Birthdays, birthdays, birthdays
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
It only seemed like yesterday when I said goodbye, parted ways with 2008 and welcomed 2009 with open arms. In two days, I will finally be able to give 2009 the finger and peer cautiously into what 2010 might have to offer.
That being said, December has truly been the month for birthdays and festivities--
Ramin (aka Triple R) turned the big three oh:
Triple R trying to pose with the cake. How cute is that! :D And this is him attempting to break the cake with a "pretend" battlefury. All you DotA nerds know what I'm talking about.
Yen, our group baby, turned 26:
And on the same day, Sun and Puan broke the engagement news to us:
Puan, Sun and the proposal; congratulations! :D
And Adam turns 23 sometime at the end of the month... but we couldn't wait and surprised him anyway:
Adam and his brrsss.
Oops, we nearly forgot Jibbs!
Adam and his brrsss, take two.
We even had people from the office! Adri, Adam, Bernard and Toby (who looks torn between confusion and constipation).
Hanim and Aizat. No, Aizat doesn't work with us.
I don't know how this pek yau look came about. Poor Nicole.
Big thanks and much love to everyone who turned up that day (especially Dian, whom we had to resort to begging, pleading and even dirty threats). Also, thank you to Nicole for some of the dinner pictures in this post! :D
KL Swing! had a pre-Christmas karaoke, packed with a Christmas edition of lollicakes:
Aren't they just the loveliest things in the world. Courtesy of Shirl!
Karaoke was just as much fun as it was a revelation: we discovered Chris' inner black man and Adam's inner Korean pop diva.
We had so much turkey on Christmas Eve at Daryl's we had to work off some of the food via Rock Band:
We soooo kicked ass.
And right after, Minn had her Hen's Night. Needless to say, all the pictures that were taken on that night are strictly barred from making an appearance on the interwebs. It's for the greater good.
And OMG. Vee is PREGNANT. So much for three years in the waiting, eh? ;)
Happy (early) New Years too all! :)
It only seemed like yesterday when I said goodbye, parted ways with 2008 and welcomed 2009 with open arms. In two days, I will finally be able to give 2009 the finger and peer cautiously into what 2010 might have to offer.
That being said, December has truly been the month for birthdays and festivities--
Ramin (aka Triple R) turned the big three oh:
Triple R trying to pose with the cake. How cute is that! :D And this is him attempting to break the cake with a "pretend" battlefury. All you DotA nerds know what I'm talking about.
Yen, our group baby, turned 26:
And on the same day, Sun and Puan broke the engagement news to us:
Puan, Sun and the proposal; congratulations! :D
And Adam turns 23 sometime at the end of the month... but we couldn't wait and surprised him anyway:
Adam and his brrsss.
Oops, we nearly forgot Jibbs!
Adam and his brrsss, take two.
We even had people from the office! Adri, Adam, Bernard and Toby (who looks torn between confusion and constipation).
Hanim and Aizat. No, Aizat doesn't work with us.
I don't know how this pek yau look came about. Poor Nicole.
Big thanks and much love to everyone who turned up that day (especially Dian, whom we had to resort to begging, pleading and even dirty threats). Also, thank you to Nicole for some of the dinner pictures in this post! :D
KL Swing! had a pre-Christmas karaoke, packed with a Christmas edition of lollicakes:
Aren't they just the loveliest things in the world. Courtesy of Shirl!
Karaoke was just as much fun as it was a revelation: we discovered Chris' inner black man and Adam's inner Korean pop diva.
We had so much turkey on Christmas Eve at Daryl's we had to work off some of the food via Rock Band:
We soooo kicked ass.
And right after, Minn had her Hen's Night. Needless to say, all the pictures that were taken on that night are strictly barred from making an appearance on the interwebs. It's for the greater good.
And OMG. Vee is PREGNANT. So much for three years in the waiting, eh? ;)
Happy (early) New Years too all! :)
2009
Friday, January 02, 2009
So much for finishing the second half of the other post on time! Before you talk to me about procrastination, I'll have you know it's one of those resolutions that I've made obscene amount of times over and over again and failed just as much to keep. Mind you, I've also been plagued with this ridiculous flu for the past week or so. Although, visiting the karaoke booth two days in a row with a sore throat wasn't the greatest idea ever. Hey, at least I got to be Barry White for a day after that, how cool was that?
Still, while 2008 wasn't the best, it certainly wasn't the worst either. I had good memorable moments with (in no particular order) Chicago, pole, Proximity, more pole, Korea, swing and last but not least Australia. 2008 was the year of dance! Hopefully it'll stay that way through 2009 :p
2009 kicked off with a blast--we had Leng drunk sky high into the land of scarred livers and embarrassing YouTube-able moments. We ab-salute you Leng! :) Also, bonus points to myself for not doing a merlion after a few shots of that smashing Ukrainian vodka Terry had brought. Nasty, nasty stuff. I can't imagine sitting in the distillery for it--I would've passed out from the fumes.
