Music of Snowie's Life

woah

2008-11-22T23:38:00.004+09:00

woah, i can't believe the last time i blogged was in aug! =o well, i'm still at govt and didn't get the hbos job.. coz i totally stuffed up the interview ill-prepared.. serves me right... but i guess it's also a good thing i didn't get it coz bankwest got bought over haha =p so many things happened since i last blogged...

-> j-san went back to taiwan with her big mammal... so it's been quiet around the house. luckily oppa + lil k are around to keep me company ;)

-> elmo is currently at our place... wooo wooottt!!

-> dad was here for a WHOLE month, for mum's birthday and 1-year. can't believe how fast the time has flown by...sometimes it still feels rather surreal that mum's gone... :~( but this time, when dad came back..... totally different feeling. he's friendlier, more chatty and i also have more things to talk to him about. i think 1-month was the right amount of time haha anything more, i think dad would've gone crazy =p but i have to say, it was really nice to have dad around.

-> had to send my digi cam into repair!!! i was taking some close-up photos and then the lens wouldn't retract and it just got stuck!! but it got fixed in time for yokey's birthday drinks.. and now it allows me to turn 'macro' on!!! no wonder it didn't work before... luckily still had warranty!

-> we have also finished attending weddings for the year... i hope!! far out, attending weddings can be an expensive exercise! but feeling all the love in the air makes it all worth while.. =)

alright - that's it for now... =p

Time is flying by...

2008-08-21T08:10:00.002+08:00

Woah, I haven't updated for awhile!

Now.. just waiting by the phone for the recruitment people from HBOS to call. Was meant to be 10.30am on Friday but yesterday they had a sudden change to their schedule so had to do it 8am this morning.

Damn... the earliest I've woken up for awhile!!!!! I dunno how I'm going to cope if I have to go back to 8.30am start!!!

So now.. still waiting...

Quite nervous about it because never done anything like this... a phone interview? Woah haha They're going to ask behaviourial and competency questions.. I asked yesterday whether they have a list of questions they're going to ask available, I got a very polite "no" haha At least I tried tee hee

Jedi El

2008-06-09T20:24:00.000+08:00

Jedi El is back!
Yayyyyy!

Daz's Wedding!!!!

2008-05-13T21:15:00.004+08:00

Yaaaay!
Daz got married!!!!

We were there to celebrate...

in Singapore!!!!

Wooooo Hooooo!!

Wedding was beautiful. We were a bit late to the ceremony because of traffic and we were just running late from the shopping haha But we managed to see the vows and the kiss =) hehe

The photography was amazing.. so was the videography. They filmed and edited in one day! Can you believe that??? And they also had LIVE photograph transmission! So they take a photo, and then it's showing on the screen!!! Mannn! We even got a little photo to take away! I was almost crying when I saw the video of Daz seeing Col for the first time in her wedding dress. His facial expression said it all.. awwwwww!!!

The after-party in the newly weds' room.. was by quite quickly coz Daz was smashed within 1 hour haha He almost finished a bottle of cognac!!! He was sooo huggy and he kept on thanking everyone. At least 5 times haha

Jel + I got our hair done for the wedding dinner. I brought my own ironing clip but after trying to do it for the Sat wedding ceremony, I thought it was best to leave it to the pros haha It was not bad.. SGD27.. I was very happy =P 1 hour of pampering.. mmm Our hotel was grand too!! It was convenient as well because it was like literally 5 mins walk from the wedding dinner hotel.. very happy =)

Apart from celebrating the happy wedding.. Jel + I also did some shopping and sight seeing. Mostly Orchard Rd & Clarke Quay haha It was such a blast! Chuksta & wifey were there too and they were kind enough to take us around! Mingle with the locals =) We went to ChinaTown (which wasn't that much fun because went during the day) and then Suntec to see the fountain of wealth to make wishes (I don't think I was wishing for anything when I was walking around it 3 times.. I was just playing with the water haha)...

Great memories were created on this trip....

1. First overseas trip with friends
2. First wedding overseas
3. First visit to Asia for Jel
4. First after-party in newly weds' bedroom
5. First visits to the nightlife in an Asian country
6. First shopping trips on Orchard Rd's department stores!!
7. First huge purchase (in my opinion!) with my own $$ haha The digi cam =P

Ahhhhh it was such a great trip.. Felt longer than 4 days coz we did SOOO much! But it was really enjoyable =)

Here comes the photos!!

Fooooood

2008-05-04T22:09:00.003+08:00

This weekend, we decided to cook a feast for my high school friend + hubby. Oppa & I trawled through Marie Claire recipe books and we picked our 3-course meal (with assistance from K of
course). It turned out rather well!

Menu for the night:
Lamb skewers with mint & yoghurt
Chicken Pie with Polenta
Waffles

Good huh? Sounded good.. and it turned out great too! Oppa & I were very proud of ourselves =) My friend + hubby were impressed too tee hee Not a bad turn out for 2 non-cooks!! Of course, we had to take photos hehe

Like my cheesey grin? =)

On Fri night... Oppa took me to Darlington Estate! It was sooo nice there.. a bit cold! But the food was great and they had live jazz! Piano with Bass.. awesome!!!
Then.. we went to Northbridge to look for karaoke places. Just the 2 of us ;-P But no places!! They were all booked! We gave up and drove home.. but on the way home, we saw Es & Nam walking! I called and they were on the way to karaoke session for Ham! Awesome!!! So we gate crashed haha
We really did gate crash coz we didn't know about it.. I felt a bit bad but oh well!! We had a lot of fun, we ended up staying up until 3am! I suffered the next day though for my 9am facial appointment.. *yawn* My face feels so clean and soft now... after I dehydrated it from all the alcohol I've consumed in the past few weeks!! tee hee =P Anyway - it was a good night out and good to hang with the gang again.

2nite, Oppa + I went to see Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day... got free passes from Aroma Cafe (woot woot!) It was a nice movie.. very sweet and touching. Both of us cried! hehe Definitely worth watching!

It felt like I had a bit weekend.. I probably did... esp my liver took a bashing =P

Then next week, it's Singapore!!! Woot Woot!!! Can't wait!! =)

Welcome Back Angie!

2008-04-27T21:19:00.003+08:00

Angie came back!

Only for a short while.. but it was still good to see her rather than chatting to her on MSN =)

J + I met up with her on Thurs and we took her to Table 78 (quite good food) and then visited the new bar 1907. That was not bad either!!! Though I didn't really enjoy my expensive martini.. don't think I'm a martini kinda girl! haha

Then on Sat.. organised a party session at Burswood. We didn't stay in Ruby Room as long as I would've liked though =( People just didn't seem like to be in a dancing mode!! Boo hoo. They were more keen to check out MINQ which I'm alright with but we ended up staying there for the whole night! Boo hoo.

I still had a good time in MINQ though. The drinks were delicious! Worth the money =) I had Mojito and Cosmo. The Cosmo was SOO yummy! Did not feel the alcohol at all. I would have that again! Definitely a lot better than the one I had in Universal Bar.. that was like.. a put off! I was thinking to myself - why do Sex n City girls like to drink those? haha =P

Thanks to Lainy for the photos! I managed to get snaps with most of my fave girls =)
Next time - a serious dancing session =P Or am I getting too old for that? Nawwwwwww

Blast from the Past

2008-04-22T12:08:00.002+08:00

I was sooooo excited last week coz I bumped into my childhood piano teacher on the bus on the way home!

I stepped on the bus and I heard this "Cindy!"

Looked up.. and there she was!!! I was totally stoked because I've always wondered if she was still at the same address or if she was still around Perth!!!

Well, she is! Woot woot!

It was so nice to talk to her again.. She was like my favourite teacher and she treated me really well. She's still teaching piano.. and I had to tell a little fib that I am still playing too haha I said that I play when I am feeling stressed, to which Oppa + J-san replied in sync "which is hardly ever".

Grr!

Anyway - it was soo nice to see her. I told her about mum and shed a little tear.

Another thing happened this week, we sold off mum's car. No one was driving it and it was taking up garage space (leaving my poor little buggy out in the rain) so it was for the best that we sold it off. Paying for it was getting expensive too.

It was kinda another reality hit that mum is not around anymore. Sometimes we forget that mum has left us... but that's only for a split second... *bawl*

Long weekend this week.. WOOT WOOT! What to do what to do? Want to go out..

Finally!! Graduated!

2008-04-07T23:56:00.003+08:00

Woo Hoo!!!

Graduated!!!

So now I get to have those 3 letters behind my name.. (if I ever get a business card!!!)

It was very sad that mum couldn't be in the photos tonight. But I'm sure she was there.. cheering me on :)

Photos below..

Cleaning Up

2008-03-23T14:12:00.002+09:00

This Easter long weekend has been a cleaning up weekend. Dad's coming back soon and we thought we better do some cleaning otherwise when he comes back, he'll see the same mess and then he'll do the cleaning for us - which we wouldn't want him to because he just chucks everything.

So J & I had to bite the bullet. We did mum's wardrobe.. took some clothes that we could wear (actually found quite a few cool stuff!) and store the rest.. Didn't want to chuck anything away. It was really hard.. Looking at the empty wardrobe just made it more real that mum is not with us anymore.. It was really heart breaking. But we pulled through together and we finished cleaning after 3 hours. I took another few hours cleaning out my own wardrobe so I could fit in all the clothes I took from mum =P My wardrobe looks sooooo clean and tidy now! I even got more space! But no more shopping.. argh. I think I've got enough clothes for the next few seasons...but that's what I say now. I'm sure I'll see something and then want to buy.

The same with the shoes. Inherited a lot of mum's.. but man, I have a lot of shoes!!! I did indulge in a pair of gorgeous Italian-made boots yesterday from DJ's. I would've never splurged that much but I'm sure mum would've approved =) It's about time I move away from the $50 boots or shoes.. and start wearing decent ones! Tee hee Less is more.. Quality not quantity haha Is that enough justification? =)

So now.. cleaning out our CD/DVD collection. Far out.. so much cleaning up! But I think it's a great use of the long weekend because we end up living better and neater and with more space for other stuff haha =)

Productivity

2008-03-16T17:53:00.004+09:00

It was quite a productive week for me. I book 6 sessions of training for the first 2 weeks of April which I am a bit scared yet excited about. Scared because I've never led a training session before let alone do SIX of it! Excited because there's another skill I can add!!!

On Fri night we met up with M for bon voyage as he's moving to Japan with family. Known him for 2 years and a few months now. Met him at the start of MBA in a networking session and he was in the first group I was in for MBA and we suffered the whole way through together. He's a great man - shall miss you!! Keep in touch ;-)
Then on Saturday we decided to clean out 7 plants from our backyard. 1 huge willow tree and 6 bougenvillas. They were prickly!!! I got a lot of scars on my legs =( But as you can see, was very proud hehehe Judy's friend joined in so that was good, between the 4 of us we cleared those plants out in 3.5 hours! Not bad not bad..
That's why we're in pain today.... ai yor

Where have I been??

2008-03-09T22:54:00.004+09:00

Woah - the last time I blogged was when I got back from the eastern states!!! Man... It's like Feb was a goner haha What did I do in Feb?? Really can't remember...

1. Celebrated CNY
2. Started contract work at Health Dept
3. Tried burlesquercise!
4. Met up with classmates
5. Getting back into exercising

I think that pretty much summed up my Feb.. It was mainly working and catching public transport haha It's annoying the fact that I live so close to work but if I catch public transport, it'd take me 45 mins!!! WTF??

I've always wanted to work in the city but working in East Perth has its downsides.. It's a bit far from the city centre (well takes at least 10 mins to walk quickly!) and then there are no bank branches there... there are some nice cafeterias/restaurants but not as many as city! The novelty of working in East Perth wore off VERY quickly!

My first time working in the public sector has been a very interesting experience. I've been there 6 weeks now and it's amazing how time has flown by. I'm now overseeing a project and getting onto another one. I'm going to work on 2 projects and it's quite scary because I've never really had to do this... except when I had to juggle multiple assignments during the MBA days (which I can't believe I have finished!! Graduation coming up!! Woooo Hoooo!!)

I'm thinking about RIDING to work.. yes you've read it right. RIDING. I'm going to be fiiiitt! I am a bit worried about riding amongst traffic though =( But shall see.. maybe Oppa will ride with me the first few days. I spent like $140 cleaning up my bike... so I really need to make more use of it! =P

Today we went to Mandurah for the crab festival and we managed to eat crabs! The past 2 times we've been, we've always wondered why it's called crab festival if they don't sell crabs!!?? But we got some crabs today but it was a bit messy to eat. What's more annoying, I sat in a small puddle of chili plum sauce! I was wearing white pants too!! Argh!!! Despite that, today was a good weather to be out and about. Wasn't too hot or too cold.. didn't get sunburnt (we packed on the sunscreen of course). Nice day out...

Okie.. here are some pics... I do have a photo from my night out with ex-work mates.. but I promised them that I wouldn't put it on Facebook or my blog.. oh well...

I'm bacccckk!!

2008-01-23T17:45:00.001+09:00

Sydney and Melbourne trip was awesome!!!!! My first time traveling with Oppa and attending a wedding that was not in WA haha =P

I can't be bothered writing a lot... lazzyyy just got back last night. I'll do a few highlights..

1. Attending Mikewoahski's sister's wedding. Traditional Jewish wedding is sooooo beautiful! Dancing is a lot of fun too! So festive!!!
2. Eating Taiwan food (finally!!!)
3. Getting dumped by the ocean waves in Manly
4. Going to a Sydney Festival concert
5. Driving campervan around Great Ocean Road in Victoria - my first time "camping!!" Oppa drove most of the way as it is manual.. we did 818km in 3 days!!! The guy was impressed when we returned the car
6. Saw wild koalas on Great Ocean Road - so cute! I almost got run over by speedy cars but heck, the koalas were worth it hehe =P
7. Visiting WJ san in Ballarat - drove from Avalon Airport to Ballarat at night!! I drove too!!!
8. Bumping into Steve from QLD YAD in Melbourne with WJ san!
9. Tramming in Melbourne for free (kekeke)
10.Walking in rain from Crown Casino back to North Melbourne and trying to wave down a taxi
11. Seeing possums and got scared the bejezes out of me in Flatstaff Park
12. Eating and eating!!!
13. Drinking lots of coffee and hot chocolate - Max Brenner and Ko Ko Blacks.. mmmm!!
14. Walking through dark alleys to find a hip night club in Croft Lane...
15. Meeting Oppa's close friends in Syd. All very lovely couples... =)
16. Seeing WJ san drive a manual car!!!!!
17. Jazz in Melbourne... a different band every night!! How awesome!!!

Here are some photos =) Not in chronological order!
I totally loved Melbourne... it's small compared to Sydney but I liked the culture and how each alley way has something hidden like a yummy restaurant, hip bar or a nice boutique coffee shop!!! Mmmmm!!!

Now back to reality =(

Splurge!

2008-01-04T22:22:00.000+09:00

I have splurged..... Totally... ever since the Xmas Sale... I've been splurging. J-san splurged first and then I splurged... especially today.. I just went crazy! But I think I've got all what I wanted tee hee hee..

Got a nice dress for Mikewoahski's sister's wedding in Sydney and that'll be for Dazza's too.. I also found nice summer day dresses.. and dinner dresses.. woot woot!!! Oppa was proud that I also bought sports wear hahaha I bought a pair of jeans today for $20!!! Awesome! I love bargains... tee hee But bad for my credit card *sob*

Happy new year everybody!!!

2008-01-01T13:12:00.000+09:00

Happy new year everyone!!

We decided to go to Northbridge to celebrate.. but never again!! We literally walked from street party to street party and couldn't find any where with decent music! Argh! And then we missed out on the count down too because the street party we were at did not blardy count down! We only heard the other people count down and then we went.. oh oh! It was definitely an anti-climax!!!!

Despite all that... I still managed to take some photos of the night =)
I can't believe it... it's 2008!!! Another year older.. *sniffles* Horrible!!! Argh!!

A new year, with a new beginning. This year will definitely be a year with lots of new experiences. Quit my job and looking for a new one.. travelling with Oppa for the first time.. going overseas with friends to attend a wedding for the first time.. Woo hoo! Wonder what else is coming!! =)

Oppa and I listed down our new year resolution before we headed out last night. It was good... and I've got it pinned up on the board in my bedroom so I can remind myself every day what I wanted to do. Definitely going to be more health conscientious!!

Puppies galore... Jedi El is coming to stay with us again! Yaaayyyyyy!!! Can't wait!!!! hehe Here is a snap I took of him the last time he came.. sooo cute!!!
Es & Nam got a puppy!! Soooo tiny!! hehe When he's hyper, he just runs around crazily.. it's like a ball of fur bouncing around the house haha
Ok... gotta start the new year fresh.. so now going to clean the house!

Very proud of myself

2007-12-20T22:24:00.000+09:00

...I cooked

Even though the soup base came from a packet...
I am still very proud that I made something =P I added my own ingredients and the flavouring. So I still cooked! haha =P
Turned out very nice... was soo happy. J-san was proud of me too =)

J-san's friends came over on Mon night and they brought their puppies. SOOO cute.. this one is still young (6 months) and it was running around the house like it was on red bull. Compared to Jedi El, this one is hyperactive!!!! And we think it thinks it's human. Look at the way it sits on the chair!!!
It looks like it was very comfortable hehe When I was taking photos, it just sat there and waited for me haha Not like Jedi-El.. he hates photos and so I can never get a decent photo. This puppy here, just sooooo cute an it felt like it knew that I was taking photos and it was more than happy for me to take snaps of it. Show off! =)

Feeling Cultured

2007-12-11T15:35:00.000+09:00

Ahhh 9th Dec was WASO in the City. That was really nice.. Felt cultured =) Haven't been to a concert for awhile.. a concert with classical music. I told Oppa that we must set up a "Cultural" fund where we go to concerts or events like musicals/plays/opera every year at least once!!!

Needless to say, it was jam-packed and it was hell to find parking. It was $8 and there was only ONE person receiving the money, and there were 3 queues going towards the same entrance!! How inefficient!!!?? BLardy hell. J-san + I were getting very short tempered!

Despite all that, I still took some photos of the view and enjoyed the music. The music was beautiful and I just love orchestral music! Get goosebumps every time and it's very nostalgic because I can't help to think what would've happened if I continued with my clarinet or piano and go audition for orchestras around the world!!!

There were the usual favourites, Nessa Dorma, Madame Butterfly, Beethoven's Symphony etc.

Here are some shots...

Of the stage... City view in Sepia tone
City view in normal tone
It was such a nice end of the weekend.

We've planned a trip to Syd/Melb in Jan. SOOOOOOOOO excited! Going to visit WJ-san!!! Also meeting up with J-san's friend in Melb, so I've requested her to take us to the best Ramen restaurant ahha =P

Looking forward to 2008, many new things happening!!!

Ugh...

2007-12-01T23:40:00.000+09:00

Finally finished MBA.... it was such an anti-climax because I only had assignments this trimester. So there was nothing like... finishing a 3-hour exam and feel the huge sense of relief afterwards.. It was more like.. send email and then get an email from group member saying they've handed it in..

*shrugs*

Soooooo.. normal!!!! Oh well... The important thing is that I finished!! yaaay!!! Now just wait for the graduation to come =)

Last night was the long awaited for Meltdown Party at Perth Yacht Club. All my MBA buddies went so that was really good.. I had a bit too much white wine to drink though and totally embarassed myself. Aii Yorrrrr. My friends (if they still want to be my friends after last night's ordeal) were soooo tolerant with me. Gawrsh.. I will never touch any sort of wine ever again. They're nasty stuff! I better stick with my hard liqueur =P

On the way home, I was working SOO hard not to barf coz it was my friend's noiiice car and it was his first time being my DD... gawrsh.. I think that'll be his last time too hahaha Oppa wasn't pleased when I told him my "wild" night =p I got home, J-san was waiting up for me (thanks honey!) and I just clonked out on the bed, with make-up and contacts... after I had a conversation with God using the big white telephone (aka toilet). Aiii yorrr

I didn't even take any photos!! Argh!!! I brought my digi but didn't take any snaps *sigh* But one good thing got out of the night.. I met a Danish gal.. she's here visiting her friend who studied at UWA for her MBA on exchange. It was really good to hear the tales of Denmark =) There was ONE embarassing moment:I was talking to her for like half an hour and then Dazza came and I tried to introduce them and I totally forgot her name.. Ai yarrr!!! Terrible terrible..

My whole Sat was a write off. Just could not "da han". Did still go out with dad & J-san but boy did I struggle.. aiii yarrrrrr

How many "ai yor" did I write in this blog???

Shame shame shame..

Dedication to Mum

2007-11-19T23:18:00.000+09:00

Since my last post.. so much has happened...

This post is in memory of my mum... it is something personal but I some how also feel the urge to share with the universe and just send the message out there... Hopefully mum'll feel it.. where ever she is...

On the morning of 6 Nov, my beloved mummy passed away after 2 years of battling with colon cancer. She passed away peacefully and we were all by her bedside. It was expected but also unexpected at the same time... The Saturday before, the nurse told us it could be days or a couple of weeks tops.. then on 6th, the nurse said it could be that night or even the next few days. It was so quick.. didn't even get to think.. then *bang*

But like what mum said no regrets. We spent heaps of time with her, doing things we haven't done, taken her to places... At least we have lots of fond memories to treasure forever.. good thing I love taking photos too!!!!

It's so sad... It was nice to feel all the love and support from our friends and family. Our house was like a florist within 2 days. We never knew we knew so many people!!! Our rellies (mum's siblings.. bar from a couple) from Taiwan flew in and it was soo nice to have them around. It was almost like a form of distraction.. and also basking in the sea of love really helped with the healing process. We know that we are not alone, our uncles and aunties are still there... Uncles + Aunties who share similar laughs and spirit as mum. It was really comforting...

