Winter's Fairytale

5th October 2008

BREAD KINGDOM~! That the new bread shop that opened opposite safeway and I visted it on their opening day. Since I had a craving for pastries, I bought this honey castella and also an orange pound cake. Evelyn also bought a banana cake.

The total for all that is Aus 9.70. XD I even got a free pack of garlic bread~! Expensive I know but it's cake.. [puppy dog eyes]

Ahhh~! The sunset~! [chomps on garlic bread while watching the sunset]

6th October 2008 Hurray~! Another birthday to celebrate. Means another cake to indulge. Heheh~! Thanks Jaslyn~! ^_^ Oh, I took this flower photo in front of Pauline's house. Lots of pretty flowers.
We went to Crown Entertainment Complex to eat dinner. The name of the restaurant is Giuseppe Arnaldo & Sons. Italian restaurant. That's Yoong Yoong.
And that's Man Yee. The interior of the restaurant is pretty dark so the photos are pretty dark too.. Having to use the "anti-shake function" and no flash means pixelated photos.
Rooster coaster. Interesting... [lol]
That's Jaslyn, the birthday girl. ^_^ She's eating a slive of salami btw. Hehe~!
Pauline and Aaron. Come to think of it, Aaron was the thorn among the roses. [lol] But also the driver of the night. [grin]
Calamari dish with some vege.
Potato with Rosemary
Clams & Snails in cream sauce.
All the food~!!! Gosh, I'm getting hungry now... XD
The birthday girl with the birthday cake.
Group photo. L to R: Pauline, Aaron, Jaslyn, Yoong Yoong, Man Yee & Evelyn
And the same shot except I'm now there. [lol]
Show you magic trick. Trick 01: Jalsyn and Yoong Yoong...
Trick 02: Jaslyn, Yoong Yoong and Evelyn
Wah, Trick 03 harder: Jaslyn, Yoong Yoong, Evelyn, Man Yee and Pauline. Alakazam~!
Trick 04: Jaslyn, Yoong Yoong, Evelyn, Man Yee, Pauline and Myself. Did my trick work? Did I manage to trick you into believing that I have a trick to show you? XD If I did, I had successfully tricked you 4 times. Heh, deny all you want. I know I got some of you tricked. [lol]
Jaslyn, Pauline & Aaron
Yoong Yoong, Man Yee and Jaslyn
So after dinner and cake, we headed to the arcade to play a 7 player motorcycle game~! Yea... a motorcycle racing game.
Perfect for big gang of people like us who want to play a game where we all can play together... I scored... 7th place BUT no one scored 1st (we assume that the computer did since most likely we were all pretty bad. Evelyn was 2nd... I don't know who came in last [shrugs]

Here's something interesting. After arcade, Aaron proposed that each of us chip in Aus5 for the birthday girl to play roulette. And she was lucky~! Hehe~! Well. Lucky enough since she did win (one $5 chip betting 10 with 3 other numbers). ^_^

After that, I really just crashed and slept til the next morning... [sigh] I seriously got to get serious with work. Until next time, cheers~!

28th September 2008
Let me first spam the blog with sunset photos...

Normally when it's nearing sunset time since I work on my laptop very near the window, sitting on a roller chair, I look out the window and see what colour the sky is...
If I see something like this, I open my window and look at my favourite sunset view...
Love cloudy skies because the light play on them so very nicely. And after a few minutes, the colours change again. It's like I subscribed to nature's sunset profiles. [grin]

1st October 2008

I was invited to a bbq lunch to celebrate Lohon's belated birthday. ^_^ Happy belated birthday ya~! The place we were celebrating was by the Yarra river. As we were walking, we came to where we had gathered to watch the fireworks during the Moomba festival (March 2008 post) . There were some fancy looking signs with red shoes.. [points to the signboard in the photo above]
Honestly what I love about Melbourne is the arts scene here. So many new and interesting statues and events. It's certainly a colourful city. ^_^
We were walking along in the park when we came to a dusty road and trees like this [points to the photo above] and totally didn't anticipate that this was where we were having the bbq... It doesn't look like a place someone would have a bbq.... Well, at least to me....
But then again, what's more important is that we gathered together to celebrate a special occassion. Hehe~! The birthday boy, Lohon.
Sorry if it doesn't look pretty but it taste good. Hahaha~! They had started at 12.30pm and I only came along at 2pm since I had class before that.
OH YAY~! The birthday cake~!
Here's some photos of those who attended the special occasion (I apologize beforehand for the spelling mistakes); L to R: Swee Bee, Shin Yeu, Wen Yi, Su Jin and Jon
L to R: Yee Boon, Swee Bee, Shin Yeu, Su Jin & Lohon
L to R: Jon, Su Ling & Nick
L to R: Sien Hao, Yee Boon, Swee Bee, Shin Yee, Wen Yi and Su Jin. If you were paying attention and noticed I missed a person's name; congrats. The last girl in grey I wasn't introduced to so I don't know her name... hahaha~!
L to R: Sien Hao, Yee Boon, Swee Bee, Shin Yee, Wen Yi, 'grey girl' and Su Jin. Yes, I'm calling her 'grey girl'. Super sorry, 'grey girl'... I'm sure you have a lovely name...
L to R: 'grey girl', Nick & Lohon.
L to R: 'grey girl', Wen Yi and Lohon. Look closer to the "candles" and you'll realise those are sparklers (aka cat's eye. Why it's called that, I don't know) instead of candles. [grin]
L to R: 'grey girl', Wen Yi and Lohon. You know... I'm beginning to feel bad that 'grey girl' keeps appearing in the photos and I don't know her name.
The estatic birthday boy taking out the "candles".
Lohon and Su Jin. [grin]
We were having fun taking photos and Lohon puts on the hat and Su Jin's sunglasses.
"Ada gaya~!" [lol]
Anyway, after our bbq, we began to pack things and clean up the place. Yes, we clean very well ok. It's easier for us to be civic conscious if everyone around us are too. Maybe another bunch of people will come after us to celebrate someone special's birthday...
The bits of leftover from the day's bbq.
L to R: Yee Boon and Wen Yi. Fortunately, we were about finished with the bbq when it drizzled a little. "I believe that it will not rain" [snicker] Kind of jinxed it I suppose. Xp
L to R: Swee Bee, Su Jin & Lohon.
Oh, this is Ian. He came down to Melbourne for holidays. Currently working in KL. Was nice meeting him. [nod nod nod]
L to R: Shin Yeu, Nick, Su Jin & Swee Bee. Frankly I don't know why everyone looks so flustered here... Maybe they're wondering when to go... or where to go after... [shrugs] I take candid shots of people...
By the time we decided to head back, there were much more of these little statues.
It's an event that I remember seeing on tv where the slogan is "take your imagination for a walk"
Sien Hao with the statues...
Everyone and the statues...
I like how you can see the statues, cityscape, people not looking at the statues, people looking at the statues, people taking photos with the statue all in the same shot.
Ahh.. this would be a clearer shot of what I was talking about.
By right, all the photos are suppose to be cloudy dark... Heh, I used photoshop to make the colours a little sharper than they really are...
Three in a row.. ^_^ Su Jin, Yee Boon and Shin Yeu.
Think I just corrected the white balance really... Though I do it manually with the "levels" in photoshop. Anyway, it's such an interesting character isn't it?
There was only with a little heart on it as well.. Awww....
Then there's this... [stares at it] I don't know what it is... [shrugs]