Mornington Peninsular for Tubby's Birthday and James's house-warming

Tubby, Jasper and I went away last month for his birthday celebration. It was a pretty relaxing trip - nice but it all ended too fast. The mini cottage we stayed was called "The Sand Piper" - interestingly had no sand or whatsoever within. But it was cosy and they also gave us a free welcome hamper with a bottle of wine, jam, yogurt, fruits, bread and stuff enough to feed our nibbling habits for the 3 days there.

Day 1: We arrived there Sunday around 2pm and went up to Arthur's Seat. There, you could get the most wonderful view of Port Phillip bay. Nothing else much except the nice view - there used to be a ski lift there but is now closed due to safety issues. More views of the bay when we dropped at some garden which I can't remember what it's called. All I know was that it had 2 sculptures which were supposedly scalped by a popular artist which we don't know who. :p Next we dropped by the enchanted mazes, but they weren't open and so we only took some photos from the veranda.

Day 2: This whole day was supposed to be relaxing. But the relaxing part only started in the afternoon. :p In the morning, we headed to Gunnamatta Trail rides for a nice 2 hour horse ride from the bushes to St. Andrew's beach. We have rode a few times before but a ride on the beach was a first. And although our ass and thighs were sore like anything after that, it was an experience well worth it. After that we headed to Peninsula hot springs for our Lavender milk mineral bath. Tubby chose the private baths instead of the outside ones and we had a soothing 45 min massage after that. Dinner was steak and vegetables made by Chef Yong. ;)

Day 3: Nothing much was planned for this day. We just played it by ear, went to Cape Schanck where the light house was only to be turned away by the expensive $10 for wanting to enter it! What a rip off! Had to even pay $4 for parking in the carpark! :S And lastly of course how coule we miss the colourful bath houses along Mill's Beach. Jasper had good fun running along the beach there. After that we headed to a cafe in Chelsea for lunch before heading back home. :)

View our Mornington Peninsula Trip: full album here...

As most of you know, Tennis has been like part of Tubby's and my life since 3 years ago. From the lessons and social comps, we got to meet new friends who later became our tennis comp team mates as well. And so James invited us to his house for his house-warming. So embarrasing we didn't know it was his birthday and didn't get him anything.
Top Left - L-R: Weiwei, Sam (our tennis coach from Singapore), James and Jame's friend. Top Right Pic: Jame's housemate bringing out his birthday cake. Bottom Left: Yin-Pin, me and Penny (our other Summer Tennis Comps team mates). Bottom Right: James and Tubby!

Sorry I know I have been rather lazy updating my blog regularly. Am planning to take some time during the Melbourne Cup long weekend to get a whole new overhaul for my blog including new templates and stuff and hopefully the updates will be more frequent then! Till then, enjoy the coming Spring all!

World's Strictest Parents - a TV Show I recommend!

If you're looking for something interesting to watch, you've GOT to check this out:

World's Strictest Parents

It's a TV show about Aussie's most rebellious and uncontrollable kids who are sent overseas to live with very strict parents for a week to try and change their bad behaviour. These strict parents try to make sure they do what they are told - or at least they try their very best to "force" the kids to follow their rules - sometimes in the most funniest ways!

And if you haven't guessed it, why am I not surprised Singapore was one of the countries where the aussie kids were sent to live with and boy you've got to watch the episode - I literally burst out laughing! "You must greet us Aunty Ean and Uncle Meng". Yes that's very respect most of us Asians have to do - but just the way they put it to the aussie kids, it was hilarious!

Most of these rebellious kids are school drop-outs, who drink, smoke and party most of the time and some of them we have seen have totally no respect for their own parents at all. It makes us kinda feel that at least us Asian kids still do have a certain level of respect and fear we have of our parents even though we may be stubborn sometimes. Maybe it's the culture that alot of Aussie are not strict enough with their kids. But yeah it's a total shock when these naughty kids start to realise how wonderful their own parents are after they are "dumped" into a World of Rules - it may be a "hard on them" but it's a good lesson learnt in a different way.

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Transformers 2: Revenge of The Fallen Movie IMAX Meet and Midnight TF Toy Hunt

I can't believe it's more than a month after the Gold Coast trip, I'm now more ever in need of another holiday! (*_*) Work is pretty boring at the moment and everyone seems to be in a "can't be bothered" mood. Anyway a whole big group of us went to watch Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen last Saturday! Boy there was like over 20 of us from Ozformers and together with some of us who brought out other halfs. :) We went to IMAX theatre in Melbourne museum - super extra large screen around 7 stories high or so they say...

ROTF Movie promotional 3D poster next to the doors entering the theatre.

Group shot of all the Ozformers people, some missing and some hiding. :p Oh and the cute little girl is one of the guy's daughter. That's right! We have married Transformers fans and some have kids as well. :p

After the movie, Goro one of the members had some items for sale. It was so funny we followed him to his car which was parked at the roadside. He took out his "toy box" and everyone started digging in to see what goodie he had for sale. Some already knew what we were getting as he posted on the forum.

Overall, I still like the movie - of course being the obvious reason that it IS Transformers. The only downside was that there was so much fighting going on at the same time in some scenes that you just can't tell who's fighting who! And they also seem to be "promoting" a lot of the U.S Army and Navy (which I'm not surprised). Some robots were also redundant as they appeared a mere 3 minutes and was then killed. :S So much for being a "guest star".

