Korean steamboats are a rip-off.

The next time you hang out with your friends at some shopping mall, sit beside your partner-in-crime in class, or just eating at some crummy mamak stall (mmmm... mamak stall...*Salivating*...) with your buddies, take a good look at them and then start wondering what will happen to you guys in one year's time. think of where you'll be, what you guys would be doing, where you are...

it's funny how i never gave a thought to it, but life really does change at an enourmous pace. it goes so fast that right now, just right now la, i'm feeling a bit intimidated. everyone's going at such a tremendous speed and i don't think THEY even know it themselves... taking time off to smell the roses is a thing of the past. dead.

anyway, what i'm trying to say is that yesterday i met up with one of my college girlfriends for dinner.. Ms Teo Hong Yin, smarty-pants-got-99.55-for-SAM-and-was-still-complaining came down from ANU, Canberra for a shopping spree in Sydney. we had dinner at some korean steamboat restaurant which wasn't all that great and the food cost me 10 bucks which i could've spent on better food instead of steamboat. but, that's not the point.

the point is, after sitting down and actually tasting the super-duper thin slices of beef that we were supposed to dunk into the not-so-great soup, i realised how surreal the whole atmosphere was.... i mean, i would never NEVER imagine that i'd be sitting at some korean steamboat place which wasn't all that great in Chinatown, Sydney, having dinner with Teo Hong Yin. Sydney!! that's like, thousands of kilometers away from where we first met! i mean.. it's SYDNEY for crying out loud...

it just boggles my mind...if someone had come up to me last year and told me that i'd find myself sitting at some korean steamboat place which wasn't all that great with Teo Hong Yin in the heart of Chinatown, Sydney... i would've thought that the guy was bonkers. i mean, you'd react the same way too, wouldn't you?

ok, by now you should have gotten the hint that the korean steamboat place wasn't so good after all.. .. i want my 10 bucks back!

but, it was cool meeting up with her.. more than cool.. it was AWESOME! the next thing in store for the both of us is a roadtrip down to melbourne and then proceeding to adelaide... *cross fingers*

hey... miracles happen ok?