End of a Weekend...

You can almost see the nostalgia dripping off the title of this blog, can't you? It's just a few more hours before the clock officially ticks over to Monday, and it's time to go to work again :(

It was raining the whole day on Saturday. Usually Melbourne gets little sissy drips of rain intermittently during winter and spring. Yesterday, BIG drops of water fell from the skies above from morning through to Sunday morning. I woke early on Saturday, cleaned the whole house as I was having a friend over to look at the house with a view to rent my room (which will be vacant once I move end of next month), and did my laundry. Then I drove to the post office to pick up a parcel from Malaysia that had been sitting there for a week waiting for me.

The parcel was a special delivery from Malaysia containing some sample materials and dress designs from my dressmaker back home. She had also made a sample dress for me to try on and make adjustments as necessary. I'd lost weight since my visit to Malaysia! I'd probably lost 2 inches off my waist since then.

But good meals throughout this week, would no doubt put me right again! Yesterday night Gaz and I went to his mom's for dinner. Gaz's cousin had given her some abalone the day before and it was on the menu for yesterday's dinner. Gaz's cousin had gotten the abalone from her Aussie friend, who had somehow caught the abalone on his fishing trips, and didn't know anyone else who wanted them (such a waste!). On the menu as well as big bursty prawns, yum!

I had another good meal this arvo with Jiun, an ex-Uni mate at Kimchi Grandma, a Korean restaurant in Carnegie. We had pork bulgogi which was delicious, and bean soup with cubes of beef, pipis, beancurd and zucchini. Although indicated in the menu as non-spicy, it had large slivers of chillis in it and was SPICY!

During the lunch, Jiun (also the prospective new tenant at my old place) told me about her current housemate, an accountant working in a large firm in the city who had been stealing small change from her. Not driven by any financial needs, this lady is obviously a habitual thief with a psychological disorder! Her tale reminded me of a personal encounter with a Malaysian lady during my first year at Uni who was studying pharmacy who also stole food and money from me before I stopped giving her last chances and 'disfriended' her.

While we were busy eating and catching up, I received a call from Gaz's mom asking me to go to dinner at her place - she'd cooked her famous congee, with dried oysters and lean pork. When I arrived there in the evening, she'd also fried prawn crackers and I had a jolly time crunching on them while slurping up fragrant congee in front of Chinese telly in the warm warm house... such bliss...

I'm back at home now, it's stopped raining and my room is warm and toasty from the heat emanating from my little fan heater. Time to lie down in bed with a good book and relax for the remains of the weekend.. adios!