Susie's Blog

I took Katy for her birthday at Alhambra tapas bar in Manly. This restaurant used to be fully packed all the time. This was Friday night and you could see how quiet it was (bad economic time....)!!! Even the flamenco girls came out to dance for the show couldn't warm up the place. I knew all those girls (been in flamenco theme for too long). So the girls dragged me on stage to dance with them. Really fun indeed!

Rose and I went to our sunday lunch at tea2 in macquarie center. Tea2 is quite expensive for its herbal tea but we were surprised to know that their high tea was quite cheap. $30 for two people with so many things. If you go high tea at any major hotel it will cost us at least $80-100. We had such an awesome time following by ice skating session and big W shopping for coffee machine!

Coffee machine is finally on sale. I have been wanting to get one for a long time.....Considering I bought take away coffee at least 4 times a week. I think I need one. So I got one. No idea how to use it yet. Will figure it out soon. Give me a week and you can come to me for fresh brewed coffee....maybe I need to do a barista course for next hobbie. 
 

These are some of the happy gorgeous faces I see everyday...they are never worried, always happy and everything is always exciting. They teach me how to live like that. 

What an awesome job. We went yesterday to test out the banquet menu that Yi ching and Andy are going to have for their wedding in a few weeks. I circled four choices for each entre, main course and desserts. Also the wine. Then out of those we will be picking two. So the guests will have alternate choices. Orso restaurant looks beautiful on a wednesday night. We were sooo full yesterday.

                 

This one is now the most popular food in Chatswood area. People are willing to wait for a long time for it. I tried twice and never got to eat it. This time we did finally. Very juicy. Cheap too. Only 8 dollars. No wonder it's so popular.

My friend Austin got pissed off seeing the massive Chinese festival happening in Sydney. So he decided to do a Taiwanese one. Showing them that we are different from them. Taiwan is not recognised here so i guess no official group will sponsor it....(not as easy as the chinese ones anyway). Therefore he gathered 15 friends and did it themselves. The only one to advertise is via facebook. Nevertheless it was a great success. Much more than he expected. There are 300 people turning up that day (90 percent is second generation taiwanese). It was a wonderful event. The movie was by Jay Chow. Really good. I never watched asian movie but this one, I enjoyed it very much. You should check it out!

Myc omputer is sooo slow. This time when I go back in July I will buy a new apple laptop. The one I have now took me at least 30 mins just to turn it on.....so lots of times I just couldn't be bother to turn it on anymore....I can do anything from i phone straightaway (except writing blogs though....) Thats why long time no see la. I bumped into Anita yesterday and she asked me why didn't i write anymore. I didn't even know she was reading it. I thought this blog probably just my family, vicki, my god brother Richard, bestfriend Selina and best cousin Amy read them. Now at least there are more people than i think....so here I am back again.

My friend and family thinks I don't meet or date any guys. To tell you the truth I do. I meet them everywhere. In the gym, plane, friend's friend, on the street, skating or dancing. I just never talk about it because there is nothing good coming out to talk about. Something really was quite upsetting happened two weeks ago. People around me probably don't have a single clue. I also stopped writing diary now because after a friend of mine died suddently i realised that if I drop dead suddently I will not want anyone to know what sort of things have been going through my mind. Life is funny though. When you are really single, all you feel is boredom sometimes but most of the time you are really happy. When there is a guy or two involve, your happiness starts to depend on how it goes. Today my studen't mum came back from trekking in Napal. She had just gone through a very painful divorce (remember that dad (who is her ex husband)that has girlfriend's naked photo on family computer?) . She told me that the trekking was the best experience she ever had. Just one step at a time and there is nothing else she can think about apart from one step at a time. After 10 days she finished the whole journey. I like that. Life's lesson is just that at the end.

Apart from little kids and teenagers I also have some older clients/students who come and see me once a week. Some we carry on like normal music lessons. Today I have one lady who is in her 50s. Very timid small voice and amazingly she works for lifeline. So all the depressed people call her. That kind of volunteer work. Isn;t she amazing. She gave me great inspiration. Today I contacted lifeline and asked if they offer any trainings. I would love to do it too. Such a challenging thing to do.
Another lady is 62. She has a brain tumour and that affects her gradually. She also starts to have dementia. depression is gradually sinking in too. Every session I make sure she walks out happy. music therapy works in many different ways, with her i use lots of songs to make sure she maintains the memories. Also for self expression. It's very hard to explain what we do but the effect is very powerful. Today i have her husband here, her daughter came (I taught her granddaughter dancing and singing as well). I don't know if you know the song "perhaps love"? That's a very powerful song in situation like this. I had everyone crying with joy at the end.