C'est LA viE

It was a random surprise celebration thrown on a Friday while our main actress was not really aware of...

She thought she was only having dinner with yimei, but not aware that the rest of us will come join the dinner.

I guess that's chyi, she always the coolest one. Even though she was surprised, we did not get scream or shout. LOL

Dinner was at Sherpherdoo, Centro. Too bad I had dinner before knewing that we were supposed to have dinner together there.

I ordered a cocktail and buffalo wings....well, I must try the dinner next time =)

I felt hillarious that she was not well aware of the "under-table action" we did, which was super-obvious...

for example: when we wrote her birthday card, not when we were whispering when was the right time to bring out the cakes...

Anyway, glad that she was happy and getting older =)

Once again, wish you all the best while getting older =P

Happy Chinese New Year everyone, Gong xi fatt chai!!

Here are some updates about my CNY activities during the past few days...

To me, CNY mean a lot to me, not because i am able to get a lot of red packet (ang pao), but because I love the celebration with meeting relatives, frens and also able to renew stuffs: ie clothes, shoes, some new items at home...haha, in summary: SHOPPING!

LOL.

Well of cz not because of just shopping, but i do enjoy the concept by renewing yr belongings as well as your mood for the new year.

I could miss out the 1st January New Year day celebration, but I definitely would not be happy if I was not able to share the joyful moment with my beloved family and fren during lunar new year.

So what happened during the past few days was mainly visiting relatives and catching up with frens which was not much different as compared with past few years.

To summarize, we had a good family reunion dinner on CNY eve. My family have this culture of having special add-ons for reunion dinner, I remembered we always ordered 'Ayamas' many years ago. Then, the roasted chicken was substituted with a local restaurant's roasted duck along with roasted pork during these few years.

This year, we had roasted duck and pork as well, but they were really tasteless and badly roasted. I guess the chef must be paying more attention to the quantity rather than quality because he actually took the wrong order for us. Apparently my brother ordered for 'char siu' (marinated BBQ pork) rather than roasted pork. The chef explained he was busy with the number of orders he took prior to CNY.

I suggested we should continue our old yearly routine, stick with Ayamas! =) (because i really like ayamas lol)

First day of CNY was very joyful with visiting relatives' house, and my aunt and cousins also paid us a visit all the way from PJ. We finally had ayamas with my aunt and cousins during dinner. Ayamas still very tasty hehe =)

We neither visited someone nor got visited on the following CNY holidays after the first day. However, I did have my high school reunion at a restaurant.

There were 31 of us, and we occupied 3 big tables in the restaurant. The meal was ordinary, nothing special, but indeed very expensive. I guess nothing is cheap during CNY....

I got to catch up with many frens who had long time no see, i even couldnt recognized some familiar faces who looked like strangers to me.

Basically I dint really have chance to talk to every single person in the reunion, we did continue our gathering at a fren's house but there were still like 15 of us. I felt sorry to the parents who is so generous to give eveyone of us a red packet. =P

Then, my brother brought a special person to us during CNY too! We had been waiting for long, alright perhaps just me. Well, I knew that he had a girl fren since last year because he wasnt hiding his lover anyways. However, this girl still stay as a mysterious women to us because none of us saw the girl (even photos) at all!

So, she came to have dinner with us and i must admit that she is quite pretty. Now I just found out, just like other males, my brother also love slimmy and fair girl with long silky hair....hmmm....

Should I be that way in order to get a boyfren, nah, I like the way I am, yes I am stubborn and I believe I will meet a guy who love the way i am! =)

By the way, it was a good dinner with her, and she seems polite and kind.

Oh she bought us souvenier too:

apparently this is a Johor famous branded chinese jerky (bakkwa) but this is a healthy one. Different from original bakkwa, it contained almond pieces and it was roasted by my bro's gf so it is less oily and not over-roasted. Mum kept on emphasized that she never eat bakkwa for long time but she ate this special version. Well, I still prefer the original crispy and meaty bakkwa <3

She also bought this Japanese mochi for us, lovely =) LOL just because I am so obsessed with Japanese stuffs.

I do like the soft and chewy texture of this mochi, but i dont like the filling because it was too sweet. One of the flavour even tasted like chemicals =S

But i appreciated her present after all. =)

I also met up with huey yee at One Utama. My family joined me for lunch then I met huey yee after lunch while my family continued their shopping at One U.

We picked Japanese cuisine - Dontaku for lunch, I could tell my dad really loving Japanese meals nw! Yeah!

I had this soba and tempura set which come with sushi and temaki. It was considered luxurious to me for the price which cost RM22.

Dad had salmon teppanyaki again, because he usually ordered this dish everytime we had japanese meal. He actually very against salmon initially because he always complained salmon is tasteless unless u cooked it very well. That's why he dont appreciate sashimi at all. Well, but he was impressed after I recommended him to try out salmon teppanyaki. Since then, he just sticked with salmon teppanyaki all time =)

Bro had ramen and a tiny don set while mum had teriyaki chicken set.

In general, the price is quite reasonable with the generous portion sizes of the meal. Though the taste not considered very great but it still have the standard and I did enjoy their pleasant dining environment and friendly services.

However, I do think having japanese set lunch/dinner is an expensive dining option to people in Malaysia because u had to spend at least RM20 including the 16% taxes. I dont see how the implementation of GST next year could lower our burden on spending for a simple japanese meal.=S

I met up with huey yee at Delicious cafe for afternoon tea. I was stuffed with filling japanese lunch otherwise I will go for the high tea!

We shared a strawberry cheese cake, and both of us had the ice blened. Mine was frosty lemon grass and longan. =)

The cheese cake was not bad, quite rich and not too sweet. Huey yee was saying the cafe served nice spaghetti as well. I guess i will visit next time for brunch after I got paid because generally the cost of the meal/dessert was pricy though I accidentally heard ppl at next table saying the price was reasonable. =S Now I knew how bankruptcy rate of teenagers bloated nowadays.

Then today, I just come back from my second high school reunion. Well, it was organized for some people who couldnt present at the first reunion few days ago and most of them are close frens to me.

We had our lunch at a japanese restaurant at Bkt Tinggi, and there were 12 of us.

Food was quite good, and again, with generous portion size! =) No needs to mention how pricy is Japanese cuisine in Malaysia but the joyful time I spent with them was worth while.

Initially some of us planned to go for a movie after lunch, guess what? The air conditioner system of the cinema was completely down! So we got our refund and ended up continued chit-chatting at Secret Recipe.

I really enjoyed meeting up with different people and exchanging our happy or sad stories together. Communication and people-interaction absolutely is an important element in life.

I am grateful I have such a good bunch of awesome frens around me, let's move forward in 2014 and enjoy the happiness and joyful moments in life!

After celebrating my big day in NZ for 5 years, finally in 2013, i was able to enjoy my big day back home.

Specially thanks to my greatest, dearest besties for organizing great activities to celebrate my big day =)

Yimei brought me to 'Dream bakery', a cozy cafe where i always wanted to visit for long.