The funeral was beautiful. Peaceful. Serene. Just the way how mum wanted it. I think it's also going to be the way how I want my funeral to be.... hmm! Remember that guys! =P I think planning the funeral the way it was made it a lot easier on us as well. We had ample time to do other things too.. just taking it easy. Not rush rush... that also gave us time to reflect and deal with our emotions. The normal Taiwan way would probably be a lot of chanting and folding paper lotus and cooking lots. Wouldn't even have the time to feel the loss and the sadness...

Oppa was assigned the task of taking photos on the day. You did a great job! There were many great photos.. but too many of us crying.. *sigh* But you did a great job nonetheless... especially under that circumstance!

During this VERY sad time, it was great to have Jedi El around. He provided a form of consol... it's nice to just sit there and vege out while patting Jedi El. He just sits there and lets you pat him.. and occasionally lick my nose =) He is sooo adorable. Stirring up my desire to get a puppy again! But ai yor.. don't think I can afford to =(

It's interesting how different people deal with their emotions. Some get themselves busy by doing lots of things and take their minds off it.. while theirs just stays in that state and "feel" the emotions... I guess I am the first one which irates my sis a bit because she's the latter one =P Oh well!!

Being the do lotsa things type... After the funeral it was back to business (aka uni and work) for me. Back to full time now.. and I am at the last week of uni!!!! It's kinda sad at the same time that I'll be finishing MBA soon but mum won't be able to be here to attend my graduation. But at least she knew that I was within weeks of completing my MBA....

It's Miss Indepdent time now (Sorry Kelly Clarkson, borrowed your line!) for both me and J-san. It's scary because the bond mum + us shared is just indescribable and the fact that she is not here anymore to be our safety net, fashion consultant, teacher and sounding board.. etc But like what Ajahn Bram said at the funeral, even though the physical body is not here with us, their spirit lives on... so we do what we believe our mum would want to see us achieve in life... live well and do good things.. no regrets!

For our friends and family: Thank you all for your love and support..

For mum... missing you already...

So who's the unco?

2007-11-06T00:30:00.000+09:00

.... I am...

Tried to take a photo of the result of my unco-ness but couldn't find our new Sony. Grrrr, dunno where J put it!

Anywayyyyy, how did my unco-ness happen and caused a big carpet burn on my left knee (and I feel a huge bruise coming up)

I was wearing these pair of black baggy work pants and had high heels on. So I rushed around the office the whole morning because I was trying to get everything things done before my boss gives me anymore requests. Rush rush rush. Anyway, the boss is sick so I thought I'd be good to him and get him a cuppa hot water... So I got the mug.. walked quickly into his room and I felt my right heel getting caught onto the bottom of my left pants and BAM...

Next thing I knew, left knee hard impact on the floor and I was holding tightly onto the mug (see how committed I am??) with the water half spilt. I was kneeling in front of my boss' desk. He was on the phone when he heard the "thud". He looked around and saw me on the floor and said, "what are you doing to yourself down there?" and I said sheepishly "I tripped over myself"

HOW EMBARASSING?????

Told it to the designer A and she laughed her head off. Glad to know I provided some sort of entertainment =P

It aches.. oh.. and I don't know how I got the bruise near the knee either!! It was definitely there before I made a fool of myself..

A lil dosage of culture!

2007-10-31T23:13:00.000+09:00

During the weekend just passed.. Oppa & I decided to get a bit of culture: be "edumacated" about the Egyptian mummies @ the Art Gallery and watch an Italian comedy film at Cinema Paradiso

The quick visit to the art gallery was not bad... good to see that there were a lot of other people there too! We moved through the exhibition pretty fast because we were running on a very tight schedule. However, I think we did pretty well for the 40 minutes of looking at mummies, all the jars where they store the intestines, lungs etc. But I think that was enough.. I have to say, I got a bit bored after that =P It wasn't like "wooo" and "ahhh" like when we were in the museum in Berlin.. seeing the bust of the supposedly most beautiful woman in the world (and no it's not Cleopatra!)... Nefertiti. I remember how I wanted to be a historian or even an archaeologist when I was in year 8.. I studied one term of The Ancient World and I got hooked. But then my bubble burst when I attended one lecture with J when she did Archeology 101.. yawn fest =P Maybe it got better after 101.. but hey, it didn't get my attention the first time, it never will!!

I'm still interested in the history stuff though. I wouldn't call myself a buff of any significant event.. but I know a bit about things.. I guess... I wish I had subscription to History channel on Foxtel... Blasted Foxtel.. increasing our fees again but no extra benefits.. grrr!!!!

Anyway, I digress...

So after the exhibition, we rushed to see Manuale d'Amore. An Italian film starring the sexy Monica Belluci . She heated up the screen without too much effort!! Sizzle sizzle. There was this scene in the movie.. it wasn't explicit or raunchy. It was sooo erotic and sexy in a sophisticated way..

we were starved after the movie.. quickly flicked through the entertainment book (ahh what would we do without it?!?!).. and decided to try Adelphi @ Parmelia Hilton. It wasn't bad actually.. the Seafood Delight was yummo! Large servings there.. we couldn't finish our chips so we took away.
Food wasn't bad... just we were too greedy and ordered too much =P

I just finished my last ever individual assignment for MBA!!!!! Woo hoo!! What a weird feeling... 2 more group assignments and 1 quiz.. and that's it!! My gawd.. it's soo surreal!!!!! What made it even more surreal was receiving the confirmation letter stating that I am eligible to graduate! Oh my goodness... Mar/Apr 2008 graduation ceremony.. sheesh does time fly by or what????

Oh.. I get to wear a mortar board.. woo hoo! haha

New Gadget!

2007-10-13T19:17:00.000+08:00

Woo hoo!!

Our long awaited for new Sony digi camera has arrived!!!!

As well as our new clothes =) Here's a photo of me with the "rewards"... Taken with our new digi!!!
Our new digi also has cool feature where it has touch screen, with ability to have stamps and frame! Awwwesome!!! Annnnd! It's got a smile detection!!! So if you set the target to someone's face and when they start to smile (it has to be a BIG smile) the camera takes the photo!!! How cool is that??

Anyway, below is a photo I've touched up.. It's like a mini-photoshop!
Awweeesommmme! New Toy!!!

And what happens 2 weeks later??

2007-10-07T23:56:00.000+08:00

.....It's KW and Jas' wedding!!!

I should be sleeping now but I thought I'd blog about the wedding tonight

It was such an exciting event... seeing Dai Lou settle down.. It's just amazing because been friends with him since we were little! Have always seen him as the big brother, someone who is always willing to help out and soooo nice to everybody. Always smiling..

Tonight, he's married a beautiful girl who's the same!!!! Always smiling and always sooo sweet =)

We were dancing sooo much!!! I think it was a a set-up because our table was right next to the dance floor.. a major hint??? But it was still fun, glad that LH was there because she kept on dancing!! hehe Couldn't stop her.. poor Gav.. was pretty tired haha

Here are some photos.... more on my facebook!

4 weddings this year.. gawrsh!!!! Pocket hurt hahaha But no more to look forward to =( C'mon.. who's next? =P

K... sleep time!

Another one bites the dust.. =)

2007-09-23T23:41:00.000+08:00

The long awaited for wedding of the year happened yesterday (apart from KW's of course haha)

Es & Nam got hitched!! Woot Woot! It was such a lovely day!! The weather was PUUURR-fect and the happy couple looked amazing. Es looked SOO BEAUTIFUL!! Sooo jealous! That girl is like....... so photogenic it's not funny! Looks good from every angle!!!! So jealous!!!

Here are so happy snaps... I have to thank J-san for staying with mum so I can go and attend the ceremony & reception. BIG HUG.

Pretty bouquet.. J-San was sooo flabbergasted when I said these were lillies... they're in fact, orchids :O haha ya ya ya..

Nam & his PT Cruiser... flashy!!
Sunken Gardens @ UWA was so romantic but the damn mozzies!!!!! Argh!! All the poor girls got huge bites.. everywhere!
Gav & Carl hard at work.. the presentations and speeches were pretty good!!!! Farnieee!

Vero wanted to make funny faces!! We missed ya WJ-san.. and of course Angie & J-san!! Muwah muwah

Haha Lainy & I have been doing a lot of this. She took a lot of snaps of the delicious food...

Aww the happy couple.. muwah muwah! So happy for you guys!!!

The girls!!!! LH shocked us all!!! She looked like a model!!!

Carl.. is that meant to be a cool pose? =)
It was such a lovely day..

And it was da bomb of a wedding!!!! =)

Wish Nam & Es a happy and long marriage!!

Now... time for babies! =)

High Tea for the Hens

2007-09-16T22:48:00.000+08:00

Thanks to Carl & SL, they organised a Hen's Tea Par-tey for Es. Good on them coz I think it's not good to NOT celebrate the last days of singlehood!!! =) J and I went shopping for the accessories for Es.. and damn her, she looked good!!!! Look at that cheeky smile =) hehe

J and I also bought her something.. but it's not parent friendly haha So we told her to open in private... something for the honeymoon kekeke

Here are just some photos taken during the high tea.. the food was mediocre and the service was crap!!!! Venue was nice though. One would think that going to a "high class" place would naturally mean "high class" service. Not really!!!! The waitress had an attitude problem and she treated us like kids and was actually telling us what to do!!! Sheesh. Not happy!!!

Had to do this.. the moment the tiers came out, we all whipped out our camera. I ended up taking a photo of Lainy taking a photo =) EJ's camera is in the corner too hehe

It was a very nice decoration. We told the place it's for Hen's thing so they were nice enough to offer private room (at no extra cost) and the centre piece. So I guess the venue wasn't TOO bad in that sense... See Lainy's cheeky smile?
In that room, we had 2 other newly weds.. shocking huh!!! So many married this year!!!!

This is my 2nd Hen's outing now haha Both of them have been pretty tamed... it's still nice though to catch up with everybody and celebrate Es' last w/e as a single girl!!! However, one day... perhaps I'll get to party like it's 1999 (haha)

The Return of Jedi El

2007-09-10T21:27:00.001+08:00

Jedi El is back!!!

Yayyyyy!!!!!

We get him for 1 week... sooo exciting!!! When J-san brought him home, he wouldn't get out of the car! Maybe he was nervous... we even tried to use food to persuade him but that didn't work. So we eventually carried him out hehe Such a cutie!!

He was like jumping everywhere when he first came in the house. The whole ambience in the house changed the moment his little paws touched our floor. For the whole night, he was just pacing up and down the house. Re-acquainting himself with the surroundings..

Sooooooo cute!!!!

Mmm Swinggg Baby!!!

2007-09-02T22:40:00.001+08:00

Last night.. was David Campbell night

But before that... Oppa took me to a nice Fish & Chips dinner at the foreshore tee hee Took this photo with my phone camera, not bad for a phone camera!
Rush to Burswood and met up with friends. It was soo exciting because I haven't been to a concert for ages. I miss a bit of culture every now and then!!! =) Took this photo with my phone again.. and when I was taking it, this lady behind me said "excuse me, we can't see the stage". My goodness gracious! It was only like 2 seconds! Why do people get so narky???
The concert was a blast!! It was a mix bag of different music styles. David Campbell is a great entertainer.. he also made a few jokes about his dad Jimmy Barnes. But yeah, it was definitely worth the bucks! It would've been a lot better if there was a dancing floor!! Wanted to dance!!!

Today is father's day... so J-san and I took our parents to El Caballo Blanco - Spanish Dancing Horse... It was value for money! Buffet + show... $57. It's worth it guys! Go visit!

The only downside... SO DAMN FAR!! 1 hour drive! So make sure when you leave the house, bring some snacks!!!

It was cool coz when we got there, it felt like we went back to Spain! hehe there is a resort there too! Maybe next time can make it a weekend thing =) Apparently the place was set up in the 1970s but shut down after awhile. It was only re-opened towards the end of last year. I think it's good they have something so different.. they also have a world famous trainer (from South of Spain) that does training here as well as in Sydney. Good on them for sustaining this unique culture.

Here are some photos from the place... this horse is bowing! How cute!! They were beautiful horses.. the rider (is the maestro) looked so cool in the traditional outfit.. mmm men in uniform... *slap self*
Took this photo of the Rolls Royces because we think it's the owner's car hehe

Too much food...

2007-09-01T00:07:00.000+08:00

We went to Hyatt buffet tonight.. to say Bon Voyage to Mikewoahski... off to Taiwan again next week.. but we'll see him in another 6 months time. =) Hyatt buffet, not too bad.. a lot of dessert... but I think Atrium at Burswood still beats it!

Look at this plate of yummy dessert!!!Here's me & Oppa... him wearing his and mine fave shirt tee hee coz I bought it! Of course he has to love it =P
Now...

This week... apart from moving forward, I have also been hit by blast from the past!

Because of this new direction in career.. I've enlisted in the help of my classmates from undergrad degree.. Meeting up with one of them on Monday night... and then tonight.... got contacted by my first ever bf on Facebook!!! Whhhhatttt thhhheeee??! And he has a kid! Whhhhaaatttt thhhhee??

This week definitely has been very very interesting!!

New Chapter... soon to be

2007-08-28T23:05:00.000+08:00

Oh myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Can't believe I did what I did this morning...

After soo much internal turmoil. I did it...

I told my boss that my plan is to get out of my comfort zone and move on. I was like..... soooo worried and scared about his reaction, because I treat him not only as a boss but also as a friend and someone who is very very close to a "grandpa" though he is not that too much older than my dad's age!

ANYWAY... so there has always been a "connection". However, I have been too comfortable at this company. Despite all my worries and the "what if I won't get a job" or "what if I won't be good enough for the job".. I still talked to him and made my decision.

I guess I've been brewing over it for the past few months.. ever since towards the end of last year, everyone has been asking me what I'll do after MBA. I've always thought I'd take over this company and rule the world =P Nah, but I thought I'd stay here for the long term. However, I guess a few things sped things up and pushed me to make my decision.

I am glad it's done, but at the same time I am hell scared! I am also feeling very very sad for my boss. He's undergoing sooo much pressure/crap on the home front that I just feel really bad for him. But I guess we all have our own battles to fight and I have mine too..

But it's done. He said please stay for awhile, at least till Dec. I've told him that I'll still looking around but yeah, nothing beyond Dec.

Oh my gawrsh.. better looking!! Any jobs out there for me? =)

*runs around waving arms around like a person gone troppo*

Time flies..

2007-08-25T10:47:00.000+08:00

Went to an MBA gathering last night at Queenies in Highgate.

I've been slack and didn't organise gatherings after each trimester and Daz pointed out to me before this trimester finished. So I thought.. fine fine I'll get off my butt and organise one. Wasn't too difficult really. Named a place, email out to people and voila! People turned up! haha

But I have to say, the last time I saw this bunch was in Dec last year!! Shocker huh!! And time definitely has flied. We met T when we were doing Economics and he just had a new born then. The new born is 1 year old!! Gawrsh!! Most of us are finishing at the end of this year (23 Nov to be exact haha) so we're all very happy and can't believe how quickly it all went! We were whinging about how it's going to be 2 long years. But it actually went by too quickly, I think I'll miss the assignment days and meeting new people and working in a group assignment. haha Sound a bit sad huh?!

Everyone was also badgering me about my job =P To be honest, can do a lot better than just a PA. I know I have a lot of influence and exposure to all these different things at this company, but when it comes down to it.. at the end of the day, I'm still a PA. Not much responsibility or accountability.. not using my brain. They all say I could try out Business Analyst... Hmmmmm interesting..

Everyone was asking where Oppa was. I started to feel bad that I didn't get him to come!!! Grrr.. but I just didn't think it was nice if I brought my partner and others didn't. But it was certainly a good night out with group friends who went through a lot together.. chatting and catching up. But blardy Chucksta didn't make it coz he was sick.. tsk tsk. Pyker! Anyway, it was good coz got to chat to P more on a personal level =) And blardy H, he kept on saying how he's still sober. Dude, perhaps you need to drink some thing BEFORE you come next time hehe We all had to drive so we were all very responsible drinkers ;-)

Have to say congrats to B... biiiiiggg news! So lovely! Very happy for you mate! =) Everyone said I'm next.. but nahhhh ahha don't harrass me, harrass Oppa! haha Besides, Daz is next =)

Even though I brought my camera, I didn't take photos =( Not even of the food! Such a shame! The food was REALLY good. I had cajun chicken salad.. mm mm! Though it was a bit heavy on the saucy but the chicken was buenissimo!! I might go back again (but gotta save up first haha it wasn't a cheap place I have to admit!!)

Sniffles

2007-08-21T21:50:00.001+08:00

It's for real now..

WJ is going =( Leaving Perth..

Another one gone... I guess that's the thing about being close to people who comes to Perth to study. There is a high chance of them leaving.. =(

WJ organised a get together. She didn't make it an official farewell party because she didn't want to cry. I was surprised that she held herself together rather well that night =) J-san and I made a slide show of all the photos (well, since we have the digital camera) and made it into a PDF... with music!! Awesome!!

After making the slides, it made us realise one thing... I take a lot of head shots with WJ! haha But it's good that I did that! Otherwise, there'll be not many photos to show!! ;-)

Yes.. photo below is rude. But this is in memory of an infamous photo we took together where WJ looked like a lady boss from a triad haha That was back in 2005!! Sheesh.. time flies..
Ok, a better looking photo now =)

Woof Woof!

2007-08-15T22:50:00.000+08:00

I waited 13 weeks before going to Greyhounds.

J-san went there like at least 4 times. We've been waiting for my trimester to finish because my ONLY lecture was on Wed!! So finally, finished my exam on Monday and we booked to go to Greyhounds and invited the cousin and family.

The doggies are sooooo cute! They are sooo cheery and joyful. They are soo skinny though! When they finished a race they had to close the gates to block them to stop them from running. They were all jumpy and appears that they still wanted to run! hehe So cute.

The buffet wasn't too bad either. This plate doesn't represent the buffet line but yeah get the geist. Normal buffet food.. It is better than Sizzlers. They also keep on refilling with NEW food! So a lot of variety. Well worth it!
Happy G-Star & J-san at the dessert bar
This is in the preparation room. They're dressing the dogs for the race. So cute. They all looked so happy and joyful.
There were 8 races, finished at 9.45pm. Was a bit tired but we had a lot of fun.

A good night out =)

What's the big Deal about Truffles?

2007-08-12T10:38:00.001+08:00

Truffles.... (refer to HERE for more details)

Heard many great things about them. How they have the exotic taste.. The fact that they're hard to grow so that's why they're so expensive, how they have special trained doggies to find them in the woods, and only posh restaurants would consider adding only a few thin pieces to complement the dish and to bring out the taste.. blah blah blah

So my family went to the truffles festival last week and brought home on little thing. J-san decided to cook scrambled eggs (after agonising over the past few days thinking what grand dish she needs to make to complement truffles).

Here's J-San hard at work..
And here's the final result. See that black thing on top of my scrambled eggs?? Truffles... Had a taste.. erm... gah? What was I meant to taste??? Hmmmm To me, it's over rated. But J-San was definitely basking herself in the bliss known as tasting expensive food haha =P I think it was totally wasted on me =P
Then in the arvo, J-san and her Big Mammal decided to make dumplings and invite Oppa and her friend over..

Below is J-san's dumplings, both us gals got the skills from our papa, who comes from a family who LOVES flour-made-related food (such as dumplings, noodles etc). Hence they know how too cook them very well.. My grandma certainly has great culinary skills, unfortunately we didn't inherit those. We do know how to make good looking dumplings (giggle)
Below is Big Mammal's first try... haha =P It's ok, Oppa's were like that too. I was in shock when I saw how his family was wrapping the dumplings. I had to step in and show off some of my dumpling wrapping skills hehe Big Mammal's turned out to be prettier and prettier but I didn't take photos ahha
Here's J-San and Big Mammal caught in action. He wasn't ready though.. kekeke
The dumplings were delicious... one of my favourite =)

Family Visiting

2007-08-07T15:37:00.000+08:00

Our little cuz E decided to come to Perth for a 2-week visit. She hasn't been here since her stay with our family almost 8 years ago. Time flies!!! She was just a lil bubba when she left Perth and she was getting good with her English! Now, she's all Mandarin and knows how to count in English.. that's it!

Anyway... first night she was in Perth we all went out to dinner... yumm. It was a very quick and short dinner. We were starving so we scoffed our food down and people were tired (Friday night) so we all left early. But still managed to get a happy snappy with J-san and Cuz J! =) 2 J's and a C!? =P
Next night, Cuz E came over... and I took a photo with her.. She looks soo much like my uncle!!! Splitting image... when she was a baby, she looked like me but as she grew older she turned into her dad! Family gene.. scary!! =PWe then played badminton.. Mikewaohski got hooked on badminton during his time in Taiwan. All the students at his university plays badminton. So he was determined to continue during his 2-month home visit and get J-san exercising as well haha He even bought her a racquet!!

Cuz E wanted to play so she came after family's truffles festival in Mundaring (I wasn't there, missed out again.. coz of uni meeting.. boo) Cuz E wasn't too bad for an 11-year old. Oppa said "so this is what it's like to play with kids".. Was he hinting at something? Someone getting clucky? Don't think so.. me thinks me think too much =P
After getting a good work out, we decided to put back all the fat we lost. We had fish & chips and pizza for dinner! We also introduced Cuz E to dessert pizza... mmm Choc + Banana + Strawberry + Almond. She was like, eew don't want to try. I made her take a bite.. gotta try it! Don't think Taiwan has anything like that!!!
Finished group assignment last night at 9.47pm. It was a weird feeling... still feels like we're missing something. hmn

Now panic mode for exam on Monday =( Haven't started! Arghh!

Man.. can't wait for the end of this year!!!!

Bye Bye Jedi El...

