Friends, Food & Shopping

Justina and Shea Chuen held a housewarming party last Thursday. I like their home =)

Nice house right?

Food that we prepared....plus KFC!

We also had fried mee hoon, fried rice, fried kueh teow....haha



Ladies first!

Guys acting cool

Nice group pic =)

We were eating and chatting and walking around the house and taking pics at the same time =) After filling our stomachs, we started playing games...Daniel brought his mahjong set over, and so we played mahjong (first time this year!)

We played 14 rounds of mahjong =P

On Friday Chean Ying and I went to city to meet up with friends. We had lunch at Shanghai Dumpling Restaurant (it's Yu Wan's and my first time eating there).

Finally met up with Amelene after not seeing her for one whole semester

Thanks to Yu Wan who took this pic =)

Yu Wan, Sharon, Chean Ying, Amelene and I shared 5 different dishes of food =P

Steamed dumplings

Fried dumplings

Rice cakes

I forgot what is this called...but it came in a VERY big bowl

Taro cake!!!

After that we split into groups - some of us went to tour around University of Melbourne while the rest of us went shopping at Smith Street. Which group I joined? SHOPPING! =)

me-Sharon-Chean Ying

Found this candy shop at Smith Street! Too many choices till I dunno what to buy =P

Sharon and I left Smith Street earlier and went to Swanston Street. Had a nice walk around the city till it started raining. It was the day I chatted so much with Sharon. I heard of her name in INTEC but never talked to her before even once so I didn't really know her. And this time she came to visit Melbourne (she's studying at Queensland) and I became her tour guide for the day =P Throughout the day, we chatted as though we were old friends who haven't seen each other for ages when in fact it's our first conversation =) Very nice and fun chatting with her hehe =)

we saw this! I really admired the painter's work...amazing!

We walked near Myer shopping mall at Bourke Street and saw that they have the Christmas decorations already =)

Went to San Churro's at QV to have chocolate drinks. Planned to go Max Brenner's at first but there were so many people and we couldn't find a seat, so we ended up at San Churro's...luckily it was only a stone's throw away coz it was raining + very cold despite the fact that it's coming to summer!

R.I.P

My sister texted me to tell me that Oku is dead. We have two dogs at home, Oku is the black one (and the more obedient one too). Poor dog. Mum said he had internal injury before we had him because he had been badly beaten by his previous owner before. Few weeks ago he started to eat lesser than usual, mum and sis thought that he was being picky over food because he didn't look sick at all. He became thinner and thinner. He was also making funny disgusting noises (from what sis told me). Yesterday he showed some bad symptoms. And then today he died. Dad buried him in our garden.

Oku means 'black mushroom' in Hokkien

I only saw him for less than 3 months when I went back home last year. I know he was the more obedient one compared to the other dog that we have because he stood still and never struggled when mum bathed him. He never ran away when we said it's bathing time. He licked our fingers when we held out our hand. He raised his paws and put them in our palms naturally when we touched him. It was funny to see him shiver when it rained, so we quickly took him to the front door where there's shade (we usually kept him at the back of the house). Both of our dogs fought when they saw each other, so we never put them close together.

So I guess Sam (the other dog) is the king now eh?

Picnic at Brighton Beach

We went pinicking at Brighton Beach today! Nice sun, nice wind, nice food, nice people, nice scenery....whoaahhhh syiok! =D

举头望蓝天，低头看海边

There were colourful cabins along the beach!

Some of the food we brought (there's more!)



Wolfing down the food

After filling our empty stomach...now it's time for pictures!

蓝蓝的天，蓝蓝的海

We started playing with the big blue cloth we brought....here goes, the many uses of the big blue cloth:

Ryan thought he's Superman



Daniel 变渔夫了……





Let's throw Chean Ying into the sea!

Yu Wan bullying Chean Ying =P

and a group picture with the victim hehe

抓奸在床！





没嘴巴，没耳朵，没眼睛 =P





躺着晒太阳是很舒服的

Back to normal pictures...

Yun Ying and me with the colourful cabins

Family with rainbow house

Yeah 发现新大陆了

我们过后也来了一些杂技表演……

Ryan 表演一字马，看来是失败了

世俊做得还不错呢（不过耐了几秒而已啦哈哈）

别忘了我们女生

相亲相爱拥抱在一起

Yoga at the beach




千手观音

Tower!

友望给埋在沙滩里了，她还很可爱地问：“我不会死吧？” 哈哈！

It's been a nice and fun experience picnicking at the beach...we enjoyed ourselves a lot and it feels so great!

What happened?

Something is wrong with my Friendster account. Suddenly I only have 28 friends in my list (I think I have about 300+ friends originally)!!! I couldn't believe it at first, so I logged out and logged in again. It still showed the same thing...only 28 friends in my list!

It's so funny that now I'm not directly connected to my 'Featured Friends' on my profile. Some of their profiles are even restricted to their friends only (am I not one?!) Imagine Wei Yong is in my extended network! And even my own sister too =.= How could that be?! @.@

Geramnya now what should I do? Just leave it be??? How mafan to re-add people again....arrggghhh! Not that I use Friendster as often now but there are some friends that I keep in touch with via Friendster!

Reminiscing

At this time last year, I was already back in Malaysia....I was so excited, so very happy. There were a lot of things that I planned to do, a lot of stuff were running in my mind.

There were friends waiting to meet me on the day I reached Malaysia.
There were people whom I planned to give a surprise to.
I couldn't wait to meet my friends whom I didn't see for almost a year.
I couldn't wait to give them the souvenirs I brought back.
I couldn't wait to go back home to see the dogs which I hadn't seen before.
I couldn't wait to show my family the photos I had taken throughout the year.
I couldn't wait to bring home the chocolates to share with my family and friends.
I couldn't wait to go for the family trip.
It's going to be a long summer break.

Few days ago Yu Wan came to take photos from me. She browsed through the photos that I have taken this year, including those back in Malaysia. She came to one of the folders and viewed the photos, then she asked, "Oh is this that surprise visit you mentioned in your blog? I think I read it before earlier this year..." And I said, "Yeah yeah that's the one."

My mind raced back to February.
I remembered the post that I wrote.
I remembered the mixed feelings and emotions I experienced. It was a wonderful feeling. Seeing her face can lead me to be in a happy mood for the whole day.
Yet, it won't be the same when I go back Malaysia this year. She won't be around. There won't be any surprise visits from her anymore...

It'll be a shorter summer break as well.
I don't know whether we'll have a family trip, because my sister is selected for NS.
I don't know whether my friends will be around/free in December because from what I remember last year they still have classess going on in December (except Christmas though).
I don't have plans to surprise anybody, nor do I have plans to meet any friends on the first day I reach Malaysia. Well maybe not yet.

I can't wait to go for another 'jalan-jalan cari makan' trip!