dumpling king

every now and then my friends and i like to go and eat out,
this week we went to box hill.
we had set out to eat at a certain restaurant
but had found out it was closed last minute
so we headed down the streets looking through restaurants
and found dumpling king.
the only reason why we chose it was because it looked extremely busy and packed compared to the other restaurants and cafes we walked pass

so the wait for the table was 20 mins
which was cool considering it was surprisingly a busy night
and time flew by fast as we talked and chatted away in the waiting bay

so here is my overall review

• customer service was shit as
all the waiters avoided us.
they walked around with their heads down low
so they could pretend they didnt see us signal
(and this was when the restaurant was now half busy and we had spent an hour and fifteen minutes waiting for my main)
i even fully turned my body around and stared straight at them
for almost a full minute
until it got a little too creepy
and still they didnt come and assist us

• the main which my friends had ordered was a sizzling plate
and by the time it came out,
it wasnt even sizzling
as in you can start to see the sauce go a bit solid
(like how oil starts looking like a lump of lard on a plate)

• they even forgot our rice, which took 10 minutes or so getting their attention and reminding them
and by that time everything was cold

• so after a long discussion
we decided to ask them how long my dish was going to be
and if it took too long skip it
and have dessert somewhere else as well
(since the service was atrocious and it doesnt take an hour and a half to cook tofu)

as you all know how bad the service was
it wasnt until the waiter came our way to place a dish near our table
that we could get his attention.
we hadnt asked him anything yet
but he knew what we were after
and said "yes yes i know you have one more dish"
and walked off without even telling us how long it was going to be!
HE JUST WALKED OFF LIKE IT WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BUSY NOW AND COULDNT EVEN WAIT FOR US TO TALK TO HIM! WTF FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!

so that certainly ticked me off
and a couple of minutes later
as my friend was going to walk up to the counter and complain
the manager comes and tells us
our dish will only have one tofu and if it was ok
so this was when she had a mini quarrel with him
about the bad service and all he could say was
"im sorry its a busy tuesday, theres nothing i can do"
and looking around its been half full for the past half hour
since the dinner rush has passed
and the waiters didnt even give us a time frame of how long my dish was going to take
plus if there was a problem with the dish
the least you can do is tell us about it
so there will be no misunderstandings
instead of lounging around the bar
and when someone tries to signal them
they'll turn around
and pretend to read the orders pinned on the wall -_-"

in the end we cancelled my last dish,
only paid for the entrees and rice
and set off to a vegie bakery to get me some bread
then off to a lil cafe for dessert.

so heres my warning in advance
DO NOT GO TO DUMPLING KING IN BOX HILL
WORST PLACE EVER
"I SHIT YOU NOT"

the only positive thing i can think of
was that the dumplings were good
but i know a lot of good dumpling places
so i wont be missing out on much

remote control

one of the reasons why i love my little sister..
she puts the remote control near my pillow
when she goes out during the day
so when i wake up
i dont have to frantically get up and look for it like a mad woman.

mister maker

remember art attack?
well mister maker is its substitute
jenny loves watching it

yesterday she tried to make a guitar from a container
by wrapping elastic bands around them
but she only found one elastic band.. haha
single stringed guitar = one chord..

we were watching mr squiggle on youtube just then as well
and the strings on him were extremely noticeable..
i wonder why i never saw them as a kid.
hrmm i miss johnson & friends

ready?

dad: ill be home by lunch tmr, you better be ready by then
kim: ok
dad: dont rush to the shower at that time ok, because i want a shower
kim: ok
dad: you better not shower at that time
kim: i said ok. have i ever had a shower in the morning before?
dad: well ill be home at 12, itll be afternoon by then
kim: yeh, thats like morning to me
dad: hahaha

i wasnt trying to be funny.

for the home

my family had just bought an apartment
and now i cant wait for another half decade until i own my own home
so i can furnish it the way i like it

but for now im hoping my brother moves out so i can takeover his room YAY!
ill have soooo much space
and a walk in wardrobe so my room would never look messy again!
but that wont probably happen for another 6 months at the least

so i was bored and searched the web for fun
and strolled by these pieces


would be a good for an apartment or office
where there is limited sunlight


awesome bin to sort out your rubbish!
its got three pedals for each section!
yay! recycling could be fun for everyone now!