2007-08-04T10:02:00.000+08:00

*Sniffles*

Jedi El goes back today =(

This morning, J-san made pancake.. mmm And Jedi El was hovering around trying to get some food off me.. look at that face... took me a lot of will power not to feed him
But J-san couldn't help it... and gave him some. Caught her in action!!
*sniffles* bye bye Jedi El.... shall miss you dearly =(

Jedi El

2007-08-02T15:26:00.000+08:00

Been dog sitting.. and this dog.. JUST TOO CUTE!!! Some how, I bonded with this dog.. hmn, more than my cousins' dog. I wonder why.. is it because it's small or it doesn't smell? ahha =P Look at him..... so cute..
Anyway, we think it may be getting a cold because it's been coughing and sneezing. So last night J-san and mum put blankie over him. He looked so cute with it that they decided to take photos. I called him Jedie El. haha
He some how likes to hang around my room a lot. So we decided last night that he could sleep in my room because it is a bit warmer than the living room. I moved the cushion into my room and put a blankie over him (again). So funny though, he didn't lie down when the blankie was on him. He only laid down when I removed the blankie... SOOOOOOOOO CUTE!
So he slept in my room.. and snored haah Luckily, not those loud human snores. But it's still noise.. but hey it's Snowie here.. I can sleep through anything (almost anyway!!)

Tita what?

2007-07-31T21:48:00.000+08:00

Learnt a new word today

Was drafting a letter for boss and came across this word... "titivating"

I'm like... huh? Thinking that boss was being cheeky & rude.. so I went to him "what is this word!? are you being rude?"

I got teased... and I looked up this word..

Titivate
1. to make smart or spruce
2. to make oneself smart or spruce

Had to apologise to my boss for teasing him =P

A Home Song Stories

2007-07-30T21:45:00.000+08:00

Went to see a movie tonight, thanks to J's persuasion...

I wasn't too keen on watching it because it's Chinese film, I thought it was going to be a typical one where it is boring and very dull.

Boy was I wrong.

A Home Song Stories follows a Perth boy's memories of his childhood and of his mother back in the 1960s in Australia. Unfortunately, the movie ended up being set in Melbourne because they couldn't get funding in Perth =( How sad!!! It was a special screening I suppose because it's his home town. It also had Q&A session after the movie..

I cried and cried man.. My dad started crying not long into the movie hehe It was beautifully shot.. the story was very well told. Everyone cried... *sniffles* Definitely recommend it for all to see. This film is also showing at the Berlin film festival! So proud.. unfortunately it isn't Perth up there =(

For the official site, go to HERE. There are more behind the scenes stuff (such as casting) on this site..

O Cutie!

2007-07-29T22:54:00.000+08:00

Got a nice surprise...

J's Big Mammal went away for like 1 week and we ended up looking after his cute cute doggie.. SOOOOO gorgeous! He's gone chubby since the last time we saw him! hehe But it's all good lah, he's still as cute as ever.

I think I like small dogs now. Big dogs can't keep them in the house because they take up a lot of room haha This little doggie is so cute, follows us everywhere.. right now, he's just sitting next to my seat while I'm blogging.. sleeping. He looks so bored though.. Hmn, I feel so sad for him :( Especially when we go out... Feel so bad for leaving him behind.. Boo Hoo. If I ever get a dog, I don't think I can ever go out!!! If I ever get a dog.. I'll be getting 2!!!

I was bored tonight.. so I thought I'd take some shots with the cute doggie..
Isn't he just gorgeous? Look at those eyes.... awwww...
I have been such a bum...should be doing some exam prep work but ai yor... can't be bothered. Just want to get it over and done with. Too many people around me are finishing this trimester.. I guess their care factor has rubbed off me. But I must not be like this... I am finishing end of this year! Woot woot! :) what should I do to celebrate???

Hmn, shouldn't think too far... must concentrate on the now....

O Harry.....

2007-07-27T22:39:00.000+08:00

The long awaited for final book in the Harry Potter series...

It is sad to know that there won't be another book to come... and that the movies will also be finishing soon. But I guess you can't have too much of a good thing.. it'll just get dull!

Anyway... so i finished the book in 3 days!!! I totally ignored my uni (well I planned it so that I finished my readings before I got the book.. tee hee that's forward planning for ya!) and forgone my precious sleep. But it was worth it. I enjoyed the book and it does explain a few things. I also agree that JK Rowling did wrap up the story pretty well.. not really allowing for any chance for people to write MORE sequels..

She must be like the richest woman in the world. It's just amazing about her struggle as a single mother and then BOOM, here she is!! The publisher BLoomsbury must be laughing all the way to the bank, quite rare especially in this day and age where digital media beats traditional prints. I think they'll be set for life huh!

Ok, back to assignment work.. *yawn*

Congratulations!

2007-07-14T22:54:00.000+08:00

Congrats KW & Jas for your matrimony! =) Can't believe it.. the first one of our generation (and our circle of friends) to get hitched!! Aweeesomeee!

The day was PERFECT for a wedding! The sun was shining, and so much warmth and happiness surrounding the happy couple ;-) It felt like wedding of the century because there were so many people! Bigger than a dharma function! ahah

So happy for them... it was also like a huge reunion for us =) Got to see all the friends whom we haven't seen for such a long time.. I was a bit tired afterwards haha All the chatting does tire me out!! I slept for like 3 hours after I got home!!!! Sheesh! That's like half of the day gone! Was a bit pissy because I was meant to finish my readings for uni.. d'oh!

Tried to take photos during the ceremony but kept on getting KW & Jas' back.. doh! It was a nice wedding, except during the vow thing done by the reverend, it felt like they were in a court room!! Hmmm..

They were sweet though, wearing traditional Chinese costumes. So cute hehe Jas looked sooo beautiful!!!

Our happy snappies on this very very happy day with the sweet couple...

WJ striking a pose... pretty good. And James in the background.... saying"We want YOU".. Nah, he was asking if we wanted a drink..
My fave girls.. only missing one... she's all the way in Shanghai =(Happy couple and the Chi-Wang cousins... and LY hehe
Another photo with the happy couple, I think J-san and I took like 3 photos with them ahha J-San was getting rather embarassed =P Cousins! LY can't take photo.. cut half of HW off!!After so much hard work (cough cough) we went out to coffee near the temple. WJ & Vero came as well.. yay! =) Oppa decided to order pizza.. mm Magherita.. So full afterwards... I had 3 slices, Oppa had the rest... *tsk tsk*

Fri 13th

2007-07-13T14:44:00.000+08:00

Because it's Friday 13th, thought we may need a little bit of sweet to balance the bad luck =)

Workmate also bought me chocies.. mmmm feast feast!

2007-07-05T21:58:00.000+08:00

I've been writing blog everyday, that's not a good sign! =P

ANYWAY

After all that drama, I got my bed delivered at 5.30pm on a Wed. The truck blocked my way so I was late for uni! Doh.. oh well, at least I got my bed!

It was DYI.... I hurried home from uni at 9pm....

So from this....
Went to this....
So after 2 hours of going huff and puff (coz the legs wouldn't fit in properly) and cursing, I finally had my cozy bed to sleep on.. ;-) Sooooo comfortable... mmmm fresh smell of sheets and wood!

Work has been quite hmm... how should I put it.. chaotic. Politics flying everywhere and quite frankly, I'm quite annoyed at it all. Why play politics? Why bitch behind people's backs? I believe we have a bunch of lovely people to work with and I believe everyone works well. But there are just little things that sets people against each other!!

Why O Why?!?! There are soooo many bigger things in life to worry about than these petty little arguments or trying to out-do each other or focussing on all the negatives. Dailai Lama did say compassion is the key right???? *sigh* I just don't understand... Why create all these drama?? Just beeeee... relax.. chill...

Ooo, saw an video clip of something the new YADs have done (in 3 days). Sooooo cool!! Click Here To View

I felt a hint of jealous when I was watching that. I remember being heavily involved in the YADs... those were the fun times I think. Just being young and all we cared about was getting Buddhism out there whilst having heaps of fun and making new friends. I think my good friends are mostly from the YADs. It's just a shame that I haven't had the opportunity to spend time with them for the past 1.5 years due to un as well as situation at home... people have also moved on.. Oh well, I guess that was one chapter of my life closed.. I'm in another chapter now and it's actually is pretty awesome!! =)

Ok, enough of whinging... gotta get some work done. Another bz weekend ahead

*yawn*

Nooiiiice

2007-07-04T15:23:00.001+08:00

Check out my new scarfe! =) Mum knitted it... she finished last night. Didn't take her very long either!

It's so nice and warmmmm....

Archiving....

2007-07-03T22:51:00.001+08:00

We purchased our beds on Sat.. woo hoo! How awesome :) So, in preparation for the bed, I cleaned up my room. But.. there wasn't enough space for everything!! I realised, perhaps I should put my high school and old letters etc into the storage room. Whilst "archiving" my life, I also reminisced. I kept my letters from my primary & high school years - notes from friends during classes, letters from then best friend after she moved, pen pals from France etc Had fun going through them! Of course brought back memories of me "wild days" as a high school teenie bobbie logging onto the world wide web of UWA using my sis' uni account. That was some adventure haha That introduced me to uni at a young age and also made friends at uni that helped my transition from high school to first year uni. I also kept stuff from my ex(s). Don't meant much to me now, but it's a little bit sentimental since they were involved in the formation of the me now! =P Also don't want Oppa to see those stuff hahaha

So yes... I archived all into 3 boxes. Quite small boxes actually!! Hmm...

J-san was saying how she was having anxiety attacks coz of all these changes. I love it!!! Love the fact that we get new stuff, love the fact that it feels like we're starting fresh.... just love it!!! Also I feel like it's also cleansing.... just feel like forget the past, start fresh and new. Get rid of old and bad habits. I guess that's why I also love new years =P

It's 11pm.. oh my gawd, I'm ready to sleep!!!!

OOooo do I hear... Queen Size!??!?!

2007-06-29T20:36:00.000+08:00

The above demonstrates the current state of my room.. yes I will be sleeping on the floor tonight!

Why?!

Coz I am getting new bed!! Wooooo hoooo!!!

We've been window shopping lately and seeing so many nice beds (queens mostly), my heart was itching for a big bed so I can roll around and sleep diagonally haha Also, get to decorate with nice cushions, rugs and and and and... nice sheets!!!

So I mentioned it once to mum.. you know, in one of those "tones" haha A day later she said, why do you want one? I told her bluntly - coz I want one haha She said, ok let's go shop for one. Needless to say, my jaw dropped!!!

Unfortunately, we didn't see anything that was suitable last night =( And when my room was designed, I don't think it was meant to fit a proper queen-size bed.. I'm like a few centimetres too short! Doh!!!! Oh well, need to get a really thing frame! Can't have anything too fancy =(

It was quite unexpected really. We were selling our old couch (yes, stock take is a great time to re-decorate the home! hehehe) and so I called a 2nd furniture mart in Como. I called, they came and negotiated the price... and left with our sofa, my sis' bed frame as well! All that in a space of half an hour!! My sis & I came home to an empty family room and ours beds on the floor haha They didn't want my single bed =( Boo hoo! What's wrong with it!? I guess young people nowadays get spoilt with doubles or even queen size beds! No one sleeps on singles anymore!!

How exciting ;)

Tomorrow bed hunting! In the mean time, I better get my head down and bum up - work on group assignment!! Yes, one down but another one starts =(

La Vie En Rose

2007-06-25T22:31:00.000+08:00

Oh My Goodness..

Came home not too long ago from Innaloo. Yes.. Innaloo. And why were we up there?? (to me it's woop woop land haha). Anyway.. cut the long story short.

My friend gave me a link to get free tickets to watch La Vie en Rose. Biography of the famous French singer: Edith Piaf.
It was special preview for Qantas members @ Greater Union. So rushed home from work coz left late (that's another story!)... anxiously drove there thinking that we won't get good seats. Little did we know, we got there and the theatre was empty. Granted that the movie started at 6.45 and we were there by 6. But gawrsh, I had a sinking feeling.... do Perthlings don't have culture??? But by 6.30, the cinema started to fill up.. *phew* There's still hope =)

ANYWAY.... I was thinking, oh crap it's a French film.. how are my parents going to understand?? But, music has no boundaries. We all loved it. I cried..... =( When she sang "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien"... the waterworks started. Because she had such a tragic life... Rough childhood, lost her greatest love to plane crash, suffered bad health. Just.. so tough. This song was written towards the end of her life and when she sang it.. it just took over all my emotions.. Haven't cried like that.. EVER! Usually I cry when I see someone die or someone break up etc.. but this is the first time when I cried because of the music... Woa...

Oh... just a quick one about what happened at work today. About 3.30pm, I started to smell something burning. At first I panicked coz I thought it was my laptop but I sniffed around but couldn't pin point the location. And then work mates started walking around saying something's burning. We thought ok it could be next door.. so just got back to work. Few seconds later.. loud high pitch sound started. I thought immediately, that sounds familiar! Sh*t! It's the UPS next to the server!! We went there and holy smokes! Literally!!! We quickly turned off all powers.. and thank goodness the servers were ok. It was just the UPS. So quickly bought a new UPS (almost $400!!) and left the server running..... Gawrsh. A lot of things to clean up tomorrow! At least there is an office to return to tomorrow!! =P

Anyway, back to uni work..

Birthday Bash #2

2007-06-24T21:09:00.001+08:00

Well, G-star's birthday bash was last night. It was at his place... his fridge full of booze! My gawd. It was a cozy birthday party and of course, I went trigger happy!!
Precious moment of us 4 together....Didn't know where G-star was.. he missed out!! It's not very often that we get together like this nowadays.. we're all very busy with our own lives. We only live like 2 blocks away from each other as well!!!! Here's one of me & Yoke, she said "let's do silly pose" and we were like thinking REALLY hard on what to do.... Oppa snapped this shot of us focusing real hard. In the end we gave up coz it was too hard.. Hence.. a normal photo...So today was J-san's turn to celebrate. She still nagged me about how I gave her socks for her birthday when I was in primary school. I'm like... hey! Be appreciative.. that was the trendy socks back then (the aerobic socks haha). That's also what I could afford haha Anyway.... so this year, I decided to get her another pair of socks just to scare her... She actually thought for a split second that's all she was getting.. yet again haha But no no, I'm better this time and had a bit more funds ahha So Oppa & I bought her Egyptian Cotton (1000 thread count) sheets. She loved it.. thank goodness!

We went to high tea at Leaf Merchant in Leederville. It was nice.. but I don't think I'd go again because felt too expensive for too little =P I guess people go there for the atmosphere... and ambience. It was delicious... as you can see from the photos. But hmmm... don't think so =P
Here's my attempt at an artistic shot with "negative" effect on my old old Sony digi.
Ok.. better get back to assignment

*panic*

Oh... happy birthday J-san!!! *huggles* We all wuv u VERY mucho.

Muah!

Woot Woot

2007-06-23T10:33:00.000+08:00

Last night J-san's uni friends threw a little party for her birthday and I was privileged enough to get invited ;-)

And why was I excited to get invited?? Coz we got to try some herbal treats!!!!! Awwweeessome. Never done it... have been totally innocent for like 27 years! So last night, had our first dips.. and erm.. strange. Wasn't seeing things.. didn't think modern art was the next best thing since sliced bread... nor was I giggling or eating extra. We tried 3 methods.. all very exciting but I think I prefer the one with the water filter. Easier on the throat. I still can't get the smoke through my nose though!!!

Anyway, it's not something that I want to practice haha Apparently... first timers don't feel the stuff.. it's thereafter that you'll feel something (so I was told by a friend).. Oh well....

Unfortunately, no pictures hahaha We were laughing because seriously, for 8 people and the amount of stuff we had.... hmm! Don't think they'd bother with us.

Looked at my mobile just then.. and there were like THREE calls from work: 1 x boss, 1 x designer, 1 x warehouse manager. I thought, sheesh.. something big must've happened. Called up boss and he said he was chasing designer's mobile because he forgot to give her Eagles tickets hahaha GEeeeez!!!! Major drama!

One exciting news yesterday.. got SMS from friend I met through MBA. Wedding date tentatively set! In S'pore 2008! Woot Woot!!!!! Hopefully I'll get to go. First time attending wedding overseas.. how exciting. I do also hope that Oppa can come too. But it all depends! Argghh!! How to book tickets early (so can be cheap) when future is so uncertain ;(

Sigh

Ok.. assignment time again.

Huge Celebration!

2007-06-21T22:06:00.001+08:00

This week was a huge week for us...

1. Dad's Birthday
2. J-san's birthday
3. Parents' wedding anniversary.. yes 30 years!!!!

We went to Victoria Station @ Burswood for dinner.. and as a surprise.. J-san & I hired my parents a limo ride. It was really nice and comfy inside! Such a smooth ride as well! But I got a bit car sick haha Travelling backwards isn't such a good idea! So dad swapped with me on the way back.. but he got sick too hahaha We went around the usual spot where we could show off... northbridge through william & james... king's park.. quite good. and we took photos too.. could tell that the driver has done it many times because he knew which spots to take pictures! haha

The driver told J-san to bring drinks.. and she made hot chocolate hahaha we don't drink much alcohol.. so the the driver kindly gave us a bottle of nice tasting water!!!! Definitely not from the tap =)

Only downside about this limo ride.... no rooftop window!!! Couldn't stand up and scream on the top of the lungs!!!

Ok better do some work before I sleeeeeeeeep. Been feeling tired... and the other day, went to blood donation and they said my blood pressure is rather low!! D'oh...

*yawn*

Happy Wedding!

2007-06-17T20:03:00.000+08:00

Welllll... yesterday was amazing. Weather was beautiful. Perfect day for a wedding, and that's what Oppa & I did!!! Haha let me re-phrase that... we attended, we didn't get married haha

It was a class mate's wedding.. someone whom I met last year in 3rd tri for marketing. He was in my group and we kept in touch afterwards. He became like a dai lou for me.. listening to my troubles (well, g-chat and msn haha) and consoling me. Of course vice versa. It's wonderful how we knew each other for such a short time but we could click on that level so quickly. Just feel very comfortable to discuss my concerns. Of course I have Oppa to hear me out a lot of the times, but sometimes it's just interesting to get another party's perspective since Oppa's mind would've been corrupted by me by now haha =P

When I heard he got engaged earlier this year.. I was very excited for him. It was also very cool to "read" about his planning etc. I have been looking forward to this wedding for a long time!!

They had it in a nice & cozy church near Christchurch boy school. The groom looked handsome and bride just beautiful!! When we were waiting inside the church, I flicked through the ceremony procedure and thought to myself "oh sh*t" another long one! haha But it went by SOOO fast!! Couldn't believe it!!! It was such a lovely ceremony... so simple and to the point. hehe Of course I had to take a few snaps. We also got souvenirs after the ceremony (is that what you call them??)
Oppa and I walked around the Christchurch boy school and then drove to the foreshore for some relaxation time.. So nooiiice. Great houses and great view! Kind of a goal-setting visualisation kinda thingo for us. Look at this.. wouldn't it be great to see this everyday??
We went home after the ceremony and did some work back at my folks' place. Quite productive. About 7ish, we made our way to Burswood convention complex function room... Nice and cozy environment. He had like 300 people!!
They had live singers (husband & wife team) and they were really fun and entertaining! The newly weds had a dance but only went on for like 2 seconds and then the rest of us joined in. Oppa & I ventured our way onto the dance floor and just moved our feet side to side haha Not very good! There was a point when it was "faster" dance and we were everywhere. After every wedding, we always say that we want to take up dancing classes because that's what we both enjoy to do.. but we never get off our butts to make it happen!!! But still thank you Oppa for dancing with me when you've sprained your ankle!!! =P

The setting was quite simple.. with a smelly bag.. it's nice smelling! hehe
Going to this wedding, made me realised again how small Perth is. We actually knew quite a few people at that wedding!!! Another MBA friend went as well so that was cool... Oppa's uni friends went too! haha 6 degrees of separation theory at work!! Oppa & I were on the way out of the ballroom when we heard "Snowball". I thought.. EH!? who the??!! I haven't heard that nickname since.... uni!!! haha

Turned around and it was this familiar looking guy. He was half-pissed but he still could put his sentences together. I can't believe he still remembers me! haha He's friends with another close friend during my uni days.. but I've lost contact with that friend now. This guy hung around with us every now and then. So amazing (how many times have I used this word in this entry?!) hehehe It was good to see him.

What would the day be like without a photo of me & Oppa? =) A bugger though coz we didn't take a photo at night at the reception =(
Today.. was harbour town day. Went with family and boy, forgotten how much fun harbour town is!!! haha I think I'm addicted again! It was meant to be a shopping trip for J-san because of her upcoming birthday... (yes, present time! =P) But mum ended up buying me 2 pairs of shoes and 2 tops =P Oops! haha

Ok.. back to doing my readings... This week we're doing a case study on Walt Disney!! Totally awesome!!!! My dream job... is to work at Disney... whatever job it is! =P J-san said I could be one of the ducks from Ducktale.. grrr

Litte trivia

2007-06-14T20:33:00.001+08:00

I like this haha...

Mageiricophobia... is the intense fear of having to cook.

I think I have that.

Any excuse not to cook =P

Taiwan trip... Cont'd

2007-06-12T20:47:00.000+08:00

As mentioned in previous entry, our recent trip to Taiwan was like a whirlwind tour (my gawd, can't believe it's over 2 weeks ago!). Almost every day was jam-packed with places to go, people to visit and most importantly things to eat!

