Vyanne was inspired to cook over the weekend. She prepared roast pork topped with a layer of smashing crackling, on top of a bed of sliced green apple and brussel sprouts, a drizzle of chacuterie sauce and mash potatoes on the side.

Enjoyed dinner with a bottle of 2008 Gembrook Hill Pinot Noir. The wine is fairly light drinking, slightly floral with some berry notes, and was pretty good with the pork.

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Heh, find I should write more. There’s a sense of deja vu mentioning this, as it feels like I’ve posted this on my blog before, but can’t seem to recall if it really happened. Sometimes thoughts just glaze through my mind but it doesn’t really occur to me what I’m thinking until I actually put word to paper (or in my case, typed out text on a giant screen).

Too caught up with the new place, looking at reviews for items to buy, organising time to do the stuff but everything is just trickling along. I like progress to be continuous but only the weekends are available and even then, I’ve been busy during those times with prior commitments, not to mention the weekly trip to the market for groceries. Things are moving along like a car in the wrong gear now. Heh, will not even start to talk about work, but with the things going on, it’s as settled as a dust cloud.

Have set aside some money for purchasing furniture, and I’ve told myself over the last 8 or so years that I’d buy it when I move out. Now that I am moving out, I’m not quite reluctant to spend, but I still want to stick to a budget. I don’t need to be lavish with house fittings, but then again, having experienced buying odds and ends over the last few years, you don’t want to skimp too much that you buy something that breaks after little use.

It’s the time of the year again when I’m questioning everything I’m doing. I’ve spent less than 2 years at my current work place, and even with all the benefits, I feel a longing to move on to find something more challenging. As you progress forward with work, you start to notice that not only do you need to be impeccable at your work, you also need to know how to manage people and their expectations. It’s good when you have senior people to refer to for guidance, but sometimes you wonder if the same experience will hold you back when you dismiss an idea because it’s been tried before and it wasn’t successful.

I’ve told myself that after moving to the new place and settling in it, I’d like to start hunting for a new job. Melbourne is a horrible place to look for work (apparently it’s one of the hardest states in Australia to land a job because it’s so competitive) but you always keep trying and something will come your way.

It’s strange that I actively want change these days as I find myself stagnating to routine. People find comfort in it while I find it absolutely terrifying that the lack of change and progress will make me become obsolete sooner rather than later. Heh, there’s that feeling of deja vu again. I really need to push that sense of problem solving, that of worry out into the open again. At least I feel that would be good for me.