Last week we also went for some super crazy toy hunt! Yes Australia has this super crazy toy sales that start at 12 midnight during the July School holidays. Parents can lay by stuff till Christmas and slowly pay it off. How cool is that?! Anyway not surprisingly, of course we were there for Transformers! We all met at Jay's place and then took off first to Kmart Campbellfield.

Yup - us checking out the Transformers aisle. They had two TF aisle. This is the main one while there was another one up front section with all the new Transformers 2 movie stuff. I think we shuttled around and stayed for almost an hour and half.

Hehe, everyone have picked up what they wanted. Some of the boys got some Lego and toy guns thingy as well. But of course it was mainly Transformers. We stood around this area for a fair bit waiting for 12 midnight as the sale prices weren't scanning up yet. People and staff who walked by were asking us what we were waiting for, boy it was really funny!

Yup, we're all still waiting. And as the wait got longer, one came back with a electronic talking Pooh bear - it was so tempting that I wanted one too! But I controlled and put it back. A couple of the boys bought some ice-creams and we were eating them right in front there.

The next stop was Big W in Broadmeadows! Gosh they had the latest waves of Transformers toys there and you should have seen the amount of Transformers and Legos we piled into the trolley! it was mayhem and excitement when we got there. Parents and some kids were lining up at 1.30am+ in the morning around the mall waiting to lay by the toys!

After that around 2.30am-ish we headed for a 24 hour McDonalds to sit down have some late night snack and chatted - about Transformers of course. :p. All in all, I think I got home around 4am. :s Boy was I super shacked the next day...

Gold Coast trip and goodbye to Ralphy...

Okay, finally updates on the Gold Coast trip a couple of weeks ago! Oh man, :( I can't believe 2 weeks have passed already since the trip. It felt like just yesterday! As always, holidays are never long enough! Anyway get ready for visual overload! I took about close to 400 photos and videos - not bad already, considering I thought I'll take more... hehe... Well I just picked out some of my favourites and the rest are on facebook if you're interested:

Hooters Restaurant - where you get good food and sexy waitresses to entertain you!

One of the dishes ordered by Tubby: Hooter's special steak burger with curly fries.

Sexy waitresses putting on their hourly act - which is chair top dancing

A group shot with Joewiz and Len with the hot waitresses!

The stairs leading up to Hard Rock cafe restaurant and the shop was just opposite us! Of course I had to buy some stuff! :p

Wax Museum: Len me and Ghandi! Tubby said he was a lucky bugger. :p

Wax Musuem: Ah my favourite play-writer: William Shakespeare

BBQ at the apartment pool, us greedy girls digging into the food!

Ladies by the poolside...

Outside Harbour town shopping centre! Shopping there was so good lar! So many great bargains at cheap prices! Cannot compare to Melbourne lor, so expensive...

Anyway to continue the rest of the photos: Gold Coast: Food, Shopping and Sight-seeing

Next is the 2 theme parks which we managed to visit in the 3 days. Due to the showers and thunderstorms, we didn't have time for Dream World.

The 3 chabohs with their rain coast posing! :p

Clever Sea Lion show! Boy he can dance and do lots of interesting tricks! Good trainers!

Loved the Dolphin show! They are so intelligent and cute and it just makes you wanna care about the environment more after the show to protect them.

Check out the heavy and horrible thunderstorm on the 1st day we went Sea World la. It was so bad the park closed half day. But lucky we got return tickets to go back on the friday.

Outside Movie World! Woohoo! The morning was actually cloudy and rainy. But as we were driving past to go down Brisbane then we saw the sun coming out and decided to head there instead.

The 3 chabohs taking the Batman ride! Super fun lar! Could hear Len screaming like nobody's business. Of course we screamed too, but not as loud as her hehe!

The Looney Toons theatre and of course Looney Tunes performance! Love Bugs Bunny!

Looloo and me with Bugs Bunny!

Ah Scooby-Doo Coaster! Super fun as well! You are brought up and then turned around and you thought you're gonna drop vertically down or something and you actually go down a curve back first!

Central Square where the parade starts and also the other shows presented.

Superman Roller Coaster, 0-100 in like 3 seconds. I still can't believed we were too chicken to take the ride. :(

Me and Len with the evert beautiful "Marilyn Monroe"...

Hollywood Stunt Drivers! Awesome show and hot mitsubishi lancers! heehee!

Scooby-doo bee doo where are you? :D

Batman and his Bat Mobile. The car is so cool in real life hor!

Me with my Bugs Bunny Grammy Award! heehee...

Second day at Sea World, nice sunny weather! Looloo and me with Big Bird!

Seasame Street Land I can't remember the actual name, it's as your can see, for the kiddies!

Hehe, find me find me! Classic shot hor! I was actually posing for the camera man!

Anyway rest of the theme park photos: Gold Coast: Sea World and Movie World

Okay that's the "gist" of it. On another note, Ralphy was sold over the weekend. To cut a long story shot, we finally realised we couldn't love any other dog as much as we loved Jasper and it just wasn't gonna be fair. And so Ralphy is now with a lovely old lady living in the rural area. No more new dogs for us for a long while unless it's Jasper's son I guess...