Our first day back to Taiwan, our first appointment at 10am was the hairdresser. Yes, the hairdresser. I explained to my workmate that somehow, we can not find anyone in Perth that would do our hair the way the Taiwanese hairdressers do it.. and a very good price too!!!! I mean, for Aussie Dollar $150 (or there abouts) we get:

1. Wash
2. Styled Cut
3. Hair dye (full head and 2 colours)
4. Blow Dry

Bargain right!!!?? And you get like 5-star treatment with coffee and snacks too! You only get this sort of treatment when you go to Meade or Toni & Guy or those high-class hairdressers.. This one also gives you a computer to go on the internet with while doing your hair!! Awesome!!!
We also got to experience the new high-speed railway that goes from northern taiwan to southern taiwan. Seats were about AUD$50 for economy and almost AUD$100 for business. On the way to Tainan (where our youngest uncle lives) we took economy (see below pic). Seats were rather hard.. but I still managed to sleep all the way (2 hours) haha Judy has the pictorial evidence. She was trying to capture the scenery and in each frame, I was fast asleep haha We also go to experience the business class because our youngest uncle treated us. How sweet! Seats were softer and we could put up our feet! tee hee

Apparently, the fastest the train could go is up to 300km/hr something. The parts were from different countries and handled by engineers from Japan, Germany, US. They mutual language was English, but can you imagine communication? Gawrsh, would hate to be the project manager!!
Another pleasure in Taiwan is the shopping!!!!! SHOP SHOP SHOP! Unfortunately we had too much self-restraint this time =( We knew we couldn't carry a lot and I think the weather also made a huge impact on our shopping appetite. When we were at the night markets, we just wanted to get out of there because it was damn humid and hot!!! Just wanted to shower and stay in the air-conditioned room! Fortunately, we had 1 day where it was quite cool. That was the day when we visited our favourite place and we almost bought out the store.... Can't wait for summer so I can start showing off!! =) This is us in action.. hehe Our aunty accompanied us in this shopping frenzy!! We spent like 2 hours there!!! Poor mum, she was a bit buggered.
I also promised my workmate that I would take a pic of the tallest building in the world... Taipei 101. I didn't think I was going to go anywhere near it this time round so I was going to give her the pics I took back in 2005 haha Hasn't changed mah!! =P But, I still managed to take a snap of it (yes, had to do something silly)...
Trying to get started on my individual assignment... *sigh* Sleepy... 9.07pm already and I haven't typed a word.. Oh no, I lied... I've done the headings =P AI YORRRRRRRRRRRRRR

OOOOOOOO!

2007-06-10T11:32:00.000+08:00

Yesterday I went out with Oppa to see Pirates of Caribbean: At World's End

2 words..

Hubba Hubba!!!

Totally enjoyed it... and now I am soo anxious to see if there will be a FOURTH one!! I didn't think they would because I'm sure they'd be sick of playing the same characters by now. Also, the fact that the main characters have "settled down" didn't think there'll be anything more to write about.. But you never know, it is Hollywood. They always come up with something =)

It was also a special day for Oppa and I ... of which I forgot about. Doh! Luckily, Oppa remembered tee hee hee We were planning to go eat at this nice little Italian restaurant from the entertainment book but it was packed!! We went home and flicked through the book again, trying to see if there's another one we can go to that's near the house.. It was 7.30pm, we were hungry... I was even contemplating to eat MacDonalds or KFC!!!! Then, Oppa spotted a restaurant that says The Firehouse and how it is an old fire station renovated. So ok, so we called up and YES they still had tables available. Happily, we started the trip towards Belmont. Took us awhile because the restaurant was apparently part of a motel and we didn't realise.

So when we got there, we were disappointed because it had only the interior of a normal restaurant.... those typical motel restaurants! Doh! The food was nice nonetheless and quite big servings. Besides, it was with a buy-one-get-one voucher tee hee. But don't think we'd go back there again!!!

It was a good night out. Had a nice perve at Johnny and Orlando. Great conversations with Oppa about future dreams. Talked about natural diamonds vs synthetic diamonds (learnt that for one of our case studies at uni hehe), and of course I prefer ruby haha

Ethics of the New Millenium

2007-06-07T21:24:00.000+08:00

The above pictures illustrate how the Burswood Dome was packed with people. All of them went to hear His Holiness Dailai Lama speak. Free tickets to hear about the Ethics of the New Millenium. How great is that?? Freebie to improve ourselves!!

You wouldn't believe the amount of traffic that was pouring into Burswood. I left work at 3.30pm (yes, my boss was kind enough to let me off early hehe) and I only got to the Dome about 4.20!!! What the!!! I had to park at Belmont Race Course as well!!!

His Holiness is 'cute' haha If we can use that adjective on him...He's so frank about the questions and he would simply say "I don't know" if he really doesn't know. Not like some people, always try to be so wise. He admits that he is only a human being as well... that's what I love about him. So frank and genuine.

I'm glad that Judy-san was persistent and went and got the tickets. "sold out" in 7 hours!!! Amazing! I think like 80% of Perthlings were there!! =) Yahh!! Go spirituality and self-improvement!!

My New Baby~

2007-06-01T12:19:00.000+08:00

One of the must do's when we go back to Taiwan.. is to equip myself with new gadgets =P Unfortunately, I've already purchased my MP3 player in Perth.. So that's one thing scrapped.. BuT I still have a phone that I can buy.

I did struggle with it for a little while, deciding whether I should update. My phone was playing up a little bit.. but it's still useable =P After much internal debate, I decided to get a new one. I did pick out a few on the net before I left Perth.. and when I saw them in the flesh it wasn't too aesthetically pleasing. And then... I thought.. how about N76? And boyyyyy it was noiiice. Fell in love with it.. it's main function is mp3 and the sound is soo good! I have also decided to go with a Nokia because I've tried other brands like Sharp.. and yeah, the fact that Telstra doesn't support the brand pissed me off... and I thought Nokia has always been quite user friendly!

So here are pics of my new baby... SOOO COOOL! So thin.... sound so good... Can play with it forever =)

Whirlwind Tour

2007-05-31T16:49:00.000+08:00

Whole family went back to Taiwan on a whirlwind tour (approx 8 days, not including travel time). Ate plenty, caught up with rellies, and plenty of shopping (although not as many as we normally do).

This entry will be mainly about the food I had in Taiwan... food, glorious food.. mmmmmmm yes, I gained weight haha

Unfortunately, I didn't take photo of my favourite... Taiwan Beef Noodle Soup.. YUMMMMMMY!!!!

More entries later on......

Happy Mother's Day~

2007-05-16T20:22:00.000+08:00

It was such a nice Mother's Day. My sis & I decided to spoil mummy this year, in style... so we booked for Loosebox for dinner. Then J found out that they also have overnight stays package!! Was soooo excited so tried to book but they were all full =( We hunted around and almost about to give up, then J found something that was even better!!!!

We stayed in Armorica. A nice little home away from home in the middle of forest... sooo nice and calming. Air was fresh and cool, the hosts were gracious and spoke with French accent (hehehe) and the best breakfast ever!!!! We were so lucky to have found this place... as you can see from the pics below, it was worth the moolah spent. Everything were very new because they just started 2 years ago... everything from bedsheets to decorations on the wall were all very carefully planned and placed. It was obvious that they spent a long time in setting up the place. It was a bit weird that the guest wing was sooo close to the main house. So when we came home after dinner, we were like tip toeing haha This is definitely not a place for rowdy teenagers or hens night! haha Definitely for couples who are seeking a quiet and romantic getaway. It was really great in the hills because we could see stars... and milky way!! In the city, we could see stars too but man, definitely a lot more when in the hills and no street lights at all!
Dinner @ Loosebox was quite good. We were totally stuffed. There were 5 courses and each one were so tiny we didn't think it was going to be too bad, boy were we wrong!! Totally stuffed.. I couldn't sleep!!!! The food was definitely top class and so was the service. I ordered this fig pudding for dessert and it had cute meringue doves on it.. hehe here's my cheesy grin. I also ordered snails (aka escargot).. that was great! I haven't had them since...... high school French class!!!

We also had a nice time going around Mundaring... Visiting the Sun market... so nice. Country music playing and everybody kept on saying hi to us because they probably thought we were tourists! We also did some sight seeing at Lake Leschenaultia. The weather wasn't too crush hot so we were a bit rugged up... took a walk HALF of the lake. I couldn't do the full circle coz it was too breezey. But it certainly had beautiful view!
It was such a nice getaway. Even though it was only 1 night away, definitely felt like we had a few weeks break overseas!! The most memorable Mother's Day ever!!! =) It was about time we spoilt our mummy huh!!!

Go to the Force

2007-05-06T00:12:00.000+08:00

My boss was kind enough to offer these 4 tix to watch Rugby. The last game for the season, unfortunately he couldn't go with his wife because he was sick! So I got them!!!! Woo hoo!!! Originally I thought there were only 2 (like the footy tickets he gave me once) and I was hoping to go with Oppa. BUTTTTT he gave me 4!! So I managed to convince parents to go as well hehehe It's something different and it's a good distraction for mum... and us. We were very lucky that we didn't get caught in the traffic for too long. Not as bad as footy I suppose! I also found parking that was near by (although had to pay $10 but was worth it because that meant less walking for mum!). We were also VERY lucky that the rain didn't last long!!!

The seats were awesome!!! Soooo close to the field!! Had a really good view!! There was a sense of buzz on the way to the oval. There were A LOT of positive energy flowing around, and I felt it. I hope mum absorbed some of that too.
We stayed until half time and left. The streets were so damn quiet haha It was a fun night out even if only for a short while. Another memorable moment for sure!! I'm really grateful that my boss was generous enough to pass these tickets to me. He has also been very understanding about my situation at home. He said family is more important and I gotta do whatever I need to do. Very very warm feeling when he said that.

So......

Tonight... was a surprise party for Mike (Ham) and Andrea. It was dinner at Utopia. It was quite good food! 6 dishes and boy were we stuffed!!! N made a speech pretending that it was for him and Es. He brought out the flowers and said that he would like to sing a song... he started with "wooaaaa~~~" and then went onto "Happy Birthday to you" hahaha It was smooooooth! Both Ham & Andrea did not expect it at all!!!

It was great to see the guys again. Haven't seen them for ages!!! I missed them.. but I certainly did feel a bit old.. all these youngies surrounding me!!

Of course, had to take snaps =)
The boys only....
Ham and the gals =)

So we went to The Deen, hoping to get some RnB but alas, it was crappy musico. So we ventured to Varga Lounge. It was the bomb. I think I'd return again! The air certainly has cleaned up because of the smoking ban. I rather enjoyed dancing there, even if it was only for half an hour!!!

Felt a bit sad to leave so early.. I said to Oppa, if I had my way, I'd probably dance late into the night!!! Also, it's so sad... coz when I was in uni, I heard stories that a few 27-yo still go clubbing and I remembered saying "eww so old and still club". Here I am... argh! Karma! hahaha

Okie, night night!!!!

Impulse Buy

2007-04-30T19:33:00.000+08:00

This is the end product of impulse buying

Technically... it wasn't impulse buying coz I've been thinking about it ever since last year!!! But never got over the fact that there are other brands of MP3 players that are the same or better than iPod.

Today was the day that I got over that hurdle and bought meself a 2GB Creative. It's sweet so far =) Has video and photo as well as FM radio. But I need to be more selective with the mp3s I put in.. coz at the moment, it's well over 2GB!!!

Buenissimo!

2007-04-29T12:28:00.000+08:00

Last night, Oppa & I ventured into a place we've never been before.. the Argentinian Social Club.

I was a bit nervous about attending this thing.
1. I don't speak Spanish
2. It's room full of strangers
3. Have to be in the mood to socialise

When we first walked in, a lot of them were looking at us, probably thinking to themselves "what are those 2 Chinos doing here, are they lost?". I spotted a couple of Asian faces so I didn't feel too out of it hehe It was quite a casual occasion and people just sat around, boozed and mingled. There were a lot of kids.. reminded me of the Brazilian social club I went to a few years back. That was fun too, a lot of dancing - hip shaking exercise hehe

There were a lot of different Spanish speaking countries in the room - Peru, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and of course Spain (the minority though). There were plenty of booze, food (BBQ lamb chop and some typical Argentinian salad called Russian Salad haha) and a lot of latino music!!!

There were some Tango performance during dinner and Oppa pointed out that Clive's parents were one of the performers! What a small world! So we ended up being taught how to do simple Tango.. Oppa & I tried.. not great but I think we did ok haha I think it's soo great to have something in common with the husband or with the wife. Do something together as a couple and enjoy each other's presence in a different environment other than home =)

We met a lot of Aussie who were learning or are interested to learn Spanish. It was fun chatting to them and a lot of them are quite advanced in terms of Spanish speaking! Oppa was not fazed by it all.. I think he enjoyed learning from them and trying to chuck out a few Spanish words haha We also met 1 Spaniard and he was soo funny. Very good English and he's a great teacher too! But he and this other Aussie kept on teaching Oppa pick-up lines and ahem terms.. tsk tsk! It was funny to watch, and some of the phrases Oppa didn't even understand why it's a pick-up line. *sigh* I guess it's a good thing haha

Unfortunately the Spaniard only here for 1 year and he's about to leave in July! It was quite amusing because this Spaniard doesn't fit the stereotype of a Spanish person. He doesn't like bull-fighting, he says there are no siestas and he doesn't dance hahaha He was still a lovely bloke nonetheless, and he was using a few Aussie words like "reckon" hehe So farnie to hear it spoken in a foreign tongue =)

I really enjoyed my night. A memorable night. I also got to shake my hips! A guy at our table took me onto the dance floor and strutted his moves. Not great but he had a few cool moves he learnt when he was travelling through the South American cities. Most of the people there have been to South America - could see a glint of jealousy in Oppa's eyes =P

Towards the end of the night, 2 teenagers approached us and started chit chatting. Both were from Chile and one I think is only about 13-15, he's only been in Perth for like 5 months. He was like telling me about Hamasaki and Boa and how he loves them and he listens all the time. It was like weeeirrd! haha They also started talking about how the latinos when they get drunk, their eyes start to be like oriental eyes and so they call each other Chinos (terms of endearment apparently). I don't know how true that is though!

Aight, better get back to studying. I did 3 pages of notes yesterday before I went out, BUT I saved over it with a blank document! WTF WTF!! I realised after I got home and I was totally spewing. So I woke up at 8am and quickly re-did it. Faster the 2nd time round.... but still d'oh!

Mmmm BBQ

2007-04-26T21:40:00.000+08:00

Yesterday was ANZAC Day. A day to remember the fallen soldiers from Aust. & NZ in Gallipoli in WWI. When I think of ANZAC Day, I think of the movie Gallipoli played starring Mel Gibson. That was such a good movie.. and he was so yummy... mm

Anyway, I digress...

So we had a day off, in the middle of the week. It's a bit sucky coz it breaks the week up and body clock all out of wack! I walked into work this morning and saw my rubbish bin and thought "What!? The cleaners didn't come in!" only to realise it was Wed yesterday and the cleaners come on Sundays!

Anywho... ANZAC Day, what did we do? In the morning, J's friend came over with her 5 month old bubba. Sooo cute. She kept on staring at me. I think she was trying to get used to the new environment.

I was still sleepy so I didn't play with it for very long. Slept from 11ish until 12.30pm. Then we had a little picnic at a park near our house. It was prep'd by J.. really nooice! The weather wasn't too hot nor too cold. It was sooo quiet and peaceful. Here's a photo of me & J munching away.. mmm
Here's one of me and mum... we are gesturing that we didn't do anything to help with the BBQ =P J did it all tee hee hee
So we had a good afternoon. Then we went home and I did my uni work... whilst J & mum did jig saw. Below is a photo of a completed one from a few days ago. Mum did this all by herself. They finished one last night, one of earth. Pretty cool, 3D... quite challenging but a lot more fun than 2D... It seems like it anyway!
Had last lecture for the trimester. 3 of the people in the class are finishing this trimester, so jealous!!! Exam next week on Thurs... I hope I'll do ok. The lecturer wants us to study for all 12 weeks worth of topics for 5 questions in the exam. WTF!!!! Tried to hint to her that we want some ideas/guidance but nope.... wouldn't budge =( Have to study harder now!

In a bit of dilemma.

O-mmo-ni came to me.. and asked if I'd leave my work and postpone MBA to travel with her. I'd love to!! But ai yarrrrr.. postponing MBA =( I really want to graduate with the "crowd" and I really can't bear with the thought of extending MBA into the year after =( But what's more important?!?! Of course spending quality with mum =(

ALSO, talk about perfect timing. Mum's appointment with oncologist is 1st May.. My exam is 3rd May!! WTF!!! Why!!?! O Why!?!?!? I really hope.. erm, actually no... I _KNOW_ everything will be ok for mum. "The Secret" at work.. I'm sure everything will be fine, mum will be great!!

*drags feet and goes off to study*

Update on CC Drama

2007-04-23T19:29:00.000+08:00

So I called back half an hour later.. 24 minutes to be exacted haha

They said they've sent the email out.

I offered them a screen capture of my emails. The only two I ever received were Feb and April. I even paid for the recent one so I can prove that I am not just doing a scam.

They said "please hold". I said "fine"

Few minutes later..

"Ok all reversed"

EEEE HARR!

Happy Birthday Oppa~~

2007-04-22T16:54:00.000+08:00

It was Oppa's birthday yesterday!! It took me a whole week to try to do something for Oppa - something that' different and he hasn't done before! It was blardy hard!! So was thinking Swing dancing? No classes just for one afternoon. Go-Karting, but that was REALLY expensive. Then bowling? Nah, done it before. Argh! What to do!? So I couldn't help but called Oppa...

He thought of the Freo Prison tunnel tour. I thought oooh but eeeee at the same time! It wasn't cheap either! But I thought it's only once in a life time and it's for Oppa's birthday. So booked and also booked for the Left Bank for dinner.

We got there about 2.30 and signed our life away on the safety agreement thing and we suited up.... Look at Oppa, all excited about wearing this kinda lab suit.
It was actually quite hot to be wearing this suit under ground. The temperature was like 20 degrees celcius but very humid! Anyway, we got over it haha We got a history of the tunnel and why it was built. Not for escaping haha It was really for the fresh water underneath. It helped to allow Freo town to flourish because it was filled with disease due to bad water source and contamination.

It wasn't too bad to be underground. I was really about seeing weird insects or funny things down there but phew, no. ahha No living things can survive down there. We were on the tour by ourselves (bonus!) and the guide was really funny. She fooled me by saying there were snakes and they also found crocodiles etc. I freaked and she laughed. I am very gullible I told her! She's fooled me quited a few times!

The funniest thing was we were rowing our boats in the wet sections of the tunnel (yes! just like what you saw in The Amazing Race!). Oppa was right behind me and I was trying to row myself around a corner. However, I wasn't moving! I rowed and rowed, grabbed onto the walls to push meself.. was panicking a little bit coz the guide was going further and further away! The tunnel was pitch dark, nothing but a few lights and our torch on the helmet. It was about 10 seconds later Oppa said "err.... Yan, look". I turned around and he was holding onto my boat. Grrrrrrrrr! He laughed so hard..

So after 2 and a bit hours later, we merged from the ground and got this pic of us in our daggy outfit. The safety feature was sooooo amazing. Felt safe about climbing up & down the ladderWe were passing the helmets and the life jackets back to the guide, we heard a "ping" then I heard Oppa call out "Yan! Look!". D'oh! I dropped our locker key =( Luckily, it landed just less than 1 metre below us ahha Oppa was able to retrieve it...
A bit dark, but shows my hero =) After we've changed into our dinner clothes, we quickly took a shot of us outside the prison. Amazing, I've been here for like 17 years but I never did a tour at the prison. I only knew of the round house!! But that place has an interesting history, even if it was short. Not like thousands of years like in Europe.
We were famished after the tour (a lot of exercise!) so we walked around town and bought packet of chips. That was the yummiest ever! We finished it within 2 minutes... and Oppa burnt his mouth roof ahha
Dinner at Left Bank was noice! We had outdoor seating but it wasn't too hot. And then we ordered a Seafood Platter + Fillet + Kilpatrick. Yummo! But it was too much! I think it was the chips! The seafood was nice and so was the steak.. oysters just undescribable. However, I didn't fancy the chilli mussells. Just wasn't as nice as Young Joes or Uncle Vinny's... mmmm

After dinner we went over to Es & Nam's for a quick catch up. It was nostalgic coz I spent a lot of time over there during my single days haha It was fun and their house is so warm and cozy. Homely. We chatted until 11.30, mostly about wedding preparation. I can't wait to attend! =) Gav came as well, good to see him in person and not only on MSN haha

Sunday was just a day of relaxation. But managed to get grocery shopping done. J's friend came over and she brought over her little doggies. SOOO cute. I was sleeping and all I could hear was the "ding ding ding" and the paws running on the tiles. So cute. Then I went to get the washings off the line, thennnnnn the 2 little things ran outside the house through our side fence!
Through that little gap! They went out across the road and over to our neighbour's front yard! INSIDE the fence! Oh my gawd.. I was rather worried coz of traffic, luckily there weren't any! Here are some pics of the little devils...

I hope Oppa had a good time on his birthday. Certainly a memorable one =) Muah!

So Peeved

2007-04-20T22:59:00.000+08:00

ARGH! I am SOOOOOOOOOO pissed off.

Must be a bad month for credit card statements.

Missed a statement mail out for mum's Gold and we got charged like $80 odd dollars for late payment and purchase interest charges. But we NEVER got the previous month's statement. Luckily, they reversed it.

THEN, I got my Earth card statement via email, ANOTHER interest charge coz of no payment for last month bill. But neh huh!!!! I never got an email notification for it!! ARGH! Tried to call but their system was down so have to call back in half an hour. Buggers!!!! I do hope I get the charges reversed! Soooo peeved.

*breath*

Went down to the warehouse to help out today. We are very under-staffed down there and we have HUGE orders waiting to go out. Mostly stock that are gathering dust and thanks to our major distributors they're willing to take it all for dirt cheap prices. Unfortunately, they want it all with price stickers! D'oh! Thousands and thousands to items waiting to be stickered. *panic* Was so buggered and fell asleep on the couch after dinner. Bad!

