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今天下午从医院回来后心血来潮去练了一下钢琴。

好久没练琴了！

拿了我自己印的第二本歌谱到琴房去，想弹弹几个星期前印出来但没练过的歌曲。

曲子一开始，我就想到了你。好久没听到这首歌了。

弹着弹着，想到必须把这首歌练好，因为我想以后如果你来探望我，我一定要弹这首歌给你听。

毕竟是你介绍这首歌给我的。

越弹越好听，不知不觉就弹得更加起劲。边弹边想着歌词，觉得是个好听又好弹的曲子。

[不能跟情人说的话]
作词：姚若龙　作曲：陈小霞　合唱：范玮琪+刘若英

有时候对一个人　那么用心
却还是搞不清楚　她的落寞

谈恋爱谁没演过一点戏
装没事　装忘记　装相信

*有时候和一个人　那么尽力
却还是忍不住想　保护自己

谁恋爱不曾藏一点秘密
留防备　留回忆　留心情

#谢谢你总是陪我分享
不能跟情人说的话

我反反复复你也从不笑我
老是骂他却又离不开他

谢谢你总是替我收藏
不想跟情人说的话

我胡思乱想你一直握着我手
让我释放　然后慢慢宽广*#

** repeat

别人都说我很坚强
只有你劝我别逞强
爱是漂亮却不完美的天堂
旧了总有需要修补的地方

## repeat


弹了一次又一次，越弹越喜欢。

想着你来探望我时我们可以一起做的东西，实在是好多好多……
能这样想我都觉得很开心了。
不知道我们几年没见面再遇到的那一天，会是怎样的感觉呢？

Great time with friends

Ling Sing and Zhi Han came to visit us last Friday.... we celebrated Ling Sing's birthday that night =)

很好吃的芒果蛋糕

Hope you enjoy our little celebration~

It wasn't a real surprise even though we hid ourselves quietly in Nooi Hoay's room before they arrived =P

The next morning we went to Miss Marple's at Mt Dandenong. It was meant to be a surprise for Ling Sing as she didn't know where we were bringing her - she was even blindfolded when sitting in Daniel's car. But she found it out eventually when Li Ping's car was left behind and Chau Wang went to ask Daniel for directions to the place...

Nice place for pictures beside the English cottage

Miss Marple's! =)

We had tea....

and their very famous scones (with cream and jam),

2 different flavours of ice cream,

and bread and butter pudding...we shared the sweet desserts among ourselves =D

It was a very satisfying brunch. What can be nicer than having scones and desserts on a Saturday morning up at Mt Dandenong? ^_^

After grocery shopping at Clayton in the afternoon, Kaiwen suddenly suggested to go to the beach. Li Ping and I thought that she was just joking. The weather that day was a mixture of sun and rain. It wasn't the perfect day for beach. Yet Kaiwen wasn't joking when she called me later to say that we would be going to the beach in half an hour's time while I was 'unpacking' my groceries. Apparently she called the whole 'kampung' already - including Li Ping, Yu Wan, Justina and Shea Chuen, plus us from halls! Whoa... and guess what, we went to the same beach (Mordialloc beach) we went last week! Just that this time we could now see how beautiful the colour of the sea was...

SS before we started the trip to the beach~

The wind was so strong that we actually could not play ball

Chean Ying in the next 范特西

It was really cold and the wind was blowing so strongly that we decided to leave the sand for a while...we walked up to a 亭子 to 遮风挡雨 while enjoying snacks we brought =P It started drizzling for a bit. The 2 guys went to the town area to buy hot food so Kaiwen requested them to buy a bowl of chips..haha~

When the rain stopped for a while, we managed to see the beautiful colours of sunset... the sun hiding behind the dark clouds, it was really a great view =D

It was about 6pm when we left the beach, then us girls in Li Ping's car decided to buy our dinner from Coles.... roast chicken, salad, garlic bread and mushroom soup =D

What a nice Saturday to be spent with friends =D Even though we were just eating non stop since morning hahaha~

And yesterday Sunday I went to Adilah & Amirah's rumah terbuka for Raya... whoa, more food....great Malay food!!! Yum yum yum =D

me & Li Ping: Sorry Adilah I know we recycle our baju kurung every year....

Selamat Hari Raya!

Happy birthday Ling Weng =D

It's LING WENG's birthday today!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY dear!!!

Happy to hear that you had a great celebration with surprises and lots of presents hehehe =D

.....we had a great chat again even though we just talked on the phone exactly 1 week ago (yea our birthdays are 1 week apart!) haha, I think we should do this more often in future =)

Hope you enjoy your biggie day and may all your wishes come true....

