Monday, August 28, 2006
R...rraghbi

Welcome to telstra stadium!!! At the Olympic park!! We went there on sunday to watch an NRL match. That stands for national rugby league.. just rugby. Between clubs.. Ha we watched the last match of the season with the last team (south sydney rabbitohs) n the not so last team (old queensland cowboys). It was ok la.. got a bit boring towards the end coz maybe both teams were getting tired. Score? 34-12.. Cowboys won ha of course. They managed to get 6 tries with some moves like a fake n switches, etc. But the rabbitohs had no game plan in mind i think, mainly "Just take down that man!"
I thought the telstra stadium was the one with the track as well but nope.. then which one is it..
So it was an experience.. It was funny to see that even the rabbitohs had avid supports! All wearing jerseys n stuff and they made up most of the crowd. N i had my cup of tooheys.. yum!





Me, ruggers or cheerleaders? hahaha..




Outisde the stadium.. There are all these sticks things.. if u go closely,. there are all the names of people who participated or donors or volunteers like schs, etc on it, something like that.

N lastly.. some trees with lovely flowers.. Spring is coming.. not so cold anymore..

Saturday, August 26, 2006
The handsome birthday boy!!

Haha! Look at that handsome guy in the photo!! OoOhhh..
Yes, that's the t-shirt that i bought for Jeremy. Nice not? I think it's nice and yes, cute haha. The material of the t-shirt is damn soft!

Yup, Je took his friends out for dinner at Creation and Racheal who came after her company party bought a cake for him on my behalf! Yay.. Ha he was pleasantly surprised. Thanks Rach! I owe u.. and money too ha..

So Je got a presents, some male (haha) and a surpise birthday cake! Look likes a great 23th birthday.. Of course it would have been a whole lot greater with me around haha..

Friday, August 25, 2006

Sexyback

Check it out! Ooohhhh... Justin Timberlake's new MTV

Thursday, August 24, 2006
ANNOUNCEMENT!

Hello everybody!!!

Today's post is to announce to everybody that tom, 25th August is my boyfriend, Jeremy Kwok's birthday!!!!!!! He turns 23!!!

haha so remember to wish him a very happy birthday n of course, buy him presents!

Happy birthday babe! Hope u like my presents! heh.. :)

I HART U (hehe)

Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Some of my purchases haha..

Well ha.. had some suggestions to put up what I bought that day that made myself feel better and so here it is! haha.. enjoy.. I love shopping here..

So remember that time I went to DFO? look at my former post.. N here is the bag I bought for... $5!!!! haha I'm so proud of buying sth for so cheap!!!


N then next, I bought this dress on Saturday! Nice not? Ok la huh.. a summer kind of dress :)


N lastly, my new hairband!!! Nice? It look like a scarf but there's a band inside.. ha. $2.95.. Do I look ok? Haha..

Sunday, August 20, 2006
NO! Tom is monday!

Hey guys!!!

Hai tom is monday! Think I might get the monday blues coz it's back to school. Sigh.. weekends always seem to fly by so fast but if u think abt it, it's really only 2 days.

Well, somehow I was in an exceptionally good mood during and after church despite having a headache in the morning and staying in at home ha. Yar.. So the girls went out and bought groceries and guess what? They bought Bubble tea for me! Haha.. that is sure one thing that can perk me up among many other things of course.

They have bubble tea here too and usually the brand all around is called easy way. But it is expensive.. usually u see all the asians queuing up to buy it ha. They have 3 sizes. A medium cup (abt spore's size or a bit smaller) green tea or flavoured green tea cost $3.20 and u have to pay 50 cents extra for pearls (Haha this is like some advertisement or information guide). So yar.. but it's a sacrifice to make. Haha.. I like it! My current and usual is Passionfruit green tea with pearls! haha.. Enjoying it.

So everybody, have a great week ahead and hopefully no monday blues.. If not, find a bubble tea shop and slurp away!

Saturday, August 19, 2006
My cute photo!!

haha! This is my cute photo.. with my stuff toy horse. Its name is Charming haha. Jeremy gave it to me.. nice? :) Well, this photo is on my profile of skype and hannah said it was act cute. Well here it is, bigger and cuter! haha.. Just for u na.. N yes I took zi-lian photos sometimes only!

Wednesday, August 16, 2006
See food... Seafood!

Look at that lovely plate of sashimi!!! N guess what.. we only paid $5.90 for it! Cheap ah.. Can u imagine when u go to some japanese place for example sakae sushi how much it would have cost? Shiok! haha I bet many people are agreeing with me especially those who like to eat sashimi.. me, je, gloria, etc ha. Yup so me and ying ying were sharing that plate very happily.. it was good!