Tomorrow is Oppa's birthday =) How exciting, we're doing Freo Prison Underground tour and then going to Freo for din din =) MmmMm yummo! That reminds me, gotta get Entertainment Book *giggle*

Teenie Bobbie

2007-04-17T11:32:00.000+08:00

My mum, sis and myself have been glued to our on TV for the past 3 days... watching Hanazakarino Kimitachihe It's Da Bomb!!

It's bad lines and a little bit of bad plot, BUT.... HOT GUYS! That's all it needs to make a drama successful =) I can't believe it.. even my mum is hooked ahhaha Over the weekend, we didn't do ANY work!!! We just sat our couch and enjoyed the "view" There were a few moments (quite a bit actually) of cringing and going "ewwwww who says that in real life". But we still enjoyed it immensely.

We hummed the music as well.... in our heads before we go to bed. Very sad isn't it.

This series, I rate it as high as It Started With a Kiss Hot babes in there too...

My sis' blog has more pictures of the hotties...

Hubba Hubba

Extra Long W/E

2007-04-08T16:12:00.000+08:00

Sooo cool to have another long weekend after last week tee hee

Now.. what have I done so far...

Fri - CP's BBQ. That was noooiiice.. Oppa came too. We were totally stuffed coz CP & his wife prep'd quite a bit! We were outdoors and the weather wasn't too cold, Oppa was a bit on the cold side coz he forgot to bring his jacket. He didn't want to accept my offer of wearing my jacket coz that would ruin his manly image hahaha =P Had fun chatting to mates. I knew CP back from uni days and back then, being a little first year computer science student.. I got to know quite a few of 'older' engineers haah CP was one of them.. and a few others who also went to the BBQ. Had fun chatting with them and hearing their stories and them sometimes give me crap about my uni days... dorky *sigh* We had nice wine.. and we had desert wine! That was delicious.. tasted like honey. I think I was over the limit but I wasn't drunk. Though CP was giving me crap about how wasted I looked. I was just red, not drunk! Oppa kept on stealing my desert winebut I told him to stop it coz he's driving!!! Hehe He's got a sweet tooth that guy.. *tsk tsk*

Sat - food shopping. Went to carousel and mum bought me a pair of sunnies, to replace the ones she broke haha yaaaay! not a very exciting day.. but relaxed. no uni work! d'oh

Sun - went to maccas for breakfast and thought we'd take a walk on the foreshore.... but d'oh, it poured! So we went home after that. J & I cleaned the house.. coz it was getting unbearable!! THEN we went to Rockingham shopping centre (coz it was the only place open during Easter long weekend!!!) We were all excited.. thinking on the way what kind of yummy food they'd have in the food court. When we got there, the first store we saw was Rocmans and BANG we spent about $179 ;O Shocker! I got another dress and a noiiice top =P Me spoilt!!! THEN we walked through the whole shopping centre hoping to find the food court (by this time, I was starving!) BUT no food court. We realised that it was only the little cafeterias.. sandwichs.. pies. Erk! So we drove to Freo. Something was happening there!!

Street Art Festival! It was awesome - and sooooooo many people!! Amazing! We saw a few acts and one of them was hilarious, so we gave him $10. A lot of them were actually asking for min of $5!!! Talk about inflation.

Ok, better get some uni work done =P

Can't wait for surfcating tomorrow =) I'm going to ride to the foreshore.. by meself! Ooooo With my new helmet and new cushy seat! Woo hoo! =P

No I'm not Sad!

2007-04-03T21:45:00.000+08:00

Oh my gawd Lainy! I hope you'll be ok!!! The images were actually ok - didn't scare the beejeezes out of me haha But geez!!! Must've been a few bad weeks! It really sucks to be sick when working too coz can't just take days off whenever you like =P Have to have med certs if more than 1 day!!

Yesterday was indeed a very exciting day.. my long awaited present to myself finally arrived!!!
Tada!!!! Loving it!! It came with a HUGE bag and a few skin care samples. Full seasons of "Sex and the City"!!!!! I can't wait until uni's finished so I can do a marathon!!! Admittedly the first couple of seasons might not be as good but oh well!!

That was bought from Ebay.. I'm getting too acquainted with my PayPal account! Not good!!!!

Ok - better get back to uni work. Need to sleep a bit earlier tonight coz last night didn't sleep until late. Was at uni until 11.15pm for a group meeting (yawn)...
my work colleague saw me this morning and said "and why are you so tired". I said "how'd you tell??!" (coz I thought I was being as energetic as I can be WITHOUT coffee) and she goes "coz I'm a mum" ahhaha That's a good answer. Mum knows EVERYTHING and it's so damn true.

My coffee-reduction scheme is going well. I did a cold turkey. From 2 cups (instant) coffee every day down to 0!! Except for weekends I drink perhaps 1 cup. Very very proud of myself. BUT I had 1 at work today, coz I brought Krispy Kreme doughnut to work (damn my sis for bringing back from Melb!). So I had to have coffee with that.. wouldn't taste the same without coffee =P

Ok ok, better run!

Woah.. what a weekend!

2007-04-01T21:50:00.000+08:00

Wow..that was such a nice weekend..

I took Thurs and Fri off because mum was going to be home alone. I actually spent Thurs doing my Logistics assignment (yes, I finally finished that.. I crammed 3710 words within 10 hours... amazing or what.. but it's a pile of sh*t)..

But I worked so hard for a reason.

I planned to spend time with mum the whole weekend. I took her to facial @ Hidden Valley, the same place as where my best friend and I went for her Hen's Day Out! I was very excited because mum hasn't done facial for awhile and pampered. I book us facial deluxe with foot massage... Ooo that was sooooooooooo lovely!!! I want to do it again! Perhaps when Judy-san comes home.. *kekeke* I had to take photos =) Mum was ok with the first shot, but with the other shots, she wasn't keen and she told me off for being such a tourist!! Our clothes even matched colours! haha Both pinky =P That was totally unintentional =) After our facial, we went out for a quick walk around the place. I didn't realise they had animals! They had A horse, sheep, goat, llama and donkey!
I said to mum that I wanted to take a photo.. and she goes.. here, let me take one of you and the horse. The horse was very curious and he wasn't afraid to approach me. But I was scared of him! haha So here's mum, capturing the moment of me being scared..
This whole weekend was bonding session with mummy. We had a great time each other, and I got spoilt with all the shopping we did hehe Believe it or not, we also watched THREE movies! Woah...

1. The Wedding Date
2. The Holiday
3. The Good Shepherd

Seen them all before.. except the Good Shepherd. Oppa came over too, and that was like.... the first time haha Mum and Oppa in the same room.... woah....
and it turned out ok =) Thank goodness hehe But it was nice.. to spend a quiet night at home.. with loved ones =)

It was a really nice weekend with mum.. had her all to myself. It brought back memories of 2003 when I was unemployed and stayed at home studying for my IT certs (useless by the way ehhe). Mum kept me company and took me out to keep my spirit up. We really got to know each other then. We did line dancing together.. shopped.. Ahh.. The Tai Tai-dom =) Oh and yes, got to experience being the only child haha Not saying that we didn't miss Judy-san!!!!! =) Muah muah

I had a fun time with mummy and also I made sure she got a lot of exercise and that she's doing a lot of "chi" exercises so that her body will heal and get rid of any unhealthy stuff. Yes.. mum will be a-ok!!!! She's a tough little cookie, she'll fight it!!!

Oh btw haha Lainy! You're such a sweetie =) Thanks for the movie tickets! I'll put them into good use... either Spiderman 3 or Pirates 3.. my gaw, I can't believe how quickly the time has gone by... *sigh* Quite scary =(

Next week.. another long weekend! haha I was telling mum how bad I felt for taking time off work though it was legit. Am I an workaholic!??! *runs around screaming and waving arms about*

Crappy Day

2007-03-28T20:53:00.000+08:00

Today has been such a crap day...

Boss came back to work today. He didn't have a lot for me to follow up from his trip.. rather it was mainly the marketing director haha So I was quite busy, was hoping (like I have for the past few days) to get some time to do my Logistics assignment. It's due tomorrow and I haven't made a dent! *panic*

So.. busy busy busy! I was quite buggered. Then 2.30ish, got an email from our client asking to approve some rebates. It was for like 60-odd thousand dollars so yeah, we weren't going to do it in a hurry! Howeverrrrrr, they only gave us TODAY to get back to them. What was worse, it was based on Sydney time! WTF! Panic, Frenzy... sigh. Accounts payable wasn't too happy coz of course, giving dosh away!!! I stayed until 5pm to get it out of the way... on the way home, I feared my car might stop coz I've run out of petrol. The light went on Mon.. I did a trip to uni and back.. and to work as well. This morning, on the way to work I went DOH! Forgot the fuel vouchers! Ayyy, never mind can still last me what... Boy was I wrong!

When I was ALMOST home, my car went... vroooooooooooom... die. Panic! Doh! NoO way! I'm almost home!!! So here I am, stuck in the middle of the road. The road towards home seem so far.. although it was only 2 mins away by car! So luckily, my free membership with RAC was still valid (until next year! thank Buddha!) So I called up and in about half an hour they came to the rescue. I had to pay $8 for 5L petrol though.. gotta pump tonight!
Sending Judy-san to the airport tonight. She's going to Melb for the weekend! Woah! How awesome, was just reminisicing tonight, the last time I went to Melb was back in 1992!!! I am so envious. But I am also looking forward to my long weekend.. I took 2 days off work to be with mum. I'm hoping to take her to facial on Friday :) she hasn't been pampered for a very long time so she deserves it, after all these hard work she's done!!!

Last night, naughty me should've stayed at home and did assignment, went out with WJ and Sof. It was a get together before Judy went away and WJ's trip to Syd. If she's going to get this job, she'll move away from Perth.. Nawwww!! Another close friend gone =( I guess that's the thing with Perth, a lot of ppl want to move away!!! But I do hope she gets this job (if it's a good place).

So we decided to doll up and go to C Restaurant. Not too bad. View was amazing and the company, just great. We laughed quite a bit.. gossiped.. and talked about career, men and how inept they are with our feelings and just life in general. Of course had to take some snap shots to remember this amazing moment..
Will miss you dearly WJ-san! Your infectuous laughter and the bubbly personality and apart from that, you also have wisdom and great insight to things that we all can learn from =) I had a lot of fun with you and it's ashame that we couldn't have met up more regularly for the past 2 years or so..

All the best to you!!! MUAH

Another Yr Older, Another Yr Wiser!

2007-03-25T14:33:00.000+08:00

My best friend who got married recently celebrated her birthday over the weekend =) Still a spring chicken I say (just coz I am a couple of months older than she is!)

So we went to dinner at her fave restaurant in Freo (think it was called Pizzaeria Bella Roma) as it serves her fave spaghetti (Spaghetti Bella Roma). It was a very popular restaurant and we couldn't book. So we waited in queue (yes it was a rather long queue too) for a lil while. We got there about 7.45ish... and didn't sit down until 8.15.

I was meant to treat my friend.. buttttt the restaurant didn't accept credit card!!!!! Doh!!!!! We ordered 1 large pizza, 2 pasta and 1 chilli mussell (1kg!). It was bellissimo! The spaghetti was definitley as good as she made it out to be. It was simple, full of goodness.. and it wasn't too heavy either.. I want to go back and eat!!!! But I have to say, I think the Chilli Mussell could do a little bit more work =) The place we went to the night before with my parents Spaghi in South Perth had pretty good Chilli Mussells...the pasta was a bit questionable - I guess coz I ordered a cream sauce which was too heavy. My mum's octopus ink star-shaped pasta was nice though.

Anyway, back to my Sat night. Of course, I had to take some photos..
We were VERY full afterwards and a little bit full on red wine. They had some left over bottles of reds from their wedding so they brought one. I can't believe that we finished that bottle. I usually don't drink wine, particularly red wine. But the one they bought for the wedding was yummy, not too heavy or strong after taste.. My kinda drink haha The bottle was finished by mostly Oppa, her hubby and me, because my friend isn't much of a drinker. She says she sculls ahhaah She'll be good to take to parties haha So after that VERY full dinner, we opted for a walk around Freo so that we can stuff ourselves with dessert.

We went to this place called Amoro (??) and it had really nice ice cream, like Il Gelato. All these different flavours! But I wasn't in the mood for ice cream, more in the mood for coffee. Yes, coffee. I didn't have coffee for the past 4 days at work because I decided not to drink coffee at work. I used to drink 2-3 mugs (yes HUGE mugs) a day... not quality coffee either. Instant coffee. Also, coffee creates acidity in the body so.. yeah, I thought I better start being healthier.. drink more water and tea (Korean brown rice green tea). I can't quit coffee completely though.. coz the smell is just too good!!!! So I'm only social drinking haha Do I sound like an addict!? =)

Anyway, I ordered this drink... Buosino. Italian coffee with chocolate and cream, served with chocolate spoon!!!! I was sooo excited when I read that.. Oppa immediately commented that I'll definitely be taking photos. I couldn't disagree =P My friend took this photo.. of me savouring over this chocolate spoon - it was solid!! Totally made out of chocolate!
Then, I started stirring the coffee, the spoon was melting and it had this funny shape which we wanted to take a photo of... but alas, my friend was too slow with the shutter and the bit fell off..
It was a very nice night indeed. Laughed and chatted... learnt a few things from my friend who's really into investments. We also reminisced our Taiwan trip back then. For our 2 decade anniversary, might go to Japan/Korea.. Goawrsh, I better start saving up! ahha No, this time, it will definitely just be the TWO of us haha Mum is not going to be our saviour like last time.. because when we DO go, we'll be friggin 34! *panic*

Lovely weather, good company, great wine and food.. ahhhh what a nice way to spend a Sat night =)

Ok, cram some more for assignments...

Crazee People

2007-03-21T15:18:00.000+09:00

Clive sent an email out a while back saying there is a bike ride thing on the freeway. Have to pay $18 to ride on the freeway, hmm!! Then my friend organised a picnic @ Burswood (the suburb) which had a jazz concert afternoon. Oppa and I were tossing up going to the ride in the morning and then go to the concert. But I didn't want to spend the whole day out.. then I thought.. OOO why not ride to Burswood!!!!!

I didn't bring out the old bike until the day before, only to realise the rear wheel wasn't getting any air when I pump. So.... my dad took it apart and only to find it was perfectly fine... Then he had to put it all back =P I had to take a photo of his effort, and mum watching over him making sure he doesn't miss any nuts 'n bolts haha Very very sweet...
So.. Oppa rode from his place to mine.. it was a pretty hot day. I don't know how he did it.. Coz I would've been half dead. Took a photo outside my place.. He was meant to have his arm around me but he didn't get to do it before the camera took a shot. So it looks like he's gesturing something *shrugs*
It took us ~45 minutes to get to the Burswood area. But it was a very nice ride, no hills and a lot of cool breeze. But it was HOT when we arrived, so we took off our shoes and started munching away. Couldn't wait for friends ahah We rode and we got there on time!!!
Yes, me munching hahaJazz concert was good, it was singer + small brass ensemble. There were also clowns and face painting! I couldn't find the face painting though =( It was hot hot hot, I felt sorry for the clowns coz they were sweating so much! I got major sunburnt on the back. Stupid me wore singlet and didn't apply sunscreen properly on the back. Now, ugly tan line! Still recovering from the sunburnt from the wedding!! Got nice nagging from parents when I got home.. oh well, I guess they care.

I was STRUGGLING on the way home haha I drank too much water and it was too hot. So when we got to South Perth (Doug Ave) I had to jump off and push for awhile. Thanks to Oppa for being so understanding and helping me to push so I could make it home =D

It was certainly a great time! I want to do it every weekend, try to make it a regular thing.. me pudgey =( Need to tone up!! But how.. hmn, time a bit tight at the moment. I am making an effort to walk with mum every night to keep her exercising. I am under the pump for uni work.. my own fault really. Left it too late. But this tri, *sigh* been slack =(

Windy and Cold!

2007-03-11T00:00:00.000+09:00

Ahhh... outdoor cinema. Haven't done that for ages!!! So a couple of weeks ago when my best friend suggested it.. I immediately said yes and just told Oppa to make that day free *giggles* Man, I think I better be careful as to how I "advise" Oppa of our social calendars, otherwise it'll be all about ME ME ME and not enough about him =P Need to balance!

Anyway, my best friend and her hubby (oh my gawd, so weird to say that ahah) kindly offered to prep EVERYTHING for the night. Felt so bad but they kept on saying "don't need to prepare anything, just bring your bf". Hmmm!!!! I offered to do it the next time, but haha they said they'd prefer for us to take out. Dunno how to take that that comment ahahah

Shows that the last time I went to a outdoor cinema was back in the middle ages... they have bean beds for hire now!!!!!! How awesome is that!?!? $5 per bag.. not cheap but if do it once a year it's ok hehe These certainly made the outdoor movie experience a lot more pleasant! We saw "The Holiday" and it was great!!! The music was awesome... definitely worth to have a listen. We all cried haah Weepers!!

Oppa and I took an ugly photo of ourselves =P
My friend gave me a couple of photos her rellies took on the day of the wedding and the one below stuck out....
There you go - unlady like at its best hahaha This is early in the morning when I was just made up and ready for my friend to get started with the tea ceremony. Hair was fresh and so was the make up. I still look awake haha

Alsoooooo, the photos I ordered from my best friend's wedding proofs also arrived!!!! And this is the best of me & my oppa =) There was also one of me and my family. Haha Judy-san said it looked like _I_ was the one who got married.. farnie..
There were a few others.. but too pai-seh to put it up here. Feels like an exhibitionist. But... to come to think of it, I _am_ an exhibitionist.. coz I've got a blog right?!?! And I am too ashamed to admit that I blog ahah :X

You guys must be sick to death from me talking about the wedding... haha Can't help it! This is like..... the first big event... at the current stage of my life! =P Next one would be graduating from MBA! Can't wait for that one... Woo hoo!!!

We are seriously thinking about adopting a doggie. Not from the pet shops (coz I reckon they rip people off)... either from RSPCA or one of the doggie homes up in Shenton Park. This is like HUGE... coz we've NEVER had a dog!!! Oh sorry I lied, we had a puppy for 1 month before we migrated to Perth. But I don't remember much from it!

On the way home from uni this morning, I was thinking of names to call it. Variations of Happy (my aunty's doggie was named that), Smile (my uncle's doggie was named that)... Joy (our 1st puppy was named that)... and what else? We want happy-themed names hehe But yeah, don't know yet.. need to go through with this thing.. Gotta be more responsible as this is a long term commitment..

Better go to sleep.. *yawn* Panicking a bit coz of uni work piling up. Argh! Been so slack this trimester.. not good =(

Long Weekend.. Hm!

2007-03-05T15:54:00.000+09:00

This long weekend came quite unexpectedly... only realised its existence last week! Didn't really have anything to look forward to.. except a movie date with Judy san and dinner date with Oppa (yes! He's finally back!!!)

Last week was soooooooo hectic. Mainly because I had to squeeze out 2000 words in like 4 nights. Lack of sleep didn't help much.. But I managed to pull it through. This is the latest I've ever started for an assignment for MBA. Am I getting slacker?? C'mon, it's only 3 more trimesters to go and I'm out of here!!!!

So late nights for last week and by Fri (handed in assignment), I was totally buggered. But I had something to look forward to and keep me awake. A French film at outdoor cinema in UWA, Sommerville. It was sooo romantic ahha Went with Judy-san and her PHD friends. It was nice, but the chairs weren't too comfortable!
Nonetheless, it was still nice. We were surrounded by big tall pine trees, breathing in the fresh and cool air. Occasionally, I felt a thing thread of spider web go across me face! Ewww...

The movie was "Changement D'Addresse". Quite interesting, made last year and it was a romantic comedy. Was a bit weary about paying $15 for this movie picked by Judy-san because she isn't usually known for picking good movies haha She knows it too tee hee hee

The movie finished about 10.15pm and we got home about 10.30. I clonked out by 11 and didn't wake up until 11am the next day!!! Shocker! Was soo tired. Usually when people slept too much, they get a headache. Not me! I felt like I needed more!!

Sat arvo had group meeting at uni and after a successful meeting (for a change, it was all girls haha), I went to Oppa's house for dinner. He said he was cooking Fettuccinie Cabonara! Ooo! We ended up cooking together and I made my first pasta sauce in my life! It turned out not bad! His family happily ate it, finished the sauce. I hope they were genuine about it haha And no puke or whatever after I've left their house =P Very proud of myself, still beaming about it.

Sun - I literally slept the whole day. I was probably awake for like 2 hours tops?? Oppa came by in the afternoon to say Happy New Year to my parents, so he rudely interrupted my arvo nap (hehe) and then after he left, I went back to sleep! My gawd!! After dinner, I went to sleep again and woke up about 8am. I slept so much - unbelievable.

Was meant to be doing some work for assignment.. but alas, didn't happen!!! And here I am, 4pm and I still haven't done much research haha Waiting to go to uni =P Also don't feel like doing that, why am I so lathargic? I blame it on the weather!

Speaking of the weather, I hope the National Carbon Test was successful last night. My sis and I took the test and unfortunately, we're Carbon Cowboys =( Need to do a lot more work. My sis the worst culprit coz she takes long showers haha Also, she forgets to switch lights off after she's left the room!! So many things we can do to help the environment. I'm all in for it! Let's hope the rest of the world would catch on.....

The Biggest Crush!

2007-02-27T07:51:00.000+09:00

On the way to work this morning, Nova FM was discussing the climax of the high school years - the school ball. And they were saying how exciting it is to get all dolled up, ask a certain someone to go etc etc.. That brought back memories of my high school ball and I started grinning and my heart was thumping. I was like.. BOY! I must have had a REALLY good time *guffaws*

Our school was a tiny school so we always have combined Year 11 and Year 12, to cut the cost. So I got to experience the excitement one year earlier =) But that was not the main thing, the thing about going to the ball back then.. was to see my the guy who I had the biggest crush on for like... 2 years!!

