i have a song

it's the best bdae present i have received in my entire 25 years!!! it's a song.... a song specialli written for mi... by jing.... i love her!!! we have alwaz been talking abt her writing a song for our 2 yrs secondment here... but i noe it's real hard to write melody n lyrics... mi for sure cannot do it... but she jus came up to my room to look at pix n den asked mi randomli wat's the recording file in the folder... i jus tot it was a misc file tt i copied as well cos i jus copied some photos from zijia.... n she jus asked mi to open it... so i jus casualli opened it not realising tt it's a song for MI!!!so after hearing the song, played on jazz.. n veri ming yao style... i was jus thinking "yup... ttz a nice song... mus be from those to be discovered singers" n den i jus stopped the song.... after which she gave mi a letter... so i happily tot it mus be a xmas letter... cos i jus gave her one ydae... heheh... n den i opened up the letter n it's thr!!!!!!!!! the song!!!! my song!!!!! i cannot believe it!!! i have a song written specialli for mi... i was realli veri veri touched... i din expect such a special bdae gift... the best ever... cos it realli came from the heart... was a nice surprise 2 of the dae... realli din expect jing to be sooooo sweet.... so happie tt i have such wonderful frens ard mi... thank you sooooooooo much..... i love the song......... =)

surprise KTV

my first birthdae cake =) it was supposed to mi a farewell KTV session for my manager... we have always talked abt having KTV with her but we have never had one... so jus as she was gg to leave the firm next wk, we organised a KTV for her... n i have nv expected it to be a mini bdae celebration for mi...

in the midst of the ktv, there was happie birthdae being played on the screen... n i was like "hmmm... isit for mi???" n den they happyli sang happie birthdae for mi... n when they finish singing the song, it was WOWWW~~~~~~~

my manager n another colleague (becky) walked in with a super nice bdae cake...realli din expect a birthdae cake at all.... so nice!!!!

thank you !!!!!

mi with the cake

jing - mi - zijia

eileen (my mgr) - mi - ruyi

eleana - becky - mi - ruyi

~~Halloween 2008~~

halloween is pretty fun over in aussie... now tt we moved to a townhse, we realli have kids knocking on our doors screaming "treat or tricks"... from little witches to little devils... all veri cute... we had a halloween party on 1 nov 08 (sat) too... it's the 2nd one i had over here... the first one was with the seniors... was heaps of fun... initialli everione was like "huh?? realli need to dress up ah??" but in the end, the turnout was quite good... everione realli did attempt to do a bit of dressing up... i was the wicked witch last year... this yr, we did it with the jnrs n i decided to be "captain hook"....

introducing the main characters of the night as follows:

(1) mr bento as prisoner 1

(2) kevin as prisoner 2

(3)gothic gal
(4) super nerd

(5) phantom
here's the entire grp who reallie did dress up... from the left, yeen leng (witch), cherrie (devil), mi (captain hook), wanyi with kevin and ben (gothic gal with 2 pet prisoners), gin jing (phantom), zijia (nerd), lufei (gypsy gal)....
all the gals... marilyn, joyce n clarice came as themselves... not scaree enuff!!!

marilyn posing with all captain hook, phantom, nerd and prisoner....

ms captain hook and pretty sexy devil in red.....

mi n the gothic gal... i was trying so hard to act fierce n not laff... hahah... seems like a bad attempt....


second try at acting scaree n fierce... not much better as well... guess i jus dun have the fierce scaree look....

gothic gal with scaree prisoner and our SUPER nerd!!!

captain hook trying to break into the ancient spider webby door.... it's the main door of our hse.. looks cool with all the "spider web" look right??

sculptures by the sea ~~ bondi

everi yr during the start of spring, there will be a "sculpture by the sea" festival at bondi... i realli wonder how they do it... but they will have sculptures "shifted" to the bondi beach... so as u take a slow nice walk from bondi to bronte, u will see all the sculptures... there were manee more sculptures but we onli walked a short stretch...below are some pictures of the sculptures and us (wanyi, kevin, zijia and mi)....

