Perth surprise

When flying over to Newcastle from Brisbane on Wednesday, I didn’t even need to unpack. I was leaving for Perth in a couple of days. On Thursday night, I worked with Angeline till 2am. So we didn’t do much work on Friday (except for me and my endless conference calls) and I let her do the 2-hour drive to Sydney airport. The last time she drove was 3 years ago?

Now for perth. Did the surprise pop-up for elinn’s birthday, but siew gave it away unwittingly. Anyway, I think she’s happy to see me since we hardly have a chance to meet in Singapore. It’s funny how you make time for people when you’re overseas instead of in Singapore. After chilling out at the pub, we headed to vennie’s place. Somehow there was a major miscommunication that happened and we scraped the plan. On Saturday, we drove down to dez’s house. It was beautifully set next to the Indian ocean. But I think the best part was her dogs! That night, we had 5 dogs altogether (2 from dez, 2 from siew n gf, and 1 from danielle). They weren’t really helpful when we went fishing as they entangled all the fishing lines somehow. Naughty dogs.

Had barbeque that night at dez’s house. Wendy was trying to teach me how to put some garlic n rosemary into the lamb but I’m just not good at craft. In the end, jasmine n wendy took over from me. Well, I warned them… Anyhow, dez made me drink the corona that siew supposedly brewed, but I couldn’t take in anymore. Apart from the fact that I didn’t wanna drink n drive (it’s like 1 hour drive from dez place back to the hotel??). So I only managed like half a bottle. I was really full!

Flying back to Sydney today. Guess what? The stupid road works throughout the entire route from city to airport caused all 3 highways to be totally jammed up. And so I missed my flight again by 5 minutes. SHIT! I’m really pissed off since I set off really early for the airport (although it’s also partially my fault for heading the wrong direction initially). So now I’m at the airport typing out this blog. I’m going to miss my dinner with angeline and amit at tetsuya (supposedly 1 of world’s top 5 restaurants). Whatever. As long as I can still get to Sydney tonight. I’m so getting used to missing my flights now… :(