*2007*

*2008*

Hope we get to take more photos in future yea =) (Actually it's hard to find pictures of just two of us coz usually we take pics in groups! haha)

祝你青春美丽、

笑口常开(you know you have a sweet smile)、

天天开心、

早日找到心目中的白马王子！

生日快乐，琳雯！

Night at the Beach

What I did last Saturday:

Grocery shopping - ironing - lunch - did a little bit of study - badminton - dinner at McD - beach!

Yea, it was a random decision to go to the beach!

When I was walking from the halls to the sports centre for badminton with Nooi Hoay and Chean Ying, I said that the weather was really nice and warm that it would be a perfect day to go to the beach. Well, it had been raining for the past week and suddenly it became sunny on Saturday. Not something unusual for a place like Melbourne which has unpredictable weather (some say you can experience 4 seasons in a day)....

Anyway, we played badminton from 4.30pm for 2 hours until dinner time. The friends decided to go to McD for ice cream for a nice treat for ourselves (before dinner haha). And so we went.... just then someone popped up the idea of going to the beach! I thought, wow serious? Beach at this hour??? Are we REALLY GOING?? Just then we were also deciding whether to buy a set meal (as in eating dinner) or not if we were really going to the beach. Few minutes went past and everyone just sorta agreed without 'further discussion'. We asked John who went back to halls to bring his GPS along; while Ryan and Li Ping were looking at Melways for directions to the nearest beach - Mordialloc beach. I have never heard of that name nor have I been there. And yeah we ended up buying set meals each... it's been ages since I last had McD =P

Never thought that what I briefly mentioned in the afternoon would suddenly become true =P

Nooi Hoay, Chean Ying, Li Ping

moi at beach

Jay 范特西?!

doing big business?

It was really cool at the beach, contrasting to the 27 degrees temperature of the day. It was really windy too and when the wind blew it blew up the sand particles and tiny little 'rocks' which flew according to the direction of the wind --> pain on our exposed legs and face! =/

We played some games at the beach even though it's quite dark...remember the childhood games 'pepsi cola 1 2 3'? Or 'aeiou'? It's fun to play those games again (erm actually I have never played aeiou before this), on a random Saturday night at the beach. =D

Spot the odd one

p/s: does the title remind you of Night at the Museum? Haha =P

21st only comes once.

Warning: I wrote in as detail as possible for my own 'flashback reading' in future. Read at your own 'risk' =P

By the way, this is also the triple 3 (333th) post...!

On the special day of 8th September 2009....

At 12am sharp, I received the first phone call from Ling Weng and we chatted for 32mins. It was a really funny and entertaining conversation. She was trying hard to sing birthday song for me while I joked that I would like to record it, or she could record her singing and send to me via MMS...haha (LW, your OMG sounded very funny)~ We chatted about a lot of things and I kept laughing and laughing. She's so very cute and talented (to make people laugh!) =D It was a really good start for my 21st...erm, she actually argued that a 'good start' is not good enough a word to describe it as she wanted a more 'glamourous and better' descriptive term. And we both actually thought for a few seconds for a suitable term but couldn't think of any hahaha! I realised that I haven't been laughing like that for a while too. I really enjoyed the chat, thanks to her who made it so special =D

At 1.29am I received another call, but I accidentally put the caller on hold and so I panicked for a while to find out how to put the caller back on line. Luckily within 10 seconds I could hear her wishing me happy birthday...but I didn't see who the caller was nor did I recognise her voice earlier. It was when she said 'see I'm so nice call you before 12am' that I realised that it's a call from Malaysia and it's no other than Yun!!! GOSH....I was very surprised that she called me!!!! Coz I rarely receive calls from Malaysia... I told her about the actual time difference and that I was actually planning to go to bed already because I still have class the next day...she mentioned that she meant she called before 12am in Malaysia haha~ I was very happy and touched that she called =D Thank you my dear!!

