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I'm alive!

2009-02-07T05:27:00.001-08:00

Just so you know i'm not dead yet.

I felt sorry for my blog as i abandoned it for so long. And here's my very 1st post for 2009.

Lepaked for almost 3 mths after quitting from Bates. It felt good in the beginning, but as time goes by i started to miss working life. yeah, u might think i'm crazy. A lot of my frens envy me for not working but trust me, it's not tat fun after all. Especially when u r BROKE.

So whoever who is reading this, I NEED A JOB. Inform me if there's any openings ya. ;)

Some quick update:

I'm going for Jason Mraz's concert on 4th March. Woo Hoo!

Christmas gift from lajoie homebake

2008-11-30T19:44:00.000-08:00

Hey people...

Currently my friend, Cheryl is doing some home bake Christmas cookies and marshmallows, for Christmas. (obviously) haha..

Interested? Check out http://www.lajoiehomebake.blogspot.com/ for more details.

Surprise!!

2008-11-16T00:22:00.000-08:00

It was a beautiful Sunday. Mom & dad went to Hainan Island that morning. So i was left with bro at home for 5 days. What is so beautiful about that Sunday? Mwahahaha..... Its another year older for me. I'm officially 23 that Sunday. 23 ONLY ma. haha..

Anyway, i did not plan anything for this year. Was too tired working n all. So i just thought of going out with Jeremy, since parents not in. And maybe a yum cha session after dinner with friends. So that morning, went dim sum with Jeremy's family somewhere in Bkt Bintang. Headed to The Curve after makan, since i wanted to check out the flea market there.

When it's almost time for dinner, we left The Curve. I dint know where we are heading for dinner yet. Jeremy has been so secretive over the dinner's venue. Kept on telling me we are going to somewhere with nice environment. So i assume i've never been to "that place". Unfortunately, we were stuck in the jam. He said he made reservation at 7pm. Thinking that we couldn't make it on time, he called "that place" telling them we'll be slightly late.

Still dint know where we are heading. Jeremy told me that place is quite near my house, somewhere in KL. On our way there, our dearest Jeremy told me he needed to go to the toilet. "kap si" wo. He persuaded me that we can make it on time but he really needed settle his "big" business first. He insisted that we go back my house first, settle it and rush over to "that place".

No choice but had to say yes lor.. Reached home. I asked him to hurry up to the toilet downstairs while i go up to settle my "small" business. Just when i wanted to rush upstairs...

SURPRISE!!!!

Walao.. scared the hell outta me... How come there's a bunch of human in my house!

Make a wish, make a wish.~~~ Gosh... It was actually a surprise birthday party planned by my dear. He gave my house keys to one of his best buddy, Mr Toh. And that was how all my friends got into my house.

Thanks to the planner. :) It was really a good surprise which i did not expect at all!

Cut the cake, cut the cake~~ ^^

The preparation started at about 5-ish. These were the people who made it happen! :) Heart you all!

Justin, Kin Wai, Tricia n blur Toh..

Rachel & Yumeko

Johnny & Meng Jiunn

My oreo cheesecake.

Mimi blowing....... ^^

Han - posing, Soon, Tina & Howard - working hard.

Everybody, say cheeeeesssseeee!!

Fooooodd~~~

HAR... caught on act - eaten too much. :p

Gather gather together

Happy + Tired look

Appreciate all the wishes from sms es, facebook, friendster and also the gifts. Thank u all so so much!! C ya all again next year ;)

Levi's 501 Live Unbuttoned

2008-11-15T23:29:00.000-08:00

Some outdated post of works i've done. Did this mock cheque for Levi's "I'm a Musician & I'm a Designer" Contest. Went to the event at RUMMS KL. Hosted by Joey G, and some performance by local celeb, HUJAN (dunno who are they also :P) and Point Blanc.

The club

Hot Babes. ^^ (Ivan & Michele)

The winners holding the mock cheque i did! keke..

Joey G

"Mummy" Michele who always take care of me. ^^

Rachel were there too.

Another hottie colleague - Kellie

I'm so gonna miss doing Levi's account. My fav among all. Bye bye Levi's.

After 7 months of working

2008-09-30T22:18:00.000-07:00

I finally decided to quit my job. Things has been going from bad to worst which i doubt i can stay any longer in this company. I understand that advertising line is not an easy profession. I'm not quiting bcos of the workload given to me. I enjoyed what I've done so far although I learn the hard way. But imagine, after all the hard work i've done, working overnights and going back on weekends, i find it useless. When people don't appreciate what I've done, there's no point of staying there anymore.

I decided to move on.

But i'm grateful that i've learn a lot in this company. Colleagues are good. Well, not all i can say. Politics, back stabbing, betrayals. Name it, i've experienced all these in such a short period. It's just not easy to work in an international agency. Within my 7 months of working there, i've attended more than 10 farewells. Just imagine how bad it is.

Friends and family has been urging me to leave. I nvr thought of leaving still as i don't want to give up so fast. Eventually, i felt that my patience has reach the limitation. So yeah.

This 28th will be my last day. Throughout my journey there, i've met really really nice people. As oppose, i've met really really nasty and dirty people. Thanks to both the nice and nasty people, i learn a lot. I really did.

Woo hoo... i'm counting down already!

Back back back

2008-08-25T08:05:00.000-07:00

Some random post to keep my blog alive. ^^

Permed my hair 2 weeks ago. It was alright after i walked out of the saloon. But disaster the next 2 day. It looks like i've permed my hair ages ago. Straight, frizzy, dry, split ends. urgh. in short, suck la. I tied my hair for one freaking week man..

Pic below was day 2. Still acceptable la.

After one whole disaster hair week, i went back to the saloon. Complained to the stylist upon my unsatisfactory hairdo. Initially i thought maybe bcos i did not do any treatment b4 this, which caused the problem. So my plan is to do treatment n settle it. Then my hairstylist suggested to re-perm my hair with digital perm technique. He said it'll look more natural and wavy. But i have to add another 50 bux for tat la. No free meal in this world. lol. I have to do treatment this time as i cant afford to spoil my hair anymore. I'm doing perming 2 times in one week. Imagine tat.

After abt 2 hrs of hair rolling, washing n treating... i'm done. This time i can really see my curls.

My hair was utterly yucky for another week. It was dry, brittle, hard, and unnatural. Sighs... really sad lah... Cannot take it anymore. Went n get myself some haircare products for my permed hair. One of my colleague told me to do hair spa. Get a hair mask n do the hair spa myself at home. Bought a bottle of curl serum too. gosh... Too much spending mannn...

How do i look now? Much better than the 1st week i reckon.

Some "hiao" session with my bestie. ^^

Oh, n i do think i looked like a poodle after i permed my hair. LOL.

Another bad day!

2008-07-29T09:09:00.001-07:00

sigh sigh sigh sign n sighssss.....

What is going on now?Is it really my problem? This is no good at all.

I was helping one my of AD to rush some of his work last nite. Yea, helping kay. He asked me to create some visuals for him and asked me to show it to him the next morning as he gotta rush to somewhere else. And so i did it b4 goin home.

To my surprise, when i got into the office this morning, he was sitting at my place. I tot he wanted to improvise my design n show it to clients. BUT NOT. He was creating his own version of the visuals. I kept quiet and stood next to him. After finishing all his designs, he asked me to improvise on one of the visuals which i did last nite. So i did it again.

When i came back from lunch this noon, there he was, sitting on my place again. But this time, he was relaunching all my programs. So i suspected my com hanged when he was trying to transfer the files to his com. Part of the things i've done which i din save it, GONE. It wasnt a lot, and i dont mind redoing it. What pisses me off was, that fella is cursing with his well known chinese vulgar words to my poor mac. Saying its dam f**king slow n made my mac hanged.

I was very angry as he made my com hanged that time and worst he told me,

"Evonne, if you know ur com cannot support so many things, dont keep it. All these (pointing towards the improvise visuals i did) can delete."

There and then, he presses the backspace button. Yes, he DELETED MY VISUALS without telling me why. Its like u got killed but yet u dunno the reason. I kept quiet still.

1st, he made my com hanged, n i have to redo my stuff. He never apologize.
2nd, he deleted the works i did without telling me why.

If u were me, wat will u do? I felt so useless. Might as well u do the visuals yourself. Y wanna waste my time?

To add my anger, the stupid AD even asked me to mount his stuff onto the a3 mounting board. In a rude way. Without any please or thank you. Nevermind, i do it for him. I started showing my "beh song" face to him. BLACK to him all the time.

walao eh... how can this people live on earth? Send him to Mars please. sighs.

I didnt want to talk to him the rest of the day. Till abt 6 ish. I was rushing for my own works. He got his feedback for his visuals that he did this morning. Some changes to be made.

I sensed he will ask me to do it. He went to the visualizer 1st, but the visualizer were to busy at that time. Then he came to my place. I've guessed it right la, asked me to help out. He saw me doing my stuff. Asked when's my deadline. I told him next morning, n yet he still insist me to do it. WTF! He asked me to work 2gether with the visualizer so that works can be done faster. In my heart was cursing already. What is this! Are you trying to bully me?!!

Luckily the visualizer helped me. He told me he'll do all 3 of it. Thank god!

Now i clearly know his true colors already. When i couldnt hold my anger anymore, i burst it to a lot of people. I'm surprise to know that, it's not only me who cannot tahan that AD. oh and he's only JUNIOR AD, a 25 year old young guy. Almost all my colleagues cannot take his sucky attitude.

I asked one of my ex colleague abt tat guy.

XXX says:
i think, he is very very bad tempered. and indecisive. not a good person to work with. but an ok friend. he sigh and throw tantrum and make a lot of noise when he's working. super teruk attitude.

Thanks babe. (u know who u are) I felt better after talking to you. Looks like i'm not the only one who felt that way.

Hey U! if so happen you get to read my blog, behave of yourself. Respect others b4 u gain any respect from them.

Thanks to those who console and gave me advises. Appreciate it. :) I'll learn to protect myself, my own rights! Dont u ever try to bully me!

I had a bad day

2008-07-25T08:14:00.000-07:00

Recently i'm working on Honda Account on their invitation cards. After some chaotic moments of amendments, and printing out proofs for the invitation cards, the files are ready to be send out to printer.

By right, before files to be sent out to printer, it has to be proof check by art director, copywriter, the account manager and also the clients to reassure there are no mistakes. Even myself have to triple check the files, making sure it is the right one. If anything goes wrong, normally designers will get the blame as we are the one who did the artwork.

So, after sending out the files last 2 days, my AD got a call from the printer this morning. The printer asked about the dates in the invitation cards. As i'm doing 2 different versions for customers and media side, both RSVP dates are different. I started panicking after my AD asked me about it. Right away check my files again. Yeah, it has 2 different dates. OMG. I'm dead this time. How could this happen to me? I called the printer again to see what can be done.

Me: Hello Ms. XXX, this is Evonne calling from XXX. Just wanna check about the invitation card's date.

Printer: There's nothing can be done already now! Everything has been printed and we are rushing to courier it right now! (in a very angry tone)

Evonne: I'm sorry about this. I'll check with my AD and see what can be done on our side. Thanks, bye.

Hung up...... tut tut tut tut....

I tried explaining to my AD. B4 the files were sent out, the account manager (Mr. L) did came to my place and did the amendments himself. I wasn't sure what he amended in my files also. I did not jump to the conclusion n blame it all to Mr. L before i get the confirmation abt the dates error.

But what's weird is, isn't all this supposed to be checked thoroughly before sending out to the printer?

Luckily Mr. AD sided me. Same goes the rest in the Creative group. According to my other colleagues, Mr. L already well known for his unorganized work, and blaming other people for his own fault. Not sure how true is this but i just really wanna find out which is really the right date.

While all these were happening, the Mr. L wasn't in the office.

Just right after lunch, Mr. L came to my place.

Mr. L: Evonne, can i talk to you?

Me: Yeah, i know its about the card isnt it? Is it about the dates?

Mr. L: The dates are correct. It's different for both cards.

phewwww.....

Mr. L: But there's another minor mistake u've done. Can u open the file that i've gave u?

shit.... panic... stress.... sighs...

Mr. L :Look at this, u typed it wrongly. Instead of Mr., u typed in Ms. The file that i gave u, its the right one. I did not change this one. I'm not blaming you here Evonne. I just wanna let u know. Luckily the client did not say anything about this. We've already printed out stickers to paste on it.

Speechlesss.........................

