Day 24 New Favourite Drink

Fell asleep before 11pm due to last night's lack of sleep. Attended a cocktail training at Match bar. It was a French emphasis today, we learnt about the French history that was relevant to cocktail making, reknown Parisian cocktail bars, the story behind some famous French cocktails. We got to straw taste test them too. Me and cheese, being the cheap asians and alcoholics we are, curved our straws and inserted them diagonally to trap as much alcohol as possible. I was even licking the straw. MY favourite was the

CRITERION RUM SMASH

of the Criterion Bar

45ml Cruzan Aged Rum

30ml Sugar Syrup

15ml Lemon juice

10 Mint leaves

2 Barspoons of diced peaches

I've never tasted anything alcoholically good. I must make this or order it soon asap. I love these Mixxit Cocktail Training classes because they give us a shit load of free stuff:

FREE

Mini 'moleskin' diaries

Pencils

Bartender Training Booklet

Cocktail Recipe Sheet

Wooden Mallet and Sack for crushing ice

Frizbee

Training finished about 4pm and we went to check out the new refit at Jwow. It's so ugly and embarassing. The luxurious, lounge concept Jwow was known to be is now totally gone. That concept was crumpled like a piece of scrap paper, tossed in a bin, doused with petrol, set on fire and then run over with a bulldozer. The bar is all stainless steel. Bar tops, cupboard doors, bar wall, shelves... it feels so cold and industrial. It looks like a Chinese kitchen. And let's not get started on the sperm lights and paper mache cow with paintings of the Beatles on it. In a snakes and ladders game, Jwow has landed on a snake all the way down to the starting line. I feel a tiny bit ashamed to be working there.

Birds Eye Views @ Jwow

I left jwow and went on a shopping mission to buy clothes for tmrw. Bought a new dress and new shoes and wrecked the sales assistant in the process.

Tokito Black Dress

$64 After Myer Discount

The Dangerfield sales assistant, in her New Zealand accent said i was pretty

Cancelled a 6:30pm dinner date with jwowers because I was poor and just wanted to go home. Did a test drive to melbourne airport tmrw via Arundel and Annadale (?) roads, apparently a short cut. It took 11 minutes from home to airport this way. It took 11 minutes from airport to home via Calder freeway and Keilor Park Drive. The freeway is an easier and more speedy drive but i guess I wasnt driving during peak hour. Tmrw I will take the Arundel way. Those roads are so windy its like Tokyo Drift. ________________

I've felt for quite sometime my brain/thoughts arent stimulated. Thats why i give into physical indulgences such as 12hours in bed, trash TV, fatty foods and alcohol. I want to get smarter, I guess thats who I avoid feeling 'wasting away'.

I remember going on the study tour with like/open minded designers. Conversations were intelligent and my opinions were challenged. I was asked to further explain myself, to the depths where I had not considered myself until this time. I had to think quickly but logically. Random mubbling and filler words had no place here. Overuse of the words 'like', 'you know', ' do you know what I meaaan???' and unnecessary swearing degraded the integrity of your opinion. When they cracked jokes, I had to really think about why that would be funny. These people were 2 steps a head of me. I feel I hang around people two steps behind me.

I'm having trouble excelling if my surroundings dont demand me stepping up. I need motivation. I cant do this by myself im not that determine.

Since the beginning, I've argue with vman about the consistency in his stories, the grammar in his language and the certainty of his 'facts'. I want straight forward, organised and unchanging information. He tells stories with missing information, in non chronological order with ambiguous wording and a limited vocabulary. He is biased and often generalises with words like 'all of them', 'all the time', 'never' and 'always'. I was during essay writing to never use such definite words. I get frustrated because we're on two different pages.

Or maybe I'm being too harsh on him.

I just need more stimulation.