So this was at the fish market! It is literally a fish market.. they have a few shops that sell all the kinds of raw seafood u can think of.. fish, squid, prawns, scallop, lobster, crab, etc etc. So it definitely smells fishy ha. These shops are in little buildings by itself but then there is a bigger one where there are more shops selling cooked seafood!! Yum! We didn't eat there coz we were too hungry before walking there. But the food I saw people carrying was great! They have grilled fish, crab, calamari, etc. Ha deliciously.. there goes my chloesterol ha.

So all seafood lovers.. this is a must-go.. haha bet my family n jeremy will love it so I'll bring u guys there!

The food place..

Me n ying ying.. check out the bubble tea cup haha yum

Outside.. by the water

Saturday, August 12, 2006
DFO, Olympic Park

Hi there!

The weekend was quite fun and of course, it flew by so fast! Sigh before u know it, it's time for school again haha. Anyway since on weekends, the day leaves me rather tired so here I am backdating my entries.

Well on Saturday, we went to DFO. It's called direct factory outlet. They have it in sydney and some parts of australia too like brisbane I think. It's a building on it's own and it houses many stores with brands u see in shopping centers. Just that supposedly it's cheaper and kinda direct from the factory?? I dunno.. but anyway went there and lots of sales and clothes and stuff to buy. But in the end, I only bought a bag for..... $5!!!!!! haha.. i'll put up another entry with some of my purchases haha!

Anyway I read about how to get to DFO from the brochure and it said the best way to get there was to go to Strathfield station and take a bus there. Still knowing that it is somewhere near the Olympic Park and Olympic Park is quite near our house, we still took the train and bus haha. So when it was time to go home, we decided to walk, of course we took quite long. Running home is quite near but walking isn't. ha but it was a good chance to look at the place. U see the various stadiums and centers for different sports. There are different kinds of birds around which I dunno the names of. We took some pictures but decided next time we'll take more. Took a shorter route home instead of exploring the whole site. The sun was shining so it was a cool day where u can walk around in ur t-shirt.


Some bridge we came across ha..


look at this! It's at some obscure place but when u look down from the bridge (another bridge), they spray mist to give it the impression it's like a deep valley! Quite ingenious n scary.. haha. Look at that great shot haha!

On the new train..

My home again..

Wednesday, August 09, 2006
more.. More.. MORE

Haha everybody, here are more photos..

Finally got my lazy ass and loaded the photos into the com.. I took these photos in the first week in Sydney. We went to the train station, circular quay. That is in the city and also where the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge is ha. So this is me.. The weather was cloudy so the photos were a bit dark. Also, there was a ship docked so we went up to take a free look..








Ok so here are some photos that we took around the area, there are shops and on weekends the rocks market is opened here. The rocks market mainly sells handicraft stuff and some food like nuts and chocolate. The handicraft stuff sold by designers themselves like jewellery and photoalbums, etc. But they are not cheap, expensive in fact..




At some monument..

Lastly, some arty farty photos i took haha!!! nice ah..

Tuesday, August 08, 2006
My home in Oz

haha!!!

For those who want to see how my house in australia looks like.. this is ur chance! But if u read my blog.. ha so this is it.
Just want to say hi to my family and Jeremy!!! And all my frens who read this :)


This is me at my desk!!!


This is one part of the hall where our tables are.. the far left one is mine, in front of the window.


The hall again...


The kitchen next to the hall..


The corridor leading to our rooms and toilets.. first door is my room!


My bedroom! Ok it's a bit small and messy but it's nice and cozy and it gets warm easily with the heater. So sleeping at night is shiok!

Now how it looks on the outside. No front view or side view yet.. i'll take it tom ha.
K the view from my window in front of my desk!


Ok guys! so this is it.. add comment if u like and yes nana i still havent changed my template.%2

Thursday, August 03, 2006
Never hungry..

HI everybody!!

Just had dinner not long ago.. and we were talking about how we are going to put on weight if we are not going to do anything about. You see.. i'm never hungry.

I was never a breakfast person.. dunno y but maybe coz i'm always rushing out in the mornings for school so i dun take breakfast. I'm used to it and fine with it. So by the time it's lunch time, i'm hungry. BUT here in sydney, I'm never hungry! The rest (Ying ying, Kay, Geraldine) like to have a rather heavy breakfast so I eat a smaller portion then when lunch comes, i'm not hungry but i eat, then it gets dark early so we tend to cook and eat dinner early so i'm always full. haha!!! guess u get the idea.. but it sure is good for the digestive system ha.

So tom we are going running!!!! Or shall I put it for myself, jogging. I haven't exercised in a while ok so jogging is a good start. We will be jogging to the Sydney Olympic site! This will be our second time. Actually if u were to run there from our house, it is quite near, 20 mins? or less? Yup so there.. u can't really see or visit the facilities but u get to see the surroundings. To get into the facilities, it is expensive. For example, the indoor pool, it cost $6.40 to get in and the stadium about $27. Oh well.. but i told the rest that I might consider using the pool coz it's the Olympic site leh! The pool which we watched athletes on tv compete.. and do my somewhat Olympic swim there haha. Many people use that pool..