I reckon Mr. L is trying to defend himself. It's really strange. How could this be wrong. I just copy and paste from the files he gave me earlier. But again, remember i said about the proof check? I admit i made the mistake, but i've reminded Mr. L to check the spelling million times. Plus i've already printed out so many copies, y no one spotted my mistake? It's unfair if i were the only one to be blamed on right?

No choice but to apologize to Mr. L, as it is still my mistake. I told my AD the whole story about this. He did not blame on me as he also knew what Mr. L is like.

Sigh.BIG lesson learn. I had a bad day @ work today. :(

Reunited and it feels so good

2008-07-08T09:00:00.000-07:00

It feels really good when u meet up with a long lost friend. Well, not really that long lost anyway.

Met up with my favorite girl, Amanda 2 days ago for lunch, together with Johnny. She was my colleague when i was working part time in Melbourne. She flew down from Sydney, to Singapore and took a coach to KL. Tho we known each other for, erm.. maybe couple of months, it feels like forever. She's only 17 this year, but to me she's a very mature thinking girl with cheerful and bubbly personality. That's y i liked her so much. ^^

Glad she managed to meet up with Johnny and I in Mid Valley during our lunch time. To Dome we go...

Groupie...

Us

We took heaps of pix as we dont know when are we gonna meet again.

There's Johnny... n i oopss... erm.. wat did i do to him, i barely remember.. :P

My Cajun Chicken. Tastes good.. yummm...

Aiks.. too happy till eyes half closed..

Us again..

Time flies during happy moments and its time for me to leave.. Gotta get back to off...

Take care babe. Have a safe journey back Sydney. And also don't give up on your dream to Parson Sch of Design. :)

Not too bad afterall

2008-06-30T07:51:00.000-07:00

In fact, I do enjoy what i'm working on now in office except for what I've stated in the previous post. The accounts that i'm doing now is pretty interesting. My favorite one would be the Levi's Strauss Account. I'm currently doing their Fall / Winter Brochure for 2008. Went for the photo shooting 3 weeks ago. I was impressed with the whole process. It was tiring but fun as i get to experience to whole shooting progress. The setting up, lighting, props..

The 2 days shooting were held at several locations. One was at KLPAC, Sentul, another at Tasek Simen, Cheras. The 2nd day itself were at the studio itself. The best thing abt the shooting was, i get to see cute guys and hot chick! hahaha...

1st location: KLPAC, Sentul. Very nice greenery place.

Here comes the model. Jenna, from the states.

Brazilian cutie, Alex. ^^

Groupie with Vespa.

The couple, Felipe n Nara. Both from Brazil too. Oh yeah, they are a lovey dovey couple. Kiss n hug each other whenever they can.. ^^ free show for us lah. ~~ haha

To the 2nd location : Tasek Simen. An abandoned factory near Taman Maluri.

Day 2: Studio shooting

Oh, n i made frens with this 18 year old hot chick, Jenna. She's friendly n down to earth. Her features reminds me of Mandy Moore as at a sight glance, she does look like her.

Oh besides shooting, i went for Levi's "Live Unbuttoned" Launching Party last week too. Have to thank my AD who gave me a chance to go for both shooting and the launching party. More exposure, he says. ^^ The launching party were held at The Actors Studio, BSC. Plenty of local celebs were invited to the party too. Hmm... cute guys again! haha..

There's Jien, making some funny faces when he was asked to pose.

Spot Joey G, the ex Channel V presenter, also Will Kuah, Owen Yap, Adam C, presenter from 8tv. Not too sure who are the rest tho. Last year's CLEO's bachelor winner was there too.

The reporters...

I forgot what's the girl's name on my left. She's from Ogilvy. On my right, the ever lovely Yen, the Sr. Account Exec. in my company.

Lady in pink, some top ppl in Levi's. Next to her, Michele, our Account Manager. Thanks to her for inviting me over to the party too. :)

Told ya its not too bad after all. :)

After 2 months of working...

2008-06-30T07:31:00.000-07:00

1. Dinner at 8,9,10 or sometimes 11pm.
2. Looking forward for weekends, but sadly it passes by so fast that i don't even feel it.
3. Colleagues.. still cannot click that much with them. I wonder why.
4. Felt invisible, miserable and unmotivated as sometimes my works are not appreciated.
5. Leaves office at 9pm, and Mr. Boss said "Wah, working halfday ah?"
6. Mr. Boss likes staff who stays up late and better still overnight in the office.
7. Record for staying up OT in the office. Latest 2am. Earliest 7.45pm.
8. Still paying RM6 everyday for parking as no allowance were given to me yet. :(

Hope it gets better as time goes. Don't feel like giving up this job yet.

I've been tagged!

2008-06-02T08:43:00.000-07:00

Shyong tagged me.. According to her, once u've been tagged, you should;

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. List eight (8) random facts about yourself.
3. Tag eight people at the end of this post and list their names.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs.

Fact 1:
I'm a super Snoopy Lover. My bag, my room, my toilet, my car... u name it, i'll have Snoopy in it!

Fact 2:
I still keep my baby blanket of 23 years old this year. I don't use it to cover my body (bcos it's wayyy too small). It's one the blanket's edges i rub on every nite that actually puts me to sleep. ^^

Fact 3:
When i sneeze too much, i'll get hungry very fast. Even if i jus had my meal an hour ago. *aaaaa choo....!*

Fact 4:
I'm a coffee n tea lover. Which is very bad. A cuppa or 2 is a must for daily basis.

Fact 5:
So far in my life, I've been to Thailand, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Indonesia and Australia. More to come.. :)

Fact 6:
I've always wanted to keep myself fit. But i always failed to do so. Bcos i'm a chocoholic as well. *grrrr*

Fact 7:
I've been to clubs for only 3 times so far. Once in Melb, twice in KL. *paiseh*

Fact 8:
I love to smile. ;)

I dont think i'm gonna tag anyone now. Cos most of them already kena tagged. ^^

I missed school life

2008-05-21T08:04:00.000-07:00

Koala... says:
u know i feel rite last time we always play tricks on him

Koala... says:
feel so bad man

Koala... says:
pour glue on his keys

••¤❤ êvÒñŋë ❤¤•• says:
eh did we? wat trick?

Koala... says:
yar

Koala... says:
tan yee voon ar

••¤❤ êvÒñŋë ❤¤•• says:
hahahhaa

••¤❤ êvÒñŋë ❤¤•• says:
loh suet may ar...

••¤❤ êvÒñŋë ❤¤•• says:
omg i really forgot abt it man

Koala... says:
so naughty

••¤❤ êvÒñŋë ❤¤•• says:
wat else did we do?

Koala... says:
dunno all those weird things

Koala... says:
always hide his keys all

••¤❤ êvÒñŋë ❤¤•• says:
hahaha....yamann.. now i remember!!! Kesian Liew Chee Hoe!! haha..

Koala... says:
gosh

••¤❤ êvÒñŋë ❤¤•• says:
aww.. i missed school life now

Koala... says:
feel so guilty man

Koala... says:
mr habib

••¤❤ êvÒñŋë ❤¤•• says:
yalar.

••¤❤ êvÒñŋë ❤¤•• says:
called me iban!

Koala... says:
do u remember him

••¤❤ êvÒñŋë ❤¤•• says:
remember lar

Koala... says:
wakakakkaka

••¤❤ êvÒñŋë ❤¤•• says:
hahaha

Koala... says:
well i got mariani

Nice catching up with u Mary! Hope u r doing well in UK. :)

Can you be bold and beautiful?

2008-05-10T10:38:00.000-07:00

I reckon it is possible.

Does skinny always mean beautiful?
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I have no idea... For those who are bias, then yes.

Working Life

2008-05-08T20:02:00.000-07:00

Fyi, i'm officially an working adult now.. sobzz...

I started working in an well-known Advertising Agency in Mid Valley since May. I've gave up a company which offered me 300 bucks more as oppose to this current company i'm working with. Well, i was in deep dilemma while making this decision. Both companies have their pros n cons. Well, i know i must have a decision anyhow.

So, today's my 6th day of working. The good thing is, i start work at 10 am. Can beat the traffic. But in return, i have to go back late in order to finish my job. I started to get used to the odd hours of working now. Just that i couldn't have dinner at home d. Its either i had to have late meals or don't have it at all. Sad huh. Plus parking fee here is killing me softly. But this is just the beginning, my journey is still very far to achieve things that i wanted in life. So, don't complain Evonne!

Btw, i'm so darn free right now. Its 11.25 am and no one in the office now because all the staff went to company trip last night! n as a newbie, cannot go lorrrr... Too bad my ECD did not go for the trip. If he's goin, i might be at home now. He's still not in the office yet. Probably still snoring at home i reckon. lol.

Oritey people, time to stop n get my fingers to do work. Ciaoz!

Funny Mistakes

2008-04-23T01:21:00.000-07:00

Got this funny email from my aunt. Would like to share with all of you.. =)

If a barber makes a mistake,
It's a NEW STYLE

If a driver makes a mistake,
It is a NEW PATH

If a engineer makes a mistake ,
It is a NEW VENTURE

If parents makes a mistake,
It is a NEW GENERATION

If a politician makes a mistake,
It is a NEW LAW

If a scientist makes a mistake,
It is a NEW INVENTION

If a tailor makes a mistake,
It is a NEW FASHION

If a teacher makes a mistake ,
It is a NEW THEORY

If our boss makes a mistake,
It is a NEW IDEA

If an employee makes a mistake,
It is a "MISTAKE"

Gorgeous Ms Dion

2008-04-20T01:28:00.000-07:00

I've heard of Celine Dion's world tour few months back. I dont really fancy concerts unless i really really adore that artist. The nite b4 Celine Dion's concert, my cousin, Ee Ling msged me in msn.

Ee Ling: Eh, u wanna work in Celine Dion's concert anot? My friend's working in Galaxie, the organiser for this concert. They are looking for a wardrobe assistant.

Evonne: Huh... wah... sure anot... Wardrobe assistant ar, means help Celine Dion change clothes during concert those?

Ee Ling: Not too sure leh, but something to do with that lar. Definately will have a chance to see her. Pay also not bad i heard. Even if the pay not good, also worth it lar, can see superstar for free wo..

Evonne: oh.. not bad, not bad.. Can think about it. You go, I go! hehe...

Ee Ling: haha... U go i go lor..

Evonne: Then set. We go!

So there we go.....

Woke up by 6.30am. Gosh, it has been so so long since i wake up this early. Reached Stadium Merdeka by 8am sharp. My cousin called this guy who works in Galaxie as well to bring us to the person in charge.

The Stadium, looking wet and dirty.

Cam-whored while waiting.. :P

Wait n wait, finally the person in charge, Andrew arrived. He brought us to meet with two of Celine Dion's wardrobe manager, Keith and Zobra. Both ang mohs were very nice to us.

Basically what we need to do is to help them manage the dancers and band clothes while Keith and Zobra will manage Celine's clothes of the night. We were assigned to steam all the clothes for the dancers and band.

Me, doin the steaming for the 1st time. Burnt myself a couple of times cos the steam was super HOT! We were doin all these inside a tent where they set up for the dancers and band. Luckily there's aircond, or else we'll turn BBQ pork.

Cant believe i steamed all those..

In fact, we have nothing much to do that day apart from steaming the clothes. Zobra wanted to keep us busy as she worried we might get bored. Thus, she asked us to help her to write the band and dancers names on.. ermm, not sure what's that called, straps? Anyway, its to make it as labels as new clothes arriving soon.

Bersungguh-sungguhnye i wrote all the names..

Mission accomplished!

Oh, check out Celine's wardrobe.. This case damn high tech lor. Once u open, there's a lot of compartments in it. I think there were 6-7 cases like tat... Cool Cool!

Checking out her schedule of the day..

The backstage... Taken while havin our yucky lunch.. The meals that they provide was awful. I reckon the fried rice were spoilt when we had it. Sticky n Stinky! *ewww*

Oh no, look at the sky! No doubt, it's goin to rain anytime..

We have ntg to do after lunch but just hang around the area. N we were not given a tag as crew members or anyone who works there must wear a tag all the time. So we were like illegal immigrants there. I bet everyone were wondering what the heck these 2 girls doin in the stadium without a tag. We gotto ask Andrew for the tags as we were stopped by some RELA fella as he tot we were some crazy girls who came damn early for Celine's concert. *faint*

It was raining cats and dogs abt 3.00-ish. We stood in the tent as we cant go anywhere else. The wind was so strong and we worried the tent might get blown off! haha.. Cam-whore lagi lah! haha.. Btw, nice mirror huh with all the light bulbs all around,reminds me of those HK superstar make up room. :P

We were anticipating for Celine's arrival by 4+ as there will be rehearsals according to the schedule.

