like it either. Too high tech for me. So I went to Mercedes cause I have been driving Mercedes for 14 years...and in terms of keeping in long term it might be good for money. So today I got a very good deal from the Mercedes Macintosh in Mosman. The sales is also very quick and efficient too. I walked in to the shop yesterday afternoon and this morning 10 am I bought one from him. I also registered it as a company car for my business so it's great for tax benefit. This is the new scheme that current government has for small business owner so love to take advantage of that too. I will show you the photo soon as soon as i get my new car! A brand new white colour CLC 200 Mercedes Benz!!So exciting!!

We went for monica's wedding rehearsal....they pay so much attention to details.....amazingly organised.

Mum loves this place. Very typical japanese noodle shop in Crows nest. the soup is indeed very good. But everytime we have to remind them that the soup can't be too salty. We went there for lunch today again.

I think Sydney is getting more and more expensive....Everytime I go to wolly to get grocery just for one or two people, it will cost me at least 100 dollars easily for nothing. Now I go to Aldi. This fridge full of food is costing me around 100. In Wolly it will be 200!! How come Sydney has such high cost living?! Sometimes i think if you don't actually earn Australian money in Australia, it's so hard to survive. Especially for the parents to earn money in Taiwan and send the kids to study in Sydney. In here my weekly expense for one person can be easily more than 500 dollars a week..this is only for bills, grocery, food and professional cost. Not including morgage or buying clothes or entertainment! Scary hey.

This blue eye dragon restaurant is awarded the best restaurant of the year. And it's a Taiwanese fusion restaurant in Prymont!! Can't believe its Taiwanese. Everynight the restaurant is booked out and it's actually quite expensive. The whole restaurant is full of Australian. The chef is a 60 or 70 year old Taiwanese A-MA. But they successfully made this restaurant becoming a trendy high class oriental experience. Very cool. They even publish their cookbook. Expensive though. It's about 60-70 each person for typical Taiwanese food.

Please check out the link that my friend wrote about this place.....she wrote so much better than the way i wrote!

http://alturl.com/vjpo

I am thinking about changing another blog site. This one is up to the limit and they are starting to charge me. I don't want to use this one anymore. Anyway, before i found a new one, i will go back to

http://susiewangrocks.spaces.live.com

welcome to re loate with me!!

It's father's day here today. Dad and Mum arrived Sydney too. After teaching in the morning i went to monica and william's church to rehearse my singing with the pianist. I am going to sing Panis Angelicus and The prayer. The acounstic was very nice in that church. Anyway, why do I always feel that i got lots of things to do? I was still looking for dress to buy for monica's wedding. ON top of that i need to buy a car too. Today after yumcha we went to Mazda to check out MAzda 3 sp25. Then Volkswagan Jetta and Eros. Gosh I like the convertable....but not very practical isnt it. tomorrow might go to BMW and Benz. Just to see the difference. Don't like buying cars. Not a single clue what to ask and what to choose. I found it very stressful. Especially i need tp get one urgently. Dinner we went to the OZ BBQ at the rocks. You bought a raw steak and then BBQ it yourself. That raw steak was 30 dollars. If you Grilled it badly then you got to eat it badly. Quite a lot of tourists there. Bit cold this evening.....we just drove home straightaway. Happy father's day!

I went ice skating after teaching in the morning. On the way back on busy wet military road my car totally lost control and spin. To the left first and suddently to the right and did a huge turn. That really scared the hell out of me. You sat in the car but you had to control over. Luckily and very luckily there were no cars beside me....lots of cars before and after me but happened to have no cars on either side of me. I feel incredibly grateful. My 14 year old Benz got to go. 14 years is long enough. I have to let him go. God is telling me that. The NRMA membership actually due to renew in 2 days and my parents are coming in 2 days. All this syncronise the incident. Yes even though I hate to let him go, I have to let go. Time to get a new car finally.

Last friday we went to Nancy and Alex's place to have a Wii party. I saw Elanor had a pedometer on her. She said she has been on a competition with friends. they have to record how many steps they walk every day for a week. According to statistic, you have to walk 10000 steps a day to keep healthy. So i bought one from Rebel sport yesterday. It was made in Taiwan. Small little thing costs me 30 dollars (780 Taiwanese dollars?). I bet this probably costs only 150 Taiwanese dollars Maximum in Taiwan. Anyway, Today I swtiched it on and record it. So far I have 13966 steps (now its 10 pm). Looks like I walk pretty much enough for an average day. Cool.

Today my two morning boys were on father's day breakfast in school so i had their little 4 year old sister coming for 1 hour lesson from 7:30-8:30 am. So early in the morning....We started with Miley cyrus song and dance. Then melody bells. Singing songs with sigh language. Playing hot cross bun on piano. Before I ran out of idea we just review everything. Then do some sort of random pop dance again. I really think that if I can;t dance then my life will be so much tougher. Every kid loves dancing. I had adult student till 10 am. Then I drove to Manly beach straight away to see the Star of the sea theater. My God. The theater was spectacular. I couldn't believe how suitable that will be for my kids. The backstage was massive with two dressing rooms, big full size dance studio and prop room.....it was so exciting. I booked it. We are in for the show!! Then off to Warringah mall to shop. I bought Monica a dress. A nail voucher. Then off to do my big grocery shopping at Aldi. Can't believe i can easily bought 120 OZ dollars of food. How can one person eat that much? After teaching I went to do Mega dance class. I love sexy dance. Especially now I can do body roll and spilt well the whole routine looks so much better. Bummer no one ever sees me doing exotic dance. That's the only time I really though, Susie, you really look like a professional stripper. HAHA