I love the environment very much, tho the cafe is really small and cramped, but i love the idea how the interior is separated into different corner specially designed for the customers.

Too bad i didnt bring my camera along, or else i must had been transformed to a photographer taking photos everywhere.

However, i think the cakes and macarons at the dream bakery were just alright.

I guess i really couldnt compare the dessert over here with those well-baked desserts in NZ.

But overall, their cakes still quite nice, i specially like the taro (yam) cake.

The mille crepe slices were incomparable with the Nadeje.

The Mable cheese was not nice as well...

When comes to Macarons, i can be a bitch who love to carp every little details. =P, well the macaron at dream bakery was just ok (u got what i mean...)

I really missed the great macarons i had eaten in NZ. =S

However, i still enjoyed the time i had with my besties at Dream bakery, it is a good place to hang out.

Following the light lunch, we gone to the loud speaker KTV (i even joined the membership =.=)

I was chosing the song list on the touch screen menu, actually it was quite advanced for Loud Speaker KTV lounge to use touch pad that time, but i realized Green Box KTV also installing touch pad screen for menu too. The 'Smart' terms really well applied in everywhere....

We had a good time at the KTV room, and we laughed so much bcz bean brought her labtop for photos transferation (Malacca trip photos), but we also browsing the previous high school photo albums....The memorable moments just kept on popped up in our mind, and we talked so much about the past.

=)

Dinner was totally luxirious! We went to Tao Japanese buffet restaurant at Sunway GIZA.

I was very excited because it was the first time for me to eat japanese buffet, as a huge Japan fans, this is a must-do thing!

We were allowed to order the A-La Carte menu, as well as go to the catering area to grab the food. See how much we had ordered, these food was the only part of it.

I was so happy (everyone could tell), felt so grateful and blissful, to me, food is everything! It is the best solution to cure me if I am sad, it can lighten up my mood if i am not happy enough, it also can tickle my crazy nerves and made me super-excited. Lol

In general, TAO did a good job on the A-La Carte dishes, i also love their teppanyaki. You can just chose the raw food u want to grill, and they really did a good job on grilling the food.

Sashimi is my favourite all time, I forgot how much i had eaten that night, but it was definitely the greatest satisfaction!

I was worried initially as i had come across a bad experience on having raw salmon at a worst Japanese restaurant near my hse, it was sting and totally unbearable.

But Tao prepared fresh and good quality salmon and tuna, i also learnt that dont grab sashimi at the first place when u starting a buffet

always wait and obeserve for the right time - when the chef took cutting a new fillet...the taste and texture were so much different!

I also got thrown with a surprise little fruit tart (cake) and birthday song...=O

Thank you Yimei, Ing Bean and Kok chin, u guys were so sweet =)

I also received this card which i loved so much, actually it was picked at Malacca while i was asked to choose the one i loved. ==

But i am still feeling grateful about the gift, and of cause the surprise little fruit tart too which they bought at Komugi bakery when I was there as well!

I should go back to buy more bakeries next time, especially for the signature Hanjuku cheese cake, so tempted! <3

I was feeling great on my big day, thanks again so much for orgazing the activities and good food for me =)

p/s: my big day was actually celebrated for 2 days continuously (how lucky i was!), Bean, kokchin and I went to One U for Mayday concert movie which only showed at IMAX cinema. So i was brought to One U shopping mall. And I had a simple dinner along with my dearest family, i was really happy how my birthday can be celebrated so simple with my family, it meant so much to me after spending birthdays overseas for the past 5 yrs without my precious parents who brought me to the world. Of cz, i was happy that my brother was here with me on my big day too =)

Once again, thank you, and happy birthday Vivian =) Congratz on passing the 25 years old stage, u are one year closer to 30 now...OH NO!! =S

Lol, think of the positive way, i am turning to a shine and mature lady =P

Happy birthday to my special fren - kok chin!

Haha, his birthday was actually fall on 1st September, and we got to celebrate for him after so many years..especially among 5 of us, 3 of us including kok chin and myself had been spending life overseas for almost 6 yrs.

Therefore, this year birthday celebrate marked a big event to him!

We went to Brew n Bread at Kota Kemuning, apparently this Western style cafe was owned by our classmate's brother.

The cafe's interior is very relaxing and comfortable to chill out for the whole afternoon, I think we spent the longest time over there as compared with other customers.

In my opinion, their food considered quite cheap in terms of western meal, and they do a great deal for their cakes.

We bought these 3 slices of cakes - yogurt cheese cake, tiramisu and lemon chocolate mousse for RM16, and the staffs were very understanding. They found out we were celebrating our best mate's big day, they decorated the plate and also sang birthday song for the lucky guy.

Ing bean was also very happy with her coffee =)

Yimei brought her polaroid camera over and used the taken photos for his gift. Such a lovely gift, he is indeed a lucky guy!

When come to the food quality, i think they were quite normal but at least not bad. However, my frens did love the food very much, i guess I have a picky taste bud and I had eaten the 'real' western food for nearly 6 yrs so I did have higher expectation.

If based on Malaysia standard, I guess the food are not bad, but i think there are better western cuisine somewhere for sure. I do recommend this place for young generations as the environment and cost are good for visit.

We back to Klang at night for the famous "fried porridge", or "fried congee".

Yes, I mean fried porridge...not fried rice..I guess the chef cook the porridge with a 'chinese wok' (frying pan) instead of cooking pot.

The taste is good, and the restaurant is packed!

We also ordered my favourite crab!! OMG, I always love crab and it is super hard to have chance for eating crab in NZ, the last time i had grab perhaps was at Perth last year when I visited Nicky.

Thanks to kok chin, I was so pamperred with good food on his big day, and once again, happy (belated) birthday XD

Just gone back from my first Quiz night! I never thought quiz night could be fun!

Ok let me explain if u wonder what's quiz night.

Actually quiz nights is pub-quiz held by the pubs, these events are very common in NZ pubs and attract certain group of people.

Basically they are organized by the pub staffs, and they prepared all questions according to different categories and also arranged prizes etc

well, of cz they boosted up their sale for beer or food if the event had a success!

I knew quiz nights not long ago, perhaps 2 yrs ago when i was hanging out with some French interns at certain Irish pup, but that was a real boring night...

I guess I wasnt enjoying that much especially I felt awkward with ppl around me.

However, tonight was different. I think my prior leaving mood did motivate me to take part in every available activities.

Quiz night for tonight was hold by my company's social club committee, at Rosie O'Grady's Irish Pub which located just opposite my hse.

So it was convenient for me, and we actually just formed our team 2 wks ago!

We (Ping, Me, Mary, Uma and Antony) are the 'Big Head' team! Hmmm, that's why we were wearing all sorts of big fancy hat~

and Mary actually won one of the prize because of her outstanding Speight Brewery Big Hat! Bravo!

Mine was quite simple, and not even considered big, because Ping actually forgot to bring hers (which including one for me), so she actually bought some from the 2 dollars shop.