Here are the remaining pictures from 2008, namely shots from Hobart and the funky stuff up till New Year's Eve.
Happy 2009 everyone! :D
Graduation, Hobart
Given the weird circumstances I was in right before the trip to Australia, I thought living on-campus in Hobart with my sis in one of the residential apartments was quite the ironic trip back down university memory lane:
The day before sis' big day, we headed off to Fish 349 to grab dinner.
It was quite a wait for the food but no matter, sis and I scanned the room for possible means to entertain ourselves while the folks sat about patiently. Lo and behold... they had color pencils and blank sheets to well, color.
Our kiasu spirits kicked in, and this was our subject of the day:
The unsuspecting fish
Our objective? To join the ranks of artists, who were quite possibly in the age range of oh... 3 to 9, up onto Fish 349's coveted wall of fame:
After minutes of furious scribbling and minor trash talking (naturally, my fish is better) we have the sexy SEAN FISH...
and the IM FISH:
And the two fishies together, just so I don't seem bias and such for peddling my own (heh heh):
My fish is way hotter.
Sis was supposed to go back in a week to check if they posted any of our fishes and had gleefully proclaimed hers to be on top. That and she threatened to torch the place if none of the fishes (or just mine) had made it to the board.
The big day finally arrives! "Pre-event" shots with the sis before she dons her gown and cam whores the whole campus:
Someone is soooo working the camera.
What happens when we finally QC the pictures that we took.
And off to the campus we went! Here's a pic of sis with the folks in UTas' School of Pharmacy's tiny waiting hall:
Everyone looking as pleased as a punch!
Magic doors to the underground dungeon of a computer lab.
Sis with dad.
Sis with mom.
Sex0ring the Confucius statue by the courtyard, lol.
I don't remember taking that many pictures when I graduated, so I'll cut it short and show you my favorite pic of sis on campus--here she is literally going "Hyuk! Screw you dispensing lab!" in front of the lab :p
No graduation ceremony pictures... everyone was moving way too fast for my camera to catch :p On the plus side, we went and drowned ourselves in cherries the next day:
And the folks posing with the camera with the bounty of cherries that we nabbed off the trees:
The best cherries are in the trees with the most worms! We perfected the art of tilting those slightly-out-of-reach branches into grasp without disturbing any of the worms lest they start falling into my hair T_T
After that we headed drove around mindlessly sight-seeing (it's all mountains and the coast, I swear) and bumped into the Pancake Train:
Of course, it's not actually a train train!
Sis and I were piggies once again:
Sis with her scallop pancake dish. She ended up eating half of mine instead.
My super sexy combination of bacon, apple and a truckload of maple syrup. Needless to say, mine was much better, bwahaha.
The last day (for dad and I anyway) in Hobart: we drove over to Salamanca in the morning and meandered through the morning market. No pictures because I was too busy shopping, sorry! :p
Christmas cookies, swing
It's Christmas! We baked cookies at Aizat's till the wee morning (and yes, bad photography because all images were taken using his cellphone):
So it begins--the Christmas cookie saga!
We dressed up:
And danced the night away:
The Christmas swing--Aizat, Dania and Ummi
Post Christmas and we were still baking (only because we were trying to finish up leftover ingredients before Aizat took off for Chile!). We had a killer brownie (aptly tagged "Sin" in the Facebook albums) and a resurrected apple lemon crumble:
The two chefs; third "chef" playing photographer.
As for the NYE pictures... well, let's just say whatever happened in Darby Park, stays in Darby Park! <3 to the extended family :)
So much for finishing the second half of the other post on time! Before you talk to me about procrastination, I'll have you know it's one of those resolutions that I've made obscene amount of times over and over again and failed just as much to keep. Mind you, I've also been plagued with this ridiculous flu for the past week or so. Although, visiting the karaoke booth two days in a row with a sore throat wasn't the greatest idea ever. Hey, at least I got to be Barry White for a day after that, how cool was that?
Still, while 2008 wasn't the best, it certainly wasn't the worst either. I had good memorable moments with (in no particular order) Chicago, pole, Proximity, more pole, Korea, swing and last but not least Australia. 2008 was the year of dance! Hopefully it'll stay that way through 2009 :p
2009 kicked off with a blast--we had Leng drunk sky high into the land of scarred livers and embarrassing YouTube-able moments. We ab-salute you Leng! :) Also, bonus points to myself for not doing a merlion after a few shots of that smashing Ukrainian vodka Terry had brought. Nasty, nasty stuff. I can't imagine sitting in the distillery for it--I would've passed out from the fumes.
