Celebrating New Years 2008, Boxing Day, Christmas 2007 and more!

Time for photo explosion and updates to the past couple of weeks.

Let's start from the New Year celebrations on 31st Dec:

We had dinner at this Italian Bistro in Morwell by the recommendation of Wangwei. There was Ammie, John, Wangwei, Sookie, Weichao, Tubby, me and Ammie's friend from Clayton, Brandon. The food was not too bad, to name a few, there was Garlic Prawns, Pork Cutlet, Seafood Gnocchi, and I had Porter House steak with Tiger Prawns. Gotta say my steak wasn't that great at all, it was burnt a little too much for me. After dinner, we took a drive to Traralgon and walked the food off a bit at the Victory Park. Then we decided to head over to Kim and Ellen's place to say hi. But we landed up playing Monopoly for the next few hours till New Years, after which we all went out to light some sparklers. It was a great way to celebrate the new year. We chose to enjoy the fireworks at home instead of cramming with the 50,000 crowd at Federation Square.

Next was Boxing Day on 26th Dec

This is the first time I've ever went out for Boxing day in Melbourne. We headed down with Ammie, Jacky and Weichao in 2 cars. Oh boy were we in awe of the crowds at all the shopping centres! It was as if everything was FREE! We heard on the radio that some people lined up from 12am the night before to grab some good bargains! Check out the 2 aisles behind the Christmas tree at Northland, it's practically cramped with shoppers! I'm back to my normal clothes, bags and shoes craze(decide to halt on Transformers for awhile) and so I can say it's a happy shopping day! Tubbs and I were really tired by the time we got to Chadstone, and so we decided to have a cuppa at the David Jones Food Cafe. Ironically considering the times I've been to chaddy, it's the first time I actually went to that area. They sold heaps of exotic delicacies and food condiments. Dinner was at Rock Kung and it was really good to have a Hongkie around (Jack

Then there was the Christmas Eve party on 24th Dec

I was pretty sure I took a photo of the HUGE Leg of Ham that tubby bought, but somehow I can't find the pic. Tubby marinated it with Honey and spices and it was yummy but so huge that we ended up eating it for the next few days. We had a fusion of western and chinese food and the desserts were great as well! There was Beef with Radish, Vegetables with Bacon, Spicy Chicken, Christmas Pudding, Belgian Chocolates, Fairy Cupcakes etc. Anyway, those were the people(top pic) who attended. There were only 3 girls around that night and the males seem to dominate the house when they couldn't contain their excitement playing a soccer game on the PS2 throughout the night. Everyone brought along gifts for exchange and check out the happy faces of people with their prezzies. :P And Eileen if you're reading this, did u realize that the cap you bought for Yong was for "Infants & Kids"? It fits Jasper well though, hahaha... All in all, the party was all fun, we ate, we chatted, we opened pressies. And the next day, we went to church sleepily to celebrate the true meaning of christmas.

Dinner at Don Louis on 22nd Dec (Before Eileen flew off)

Yep, a usual snapshot of those who went above. It was a $9.99 buffet dinner and I've gotta say the food variety was much better than Pizza Huts'. But the desserts were awful though and if only we can bring Pizza Hut's dessert over to Don Louis, then it would be the perfect meal. For some reason after dinner, we all went crazy about this single toy picking machine at the far end of the restaurant. And after the first coin went in, it was nuts all the way! I swear you can hear Eileen screaming a mile away! We almost got a toy a few times, but it dropped at the last minute! So in the end we paid like almost $7-8 bucks just for for sweets! (Machine had another picker for sweets on the same play). And just a little note: Never stand behind Eileen when she's excited lest you wanna get "injure"... Muahahaha.. :P And that about rounds up the events for the last couple of weeks. Till then, have a great New Years 2008 everyone!

A little bit of this and that for the past month.

Okay here's a months worth of updates in brief. I have no inspiration to write much for the moment, so I'll let the photos do most of the talking. Here goes:

Dinner with Tubby, Ammie, Jason at Helens' and Michaels'. Food was yummy as usual. There were chicken wings, roast beef, vegies, potatoes, BBQ chicken and beef and yummy desserts too.

The Churchill Tennis Team - Section 6. We were at the bottom of the list but got pushed to 3rd and we had a walkover against Moe last Saturday cause they didn't have enough players. So it's all good for us and fingers cross we'll make it to the finals.

And finally, Tubby at his Convocation, the same one Len, Me and Joewiz attended 2 years ago at Clayton. Man time really flies. The above one is with his folks, and the meeting with them this time turned out to be pretty good surprisingly. Maybe it's cause their son has finally graduate that they are willing to loosen up a bit.

And lastly, by chaboh Len's request, here is a photo of how the Christmas tree and house deco for christmas looks like. Though we haven't got much people around for the little gathering, but it's the true meaning that matters. And I wanna go to Ivan Hoe to have a look at the christmas lights and decos too.

P.S: And to chaboh loo for her sweet little SMS, I love you girls always. Muaks. And that goes for my Tigger and Kitty. :P

Jay Chou's new album, poster, 2008 calendar and Melbourne Trip

This came from the postman yesterday, I'm super happy! His songs got me hooked as usual. You HAVE to go and listen. My Jay is still the same cutie, though now MORE talented, venturing into movies and directing, but I wished he can put on a little bit more weight. :P I've got nothing much to update lately. Was down in Melbourne last Sunday for a Transformer's fan meet. Some of the guys came from Sydney or Brisbane, it was kinda awkward at first and funny too cause everyone was sitting around the table in the food court and there were transformers toys all over the table. :P We had introductions, chatted around for a bit, then went around to the toy stores for a look.

I didn't stay for long cause poor Tubby was waiting for me at Crown, plus I had a large bag full of transformers toys, some of which I got a friend to bring over from Sydney for me. Then one of them gave me two free toys as well as sold me a book for a bargain price. I also bought one more pack of figures from Myer and also my Clinique facial stuff. So yeah it was really heavy. After I met up back with Tubby, we just went to get Asian groceries and made our way back cause we missed Jasper. Might post a pic of the forum guys if I can get the photo from them. Till then, tata for now...

* Ooohhh and for the first time in 6 weeks, our team won the Tennis match against Moe last Saturday. It was also the second time I won all my 3 sets. Yippie! Hope we can keep the good team effort going! :)

Jay Chou ON THE RUN is OUT!!!

Woohoo!!! Jay Chou's new album is OUT! I have ordered the new album with poster and 2008 calender already! Here are 2 songs from the album. As usual, absolutely Jay and absolutely awesome! :)

牛仔很忙 - Cowboy on the Run

Long overdue Music Video from Culture Night 2007

I have nothing else to update for the moment. So here is the long overdue Music Video from Culture Night 2007. It's only halfway through the song that's why I initially did not want to upload it cause I'm still waiting to get the full video of the 2 songs from Ammie. *hint hint* Anyway hope you enjoy it. :)

Once again, a very big thank you to the lovely casts Sharon, Sookie and Chenghao. And also those who helped out in some way or another. It was a really awesome play.