There were 8 categories, and 10 questions in every categories. From reality shows, crime and punishment, to sport, geography etc

And i guess we were just confused, we picked crime and punishment for our team 'bonus double scores', which mean for every correct answer we scored from that particular category, we got double the score...Dumb us, ended up we even not understood the questions given

Guess what, (i even guilty to say this), we cheated!

Yea, we were browsing google with our phone for anwser, and I actually cheated on around 5 questions! Oh my

Luckily, we dint win, and actually we got the last place, along with other team. Haha, which means in fact we were the loser~

Wow, there are so many smart ppl in my company!

well, never mind, i admitted I SUCKS in quiz, because I never read newspaper, not paying attention to sport, crime news etc.

But, i did play good in reality show categories (just like the others =P), and also geography~

I guess because most question were based on a Western society, as in no any Asian common sense (they are different!), i can excuse myself? lol nah...it was just a fun social event! Why so serious?

But good job for social committee, they organized the event perfectly with getting like 9 teams of ppl

and the food fingers platter provided for free were YUM!

Well, i guess paying NZD10 each month for joining social club indeed is worthy! And we actually got 2 free drinks (including alcoholic or non-alcoholic) for each person!

Ping also 'gifted' me a 'ring' tonight:

This will be the friendship ring my dear~ oh another event which i will miss for~

woohoo, i achieved another 'first-time-task' again! - ten pins bowling...

haha, perhaps u will think i was so late to explore it...well i admitted i was pretty laid back

i never have chance to play bowling, well, i kinda 'gave-up' the chances i must confess

i nearly have the chance during pre-high school period, but i viewed bowling as those games for ppl who dont study...

well the concept was built as most teenagers who jobless or dont care about study do hang out a lot at those bowling places

yup, i was a 'nerdy-mummy-girl', of cz i never let myself involved in any 'bad kid' activity =S

alright, that was before, now i have totally a different view!

tho i knew the quote: never judge a book by its cover, i did judge many things in life which i never willing or afraid to try

today was a good try-out and i did have a lots of fun...and if i dint try it, i would never knew i like it

even tho i might end up dont like it, but at least i tried, and there is no-harm (at least for bowling)

never knew we required to change those shoes specially designed for bowling...

according to wikipedia, the bowling shoes are designed for players to 'slide' while bowling and also allow them to 'brake' as well

i changed the shoes twice because even the normal size 6 i used to wear was too big for me!

eventually i gt downgraded to kids size! - SIZE 4!!

the ball is heavy, even the lightest one!

Well, i guess i have no choice, but i was still capable to hold it =P

i was sucks at the first game, my scores was just inconsistent...and i even made a very shameful mistake!

lol, even now i still think it was super funny - i was trying to roll the ball down along the lane, ended up my hand was driven by the gravity of the ball, and i delivered the ball backwards....lol XD

everyone was laughing out loud, and just speechless too...lol

anyways, but i did a 'spare' after the awful delivery!! woohoo~

I think i found the 'feeling' eventually, and attained a little skill, lol

and i was praised with my 'unique and mysterious' delivery skill, my colleague, ping said the ball i delivered actually 'spinned'

the reason they thought it was mysterious because i actually got a 'STRIKE" in the second game!

It was unbelievable to me too!! Most ppl were not able to believe it too, haha...

I think i had done a good job as a first-time player, i improved from 38 in the 1st game to 53 score in the second game!

Ok, it's not high score, but i am impressed and confident now! I think i could do better job for coming games~

Not sure when will be the time, but at least i am not going to reject bowling now =D

It is healthy and wellness day today at my company, actually I felt grateful that my company always helding many 'creative' events for workers like us, who enjoyed these events as an excuse to be 'lazy' at work =P

Well, we still working today, it just due to wellness day, the company actually transformed the cafeteria (where we have our lunch) into an exhibition hall

many stalls from outside the company, such as spec save, palmy i-site etc was placed to promote coming events and function, or selling their 'healthy' products or membership...

I dint enjoy the exhibition that much, but did find the re-orienteering challenge very fun.

This is a suppose 1-hr day activity hold by the company social comitee in order to cheer up employees on a struggling Wednesday and also experience the simple tracking route around Massey University

(FYI, Massey Uni is located just right opposite my company, and it was quite outskirts and good to be explored)

I joined the challenge together with Halie and Ping, my closest colleagues at work. We started the challenge around half pass ten in the morning which was actually an hour earlier than others

So the reorienteering challenge is about an hr orientation (to be simple, tracking) at part of the Turitea track, where we need to answer the question sheet which those answer were hanging around trees along the track.

here, we found the answer sheet for one of the question, hanging on the tree.

It was supposed to be a simple and easy challenge....

However, we had an over-imagination that the highlighted map given was a route, but the highlighted part was just stating the area where the hints would be located...

we were smart enough to think that the red color route was the challenge, but the challenge actually ended at half way of the track...

the reason we ego to continue walking was because we struggled to find the answer sheet along the way, the truth was they were hanging at somewhere outside the route...it was because the map stated the anwser will covered in the highlighted area but not only on the track.

Well, sorry if i got u confused.

So we end-up 'lost' at the nearly end track, and realized we had to return our original way back to work desk

Then we met other ppl on our way back and finally understand the entire challenge....and how stupid we were, lol

anyways, i had good time today....see what we experienced:

Halie and I jumping on the top!

me just admiring Halie, that's look fun! haha

never knew there is a small falls behind Massey Uni.....this really explained how stupid is humanity, we always missed the most beautiful things around us.

a good lesson to learn.....open yr eyes!

we found a playground during our challenge, of cz at somewhere nt covered under the map, we dint even realize we were lost when we having fun at this no-one playground...

I must said NZ kids are real lucky, as they always have amazing playground with those facilities which i firstly ever seen in my life.

Playground back in my home country were always wrecked by despicable ppl and with boring facilities

Thus, NZ is safe and beautiful, children here can happily spend their time at these well-maintained playground

i was having great fun with the flying fox, for the first time, i think i did change a lot

i dont use to do this, as i always scared of doing something that i never have done, or just inconfident to do something that i never tried at all

i actually done very well today, i tried the flying fox, successfully for a few times (the photo dint show the outcome as ping missed my shot!)...well it was not a big thing to show off, but sincerely, i am very happy with my unleash mind today...

cant believe i was doing this while there were ppl working very hard at my company, lol....what to complain about life?

(FYI, i am legal to go for the reorienteering challenge during worktime, as it is part of the working event today, in case u thought i was being lazy)

I am YOUNG!! haha

also spotted a huge poisonous mushroom, just like one of those from super-mario game.

thought this photo would win the best photo prize for the challenge, but life is not always what we expected. Hmmm....what a challenge I learnt today.

Today was a busy and productive day for me as I have done quite much of thing.

