Happy April and Easter!!!
Hope the Easter Bunny finds you well! Something interesting of note is that Animation Club (well a cross section of anyway) are doing a PAID job (minimal moolah but still, its quite exciting!) this month; an animated music video for YidCore. Keep you posted on developments! As always, I have chosen a role of least responsibility ie animating and compositing so all the thinky-thinky stuff I'm leaving to the more inspired members of the crew.
We also watched 300 (from Frank Miller's comics ... he also wrote Sin City which also was made into an incredible movie) which I really liked especially the first slow-mo, fast-mo fight scene (if you see the movie you'll see what I mean). And Xerxes' appearance? I think the Mardi Gras aesthetic will be quite easy to choose this year! Not really a movie for the intellects (or the kids ... or the historically correct ... or the grannies ...) but visually quite stunning even if we WERE sitting third row from the front ... I also made the choice to share a large frozen coke more so out of curiousity than the bargain upgrade price of 50c from a medium to a large (and at $5.20, that's a WHOLE lotta coke). Me and Juan managed to finish it, however, I was a little red-cordial hyper afterwards I believe.
Anyhoo, the best part about the long weekend (besides the lack of tap tap tapping at my data-entry job) was that my parents came to visit AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS FOR THE FONGS: good food!!! Unfortunately, the first spectacular Japanese meal, my camera ran out of batteries so only dodgy camera phone photo evidence exists (which I have yet to retrieve from my Mum's camera) of the sour plum cocktail, sake, $14 bottle of still water and the scallops (super yummo!), seaweed trio salad (yummo!), some weird savoury lemon egg custard thing with a million different bits inside (like mushroom, carrot, baby bok etc that I wasn't much of a fan of but my Dad seemed to like the most), chef's special sashimi (clam sashimi is simply to DIE FOR dahlings), beef fillet cooked on a hot marble plate (mmm meeeeat) and red bean pancake with miso ice cream (not rich enough to overkill the start of project "Expansion of Jo").
Oh, a couple of weeks ago I managed to come down with a kidney infection. YAY ME ... Actually, I think I must have had it mildly for quite a few weeks cos I've been quite tired and lethargic recently but I attributed this to the 930am-3pm classes, then studio work until my 6-10pm shifts, not eating regularly or properly and not sleeping all that regularly either! I guess feverish manifestation was my body telling me to STOP STOP STOP!!! Although I haven't stopped, I AM making a concerted effort to be healthy(er) from now on ... hopefully ...
Anyway, why bring this up? Because having a kidney infection comes with a side of nausea the likes of which I have never had before (I'm not much of a spewer really) and somehow even after recovering, just the thought of eating meat made me want to hurl. So my first resolution was to have a STEAK and POTATO the second the thought of dead animal chunks didn't make me sick. Luckily this happened before this weekend of gorging so Jo comes up trumps again!!!
Enough talk, time to bring on the goodies!!! |  | | First things first, on the Saturday we had a little adventure to get to the seafood restaurant Sails in Elwood Park which faces the water. This adventure involved a tram ride, a taxi ride that started off in the wrong direction, a few mobile calls to the restauant and a rather dark windy road. Once we got there, all was good (the restaurant was really nice without being pretentious and with simple understated decor) what was there to do but have a cocktail? Vodka. Of course. |
 |  | | The Fong's and our spoils. | STEAK!!! And POTATO!!! And SWEET POTATO!!! |  |  | | But enough with the dallying we call entrees and mains, we all know the real Jo looks her best when stuffing her face with sweet delights. From what I remember its a lemon parfait, chocolate truffle slice, some french word with some alcohol infused berries buried inside, blackcurrant mouse cake with blackcurrant sorbet (think ribena, think how much I like ribena and there you have it, my favourite dessert of the night) and some fresh fruit. Yes I SHARED them all *ahem* | Post-gorging in my parents' hotel room lol |  |  | | Waiting for a tram to the Docklands, there appears there was some fun fair going on at Fed Sq. Am I too old for ferris wheels? Personally I think not but the opportunity didn't really come up! | Random night shot of the Docklands. Kind of like Circular Quay crossed with Darling Harbour but with MUCH LESS PEOPLE. I like things quiet. |  |  | | Dodgy non-tripod shot of Telstra Dome. | Post massive italian meal (antipasto, salmon pasta, roast potatoes and green salad) we headed (read: waddled) down to Hot Chocolate at the other end of the Docklands (thats FIVE different chocolate cafes I know of in Melbourne now!!! I LOVE THIS CITY!) and had our final super gorge: hazelnut dacquoise with chocolate rocher and butterscotch ice creams and a dark hot chocolate for me. Mmmm ... is that chocolate still on my face? | |
