Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Dec 17, 2009, 8:23 pm
You should have seen the look on my face when this box arrived today. 24 Christmas cupcakes from My Little Cupcake and only a handful of staff left in the office to finish them. Excellent. Looks like...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Dec 17, 2009, 4:42 am
We got off to a late start, none of us were bothered to wake up at 5am to go fishing/crabbing again. So after a well deserved sleep in we headed into town for brunch at Bo’s cafe. Feeling like I...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Dec 15, 2009, 12:50 am
Day 2 was G 25th birthday and she wanted crabs so Esta took us to this abandoned railway track where if you put one foot wrong, you’re gone. I’d never been crabbing before so everything w...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Dec 14, 2009, 9:04 pm
We’ve driven to Byron a couple of times in the past and it’s usually a pretty easy drive, but for some reason that wasn’t the case this time around. We took the giant landcruiser ins...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Dec 11, 2009, 4:50 am
We headed to Selah for our office Christmas lunch today. The place had gotten some pretty good review so I was excited to sample the food. Unfortunately for me, I’ve been sick for the past 2 wee...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Dec 8, 2009, 8:16 pm
This is a perfect example of “If it’s not broken, don’t fix it”. Now you’d think they had found the perfect combination: Everyone loves Kit Kat and Cookies and Cream, th...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Dec 7, 2009, 4:15 am
I love daylight-savings, but it sure does make driving in the afternoons a bit of a challenge. It’s only fun when it’s not in your eyes and you get to watch people in the opposite directio...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Dec 6, 2009, 9:15 pm
Somethings are certain of festivals: you spend a wad of cash on food and drinks; the queue for the bar and toilets are horrendous; and the toilet (or port-a-loo) itself… well, let’s just s...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Dec 2, 2009, 4:39 am
Well my Summer’s started off just great. I’ve spent the first 2 days of summer stuck in bed with the worst flu I’ve ever had. It’s Codral, Vicks and Kleenex all the way. I̵...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Dec 2, 2009, 3:56 am
In the middle of the festival hype we impulsively bought tickets to Stereosonic. Do I regret that decision? Yes and no. The festival itself was great, well planned so that even though there were 20,00...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Nov 26, 2009, 7:49 pm
With back to back weekends of festivals coming up I thought it might be a good idea to start taking Berocca to give me a little extra b-b-bounce. After Harboulife, which took me 3 days to recover from...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Nov 22, 2009, 9:22 pm
Harbourlife marks the start of the festival season for me and if it’s any indication of the festivals to come, I think we’re in for a great summer! I’d been checking the weather all ...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Nov 17, 2009, 8:49 pm
That was our plan of attack at trivia last night, if we didn’t know the answer, we just went with Abba. I would highly not recommend it though, we came last. Good effort team! But I think itR...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Nov 16, 2009, 3:58 am
We headed to Haberfield to catch up with with Vick on Sunday night. We usually go to Dolcissimo, which is probably one of my favourite Italian restaurants in Sydney, but since a few new places had ope...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Nov 15, 2009, 4:47 am
With so many pubs and bars in the Oxford street area, you really need something different to draw a crowd. That’s when we stumbled upon Doctor Pong. And with a name like Doctor Pong, you canR...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Nov 11, 2009, 4:14 pm
Spotted: a kilometre of median strip with upside-down witches hats in it. Now if this was a road near Bondi I would have thought it was a part of Sculptures by the Sea, but this was no where near Bond...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Nov 10, 2009, 8:32 pm
@danwill75 posted a link to this on twitter and I though it was absolutely brilliant! Not exactly sure how factual it is, but it sure is entertaining. And it all starts with dancing goats. 15 (ish) t...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Nov 9, 2009, 8:18 pm
G and I felt like pizza but didn’t actually feel like cooking any of the ingredients, so we put our heads together and came up with the party pizza. What’s with the name? I’m glad y...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Nov 6, 2009, 3:27 am
This has to be the cheapest parking metre in Sydney (well besides probably Cabramatta). It’s definitely the cheapest parking metre in Milsons Point, just around the corner from this spot the met...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Nov 5, 2009, 8:05 pm
I don’t usually blog about clothes but this is just plain embarrassing. Today I walked out of the house in a green hoodie, with a green backpack, carrying a green calico bag. Sigh… Any gue...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Nov 3, 2009, 8:50 pm
With yesterday being the hottest day in 2009 since January I didn’t leave the office, not even to go to the TAB (which is a good thing because the horse I was planning to bet on didn’t win...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Nov 2, 2009, 9:03 pm
I love playing Basketball, but I’m also a lazy bum. And since my laziness is stronger than my desire to play ball, I haven’t been to the courts in a long while. However, I may have found a...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Oct 29, 2009, 10:02 pm