First I gone to the vege market at 7.45am! It was so hard to wake up early on Saturday, but I still thankful that Yen gave me a ride and save my walking effort, hence getting more vege =D

I bought tons of vege but just paid less than NZD20 =D

Really like vege market as fresh and cheap vegetable and fruits were sold there, the only thing i hate was it is so far!!

But today, no complaint from me =P

For lunch I made myself steamed Salmon fillet!! It was first time I steamed a Salmon, i steamed different fish fillets before, but never tried on Salmon as I though salmon only turned great with oven-baking or in the raw Japanese way. 

While I was wrong, it was lovely with the teriyaki sauce and steam~ 

Then I met Paya and had a good tea time with her at Cuba cafe.

She had not visited Palmy for such a long time, and we missed each other for nearly 3 months. She was so out of the blue when she figured out I made my decision to go home as well as ald moved out from my old flat.

So I was detailing what happened to me most of the time, the time we had was too short.

I wished to have more time to chat with her, I am sure i will miss her a lot after I left NZ.

Glad to know she is still 'surviving' with her thesis, and hopefully she is able to summit her thesis on time this August tho i wont be here to cheer for her success.

How sad? But u got my support and bless all time, my dear.

WHile the weekend did not end with just the fulfilling berry cheese cake, I went to Halie's house warming!

Received this invitation like a month ago, very soliticious =)

She bought a new house in the begining of the year, having a house at the age of 23 really impressive!

Though she still need to pay off the mortgage for around the coming 30 years, but i kinda admire her thought about her housing plan

she is real smart, while i just never thought about getting house or any other investments..I think probably is hard for me to become a millionaire?? =S

Back to the party....

 Halie is the one in the black dress. =D She was giving a short speech about getting the house and also thanks for our attendance.

While i was waiting for the dinner to start =P

Halie was such a good host, she decorated her house very well in terms of her effort on purposely setting up a bar for cocktails, and also providing meals and dessert.

Is so lovely that she made me a pina colada cocktail, shame on me took this bad quality photo =(

Her house is just beautiful as this lovely cake made from her friend.

The night dint end very wild, with only a few friends of Halie were dancing at a tiny area

While surprisingly beside Ping, none of us from the company was taking part in the 'dance pool', hmmm, very unusual....

Anyways, most of us left around 11pm before it get too late.

See what I got from going a house warming party!

The mini house candle just cute and lovely =) There is also a 3-pack Ferrero Rocher in the bag <3

Halie did a great effort, i am very sure she made out of her best on tonight. Bless her for a warm and joyful life in her house in coming life =)

Well, i was clueless when Ping, my colleague asked me if i would like to join her for the show at Feilding.

Then after discovered it was actually a male strippers show, i was a bit hesistate about that...but after all, decided to go anyways since I am leaving NZ soon, probably chances are rare in Malaysia?

However, dont get me wrong, i am not interested and actually did feel it really disgusting.

After-all, i am not into muscular guys....well, my Mr.Right has to be fit and a man-shaped body, but he dont have to be muscular...

But for those lonely aged ladies, it must be a fun night for them.

There were actually a total of 4 stripper guys, with perhaps only one of them considered 'HOT'....

They did real stripping, not just at the front stage, they came approaching everyone!!

There were like around 9 of us from the company came out with this crazy group outing, and not everyone was enjoying it.

One of my colleague was really uncomfy, she just kept on buying drinks after drinks and tried to pull the table closer to her.

At the end, she was like 'trapped' on her seat, that's the way she wants to avoid to be approached or 'invited' by those strippers.

Haha, actually it was very fun to see her reaction that night, i did not feel easy either, but i dint do what she did.

I just tried to avoid eye-contact with them, and praying in my deep heart that they will not pick me!

Eventually i safe, but Ping did get pick-on, well she enjoyed though~

Yea, i think this is the only and last time i will go to this kind of show. I dint find it interesting after all, it's just i dont mind have an experience.

Did think they have done a good job as they really professional, if there are so many guys excited about strippers club, what's wrong with girl nite out for male stripper then?

其实并非完全符合‘团聚’这个词，因为这次只有20人到齐，不过也算是自毕业后几年来一次像样的班会了~

这次我们的副班长，叶国振同学功不可没！

而且真的让我不好意思的是，因为我稍微发发牢骚，他竟然用我的名义促起了这次的新年团聚

真的是万分感谢！！这次班聚非常成功，缺席的另外26人，包括国振都是人在海外身不由己。。。

否则就是病的病，忙的忙。。。果然踏入社会后真的都更难聚了。。。

不过看得出来大家诚意十足！而且都真心的出席聚会

这次选择在吧生的韩国烧烤馆团聚，基本上我们还是马来西亚人，就是迟到拉！

差不多8点左右总算到齐（其实还有人迟到！），开餐了喂~

    恩，我们还是小学生，还是男女分开坐。。哈哈哈

恩，真的叫了好多佳肴！！几百多块的套餐，每个人平均马币30多块，真的超值得！

食物都很好吃，哈哈，马来西亚的韩国餐算是不错的拉，虽然我觉得在纽西兰吃的韩国人做的韩国菜更棒！呵呵

我们其实都吃不完。。。><

今晚的聚会真的很开心，我一路从吃饭笑到结束，还真的很依依不舍。。。

感觉像是回到了中学的时刻，大家随口说说都会令人捧腹大笑

大家的话匣子仿佛无尽般，没有停顿过！

从食物聊到方言，再聊到班上已经成为妈咪的话题，还有他的宝贝女儿。。。

毕业才8年的时间，大家却已经有着不同的身份

不管大家的成就多么不同，经历过的多么相似，今晚就属于我们理爱的一夜

我们还是那一年的同窗，那一年的嘻嘻哈哈，不管岁月分隔了我们多久，这一次重逢，我们依然熟悉，依然无恙，依然像故友一样互相打趣打闹

好怀念啊，原来我很喜欢这种感觉，很喜欢这种生活

这种熟悉的感觉虽然很短暂，但是我好享受这个时光，我觉得能够和你们相遇的我很幸福

能够在你们面前畅所欲言的我非常幸运。。。

谢谢你们，我亲爱的理爱同学，大家都要继续为生活奋斗加油，发挥我们理爱的精神！go go go！！

希望我们每一位同学能够幸福，快乐，期待我们下次的重逢！

再次郑重向叶同学致谢！！你果然够朋友！

p/s: 其实今天下午，我们这几个‘闲人’还去唱k了！哈哈，所以我也唱所欲言了！

哈哈，这个是今年astro蛇年的口号，为什么会叫woolala??