About 5-ish, Celine arrived. Rushing into her changing room once she got down from the car. It was still drizzling by then..

At about 5+, we started to get busy again. By that time, Celine was rehearsing! Sighs, we couldnt get to see her but we heard her voice! Simply amazing.. Eventually, we saw a glimpse of her after her rehearsal. She looked great with her purple floral blouse and heels !

Approaching 8ish, the crowd started to arrive.. To our suprise, we saw Siti Nurhaliza with hubby, Datuk K as well as Jacklyn Victor sitting at the most expensive RM1000 ticket seats. The Royal families came as well. The crowd were just amazing that night. All of them were cheering happily even b4 the concert starts.

We were so glad when Keith and Zobra told us that we will be working backstage. Which means we get to see the entire concert of the night! Woo Hoo! But of cos, we still have works to be done. We gotta help the dancers when they are changing during the concert. And i was assigned to help the male dancers! gosh... If u know what i'm trying to say. But they have "CUN" bodies, who cares! hahaha... And they were extremely friendly + cute + they can dance really well.. kekeke... okie okie.. i think i shud stop now.. hehe...

Anyway... yeah.. b4 the concert starts, Keith told us that no photography were allowed. =.= Sighs... Dissapointed! But again, who cares, we curi curi took with my cousin's hp.

Finally, the superstar that we were waiting for all night. She greeted "Selamat Datang" to the audiences when she came out for her 1st song.

This is the best we could take. She's such a superstar. She sang 23 songs if i'm not mistaken included some of her famous ones, "Power of love, I'm your Angel, Because you love me, Taking Chances, My heart will go on" dan banyak lagi.. Really non-stop one! Her voice was superbly power.. Even our local celebrity Siti was amazed and clapped throughout the concert!

Another one...

Celine has only 2 outfit on that night. Throughout the whole concert, my cousin and I were wondering y dint she get changed. She sang 22 songs with the same outfit and only change to another yellow gown for her last song, "My heart will go on"..

Finally, loud applause from audiences after her last song. I bet the audiences were hungry for more performances from her.

Truly a stunning & sensational concert - one never to be forgotten.

It was a great experience and i was glad that we were given this opportunity to work backstage. First time ever we got so close with a superstar.

So, 15 hours in the stadium. Tho' we were fatigue at the end of the night, it was worth it. We get to experience the whole setting up, the preparation. It really requires a lot of hardwork and also teamwork. Working with ang mohs were not too hard either. :P

Oh, and we werent illegal immigrant after we got our tag at 6-ish. Finally!

I missed.....

2008-04-17T08:07:00.000-07:00

Everything in Melbourne!

The trams..

The city...

The family i had there..

My guinea pigs... Coffee & Cocoa..

My room... From super messy to super clean as that was taken when i was abt to leave the hse.

And also my Union Street peeps! This is what we do when are too free! Btw, Careen's my mom! lol.. I missed the things we did together!

Friendship that formed in Melbourne too!

But no worries, i'll be back Melbourne! for vacation... :P

A wrap up in Melbourne

2008-04-05T09:00:00.000-07:00

Life in Melbourne was simply terrific and amazing but i think it should come to an end now. Well, i'm gonna wrap up everything, all the sweet memories there and come back to the reality life in KL.

Went to this Sand Sculpting eshibition in Frankston, one of the suburb in Melb. I've seen all these sand sculptures in forwarded emails, but not the real thing.

So excited when we got there, but the sky was a bit gloomy that day and we worried that it might rain, And there goes all the sand. lol.

So, here we are!

Wah wah...

Cantik!

Just look at the details! Simply amazing..

Alice in the Wonderland

This one was extremely huge...

Yeaps, that's how the scaling like..

Puss in boots!

How can we miss out koalas in Australia... :P

I'm sure u guys familiar with this.. It's Rapunzel...

Humpty Dumpty....

The Red Riding Hood

Hansel n Gretel

Still in the progress of constructing the sculpture. It's a lot of hardwork. Salute those people.

Step by step how the sculpture was made.

After reading it, then only we know that these sand sculptures can take fair amount of punishment from the weather. Be it rain or thunderstorm. Geng!

Went to another side of the sculpture exhibition. Beach again! haha.. Strong winds and extremely cold that evening.

Hungry-ness d. Called Yi Xiang for dinner together and asked him to check out where's the best korean food in the city. Craving for kimchii!!

Yeaps, we found one. Hwa-Ro Korean BBQ on King St. The restaurant were owned by 2 Koreans.

Pretty unique the way they BBQ.

Appetizers... The other 2 pics on the right, no idea wat it is called. Yummay!

The rice and the raw meat. The food presentation was awesome. *claps*

The soup... awww.. i missed it very much!

How we bbq the meat..

Us!

Most of the patrons were Koreans. So we were confident that this gonna be good. While we were waiting for our seats, we saw a whole bunch of guys walking in. Wondering who they are cos almost the whole restaurant patrons were focusing on the group. We managed to ask one of the customer there who were waiting as well. They told us, one of the guy in that big group is a Korean actor who acted in famous Korean drama series, My Name is Kim Sam Soon.

I've heard of the drama but din watch it. After that, we have no doubt on their food d. Even actors came n visit the restaurant. haha.. Thumbs up for the food!

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Clubbing @ Seven

Went clubbing for my 1st and last time in Melb. Believe it or not? Yes, u gotta believe it! :P Too bad Jeremy was at Sydney that time and couldn't join us. Luckily i had 2 very macho bodyguards! lol.. Yi Xiang n Leeqerman. But i reckon both of them were Jeremy's spy cam. To make sure i dont go flirt with other guys. haha...

Coincidently my workplace supervisor, Audrey was there too.. With fellow Think Asia's staff, Johnny & Chimme.

Non other than the Leeqerman!

Meng Jiunn

Groupie... Jane, Ash, Leeq, Yi Xiang missing..

There's Yi Xiang, but the rest still missing...

Overall, the place was good. First time in my life i danced like nobody's business. haha... Fun! But clubbing, hermm... probably once in a blue moon can lar, not every weekend. Cannot afford! lol. Probably i rather spend on something tangible. :)

Our last 2 day trips

2008-03-16T20:28:00.000-07:00

Tho i've been back fr Melb for 2 mths+, i'm missing the place almost everyday. And i'm not finish blogging about my life there yet. lol. So here's my last 2 day trips in Melb b4 heading back KL.

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Philip Island

Finally went to Penguin Island with mom & Yumeko. Jeremy din join us as he went with his parents while they were there. The whole package includes Cattle Farm, Koala Reservation Centre and Philip Island itself. First stop, Cattle farm..

baaa...baa... white sheep have u any wool?

Meet Mr. Kangaroo again...

Besides sheeps and kangaroos, there were wombats, cows, & ostriches in the farm .

Next stop, Koala Reservation Centre.

Wow... this is a huge one!

Nah, tat's the fake one.. Now, here's the real thing..

Ermm... this is interesting...

Dinner time! Reached a small town in Philip Island.. Had pizza for dinner...

Lovely beach! Woo Hoo...

Posersss....

Finally, our last destination of the day.. The penguin parade...

Oh.. b4 that, our tour guide stopped by at this magnificent place called The Noobies. Its famous for their rugged rocky outcrop. Nice huh...

We saw this very cute signage outside the parking lot. lol.

We were told that no photography is allowed on the beach. :( So must buy some souveniers back as memory..

Oh, for those who are not sure wat we did in penguin parade, we were practically stood by the beach side for hours jus to see those cute lil' penguins waddle back to their burrows. (penguin's home)

When the sunsets, penguins started to appear. Visitors were tremendously enthusiastic. We were told to remain silence as noises might frightened them too. Those lil' creatures were really tiny. As big as a seagull.

They only waddle back after sunset as that's the best time to avoid predators bcos its dark compared to day time. I can tell those penguins were really cautious and always waddle in a big group and really fast.

Nice trip overall. No regrets!

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How Great is the Ocean?

Another trip with fellow Union Street. The Great Ocean Road is a must go destination for the amazing 12 Apostles in Melb. I reckon its no longer 12, probably 8? or less.

We went to a few beaches b4 heading to the 12 Apostles. It was a really long journey there. Approx 2 hrs? or more than that. The roads were narrow n windy till i suffered carsick.

Dont remember which beach was this but it was a nice one!

Told ya its a nice one...

The starting of great ocean road.

Here we are... A hot sunny day with darn loads of annoying FLIES again!

Another view..

Nice.. nice.. Cant take my camera off the rocks!

Next, another beach... if i'm not mistaken, this place is called Loch Arch Gorge. Look how beautiful the rock formation is.

It seems there was a sad story behind this place... (enlarge to read)

Wrap up with a groupie!

Oh, another beach b4 heading back to Melbourne. Its the Remains of London Bridge. Heard that this rock formation was formerly stuck together with the rock on the left hand side. The middle part dissapeared thanks to the strong waves. No idea y they name it London Bridge. Probably it looks like a bridge?

Sick of beaches yet? You will never will when u were there.. Such an amazing place. Its the GREAAAAAAAAT Ocean Road!

I'm officially a degree holder

2008-03-15T23:20:00.000-07:00

Yeshh.. finally my graduation photos.. Everyone has been repetitavely asking me where are the photos.... So here they are..

My convocation ceremony was on the 19th of Dec 2007. Held in Glenferrie Town Hall in a hot & sunny day. Aiyoh, wrong day to be hot lar. We were all wearing formal attire, long sleeves, ties... And by the time we reach the hall, we were all covered by sweat top to toe and there goes all the make ups.. >.<

Here's the hall..

When we reached, all we did was, just sign our names and immediately... 'pop!', someone were already standing there to guide us. The assistants helped us to choose the robes sizes and put it on for us. Hassle Free!

While waiting for the assistant to choose the right hat size for me.. Told ya we dont need to do anything at all. Everything was well prepared A-Z. Good job!

Before the ceremony begin...

Julia!!! Hope u r doin well in the States...

Rachel - Havent seen her since i came back.. Hope to meet up with u soon..

Soo Yee - U too, where are you now?

Cute n funny Daya!

The 3 girls...

Joanna & her mom who is also my mom's ex collegue. What a small world. Need to thank this girl for helping me to get a house and recommend me part time jobs. Owe u big time girl! :)

Both families...

Okay, the ceremony begun... Pay attention to what the Chancellor has to say...

Yeap, that's me taking the scroll! woo hoo!

Paid AUD130 for 2 pcs studio photo shooting. This is the family one, still okay. But the self potrait is just a pc of crap! My eyes were half closed, never touch-up my pimples! Sad case...

Granny graduated too..

Oh, mom as well with the title of 'Masters of Housewife'! lol.

After the ceremony... groupies...

The 25, 55 Union Street Residents..

(Leeqie & Ash) I'm one lucky girl.. :P

Yi Xiang!! Thanks for coming!

Multi Cultural Fellowship... You guys rock!

There goes dad's RM100k. Good experience, sweet memories! Woo Hoo!!!

Last Christmas...

2008-03-06T01:24:00.000-08:00

I know, i know... Its already March, not longer December...

Anyways, some updates on what we did last Christmas. :P

1st time celebrating Christmas in a foreign country. I thought it will be very happening but i was suprised its not, compared to Malaysia. Their deco wasnt as nice as back home's. They do have this huge plastic christmas tree in the city but from what i heard, they recycle it every year. hmm.. weird huh... Plus the entire city was so quiet. I guess Aussies do 'balik kampung' like us. :P

So last year, i celebrated with mom, dad, grandma, aunt Nee and also Jeremy's family as they were there for our graduation ceremony. Also not forgetting Yumeko and Yi Xiang.

p.s. Leeq, sorry we dint know yr aunt n family wasnt yet back that time. We thought u will be celebrating with them. Dont angry at us wor... :) But i know u wont lar.. hehe..

Anyway, we went fine dining at The Meat & Wine Co. The restaurant is famous for steaks. Too bad i'm not a big fan of beef.

Mom & Dad with chrissie hats... :D

This was what i ordered. Looks like chicken kebab.. Tasted like it too.. But the food presentation was great. Very appetizing.

Yumeko's vegetarian pasta..

Dont remember who's one is this. I reckon it was steak..

Dad's kangaroo meat... hmm.. He said come Australia must try it wor.. But it tasted a bit weird.

Well, overall the food was just okay. Satisfied with it lar..But those who ordered steak, they say it was really good.