(Judy-San if you are reading this, you'll know who I'm talking about! haha)

Since year 10, that was the only thing on my mind (apart from school work of course!) When I read through my diary for that period, it always started off with "Oh I saw him today!" or "Oh his arm brushed against mine during band practice" or "My gawd! He smiled at me!!!" ahah How sad??? But that was what I looked forward to every day for 2 years. And it definitely helped when both of us were involved in concert band =) And no, he was not the reason why I joined up. I like music so I took up clarinet and joined the band! Some fun times actually! Fortunately, we weren't perceived as nerds =) *phew* Orr so we thought *guffaws*

ANYWAY

School balls. I remember the excitement. I was going to go with a bunch of friends regardless of his presence there. So naturally, I was over the moon when my reliable source told me he was going. That was a huge surprise coz you wouldn't have picked him to be the "party" type =P

So my best friend and I got dolled up, all excited. And that was the first time I wore my contact lenses in public. Yes, I wanted to surprise people so I got used to my contacts AFTER school. How stupid huh? hahaha

We rocked up in our little car (not in a limo haha we did that for our year 12 ball) and we had fun. The biggest moment was when I sat around on the table with friends resting after we've danced crazy, when my crush approached me and asked me to dance. I remember being flabbergasted and was so shocked that I can't remember how I got onto the dance floor with him. Heck, I don't even remember what song we danced to! My friends were like nudging each other like crazy. (haha Thinking about this now makes me all red and excited)

We got onto the dance floor, he held me close and I was like "oh my gawd oh my gawd". My best friend had her camera that night and she took a really nice shot of us. I still have that photo sitting nicely in my album. My friend also blew it up to like A3 size haha

After the dance, I scurried off the dance floor and left the poor boy there. I felt sooooo stupid! Then another song came on and my friends went over and asked him to dance with me coz it was my fave song (A Kiss from the Rose - Seal). Another embarassing moment!!! I was whinging to my friends that he only asked me to dance coz my friends asked him to. They said, the 2nd time yes but not the 1st time! That was out of his own free will! Now THAT got me more excited haha That night, we danced three times... *jaw drops* The best ball I've ever been to I reckon ahah

Enough reminiscing?? Nope! haha That then brought me back memories from the last concert band performance night with my high school crush coz he was graduating.

At the end of the concert night, we were just bidding farewells. I nudged him and said "yeah see you around" and then he gave me a HUGE hug. Gawrsh.. afterwards, I was beaming like there was no tomorrow. A mum next to me winked and said "aren't you a lucky girl". And apparently, this is from my sis, during the hug my mum was like going "oh my gawd! look look!" and smiling with joy. That was about the ONLY time when my mum smiled and get all happy when a guy hugged me hahaha It was down hills from there and she almost disowned me when I started dating in uni. Silly huh!

OK.. enough.. for now haha Back to work =)

Happy The Year Of Golden Pig!!

2007-02-18T17:48:00.000+09:00

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEARRRR~~

How did everyone spend their Chinese New Year?? Mum's operation went fine and she came home for Chinese New Years Eve dinner =) That was bonus... Even though it was a last minute organisation and we had take out (which is the way how I like it haha), it was still very nice =)

Doesn't look yummy? My sis & I rushed around to 3 different restaurants to order take away. Luckily, we got there about 4.30ish and we got in before the crowds. *phew* So we had our CNY eve dinner together at home.. in front of tele. haha Mum couldn't sit up right coz of the wound so we gathered around the sofa.

Whilst having dinner, our little house guest was whining because she wanted in on the yummy food. My dad has a soft spot for her so he gave her some meat.. we all shook our heads but hey, she's his princess. I reckon, he loves her more than he loves us! My dad will be heart broken when her owners come back from holidays.
Hm.. Maybe we should seriously consider getting a dog of our own! But they are so much work, and the vet bills will be soooooo much!

Anyway, this is the year when I felt I need to start giving back to my parents. Since last year, although on a meager salary, I still try to pay for things. Like buying grocery or buy meals without getting money from mum hehe And I also decided it's about time I gave them red packets for CNY!! haha They were pleasantly surprised. I also got one from them =P I decided to give Judy-san one as well because didn't want her to feel left out. She was happy that she got some moolah even if it's little amount =P I guess that's how I show my love. Giving things to my family.

Ever since mum's illness, I think I've been trained to take care of people and not be so grossed out. But I am very lucky (and very thankful) that mum is a strong little lady and she can put up with so much pain and that she recovers so quickly. Because of mum's good recovery, I didn't have to really go through too much of the gory things.

Well, I'm just thankful that mum's made it safely through the big operation. I am thankful that mum was able to spend CNY at home with us. I am sure that mum will be cancer-free soon so that mum can do whatever she wants to do. Oh, and we all can travel together as a family again =)

Long time no see~

2007-02-14T21:57:00.000+09:00

Sheesh, been awhile since I last wrote an entry!

Been busy...

And tired...

Uni has been hectic, especially preparing for exam and assignment for summer school. Exam went not too bad, the result came out for th exam and I was happy with. I might just make it to HD (hopefully) and pull my average up a little bit haha But not pinning my hope on this!

Today is V-Day. Oppa sent me an SMS this morning with a text rose. Very happy that he remembers =) I wonder if he'll still remember few years down the track!

It's crap that he isn't here.. but it also sort is good that he isn't because mum's still in the hospital. Can't do much with him on a week night anyway =P I would've been too buggered to do anything. Been SMSing Oppa alot. My bill for last month was a shocker (almost $60) but that's coz I made a few calls and SMS in NZ.. I wonder if I can claim that on tax... Wonder if it's worth the trouble. This month, I'm sure I'll reach $60 and perhaps $70.. coz made a few overseas calls as well and LOTS of overseas SMS. That's 45c per pop! =O Oh well, it's all worth it =) I'm sure Oppa has spent quite a fortune on his phone bill too! heeh

Mum is recovering well from the operation. Apart from low blood level (it was low already prior to surgery) and aches, mum is doing well. Been spending quite a lot of time at the hospital, and hence I have to do work later at night when I get home. Feel so sleep deprived, I guess it's my own fault as well. Been stuck on the computer watching Ugly Betty and Heroes, JUST before I go to bed!! Argh!! *smack self*

Been quite busy at work. Boss brought up my pay again and want to discuss what I see myself doing in the future in this company. I'm glad that he brought up about the pay by himself. That means he KNOWS I need to get paid more *giggles* But heck what I am to say about my future at this company???!!! To be honest, I have not a clue where I can go here.. it's a family business and it's relatively small. Our head office consists only 3 girls who runs the sales/logistics side for the WHOLE of Australia! Can you believe that?? I don't know how they pull it off every day... Anyway tomorrow is the day that I will speak to the boss.. Hopefully something good will come out of it.

My best friend and her hubby returned to Perth from their honeymoon over the weekend. I dropped by their house this evening before I headed out to the hospital. She showed me photos and gave me a packet of their famous tea. It was fun to look at their photos from the honeymoon. Mauritius is definitely the place for honeymooners. Dunno if I'd pick that place to go to for honeymoon.. Hm...I'd want to go somewhere... not too relaxing! haha I can't just sit by the pool side and read a book everyday. Need to do lots of touristy things every day haha Damn the "can't waste money" mentality!

Ok... better do some work.. 10.20pm already! Doh!!

RIP

2007-02-05T12:46:00.001+09:00

Only on Sat arvo did I learn the news that one of our MBA friends passed away. It came as a shock because he is around the same age as us. I worked with this guy in tri 2 last year, and we kept in touch every now and then over MSN. He was Taiwanese as well and we both said that we're each other's 4th Taiwanese acquaintance (maybe me a bit more than him). He was the quiet type, but I'm sure he partied hard with his close mates. Wasn't close close but it was still very sad to hear the news. There were a few of us MBA students at the funeral. All shocked. It also appears he tied up all the lose ends before he "did the deed".

I think out of respect, I won't say any more. Just hope he finds happiness and peace where ever he will be...

SO what has been happening since my last entry?? Prepared my friend's wedding present (finally) and I must say, I'm proud of myself. I was going to take a photo but I remembered I forgot to bring my camera. Then I went to look for my phone and realised DOH! I left that at home too!! Alas, it's not meant to be displayed on my blog. What I did for the present was: I took a photo (on the side) when we were doing the session at UWA. Turned out not bad when I printed and framed it =) So proud of meself~

Oppa has been gone for a week and a bit. It feels like it's been AGES!! =( Been SMSing each other and I think it'll send me and him broke haha Luckily he's only going for 4 weeks.. hmm!!! Still long though! Come back soon honey *sniffles*

Went to the movies yesterday with parents. Stranger than Fiction It was funny but quite serious also in a sense. All the good actors were in there... worth a watch but I'd prefer to watch it on DVD rather than the cinema =P But watching a movie was a last min decision so we had to find something that fitted our timetable hehe

A short entry and no photos. Nothing too exciting I suppose. But I'll say this to the universe:

MUM WILL BE FINE! AND RECOVER QUICKLY!!!

Reminiscing already!

2007-01-28T22:56:00.000+09:00

It was only last week that my best friend got married and I'm already reminiscing!!! Still so surreal. Got some more photos/videos from Oppa's camera tonight and woah... ahah My speech went ok. I heard a few laughs throughout the video Oppa took.. and Yu Yee looked like she enjoyed my speech hahaha

So many people got married in the last month or so! My friend, WL, XF only yesterday (though I wasn't invited but I managed to see pics from a friend's blog)... Woah. And then..... the long awaited.. ES'!!!!! hehehe I can't wait for your wedding Es! It'll be great!!!!

Went out to dinner with Oppa's family tonight. And it poured!!!! It was nice to get some cool air and my car a nice wash hehe Then came home, turn on the Taiwan news and this happens... (hope y'all can read Chinese..)

瑋倫車禍／〈快訊〉許瑋倫17點09分心跳停止　經2小時搶救不治

更新日期:2007/01/28 20:38

藝人許瑋倫昨日在國道上發生嚴重，情況一直沒有改善，今日下午5點09分，心跳停止，經過醫生2個小時搶救後，於晚間7點37分宣告不治。

醫生表示，因為許瑋倫的腦水腫的部份，一直沒有，有效的改善，下午5點09分，多突然休克，經過醫師全力搶救，在晚間7點37分搶救無效，目前家屬已經在處理後事部分，將在晚間會將許瑋倫遺體送回台北。

How very sad... Though I'm not really in touch with the soapies/singers/actors in Taiwan but I think I've seen her face before. It's very sad that she died whilst rushing to go to her next job... Never heard this kind of mishap happening in the western countries (even if it does happen it's mostly due to driving recklessly). I wonder why that is. Do they have better "service" for the stars? Sometimes I feel sorry for the Taiwan stars, they have to do everything themselves. Fair enough they have assistants but most of the things they have to do for themselves... There's no one to bend backwards for you, unless you're a mega mega mega star. How sad....

Back to work tomorrow *yawn*

Back in Ozland!

2007-01-27T13:37:00.000+09:00

Aussie Aussie!! Oi Oi Oi!!!

Unfortunately, spent most of my Oz day on the plane =( Anyways, shouldn't complain coz I got a trip to Auckland, NZ! =P

Was actually a bit stressed prior to leaving because had to prepare for new staff joining us as well as preparing for the trip to NZ office. Can't make the boss feel like he's wasted money by taking me to NZ right!? =P I also had to finish a 5% assignment before I left but that was good, only took 2 hours! hehe

The minute I boarded the plane, I slept.. and I slept most of the way to Auckland, except for the 2 hours watching movie (The Guardian). We landed about 5.30am and thank goodness boss said we can go into office about 10am so had a little nap. The bed was sooo comfy! Auckland was humid!!! I was sweating and the NZ office had NO air conditioning, so it was all naturale.. NOT GOOD!!! Nonetheless, the office is sooo nice! Very clean and "posh". More office like than our Perth office =P
The NZ trip was 4 days full of talking and listening and nutting things out. But there are a LOT of catch up work to do afterwards when I get back into the office. And the NZ trip was also full of eating!! We literally eat from morning til night, and a lot of boozing! My poor liver saying "ouch".

We get our breakfast and lunch at this Colombus cafe that is near the office. Very very nice! The coffee is a bit burnt though... But their breakfast man.. WOAHZER. I had to take a picture.. First day for breakfast I ordered French Toast with Banana Fritters and bacon.. SOOO delicious but so sweet at the same time. I feel my cholesterol and fat content rising every minute haha
First night, my work mate brought us to a restaurant near her house. The place looks out to the ocean and it was so amazing. Auckland is apparently surrounded by volcanoes.. all dead of course. So amazing
Next day for dinner, we went over the bridge.. to the OTHER side of Auckland. Auckland is separated by a bridge and of course there will be so snobbing from one side to the other hehe. I tried to take a few snaps as we were crossing the bridge
The area we went to, it felt very much like Subiaco. A lot of units/townhouses and A LOT of pubs hehe
The place we went to with boss's HK friends (they are South Africans who lived in HK for over 20 years) was quite nice. It's called "Aubergine". The service was REALLY REALLY good. The only thing was, they tried to charge us TWICE! Tsk tsk! My boss signed before his friend could stop him so the restaurant gave us cash back. So weird.. ANYWAY, we were about to get in the car to head back to hotel. Then.. workmate's car wouldn't start!!!! Doh!!! So she joined up our equivalent of RAC and then boss & I took the taxi home. It was good to be in the car with boss coz could hear about his glory days.. very intriguing!!! It's so amazing what he's been through! We also got to hear how he and the mrs boss got together hehe Very funny! =) ANYWAY, the taxi driver didn't know where he was going!!! He took us over the bridge and then asked.. where is your hotel!? I gave him the card and then he stopped on the road side to search on his GPS. My boss was furious and he kept on telling him that he should know where all hotels are coz it's his job! We eventually got to the hotel at 11.30 and we had to pay $70!!! When we were telling the locals our story, they said it usually only cost at most $45!! GRR!

So that was the "fun" memory of NZ =P SOO many asians!! Especially Koreans! Last time I went to Auckland was 11 years ago with my family so I don't have much memory of it. I probably won't have much of it now.. except the office area haha

So the last night at Auckland we took customer out to dinner at Hammerhead. The place is another seafood restaurant (this is the most seafood I've ever had in 4 days). And it's obviously a poshier place coz it's very expensive and the food serving size has reduced haha But it was worth it I have to say. I tried the oyster and MmmMMm!! I've never dared to chew oysters coz of the taste. But these ones were beautiful!!!! I had snapper with risotto and that was delicious!! My back was to the view so I had to constantly turn around to look at the scenery. I also tried to take a night view but it was too blurry =( Think it was all the alcohol...
Finally left for home about 2.20pm. Was very excited.. but on the flight there were at least 20 kids! What the?!?! Soooo noisy!!! But I still managed to sleep haha I can just see Oppa's future, he'll hear the kids crying and I'll sleep right through it =P

Oh, the in-flight entertainment was "The Queen". So good!! No wonder the main actress won Golden Globes, she was really good at portraying the queen, the speech, the aura and the charisma. I even cried in there :O

Got an SMS after I landed in Perth last night... best friend's flying off to Maritius that very night and she just smsed to say bye bye and catch up soon. Awwwwww... so envious and I can't believe she's married.. I STILL can't believe it!! *pinches self*

Ok... I'm all geared up for another year... Uni starts again on Monday and I have to start studying for exam on Sat. And mum's op is 7th Feb... *Sigh* Do hope that mum will be well soon... *Sniffles*

My Best Friend's Wedding!!!!

2007-01-21T23:22:00.000+09:00

And noo... I didn't try to sabotage the wedding and no I am not in love with my best friend! hehe

I have waited for this wedding for a FULL year and it finally happened.. still feels very very surreal... Woah. A friend whom I've known for over 13 years is hitched!! She's always said that I'll be hitched soon but I think she's jinxed me coz I ain't married yet!! haha I am soooooooooo happy for her!!!!!

The day started 5am for me. My poor dad had to drop me off at friend's house at 4.45am (it was good that we lived only 5 mins away from each other!). And then waited around for makeup artist & hair stylist to rock up. We were all running around madly. I still managed to take time to take some "behind the scenes" haah
In our PJs!!! ahahah I've had my make-up done already...
Yu Yee's sisters took revenge on me when I was getting my hair done. I was taking photos of them in the most vulnerable times (i.e. without make up and setting their hair haha)... her second sister cunningly said to me "oh, Cindy where's your camera?" I thought she wanted to take a photo elsewhere you know?? But nooooooo she tricked me!! Grrrrr! Why am I so naive!?

Tea ceremonies at the houses were long haha It's the canto tradition but
apparently Taiwan doesn't have that!! So I guess no present haha Yu Yee had SOO many necklaces and bracelets!

For the whole day, I didn't have a chance to feel the emotions... was just simply too tired. My friend was getting headache coz sooo tired! haha She had like 4 panadols! :O I wonder if I'll be like that on my own big day! Hmmm! Probably won't have a big one like hers!

But my friend looked GORGEOUS! Gawrsh.. was sooooo happy for her. Her hubby (oh my gawd! haha) loves her sooo much, so great to see the union!!! The pic below shows the hair stylist putting on the veil. We learnt quite a few western traditions such as the bridesmaid place the veil on the bride, but in my friend's case it's the mum.
We chauffeured in a Bentley!! So classy! It was surreal to be in the car on the way to the ceremony because people were honking!! Before, I'd look at the wedding cars and go "woo hoo!" and it's just weird to be on the receiving end hahaha
I was panicking on our way to the wedding ceremony in Cottosloe coz of the walking down the isle by myself. It went ok, I didn't trip ahha But I had a big grin on my face and my dad made a loud comment when I walked by them - "smile less, your showing your teeth too much".. Grr!!

We were very lucky with the weather. It was perfect, although we did all get sun burnt =( Oh well, it was well worth it!!! My speech went ok... I had a few laughs =P But I did speak a bit fast. Having the tequila shot BEFORE my speech was not helpful at all! ahha I was slurring a bit.. damn the MC!!!

My friend did swing dance for the "bridal waltz" and it was SOOOO nice. Will put up the video when I can.. Below are some more shots throughout the day. It was farnie, after the ceremony my family was taking like heaps of photo with me.. like I was the bride ahahahah =P I guess they haven't seen me so made up and so lady-like for a long time!!

Isn't this shot of me and Oppa such a classic - look at my face!! Wat the.... there goes my image of being lady-like ahha

We went to UWA for pics.. there were at least SIX other wedding couples there trying to get a nice spot for photos. I swear, everyone's photo album will have the same backgrounds!!! haha But look at that, it doesn't matter.... isn't it just beautiful?? Except I got the videographer in the frame as well! =P

Ok ok.... so much to write about but I don't think I will. It was such a wonderful day where I saw my childhood friend married the man she loves and who will look after her for the rest of their lives together. Very very happy.

Gotta pack now, heading off to NZ tomorrow!!!!!!!!

Week's celebration

2007-01-14T01:11:00.000+09:00

Wow.... Been such a full on week.

On Fri, the NZ sales manager called me and said she wanted me to stay extra days coz she wanted to spend more time with me and show me around Auckland. The office manager said the same thing tee hee. And guess what, I have extended ONE day, so now I fly back on the Aussie day and land 6pm... I hope I still make it to the fireworks =(

ANYWAY... this morning we went to eat dim sum, organised by WJ. Thanks gal for organising a get-together, haven't seen those people for ages! It was awesome to eat dim sum with 14 people, coz that means we could order so much more!! As you can see from the photo taken by Judy-san. She's become quite a snapper! =)
And here I am whilst WJ is serving haha She couldn't wait to dig into the food, boy for someone so little, she sure can eat!!!
After the lovely lunch, went to Harbour Town for a wee little while. Judy wanted to have a look for ideas for her bridesmaid's dress.. for her friend's wedding in late March. Unfortunately, there weren't that many. She's already got a pink gown but she just needs to get her friend's approval!

THEN at night.. my long awaited for date with Oppa =) I woke up at 6pm (was soo buggered after a long day of eating and walking haha) and got ready for him by 6.15pm. He then called at 6.30 saying let's go to the beach and then we'll go have dinner & movie. I was actually keen for that idea because I get to wear my new tankee-ni which Oppa bought for my birthday =) So off we went about 7 to Cottesloe. It was perfect weather! Water was fine, sun wasn't glaring. We jumped right in and basked in the blissful presence of nature and sharing it with someone we love =* The sunset was beautiful!!
After the quick dip, we made a pseudo-change room with the car doors and towels. Quite good.. I had to hide a bit though haha But it did its job..
Voila! All changed! =)After Cottesloe.. we rushed to Carousel for the movie... but we had to stop over HJs to buy food haha We didn't have time to have proper sit down restaurant meal so we opted for HJs, which I didn't mind because when I was waiting at home for Oppa... an ad for Double Delish Burger came up. I was feeling a bit peckish at that time and didn't mind a bite of that. So yes, HJs it was!! hehe Then rushed to the movies and the line was LONG!!! Luckily, Oppa booked prior and we went straight to the red carpet =) Felt sooo previleged haha

We watched Blood Diamond . It was SOOOOOOOOOOo good. When I first saw the trailer, I wasn't too keen because I thought it was going to be one of those "crap" storyline movies about diamond smuggling etc. But boy, am I glad I saw it!! Totally changed the perception about diamonds for me... can't imagine how many lives were sacrificed just for power and money. "People are just people, and it's what they do that's makes them good or bad" - this is a great line from the movie and it's so very true. The movie credit had a few suggestions that consumers need to be aware that diamond sellers are indirectly responsible for so many deaths in Africa. So the consumers need to be aware when they're buying the diamonds and make sure it's conflict-free, however, how do WE know it's conflict-free? Fair enough it'll have ceritifcate or what not, but in the end it's all up to the honesty of the trader. I wouldn't mind not having a diamond.. Ruby will do *winks to Oppa*

Another good thing about this movie. Leo!!! Gosh, I had a crush on him when he did Romeo & Juliet. He was a young girl's heart throb back then.. He was only 22 and quite skinny!!! Now... he's 32 and he's buffer, and his acting skills are still the best ever! He was really good in this film. I do hope he gets his Golden Globe and eventually an Oscar!