Went to sleep straight away after that. Was planning to wake up at 7am then go to hospital at 7.30am. But but but...my phone rang suddenly before the alarm did, and I got up to pick the call without even looking at the caller number/name while saying 'Hello' and straining hard to open my eyes... I struggled to look up at my clock which showed 6.25am...whaattt?? Anyhow I heard the caller said something like happy birthday so I just smiled and said thank you while thinking hard and wondering who the caller was... I know it's a very familiar female voice...siapa ni so daring =P It was a few seconds later (okay, maybe loooonger than that) that I realised it's Angelene calling from UK!!! GOSH GOSH GOSH....!!! Okay this is the ironic part: I was truly 101% surprised but I was less than 100% alert myself @.@ Yet, my heart meltz...the more she talked, the more I 陶醉在她甜美可爱的声音中...I just closed my eyes and lied on the bed while enjoying the sweetest cutest voice I have ever heard (*wonder if that's what paeds rotation have done to her*)...and yes, I admit that I was super duper blur that time coz haven't got enough sleep....but I do remember that she said she wanted to call me at 12am (UK 3pm) but she had work to do so she decided to call me in the morning instead...very EARLY morning yea lady (though she said I didn't sound like I just woke up because my voice was clear)~ I didn't know why did I even ask '你为什么打来' haha totally didn't expect that she would call =D 一大清早满满甜言蜜语的unexpected morning call...the best morning call ever ^_^ Thanks darling!

Guessed what I did after the call ended... I went back to sleep!! Even though it's just 30mins before my set alarm time. Yet the 30 mins of sleep seemed like the longest 30-min sleep I have ever had, sweet nice peaceful sleep =D

Went to hospital for ward rounds in the morning. Kezia wished me happy birthday and said, 'Come to the common room at 12pm, I baked a cake.' I was like, 'WHAT? You baked a cake for me? OOHH!! Thanks!!! But....why did you tell me about the celebration? Am I supposed to act surprised when I go to the common room later?' 'No no you don't need to, I'm telling you now because you would have expected/knew it anyway. Now you gotta go invite people!' HAHAHA!! She baked a banana + walnut cake for me....Yummy =D

[haven't gotten the photos yet, otherwise can show you guys the cake & people who celebrated my birthday at the common room in hospital]

One of the nurses whom I gave some banana cake to few weeks ago gave me this bar of chocolate....such coincidence on my birthday!

CHOCOLATE wheeee~

After coming back from hospital, I received a call from Chien! After wishing me happy birthday, she asked me '你为什么没有打来问我为什么没有打电话给你' to which I found amusing =P So I explained that I just came back. Thanked her for the scarf and book which I received a few days earlier, will read the book when I have the time =)

Just before my usual dinner time Justina called me to 'invite me out for dinner'. She asked me what type of food I would like and I told her anything is fine as long as it's not Chinese or Italian. Shea Chuen and her came and picked me up at 7.15pm. It was a rainy day, it's been raining non-stop since morning. Justina said we're going to Glen Waverley but first we're going to pick Li Ping first. Okay, I thought, the others must have been waiting at the 'restaurant'....When we reached Li Ping's house, Justina was ready to call her but Shea Chuen said he would go in and call her out instead. This is when I started to sense something fishy....it was dark and raining outside but from the car windscreen I could roughly see some 'shadows' of people running in and out of the house but I didn't take that seriously. A while later Shea Chuen came into the car and said that Li Ping still needed some time to get ready because she had spilled water in her bedroom and was cleaning it up, so Rou Min (her housemate) asked all of us to go in the house and wait instead. I was quite reluctant as it was raining outside (there's still a distance to walk to her house) and I was wearing heels plus I thought it wouldn't take that long to wait for her to clean up. Anyway, I forgot what Shea Chuen said but he was determined that we should all go in. As I walked out of the car and along the road to Li Ping's house, I saw a few cars parked outside...which were my friends' cars...so immediately I knew everyone had already gathered at Li Ping's house. HAHAHA!

I was surprised that they prepared a steamboat =) WHOOOAAAA, so much fooooood!!! Everyone looked so busy in preparing the food....felt so warm and homely =D

Fresh basa & salmon

PRAWNS!

Fish cakes, fish & meat balls, seafood dumplings

And the lovely decorations!!! Love them!!

Butterflies made of two hearts each =) and there were 21 butterflies!

Balloons

My name =)

We also had desserts - birthday cake (of course) and custard with crushed biscuits and fruits, and also watermelon and honeydew =)

Refreshing

Blackforrest cake

Lastly is the prize giving ceremony! Pressies I got:

A dark blue silky blouse with black belt...love the colour!!

A black jacket...looks very yeng

A nice bag with a cute style...will use this soon!!

