Epic Meal Time

I just need to blog about this. Epic Meal Time.

These guys apparently have no culinary experience, and they create just the craziest meals. Meals that make you think that it wasn't physically possible, meals that are even too crazy for your imagination. Sometimes (at first) watching them eat made me want to puke.

In the short amount of time I have known about these guys I just can't help but watch all their videos multiple times. Now it has gotten to the point where every Tuesday I find myself constantly refreshing their channel to see if they have a new video.

These guys would be the first channel I legitimately subscribe to on youtube. I'm hooked..... On bacon strips.

Hey there spider!

It was big and scary.

It Moved when i got in closer. I'm pretty sure my heart skipped a beat.

The fangs were massive! The spider is the wrong way up in this photo but the two spikes that you might be able to spot are its fangs. Thinking back now, I would be in quite alot of pain if that things jumped at me and bit me. Click the photo to enlarge.

Usher!!

Last minute tickets!!

So the venue was Acer arena. And this would be my first time attending such a large scale concert. Boy it was huge!!

The mosh pit looked ok but that was because everyone was crammed up to the front worser than sardines. I'm pretty sure all hell broke loose in the mosh when Trey Songs threw his sweat towel into the mosh and then it just created an epicentre of crazy people fighter over it.

I don't think it was a full house but then again this place was massive.!

The show itself was quite amazing. It was much like watching a dance crew strut there stuff for a good solid hour! Usher of course ripped his shirt off a good handful of times.
My party of girls, sitting in the back row. Almost loosing our hearing from the crazy girls behind us screaming. It's amusing though (despite how ear piercing it was) the girls scream sounded nothing of joy and excitement, to me it sounded like a scream of a girl in despair about to get raped, whom would eventually get thrown in the gutter and raped again by another passer by. As spiteful as this sounds, I would be quite glad to know if she had lost all of her voice by now. =)

Chefs Gallery.

Funky business cards!!

Ok, so the other day I visited the much talked about "Chefs Gallery" on George street (the shop front actually faces Bathurst street). It's the new buzz in Sydney apparently, I hardly ever walk past the shop without noticing a substantial line building up.

When you walk in the first thing you will notice is the open kitchen behind the glass. A vibrant display of the chiefs and staff hustling about. One thing that always caught my attention was the guy who pulled the handmade noodles, so fast and smooth he was. Pulling the dough out in arms length, twisting it around, folding it in half and repeating the process till the noodles are just right. Then snips off the end and onto the next batch.

The pan fried pork buns!

For this dish I think they had a different name on the menu to what i originally know it as (same as every other dish on the menu). To be honest, I was quite disappointed in this dish despite my surprise in seeing the buns nestling on top of a light, thin crackle of some sort. The buns were not as juicy as I would of liked it thus no scrumptious soup to burn your tongue on. I was quite sad about that really.

These things, I don't know what they called this on the menu but what it reminded me of was the "iced skin moon cakes" you can get during the moon festival, but here imagine the skin rolled up with a red bean paste in the middle. I'm not exactly a fan of this either, the white skin tasted like raw dough but i believe that's what's it meant to be like.It was much more tasteful in playing with it. Yes I'm 21 and I'm still happy to play with my food.

Lotus bun pumpkin.

Yes, they had a different name, a more extravagant one actually. As cute as it is, it's as cute as it tastes. Nice, soft and creamy, not too sweet and the skin that holds the lotus paste was just right.
Black Sesame Bun.

Again, not what they called it on the menu. Seriously the sweets here by far outperform the mains. The bun was not too dense, it was cute and the sesame just oozed out. It was never too sweet and did I mention these things look adorable!?

Two things i must note before i end this post. The interior design of this place is quite exquisite not over the top. It somewhat reminds me of a modern contemporary art gallery showing off ancient Chinese relics housed in glass boxes placed around the room. I didn't get to take a photo to capture it but I guess things like this is best seen in person.