Here are the remaining pictures from 2008, namely shots from Hobart and the funky stuff up till New Year's Eve.
Happy 2009 everyone! :D
Graduation, Hobart
Given the weird circumstances I was in right before the trip to Australia, I thought living on-campus in Hobart with my sis in one of the residential apartments was quite the ironic trip back down university memory lane:
The day before sis' big day, we headed off to Fish 349 to grab dinner.
It was quite a wait for the food but no matter, sis and I scanned the room for possible means to entertain ourselves while the folks sat about patiently. Lo and behold... they had color pencils and blank sheets to well, color.
Our kiasu spirits kicked in, and this was our subject of the day:
The unsuspecting fish
Our objective? To join the ranks of artists, who were quite possibly in the age range of oh... 3 to 9, up onto Fish 349's coveted wall of fame:
After minutes of furious scribbling and minor trash talking (naturally, my fish is better) we have the sexy SEAN FISH...
and the IM FISH:
And the two fishies together, just so I don't seem bias and such for peddling my own (heh heh):
My fish is way hotter.
Sis was supposed to go back in a week to check if they posted any of our fishes and had gleefully proclaimed hers to be on top. That and she threatened to torch the place if none of the fishes (or just mine) had made it to the board.
The big day finally arrives! "Pre-event" shots with the sis before she dons her gown and cam whores the whole campus:
Someone is soooo working the camera.
What happens when we finally QC the pictures that we took.
And off to the campus we went! Here's a pic of sis with the folks in UTas' School of Pharmacy's tiny waiting hall:
Everyone looking as pleased as a punch!
Magic doors to the underground dungeon of a computer lab.
Sis with dad.
Sis with mom.
Sex0ring the Confucius statue by the courtyard, lol.
I don't remember taking that many pictures when I graduated, so I'll cut it short and show you my favorite pic of sis on campus--here she is literally going "Hyuk! Screw you dispensing lab!" in front of the lab :p
No graduation ceremony pictures... everyone was moving way too fast for my camera to catch :p On the plus side, we went and drowned ourselves in cherries the next day:
And the folks posing with the camera with the bounty of cherries that we nabbed off the trees:
The best cherries are in the trees with the most worms! We perfected the art of tilting those slightly-out-of-reach branches into grasp without disturbing any of the worms lest they start falling into my hair T_T
After that we headed drove around mindlessly sight-seeing (it's all mountains and the coast, I swear) and bumped into the Pancake Train:
Of course, it's not actually a train train!
Sis and I were piggies once again:
Sis with her scallop pancake dish. She ended up eating half of mine instead.
My super sexy combination of bacon, apple and a truckload of maple syrup. Needless to say, mine was much better, bwahaha.
The last day (for dad and I anyway) in Hobart: we drove over to Salamanca in the morning and meandered through the morning market. No pictures because I was too busy shopping, sorry! :p
Christmas cookies, swing
It's Christmas! We baked cookies at Aizat's till the wee morning (and yes, bad photography because all images were taken using his cellphone):
So it begins--the Christmas cookie saga!
We dressed up:
And danced the night away:
The Christmas swing--Aizat, Dania and Ummi
Post Christmas and we were still baking (only because we were trying to finish up leftover ingredients before Aizat took off for Chile!). We had a killer brownie (aptly tagged "Sin" in the Facebook albums) and a resurrected apple lemon crumble:
The two chefs; third "chef" playing photographer.
As for the NYE pictures... well, let's just say whatever happened in Darby Park, stays in Darby Park! <3 to the extended family :)
Drink and be merry!
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Despite the parental warnings to stay indoors, we "celebrated" election night by doing round three of the beer binge:
Pho for dinner--we need something to absorb the alcohol right?
Quick shot of Yoong and Chris; stealing them away from football
I wasn't paying attention... but Man U lost? :p GG to the goalie and his red card lol
And more people arriving:
Cina and a sexy shot of Pau still apparently hungover :p Because my camera has no anti-shake, kudos to Pau who held that face for a good seven seconds or so lol
Cheers!
A toast to the 8th March '08 for it was quite the exciting night indeed! Especially for five states in Malaysia ;)
Despite the parental warnings to stay indoors, we "celebrated" election night by doing round three of the beer binge:
Pho for dinner--we need something to absorb the alcohol right?
Quick shot of Yoong and Chris; stealing them away from football
I wasn't paying attention... but Man U lost? :p GG to the goalie and his red card lol
And more people arriving:
Cina and a sexy shot of Pau still apparently hungover :p Because my camera has no anti-shake, kudos to Pau who held that face for a good seven seconds or so lol
Cheers!
A toast to the 8th March '08 for it was quite the exciting night indeed! Especially for five states in Malaysia ;)
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