The peoplessss.....

Another one outside the restaurant..

Darn frrrreaaking cold that nite.. Everyone was complaining on the weather. It was 15 degrees on summer with strong winds!

After dinner, headed to Crown Casino for some gamblings. Hang out abt an hour b4 going home.
Aunt Nee fetch us back to uncle's place as dad is going back the next day.

Christmas is an important celebration for Aussies. Just look at the decoration at their houses. It's the Simpsons! Nice.

Back to uncle's house. Cute granny, posing with Christmas tree while holding a toy dog.

Merry Belated Christmas peeps... :P

Part 2 - The day she was there....

2008-03-05T20:56:00.000-08:00

After dad left for M'sia, (jeremy's parents and aunt left on the same day), mom moved to my place to stay. Grandma will be staying in uncle's place for the remainder 2 weeks.

Brought mom to Lygon St. for some Italian dinner.

Coincidently Tricia was there in Melby when mom's there. We had dinner togeda-geda... :)

Trish n mom..

See how happy my mom, eating the yummilicious gelati...

3 of us oso quite happie worr...

Come to Melbourne, shopping is a must! Bridge Road time...

Someone happy coz he bought super keng stuff...

Brought mom to Max Brenner to experience the real taste of chocolate.. But too bad she wanted to get Cappucino there instead of chocs. But still yummy... :P

N must also try to ever yummy Pancake Parlour... Delicious horrr...

See her expression oso know.. haha..

Snap this mirror outside Pancake Parlour. All of us turned to midget d.. lol.

Time to say goodbye to mom pulak.. So fast 3 weeks gone.. in front of 55 union st. :) our apmt.

Must take with Prahran Station as we always catch train at this station..

Bye bye lorrr...

The day they were there....

2008-02-28T07:49:00.000-08:00

18th Dec 07 - mom, dad & grandma arrived in Melbourne... YAY!! They came all the way to attend my convocation on the 19th Dec.

Mom and grandma stayed 3 weeks, while dad's staying only for a week as he has got things to do back home. 3 of them will be staying with uncle while Jeremy's parents n aunt will be staying in my apartment.

Day 2, uncle brought us to Mt. Dandenong to capture the view of Melbourne. Not the whole Melb but just a part of it. Went to a cafe nearby to sit back and relax while enjoying the scenery.

Nice captivating view with a cool breeze...

Grandma ordered caramel slice fr the cafe which was way tooo sweet.. She jus loves confectionery... cakes, ice-creams.. all she oso ngam one.. cannot like tat oh grandma...

After having tea on Mt. Dandenong, mom, dad and I caught a trainto go back to my house in Prahran. We sat from Ferntree Gully station to Richmond which took us almost an hour. One end to the other end. No choice as i gotta get home n ready for my convo by 4pm.

Mom n dad on the train. The journey was wayyy to long..

Convocation photos will soon be uploded.. :P

Over the week, din really get to spend my time with dad as i had to work and both mom n dad needs to travel for an hr from uncle's place to my place.

However, i took a day off to accompany them. Actually mom & dad been to most of the places in Melb d as they went there 20 years ago for honeymoon.. :P They said Melbourne city still looks the same even after 20 years! haha..

Morning dim sum with uncle & family..

Time flies and there goes the one week. Dad's going home d. Pics with Way Way b4 goin to the airport..

Aiks y am i not in the pic? aiyah, i was holding the camera larr....

Cousinly lurvvveee...

More to come...~~

Happy CNY '08

2008-02-13T21:16:00.000-08:00

GONG XI FA CAI!!

Oopssie... i think i'm a lil' bit too late for this CNY post right... What to do, the laziness disease is attacking me right now... >.<

Anyway, i'm glad that i came home for CNY this year. Missed a year celebrating with family members while i was in Melbourne... In short, happy to be back, it just felt so warm with everyone around... :)

So, what's CNY without "lou sang"?

Lou ah lou, lou ah lou....

First day of CNY, mom cooked vegetarian... We had chicken, prawn, geese, char siu, mutton... of coz it is all made out of flour... yummieee....~~

Aunts, uncles n cousins waiting impatiently... oops, dad wanted to be in the picture... lol

The only 2 "TAN" girls...

The rest are all guys... omg, i just realise i'm damn short... Look at the "giant" beside me.. i looked like midget... lol

Our family portrait... My parents looked like ang pow that day.. lol..

Headed to popo's house... Finally, my first day of seeing baby Rachel.. If u all remember, i made her a card for her full moon celebration. She was sitting so comfortably on my fatty arms.. -.-

Leng lui couzzie... We played together since we were young as i'm 20 days elder than her...

The ever cheeky baby Ivan.. He looked superbly cute in that traditional chinese outfit..

Baby Rachel was sleeping soundly at the end of the day. I'm sure she must be very tired...

Din really take much pic this CNY as everybody was darn busy to take pics...

Waiting for next year's CNY jor... ^.^

I'm Back

2008-02-13T20:19:00.000-08:00

Time Flies!!!!

I'm back to KL already. I had mixed feelings before coming back. Sad as i need to leave the nice place and happy coz i can meet up with all my family and friends! Dilemma, dilemma...

When i came back to KL, it's just like i've never been to Melbourne.. It felt like i just woke up from a dream. I cant really recall what happened in Melbourne aside from seeing pics that i've taken. Moreover when i came back to meet my relatives, it feels like i just met them yesterday. Not a year! Weird.. >.<

I should be happy cos i dont need to chase trains n trams. No more carrying heavy stuff from groceries, no more working in food court.

Tho i dont need to work but still i miss the people i worked with. Missed my daily conversation with customers.. haha.. tho its really boring as i need to repeat those sentences hundreds of times a day.

Me: Hi! how is it going? / Hi, how are you?
Customer: I'm good, yourself?
Me: Not too bad, thanks. So, what can i get you today?
Customer: Ermm... What's the deal like?
Me: You can choose either rice or noodles with 2 choices. It's $8.20 for small and $9.20 for large size.
Customer: Alright, i'll have a large with rice.
Me: Sure. So which are your 2 choices?
Customer: I'll have sweet and sour pork and steak and blackbean.
Me: Sure. Comes to $9.20 please. Would you like to have any drinks to go with your meal?
Customer: No, i'm fine.
Me: Here you go , your change. Thanks a lot. Have a good day!
Customer: Thanks. You too.

However, there are some nasty customers occasionally. They'll shout at you if the foods are not hot enough or doesnt taste good. Wth, not our fault oso, talk to the management lar. Well, what to do, customers are always right.

Some pics with my ex collegues...

Maria and me.

16 years old Amanda..

Amanda's sister, Rebecca.

The 2 Mr Chefs and Ah Yee from kitchen hand..

Miss working with u guys loads! Hope to see all of u in the future. Will definately go back to Melb sometime. :)

Finale

2008-02-13T19:29:00.000-08:00

My last post for Sydney.. :P Hope i dont make u guys bored with Sydney... >.<

Went to Max Brenner for chocs AGAIN. Don't be suprised to see me for those for hasn't see me for a year. But the chocs there were really good. Look at the top right pic. That was one the choc drink that we need to make ourself. I reckon it's kinda unique.

We had Hainanese chicken rice for dinner on our last nite in Sydney. Thanks to the great chef, Xin Wen who prepared the dinner. :)

fr left- right: Xin Wen, me, Tricia, Justin, Jeremy & Jon

Our one week hospitality was good provided by Jon, Xin Wen n Justin. Thanks heaps!

Met up with my Korean collegue, Justin before heading back Melbourne. Great fren to hang around. Safe trip back to Korea. :)

Bye bye Sydney... Hope to see u again..

More more....

2008-02-11T06:26:00.000-08:00

Finally 5th day post for Sydney is up after delaying for soooo long.

Day 5

Jon suggested that we rent a car to drive up to Blue Mountain which is famous for the 3 sisters Rock.

There, our rented Mitsubishi car, Jon the chauffeur, Jeremy the map coordinator and me, being the sleepyhead + food provider in the car. :P

After an hr half of journey, we finally reach Katoomba Town, the town where Blue Mountains situated.

We still need abt 1/2 hr b4 reaching the peak of the mountain. Eventually, there we were, on the mountain with the 3 sisters rock.

Oops... too enthusiastic seeing the captivating view!

Everything was fine that day except for the annoying FLIES again! grosssss..... >.<

We went down to one of the 3 sisters rock. The stairs down the rock was so steep and i nearly gave up half way as i'm fear of heights. But eventually i held closely to the railing and force myself down. Fuhh... and i made it!

On the Rock..

omg.... they left me all alone!

We were quite lucky as we could see the 3 sisters rock and the rest of the view. By 4 plus, the fog covered the whole mountain and we couldnt see a single thing.

Pose like the 3 sisters!

Now to the next destination, Barthust to fetch my darling Tricia to Sydney. The fog was still covering the road when we were on our way down the mountain.

Luckily we managed to pass through to fog thanks to the pro chauffeur! :P

Nice view captured by Jeremy... steal his photo.. >.<

We reached Barthust earlier than we thought. While waiting for Tricia, we went up to Mount Panaroma the place is famous for somesort of motorcar racing. Nice view, can see the whole Barthust Town.

Not only nice scenery, there were some wild kangaroos jumping around..

This one was looking closely at us.

Time's up. Need to go over n fetch Tricia. Spot her, mopping the floor in ther workplace.. :D

Taken in her bedroom in Barthust.. Silly yet funny..

Last post for Sydney is coming up.... kekekeke....

More of Sydney

2008-01-24T16:50:00.000-08:00

Day 3

Jeremy and I gotta figure out ourselves the way to the city coz Jon's has to work. We were given a street directory, jus like Melway where all the roads and places were all stated clearly. So no problem for us. We explored the city ourself by bus as that's the main public transport Sydney. And busses were the cheapest compared to the rest of trains. They do have trams but very limited and only in certain area.

We went to Chinatown but aside from the crowd, nothing is so special abt it. The entire city of Sydney was filled with people! Hmm.. through my observation, there were loads of Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indian. A lot of ppl told me Sydney is like one of the asian country, u hardly see ang mohs around. So wat i heard its quite true indeed. Probably ang mohs dont hang out in city. lol.

Weather was pretty warm n Sydney. Beh tahan, had BOOST to ease my thirsty throat! yum!

Caught up with the 3 girls, Yumeko, Rachel n Cath soon after that. They went 2 days after us. We went to the ever famous Harbour Bridge and Opera House. A must visit place in Sydney. It was a very captivating place. Love it!

Us with Harbour Bridge

Cafes along Opera House. Quite happening wor...

We cant get enough of the beautiful scenery near the harbour, we decided to go closer! We paid AUD$5 jus to take a short trip to another harbour, Darling Harbour.

No regrets on paying the xtra 5 bucks. We get to take pic with both Harbour Bridge n Opera House at the same time!

Underneath the bridge...

Approaching Darling Harbour. We could slightly see some buildings there. That's Sydney's city!

Reaching... Beautiful place with nice cruise boats!

More canggih ones!

That was actually a boat restaurant we saw when we were approaching the harbour. Sure syok if i get a chance to eat there.... >.< That's how the whole Darling Harbour looks like from top.

Day 4

As for out 4th day in Sydney, met up with the 3 girls again for fish market. Jeremy and I gotta find our own way to fish market again coz our dear Jon has got things to do at home.. >.<

After much walking, we finally reach Sydney's Fish Market. Hmm.. nice environment...

SEAFOOOOOOD!!

Oh, and Ranthini was there to join us too.. :)

This was wat 5 of us had. Cost us AUD$55 for this seafood platter lei.. We get to share abit of everything in the platter n it's already 10 bucks per person. omg..... expensive~~

Headed to Sydney's Casino for a visit. Jon told us that if we join their membership, we'll have $10 creditted to the membership card. Which means we have 10 bucks to play without spending any penny! Lucky day for Jeremy, he won $100+ from the machine all at once. Whereas we girls only won a few bucks from the $10. Tonight someone's gonna belanja dinner... :P

This was taken outside the casino. White christmas for them.... Nice deco..

Another headache when approaching dinner time. What to eat lehhhh..... Jon was telling us there's this shop that sells delicious pancakes. Yum..~~ But pancake for dinner? No worries, aside from pancake, they do offer other food too.

This was what we had. Pork ribs, pizza for appetizer and our main course, PANCAKES!

One word : YUMMILICIOUSSSS....

Sydney, here i come!