Second thing I must note is that, for this blog I haven't included everything I could of. I just found the food to be a bit of a let down really. Although don't take it the wrong way It's quite affordable and I probably will go there again and give it a second chance and try their other dishes.

So please, don't let this post deter you from trying it out. Everything must be done one right?

Focal point.

Just a picture that clearly shows the focal point of the G11.

Hah! It sort of looks like i used a tilt shift lens to get this..... (I wish i had a tilt shift lens).

Progress

So it's been pretty much one whole week since i joined the gym. I've been diligent enough to be going everyday I've been going to uni. It actually been keeping me more mentally active during the day but I am eating bucket loads more now and as for muscle soreness/pains, it's manageable and does not seem to be much for me to bare. So far so good, I just hope i can keep at it!

I've gone through my whole weekly routine. It goes through chest, back, legs, shoulders in that order. I haven't included arms into my routine because to work out arms specifically you need to do isolated exercises and i just find that isolating muscles while working is quite inefficient, when i can be working my chest/back/shoulders with free weights and still get a work out in the arms at the same time. I think i will include torso into my routine soon when i figure out which exercises are best and how to work it into a routine.



So I finally got around to taking photos of myself. I felt like a tool doing it but i got it. Now to wait 6 months and see how my body shapes up after this.

Chest


Back


Legs


Current weight : 57.5 kgs.... (I think)

Newbies on a ride!

Before ride...


After ride...

One dirty coin slot.


So last weekend me and Clifton took out some guys to go riding out at loftus for their first time (for v-man it was his second time). I had the spare yeti lying around so it came in handy for someone else.

Surprisingly for first timers who don't cycle often they did really good! Clifton got a super slow leak, someone fell in the bushes and we all just had some fun. A nice social ride for me all cruisey but i giggle on the inside when i hear that it was all pain for them.

Also post ride we went to sizzler for a feed. That was a first time for me, pretty good feed.

So i finally bit the bullet and joined the gym.

So after many years of me criticising people for wasting money on a gym membership. I have finally bit the bullet and have become one of them.

At first and for a long while I was really hesitant about joining a gym with soo many reasons too! I personally thought that i did enough strenuous exercise to keep healthy ( I actually did!), I also didn't believe in paying someone to allow me to run, cycle or row indoors when i would much rather be outdoors doing that stuff having loads more fun! And most importantly I couldn't afford to join a gym. But now I have come to an understanding that going to the gym is more than that.

Which comes to the one of the main reasons to why i have finally decided to join the gym, more specifically the uni gym. I want to get stronger, much much stronger. Actually i should reword that, I want to attain more power. I want to be strong enough so i can become the base/tail for lion dancing, I want to increase my vertical leap, I want to be able to do a muscle up and lastly I just want to make day to day life just that much easier on my physical body.

Unlike most of my other friends who are in fact somewhat my inspiration, their main goals for attending a gym is (and i quote) "Aesthetics". I don't want bulk at all, I personally think that any more muscle definition for me will look weird and possibly unattractive on me. I know i will gain muscle and I can't avoid that but I intend to stay under 60kgs. Which i think is quite possible considering how hard it has been in the past for me to gain/loose weight.

I have considered to take a photo now of my physic but I'll feel like a narcissistic douchebag if i do it. But i do believe I should do it. Take a before shot, then take another photo 6 months down the track just too see how I improve on muscle definition (and possibly decline in attractiveness).

My short term goals.

• Dumbbell shoulder press 25kgs (currently 17.5kgs)
• Dumbbell Chest press 30kgs (currently 20kgs)
• Squat 150kgs (currently 80kgs)
• Do a muscle up! (.....no)
  
• Go to the gym every weekday!

To those who actually bother to read my rambles and actually gym actively, help me out here and give me some advice on how to train or exercises that i could do. Currently I'm just receiving all my advice from a few friends and people on youtube. I'm always opened to suggestions!