School was only an hour today at 9am and it was qualitative research so u can imagine it was rather dry but one thing I notice abt the lessons is that the content is rather little for that lesson but somehow the lecturer can drag it to an hour or 2 just talking or elaborating a LOT about it, like making some jokes here and there, saying their views, add salt, add pepper, ask students what they think, ask students for examples they've come across. But really, the content they want to teach is quite little. Maybe coz it's just the first lesson. And lecturers talking more and involving the class may be a good thing ha. So there.. I didn't say I don't participate or pay attention in class ok. I do and I'm going to be a good student.. normal one who does her homework and studies relatively hard. Ha.. good ah. On my way to enjoying school life and life in Oz..

K bye for now.. i'm going to watch my pir**** alias dvd now. I tell u, u must watch alias!!!!! It's like an action movie every episode and it's very exciting!

Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Cow!! Moo!

Hello!

Today, we cooked our first beef dish!!! Yum yum, it was good! We diced the beef, stir-fried it with onions, some pepper and seasoning. Steady ah.. Yup surprisingly it was tender! (Of course with the splendid cooking skills and timing ha) But the beef we bought was the cheaper range, $6.99 per kg, it's called gravy beef. haha like what is gravy beef rite.. I told ying ying maybe it's called that coz u used that part of the cow to make gravy. Ha.. but I went to search online out of curiousity and din get anything much except how to make gravy for beef. Oh well.. It was good n that's it. Ha..

Today, we were suppose to have one one hour lesson at one in school but it was cancelled. Ha so great! Not only did I sleep in till 1130am (dad, dun worry no school..), we went to paramatta shopping center again! We went there on monday, it's actually the group of shopping centers called Westfield. Yup, walked around, lots of sales. Bought a skirt for $5!! So cheap! Then went to woolworths and bought lots of food, snacks and food and snacks and food... Got the idea? Ha..

Have I told you guys the chocolate chip cookies that I absolutely love here???

It is the brand PARADISE! Really.. it's nice and crunchy, the right kind of crispyness and the right amount of real chocolate chunks. Haha.. for not really a chocolate or cookie lover, this is good! And it's cheap too. for a packet, it's about $2 only. Ha so next time when I come back to Singapore, I'm gonna buy back for everybody! Do make orders if you particulary want some ha..

K then tom I have another one hour lesson but it's at 9am so must wake up early! (Yes dad.. i'm waking up.. haha kidding k) Maybe we'll go out again ha.. hmm..

Ok nearest birthday coming up is Jeremy's!!!! Woohoo.. he is going to be 23 on the 25th of August!! Still looking handsome :)

Ok signing off..

Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Wonders of Internet

Hello Folkies!!!

Hahaha.. Finally I have my internet at home!!!! The freaking internet company took a week to activate it. Oh well but since we have it now everybody's on the com ha. No more early nights! We have been sleeping quite early coz nothing much to do. Haha.. but what we have been doing at home is watching tv and cooking!! haha we're gonna be cooking experts.

Today, me and ying ying (it's our turn to cook this week as part of the duty roster) made a special dish. What we made was vegetable dumpling! Ha i got the idea while walking home with geraldine after sch. It's mince pork mixed with carrot and mushroom wrapped with cabbage! N then u steam it.. sounds steady ah. It came out not too bad! ahh... Good ah.

Yup and then for television, the tv here is quite good at night. Sometimes, on fridays, they have all kinds of gameshows and I mean all kinds haha. They show quite good movies.. sometimes 2 a day. On sunday night, we watched lord of the rings: return of the king, which is the recent one! Then they showed other movies like uptown girls, just married, 28 days later, serendipity, etc. But of course didn't watch all..

Last week or so, Me, prof (who now wants to be known as Kay Sing haha.. how about Kay for short? Stylo la..), Ying Ying went to the train stop Rhodes and the Rhodes shopping center has shops, Ikea and a cinema! So we watched pirates of the carribean!!! Nice.. it was not bad, all the action. i like action movies.. The cinema was double-storeyed kind of. We sat on the first floor and the screen was super big! Like super wide and tall if u put it.. after the movie, I was feeling a bit "hin" after the show ha. But overall, the movie experience was good. A normal ticket can cost up to $14 bucks i think but on tuesdays, it's only $8.50.

Yup so anyway now that we have internet and wireless in our homes, it has created a world of opportunity.. ahahaha. Here's to more blog entries (I hope), emails and online conversations. Guys, u all can download skype so i can chit-chat with u! (Or Gloria, Sky-pi, k just joking) Haha.. N also the wonders of internet u make friends and be happening, like my mum. She just got friendster haha! My mum's so cool ah. Ok then guys.. was up chatting with family now i'm tired!!! Another entry another day.. Cya later mates!