Cuts, Bruises and Sores & Dinner @ Helen and Michael's last Sunday

I feel so sore today and I mean literally sore. :( This is because the smart ass me went to play basketball yesterday with some rough experts, against the advice of Tubbs and Eileen. And I landed up sprawled on the floor with cuts and bruises on my right elbow, legs and a very sore right hip and left thumb after this egoistic China guy who goes by the name of Lambchops and Iceberg (minus the latter and former respectively) decided to slam me down to the floor when I tried to get the ball from him. And the worse part was he didn't even say sorry! I swear I wanted to kill him there and then :x, but I put on my nicest front and smiled as I walked back towards the side replying Tubbs, "Yeah I'm okay, I'm okay", trying to hold back the tears and ignore the immerse pain.

In consolation, at least Eileen, Zoon, Farah kept asking me if I was alright and a few of the others as well. They are all new students, Zoon is from Malaysia doing biotech and Farah is (I think) Malaysian who's a diplomat's daughter. Zoon was particular caring; he was rushing to his house to get tissue for me as I followed him to wash my wounds and he kept saying sorry even though it was not his fault. It made me feel like punching the china guy even more! :x Anyway, I should stop whingeing and get on to happier things. Here's the photos from our outing last Sunday. We sort of had a little farewell party for mummy.

Left to right: The "kids" playing on the trampoline; At the Dinner Table; Glorious Main courses and Desserts; Playing an Ancient Scandinavian game called Kupp - which is a cross between cricket, bocce ball, and jarts. It involves throwing blocks of wood at other blocks of wood in the attempt to knock them over. And I had to admit I was a blardy sore loser that day or maybe blame it on the hormones, I was displaying a bad front cursing and hitting Tubbs cause he was just so damn good in it. But oh well, everyone has a shitty attitude day. ;)

That's all for now, I'ma looking forward to try Eileen and Dominic's cooking tonight(with help from mum) and to enjoy my trip to Bendigo with Tubbs, Mum and Ying over the weekend. So I'll update photos and events on the trip next week. :D Keeping my fingers crossed and hoping tubby's foot gets well soon for the trip.

心事匆匆，心中的话不容易表示出来。

我想要抛开生边的一切：
~ 去我想去的地方
~ 做我想要做的事
~ 见我想要见的人
人的一生，何时才能快乐满足，或许是什么才叫快乐满足?

今天的我，心事匆匆，其实在好久前已经是这样了。以前总是在不快乐的时候，自唱自语，向把心里不愉快的东西，唱出心口。或许小时候天真的思想，现在早已没什么作用了。好想念过去一起同甘共苦，快乐游玩，关怀体贴的好友。那些热情洋溢，在此的生活里，感觉不同凡响。为何人生中， 每件事忠不能十全十美? 我要的并不是荣华富贵，我只想要幸福快乐。我的幸福快乐是家人能平安，工作有成就，好朋友围绕，和找对他人。难道这样也要求过多吗?

Happy Chinese New Year 2007

Okay, it's a little late for well wishes, but hey, lunar new year lasts for 20 days right? So here's wishing all my family and friends who are all the way back in Malaysia and Singapore:

Happy Lunar New Year!
Gong Xi Fa Cai!

We had our own chinese new year gathering at Lyell's house on CNY day 1. From left is Tubbs, me, Eileen, Ying, Ellen, (Forgot his name), Weiwei and Eric. Front row: Nancy, Weiwei's mum and my mum. Eileen is a new student from singapore and she's like a little sister to us, very chirpy and friendly girl. We had loads to eat as you can see and as usual we did not finish the food again. Then we played Pictionary as well, it was more of like a "shouting" match than guessing game. But it was still fun. ;) Then on day 2, we dressed Jasper up in his CNY outfit, but it was pretty hard to get it on that little fatso. *sigh*

Well, the gathering was good, but I still miss spending chinese new year back home in Malaysia/Singapore. Yes, the ang baos might be one thing, but the other important thing is being able to gather with family members and have lunch or dinner together. It's the time of the year where differences are put apart and everyone just gets down to eating, enjoying themselves and for some, gambling. I was pretty sure Chinatown in Melbourne was quite happening with the parade as well, but somehow the true atmosphere still cannot be truly felt here. If circumstances permit, I wanna spend the next chinese new year back home, home where the true spirit of chinese new year can be experienced. =)

And yet more shopping.

As promised, more photos of my shopping! I know I'm incorrigble, I have not kept whatever promises I made about not shopping, and tubbs has said my wardobe is gonna explode soon, so did chaboh loo. Thus I have planned more sight-seeing and adventure trips in the itnerary for the Bendigo trip, to refrain from too much more shopping, although I still probably will! :P

1) Blue Blouse with ruffled sleeves: $17 from Target
2) Green sleeveless tee with girl print: $8 Chain Reaction
3) Orange Big Pony Polo Ralph tee (apparently genuine): $35 ebay
4) Bloom Body Shimmer and Body Scrub: $22 and $13 respectively (nail polish was free!)
5) Sailor design strip dress: $10 from Supree
6) Pink/white strips tube dress: $10 from Supree
7) Blue polka dot dress: $10 from Chain Reaction
8) White with red cherries dress: $10 from Chain Reaction

1) Anna Sui lookalike wallet: $15 from Victoria Market
2) Hand made soaps that smell good enough to eat: 3 for $5 and Doggy soap: $2
3) Yellow white strips blouse: $25 from Victoria Market
4) Addidas Socks: $6 from Addidas Factory Outlet
5) Addidas Bag: $25 from Addidas Factory Outlet
6) Nike Cap: $10 from Nike Factory Outlet
7) Nike T-shirt: $25 from Nike Factory Outlet
8) Addidas T-shirt: $15 from Addidas Factory Outlet
9) Fila Socks: $7 from Fila Store Smith Street
10) Nike Bag (tubbs's vday gift): $25 from Nike Factory Outlet
11) Fila Slippers (tubb's vday gift): $10 from Fila Store Smith Street
12) Fila Shorts: $15 from Fila Store Smith Street

So there ya go, enjoy the pretty array of stuff. All prices are in Australian Dollars and Sports Factory outlets are at Smith Street, Melbourne.

My V-Day Pressie - Yoshi's Island DS and Planning to go Bendigo!

Currently playing Yoshi's Island DS . Twas the game darling got me for my V-day pressie. The funny part was that this is the first time we are actually spending V-day together in the same place, but we decided not to bother making it a big hoo-ha at all. Dinners were too expensive; They were a minimum cost of $90 bucks per person in posh restaurants here, plus mummy's around and we kinda have 2 new friends who've recently join our clique and have been hanging with us for most of the time as well. :)

Anyway, yessh I'm soooo FREE that I actually had time to go to the Yoshi's Island website for a look since I'm so hooked on the game and it is one of the highest rated games (9.2!) from GameSpot. It's one of the best adventure/platformers that I've ever played and the characters are super cute! Well, I had a hard time trying to find the wallpapers because you had to explore the whole site clicking on stuff before you can "find" 'em, so I thought I'd share with people here. Sorry though, I only downloaded the (1024 x 768 px) ones. Just click on 'em and they will open to full size.

Plus, I suddenly had a crazy idea on Monday to plan a trip for mummy before she goes back home. (Actually I myself wanted a holiday also!) Well, so I decided we should go to Bendigo! A short 3D2N trip since I can't afford to take too many days leave again. So accomodation is booked, car rental TBA by tubbs; Bendigo, here we come! And Nooooo, I haven't forgotten about the shopping I've done! The cropping and editing of the clothings and accessories is on its way! ;)