Arisun, Chinatown

In celebration of end of semester a couple of friends and I went to Arisun for some chicken and beer. It was nice and sunny still at 6pm so it was nice to see the sunset as the night progressed.

 

We were confused what these were. We knew they were towels but they were so dry and small. Then someone had the bright idea to add water to them and they expanded and became wet towels for your hands. There are different sets you can order of chicken and beer as well as other stuff on the menu. We order set 5 which cost $80 altogether. It comes with chicken, 3000cc of beer, 1 bottle of soju and this vegetable and noodle platter thing whose actual name escapes me.

 

The waitress moved too fast! The above vegetable and noodle dish was all presented nicely and I was too slow to take a photo and she started mixing it for us already!

 

Chicken was hot (warm not spicy) and crunchy and FRIED. It comes with little dishes of cut radishes (I assume), salt and pepper and a bowl for your chicken bones. You get a choice of chicken for your set. Either Sun's Original chicken, a soy sauced based chicken or a spicy chicken flavours (I forget the names, as always. I must take pictures of menus next time). We opted for the original flavour.

 

We also ordered a bottle of Korean rice wine 막걸리 ($12) which they opened then transferred into this teapot and we get little bowls to drink it out of. We also ordered some seafood pancake ($20) to eat with it. This was good seafood pancake. Very crispy and not too soggy like it can be at other restaurants.

 

I would like to go again and try some of the other dishes and chicken varieties and to drink more! Maybe post-exam time ... XD

• Find Arisun at 1 Dixon Street, Haymarket.

Stage for the K-Pop Music Fest in Sydney 2011 (and a little Arashi)

Image from http://www.facebook.com/kpopmusicfest. 

My friend tweeted a link to this. I was expecting to actually see the stage all set up and not this graphic. I wonder how long it takes to put together? Wonder if it's up right now? I suppose it would be. This is not a K-Pop Music Fest post. Sorry, if you're deceived! Not really. Some K-Pop Music Fest related stuff at the end.

I saw this and my immediate thought was "Ain't got nothing on Arashi". To wit, this is sort of an Arashi post. They're my favourite thing in the whole world. They're a 5 member male Japanese group and for the past 4 years (2008 to 2011) they've had the privilege of performing at the National Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan. Only one musical group or artist get to perform there a year. What made me think of Arashi was that ANZ Stadium (oh, remember when it was called Stadium Australia and not anything corporate related?) is the Australian equivalent and I just wanted to compare and contrast the stages, is all.

Image from a google image search which led me to this tumblr post.

See how full of people and pretty it is! They even have moving platforms so they move around as much as they can on the floor. They also have platforms that elevate so that people seated higher can see them. Sometimes they're on wires practically flying above the crowds. They have fireworks, water canons and balloons too!

I have VIP seats to the K-Pop concert so hopefully I'm not too far from the stage. I wonder how much you'll actually see from the seats. It's so far back. I wonder if they'll move people forward if there's still room on the floor ... hmm.

My friend linked me to the conditions of entry for the concert. Still don't know about bringing my DSLR. If anyone reading is going or know of someone going and know if they think it's okay to bring their DSLR - tell me! It doesn't explicitly state 'DSLR'. It says that 'large lens professional cameras' are prohibited and that 'still cameras (not professional) are permitted'. You know, they could have been much clearer if they used the terms 'point and shoot' and 'DSLR'. In the event they do search your bag, find the DSLR and determine it to be a prohibited item then you may be refused entry, is what I gather from the title 'conditions of entry'. And I don't want to risk that after I paid for my ticket. But what are the chances really? I remember I went to a U2 concert. It was sold out and I remember no bag checking or security ... oh, wait. That could be a lie. We had to get our tickets checked and there may have been bag checking. Memory is a bit stale.

Have some more Arashi (http://dai.ly/ru9yaf - because Dailymotion won't let me embed) and uh, Akanishi Jin's new single "Test Drive". My first reaction to this PV was "JIN TAKE OFF YOUR SUNGLASSES AND HOODIE!" Trying to make people forget he's Japanese? IDK. Not a great PV but a catchy song.