sculpture 1 (forgot the name liao.. hehe)

sculpture 2 (photo frame with a / b / c / d)

(nice bubble in the sea... amazing how they do it)


(us with "imagine")

(mi with the wishing tree.... colourful roots)

new home!!

after months of house searching, it finalli ended on a happie note.. managed to chance upon this great hse with a great location.. it's still located in pyrmont (where we originalli stayed)... jus a few streets down... the location's good cos it's within walking distance from ofc... n the hse is big enuff... 3.5 levels (including the basement room)... enuff to accommodate 5 of us in the hse n with lots of space ard... here are some pictures of the new place...

(wanyi's master bedroom)

(zijia's bedrm - beside mine)

(n here's mine!!)

(n this's my happie familie)

canberra - floriade 2008

was a weekend trip to canberra... with jing, wanyi (my housemates), zijia (my upcoming housemate), giang (my vietnamese snr), shuwen and xunwen (who were visiting from sg)... this is the 2nd time i m heading thr.. but it's for a different reason... was gg thr for the floriade... was looking fwd to it cos love tulips... was rotating the driver's seat with wanyi.. so here's the photos i took along the wae when i m bored as the co-driver...

these are the "canberra trees" per jing.. haha.. cos we tend to see these trees in neat rows on the wae to canberra... hahaha...

upon reaching canberra, we saw these "cherry blossom" look-alike.. veri pretty!! but have no idea what these trees are... saw quite a lot of these trees juz as we entered canberra....

the group taking pix in front of our first stop - new parliment house.. n the iconic flagpole with 4 pillars...

some trees b4 the start of all the flowers pix... like pix of bare trees.. somehow feel tt they have a veri artistic feel.. hehe...

here's the start of the pretty flowers... was a bit disappointed though.. cos it's the first weekend of the floriade so the flowers were not all blooming... but still got some nice pix...

these were 2 little kids taking photos.. n the whole grp of us gals were snapping away like the kids were some superstars... but they were realli veri cute!!! cant help it... the younger brother is called nicholas n the older kid in red jacket is called douglas...

ben commented that this pix looks like a poster shot... hahah.. so proud of it!!

more flower pix... first time i took so much photos tt wanyi n zijia wanna confiscate my camera cos i was sooo slow... hahah... kept stopping to take pix.. heheh...

the focus of this pix is supposed to be the bare tree behind... but somehow it din manage to turn out like tt... the yellow tulips seem to be the focus pt instead... but still pretty photo i think... haha....

these are gnomes painted by ppl who wer at the floriade.. this is a grp of gnomes picnicking...

see the white one in front?? 3rd from the right... looks like some super star gnome...

the "priscilla - queen of the desert" gnomes....

this one is cute.. hiding behind the bushes...

last pix of the dae - mi with the gnomes!!!

Ski Trip (30 - 31 August 2008)

2nd ski trip since i came over.. different group of ppl all together.. went with the juniors, melb kias and a couple of us from sydney.. totalli random combination.. realli yuan fen tt this whole grp went down together.. .this time round we went to perisher blue - blue cow slope (supposedli the most beginner slope)... was realli a veri massive group - total of 21 ppl!! hahah... like tour grp like tt...

we pia all the wae down... drive for about 6 hrs... plus all the stop over to change driver as well as rent out ski gear.... we started the drive at abt 8 plus n onli reached the accommodation at 4 plus... super super shack... n den the next dae need to wake up earlee at 7plus to get dwn to the slopes to start the dae...

n after ski-ing for one whole dae, we pia back to sydney at nite... started the drive abt 10 plus... reach in the morning at 3plus... cos was jus tooo cold to stay in the hse... n den not intending to ski on sundae... so might as well pia back on sat... but was glad we did tt... so can rest on sun... hahha...

pictures of the slopes below... but this time round, the scenery was not as gd as the first time...


the slopes were pretty crowded... though it wasnt ani long wkend...



mi n zijia... both super tired from all the ski-ing....