2008-01-24T02:42:00.000-08:00

Actually, i was back from Sydney more than a month ago. >.<

Day 1

We departed from Avalon Airport on 4th Dec and arrived in Sydney at abt 11.30am. So happy that my darling Tricia came down all the way from Barthust to Sydney to meet up with me. :)

We had the most spicy meal ever, really SPICY! We had Balinese food but suprisingly we two girls manage to finish the food whereas compared to the guys who struggled hard to finish up. lol.

l-r: Tricia, me, Jeremy and Jon

Jon brought us to walk around the city of Sydney. The city really reminds me of KL. It's really similar with busses and the crowd too..

Premium shopping area, Queen Victoria Building (QVB). Nice architecture.

The interior

We went in the month of Dec. This was a huge christmas tree we saw in that building. I reckon it was abt 3 storeys high. Nicely decorated with lightings.

As we walked outside the city, there were a lot of talented ppl just like in Melbourne.

Take a closer look. It is really amazing. I wondered y they can end up in the street. I reckon they should b in some sort of art gallery somehow.

Day 2

Day 2 was accompanied by Jon too. Tricia gotta go back to Barthust for work. sob sob.. Anyway, our Sydney tour guide brought us to the State library, Parliament, every little bits of Sydney. We were outside a church, but don't quite remember wat was the name d.

The interior of the church. Beautifully carved!

Yet another christmas tree.. wee!

Silly shots of us!

This is Lindt cafe, one of the famous chocs brand around the world. It's just like Prada in fashion industry. U can tell when u see how the cafe like. Looks exquisite and expensive. But suprisingly their chocolate drink werent that ex. Just the cake, cookies n brownies were not tat cheap. But it was YUM! Tempting-nye!

Sydney tower. Heard they have beautiful foods there. For sure not cheap, heard it was around $80 p/p. gosh!

More to come, more to come.....

Bye bye Celeste

2008-01-11T04:23:00.000-08:00

Celeste left us for Singapore! She left all of us here in Melb... sob sobz... :(

If you are reading this Celeste, its nice knowing u as a fren + neighbour. ^ ^ You are always cheerful, bubbly and nice to hang out with. Tho it was just a short time having you with us, it felt like forever. :) Hope to see you soon. Will visit u in S'pore if i can. Come to KL n visit us too ya!

Neways, here are the farewell dinner pics i supposed to upload.

A pressie for Celeste from all of us.. cute horr... ^ ^

She does looked like the doll, doesn't she?

Told ya group pics are essential..:P

Bye bye Celeste... Gonna miss u!

Summer time, beach time!

2008-01-10T21:21:00.000-08:00

It's summer peeps! Wat's the best thing should we do? Great time for beachy beachy .. :P

Our first trip to Brighton Beach wasn't a good experience... We were attacked by FLIES!! loads n loads of them!!! arghhh... Australia will soon be dominated by flies... eww....

We din expect things to turn like tat as we planned to bring foods and picnic there... Manatau...

When we took out our foods, all the flies started to come as they could smell our foods!

Ewww... look at it, look at it..

The main point of us goin to the beach is to see the sunset. We hung out for a couple of hours till we couldnt take it. The flies were just way too annoying! Eventually all of us decided to go home and finish up our dinner.

We did not give up, we went for the 2nd time. This time we jus brought some junk foods as we were traumatised by the 1st trip. Suprisingly this time, there wasn't any flies at all! Strange huh.. Probably it was a bit chiily that day that's y all the flies went hibernating. lol.

Mr Leeq planned to get his body tanned but sadly he's still "white" after sun bathing by the beach for hours.

Phewww weeett!! Baywatch ar..?

Mom & aunt hiding from the sun and cold wind.

The wave was so strong and frequent that evening.. Too bad it was cold that day, orelse i would've jump into the water d.

Just love the lighting. Makes every picture turns out good!

Mum & aunt finally dare to step their foot to the beach!

ohh... so gay! :P

Wah mom.. wat r u trying to do arr?

Again, we couldn't get to see the sunset that day bcoz of the weather.. There will be a third time to beach for the last time b4 leaving Melbourne... :(

Fine dining

2008-01-10T18:36:00.000-08:00

It was a 2 months back fine dining in celeste & yi xiang's place. All of us suggested we should have a good dinner to release of stressful uni works..

Celeste prepared all the foods.. Yes, ALL the foods! She's a good cook. Undeniable. We had fine dining tat nite. It was awesome! Good job girl.

Yummilicious isnt it?

Oh we had dessert as well, ice creams... but dint take any pics of it. Burpp!

This was taken when we were waiting for food. Celeste dont allow us to help. That was how silly shots came by..

Look at everybody's reaction on the food and u'll know how does it taste like... :)

An hour passed, and our beloved Leeq is still munching his food...

The girls....

These are some of the 18PL shots. Ppl under 18, dont try this at home.. :P

The alcohol after effect.. Everyone was mabuk tat day..
Wat mabuk ppl do when the light goes off... Artistic shots.. dun prey prey..

Groupies are essential in every occasion...

Silly groupies too...

Toodles peeps! more to come... :)

A new year, a new beginning

2007-12-31T18:43:00.000-08:00

hello peoplesssss......

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008!!!!

May this year brings all of u loads of joy and happiness!

Random Updates

2007-12-17T05:03:00.000-08:00

Some random updates.... which i suppose to post long time ago.... :P

Went to Boney M mini concert on the eve of my birthday. It was a coincidence as my aunt was supposed to go with a fren of hers. Last minute, her fren couldnt make it for the concert. So, i was the back up partner for my aunt that nite. LOL.

Incase anyone of u dunno who Boney M is, they are a group of four West Indian singers and dancers during the late 70's. When my aunt told me abt their concert, i know abt them but i'm clueless abt wat song they sing. So need to do some research, and of coz ask those who are in that era. Then only i know, i've actually heard of their songs b4! lol. Thanks to my parents who always on 'Light and Easy' radio channel back home. Some of their famous tracks include, Ma Baker, Rivers of Babylon, Daddy Cool.

Despite their age, they still sang pretty well.

Neways, here are the pics i managed to take. Couldn't take much as Mr. Security was there and i got warned a couple of times.

The beautiful stage.... We sat quite near the stage tho.

It wasnt like any ordinary concert like those we had in stadiums but we were all given a space of our own, with table, lamp and chair of coz.

The expensive ticket... abt 80 bucks!

Here comes Boney M. The topless guy, which is one of the group member was dancing n hopping happily throughout the whole concert.

I enjoyed myself that nite tho as it was a great experience for me attending this kinda concert.

All Done!

2007-12-17T03:36:00.000-08:00

I'm officially done my degree. Hurray!

Q: What have i done lately?

A: Working madly almost everyday to earn more bucks!

All my time has been dedicated to my workplace. I hardly have time to rest at home aside from sleeping at nite. I've done less cooking too due to my working time. My work usually ends abt 4pm and only by then i get to eat my lunch. Even worst when i work nite shift, only gets back home at 10+ at night.

Anyways, i've captured some happy moments on the last day of uni which was my submission day.

Here's Leeq n Celeste smiling happily after all the submission.

On the same day itself, Yumeko invited us to her Multimedia Exhibition. All the characters were designed by MM students themselves. Bravo!

Caught up with Vera in the exhibition. Such a sweet girl.

Here's Yumeko with their own MM T-shirt. How cute.

After the exhibition, we decided to pamper ourselves with nice Italian FOOD! Burpppp...

Yi Xiang bz eating while Leeq cant stop posing when i was taking his pic. LOL..

We ordered Gelato too. Yummayyy....

Though I've submitted all my works on tat day, there was still one more presentation to go. It was the most hectic subject of all, Design & Business Strategy where we need to think of a business and write a plan of it. Sigh, cant fully relax at that moment.

Anyway, those below were my group mates. Taken b4 presentation.

Mr Yuki Yokouchi fr Japan. He's a funny guy but likes to show off his back side. Hmm.. i wonder y. Luckily he never flash it to me b4. When i 1st knew him, i heard rumours of him not doin works, skip classes and not attend meeting. After knowing him for quite sometime, he is totally not like wat i heard which is a good thing.

The ever lovely Tina. She's good, but time management wise, need to be improved. Overall, she done a lot of stuff too. LOL, i'm like evaluating all of them. haha..

The groupie. Too bad another of my groupmate couldn't attend bcoz she needs to work! I'm not too happy abt it coz i always think that school work is more important than other works. Moreover this is the final presentation. The reason she gave to us was she have to replace her colleague and she couldnt reject the colleague as she already promised him earlier on. WTH. :(

That's the end of my degree year. Sooo sad!!! Thinking of working life makes me sad because of the routiness. Even i'm working part time now, i can also feel the routiness, do the same thing everyday... Sienz..

Anyway, mom, dad and grandma's coming over 2moro! YAY!! And graduation is just 2 more days. I'm enthusiastic about it! Till then.....

More updates sooooon.. Real soon...

Baby Rachel

2007-12-02T14:39:00.002-08:00

My aunt jus gave birth to a baby girl last Nov 9th. Yes, it's baby Ivan's sister. Ivan now is a big brother d. Cannot call him baby anymore... lol.. Congratulations to both aunt Christina & Uncle Yeo on your new arrival. So happy for you both.

Too bad again, i couldn't see the baby once she was born. So i decided to make something to send back to Malaysia as a welcome baby gift for my aunt n uncle..

But the process of making the special "something" was really hard. Well, not tat hard actually. lol. I've decided to make them a card. Just that the design part was ermm... a bit tedious.

After sketching some rough ideas out, i finally came up with something.

Apparently according to chinese beliefs, if the baby were to be born after 11am, the father of the baby are not allowed to see the baby. Too bad baby was born 6 mins past 11. Not sure if its because of the 'pig' year or wat. If the father insisted to see the baby, something bad will happen in the future. All these traditional stuff, dont know to believe or not. The chose to believe of course. Poor daddy, have to wait till the baby discharge from hospital only can see. In the mean while, only can see pictures of the baby.

Oh btw, need to intro baby Rachel 1st. She was born on Nov 9th, 11.06am in Putrajaya Hospital, weighing abt 3.4 kg. This is Rachel..

Isn't she 'ugly'? Old people said cannot praise a baby worr.. so must say all the opposite stuff.. :P

I think this was taken on the 1st day when she was born..

Those below were taken on the 1st weeks if i'm not mistaken..

She looks exactly like her brother especially her eyes. Incase anyone of u have nt seen her bro, Ivan b4, here he is.. Look how big boy is him now. Can walk n run d! i feel so old.. :(

Okie kedokie, back to my process.... I bought pink felt and beads to make a baby dress for the card. I oso bought a wire to form a hanger. Oh, here it is. I've done the dress. Made a couple of baby socks and a hat using the same material.

Look how mini is the size of the dress..

A closer shot...

I've used the remainder beads to form the baby's name.. This is the hardest part of all. I need to glue every single beads on to the card.

It's done! This is the front view of the card.

The content of the card.. Using the same beads, i formed the word 'Congrats' and wrote some messages. Hope they'll like it..

The lamo part.. :P

Hope the card wont spoil after reaching Malaysia lar especially the beads.. :)

Tulip Festival

2007-11-22T05:10:00.001-08:00

We went to Tesselaar Tulip Festival 2 months back with YAD 3 Melbourne. Not too sure what exactly YAD does, but it is a Buddhist society where Yumeko joined back in M'sia and they have it here in Melbourne as well. They organized a tulip farm day trip which include a BBQ lunch @ Silvan Reservoir Park which cost us abt $20 per person. 11 of us from Swinburne went as the Tulip Fest only held once a year and coincidently that was the last day of the festival. Mustn't loose this great once a year opportunity.

Be ready to see loads of beautifuuuuuuuuullllllll tulips!!!!

How i wish i'm a kid. It's FREE admission!

Tadaaa!! Nice horrrrr.... But the thing was, it was drizzling the whole day.. Sad case... =.=

White tulips...

Orangie ones....

Part of the farm..

Surrounded by tulipssssss.....

Us....
Look how sad we were bcoz of the rain... n it was so coooolllldddd that day.. My big fat michelin jacket gotta go out 2geta with me..

Look at all our sneakers... All got covered by muds! Thanks to the rain lor.. =.=

Mine's worst coz its WHITE! Took me quite sometime to clean it..

Arghh.. can't be bothered ler. Take pics 1st.. :P

A group one. Dunno where the rest of the group went. All went scattered in the farm..

On the same day, we met Pei Lin, Nic and her "lover" Ashley in the farm. She's feeding me with Dutch Poffertjes.