Couldn't wait until the next day to write about this. So now it's 2am.. argh! Gotta sleep!! Tomorrow have breakfast with cousins.

I'll sign off this entry with a lovely picture of the roses Oppa got me tonight. He spoils me so.. =)
*muah muah*

Aww I'm sooo Wuved

2007-01-11T21:32:00.000+09:00

Ok, be ready. This is going to be a long entry.

On my actual birthday, my parents took me out to Victoria Station to celebrate. They also invited Mike and Alex and it's like... woah! haha A big deal!! It was a very enjoyable dinner!! Chatted and laughed. I was a bit drunk for a good part of the dinner coz I had 2 glasses of champagne (Refer to my comment below).Is that cheeky or what?? Oppa took this photo. He was trying to capture me blowing out the candles but then he didn't use flash so it was all black oh well haha So I made this cheeky gesture to indicate that "I've blown it out already no need to take photo lah"

Close up of the cake. It was pretty nice! Had layers of yoghurt or something.. and bits of it tasted like Yakult! And guess what! This little cake (enough for 6 of us) came free from Victoria Station!!!! They also gave us each a complimentary glass of champagne. Just because it's my birthday! And see the cake?! It's even got chocolate flake with my name on it!!!This was swordfish.. not my type of fish. The waitress asked me how I would like to have it... I paused for a bit coz I thought she heard me wrong and thought I wanted to order steak! Apparently, you can order fish medium rare or medium well. To be honest, I just want my fish cooked haha Not still flapping around..
Oppa and me with the champagne.
Judy and Mike got me a pink Parker pen! My other pen literally fell apart.. so I've been without my "own" pen for a very long time *sniffles* Until now! And it writes sooo smooooooth. Thanks!! *hugs*

Yesterday at uni it was so farnie. I had so many birthday wishes from class mates I just met on Monday haha It's because the lecturer went around asking people's birthdays. He was trying to demonstrate how many ppl must be in the 1 room before there is more than 50% chance at least 2 of them share the same birthday. The answer was 23 people, and we had 40 in the class. As he asked around there were 3 matches!! Amazing. Anyway, so that's how people knew it was my birthday yesterday. Also, because of that, I got a free lunch from Chucksta and Prasie =)

We went to KK's in Broadway shopping centre. It was really yummy and I guess reasonably priced. They bought me G&T... only a small cup but apparently the bar tender poured quite a bit of gin haha Being me, I went all red. Chuksta had TWO pints while Prasie had 1.5 - boy I was a bit hmmm! Went back to class looking suspiciously red. The boys kept on giggling at me and keeping an eye on me to make sure I'm not falling asleep haha I must have some kind of in-built alcohol level monitor. My face and ears apparently went from bright red to normal yellow haha By about 3pm, Prasie said "CC, you're back to normal yellow now" *guffaws* So yes, that day, uni was very enjoyable.

So today went back to work. Didn't think I was going to get anything for birthday coz you know, I was in the office and a lot of people are still away. But boy was I wrong! Walked in the office and the room had a lot of colourful cutouts of balloons stuck everywhere. On my table, printer, inside my diary and in my mug haha

So yes I got lotsa birthday wishes and presents!!! I'm soooo spoilt!!!! Workmates bought me pink pjs! haha One for w/e and one for weekdays! How interesting! The PJs will be perfect after I've pampered myself with Es' specially packaged kit =)

But I just realised, my workmates are always buying me really girly stuff!! I must seem to be so vain or something... coz last year they bought me a PINK bag. Hm! Oppa says I give off the aurora that I'm very girly. I thought it was completely the opposite! Oh well haha As long as I have my presents! =P THEN! Something else on my desk...
Who the?! What the?!? I walked into the door and there it is.. a coffee mug with LOTS of tim tam "flowers"!! The message in the card was very sweet and encouraging indeed. Butttt it didn't have name!!! Grr! I had a suspicion it was a mate in Melbourne.. but he denied it!! Grr! I want to know who it is so I can give a proper thanks!!!

Finally picked up my bridesmaids dress. It's hanging in the room.. My gawd.. less than 8 days until it! I still haven't finalised my speech. Argh! Stressssss. And I'm so afraid that I'm going to trip hahaha =P Gotta think positive!

Ohh forgot to mention family & I went to see Night at the Museum. That was such an awesome film!! HILARIOUS! Judy and I were like guffawing all the way. Dad was going "What is sooo funny?!" But yeah, you will know once you see it =P

Doh.. it's 10.30 already!! Should be doing revision work! Quiz next Tues and I haven't done any revision! It's quite easy but still need to study. It also looks like this weekend will be jam-packed with dates!! Dim Sum on Sat. Dinner/Movie with Oppa at Sat night. Breakfast with Wangs Sun morning!

*breaths*

Especially at times like this, I feel so spoilt and loved. It just feels like everyone just wants to pour out alll their love unto me all at once!!! It can be a little bit overwhelming!! But I have to say, this year is even more special because mum is able to spend it with me again. Thanks to her for giving me birth to me and looking after me all these years. I have to admit, I am her "pet monkey" as appropriately coined by my sis ahaha And thanks to mum for fighting with the cancer and enduring all the pain she had to go through to live to spend another year with us.

*hug*

So it begins...

2007-01-09T23:00:00.000+09:00

Aww aww aww Isn't that such a nice cake? And guess what, Oppa asked the cake lady to let him write it!!!!!!! I thought I recognised the writing!!!

It was actually quite a HUGE surprise. I just got home from uni and was helping to cook. Then Oppa called me at home, asking if I can go to Gelares tonight. I struggled to say yes because I thought of my quiz next Tues and the amount of time I'll get to spend doing work this week. But I thought, it's not fair on Oppa that he's always working according to MY schedule. So yeah.... went ahead with the idea.

So we settled down at Gelares South Perth. Just having waffles and chit chatting.. and saw Es & Nam walk by.... and we were like going "what the?? such a coincidence!!!". It was SOO good to see them! So caught up and chatted with them for awhile.. then Ham came haha I thought he was meeting up with friends, and I thought to myself, if ever want to have quiet time with Oppa will never go to South Perth again! haha Bump into people!

Then Ham & Oppa went out... I thought Ham had something cool done to his car and Oppa wanted to see it *shrug off* and besides was busy talking to Es & Nam. THEN in they came with a cake (see above) ARGH!!!!! I went all red.. I couldn't stop the tears from flowing!!!! Was sooo touched.. *sniffles* Really felt the love... And starting to ponder if I really deserve all this love coz I haven't really been a good friend to them for the past year. They have been so patient and so considerate. Every year during my birthday, I feel the luckiest girl in the whole wide world. *sniffles*

Unfortunately, couldn't have the cake at Gelares coz they are "already selling half price sweets". Oh well! So I invited them back home to enjoy the mud cake!
Nam was trying to figure out why the spoon looks so familiar. Coz it's our "private" collection of the antiques from Cathay Pacific airlines haha =PThere were more on Oppa's camera but I didn't have a compatible slot. He'll send it to me... hopefully he'll remember =P Also took one with Judy in it but she had a very surprised look hahaha I didn't want to put it on my blog just in case she punche me!

Been stuck at uni for the past 2 days, re-learning about stats. The lecturer is funny.. unfortunately his passion is the most boring subject (according to me anyway!) Summer school has been bearable because people I know are also doing it. If I did it by myself, I might not have enjoyed it as much. However, it's also been a bit crappy coz I've been worried about work. Checking my email at night and sorting through stuff. Not good for my lack of beauty sleep... *sigh* Got a hug zit near the eyebrows! Argh!!! Gotta go down before the weddinggggg!!!

Ok.. should sleep.

Love and Kisses to my favourite couple... and my Oppa =)

Clucky or not?

2007-01-07T22:19:00.000+09:00

During coffee time, work mate dug out this cute cookie from the barrel. I don't normally eat cookies with my coffee.. but had to have this!

Haha thanks Lainy for commenting about my dress for NYE =) Where are your pics??? No more snappies huh?? I know what your new year resolution could be, take photos! =)

Anyway, first week back to work has been rather hectic. Short week already and had so much to catch up. Major accounts submitted orders over the Xmas break so had to go through it very carefully to make sure we don't get ripped off. And mean while have to prepare for the new staff that is coming to Perth (from Sydney) on 15 Jan. AND had to prepare for summer school.. AND best friend's wedding. Oh woe....

But it's all good.

Still managed to get out of the house and all the stress on Sat. Went to catch up with Son & Sandy. Went to the park near Sandy's house. Oppa & I didn't get a chance to prepare ANYTHING.. so we did a last min shop @ Southlands. Gourmet chicken sausages and some butterfly cut breasts. Bad I know... bad for the wallet and bad for the health. Definitely won't do this again in the future! What put us more into shame was Son & Sandy prepared soo much :O Just look at the pic!! The cheese potato..YUMMO! And Sandy's own laksa was delish! I got the recipe, hope to try one day.
Sandy's bubs.. One boy and one girl. Aren't they gorgeous? =) Just loved playing with them but Son kept on saying how I'm clucky. I can play with them coz they're just so soft and cuddly. But if you want me to change their nappies or feed them or bear their crying? No thanks... I would prefer to hand it back to the owner haha The girl (the eldest) can speak now. But only in Canto haha And when she says things in Canto.. it's soooooooo adorable!!!
The park we went to. Under the tree were full of duckies, resting and avoiding the sun. Son, Oppa and myself all got sunburnt on the faces that day.. coz of the darn BBQ!
It was a very nice day out. We left about 2ish coz the bubs had to take afternoon naps.

After that... Oppa suggested to go shop for my tankee-nis! Work mate mentioned it so we were both very keen to get a set.. for ME! haha So ended up going to Morley Galleria - have not been to that place for yonkers!! At least 4 years ago! I used to go quite regularly when I used to work at Malaga, even if I didn't buy anything I liked to walk around. Better than sitting in the office lunchroom.. at that place people didn't really have the eating lunch together culture. Mostly in front of computers.. erk.

So anyway.. we first went to surf shop. Looked at the brands and boy they weren't cheap! Then, decided to go to Target. And voila, bought a set for almost (or more than) half the price at the surf shop! Cooool. I finally got them! And thanks Oppa for getting them for me.. as my b'day present. He said it's PART OF my b'day present.. oooo wonder what the other part is? hahaha

Did some work this morning after we had breakfast at The Dux on South Tce. Pretty nice! I loved the hash brown.. the potato was mashed and full of garlic. It's not one of those frozen ones you get in the supermarkets, these were actually gourmet stuff! Man! YUMMO! Went to get my bridesmaid dress in the arvo.. BUT it wasn't ready. I have to go back and pick it up on Thurs! D'oh!! Hopefully it'll fit now!!! I probably can't eat haha Coz without a full stomach it's already a fitting dress!

Ok, better get back to work. Gotta sleep a little bit earlier tonight coz have summer school tomorrow.

*sigh* Why do I do this to myself? But I'm sure short term pain, long term gain. It'll be good for me in the future.. it will it will.. *chants*

Ohhhhh and for those panicking about my birthday. Don't be!! I am just happy to have lovely people like you in my life... So fortunate to have met all of you, even though I haven't had a chance to catch up nor able to see you often.

NO PRESENTS!

Happy Happy New Year~

2007-01-01T13:48:00.000+09:00

Wow.... What a year 2006 has been. So much has happened. Perhaps a quick recount of major events

1. Mum was diagnosed end of 2005... she flew back to Taiwan to get 2nd opinion while Judy and I were forced to go on our planned family trip to Alice Spring by ourselves.

2. Welcomed new year 2006 asleep in Alice Spring... Didn't want to spend money to join a 70s themed party (trust me, you wouldn't either if you were there), so we just hung around the pub at the small small casino... Whilst thinking about how much fun our friends in Perth are having.. and how we miss our boy boys *sniffles*

3. Friends celebrated my 26th for me... pool party + bbq. Very very sweet of them. I am very much loved. MUAH. ***

4. Embarked on my postgrad journey in late Jan. The 1st trimester went by without a major glitch. First time staying up until 3am to complete a group project. Thank gawd that never repeated for the rest of the MBA year!

5. Still trying to get grasp reality with mum's diagnosis. Everyone's been very supportive. This is when we realised that many people care about mum and us. *sniffles*

6. One year anniversary of Oppa & I. One year already!?!? Time flew by. Nothing is always rosy and sunny.. but we pulled through. Still many obstacles to face together in the future, and hopefully.. it will be all a-ok, despite what others think. We both still got a lot of things to work on..

7. Announcement of my best friend's engagement. It was so exciting. She's always said I'll be the first one to get hitched but boy is she wrong!!! I am very happy for her. And I'm going to be a bridesmaid.. for the very first time!! Woo hoo!!! =) So I've been exercising like crazy to slim down and tone up. But have been slack since Xmas break.. Oopsies!!!! Wedding in 19 days! D'oh

8. Made to be PA to the managing director. Confused whether it was a good thing or not. Good because working closely with the director so learn more about the managerial side of things. Bad... because people look down on PAs. It's just a title but hmn... Met this stupid oversea student in MBA and when I told him what I do, he said "oh that's glorified secretary right?". I almost punched his face in. Such an arrogant bastard. I try not to let this thing get to me because at least I'm learning. Although sometimes feel a bit frustrated because do not have the power to do things. And I am only one woman! So much can be done, but it still needs to be Ok'd by the head above!!

9. Realised the importance of good time management. Uni was hard core, left little time for family already and had to also see friends and Oppa. Unfortunately, one of them had to go. So I've missed seeing my friends for the whole year. My classmates suffered the same fate. Her friends have stopped calling and just said "join us when you're free". How sad... But I'm glad that I still get emails from my friends asking to do things even though I have to reject most of the times =(

10. Mum made a comment before. I didn't have to sacrifice much whilst both my sis and dad did. I agree that I didnt have to give up my MBA, I didn't have to give up my job (like my dad) and I still managed to get some social life. At the time it sounded so hurtful because I contributed whenever and whereever. I din't go to the hospital with my mum when she has chemo treatment fortnightly coz it's dueing the working hours nor was I there to hold her hand when she does her CT Scan. My sister has experienced it all with my mum and held her hands. So instead of feeling hurtful.. I realised now that this will only make me be a stronger person and be more considerate of others' feelings.. and of course, better time management. We all have 24 hours a day. Perhaps I should stop my napping habit.. but.. it.. is.. so.. hard!! D'oh.. even as I'm writing this, I'm feeling sleepy.. Zzzz

***A friend kindly pointed out that I've got my age wrong and my spelling went out the window. D'oh! ahha Thanks Ev =P

Last year.. much has happened and if I had listed everything, I think I'd be here until next year! haha I guess the above 10 were the major moments in my life in 2006. And I'm sure there won't be any dull moments in the year 2007 either!!

For New Years Eve... after much Umming and Humming.. we finally decided to go to Burswood. We lined up for a whole hour to pay $30 to get into Ruby Room!! The line was unbelievable. But at least we got in! Some poor people were still waiting outside!!
The line started from the grand ballroom! =O
Because it's Paris themed.. it had a small Arc De Triomphe. Quite cool! =)
As well as a small Eiffle Tower.. Without the top bit haha

We were bored whilst lining up so Oppa & I took a few shots with our NYE hats that my dad got us from the inside the casino!
Cabaret dancers... try hards =P
Oppa giving me money.. Ain't no busker! But at least it was a whopping $50 ahhaha
Oppa wearing my earring.. some resemblance of Boy George right? hahaha
We finally made it into Ruby Room!!!! Had to take a celebratory photo... Mikewoahski took this one.. Hmn.. He totally missed the Ruby Room sign. *sigh*
Mum & Dad were lounging at the Jokers Cafe waiting to see performances. We couldn't get around because they separated Ruby Room and the Casino. Had to use the mobile to communicate.. Oppa captured this classic moment.. haha
So we danced and danced in the Ruby Room! For a total of 2 hrs Oppa and I grooved to all the classic RnB music. One good song after another and we couldn't leave the dance floor! And everyone kept on crowding in towards midnight coz they wanted to get showered by balloons (see above pic) Gawrsh.. it was so squashed. I tried to take a photo of the count down but stupid bright lights ruined it =P See pic below...
The crowd at Ruby..First photo for year 2007!2nd photo of year 2007! hehehe The guy didn't press his hand on the button so Oppa was telling him how to and "PASHA" Took a shot of Oppa do that "C" ahahah

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!!!!!
May the year 2007 be one with many great memories & happy thoughts which in turn shall bring JOY and LAUGHTER into our fulfiling lives!!!

Pwetty Lights

2006-12-26T22:38:00.000+09:00

This year we decided to get into even MORE Xmas spirit and go and see the houses that has all the lights up. So we drove to Thornlie and we were like.. it better be good because we drove all that way! And it didn't disappoint us!!! It's a cul-de-sac and everybody on that street participate in the lights decoration. It was simply amazing.. They even had a window decoration!Judy-san's night photography skills are not very good haha No steady hands.. hence the photo is a bit blurry...She gave another go and hm.... better haah =P

K.. a short entry this time. Watching the Making of Pirates of Caribbean II.. Oppa gave it to me for Xmas =)

Ho ho Ho! Another Xmas!

2006-12-25T23:09:00.000+09:00

Our first Xmas tree =) Bought these lights with mum from Woolies on Sat when we were at Subi. Put it up in the afternoon after we've finished scrubbing the house down.. and finally got to turn it on around 8.30-9pm. The only complaint I hav about the day light saving is that we don't get to do the light thing earlier! Can you imagine Aussie Day?? 9pm start! Luckily it's long weekend!!!

We started preparing for Xmas lunch about 9. Took out the mah jong table, startd putting together my shiskebab hehe Upgraded my "lazy bum" fish balls coz mum wanted to add capsicum and some meat. It ended up looking good!
We got a lot of Bons Bons this year!!! And Mikewoahski got me a special one!! Tee hee hee Isn't it just gorgeous?!?!
James and Yokey Bear posing.... James loves his pouts.. but Yokey refused to do it haha Doesn't go with the reindeer antlers huh? =P
Judy and Mikewoahski..
Everybody In the moment.. Laughing and carrying on heheAnd then.. me added! =POppa loves his food.. and eats more than me!! Everybody kept on picking on me about how I much I eat.. even more than Gordie! Grrr... Even people at work are saying that about me! Everytime they walk by my office I'm munching on something. But hey, it's always not full meals! And it's usually something healthy =P
After our lunch we played Mah Jong and Poker.. Can't remember who ended up winning.. all I knew is that my dad got me out haha I left the table for one sec and he filled in for me. Then he went all in!!!!! What the..... I
It was such an enjoyable day. A tiring one though. I'm glad everyone had fun... I think they did anyway haah Lots of laughters! There were soooo much food. We organised everyone to bring a dish each but it was like 12 people and hence 10 dishes (mum & dad not included). But Judy ended up making more than 1 dish!! So yeah.. needless to say we've had left over haha But we managed to get Lee Woon & Oppa to take some home *giggle*

So I'm sitting here in front of tv.. relaxing. Watching the making of The Little Mermaid (Judy san bought it for me for Xmas!). Everybody enjoyed their presents.. Oppa too =) This year because mum got into the xmas spirit, I thought I'd get into it too. My first ever purchase was the bon bons.. and then I thought I'd surprise people and get them xmas presents! So after my 1st purchase, I bought 2 presents. And then Judy got into the spirit and she ended up sharing with me to get everybody a present! It was nice to give and see people's happy faces when they opened the packages =) It was ashame that Judy knew what I got her coz she wrapped the presents!!! But it's the thought that counts!! =)

It's been a year and a few days when mum was diagnosed. I'm glad that mum is still here to celebrate another year with us. Sometimes when I look at her, she just looks so healthy. And I can't help but to just "stare adoringly" at mummy. It still feels a bit surreal sometimes but I'm glad our whole family is here to be with mum, and treasure every moment we have with each other. Although we do get on each other's nerves occassionally, we still stick together and look out for each other. Family.. can't live with them, can't live without them!!

One last message from me and Oppa tonight.....

MERRY XMAS 2006!! And may the year 2007 bring much joy and happiness.. AND lots of great experiences and memories! =)

Hen's Day Out

2006-12-23T23:29:00.000+09:00

Today was the long awaited for Hen's Day Out! =) My best friend and I drove alllll the way to the hills.. Pickering Brook and pampered ourselves for an hour or so.

The place was in the middle of the forest.. called Hidden Valley Day Spa.. Gawrsh it was definitely worth the drive and the moolah spent!!! Hidden Valley was sooooo serene. We were soo oooo excited when we arrived. It did not fail our expectations. The only downside is that it was too short!!! Wayyyyy too short. We did not want to leave our beds!!!
We arrived and changed into our sarongs. Then we had a quick foot soak, with peppermint smell salt.. To get rid of the stinky smell tee hee. Then we went in and started on the treatment. So nice... Mmm I kept on telling myself to stay awake and enjoy the pampering haha So I was drifiting in and out.. the music was serene and so peaceful. The ladies who were doing our facial were very gentle. Though they were a little bit loud when they were changing water or getting towels etc.
The treatment was definitely different to what we've experienced. They had this hot wax thing... but it was very nice feeling. And then they massaged our face with cold stones! And by cold, they mean FREEZING! haha But it was still very interesting.. wonder what is the purpose of that??? After the treatment they gave us a choc and bottle of water.. And we quickly took photos ahha Inside and outside of the place.