恩，就只是纯粹好奇哈哈。。。

今天是年初三了，这次的蛇年过的好快哦

其实回家后的第2天我就轻微‘食物中毒’ 了，哈哈，其实没那么严重拉，不过就是可能在纽西兰被锻炼出有太过干净的胃了

家人吃饭都没问题，结果我就下泄了接近2天。。。。

还好总算在除夕夜渐渐康复起来，就只是没法吃太油腻的食物罢了，这个也真的。。。==

这次没有拍到团年饭，但是妈妈的味道依旧深入铭心~

今年的蛇年依旧和往年一样，在家看电视倒数年初一，对面的邻居依旧热烈的庆祝，爆竹声在午夜12点响连天，仿佛时间停留在去年的龙年，重来没走过一样

我衷心感到感激，因为在这么特别的日子能和亲爱的家人共渡，新年回家真好！

年初一就和往年一样去了二姑家，再到大姑家，堂哥家拜年。幸运的是今年总算看见醒狮！哎呀，又没拍到照片~

就看到兴华的学弟，学妹，突然怀念起中学的生活哦，光阴果然一去不复返。。。。

过后，还去了去年没拜访到的婆婆的朋友‘老星’的家，就稍微说说提外话，因为其实‘老星’家属上流社会级，自己有点感慨我们和这种环境真的很格格不入的感觉

好像去人家家里讨吃讨喝的感觉，然后人家看我们的感觉也可能是自己心理作用，感觉他们好像看我们不顺眼的感觉

唉，其实就只是心里纯粹觉得不舒服，不是陪家人去，我压根儿都不想去。。。

所以我没兴趣钓金龟婿和嫁入豪门。。。哈哈

然后本来应该年初二回娘家，当然不是我的娘家！，我是说外婆家。。。

不过临时起变化，反而去了三姑家拜年。。。嘻嘻

今天年初三，总算回了外公家，恩，外婆在5年前离开了，看着视力和听力逐渐衰落的外公真的觉得好感慨

外公应该很想念外婆吧？这么大的屋子，却只有自己孤身一人，儿子（我舅舅）也只是回来煮饭然后有离开了

其他舅舅阿姨们也只有2周一次的时间回来看外公，顿时觉得外公好寂寞，平常他都在干什么？

以前记得外公有很壮的背影，总是骑着那怀旧的自行车在油棕圆穿梭，顶着那副黑框眼镜对我们这些小孩不苟言笑

外公一直都是这么威严，这么魁梧。。。从何时起，外公变的如此憔悴？变成了妈妈口中老爱碎碎念，怕自己的东西被人拿走的外公了？

真的好希望外公开心，健康，我用力大声的呼喊外公，你记得我是谁吗？遗憾的是离开太久的我，渐渐在外公的记忆里逐渐模糊

外公，要开心健康哦，我回来以后会常常去看你。。

今天我小弟还囊着要学骑自行车，哈哈，只是单纯的小弟以为自行车真的这么容易学

屡次试探后却被一场小雨打坏了兴致，hmmm,看来他应该先学习怎么持之以恒先了。。。

蛇年还没结束哦，所以红包还陆续而来是不是？哈哈

well the title just listed what i've been doing for today, such a productive weekend for me.

I spent today with ChyiMei and Ameline at Otaki and Wellington suburb without a plan..great day!

Was actually staying overnight with ChyiMei (finally) last night, and heard so many nice stories from her previous Japan trip (i am super jealous >m<)

she also kindly gifted me these:

A koinobori!! Now I could hang something relavant to Japan in my room (really random...lol), and also a japanese green tea kit-kat (of cz Japan), and a very yum half-mocha, half-azuki bean candy!

While today, we went to Penrays for strawberries picking!

Ameline and Chyi actually explored this special place last week, and they were so addicted with the strawberries~

well although eating were not allowed, some ppl still ignored the board and ate as much as they could, guess who are them? Asian (to be specific, Singaporean)...typically, but seriously shame of u!

there were not many strawberries plants, some of the rows were closed for next week picking, and many ppl actually come for strawberry picking~

I was happy to able to pick strawberries by myself for the first time too, but never expect the strawberries were so yummy!!
They are so juicy and soft, not all were sweet, some were actually sour or tasteless, but i am very happy with what i got!

I ended up bought 1.6kg of strawberries with only NZD6/kg price! Super cheap!! Strawberries used to be sold in 250g punnet in supermarket with the cheapest price was NZD1.79 (which I found out).

I also bought one local produced zucchini, it was so cool when i able to pluck the zucchini from the plant, a very real experience!haha XD

Then we gone to Stephan's, a swiss restaurant for lunch.

Love the environment and food, my fish of the day was really fresh and yummy.

We spent sometimes for an afternoon tea too, gosh the teapot was really elegant and fancy~

I was impressed with the selections of tea Stephan's provided, the menu was amazing, and the photo just showed a quarter of it, it was 2 pages long! (with heaps of words)

My cherry blossom tea was quite nice, with strong odour but nt really strong taste. Matched the slices we ordered very well.

We ordered a slice of cookies n creme cheese cake and a lemon tart...perhaps i had higher demand when come to dessert, they were just alright.

Anyways, the afternoon meal time at Stephan's was amazing and relaxing!

Well, i think we just eat and eat, berries, lunch, cakes, and then dinner!!

Gone to Pandan for the famous curry~

Tada~ curry was very yummy!!! And definitely Malaysian home-made curry, they even served the Klang famous curry...wow i never knew Klang for famous indian curry...><

And the sambal chyi ordered was so HOTTTT! Even me, who proud of my capability to take spicy food also given up!

LOL...

Anyways, good food with reasonable price, no complaint but a lot of thumbs!!!

P/S: I also bought another local designer's fancy dress, with a very fancy price (but it was actually on sale tho, nvm. hahaha)

i gone to fishing again! But this time is at the harbour instead of going to deep sea area

trip today also resulted better compared to the last one as none of us having seasick! Yeah!

Besides, we no longer need the annoying fishing gear this time as we were not after big sea fishes.

this is our boat, and u can spot me on the top deck, the one at the right~

haha, actually i did take 2 seasick pills before i went on the same fishing boat, but i guess the sea was real calm tonight...

yep, we gone for night fishing trip!! Sound fun and a bit...scary? haha

well summer in NZ did save us some light, the dark night didnt come until 9 ish pm, leave with us clear vision and brilliant sight for catching fishes~

Here our group...u may notice i was in a winter-like wear, well never predict the weather in the sea

this outfit save me from the coldness aproached us in sudden around 8pm..

I also spotted lots of jelly fishes this time!!

Got more fishing attempts for this trip, felt like i am capable to attain the fishing skill, lol

well, thought i caught fishes for many times, end up was so many tangles as we were really closely standing with each other...

around 20ppl in the boat, plus not a big one.

He was the winner of today, elder son of  my colleague, Karen. He caught a manificant elepant fish!

and his younger brother got the most luck for this trip, caught 6 fishes!!!

Well, thought luck was not with me this time, but patience paid off!!

Sergey and Pramond was telling me: 'Vivian, i think u caught a fish..', I was like reeling back the fishing rod and doubting as I had been through tangles after tangles

and then, out of my expectation...i caught a sea perch (or called scarpee)

although i just caught one for the whole trip but still happy that i caught the first fish in my life!!