Nic was jealous... lol. look at the way she stared at her lover... :P

According to the description board, Poffertjes are found all over in Holland. They are tiny pancakes baked in a cast iron griddle, until light and fluffy. lol.

This is how it looks like... yummie but quite ex though.. this plate costs us abt 6 bucks!

After spending 2 hrs + in the farm, its time to move on the the Silvan Reservoir Park for our BBQ lunch!

This is how the park looks like..

These were the foods we had... It was a vegetarian BBQ. We didn't know it was a vegetarian BBQ till we saw the foods. But it was soooooo good! Really never tried this kinda BBQ b4. Some of the foods even looked and tasted like meat, but of coz, all made out of flour. :P

We had sooo much for lunch, too full. So must exercise a bit.. Let's JUMP!!!

Groupie... ^^

B4 goin home, we were given these mini moon cakes as a remembrance coz it was near Mid-Autumn Fest that time.

It was sooo good... Love it!

That's it for the Tulip Fest updates. Toodles!

Birthday pics!

2007-11-22T02:56:00.000-08:00

As promised, i've uploaded some pics from my 22nd.

I really never expect any celebration for my birthday this year as it was stuck in between all my assignments due date. Worst of all, i need to work till 1opm on my big day!

But it was all good in the end. I was showered with pressies, loaded with sms and messages from family and friends. I was the luckiest girl that day. lol. Thanks to ppl that made the effort to plan a suprise celebration at my work place. It was a memorable 22nd in Melbourne for me.

Got this package from my darling 2 days b4 2nd nov.. Was wondering hard when i got a memo from post office asking me to get a package. Wonder who send me stuff.. :P So sweet of her to send me chocs all the way from Barthust!

Got this birthday card right on my birthday from home. So happy to see something tangible sent all the way from Malaysia.

p.s. mom, u shouldn't have ask me whether did i receive anything from KL. No suprise d. :P

N here's the whole suprise process. From friends waiting outside my workplace to my suprised look with the beautiful cake i got! Yummyliciousss....

Great people that made the party happened! U guys were just superb!

n I was wearing my uniform while celebrating my birthday. haha. so funny....

Pressies time. Look how happy i was when receiving the gifts...

Pressies of 2007!

Pics clock wise: Wallet from aunt, handmade Snoopy from Yumeko, chocs from darling Tricia, Snoopy bottle from Meng Jiunn, Julia, Ash n Johnny, Choc Fondue Set from Leeq, Celeste, Rachel ,Yi Xiang, Daya, Yunnie n Pauline and last but not least ...... Snoopy Bobble Head from Mr Tai... :) Thanks everybody..

Picture with my handmade snoopy creator, Yumeko! Thanks a lot, that was really a nice effort of u making me a snoopy!

All the pressie pressie...

I had soooo much fun. Hope everyone enjoyed that nite like how i had. :)

Updates... updates...

2007-11-11T03:10:00.000-08:00

Finally i've got the time to update my poor blog.... yay! but i still have one more presentation to go next Thurs.. arghh.. can't fully relax at this point yet.

Spring cleaned the whole house yesterday to clear off all the bits and pieces which was everywhere around the house. My room was abandoned for 2 months as i've moved my laptop and all my uni works to my living room so that i can have a bigger space. My room was just like a hotel for me to sleep during that period.

Look at how "clean" my house was during that peak time for assignments. Papers, cardboards, spray mount, clothes... u name it, we have it... Total rubbish!

But it is all cleaned up now.. No more mess!

Below are some de-stress moments pics that we took...

oh btw everyone, this is leeqerman. He's jeremy's new roommate. :P

"Minum MILO anda jadi sihat dan kuat"

hmmm..... all the 'miang' look... we were having chocolate milk shake btw. courtesy by Yumeko's blender where we can blend almost everything. Don't need to go for 'Boost' d as we have our very own homemade 'Boost' in Union Street. :P

Study wat graphic design lar, need to print so much! >.< We spent almost $100 each for printings.

As a result.....

Indomie time!

More updates coming!!!!

2nd Nov 2007

2007-11-03T06:27:00.000-07:00

It was a blast day for me on 2nd nov.

Coz it was my BIRTHDAY!!

I would like to thank a lot a lot of people who made the effort to celeb this special day with me.

Thanks to:

Mum, dad, bro, aunt nee, couzzie Ee Ling & Ming Yee and everyone in the family who remembered my birthday and send me wishes. i love the card so so much mum. Good job. Though u cant get a snoopy but atleast u got me a doggy. :P

Friends:

So po Leng, thanks for the effort of making me a gif file in ur blog. That's so sweet of u.. If u guys wanna view it, feel free to visit http://www.xanga.com/pinkiethottz . Thanx so so much again.

I've received a parcel from my darling Tricia too. So sweet of her to send me chocolates that made from Barthust. Though it will increase my waistline, but because of u, i will eat it! muahahahaha...

Uni mates who showered me gifts and suprised me with a celebrations at my workplace. It was truly a suprise that i never expected. Yumeko, Rachel, Celeste, Yi Xiang, Leeq, Meng Jiunn, Yunnie, Pauline, Johnny, Daya and of coz my dear Jeremy. Hehe. U guys rock! Also to Ash and Julia, thanks for the pressie. See u guys soon in uni!

Especially thanks to Mr Tai as well, who purposely dowan to wish me when the clock strikes 12am, 2nd nov. :P He "hired" a 'delivery girl' a.k.a. Michelle (Celeste) to send me a parcel. She delivered it to my doorstep but still i dunno that Jeremy was the one who buy me the present. *hugz ;)

Also for those who sent me message thru my mobile, blog and friendster....

Toh, Jess, Jon, Ram, Fang, Poh Boon, Marianne, SY, Caryn, Lynda, Soon, Tina, Shenny, Pauline, Eugene, Carmen, Alvin, Kelly, Kevin, Joanna, Soo Yee, Jia Wen, Mun Kiat, Auota, Sean, Andrew...

Gosh... too many to thank! Did i miss anyone out?? Hopefully not.. :P

BIG BIG THANK YOU TO EVERYONE!!

Will upload pics soon... very soon.. :)

**p.s. Those who did not / forget to wish me... BEWARE.. LOL...

Assignments calling, ciaoz!

stress.busy.tired.pressure

2007-10-21T21:35:00.000-07:00

Thru my title, i'm sure all of u would have know how i've been so far. My semester is going to end in 2 weeks time. By then, there'll be no more studies, no more stress and pressure for assignments.

Is it a good thing? Hmm.. dilemma.. But still, I'm goin to miss study life and my one year life here in Melbourne. Really memorable. Starting to love the environment here ady. Feels that time is moving too fast this year. Loads of great things happening, and at the same time there are some issues goin on back home.

Well, i guess i just need to be more optimistic. Everything can be solved no matter how. At the moment, i have 4 major assignments in hand. 2 of them already 80% done and another 2 is still progressing. Hopefully i can get it done b4 deadline . Too much to think now. Not sure which one to focus on.

Working and studying at the same time ain't that easy. Most of my OZs frens are doing that too but they seems ok with it. Maybe they are used to that kinda situation as they study and work part time since high school. Whereas, to be compared, most M'sians will not do that. For me, if i study means no work. Vice versa. Too pampered ady which is not good.

okie dokie. assignments calling ! ciaoz!

Continuation.....

2007-10-20T17:46:00.000-07:00

On the exact day of the Mid Autumn Fest which was 25th of Sept, again, 3 of us, Jeremy, Yumeko & I celebrated at home.

We hung lanterns at our balcony, ate mooncake and played with sparkels.. LOL. Syok sendiri..

So let the pics do the talking...

Start of with the beautiful, big, bright moon. Really nice.

Our colorful lanterns..

Piggie lantern made by Yumeko in conjuction of the pig year.. :P

Me and the colorful lanterns. Colours made me happy!!

3 of us playing sparkle sparkle AGAIN.

Last but not least, MOONCAKES! Mooncakes here were'nt cheap at all. I bought one myself, cost me AUD$6 for one miserable pc. hmm.. Since its only once a year, cant be bothered lar. lol.

Yummmmmyyyy......

Some lil' updates

2007-10-17T01:03:00.000-07:00

Been rather busy these few weeks. Sneak in some time to update my blog now since i'm tired with works for the time being.

Lets start with the Mid Autumn Fest i had few weeks back. It was awesome though i din get to celeb with my family, but i've got bunch of nice frens here to celeb with.

Since we had one week of holiday, we organised a BBQ party at the park near my apartment. It was a week ahead b4 the Mid Autumn fest. That was a cold night though spring is approaching. I'm not suprise with that as Melbourne is famous with its crazy weather. Everyone was shiverring especially when the wind blew.

A lot of them told us that, OZ ppl normally BBQ at noon or something. Hmm.. weird.. Of coz we as Malaysian prefer to do it at night. Its just the way it is. As usual, Rachel and I did most of the grocery for BBQ and we invited like about 12 ppl. Its just so hard to estimate food for so many ppl.

Anyway, we did all grocery a day b4 that. Marinate all the meats the night b4.

Here comes the fun time!

Some of the meat n seafood...

The "marinator"
(fr left to right: Jeremy, Leeq, Evonne)

Begin the cooking. Looks different from wat we had from M'sia hor. Its a hotplate. No charcoal, no smokes. Basically its just like cooking outside the house. Don't really have those BBQ feeling like wat we had in KL.
Moreover, the street lamp in the park wasnt bright enough. We had to use lantern and hp's light to brighten up the environment. So cham.. But looks romantic.. LOL.

Hmm.. this one a bit like horror movie's wallpaper or something like tat. eerie... ~~

Thru this pic, u'll know how cold tat nite was.

We lighted up the lanterns n hung it on the tree.. Nice..

Since Meng Jiunn's birthday is coming in 2 weeks time from tat day, we planned to have a suprise celebration for him. We worried that we will be pilled up with assignments and have no time to celeb his 21st birthday, so we have it on that nite too.

The pic below shows the progress.

1. Suprise!!!!! (all of us shouted)
2. MJ's shocked face....
3. Julia a.k.a. MJ's "wife" presented him the cake.
4. Make a wish, make a wish~~
5. Jeremy's gift for MJ... hmm...
6.Speech time... " i wanna thank.......... "
7. Pressie giving time. Happy anot? :P

What is a Mid Autumn fest without eating mooncake?

Here comes another fun moment. Pictures time!

We were thinking of taking a family potrait. So we came up with a few different styles of it.

Serious looking..

Funny / playful edition.. (+ a bit retarded)

Malay style family portrait.. With "fake" tudung n songkok..Look at the ghost beside me.. lol.. it was a shower curtain btw. :D

Immitating time!

"Default" Leeq's pose. Must pout the lips.

Johnny's default "BIG SMILE" Show ur teeth everyone!

Yi Xiang's big eyes pose.. Saw my guinea pig.. I was holding it.. lol.

Finally... a normal pic. Relax... and smile!

After all the snapshots, here comes another game for guys....

which was "Battle of the boobies game"

Who do u reckon have the nicest and well-constuct boobs? LOL!!!

My goodnesssss........

Guys will b guys....

Anyway, wrapped up the day at about 11 + as all of them need to rush for train. Hope everyone had fun that nite as i enjoyed very much myself. :)

When's the nexxt party? I'm waiting~~~~~

Teang Kiu!!!

2007-10-05T15:41:00.001-07:00

Got this postcard from my leng cai koko Sui hanz.... :P

See how good he is, still remember his friend over here..

Hmmmm..........................

This is what he wrote in my postcard...

And this is what he wrote to Jeremy. Yea, he sent 2 postcards.

Thanks wor though i know your intention behind of getting this postcard. Deeeeeeep V!!!! lol.

N must intro this leng cai Sui Hanz a bit....

Oops.. wrong pic.. that pic was taken 10 years ago..

Now, this is the most recent one....

See how much he has "grown"! :P

Day 4

2007-10-02T00:40:00.000-07:00

And finally the last day for Tricia in Melbourne. I wasn't free that day as i 've got a photoshoot and group meeting on the same day. Too bad!

Luckily Yumeko was free to accompany her to walk around Chapel Street and South Yarra. n Tricia, you really can shop huh... ? 3 days in a row d.. lol. Nvrm, ur main objective to Melb is to shop right? hehe...

Taken the night b4 leaving, in my cosy bedroom...

We met for lunch at Lucky Coq for the cheapest pizza in Prahran...

ohh.. time to go to train station for airport shuttle d. sob sob..

Before leaving, we planned to bring Tricia to Koko Black for their chocolate drink, unfortunately they closes at 6. So we went to Max Brenner instead.

