What have i been up to these days?

Plenty...
Sorry for the amazingly long absence from this blog.
Time really fly fast.

I think I shall start with the most recent event then. Just got back from Sydney. This time we went to Hunter Valley, where all the Shiraz and Semillion of Australia come from.

Was there for 3days 2 night and stayed in a haunted house @.@
was scared to death for the first night after reading the entries from previous visitors to that house!

The house was a lovely old farm house however getting to the place wasn't at all lovely because the only access to the place is dirt gravel road.The loveliest part of this house is the bathroom, which has a cool underfloor heating. Thus making it the warmest place of the house.

The old phone really works but it gave us a jump when it rang*Spooky*

I love this bed...the best i have ever slept on so far.It's hard to get up once you lie on it.

Absolutely love this view..especially in the morning with lots of bird sound.

As for the most interesting part of this house, which we only found out when we got there was that the house still has some of it's original occupants. A boy with a tricycle and his granny and the boy would come out and play in the early morning of 3am! Previous visitor got woken up by his tricycle sounds on the veranda and the moving rocking chair. I heard the noise made by the tricycle on the first night but was too scared to validate the source of sound so I can just say that it's probably some sound from the heater in the next room.

The place was still lovely when the morning came, we found out that there were 4 cows munching grass on our front lawn! It's a pity that I was enjoying the moment and forgot to take the picture of 4 really cute cow eating...

Apart from the house we went around to a few wineries and I bought a few bottles of really nice ones.

Wyndham Estate

The floor moved!

There's an earthquake in Melbourne!
It happened yesterday night before 9. When I was just sitting down browsing through the TV channels...

At first I thought it was my brother jumping up and down, then I realized that's pretty stupid...

Well, according to the news report the quake center is located around 90km south-east of Melbourne the magnitude is recorded as 4.6 on the Richter scale...

and there you go the highlight of yesterday

A really really belated Valentines for me

Just got back from Sydney 3 days ago and I had the best time there(always do...hehe)

This time I visited Blue Mountain, went to a really famous restaurant in Sydney and went to a small little beach town called Mollymook.

First stop: Blue Mountain...our valentine weekend.

and I got my bouquet of flower as well *happy*

in front of the Wentworth falls..the largest I have seen so far...

1st part..

2nd part...


and the 3rd part!!

and the surrounding area of the fall.




the place that we live in is beautiful..it's a pity that I didn't take any pics...
and the view is amazing...

just imagine waking up to this in the morning...
and a small little waterfall..


2nd stop: Tetsuya's














3rd stop: The town of Mollymook


Just love the sky in Australia...always so blue.
Remember last year when I visited Kiama...
well this town is even further away from Sydney...3 hours from Sydney
so we all can celebrate Joe's Birthday..


the designated driver...
and the birthday boy(below)

We went to the beach, dinner then games....
dinner was good but it got even better after the alcohols..lol


Such a gay picture..lol

Christmas!!

Christmas is just round the corner and this is my first time spending Christmas in Australia considering that I have been here for nearly 3 years now.

There is festive atmosphere everywhere I go in Melbourne. The decorations put up are really beautiful but I still think that the decorations in Malaysia's shopping center is way more extravagant...hehe...

here some pics... so enjoy

This is window display on Myers... This year's theme is "How Santa Really Work?" Showing above is the production department...

this is the storage department...the santa is so cute!!

The letters department where all the letters from the children are read

and of course...the transport department...which is very important!!!hehe....

The graffitti wall... Written on it is all the little kid's Christmas wishes...


on Federation Square is the Advent Calendar... every night @9pm...there will be a little performance to reveal things that represent Christmas...

Apart from Melbourne, the decorations in Sydney is pretty unique with
a Christmas tree being made out of chairs and the humongous tree in QVB that I only manage to get only a small part the tree.

it looks like a pile of old chairs to me...but I heard it's pretty when the lights are turn on at night...

part of a giant Christmas tree

women

Well...
I have disappeared long enough and I apologise for the lack of update.
If anyone is still visiting this long abandon blog, I have a troubled mind that needs to be cleared.

here is the problem...