Proud of myself hehe =P

note: we eventually caught like around 20 fishes, but everyone was just having perhaps 200-300g of fillet due to the tiny size of the fishes...and i dint get mine as i gave them specially for chyimei..=) hope them tasted good!!

I guess most people are having holiday mood now, so do I!

Xmas will be here in 11 days!! Today is a big day for all of us at FRDC, we had christmas performance at the foreyard in lunch time and xmas party for dinner!!

Plus today is Friday, everyone was so high up now.

This is the foreyard?? Hmmm, well, I guess is the best location, as it just right opposite the cafe!

Basically, just some talented staffs were presenting their artistic skills, some really have a good vocal, and know how to play good music!

Alright, here come the night function!! Christmas party!!

I think the social commitee really put on a big effort this yr since what they learned from last yr lesson (raining and ran out of food),

we were welcomed by home made cocktails! We didnt have these last yr.

The blue cocktails were called bikini martini, haha nice name, very matched with this year xmas party theme - in the beach!

The party venue same as last year  - Wharerata, but this year we got not bad weather, not sunny enough, but at least was not raining!

The location really well decorated!!

while waiting for our meal, a photographer aproached us and captured this awesome photo!

Food served this year was definitely more than enough, and we got plenty of left over, mainly was BBQ, with lamb, beef patties and pork.

Look at this huge pork!! OMG!! I really love this, always a fan of pork, especially love the crispy skin! Then these meat were accompanied by self-serving salads and cheese, and various sauces.

So I was sitting at where the arrow and circle pointed. We got quite many attendies this year~

Tali and I~

Here come desserts....

I must admitted last year desserts were better....

It was a good night, though some bad news happened. My close colleague, Ping's bag actually got stolen! I felt really sorry for her, well but luckily she was still enjoying the night, really like her optimistic mind.

I also had a good night, never thought that I would stay until that late, I got home around 10pm! (The party started around 6pm....)

So after the meals, I actually dint join the drinking game with Halie and Ping, ok, I admit I am chicken, cz I dont really wanna get myself drunk, thank you very much.

I just played the beach balls with some little kids (employee's kids) and some of my colleagues. Well, not lame, I did have a lot of fun tho!

So is the event going once a year again, here come our team’s Xmas function since Christmas will be in 2 wks time!!

This year, time really teleports! Yes I used the word ‘teleport’ instead of ‘flies’ cz I really think this year gone super fast! The image of I went back Malaysia during CNY in Feb, and I went to Aussie for Mayday concert was still very clear in my mind. The time past so fast which I thought many things happened on me was a last year event, but they were just happened in 2012!

Back to the event today, it was lot of differences this year, was a Category function rather than a team function. Well, things changed since my company had a big restructure, so my previous team – nutrition and bioactives had gone, and I’ve been transferred into a new team, along with my lovely supervisors of cause. As long as I am still working for the same 2 ‘insane’ supervisors, for me, things still remain the same. Perhaps just come a bit different with the big boss of my team, but who cares?

We don’t have event this time, thus the lunch was actually not budgeted by the company due to cost saving, which sounds real cruel for such big Christmas in a western country. I felt grateful at least I was here last year, and able to celebrate the ‘real’ team Xmas function, see here.

Anyways, today’s lunch was not too bad. Basically is a potluck dinner, at first I was told it was a BBQ, and most ppl said they will bring bread or salads, or desserts. Then I just thought I would just brought a layered jelly dessert (which my mum used to make) as I still have the jelly mix from Malaysia with me. However, my insane supervisor said jelly is boring…then they demanded for a traditional Malaysian food. So eventually, beside the jelly dessert, I cooked curry as well.

Luckily I did, because my chicken curry was soooooo popular, it gone in 15mins!!! I cooked a big pot of chicken curry with so many different ingredients, and I am really proud of myself, haha! Moreover, BBQ was not presented by the way, and reason was not given ==. We had a big chunk of Ham instead, but they wasn’t filling, so I think my curry chicken save the day! Hehe =P

Well I dint take photo today, as I thought it might not be a good idea as we were having this lunch function in my boss’s boss house. The house is very lovely, obviously owned by ppl from management level. Lol. But I still able to capture this

We had so many desserts today! The one at the bottom with the strawberries on top is my jelly dessert. The top layer was a coconut milk jelly, followed by milo jelly (second layer) and coffee jelly at the bottom. I should have captured my individual jelly ‘cake’ after I successfully made it. But I think my mum make better job than me, my jelly cake was not that great in term of taste. Sigh, need to make extra effort next time.

It was an awesome live, it was Coldplay Mylo Xyloto tour 2012 - live in Auckland!

Yes, I went to see Coldplay, and yes, it was my second concert after Mayday in Sydney!

Actually, I bought this ticket before the Mayday one, and was thinking that Coldplay will be my first concert

Eventually, Mayday did still my priority! haha

Anyways, the Mylo Xyloto concert had been planned, and it was on last Saturday night!

Sze Ying, come all the way from Dunedin, Chyi Mei, all the way from Wellington, and me, all the way from Palmy, meet at this paradise just for Coldplay.

Well, Coldplay not just melted our heart, they attracted over 40000 ppl at Mt Smart Stadium!!

U wont believe this, we arrived the stadium around 3pm, and the concert was actually only started at 9pm!!

And look at this!!

The first person waiting at the Stadium gate has been waiting since 9am in the morning!! So, there were insane fans in Western world too!

I mean, I definitely not surprise with this condition in Asia, and it would be worst, but definitely shocked when I seeing this super-long queue in front of the stadium.

We lined up like 300meters away from the front gate of the stadium and waiting under the massive sun, seriously!?

The gate was opened for entrance around 4.30pm, but only allowed a certain amount of ppl went in, I guess they just want to control the situation, but the overwhelming atmosphere did create a minor chaos.

Anyways, we finally got in the stadium, the concert ground like around 5.45pm, after the long queue upon entering the stadium and scanning our bags.

Oh well, it was not really like those airport scanning machine, it was manpower, thus my lid of the water bottle was asked to be threw away, i mean if they really afraid fans throwing the bottle lid to the singers, what about the remain water bottle??

It was super troublesome to carry the full water bottle without a lid around the concert, especially we were at general admission, not seats!!

Well, lucky for us to come that early, we reserved very great spot for the concert. While the drawback was, we had to control our water consumption, as those portable toilets were alocated very far away from where we were, and as soon as we reserved our great spot, huge amount of ppl had come after us. We were basically 'stucked'.

There were some crazy fans dressed up in elephants, just like the elephant appeared in COldplay's <paradise> mv.

U might wonder why the concert start that late, well I am not too sure if this is common, but basically based on what i've heard so far, seems like western concert (as in concert held at NZ) always started late, and special guest will be arranged before the main stars performed. So, the American sisters band performed at 6.30pm, and followed by another AUssie rock band - Temper Trap around 7.30pm.

 This was my first time knowing these 2 bands, well, I should be familiar with the Pierces, as most of their songs were in those American series I watched, like Charmed, The Ghost Whisperer etc.  Thus, I really think their songs were very nice, and they have good vocals!