Both of us!

Me drinking one of their choc drink. yum yum...

Tricia's hot drink..
Emo, emo~~~ time to go d... Bye bye Tricia.... sobzz... :(

After Tricia left, we went for dinner at Silk. Eating my char kway teow.. not bad though but slightly ex ler...

After dinner, saw this very nice backdrop outside the restaurant n did some silly stuff there... lol.. we were immitating someone~~~

The guys were immitating someone too.... lol..

Went home after a long day... Had so much fun with Tricia though it was just 3 short days. Glad she made it here.

p.s. Tricia, hope u had fun too. Missed that 3 days very much. Looking forward to see u in Sydney!

Day 3

2007-09-26T07:33:00.000-07:00

Day 3 outing was only Tricia and me, without Yumeko as she has got other things to do. So, being the only tour guide for that day, need to do some research on the locations the day b4.

So day 3 itenarary was:
1. Victoria Market
2. Melbourne museum
3. Melbourne Parliament
4. Christ Church
5. State Library
6. Melbourne Central
7. Observation Deck
8. Jam Factory (South Yarra)

Fuhhh... 8 places in a day. Rush like hell man. Samo the shops all close at 5pm. Really have to plan the time properly.

The 1st stop was Victoria Market, a must go place in Melbourne oso.

Y a must go place? Coz they sell cheap stuff oso sometimes. Like the strawberry i had was 3 boxes for $2. Cheap!! Besides selling meat & vege, they do have variety of stuff too like clothes, shoes, souvenier and loads more. (help to promote a bit...lol)

Next to Melbourne Museum.. Don't think that i brought my tourist to those boring places infact the museum was so gooooood. It's not like what we had back in M'sia, dark, secluded and like haunted that kinda museum. Everything in the museum was so interesting. Something like a science centre where a lot of interactive stuff going on.The museum was sooo huge. We need about 3 hours to walk n explore every section but bcoz of the limited time we had, we had to jus absorb & scan thru every section really fast.

Real bee hive in the museum... Bzzzbzbzbzbzzzzzzzzzzzz....

Not too sure wat that was though. Should be a turtle's shell..

Went taking pic in one of the church in city after museum. The church was so huge with nice architecture tooo..

On our way back, passed by Parliament to took some snapshots of it...

To the state library we go. Quite interactive as well, not like our Perpustakaan Negara..

This was taken at the kids corner...

Exhausted + tired + hungry = Krispy Kreme doughnuts for tea time in Melbourne Central.

Yum Yum... once again, how to diet lehh... can see me getting rounder n rounder...

Observation deck was our last stop in city. Since i've been there once, so there's nothing for me to shoot d.

Nice sunset...

Caught up with Natalie (Tricia's fren & my collegue) and went back home 2gether. We still have another place to go b4 we wrap up our day..

Back at home, Jeremy cooked pan mee for 6 ppl included himself.. lol. Stress stress to cook for so many people. I helped out a lil' once we got home. Luckily it was nice.. lol..

Tricia & me eating.. yum yum..~

Everyone bz eating.... coz rushing to somewhere...

Yea, we r rushing to South Yarra for Ratatouille...

100% nice animation. Flawless..... love it till the max... For those of u who havent watch it, go for it! Worth watching..

This was taken after the movie. All of us accompanied Natalie to wait for the last tram to go back city.

I looked superbly tired at the end of the day..

Got home at abt 1 pm. Snorezzzz..~~

My one week break

2007-09-25T23:54:00.000-07:00

During my one week break last week, my darling came all the way from Barthust, NSW to Melbourne to visit me. lol. Don't get me wrong. I'm a very loyal person. haha.. My darling who i was talking about is Tricia.

She came down to Melbourne last Sunday. So happy to see her after 7 months. Too bad her trip here was only 3 short days as both of us were bz at the same time. But these 3 short days were very memorable and fun for us.

Day 1 : Reached Melbourne at 8.45pm

Took this in the train on our way home after dinner. She still look

End of day 1. lol. so fast.. Coz she reached here at night mar.

Day 2's itenarary:

1. Bridge Road shopping spree (warehouse for Esprit, Cotton On, Jeans West & lots more...)

2. City trip ( Melbourne Central, China Town, Federation Square)

3. Smith's Street (warehouse for sports brand - nike, adidas, etc....)

3. Dinner at Lygon

4. Gelato ice cream for desert (Lygon as well)

5. Southgate and Southbank scenary snapshot

6. Crown Casino

See, i'm a good tour guide, i brought my tourist to so many places. But must thanks to Yumeko oso to bring us to those lorong-lorong that i dun even know.

1st stop, Bridge Road...

Btw, this was our results after the 1st stop in Bridge Road. Shopping!!!

Lunch time in a jap restaurant. Had teriyaki don. yum yum!

A must take spot once in Melb. Flinder's Street. lol..

Nice architecture in one of the mall in city.

Grafitti walls, taken in lorong full of rubbish. lol. but nice wall.

Dinner at Lygon Street. Not having Italian food, but NASI LEMAK as Tricia was craving for M'sian food. :P Tastes good but a bit expensive for a plate of nasi lemak. Jeremy joined us for dinner after our shopping spree. Look at his face... Bz eating till dowan to take pic.

Taken along Southgate.

Federation Square...

Our last stop was Crown Casino. Of coz we din play.. can't afford to loose aussie dollars. lol..

Went back home after going to 6 different places. Took heaps of trams during the day.

Remember i said we went to Bridge Road? This was wat we bought. It was sooooo cheap. I'm not going to reveal the price though. But for my stack of stuff, (which consist of 3 big bags, 1 small sling bag, 2 wallets, 6 panties, 1 pair of socks, 1 pair of earings, a necklace, 1 top and 1 body scrub from body shop) it was about $20 for all of that. lol.. Guess how much is one item. *evil laugh

But look at Tricia's stack. She was the overall winner as she bought the most stuff.

Promoting our stufffffff..........

That's the end of day 2....... More to come... Tired tired...

Coffee & Cocoa

2007-09-15T02:13:00.000-07:00

2 days ago,Yumeko was telling me that there's a notice where there's someone who wanted to give away their guinea pigs .

She intend to have one. My 1st reaction of coz was excited but at the same time there is this question popped up ....

Who's going to take care of them when we left???

Yumeko was saying we can either let them go free in the jungle... but, will it die if we just leave them there? Then suddenly we tought of another friend of ours who will be staying for another year. So straight away i msged her to ask her about it. Good news is, she's willing to take care of it, but the same question popped up again. Who's going to take k of them pulak when their turn to leave?

Hm....................

Eventually 3 of us decided to get one. Dont care so much coz the guinea piggies are way tooo cute d. lol.. Moreover its free! haha.. Sharing out all the expenses shouldn't be tat expensive i guess.

That day itself, i called the owner who posted up the notice. She said it's best to go over to her house and take a look at the guinea pigs and choose ourselves. Since her house is just around our neighbourhood, we decided to go and have a look.

3 of us woke up earlier than usual to get our cutie guinea pigs this morning as the owner will only available that time. The excited and happy us went n found the owner's hse. When we reached, omg, her (the lady owner) house was just full of guinea pigs in her back yard. Some of them were running around cageless while some of them were caged. She told us that one of her female guinea pig is pregnant now and there will be more babies to come after a few weeks time. That's y she's giving away the other batch of guinea pigs which is only 5 weeks old.

There they are..... still in the backyard.

These are the cageless guinea pigs who are free to run around the backyard. Saw the pregnant mother? She'll b giving birth in a few weeks time. hmm.. Really breedable animals....

Awww.. Aren't they cute....

In the end, we had to take 2 males as the owner told guinea pigs can't live alone as they need companionship. Since we dun have any cage for them yet, we had to put them into a box temporarily.

Can tell the owner is really an animal lover. She loves every single one of them and i'm sure she wouldn't want to give them away if she can rare all of them.

Yay! So now we've got another 2 new family member in Union Street Apartment. Aside form Mr and Mrs Possum, Mr Mickey Mouse, we have Coffee and Cocoa the brothers. lol.

Introducing Cocoa... the black with a lil white fur on it.

And the notty Coffee.... the brownish one...

We were looking for a cheap and affordable cage when we were doing our grocery shopping. too bad there wasn't any cheap cage for our lovey dovey. On our way back from grocery shopping, we saw this huge container which we thought would suit our piggies at home. It's actually a storage container, not cage but i think it would be big enough for them. Plus it wasn't too expensive. Affordable for us poor students.lol.

Jeremy was "renovating" the new cage / container. lol.

Here's Coffee & Cocoa in their new "mansion"...

They just reminds me of my xiao bai(rabbit) and my ham ham back home. And these guinea pigs' is jus like a combination of rabbit n hamsters. lol.

Btw, we just discovered that we have another new neighbour who's always bising on our rooftop. Introducing Ms Pigeon....

That's our house's kitchen. So everyday, we can hear her singing. ~~~La la lu la lo li..... Bising bising...~~

My very own parcel

2007-09-14T00:09:00.000-07:00

I've got this subject in uni which is compiling portfolio. By means i need to dig out all my old works and choose whichever that suits to put in my folio. Too bad, my college years works weren't that fantastic. Regretted why i din do better which i should have. *Sigh.

But lucky still, i still have one more chance to work on my folio this final semester in uni.

As all of u know i'm currently in Melb now, how am i suppose to get my works where some of them were left in KL? The thing is, we have to shoot our old works, print it out and compile in the folio. Worst, the photoshoot is going to be coming wednesday. *SHOOT

I was doubting whether should i ask my mum to send me some of my works which i did not bring over. It wasn't that great either. But i kinda like wat i did although i did not score high marks for tat. I discussed with my mum abt that and she said its ok to send over. Just that if its normal post, it will take approx 2 weeks to reach here. Then cannot make it for the photoshoot d. Aih.. No choice but to take the pos laju which will take abt 4 days to reach. N of coz the faster it is, the more expensive it will be.

I din know how much exactly will the parcel be. And when my mum told me the price, i was like.. "wah" tat 2 tiny stuff oso need tat expensive. But of coz its bcoz they use pos laju to send to me. Aiks..

I've been checking my mail box everyday while waiting for my parcel to arrive. Quite enthusiastic about it as this is my first time receiving stuff back home though is just my old works. lol.

Eventually, last 2 days, i got the notice that my parcel has arrived in Melb and i was told to collect it at the nearest post office. Hence, i went to d post office right after i saw that notice.

Walk home happily after receiving that parcel. Finally my own parcel. :P

Pos laju... Dun play play.. lol..

Once i buka the parcel, this is wat happened!!!! SPOILED! wat the ****..... How can they do this to me?

Paid so much in the end i got this.... Dissapointed! Who's fault? Pos Malaysia or Australia Post?

*Sighs... My mum already emphasizes the "FRAGILE" word big big there... Repeat it twice sommore.. BUTA kah? Mayb my mum should write the "fragile" word in malay. Incase some of the pos M'sia ppl dun un Eng. Aih..

Though i glued it to hide the "ugliness", it will be hard for me to shoot too. Really test my photography skill ya. hmm.. SAD LAH.. :(

What a day

2007-09-13T23:21:00.000-07:00

I dreamt a lot last wed night. I dreamt of going back KL to pack my belongings and bring back to Melb. lol. I also dreamt of my friend, Tricia who is coming down from Sydney this coming Sunday. In my dream, she was driving all the way from Sydney and drove me all the way back to KL. Lamo dream. haha...

But my dream ended and my reality nightmare begin when i heard someone's trying to open my room door. I heard Jeremy's voice talking to someone over the phone. Thus, I woke up and open the door and see what's going on. Soon after i open my door, Jeremy who was still in a shocked on his face asking me,

"Aren't you suppose to work today?"......

A moment of silence.. (Still blur and half awake)

SHIT! "What's the time now?" i asked.

"12 something d" he said. OMG. I was supposed to work form 12pm - 7.30pm that day and it was already 12.20pm by then.

I quickly grab my phone and see wat's wrong with it coz i've already set my alarm to wake up at 9am.

What the hell... "EMERGENCY CALLS ONLY"???????

My hp wasn't working at all. Even my alarm. What happened to it??? At that moment, i really panicked and dunno wat to do. Soon after i restart my hp, i've got heaps of messages of missed calls i've got from my workplace and friends. Without wasting my time, i quickly called to my work place to let them know my situation. And i was all prepared to get scolded.