It's nearly half a year since my boyfriend move back to sydney, meaning he is currently living with his parents and I have always thought that I get along with his mom. That I never really need to worry about her not liking me or something on that line.

But after this trip to sydney, something happen and it made me think otherwise. From what I gather, there may be more than one occasion that she complain about me to George.

To be honest, I am surprise. Because she seem to be courteous to me. Saying that she doesn't need my help when I offer. That goes to when I even insisted that I help her, she still says no.

Now she turns around and say that she doesn't like people that sits around and do nothing!!


I have to admit that I have given up offering her my help because everytime i did she made me look stupid so i stopped. Maybe I shouldn't have stop.

It seems like I can never assume what she is thinking.

It led me to think that women are such a complicated animal. It is never a simple yes or no , it is always tied with some kind of term and condition.
No wonder we ourselves never seem to understand fully what we want.


From this incident it makes me think that women are cunning and manipulative so that they always get their way. Well at this point there may be female reader would want to object my views strongly.
But I must say sometimes I would think of ways to get what I want. Does this make me manipulative and cunning?

Godd bye, Grace.

Have a safe journey home, Grace.
We will miss you in Melbourne.

Annie's visit to melbourne.

Annie visited me last month and we had a ball...
it was fun bringing her around Melbourne.
Showing her around the place that i have been living for nearly 2 years now.

She arrive early on a sunday morning.
Her first experience of Melbourne city is the tram....
haha...she got off the wrong stop.
we went around that afternoon.

Annie and the bronze man of Bourke Swanston intersection.

we had dinner at Ginza, a teppanyaki restaurant near my place.
plus my sis works there too....hehe


my cute little bro...lol

and of course we took a picture with the waitress too...

we went to the Melbourne aquarium the next day



there wasn't as much fish in Melbourne's aquarium but I think it's presentation on the whole is much better than Sydney's.

Wicked: The Musical
All year round Melbourne is host all kinds of event...
Last year Phantom of the opera was here,but I didn't get chance to see it.
So this time I make sure i didn't miss it.
and I pull Annie along too..hehe

Night view of Collin St.



After dinner, we head straight to the theater...

It was pack with people.
Unfortunately we are not allow to take any photos in the theatre.
But who say that will stop us?
hehe....here's a few unofficial photos





you must be wondering what is this musical about.
It tells the story of the stories of the witches of Oz before Dorothy arrive in the land of Oz.
And I would say after watching the whole musical I can't help but amazed by the effort put into the costume, the props, the music and most of all the story itself.
It was so touching in the end that I cried for the 'Wicked' Witch of the West.

all in all it was worth it.

after the musical I show Annie how Melbourne look like at night.

BBQ in mid july

ok I know it's nearly mid August right now.
but I have been planning to post up the pics for the BBQ for a long time.
just never really had the time to do it...hehe
It's been a crazy month so far.


So, what have i been up to?
BBQ at Vinci's place.
we started quite early that day, and mind you it was a chilly morning too...

it took us nearly an hour just to get the fire started cos no one in our group ever started a fire before.
I for one is lucky enough not to do all this when I go BBQ...hehe...

after an hour fumbling around with the charcoal and the starter
we finally get the BBQ started.



here the proof that I am actually part of the fire starting team... ^.^v

...another member of the team

let's just say 3 of us is really proud that we finally get the fire started.

and ever since then I never really left the BBQ pit cos it was the warmest place.
but it has it's price though, I smell like a BBQ chicken after the whole thing was over.



We were so hungry that before we finish cooking all of our food half of it is nearly gone.
haha....thanks to Kathy she was feeding each of us while we are BBQ-ing.
really test out her skill in feeding a patient.

lol...vinci must be really hungry...

...and she get her share.

Max and Grace really working hard....

meanwhile, Kathy is still busy feeding everyone.
It was a fun day out with my uni mates....
we actually had a crazy karaoke session after the BBQ....
it wasn't until 10 pm that I reach home on that day.
haha... even now I still have a smile on my face when i think back.
It will be awhile before we can have a gathering again.

Hence, the start of our sem 2 this year.