For Temper trap, hmmm, I just felt like the vocal was really like Malay, and doubted why he was so popular.....hmmm, different ppl did have different taste aye.

Then, around 8.30pm, Temper Trap finished their songs, and the stage was remain emptied for a short while until some workers were climbing up to the lighting equipment hanging high up at the stage. We were very curious, and was thinking if they would jump later as for part of the show??

ok, i dint capture the 'spider man' but this was the lighting equipment hanged on the stage, and those workers were actually sitting on top (there were like 3 hanging chairs along witht the lighting equipments) all the way throughout the concert.

Luckily our scary imagination did not happen, Coldplay appeared around 9.10pm with beautiful fireworks at the background of the stage....<Hurts like heaven> litted up the show!!

Just like what Chyi Mei decribed in her blog, it was so hard to express the concert in words! Well, let the photos explained.

Surprisingly, the situation was quite under-controlled. I was prepared for the pushes and squeezes that would be happened soon after Coldplay come out. But, it was not that bad, most of the fans were very well displined, at least for those around me. Of cz, i could see that the girl who standing right beside Sze Ying before the concert started had soon stood in front of me while Coldplay come out, but apart from ppl around me was different every time, i was alright. Well, we couldnt avoid elbow or hand touching during the concert, so I was very pleased with this enjoyment!

We were actually very closed to the stage, I could see Chris Martin (the vocal) very closely, but I must confess that I am short, oh all 3 of us are very short.

We kinda like 'horbits' in the crowd, 60% of my sight was blocked by tall people or raising hands in the air...oh well, at least I really enjoyed. I think I was really in paradise...and good job for COldplay on designing the visual effect...

This was appear while the song - <paradise> was played, very creative design and message. A thought just came across my mind, Coldplay was really similar to my big idol - Mayday. Not because both of them are rock bands, Coldplay also bringing their important msg via their music....and from this concert, I could feel that Coldplay fans were very well behaved, and somehow I might be bias, but I did think that they were all good men. haha...it was really weird while seeing those kiwis singing along with Coldplay, they remembered all the lyrics, and u could feel their passion towards the songs!! I just couldnt believe this happened on those slacky kiwis who always dont care and just drink....hmmmm, interesting~

The concert ended about 10.45pm, yea, it was just a 1 hr plus show, well it was short, but actually they didnt talk....Basically, they were just yelling: let's rocks, let's have fun....when I thought about that, actually Mayday talked a lots during concert at Sydney. Well, I actually think there were no right or wrong, bcz both of these concerts were awesome!

note: I stood for around 6 hrs, and my neck actually sored while Coldplay performing their second song, I was totally wasted after the concert, omg, it was so tiring compared to the Mayday one as I was sitting that time. Truely think that I have to go concert while I am young. Anyways, just like what Halie said, concert is always a good activity!

恩，说的好像很隆重似的，但今天太特别了，因为是我的生日，也竟然是中秋节！！这个也太厉害了吧！

哈哈，单纯这样的巧合，就让我觉得上天很眷顾我，给了我一个那么特别的日子

言不由衷，在这么特别的日子里，我无法否认我今天也特别孤单，多么希望今天可以在家和家人团圆~

独在异乡为异客，每逢佳节倍思亲。。我其实也不止今天因为中秋的缘故想家，无时无刻都在想家的

所以我其实很害怕今天一个人在家孤单的度过，习惯一个人的我突然没办法忍受在今天寂寞的吞噬

还好nicole这个朋友愿意舍弃繁忙的日程，来陪我这个寿星婆！

今天主要就是想方设法度过今天，哈哈，所以差不多中午时就和nicole去饮茶，也就是吃点心啦

你绝对不会相信，我在纽西兰吃点心的频率比在大马还多！而且吃的种类也是到了纽西兰才升华。。。奇怪吧，明明是在西方国家，反而接触的东方美食更多了~

这里的点心其实算是比较大陆的，毕竟是大陆人在经营。。。至于好不好吃乃见仁见智，只能说在北帕的我是没什么美食可选而言了~

但是我很知足，因为相比其他更荒山野岭的地区，可能连亚洲餐厅都找不着呢！

我就没拍什么点心照了，毕竟也没什么展示可言，哈哈

午饭后，我们去了逛街购物，我还买了3件连身裙和一副太阳眼镜，真的是大丰收~

还没吃晚餐前，也接收了nicole送我的生日礼物

又是烘培用具的说~因为去年她也送了我一个baking ware

不过这个measuring spoon上都刻画着友情~不错不错~他也很用心，知道我缺这个，谢谢啦~

晚餐时间到！

今晚去了Aqaba，餐厅氛围还不赖。。。。

这个是我的主菜，lamb shank，味道还不错，但肉太少了吧？(我真是肉食动物）

然后其实主菜后很饱了，但nicole一直说那个creme brulee很好吃，所以既来之，则‘吃’之

我也点了一份。。。真的很大，而且设计的很漂亮~ 我可没法吃完，是和nicole共享的，但主要好像还是我在吃的说~

好了，也应该庆祝中秋节的说，今年吃月饼的次数比去年多了~

上方那个传统月饼是自己买的，下方那2个‘心型’月饼则是小燕给的。。。

那大家中秋节过的如何呢？在此祝大家中秋节快乐~也祝今天摆酒出嫁的高三理爱新娘，欣艺新婚快乐，幸福健康哦！

I wonder why? I always have pre-celebration for my birthday, not just last night with my colleague, I had a wonderful celebration with my precious frens in Palmy too tonight!

Well, it was not a surprise party, and I was actually the organizer by the way. The last time I got surprised would be 2009, which was a very tiny one...and that was not held on my birthday too.

So this was what I mean, I used to celebrate pre- or belated birthday many times, but not on that day with my frens.

Anyways, i am not complaining, cause I still felt treasured as I had such celebration.

Being an organizer is tough, is troublesome, especially comes to asking ppl to come. U have to fixed a suitable time that fit everyone, make sure everyone is pleased with the plan too. Well, I guess this is depends on who are organizing it. I was told that being too worried by my guest, hmmmm....

However, glad that u guys turned out for my pre-birthday celebration, especially after the long day at the IPC spring festival and you guys still prepared so many yummy meals for me!

yen and shirley were busy preparing all meals in the kitchen....

I received this special gift, hand-make almond cookies from Anges, u would never believe tonight was actually only the fourth time I met her. I am so grateful there are so many wonderful people around me!

I bought this special ice-cream cake from Wendy's, it was not cheap, but did really wanna try out. The last time I had ice-cream cake would be during primary school, and then...never! However, I still capable to remember the unique texture and taste of the awesome ice-cream cake I had.

Good thing means to be shared, and thanks for all of u who come to share with me.

slowly, patiently taking out the ribbon surrounding the ice-cream cake

and then cutting the cake was seriously very difficult, cz we just removed the cake from the freezer, and I was cutting it using a spreading knife....the cake was so hard, and too fancy for me to cut it. U can see that, there were like 6 scoops of ice-cream on the top, with berries around. FYI, the base is also ice-cream....==

finally success separating the cake!

