I attended dinner and a housewarming in Daceyville last night, where a couple of my friends live together. This particular couple have been together for... eight years now? They are wonderful together, and I wish them well for many many years ahead. They are practically de-facto now, goodness knows if they'll ever get married though haha. In any case, they are very good friends to me, and close friends at that, having gone back all the way to my undergraduate days when I first came to Sydney.
Their place is a cozy two bedroom in a complex of eight by the looks of the numbers. It's a top floor apartment, in a solid concrete setting, so the noise factor of guests can be reasonable without disturbing the neighbours too much I think. They also get a large front balcony and a small back balcony, which both have steel louvers which shut the weather outside and make it suitable for drying clothes in wet weather or storage of stuff that won't get wet. Incidentally, their from balcony space is about the size of my bedroom, well, a itty bit smaller but very close ~is jealous~ LOL. The living room/dining is open space combined and a good amount of space. Enough to have a 42" LCD television with a table next to it to have a computer, a huge coffee table, a futon sofa and a small dining table for four. The kitchen is a standard size I guess for apartments with a four burner gas stovetop ~once again is jealous~. The main bedroom looks like a reasonable size with an ensuite, the secondary bedroom is also a decent size and houses another computer, bed and the great wall of Manga, and has the back balcony that overlooks a shared back garden BBQ space with the other apartments. Standard sized toilet facility and a laundry space for the washer/dryer stuff.
We had pre-dinner fun with Little Big Planet, then went to dinner at Sinma Malaysian Resteraunt which is on the edge of the big confoundabout in Kingsford, and I got a plain roti chanai with chicken curry. I originally wanted the egg roti, but it wasn't available. The portion size wasn't very filling, but enough, and the chicken curry was also a bit watery. Can't really complain I guess since it's a pretty 'asian' place LOL but it did taste good and the roti was quite flakey, which is more Malaysian/Indonesian compared to the Indian style roti which tends to be more flexible and soft, but I do like both styles regardless. I just like roti, more than I like naan actually. Dinner took a while since we had fiften orders plus extra bits to fill before heading back.
Post dinner, we sat around and chatted, as well as watching some people play with the PS3 some more, on the parkour game Mirrors Edge, and then we all played in rotation at Little Big Planet some more before people started to head home. It was pretty late by then, though fairly early by standards for a Saturday night normally haha, and very early to the hours that our group used to keep when doing stuff in the past too for that matter. I guess age and what not catches up to you eventually =P.
I gave them a handmade gift for their housewarming because they have been very good friends as I mentioned, so I put a bit of thought into it. I ended up making a 'traditional' household 'charm' which is a saying in chinese to bring prosperity into the home. In most chinese households if they have a little tradition/superstition, they will have one or more 'things' in the house with these four characters on it. The phrase basically invites good wealth/fortunes (not just money, but the literal meaning is money/precious gems etc) into the home. I constructed it using what I had already at home, stitching the base characters in red, as well as the ingots on the sides with yellow. I then dyed it red but the ingots sucked up the dye too and turned red.... so I had to paint over them with yellow. I then finished off by outlining the red base stitching with yellow for contrast. I went and got a nice frame and background material to suit, and put it all together. I think it actually looks quite nice, and well, though they seemed to like it, I hope they do, and I hope it helps bring prosperity to them too. I don't expect it to be hung on the walls or anything like that, since they do have another one (a chinese coin style ornament) with the same meaning already on it and hanging LOL, and she said she doesn't really like too much stuff hanging on the walls....
The picture of the finished thing before I gave it to them here here:
Their place is a cozy two bedroom in a complex of eight by the looks of the numbers. It's a top floor apartment, in a solid concrete setting, so the noise factor of guests can be reasonable without disturbing the neighbours too much I think. They also get a large front balcony and a small back balcony, which both have steel louvers which shut the weather outside and make it suitable for drying clothes in wet weather or storage of stuff that won't get wet. Incidentally, their from balcony space is about the size of my bedroom, well, a itty bit smaller but very close ~is jealous~ LOL. The living room/dining is open space combined and a good amount of space. Enough to have a 42" LCD television with a table next to it to have a computer, a huge coffee table, a futon sofa and a small dining table for four. The kitchen is a standard size I guess for apartments with a four burner gas stovetop ~once again is jealous~. The main bedroom looks like a reasonable size with an ensuite, the secondary bedroom is also a decent size and houses another computer, bed and the great wall of Manga, and has the back balcony that overlooks a shared back garden BBQ space with the other apartments. Standard sized toilet facility and a laundry space for the washer/dryer stuff.
We had pre-dinner fun with Little Big Planet, then went to dinner at Sinma Malaysian Resteraunt which is on the edge of the big confoundabout in Kingsford, and I got a plain roti chanai with chicken curry. I originally wanted the egg roti, but it wasn't available. The portion size wasn't very filling, but enough, and the chicken curry was also a bit watery. Can't really complain I guess since it's a pretty 'asian' place LOL but it did taste good and the roti was quite flakey, which is more Malaysian/Indonesian compared to the Indian style roti which tends to be more flexible and soft, but I do like both styles regardless. I just like roti, more than I like naan actually. Dinner took a while since we had fiften orders plus extra bits to fill before heading back.
Post dinner, we sat around and chatted, as well as watching some people play with the PS3 some more, on the parkour game Mirrors Edge, and then we all played in rotation at Little Big Planet some more before people started to head home. It was pretty late by then, though fairly early by standards for a Saturday night normally haha, and very early to the hours that our group used to keep when doing stuff in the past too for that matter. I guess age and what not catches up to you eventually =P.
I gave them a handmade gift for their housewarming because they have been very good friends as I mentioned, so I put a bit of thought into it. I ended up making a 'traditional' household 'charm' which is a saying in chinese to bring prosperity into the home. In most chinese households if they have a little tradition/superstition, they will have one or more 'things' in the house with these four characters on it. The phrase basically invites good wealth/fortunes (not just money, but the literal meaning is money/precious gems etc) into the home. I constructed it using what I had already at home, stitching the base characters in red, as well as the ingots on the sides with yellow. I then dyed it red but the ingots sucked up the dye too and turned red.... so I had to paint over them with yellow. I then finished off by outlining the red base stitching with yellow for contrast. I went and got a nice frame and background material to suit, and put it all together. I think it actually looks quite nice, and well, though they seemed to like it, I hope they do, and I hope it helps bring prosperity to them too. I don't expect it to be hung on the walls or anything like that, since they do have another one (a chinese coin style ornament) with the same meaning already on it and hanging LOL, and she said she doesn't really like too much stuff hanging on the walls....
The picture of the finished thing before I gave it to them here here:
^_^.Just to prove that it's not store bought (seriously, you can tell it's hand made haha by me no less), I have my seal on it in the white square, and here is a picture of it while it is drying using the exhaust air of my desktop:
It was a fun evening, and good to catch up with people =)
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