The Wannabe Economist

We’re coming back soon. More posts when we’re back. Lack of bandwidth and it won’t be nice to take up much of it since we don’t contribute to the cost at all.

Last night in Sydney for this year.

Holiday here has been great. We have been here for almost 2 weeks. Shopped a lot, chiefly groceries, and clothes and the likes. We are already done with clothes shopping, due to limited budget. Most of the stuff are from the markets, like the “I do my own stunts” for Elsie and Eric’s baby due next year.

Others are mainly from DFO.

I like this place. Nevermind the higher cost of living. Milk is relatively cheaper, and even more readily available. And creamier than any brand of milk back home (i dare say that i have drank every single brand they have at home).

And for the first time in my life, i had REAL cherry.

Mrs Chongky has been cooking a lot. A lot of japanese curry, and a lot of stir fry something with lotsa onion and coriander. We’re doing quite well, in fact. You would be surprised that we eat more at home than out. Pizza hut is relatively cheap as well, with 1 drink and 1 personal pizza at AUS$3, which is around SGD$4. If we didn’t go to town, we almost never fail to have that for snack.

And yes, i admit that we snack a lot. Chips, chocolates, soda, and even more chocolate. Can’t help it when the place is damn cool for summer. Like today it was max 22 degrees, and we visited the beach. As for what exactly do we do at the beach, and how frequently we end up at the beach, that shall be a post on its own.

And of course, we’re not the lifeguard.

 Back to food, we have been to Harry’s de wheel, which is very likely to end up being the only recommended food place on Lonely Planet that we would visit.

The pie tastes as good as it looks, nevermind what Mrs Chongky might say about it. I’m definitely going back for more.

And please don’t tell my mummy that besides the mini crumpler that i didn’t tell her, i bought 2 more mini crumpler, and might be going back to take a look again (don’t tell Mrs Chongky the latter bit).

It’s always better to have a good bag for holidays, isn’t it?

I don’t believe what we just did. Went up, and down again. If the total milage adds up, i would be in NYC now. Yet we didn’t go that far.

Dumbasses.

So after 3 air plane meals, enough mix of different alcohol to get me drunk but not enough to knock me out (and i suffered a night of restlessness), we’re finally here. It’s not yet summer, so it’s still quite cool.

More details later on.

Now Mrs Chongky wants me to blog about her.

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Ok i shall ATTEMPT to do an interesting blog entry on her.

She LOVES to eat! There is a pasar malam at ave 2 and guess how many times she has been there? TWICE yesterday and 4 TIMES today. *faints*

Other than the only time to buy stickers for the kids (yup the 2 kids are now out of my place for a change, temporary arrangement and it’s going to end soon… lol they’re going back in a while), i can safely tell you that the rest of the trips are on food hunting purposes. I reckon we blew a good fortune at the Ramly/otah store, more than we could manage in a week in school. On the bright side, the pasar malam will be ending today. An end to the never stopping junk-junking throughout the day.

I wish i could post some photos right now, but the lack of inspiration means that we haven’t been taking a lot of artistic nice shots recently. And as i was talking about nice photos, a brilliant thought stuck Mrs Chongky — I SHOULD BUY A DSLR.

Yes and that was after the bright proposal to bring auntie and wen to Bangkok last night.

SMART… i think she planned these with my $$$. Not hers.

I shall do a proper entry next time. Too tired. Let me catch up on more sleep, after sleeping more than 10 hours today.

Good night.