The ice-cream cake, hmmm, or I should describe it as an big chunk of ice-cream decorated in cake form. Unfortunately, there is no any sponge cake inside, its just basically ice-cream....every bites is ice-cream. I guess I shouldnt expect much in NZ aye?

Awesome night tho!

  I guess my follower of this blog should have realized i am a huge fan of Japan, in terms of not just drama and music, but everything!!

SO how could I miss the IPC spring festival this year!! Actually i nearly missed it, because the weather was not very frenly and i couldnt find a company until last minute yesterday night, thanks again Shirley! U made my day!! haha

Okay, perhaps I explained this before, IPC stands for Internation Pacific College, is a local international college offering mainly english and other course for oversea student who not using english as their first language. So every year, the college will hold the Spring festival (used to known as Sakura festival) during Spring as most of their students are Japanese. As we know, Japan are famous with their sakura, cherry blossom, and also 'hanami', means flower viewing. So IPC is just having a public festival to welcome everyone celebrating the arrival of spring.

Thanks god, I made it earlier this year, and the sakura are very good to me this year. Why did i say that? Well, I arrived nearly 3pm last year, just as soon as before the closing ceremony. Thus, the sakura were not blooming last year, and i missed all the good food and fun events there.

Luckily, i got a ride today, thanks to Shirley. Her Malays fren come and give us a ride, but took us nearly half an hour to find a car park because Summer hill (where the festival held) was so crowded.

Anyways, got there around 12 smthing, just right for lunch time! =P

Before that, i ran to the sakura trees beside the river, and yes, they were blooming beautifully! I was afraid to miss the great chance for photos, so i just had photo shot despite of having food first.

The weather this year was not great, it was drizzling while we arrived, but this didnt ruin our mood to explore the festival.

There were so many fun setting like

japanese games room?

japanese ghost house,

culture sharing hall exhibiting traditional Japanese toy like daruma

this toy, saw how arashi played with them in the variety shows...it called kendama, actually quite fun to play with!

and origami...

and totoro toy was displayed too, oh my can i have it??

the japanese traditional dolls, ningyo

and also many promotions of japanese posters and Japanese calligraphy around.

Well, actually there were also other exhibition for Korean, Chinese, Thai, Vietnam etc....however hehe, u bet it, i only paid attention to Japanese exhibition.

but did capture this korean display~

Okay, now what? FOOD!!!

There were also plenty of food stalls around, and those Japanese stalls sellers were dressed up in their Japanese kimono.

I bought this!! The japanese crepe! Finally, saw this so many times online and even with my eyes in Pavillion (Malaysia), now finally having it!

it contains chocolate and cream mainly, i ordered mix banana and strawberry in it, omg, tastes so delicious!!!

Of cause, desserts wouldnt satisfy us, we went to the other stalls where most international stalls located.

Nevertheless, Japan still caught my heart, we actually had a long queue for our vegetarian tempura don.

I was hesistated about to buy takoyaki or tempura-don initially, then found out they were actually just using those pre-packed frozen takoyaki balls which i can get in some Asian grocerries. So I made up my decision for tempura-don.

Then, i was rang by yen to go to take photos with her and Anges near the sakura trees. COOL!

I was surprised to meet yen and Anges too at the festival, without knowing they were actually going too.

I was patiently waiting for our turns to take photos with the famous sakura tree (it was the isolated sakura tree and well-blooming), while enjoying my tempura don.

SOon, it was our turn!

Actually did a few jumping shots too, but failed.....due to my camera, it dislikes jumping shoot by the way.

Yen and Anges did a good job! Because they just kept on jumping, lol.

This time, I didnt really got to see those performances which were at a few different spot around as there were so much fun things around! There were also maid cafe where all waitress were dressed up like maid servants, Japanese flower arrangement (Ikebana), carp streamer (koinobori), japanese tea house etc...

However, we had lack of time, and there were too many things around...haha...I must come back next yr if I am still here of cz. haha

Thumbs up for IPC spring festival!

ANd lastly before we left, we also watched the famous taiko performance, for me...AGAIN...haha

What do u think about this email??

Yeah, 25 indeed is a mature age, well, in my opinion, is like a transform stage from being a teenager.

Yet, i am quite confused about turning 25, which means i am no longer being a teenager, means i am no longer being young?

well, what's make me think that?? I have no idea....but somehow i did refuse to turn into 25...

however, that's life...so move on, be mature, be 25....be more positive about life, and live a meaningful life~

Thanks for organizing my lovely birthday dinner, Ping...

so tonight is not my birthday obviously, but since i have all my weekend fully 'booked'...tonight is the night!!

I had a lovely meal at Bethany's, with my colleagues, Ping, Anthony, Halie, Natalie and Hank.

I was actually pleased that Hank mentioned about my birthday, and Ping raised the idea about celebrating it..

I actually refused to have a big celebration with my colleagues, because I dont want my birthday being an excuse for dinner gathering. For me, that isnt right...U may say i take it very harsh, but I just want to have a simple celebration with my frens who really wish to celebrate with me, but not just coming for a meal, thank you very much.

Happy that Ping respect my point of view, especially she was the one who always have dinner suggestion while others having birthday, and asking so many other irrelavant colleagues or frens to attend just for fun.

Somehow, in my opinion, this is rude...but yes, just me. Anyways, thanks ping.

back to the dinner, we shared a huge platter of entree, yum!

I could see that everyone was very hungry, the platter gone like less than 20mins.

And here comes my main! Pan seared ostrich fillet~

This was my first ostrich fillet outside Malaysia, and in fillet! I tried stir-fried ostrich meat (in pieces) in Malaysia before, now only realized it was so not right, because different from other red meat, ostrich actually has less fat and easily to be cooked, therefore most western fine dining used to serve ostrich fillet rare, or seal the fillet with high heat, this is because well done to overcooked ostrich fillet taste very coarse, texture just like eating a leather. This totally ruining this wonderful ostrich fillet...

I ordered my ostrich fillet between rare and medium....still abit hesistated to eat it rare regardless i had tons of sashimi before.

It tastes not bad, well, I actually didnt really understand why it served in a bowl of kumara soup with risotto?? I actually had to dig in my spoon to find the fillet..==

Overall, it still taste alright.

Then my dessert....vanilla bean panna cotta~ hmmm....actually i was dissapointed while i saw it.

Taste was just normal, dislike the texture tho...too hard. And the passion fruit jelly just not right...but others really like the mint and pineapple combination of the salad.

In general, tonight was a great night, and i am not complaining anything since i have my lovely colleagues to celebrate with me, and i got free meal! Thanks Halie!!

yet to mention, out of surprise, i received this beautiful clutch from Ping!! OMG, really happy, forever new~ I will stay forever young! Thanks ping!