A scrapbook designed by Yu Wan with lots of photos and messages from others...love this (yea sentimental me I know) - more pictures of the pages in Facebook

This cute totoro came a few days later (according to Chau Wang, it's still in the plane from HK during the time of my birthday)

All in all, I really appreciate what you guys have done to make the party a success. As I have mentioned in my thank you messages, the main element is warmth and love rather than the surprise (still I was surprised by the location of the party and the steamboat). I really enjoyed the party. Thanks to Mr organiser, Mr fish cutter, Ms fruit cutters, Ms dessert preparers, Mr and Ms decoration-ers, Mr and Ms steamboat ingredient preparers, Mr and Ms soup makers, Mr and Ms eaters, Ms house owners, Mr driver, Mr and Ms dish washers and cleaners, Mr and Ms cameramen, Ms massage etc.. (find your role(s) =P)

You guys are awesome

Also thanks to those who wished me via Facebook and wrote blog posts (click to view - Siew Ting, Conney & QY, Angelene, Ling Weng).

Cards from my friends

Cards from my family

The back of the envelopes say: Love, Us & Sam (the dog); made by hand (so creative)

Am amazed by this little poem my sister wrote because it rhymes so well:

Flowers bloom everywhere,

Oh, they are all so fair;
Love is in the air,
Drifting here and there.

There's someone special to care,
With whom whose happiness I want to share;
How I wish she's here,
But she's with the koala bear!

Sinfully delicious and sweet

I had a great weekend! It all started on Friday when Mr and Mrs Tomato arrived with their black Aurion in the evening....I actually forgot how wide the seats spaces in an Aurion are even though we rented 2 of them in NZ just about 3 months ago! Anyway, it was about 5pm on Friday when they came, and it's the start of the 'kidnapping' + makan-ing trip!!

First we went to Chadstone to 'walk around and spend time before dinner' because it's still early. After about 1-1.5 hour of walking around we started to get hungry so we went to Pancake Parlour for dinner.... but we didn't eat pancakes! And I forgot to take picture of the food we ordered either @.@ There's some discount for early dinner (before 7pm) but the food portion wasn't really large (I ordered a crepe with some chips)....but it didn't matter coz we already planned to have supper after that anyway =P

Got this pic from its website...but yeah this 'ancient pancake mixer' was at display in the Pancake Parlour at Chadstone =)

Next stop was the city! Yup, we drove into the city for supper.... Conney suggested a place at Melbourne Central which sells delicious sweet crepes (different from the ones we had at Pancake Parlour).

Yummy... we ate lots of berries that night

That's not our last stop yet. We then drove on to and parked near Crown Casino... nope we're not there for gambling, we're there for the CAKES! YES CAKESssss

The broad selection of mouth-watering delicious looking cakes at Greco

SS while waiting for our cakes

Yeah it was quite a long wait as usual (p/s: Brat, why you like opening your mouth?)

Finally our cakes arrived... strawberry vanilla cake...

...and double chocolate cake...reaaaaallly sweeeeet

After filling our satisfied stomach, we went into the casino...to look around! That's the purpose when Conney asked me to bring my passport when we left halls earlier haha~~

We spent about 10 minutes looking for the black Aurion when we were about to go back coz we forgot where we parked the car =.= We reached Clayton around 12.30am after a traffic jam at M1 (yes first traffic jam ever in Melbourne!! =.=) But I was really happy that the night was well spent... thanks to Mr and Mrs Tomato who also belanja me the desserts =D

But the makan trip didn't end there. The next morning (Saturday), after grocery shopping at Clayton, we went to Doncaster.....to YUM CHA!!! Wahahaha finally stepped into the famous yum cha place in Melbourne - Tai Pan restaurant (I think it's the one that we Monash gang had been wanting to go since ages ago but didn't manage to, but now I finally did!!)

Haven't got the pictures from Conney yet but this is what she sent me...summarising the splendid lunch we had =D Guess how much we spent...$75!! =P Really satisfying

Thanks to my kidnappers for the great makan trip haha~ Brat kept calling me the birthday girl even though I kept denying coz it wasn't my birthday yet. But I felt honoured =P Speaking of that, I actually requested them to write me a card (我知道我脸皮厚，虽然是第一次和Brat见面可我还是在他们俩面前这样说，因为感觉好像一见如故啊) because Conney's cards for me from the past 2 years got lost in the post and I never received them at all...but they were one step ahead; they had already prepared a card for me!!! So HApPieeEee and touched =D And as Conney said, “两年来寄给你的卡都给post吞掉，[Brat added in “浪费我的邮票钱！”] 今年我就亲手交给你！” hahaha yay ^_^ Haven't opened it yet though~

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Went to Pinewood to watch the movie Up with the Monash gang on Saturday night. It's been a while since we had a gathering like this =) The movie was great, definitely a movie worthwhile watching!