We then went to have lunch.. And of course another photo opportunity! Do I look relaxed?? =)
Last night was a gathering at work mate's place. It was such a nice place!!! Floor boards.. comfy furniture... And wooden book cases. Just sooo homely! Work mate's sister was there too and she's such a lovely person to talk to, just like her sister! hehehe And workmate's partner was there too. It was very interesting to talk to him about his Japanese sword passion. He was saying how the "shrrrin" sound they make in the movies like Kill Bill or Last Samurai.. All fake fake fake haha It's even more interesting to talk to him because he's working in the film/tv industry in a post-production company. SOOO cool to speak to him and about how things work. Apparently, they mostly shoot scenes during the day and it's up to the post-production people to turn it into night!!! Amazing!!! And he was saying how sometimes you can tell how crappy a job was haha Too much blue or over saturation with one particular colour.. etc. Soo technical. Then he started talking about the opening scene of Swordfish. With the explosion and the ball bearings. He said his mate did that... just a short scene took like months! ANDDDD in laymen's terms... that segment had like 175000 LAYERS in Photoshop! Of course they didn't use Photoshop, they use some other spiffy software. Jaw dropping stuff!!!!

I was meant to leave early.. but we ended up leaving at 11.30pm. Just had such a good time getting to know more about my work mate and her partner. They're such a lovely couple and just soooooo cultured!

UNFORTUNATELY...... mishap happened. We were talking in the lounge and another work mate looked towards the kitchen and said "Are you cooking something?". We went.. nooo. Oppa and I turned to look and said "Is it meant to be that bright over there?". So we walked.. and went "Shit!" One of the candles caught on fire!!!!! It was in a glass but guess it just burnt to the end and the glass broke and yeah things caught on fire!! The Japanese sword that was sitting near the candles got burnt. And the partner was upset because it was expensive collection as well. But he was very well composed and he didn't chuck a psycho. He swore but that's to be expected. The sweetest thang was... my workmate said "oh really sorry it's all my fault". The partner says "no it's not! it's not your fault! it's the bloody candles". So let that be a lesson to y'all kids. If you want to burn candles.. put it where you see it!!

Oppa and I helped to scrap the wax off the cabinet and floorboard. Others were drunk and were only like "Ohhhh was there a fire?". And went back to their drink.. sheesh.

Then tonight, Oppa's sailing crew from the late 90s held a Xmas gathering. Such a nice place again!!!! Mannnn I can't wait to decorate my own place! Had good time chit chatting to them. The hostess also invited her high school mates as well as uni. So it was a good mix. Talked to a few of them and they're so Aussie!!! They were like talking about bands that I've never heard of. They all listen to Triple J. It felt like I was talking to my workmates haha They always mumble some bands/artists that I've never heard of. Give me RnB/Hip Hop any day!!!!!

Yawn

Xmas... got lunch bbq.. hopefully it won't be too hot. It's a bit windy tonight so hopefully tomorrow will be cooler??? Tomorrow is a day of cleaning up I reckon.. and of course wrapping presents =)

Got nothing else planned for my holidays. Except perhaps a wedding rehearsal.. yet to be determined! Argh.. almost summer school time =(

Ooooooo on Thurs, bought tix to go to NZ with boss!! Oh my goodness gracious!!! Going to be an interestin gtrip! 3 days and it'll cost $1200! :O I brought up the courage and asked my boss "You mentioned you wanted to talk to me more about my role". As a hint to say "you also said you wanted to talk about my pay!". Well he got the hint ahahah He will re-look in Jan after the new marketing director has had a talk when she comes over to Perth in early Jan. I've got summer school so I hope he's not going to be grudgy. He made a comment during the company Xmas party which I found a bit hurtful. He jokingly said that I only work part time and that he pays for half of my MBA anyway coz I'm hardly ever there! I was a bit flabbergasted, didn't know whether to laugh or cry. That kinda dampened my mood.. And my feeling... *sigh*

Christmas Wish

2006-12-20T14:37:00.000+09:00

Here comes the bride.. All dressed in white

2006-12-17T20:30:00.000+09:00

So yesterday was the long awaited for make-up and hair trial session for my best friend's wedding. I was all ready to be dolled up only to be notified that only one person booked to do the trial. D'oh!! So I sat next to her watching her applying make up and getting her hair done. And yes.. I wouldn't give up a photo opportunity!
It didn't feel long actually, I had fun chatting to the hair dresser and make-up artist. They're very interestig people, full of xperiences. The hair dresser did the hair for The Boy from Oz and she met Hugh Jackman!!!!!! The make-up artist insisted that Hugh's gay coz he's charming, gorgeous, hot and everybody loves him. No straight guy's like that... *giggle* My friend looked gorgeous with her hair and make-up. She'll be such a beautiful bride!! But let's just hope it won't be too hot on the day itself coz we'll melt!!

I'm freakin' out a little bit because have to do a speech, which I haven't drafted and it seems like I will be the one to look after her during the day - touching on make up, make sure she's hydrated. Got a tip from Charles & Jo that gotta bring a eski with gatorade so stay hydrated!! Gawrsh...

Sunday went over to Charles' house to get the alco I got him to buy from duty free. First time over and they were very hospitable (is that a word?). Had a nice chat and looked at their wedding album. Got a few tips about speeches (lent me a book!).... first up.. a huge responsibility!!

Getting ready for the holidays... last week at work *woo hoo* Still got more Xmas present shopping to do...

This blog entry is a bit random.. watching a variety of shows on tv. flick flick.. Will & Grace.. 10 Days that made the Queen.. So You Think You Can Dance... *shame* ahha

Back to TV!!

OO BOND!

2006-12-14T12:17:00.000+09:00

This is Bond... Snowie Bond.

I totally forgot to mention about Casino Royale! I was so caught up whinging I forgot to mention about the movie!!!

Went to see it on Tues night with Oppa and bloody hell that was a good movie!!!! We bumped into his high school friends so we had waffles together. Then.. Bond starts. The graphics was amazing... I appreciated it a bit more after talking to our designers about the movie. She picked up things normal people wouldn't have picked up and appreciated things us lay people wouldn't know what the heck that was. Hehe It was gooooood.

Daniel Craig.. OH YUMMO! His crystal clear blue eyes..... to die for. And his bod.. mmm mm M!!!!! Oppa was saying.. perhaps he needs to upgrade and I agreed haha But I don't think I was the only one drooling.. my best friend was too. Though her fiance was a bit more confident and said he's just as good haha

And Daniel Craig.. has that POUT. haha
Sexy nonetheless... He is the best Bond ever =) Can't wiat for the next Bond movie!

A Pseudo Xmas Tree

2006-12-14T11:57:00.000+09:00

The other day my work mate asked me if we've put up our Xmas tree at home. I sadly said, "We don't do Xmas trees". Lo and behold.. I spoke too fast! I went home after the movies and our fake tree near the entrance was decorated with tinsels! Mum went shopping during the day then asked my sis to decorate when she got home from uni. Pwetty.. and look at that little monkey sitting under the tree =)
So I got into the Xmas spirit and went and bought some Xmas Baubles...
Mum also asked sis to put tinsel around the house. We're having Xmas dinner... so it's cooler. It's a tradition to have Xmas bbq at home hehe Hopefully it'll be a good one this year... I got into the Xmas shopping mood and bought a whole heap of stuff yesterday during lunch. Things I shouldnt' have.. but OH WELL! =P

Soon approaching after 1 year mum was diagnosed with cancer. She's fighting on strong. And let's just hope her and dad would end up on the same page soon.. *sigh* Makes me wonder about marriage.

Fair enough, it's all good when you're dating... and when you first thought of marriage and it's all good. Yup, all the faults can put up with and there's no biggie with them anyway. But once got married, things start to become intolerable. What is the secret to a successful marriage? Communications. Thing about the past generation is that it feels they don't talk much. Good thing Oppa and I talk.. we're open about everything. Feelings.. Thoughts.. What we're not happy about and what are we grateful about. Of course when I'm pissed off I don't talk, but he makes me talk it out. So that's good.. But ai yorrrrrrrr it sure is a scary thought. Sometimes it feels like parents are trying to make their kids choose a partner who they are 100% sure about. No one can guarantee that. Not even the parents themselves! And it's just pissy how they say they want the kids to be happy and choose the right person so they give feedback (mostly negative) and try to say who is good enough for their own kids. Erm.. they're not the one who's going to live with them and spend the rest of the life with that person. What can us kids do other than just shrug it off???? Then the parents would think of us as rebels and just say "we give up" but in actual fact, they will still nag!!! Er that's not what you call "give up".

Parents... can't live with them, can't live without them.

Weekends are for relaxing.. NOT!

2006-12-11T09:29:00.000+09:00

What a weekend!!! Never thought I'd say this.. but wish I get a weekend where I don't do anything!!! haha Been going out ever since uni finished... Gawrsh. But this won't last for long coz summer school starting soon!!!

Friday night went to Jel's cya-and-have-a-good-holiday party combined with her brother's 21st @ The Deen. Hieu went too and he was there nice and early to start on the booze! There was a tab!!! Awesome! haha But didn't drink much d'oh!! Left the place about 11ish. Oppa was a bit hungry so we went to look for soup. There was a new restaurant called New Orleans on James St. Very nice! The maitre d' was actually from New Orleans and the owners were from 100km away from New Orleans hehe It was a nice atmosphere and the wait staff were excellent and friendly. Could tell that they love what they're doing. And in the new year the restaurant is commissioning live jazz band!! WOO HOO!!!! Definitely have to go there and visit. Food wasn't bad (from what we had anyway ahha) but browsing the menu it was on the pricey end ($20-30)

Sat.. totally chilled out with family. It was good. Judy and I went grocery shopping at Subi on Sat morning... then we shopped in the Asian grocery stores with parents in the afternoon. It was relaxing and it felt good not having to rush rush coz I've got something else to go to! And then went home, I said to myself, don't nap Cindy! But.. guess what, I napped haha For 3 hours! :O Woke up had dinner and then just watched TV. Was supposed to watch Happy Feet but ended up watching Korean DVD with dad until 12.30am ahha

Sun... company's Xmas party. Picked Oppa up from his house and we went to boss' house. It was a nice drive, not too far as I thought. And when we were on their street we were looking for the house, as we drove up the hill a HUGE mansion showed and we went.. ahh there it is. It was a very nice place! Bit big though aha I wouldn't want to be the one cleaning it! Didn't have to wait for long before we were in the cars on the way to the jetty. Our boss was kind enough to take out his boats and let us have a ride. We went to Garden Island. Apparently, they were one of the first few squatters on that island before they kicked them out to make it naval base! It was so interesting to hear the story! So funny.. squatters haha The weather was BEAUTIFUL.. Oppa had a blast haha He also had a swim in the ocean and we saw a stingray!! We anchored on the beach and then just had lunch there.. chicken roll with beer hehe Took a few photos..
Waiting to get on the boat... See it in the background? There were 2.. and we were on the smaller one but we didn't feel squished coz there were only 5 of us. The other bigger boat had more and from afar they looked like boat people haha
Boss just put the boat in the water.. and trying to steer it around so we can get on. Look at that cute pelican. There were a lot that day..
Steering wheel
The part of the Garden Island we were on. Look at that water.. isn't it just stunning?
Oppa in his gear.. no speedo this time =P
Driving away from the island. On the way back home it felt faster but we got splashed more!!!
Workmate was relieved after the toilet run. We were ALL busting to go to the loo ahha Drank too much beer.

It was a shame that I had to leave the party but I didn't regret leaving early to go to WASO!!! It was soooooooooo goood. Oppa & I got there about 6 to hog seats before parents came with dinner.

When we were waiting and the starting time was approaching, we were looking and looking for any sign of my parents & Jude. And a grandpa sitting behind us said who are you looking for? And we said.. my parents coz waiting for dinner!!! Then he was SOOO kind and gave us strawberry + cheese + crackers!!! HOW CUTE?!?!?! Aww.. good ol' granps!!!! So later on, Oppa offered him carrot cake =)

Anyway, the concert was soo good. And no, I didn't cry like I did last time I went to one of those things (which I had to pay for!!). This time, I did get teary but not too much =P I just love it... movie themes.. ahh. Just tugs at my heart string. They played the typical ones, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of Caribbean, Titanic... and a few songs like Summertime, I could've danced all night. They also played the song from Space Odessy and when they did that, I thought of the Simpsons and Homer with his doughnuts haha Soo farnie.
Sonya & Sean were there too. So we caught up with them after the concert. But didn't chat much coz was buggered. Got home about 10pm and man, slept by 10.30 right through to 6.45am. Didn't do much really but was just soooo tired!!!

Now... at work.. still recovering haha Workmates were badly sunburnt tee hee.

Recently have an urge to buy a bicycle. Really want to go bike riding!! So I thought, hmmmm might get a bicycle and make it a resolution to ride regularly with Oppa! =) But yeah, dunno when to get it. Post-Xmas? Pre-Xmas? Where? Quokka? Ebay?? Or just a normal bicycle shop?? Too many choices!!!

Can't wait for next week.. the long awaited Day Spa session with Yu Yee!! Yaay!!! D'oh that reminded me.. need to write wedding speech!!!! D'oh d'oh d'oh.. needs to be good opening coz I'm first up!! What a privilege =) But huge pressure!! Feeling sick just thinking of it...

Ok. Better get back to work. Boss isn't coming in today.. woo hoo! =P

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2006-12-07T14:56:00.000+09:00

Designer at work and I were "debating" whether the woman on the $10 note looks like a movie star. At first it was Kevin Costner and then she said.. NO! Richard Gere! Of course I said, yes if you squint REALLY hard and it'll be Richard Gere.. After going around asking others' opinions, she sent out an email stating that everyone else agrees with her and this picture. Quite amusing haha

Our designers at work are so farnie.. And it's good to know how to use Photoshop isn't it!? aha

Damn Gavin - you've got me hooked onto Heroes!! It has been SOOOOO good. I've got Episodes 1-8, there are more but my internet quota plummeted ahha We endured dialup speed for over 2 weeks =( Next week is when we get back our normal speed. Gotta arrange with my sis to be more careful with our download quota.. D'oh!!!

So not into it today... been such a LONG week can't believe it!!!! Can't wait for holidays actually I can.. because when Christmas is here that means another week closer to my summer school!!!!

*yawn*

Mm Food

2006-12-04T11:27:00.000+09:00

Yesterday, 1st day of Daylight Saving. And that totally screwed up my sleep =( Slept for one hour less and that made a huge impact on my mood. My sis kept on calling me cranky pants and kept on saying if I needed to change my cranky shit diapers.. grrr

Went and shopped for Judy's new lappie on Sat afternoon. And she bought a Sony Vaio..... schweeeeeeeet. I want it now =( I got it all set up for her to use today.. she calls me cranky pants but I still made sure she gets to use her new laptop for uni today.. Ain't I a nice sis?!?! My laptop seems so crappy in comparison.. but shh shouldn't say that coz it'll get upset *strokes lappie*

Anywayyyyyyyy went to Nollomara vege fair yesterday. That was really good! It felt so much like a Thai market haha I've never been to Thailand but I have seen it on TV. And yes, crowded with many hungry patrons. There were queues and people were getting agro coz it was damn hot! I got a little bit sunburnt on the shoulders. Growls.

There wereeee so many yummy food! We spent more than $50!! Bumped into KW and Jas as well as WJ! Nam & Es were on their way but we were leaving so didn't get to see them! It was good for mum to go out and bath in the sun and also catch up with people she knows. Also good for dad to get out too. But it was like a whirlwind trip for us coz mum couldn't sit on the lawn for a picnic. So we bought our food and went home to ate it.

Of course, I had to take photos!

Judy and mine first purcharse.. fish balls.. mmmmm!
Mum having a ball buying and buying!! She bought the most.. Dad was trying to stop her haha
Dunno what this was for, just thought it was cool
Mmm satay sticks
We queued for at least 15 minutes for the Pad Thai. It was worth the wait =) This was the store were people got cranky ahha Long queue!

Lainy - I don't know if I want to organise a Xmas dinner and only myself (and Oppa supporting me) turning up in Xmas colours!!!! hahaha I do feel like some Italian food.. mmmm Carbs

Not going to do much at home for Xmas I don't think, apart from the annual family BBQ =) We don't have a tree either.. no pressies. Thank goodness hehe But I do have to shop for work's Xmas Kringle! Doh... and going on boss's boats this Sun morning... that should be interesting. But have to rush off before the actual party starts coz have a WASO freebie concert to go. Oh well, have to give up on the free booze, which is a good thing because I drank a bit much over the weekend. I didn't get pissed but hey, I am not a heavy drinker so my liver was whining already =P

Ok better get back to work. Haven't done much and it's already lunch time. Eeerk!

Ahh another nice ending to the night

2006-12-03T00:32:00.000+08:00

Hmmm might be getting too efficient with this blogging thing. If I finish it all now, what am I going to do on Monday??!! Tee hee hee.. Nah I do work during the weekdays and blog at night =p
Went out to breakfast with best friend.. caught up with her and yes, she's the patient bride not a Bridezilla AT ALL!!! It was a HUGE breakfast, she couldn't even finish half of it! Felt really bad coz she treated me! Argh.... Next time it's my shout!!!

Afterwards, we went to the city and bought me a pair of nice shoes for the wedding. Felt so spoilt when we went looking. She was paying for it but she's like going, it's gotta be something you'll wear again!! I looked at the price tag of the one that was good and gulped. So I insisted on paying half of it. It's pretty nice looking, a bit on the high side but I think it'll be ok. It's quite comfortable. Don't have it in my room and I can't be bothered going out to take a photo of it =P You'll see it for the wedding!

Anyway, tonight was the anticipated gathering of MBA friends. These are the bunch of people I met through MBA (only a couple were from before) and I clicked with them... and I treasure their characters and personalities and I am glad that I met them! It certainly has made MBA a great experience for the past eleven months!!!

We went to The Moon & Sixpence, sorry to Darren coz he went to The Moon in Northbridge haha And Oppa would've done the same if he hadn't asked me BEFORE he left the house. He had another function to go to so he dropped by for like 15 minutes. And his other purpose there for that 15 minutes was to take a photo ahha =P It didn't turn out too well, it's always hard to take big group photos though.
Hieu - you looked like you had something to say? haha But the place was good, food was a bit salty though. My pie (it had no fancy name.. just had PIE) was nice but yeah, salty. I had to take a photo of it and yes, that got everyone laughing at me. Laugh away people.. *sniffles*
I'm glad everyone who I invited had turned up =) Though KW couldn't come coz Jas had bad case of flu or whatever it was. Hope she'll feel better soon. But it was still good. We chatted and laughed and gossiped =P And it was good for people to meet others who they knew the faces but didn't really know them. Felt satisfying to bring them together =) And isn't it funny, majority is Asian... except Jel & Martin! Hmmmmmm

And about 11ish, most people left and only 5 of us stayed to chat... and it's the original OB group members =) The 5 of us started together in Tri 1 this year. We faced our first ever group assignment working together in the GP3 lab 3am in the morning. That was an experience and last haha I haven't done that 3am thing for a LONG time! Thank goodness coz my mum wouldn't have been a happy chappy! =P

Everyone's going away on holidays, NZ or Singapore or Serbia or Japan... ai yor When am I going to get to go on a holiday!? =( Or even just away.. boo hoo. Mum said today she wants to quickly get better so we can all go back to Taiwan together. And I said yes, when I finish my MBA... kinda went "pew pew" coz kinda cursing her to get better only when I finish my MBA. So I hit myself (and also got hit by my sister and mum, dad was the only nice one haha). Of course I want mum to get better asap!!! She's walking a lot faster now, although still a little bit of pain but it's nothing too serious. Very happy. Soon she'll start treatment again, so hopefully she won't suffer too much. Mum is so brave.. I wouldn't be as brave and tough as she is. Truly inspirational.... She's the best.

It has been a very satisfying weekend =) Next week.. got Jel's farewell... wonder if Oppa can go *rubs chin* I will ask =P I also can't wait to go to the day spa thing!! Mannnnnn, definitely need some serious pampering.... MmmMmm Facial and massage... ahhhh

Ok sleepy now....

Music of Snowie's Life

woah

Time is flying by...

Jedi El

Daz's Wedding!!!!

Fooooood

Welcome Back Angie!

Blast from the Past

Finally!! Graduated!

Cleaning Up

Productivity

Where have I been??

I'm bacccckk!!

Splurge!

Happy new year everybody!!!

Very proud of myself

Feeling Cultured

Ugh...

Dedication to Mum

So who's the unco?

A lil dosage of culture!

New Gadget!

And what happens 2 weeks later??

Another one bites the dust.. =)

High Tea for the Hens

The Return of Jedi El

Mmm Swinggg Baby!!!

Too much food...

New Chapter... soon to be

Time flies..

*Sniffles*

Woof Woof!

What's the big Deal about Truffles?

Family Visiting

Bye Bye Jedi El...

Jedi El

Tita what?

A Home Song Stories

O Cutie!

O Harry.....

Congratulations!

Fri 13th

Nooiiiice

Archiving....

OOooo do I hear... Queen Size!??!?!

La Vie En Rose

Birthday Bash #2

Woot Woot

Huge Celebration!

Happy Wedding!

Litte trivia

Taiwan trip... Cont'd

OOOOOOOO!

Ethics of the New Millenium

My New Baby~

Whirlwind Tour

Happy Mother's Day~

Go to the Force

Impulse Buy

Buenissimo!

Mmmm BBQ

Update on CC Drama

Happy Birthday Oppa~~

So Peeved

Teenie Bobbie

Extra Long W/E

No I'm not Sad!

Woah.. what a weekend!

Crappy Day

Another Yr Older, Another Yr Wiser!

Crazee People

Windy and Cold!

Long Weekend.. Hm!

The Biggest Crush!

Happy The Year Of Golden Pig!!

Long time no see~

RIP

Reminiscing already!

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Back in Ozland!

Sniffles

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