Instead of spending money on a Sugar Hit that would last about 30 minutes, whereby after the eating I would probably regret being a gluttonous pig, I decided to spend my money on a sugar hit that woul...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Oct 28, 2009, 9:06 pm
Don’t worry this isn’t going to be a philosophical blog post about life, it’s actually quite the opposite. A very superficial blog post about my wardrobe. That’s right, my ward...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Oct 25, 2009, 10:16 pm
5am starts are not my thing. I was half hoping it would rain so we wouldn’t go and I could keep sleeping, but I sure I’m glad we went. It was an experience well worth the early start. I di...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Oct 22, 2009, 3:24 am
With the turn of daylight saving and the weather starting to heat up, I thought it would be a good idea to dig out my bike again. It’s been sitting in the garage collecting dust and cob-webs for...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Oct 19, 2009, 10:16 pm
After 10 days of house-sitting / cat-sitting I sure am glad to be heading home tonight. I miss my cat-hair-free house, my desk, my little doggie and of course my bed. Rex (pictured above) definitely ...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Oct 19, 2009, 4:49 am
As the footy season ends so begins the next season, BBQ season. Every year Anna’s BBQ marks the start of the BBQ season for us. The sun was out, the food was sizzling and the crazy wind we’...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Oct 18, 2009, 9:45 pm
I promised Anna I’d bake some mini-cheesecakes for her birthday and having never made cheesecake before, I spend all week looking up recipes. I found 3 recipes that I really liked so I had the b...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Oct 15, 2009, 10:40 pm
I’m house-sitting / cat-sitting for my cousin this week and while it’s fun having the place to yourself, it’s also quite stressful. Rex (pictured above) is the only real stress facto...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Oct 14, 2009, 4:31 am
I don’t have the best of luck with glasses. I broke my reading glasses about a month after I got them and I dropped my sunglasses the first weekend I had them. Okay, when I broke my reading glas...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Oct 12, 2009, 8:42 pm
Came home to a spectacular sunset yesterday and had the sudden urge to eat fairy floss (which is actually pretty hard to find nowadays). The only problem with this sunset is that it was a Monday even...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Oct 8, 2009, 6:24 pm
Over the weekend Maree’s little brother jailbroke my iphone. I did think about jailbreaking it myself but I don’t think I’m a big enough geek to know exactly what I’m doing. Th...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Oct 6, 2009, 9:45 pm
A few weeks ago I thought I was on a lucky streak. I’d won reserved tickets to Harbourlife in the ballot, but then found out that most people who entered won as well, making me feel not so speci...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Oct 5, 2009, 2:14 am
Maree was cooking up a storm for the Grand Final (pardon the pun), so I decided to bake a cake – a killer chocolate cake. It would have been a celebratory cake if the Eels had gotten their act t...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Oct 5, 2009, 1:45 am
I don’t think I’ve seen an alcohol reading this high before. That’s like 5 times over the limit? Eek. Don’t worry it wasn’t my reading and it wasn’t the drivers rea...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Sep 29, 2009, 10:58 pm
Yes, I have been reading Twilight. I’m ashamed to admit it but it’s true. With the first two books, whenever I pulled it out of my bag on the train I’d quickly try to hide the book c...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Sep 28, 2009, 4:30 am
I seriously did not stop eating on the weekend. It felt like I went from one meal straight to the next and it was all Italian food. It started with Pizza at the Beresford on Friday, then pasta (from P...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Sep 27, 2009, 1:29 am
We headed to the Beresford in Darlinghurst for a couple of after work drinks and I was thinking that I was going to miss the game. You should have seen the smile on my face when I saw the giant screen...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Sep 23, 2009, 5:28 am
Our company was nominated as one of 10 finalists for the Dell Small Business Excellence Awards. As such we were invited to the finalist lunch held at Quay Restaurant. I was uber excited because Quay w...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Sep 22, 2009, 10:09 pm
Naturally I jumped on the bandwagon and decided to blog about the dust storm. Like everyone else in Sydney I woke up to a sea of orange (or red if you’re an early riser). There are some pretty ...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Sep 22, 2009, 8:21 am
I don’t often go to the cinemas, mainly because they’re extremely over priced and it usually smells funny. But seeing that it was tight-ass Tuesday and this movie had gotten pretty good re...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Sep 20, 2009, 10:48 pm
I recently ...
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Tracy Tan posted an article on Tracing Tray - Sep 19, 2009, 1:57 am
We had our company birthday lunch yesterday at Pendolino, The Strand Arcade. The decor is pretty cool, I sort of felt like I was at Hogwarts or a Parisian cafe. The place doubles as an olive oil gift ...
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