Because I don’t want to look for a work experience placement (it leaves me feeling depressed and inadequate), and because I don’t want to sleep yet, I’ve decided to blog. =DIn my previous blog, I mentioned Umaimon (alright, I forgot its name, but you know what I mean!). It was a bit of an adventure because we couldn’t find the place! Having 5 hungry people lookin at you with a slightly glazed look is a bit worrying, so I bothered John about its location. I think I interrupted him in a meeting or something -_- ugh. Felt so bad.Anywho, Umaimon is right next to St. Andrew’s High school and it was right during their lunchtime when we found it. Surprisingly, there weren’t a lot of school kids at the store, actually none at all! O_O But it was quite busy with other customers.Food was in big helpings and it was quite delish. I would have taken photos of our food, if only I wasn’t so embarrassed =P Mong Mong thought there were too much noodles in the ramen and I had to admit that there WERE more noodles than veggies and meat itself, but the meat was so tender and soft… I didn’t mind so much. XDHot green tea was free; self-service from a hot water can thingy, I forget what they’re called. It wasn’t expensive either. $9 for a huge bowl of ramen, took me forever to finish it… alright, I didn’t exactly finish it as I became too full. -_-;;

Saturday saw Richard and I in the Blue Mountains – it was just a nice relaxing day taking photographs of the sights. We went to Leura Cascades first.

Richard said that we would get uber thirsty and would need to bring our drink bottles. I scoffed at the idea, but just to placate him, I offered to be the pack mule. I also wanted to bring my puffy, fat jacket ‘cuz it was cold, but Richard recommended that I shouldn’t because I would get hot and it was going to be a bit of a walk. Yea no. Next time, I’m bringing my jacket… it was COLD. I had to move quickly to keep myself heated up, otherwise I would be trembling like the last leaf on a winter-stripped tree. My fingers were frozen blocks of meat, which I took delight in torturing him by sticking my fingers on his neck when he least expected it *evil laugh*. How his hands stayed so warm, I don’t know… it’s not fair =(

Found out later that the last time he bushwalked was in summer. I was like “WTH! you’re kidding me!” (I’ve always bushwalked in winter, it made more sense to). It absolutely explained his insistence in bringing the water bottle and leaving my jacket behind. -_-

Broke for a picnic lunch and then headed off to the Three Sisters.

The view from walking down to the first of the Three Sisters was awesome and so very scary. I was a bit amused by Richard sudden fear of heights. Okay, it wasn’t so sudden, but it was very curious to see him get all wobbly-legged and having to sit down and not wanting to get back up again. The poor thing. He just made me wanna pat his head and ruffle his hair and hug him. XD

It was still too early to go to and have dinner, so we just bummed around on the higher and “safer” grounds, soaking in the afternoon sun. That’s when I thought I’d experiment with some things =) hehe

We drove around for a bit and caught the sunset on the corner of Cliff Dr. and whatever that road was.

Papadino’s was quaint and had quite an effective and efficient system: they’d seat us, give us the menus, and to order, we go to this counter/booth thing whenever we’re ready (so it’s also pre-paid). The food was quite delicious: the cabonara was a bit too creamy (though I’m not exactly a big fan of cream based sauces, more of a tomato person) and had freshly grated parmesean, the caesar salad also had freshly grated parmesean topped with anchovies and with generous amounts of caesar dressing – the croutons were odd, but quite nice, the pizza was alright. I only had one slice because I was getting full already! =( man I suck. And the hot chocolate I had before to warm me up made me ever so sleepy, I almost nodded off during dinner! hehe

The toilet though, it was a bit of a… well… let’s put it this way: it was basically an outhouse and there was a dead moth in the toilet. I realised that it’s been there for a while because when I flushed, it danced about on top of the raging swirls of the toilet water current. -_- I felt bad for it and wondered how many people have peed on it. Ew.

But besides that, food was pretty cheap (about 40 bucks for 2 drinks, small pizza, salad, and pasta), decently prepared, salad was heavenly, and the atmosphere was cheerful and cosy.

Sadly for me, like a little old woman, I fell asleep in the car on the way back. Richard woke me up because of a pretty nasty accident and he knows how I like to rubberneck.

It looked pretty awful, but thankfully no one was hurt. It did wake me up though… for a little while… -_-;; and to my dismay I found out that I nodded off to sleep again when he woke me up as we were at my place already. -_- I suck.

We pored over our photos, discussing technical points on how to make the photo look better or what worked well, and finished off the day with the whimsical movie: Sahara, which I thought was loads of fun ^_^ Lots of plot holes, but fun doesn’t need reasons =)