the umbrella holder has holes at the bottom
so when coming home from a rainy day,
the water from the umbrella seeps through to feed the pot plant


prob not good for storage in the cupboard
(because itll take up too much room)
but would look awesome on a coffee table
and convieninent for foods with wrappers or shells
if only they made the same thing with a lid that had a lil mini scoop in it
so then you could use it as a little container filled with crispy m&m's
and scoop some out and leave on top for the kids to snack on


they can be used as side tables, stools, shelves
or even a glass coffee table
(if you used these as posts and a glass piece placed on top)
would look so pretty with the japanese-ish floral print
(love the floral print!)
and the coffee table could double up as a magazine storage too! haha

aw im getting too excited about furniture
now i must keep myself away from ikea
just in case i have a panic attack

2d character animation

I finished my animation assignment 4 hours ago
and it wasnt until i started my next assignment
that i realised i forgot to change the format of the animation
so all that time i was animating in 12 frames per second
instead of 25 frames per second.

i have no idea how i didnt spot it
because now that i look at it i can tell
and all that time i just thought it was because of my drawings that werent smooth
i blame it on the fact that i was concentrating too much on syncing my sound with the babushkas' lips
because that drove me NUTS!

i decided that it doesnt look too bad
and there is no use trying to fix it
because then i might as well restart the whole assignment!
but i am a bit sad because i really liked this animation

anyways the video is a bit fuzzy
ill try import a better version if i can later
(the higher quality files arent compatible with this site, shame)

metric

i didnt know which version to upload but check them out.
it will be worth while.

pleasantville

watched pleasantville in class today
(i know my classes sound like such a bludge but we were studying the importance of colour and this movie is the basis of our discussion)
if you havent watched it already,
its pretty much about two siblings
who get sucked into a 1950's tv show called pleasantville,
where everything is "pleasant" and black and white
until they start to change the 1950's way of living
and colour slowly appears into their lives and on screen
(just a short synopsis, theres much more depth to the movie)

anyways the reason why im talking about it is
whilst i was watching it,
all i could think about was yr 12 media class
i absolutely loved the class because we just watched movies and spent a whole semester just talking about cinematography
and how it tells the story
by using such things as colour, saturation, depth of field and different compositions

media by far was my favourite class of all
because we went through so many discussions about things that interested me personally
and a lot of the discussions revolved around the one question
"does art imitate life or does life imitate art?"

i bite my straws

in the pass 24 hours
a few of my friends had sent me messages telling me i get free boost today
because my name is kim
i thought awesome !
then last night whilst turning on the tv garden state was on
when i turned on the tv today,
one hour photo was on,
on oprah today, the episode was about breaking new records
maybe this was just coincidental
but i thought that they were omens
and i felt that something good was going to happen
because i went for my P's today
and i fortunately passed!
im going to slowly go driving around to tell you all
but if you see this first, then youre one of the firsts to know



so after passing i went down to the city to celebrate with my free boost
and bought a couple of gift cards off a homeless guy
you might know him, his names wayne and you can usually find him in front of myer drawing or colouring in
after that i treated myself with a few things at dymocks and lincraft
and then coincidentally met a friend when travelling home
which was such a good catch up
and i got her a free boost smoothie as well
(helping people out makes me so happy =D =D )

toilets

yesterday at school whilst i entered the female toilets
to my amazement found the toilet seat up

i dont know, its a bit weird
because after exiting, all i can think of was
what kind of person (female in particular) would go to the toilet..
WITH THE SEAT UP?

i can not think of a time in my life
where ive needed the toilet seat up
besides maybe throwing up
(which i dont even remember needing the seat up)
but then whom ever used the toilet before me
ide assume even so (if she were throwing up)
you would think youde put the toilet seat back down
because dont we spend the majority of our lives
lecturing males to put the seat back down at home?

travel

whilst johnny and i were running around myer on the weekend
we saw his friend whose just come back from america
she'd worked in disney world for 5 months or so
and then went backpacking all around america

i also have a friend who just left last week to study at san diego
and another whose going to china i think it was
to work after she graduates
and hearing about people working, studying and travelling
around the world makes me immensely jealous of them all
because whilst they are doing it
im hear saying "i want to do it"
and so far nothing is happening
its just become "talk" something that i would ideally want
but maybe has a really low chance of it actually happening

though the idea of going overseas
and doing things on my own really appeals to me,
its the actual step of leaving my life that
i have already established here and everyone i associate with
my family, my friends, my own room that i love so much
and im scared of leaving all this behind
because if i come back, what happens then?
people change over time
and i fear that when i come back from this huge adventure
everything is going to change