자장면 사랑해

I'm meant to be doing my microbial cells and genome assignment now, but 자장면 is more important and thats all that matters really :D Might as well do this now lol

It has come to my attention that I have indeed fallen in love with this korean black bean noodle. I have tried the Chinese equivalent 炸醬麵, but the koreans just do it so much better so...

Over the past year and a half or so, I have been on a mission to find some damn good 자장면 :

Here is what I've found...

HK 炸醬麵 from a Shanghai Restaurant in Times Square central. It was meaty, grainy and lacking in sauce.

HK 炸醬麵 from a Dumpling house in the backstreets of Wan Chai.

Once again lacking in sauce, noodles were cold and the size was just shocking!

Xian 炸醬麵 from a small eatery next to the orphanage. As you can see the quality is slower getting

there,

More sauce, but the noodles were different.

But pretty much at that time I was gonna eat anything lol

Xian 炸醬麵 from a restaurant opposite sandy's aparment. As you can see,

the girls got to mixing the noodles before I had a chance at taking a proper pic. Was ok...

Korean 자장면 from White Tomato on Bourke Street, Melbourne.

Despite the not so appealing appearance, it wasn't bad.

But heres the thing, this one had too much sauce!!

The noodles were nice...

I remember eating this with my 2 best buddies whilst boys before flowers were playing in the background :D

But after all my adventures and attempts at finding the best one,

I have to say that there is only one bowl of 자장면 that I've tried so far that has made me

go back time and time again...

presenting the one and only:

Korean 자장면 from Han Guk Kwan on Victoria Street, Melbourne.

I love this one with all my heart <3,>just right 자장면

Good amount of sauce lol, noodles are yummy, not to mention the place, the service, the waiters

*cough*

I'll miss you the most when I go to canberra!

you and bubble cup!!

~toby.

hmmm msg...

I had a gaytime yesterday.

yes it was so gay that it was even...dare i say..GOLDEN.

It was like the first time in a whole year since i ate at KFC again, it was pleasantly nice.

Good food and good company, what more can i ask for? :D

think, think, think

I said something really embarrasing today.

want to find hole and hiiiiiide.

Sometimes I think a little too simply...why can't the world be simple, without misunderstandings and without people taking it the wrong way. I guess this is what happens when i don't think enough lol. so remember think. think. think. think.

does this make me a deeper thinker?! =_=

I DID IT!!!!

OH MY OH MY!!!

I got into ANU MEDICAL SCHOOL

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!

It was such a long long day. They didn't call me till ~8ish, so i spent the whole night standing and sitting and twirling and sighing and checking my email every 2 seconds lol. But the wait was worth it totally :D

Found out early this morning that Nyssa got in, and so i called mum and told her to glue herself to the computer and call me asap. But seeing as ANU were going for the personal approach, they decided to call all their candidates alphabetically...oh dear my last name 'To' left me all the way at the end of the list. I had to ring them up and leave a voice mail message, but they called me back straight away!!

Straight after the call, there was ginormous group hug with my people and we all broke down in tears hahahaah...it was sweet though. I'm so happy that I've done something to make them proud. Then it was calling all my dear relos!!. My grandma decided she would announce it to all the family in HK, and probably to her friends at the market and her mahjong buddies :D

We decided to celebrate by all sitting down around the kitchen table and eating ice cream. It was a lovely moment <3

My mind is racing at the moment. I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!!

Because there is ALWAYS a difference between what you think is going to happen and what really happens. So its nice to have some concrete evidence :D

Now I will continue to have all my appendages crossed for the rest of my biomed crew. I believe in them SOOO MUCH! I wish for them to feel all this happiness and sense of relief that i'm feeling now. HANG IN THERE GUYS...NOT LONG TO GO!! the wait is worth it!

ahah...now that I did get in, means i get to continue this blog and write all about my adventures, YAY, i can't wait!

Still hasn't hit me yet...lol. Perhaps on my first day next year in Feb...

~toby.

One use of cat...

oh oh i like this new look...thanks tash!!

I found this video taken on my phone, all the way back in first year Biomed 2007 heheheh...

This is what I got from a whole semester of physics...

Canberra

Here are some pictures of my adventures to Canberra for my intervew day on 24th Sept. 2009.

Well of course the most important thing i need to address is CHINATOWN!!

-TADAA-

Here it is!

After searching long and hard, my mum and I found it. 2 asian restaurants that make up Canberra's centre for all asianess. If you ever come visit, this is where'll you'll find me!

This is the ANU campus and the white building on the left is the Peter Baume Medical Building. Inside is where I had my interviews. It is indeed very beautiful, with all the green grass, blue sky and treeeeees!

The building is so new looking, guess where its located on the campus map.

F4

gahahaha no really :D its meant to be...

This pic is taken from union court. Its this GIGANTIC space for students to do union associated things I guess, to eat, mingle and buy plants apparently ...


Theres no people!! It has space, lots of space and thats pretty much it.

More photos later...

Co, where are you?