Pointless post really. I'm just procrastinating. Last day of classes for semester and I don't really want to start studying. :D

Just one more ...

Have a horrible 9am exam tomorrow that I'm currently cramming for. Just that then I can blog about something. I don't know what exactly since I've been doing uni stuff and nothing interesting this whole time. XD Want to change blog design/layout too ...

Although, as soon as tomorrow's exams are over I know I still have other assessments that are due relatively soon. And a whole list of real life things to do as well ...

 Posting using the new blogger interface. How do you like it? It looks cleaner and nicer to me. Hopefully, it's easy to use as well ... seems like it so far.

 Lunch (pasta and chicken, me thinks), more coffee and study. Must not get distracted.

Do not disturb. I am studying ...

or not. Most of my classes are over for the semester. Only have a couple of tutes/seminars this week then done. But I'm so far behind in everything. I thought there was lots of time before my first exam. There's not. There's like 2 weeks. But I'm a horrible student and I procrastinate. This blog post right now is another act of procrastination as I try to catch up on all the lectures I've missed. My house is very cold and my dad insists on opening up all the doors to get "the smell out". Why? It's freezing. I'm walking around the house with a blanket. I study better when I'm not at home like at a coffee shop (as pictured below) or better yet - A LIBRARY.

I bought a whole thing of green tea bags to get me through. That and coffee and someone else making me food is getting me through. XD

Anyone got some exam tips? I need to invest in some Red Bull. Or Mother since 7/11 Dollar Day is this Friday. Stock up on some Mother, yes/yes? But I have dinner plans and Vivid Sydney watching that night. Am I really gonna bring all that Mother around town?

Almost holidays

One more week then I have 2 weeks off from uni. I say 2 weeks off but not really. I have notes to write and I made plans to do all the things that I've forgotten or been too lazy to do. I have to get through this week first. Lots of things due and none of them started.

I was going to post a photo to make this post more interesting ... I'm just trying to find one. From the flickr account that I lost the useranme and password for. (EDIT: Oh, I just tried logging in and can now. Oh, hey, that's cool. But now I have 2 flickr accounts.) Hmm. Maybe I'll trying figuring that out in my 2 weeks off. JAPAN! LOVE!

Ugly header is ugly

That is the limit of my photoshop abilities. Need to download some new fonts, me thinks.

Enough procrastination. ESSAY WRITING TIME!

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Self, you suck at being a law student.

So, instead of sleeping last night I spent most of it devouring Catching Fire the second book in Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games trilogy. Damn book and cliffhangers hanging at the close of every chapter. Not just that, I read Mark's recap/reviews after every chapter I finished. I finally got to sleep around 6am since my eyes would not stay open any more.

Collins' writing has improved but still flawed in some parts, like she doesn't know how to express some parts or convey them well enough that she just tries to get past them as quickly as possible. This is such a better book than the first. Since the world has already been established it's much more fun to just jump straight into the action rather than building up to it and explaining and introducing many other things.

Storywise it's kind of amazing. Fast-paced (sometimes rushed) and unpredictable. Unputdownable too. Obviously, since I DIDN'T REALLY SLEEP. I can't believe it took me a while to start reading this. I have uni tomorrow and I don't know if I can do my uni readings and finish the last book.

TEAM PEETA, by the way. XD

Also, not much of a review or post or whatever. But words fail me. >.<

Procrastinating Pt 2

Spent the better part of last night and this afternoon figuring out what to do with the layout.

And TADA!

Classic template layouts were too hard for me. Trying to manually integrate disqus and comments and other stuff.

This one's kinda BLUE at the moment. Wonder how long that will sit well with me. XD

Procrastinating ...

by trying to change my blog layout. I found some cute blog layouts on blogskins but they only work on the classic template.

Funny, how I find many things to distract myself when I have many things to do.

So, I'm just stuck with a basic layout for the moment.