Tuesday I had to take kids to school. I always laughed that they are like my step kids cause I can't have blonde kids obviously. As she got off the car she gave me a kiss then I said have a good day in school love ya! and she said Love you too bye. Haha. Have you heard any piano teacher does things like this? Anyway I drove to Gym to do yoga class. Then took Mara home cause she won't get her new car till today. She cooked me an italian risoto and coffee then I dropped her off in Artarmon before going to Chatswood. I called my massage therapist Eri and went in for a massage. To Rebel sport to get a pedometer....want to know how many steps I walk in a day! Got in touch with the star theater director. I will go for a visit tomorrow at 11. I told todays'kids that we might do it there. Little kids will say "Oh my God. that's massive..and jump up and down keeping saying My god..." older primary school kids said "Cool....That's so exciting!!I might screw up...." Then older teenagers will say "Can we afford this? It looks pricy Susie." HAHAHAHA what a reaction.

I have the habbit of writing diaries for many years. Always bought the thick fancy one from broader once every 3 month to be my diary book. Now I have my new Macbook so then just write it on my blog in bed before i go to sleep! If it's something I don't want people to know I still go back to my pretty diary. However my life must be quite boring that I have nothing secretive or emotional to say. So what you see here is what i am and how I live. Bummer. Wish I can say something deep. HAHA

After teaching this morning I went to the 9:30 am Yolates class. It's the combination of pilates and yoga. Very hardcore. Even with this flexible body I still feel very challenging. But Yolates is just wonderful. Went home and cooked the cornsoup. Audrey and Monica were at home having girly talk. I got to practice Piano cause my own piano lesson was at 12:30 pm. Called my massage therapist Eri when I was in the waiting to have piano lesson....my shoulder and neck pain was getting severe. She didn't pick it up. Maybe tomorrow I need to pay a visit to chatswood to get my shoulder and neck fixed.

I found an awesome venue for the showcase.Star of the sea theater in Manly that caters for 300 people.

http://www.staroftheseatheatre.com.au

I called the director and he wasn't in the theater so I sent him an e mail. Last time he told me all sat and friday nights were booked out. I want this theater. How about sunday? If Sunday afternoon or evening is ok I am moving the whole showcase to whatever time they have. The kids are going to be sooo exciting. This theater is going to cost us lots of money by the look of it. So far I have been to Independent theater in North sydney. Zenith theater in Chatswood. Mosman RSL club. Crows nest theater hall. and make inquiries for all major private school around the areas for their recital hall. But as soon as I see this star of the sea theater webiste, I am totally in love with this place even though I have never been there. I knew this theater will work for my piano kids, singing kids and dancers. All of them!! ok settle down Susie. If this venue meant to be yours, it will be. I am waiting for his e mail to tell me when this theater can be free in Dec and how much it's going to cost me. I WANT THIS ONE. WANT IT BAD.

This is one of my closest friend Mara. No one can believe she is 55 and a grandmother to a little one month old baby. She is surely one hot grandmama! I will be very happy if I look like this as a grandmother.

These are my cutest two kids. I was teaching them how to do Hoedown Throwndown from Hannah Mantana by Miley Cyrus. At the moment the hottest song for girls between age 5-13.

Took Mara home after dinner, she taught me how to make Dutch Spice Bread. The bread was done without sugar, without egg and without butter. Quite amazing and it turned out beautifully.

We try to get together when we can at least once or twice a week. Tonight we all got together in Chinatown. My friend Lilian and Mara wants to join our family dinner too. They said my family was great fun!

I can never remember the last night of this world famous flamenco dancer. Eva something. She is very famous for it's bata de cola dress (long tail dress dance). We saw it today and our jaws nearly dropped. Quite an expensive show. The ticket is about $2500 Taiwanese dollars for a 45 mins show. We were sitting at the very back of the opera house! I enjoyed though. Always great to see the people who are on top of their field. What a nice sunday afternoon to have a stroll around the sydney harbour with my closed girlfriends Mara and Rosie.

I supposed to have a very exciting thursday plan. But this morning at 6 am i heard this GUUU-GUUU-GUUUUU sound from a rooster. ROOSTER? gees. we are not living in the country where did it come from? Shit. My neighbor. Don't tell me after having four baby girls now they want a rooster? Damn damn damn. What have I done to deserve this.

Kids came from 7:30 am for lessons. by 8:30 am one of the mum came up and said "susie, you got a rooster at your front door!!" "REALLY? OH NO!!!" yes. that rooster is not from the neighbor. this GUGUGU is from here. AHHH how embarassing. The whole street must be thinking that this asian family is breeding rooster for meals. Till 10 am I am still teaching. James, the 24 year old student came in. First thing he said was " COOL!!!" then he held his mobile and took photos. Gees. These days the white man never seems to be useful.

So my neighbor actually called the council. WE were laughing so hard about it. She thinks I am mental and I think she is psycho to have rooster. So this rooster comes from nowhere. Another neighbor said he was walking on the street yesterday (ROOSTER MAN WHERE ARE YA GOING MATE? )  The council sent two rangers who were girls (great). They had no clue how to catch it. they were sitting on the stairs calling RSPCA. The ZOO....but no organisation came to help. It's council's job. At the end they sent a big guy to come. All he did was lift the rooster up and put him in the cage. All done. I hope the rooster can live a little longer....lets not see him too fast at Kenturkeys. I probably won't eat chicken for a little while. All my yoga, massage plan were all gone. Thanks to the ROOSTER that comes from nowhere.

We had pizza at Andy and Yichings place tonight for Pizza. Yiching made almond tofu dessert too. Check out our lazy thursday night dinner.....