We’ve been purchasing stuff to furnish the new place, and one of our recent acquisitions was a blow torch. Shown here is crème brûlée, a French dessert that’s made of vanilla custard. Once the custard is set, you dust the top with sugar and use a blow torch to caramelise the sugar. You get a nice cracking sound when you plunge your spoon through the surface to get to the soft, sweet contents below.

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It’s been painstaking from house hunting, purchasing to settlement, it seems a more casual affair with moving house. Been spending the weekends slowly moving stuff across to the new place. So far it’s been books, clothes and kitchen utensils. Heh, managed to cram an entire bookshelf into my car (the reason why I got a Honda Jazz, it’s amazing what the ‘magic seats’ let you accomplish when you fold it down) along with other stuff. Painted a wall over the weekend and it’s easier than I remembered it to be. Fortunately we don’t have too many walls to paint.

The end of financial year sales should start soon, so will start stocking up on furniture next month.

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Finally took out my résumé and it’s been more almost 2 years since I’ve looked at it. Have put through some changes and there are a few interesting jobs out there I’d like to try applying for. Don’t expect to even get an interview for the first few jobs I apply for, but the idea as always is to just get your foot out the door when it comes to doing things.

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While out shopping during the weekend, I stumbled across display demos of Apple’s iPad. The device was much smaller than I anticipated, but is a gorgeous device to behold. It’s like an iPhone, but the bigger screen gives it so much more functionality, as all the forms of media you’d consume on it are crisply presented on the screen.

I only spent a few minutes playing around with it but it does make a laptop seem cumbersome. Reviews have mentioned that it is heavier than it looks, but feels just about right in terms of weight in my hands. Your fingers just glide across the screen to jump from application to application, surfing through websites on the internet.

For an Apple gadget, it’s priced pretty decently and furthermore with the current drop of the Australian dollar, it seems an even more worthwhile purchase. I’d buy one just to experience this new form of computing. Heh, you can tell that I really want one.