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Rosie and I went for our once every month musical and dessert gathering. We always scheduled in the middle of the week so that we have something to look forward to. This time we saw the musical at Capital theater. Then had dessert at passion flower after. Love the taro ice cream...

This is the new restaurant in Artarmon. It tastes mamahuhu. Cheap though. We ordered quite a lot for lunch and shared between 8 of us. Each of us only paid $16. Very unusual in Sydney. But we overheard that the meat delivery guy came and asked the owner for money (fair enough, he delivers the meat of course he should get paid once the work was done). The owner was shouting from kitchen in Taiwanese "CAN"T YOU SEE WE ARE BUSY? GO AWAY AND WAIT THERE!!!) the poor meat man was then sitting there waiting and waiting like an idiot. The restaurant wasn't even busy. The owner came out and chatted to us in a really fake sweet friendly tone. I didn't like that......
 
 

i really can't think about anything that can be added to the blog. You see, i even start writing out 7 days of the week schedual. Oh God. running out of interesting materials.....what else can we talk about ah....

My parents always wonder what I have been up to when they talked to me on the phone. I can never think of it when they asked.  So i decide to type it out for my week of 2/3-8/3....
Monday: teach from early morning again. by 9:30 to the health club. Had small group session called Power plate for beginner and power plate for strength. This machine just shook like crazy when standing on it. The instructor Matt was cute. I got on it for one hour and can no longer thinking straight. Drove straight to see my own piano teacher Briedie in Glebe to learn something new to teach. Had lunch, back for a nap. Start teaching again. by 9 pm at Ice skating rink joining the first class of the term. met a few new classmates plus gliding with my old skating mates. skate till 10 pm. I love it. in bed at 11 pm.
Tuesday: teach from 7am. the earliest of the week. Then I took the girls to school as well before coming back to teach more. this week I tried the new V core class at health club at 10 am. hopefully my ab can look really sexy soon. then join the aqua class before going to spa. Back home for lunch and 20 mins nap. Start teaching again till late. Quiet tuesday night to read a book and get on with some teaching work. in bed at 10:00 pm
Wednesday: teach from 7:30 again. I got quite a few adults today too so didn't go to the health club till noon, just in time for belly dancing class. The teacher is quite big but she is sensational. No time for spa today. Back to work. moved the students for tonight because we were off to see the musical Guys and Dolls for evening show with a friend. Had dinner in city. (normally i have flamenco class but missed it this week-will arrange private lesson with the teacher next Thursday) in bed at 12 am.

I actually have quite a lot of teenagers but they would rather die than let me taking photos. Only young ones love to take photos. Diandra came with this random dog called Wolley. Apparently its a class toy for kindergarten. And they said all kindergarden class has a class toy that passes around each student (a week in each family). What they parents and the kid have to do is to take Wolley everywhere and take photos with Wolley so everyone can see what Wolley has been up to. At the end they do this "Wolley's life" album. AH....god. So Diandra came for interview with me on the weekend. The dad was taking photos all over the place. OH GOD......cute cute cute. Looks like Wolley has a much more interesting life than you and me.
 

I don't know if you ever feel like this. After you stay in Taiwan for a long time and the first day you arrive sydney, the people and life here in Sydney feels so far away. Speaking English feels funny and most funny thing of all is that you feel like you are not belonging to Australia. How did I work here...how come they look so OZ and so blonde..?Do I eat that healthy crap for lunch all these years? The food in Taiwan is so much nicer....
I always have that kind of feeling for at least 2 full days. The same thing applies to Taiwan too. You are in Australia all this time, seeing Australian talking in English without thinking. Then you arrive Taiwan. You feel like a tourist for a little while. The people in metro look so different from you (i think they look different, of course they are not). Even though your language is very good you still feel like an outsider. That will then go away after 1 or 2 days. Is it just me or do you feel like that too? Taiwan and Australia are both homes. They are also both not my homes. I want to live in Argentina. Maybe that will be better.

Not long ago one of my friend got dumped. She was upset and I was upset for her. It took a long time to get her out of it. To have the guy out of her life too.  A few days ago she mentioned that guy's name again. I asked, so what is it now? What kind of relationship is it after he said it's not going to work out? She told me in a very strange voice "we are just f***ing friends now HAHAHA". To be honest I really don't think there is anything funny about it. Obviously thats not what she wants only and that guy really is a bastard to take advantage of her. Sometimes its sad to see your friend is like that because you know it does nothing to her self esteem. She was just totally being controlled by the guy. Or by the lust I should say. I am staying out of it this time. If she gets dumped again (which she will), I will no longer be there for her. This is totally stupid. I can't cope with double stupidity.

The economic in Australia doesn't look too good. Yesterday the big brand of Bonds got rid of their 1850 jobs. You can imagine how many people got the shock suddently. It's funny though. I am not sure if the economic is really bad because yesterday i went to see an open house for an apartment. It was sold before it was on the market. Last week I saw another apartment you should see the people outside waiting to go in and check it out. There must be more than 30 people waiting outside just wanted to go in!!! Everyone wants to buy it and the apartment was sold on the spot too. People seem to go to restaurant less now because the economic is not good. But then my business has never been so busy ever. This is the first time I start having a long waiting list for students. However at the same time my whole share profolio dropped to nearly nothing. The weather is going mad too. One minte is boiling and the next hour we will be freezing. This world is going mad...

I have been telling monica about all the funny tooth fairy business that the kids told me. In Australia tooth fairy is the only resource of income for a 6 year old. Yes, when you pull out your wobbly teeth, you put them next to your bed that night because tooth fairy will come and take them. They will also leave money to you to buy your tooth, exactly like Santa. The only thing is that Santa doesn't get goodie from you in return, tooth fairy wants your tooth.
Of course the tooth fairy will be the poor old mum and dad la. The kids have been comparing how much they got. I heard one complained about it because it seems that his tooth fairy is quite poor. he only got 2 dollars. Other kids get 5 or 10!! Then another kid told me that if you want to keep your tooth and you still want the money. There is a way. You just write tooth fairy a note. And he did. Yes he got both. What a smart kid.
Also the kids have been saying that if tooth fairy forgot to collect it on that night, the kid can get more money depends on how many days the fairy has been delaying the work. GEES.....isn't that hilarious.
How come we don't have tooth fairy in Taiwan. In the old days we just bloody throw away the thing. AIYA>>>>

This is the awesome theme music from "The Thorn Birds". All the hot themes are in this clip, most important of all the music makes the whole thing even stronger. I love this theme music.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvMJEDzY304
If you can sight read on the piano easily (this is easy to play anyway) go to
http://www.4shared.com and search "Anywhere the heart goes" (by Henry Mancini) You will be able to download and print it for free. Such a brilliant one to play for leisure.