Mr. Supervisor: Hello, ........................(Name of my workplace) Can i help you?
Evonne: Erm, hi is that *****?
Mr.Supervisor: Yes, i am.
Evonne: This is Evonne. I'm so sorry, I'm not sure what happened to my phone, it's just.... ermm... ermm... Can i come later?

I wasn't sure what i said to him as i was still so so blur. But apparently i can tell he was pissed off with me through his voice tone.

Mr Supervisor: You don't need to come for work. I've already got someone to replace you.
Evonne: Oh.. ermm.. well, okay. I'm so sorry about that. Bye.
Mr Supervisor: Bangs the phone. (Not even a bye)

Ouchhh......!!!

I know it was my fault, but but... i din mean to do that though. All bcoz of my stupid hp. If it wasn't because of that, i would have gone to work d. Sure affect my reputation infront of my supervisor n manager d.

But lucky still, this Mr. Supervisor that i was referring to wasn't my branch supervisor. He was there for 2 weeks just to replace one of my manager who was on leave. By means i won't need to face him d. lol. I told another of my supervisor about my situation. She was actually on training to become a supervisor. Luckily she did not scold me or anything. She tought something bad happened to me. She said since this is my 1st time, it wouldn't really affect me. Hopefully lah.

Relieved.

I nearly gone mad that moment. My day became miserable bcoz of that.Sigh.

I've learnt a lesson through that. Never trust mobile phones. lol. I rely too much on them d. Must buy an alarm clock d. Incase something similar happen again. Hell no! That would be my 1st and last time experience.

My bread is slowly killing me....

2007-09-08T07:30:00.000-07:00

I was doing some research for my publication assignment. Coincidently i'm doing a book about food recipe and i found this article which shocks me!

Is Your Bread Slowly Killing You?by Beth Scott

If you eat white (or any kind of store bought) bread, there are a few things you should know before you put that next slice in your mouth.

For example, did you know that the inclusion of hydrogenated oils, artificial preservatives, emulsifiers, additives and other chemicals in bread became standard practice in the mid 1950's?

At this same time whole wheat flour was replaced by bleached, enriched white flour. In this process, grain is bleached and sterilized with chemicals to make it white and soft. It is then artificially "enriched" by adding vitamins, minerals and other materials destroyed in the chemical process.

Despite what you may have been told, trying to “enrich” something with the very vitamins and minerals that were removed from it in the first place doesn’t make it anywhere near as healthy as the natural, unrefined version.

When you think about it, it doesn’t even make much sense.

It's also a growing practice in many bakeries to replace white flour with substances like alum, ground rice, and whiting. Alum is the most commonly used of all these substances, because it gives the bread a whiter color and causes the flour to absorb and retain a larger amount of water than it would otherwise hold.

This enables the factories to produce bread imitating that made from a higher quality flour. This tainting of your bread with potentially harmful chemicals such as potassium bromate, emulsifiers (both commonly used in bread production), and alum is definitely not in the best interests of your health.

Do you know why your store bought bread has such a long shelf life?

It’s because of a particular emulsifier used in making the bread. It’s mainly used as a softening agent and tends to deceive buyers as to the real age of their bread.

This emulsifier can hide the fact that your bread is deteriorating (it certainly doesn’t stop the process) for a few extra weeks, but the harm it does to your body (and the potential harm in eating the stale bread) makes the cost of this ‘convenience’ very high.

Is it possible for you to protect yourself and your loved ones against unhealthy and harmful bread?

Well, buying any bread from a store is certainly not the right choice to make. Even if you buy commercially produced whole wheat bread you're not getting healthy food.

Much of what passes for whole wheat bread is actually white bread colored with caramel. If the first ingredient in a loaf of whole wheat bread is unbleached enriched flour, then you're not truly buying whole wheat bread at all, just white bread (loaded with chemicals) that is disguised as whole wheat bread.

There is only one true solution to ensure that you avoid these problems. And that is to bake your own healthy whole wheat bread. This is nowhere near as difficult as it sounds. In fact it’s dead set simple.

All you need is a good proven recipe, and an expert guide to show you the way. I’ll be happy to provide you with both.

OMG. I was so sad when i finish reading this article. I LOVE BREADS!!! It's just part of my life. I had bread since i was young, n especially now i'm in Melb, i rely so much on bread. I can have them for brekkie, lunch or even dinner.

How am i gonna survive without bread? All the while i consume wholemeal and wholegrain bread as i heard a lot of ppl telling me that white bread is not good, its fat, more carbs... But wholemeal bread is just the same, its a white bread with colored caramel. *Sigh..

What else can i subsititute with bread? Any suggestions?

Unfair.....

2007-09-04T00:59:00.000-07:00

It's a Tuesday. Went to work as usual today. Was praying hard so that i won't get to arrange the new stocks for drinks again like wat i said in the previous post. But i was all prepared to take the stocks already because new stock for drinks arrive every Tuesdays. *Sighhhh...

Reached my work place and saw my manager. My heart was beating fast. Adrenaline rush. Pls, pls dun ask me to take..

"Evonne, the drinks were late today".....

Goshhh... i was so grateful to hear that from my manager. God heard my prayers. Amitabha. lol...

But does that mean i dont need to arrange the stocks later on? God helped me once again by making the day busier. During the peak time ,e.g. lunch hours, all of the staff cant even leave the food counter, no toilet breaks either. So, it's good. I still can avoid from the stocks. muahaha..

When it was almost 2pm, the crowd became lesser and lesser. It's time for "someone" to go down the store room and refill the stocks in the food counter. Who will it be? Predicted, it's either Rachel or me. No one else will do it except both of us.

Suprisingly, my manager ask another girl, Ruth to take the stocks today. That was a pleasant suprise, i told myself. I quciky went and told Rachel abt this. Before we could really enjoy and celeb we escaped from the stocks,

"Rachel, can you go down to take the stocks with Ruth?" says my manager.

Oh no, Rachel kena again? But i tot Ruth was the one incharge already, why she asks Rachel to go with her?

Then only we realise that Ruth who has been working there for more than half a year, has not been to the store room and take d stocks before. Today was her 1st time doing it. How fair was that huh? Rachel and I worked not more than 2 months already went down more than 10 times. How could she escaped for so long?

UNFAIR...UNFAIR...UNFAIR...UNFAIR...UNFAIR...UNFAIR...UNFAIR...UNFAIR...

Little did we know, my current supervisor who worked there for 4 months only went down once. I bet some of the girls never even went down before. How lucky!

Soon after Rachel and Ruth came back with the stock to be placed in the food bar, they need to go down again to rearrange the new drinks that came late today. I can tell they were tired and not willing to go down again. But atleast they have each other. What about me? I'm all alone ehhh... My manager even told them,

"Normally Evonne will arrange the drinks but they came late today," =.="'

Shitness..... Wat did she meant by that????? means i'll incharge to arrange the stocks from now on????? Kek sei..

Rachel and I gonna complain to another branch manager soon if we sees him. Hopefully he'll understand how we felt.

Sigh... If i could find other better jobs, no way i would stay there. Gave me nightmares only..

What's Happening..

2007-08-27T23:56:00.000-07:00

Left my blog unattended for quite sometime after uni resumes. Been quite busy with uni assignments as well as my part time job.

Lately i've been thinking whether can i cope up with my studies while working. This matter has been bugging me for quite sometime. I have 4 different subjects in my new semester. 2 of it involves design, 1 of it linked to business and another one will be compiling my portfolio. To be compared, this semester should be easier and more relax than the last one. All i need to do is to manage my time properly so that it won't affect my studies. Anyhow, i limit myself to work only 2 days a week. Not more than that.

I always remember what my aunt told me, "Study is your first priority, and working is just part time". My mum also told me the same thing. But hopefully everything goes smoothly as i don't want to loose the job or affect my studies as i've never tried working while studying.

Speaking about work, everything seems to go well. Enjoyed the experience and collegues started to be more nice and friendly towards me. Its a good thing tough. But the only thing i really dislike is, there's only girls working in my work place. The only guy i saw working usually work during weekends. I'm not sure why they seldom hire guys though. So, which means, the girls will need to do everything from A-Z. What i meant from A-Z was, we need to re-stock all the drinks/utensils/foods from the store room/fridge. Like this morning, my manager asked me to go down to the store room and arrange the new stock for drinks.. I wasn't too happy about that bcoz there was this new girl there, and she could ask her to do it, why me? Why not her? Just because she is new? But i did everything when i was new too. This is so unfair....

OK fine then, i'll go down. I'm not suprised that she din ask anyone to help me. Atleast b4 this i went with my ex-supervisor and both of us arrange it. But now, I'M ALL ALONE.

My manager told me " Not too many new stocks today, only 42 boxes"....

I was shocked to hear that.. "ONLY 42?" what the hell... Wat can i say? I can't say NO. =.="'

I was cursing all the way there. Can't help it though. All the Coca-colas, Sprites, Fantas, mineral water, bla bla bla... are waiting for me to arrange them into the store room. It ranges from the 600ml, 390ml, 250ml cans..... all in dozens... I nearly hurt my wrist when i was carrying the drinks. Luckily i managed to save myself.... Really lucky escape...~~

All the stocks were really heavy, as in REALLY HEAVY.. sigh... its obviously a guys job. n how can they expect the girls to do it? *Sighs... Shit happens.

Now pray hard that they have newbies coming in...More guys please.... Save the girls from being tortured...

One year old..

2007-08-16T00:58:00.000-07:00

Time flies. My baby couz just turned 1 few days ago. It was just like yesterday when i saw him in d hospital when he was first born. Too bad i couldn't attend his 1 yr old birthday party. :(

My mum told me he knows how to baby talk d. Sometimes he would mumble n sing himself. awww... how cute! In chinese tradition, as a grandmother, she needs to buy her grandson his 1st pair of shoes for his 1st birthday. My mum and my aunt brought him to buy his new shoes b4 his birthday on behalf of my grandma.. Can tell my cute baby couz was so excited abt it. That cutie even flirt with the shoeshop's salesgirl by smilling with each n everyone of them. All his cute action made all of us gerammm at him n will start pinching on his chubby lil' face.

Look at their eyes..

Like father like son..

1 happy family.. another one coming out soon in Nov... hehe...

uhh... cut cake luhh...

Happy Birthday Ivan! Muaxxxx.... from ur couz sis who's far far away now...

Honeymoon's over, Nightmare begin

2007-08-15T00:27:00.000-07:00

I'm stepping in to the 2nd week of my 2nd semester.

Cant believe my holidays ended after 2 freaking long months... Kinda miss my holidays though. I enjoyed it though sometimes it can be very boring thorughout the days . But life goes on. Cant be having holidays 24-7.

B4 stepping back uni, Jeremy n I plan to go somewhere to "farewell" our holz. After hesitating where to go for so long, both of us gave up. We just can't figure out where to go aside from city. Argghh... In the end, we decided to stay at home.

Coincidently my hse mate, Yumeko need to go Vic Market on tat same day. She asked whether do i have any plans to "commemorate" our last day of holz. I told her initially we have but doubting where to go till we gave up. She suggested to go to the Melbourne's Observation Deck to have a look. Since she said there's this voucher where we can buy 2 tics for 1 price, so off we go to the deck.

Apparently, there wasn't anything for us to do in city, no point for us to hang out there so early. We reached the deck abt a quater past five. Purposely chose this timing so that we could see the sunsets and the night scene as in winter, the sky would turn dark b4 6pm.

The tic to the deck wasn't expensive moreover with the voucher and our student card. Each of us paid $5 only.. worth it! So enthusiastic to see the blue sea once we reached the top of the deck. It wasn't as tall as KL Tower nor KLCC coz it was only 253 metres tall but still we managed to capture the city of Melbourne.

The building.. Looks like ordinary building only rite...

The 1st sight we saw when we walked out from the lift... Tadaaa!!! Big blue sky n sea...

More views...

Can even see my work place...

Us....

Us again....

Sunset luuu....

Groupie...

Looks like lego from top..

Got myself a small souvenier... cost me only $1 .. Its a chromium with Australian map n a koala on it. I'm not sure how the machine does tat, but apparently we get to choose for our own design n i chose this!

Finally the night arrives... Magnificent view from top!

Wrap up our day at Lygon St. for dinner.

Us looking at the menu... (fyi, i've gained weight.. can tell through my big round face) :(

Food arrives.... Too hungry d, dun care abt diet 1st... lol..

After dinner, to our desert....how to loose weight lah...btw, the gelato ice-cream tastes sooooo good!!

Say byebye to my honeymoon holidays n hello to my nitemare.. haha...