Rabbit Day

I dined at a Thai restaurant recently and there was a chinese horoscope about rabbits based on the day one is born. I was born on a Thursday so mine was described as follows:-

Roaming Rabbit, always moves too fast. He/She is impatient.

Hmmmmmmmm....

Pre-Christmas Shopping 2011

We had beautiful summery weather in Melbourne today with a maximum of 29 degrees C. Decided to spend it with my 2 beautiful girlfriends Nuraini and Sophie. We headed to Westfield Doncaster for lunch, shopping, tea and dinner. I bought two lovely cardigans that were on sale from my favourite label, some homewares from my favourite AUD2.80 shop - Daiso and a hairbrush. We also lined up to get our names printed on a Coca-Cola can. I wanted Keith & Swee but they wouldn't allow symbols so they got it printed as Keithswee. Only after that did I realise it was a rather poor choice of name :P Oh well, guess the can of coke is going to be hidden somewhere in a dark corner. We had dinner at Straits Cafe but it was a rather painful experience as the ventilator failed to work and we had to inhale plumes of smoke from the wok. On the way home, Sophie had a flat tyre so we had to wait for Nick and Nuraini to come rescue us. So thankful for them, otherwise it would have taken us forever to figure out how to change the tyre :) Managed to get home on time for Keith to eat his takeaway dinner from me before going off to work. Grateful for the wonderful day spent with my gal-pals.

 

I'm back

Sorry for taking such a long break from the blogosphere world. Thanks to Facebook, I haven't had the urge to blog much. All my many games, keeps me entertained for hours i.e. Mafia Wars, Mousehunt, Farmville, Cafe World, Fashion Wars, Friends For Sale.

One quarter of 2010 has passed, I barely wrote anything in 2009. I'm having a hard time trying to tie the pieces in 2009 so that my blog won't seem too disjointed.

A memorable part of 2009 was going to Malaysia and Thailand for the holidays and catching up with family and friends. So here's some photos. It's the easiest thing to do when one can't think of what or how to write :P

My parents

My doggieGrandma and auntCousin's wife and childrenMum and IMay Cy and her mum who were extremely hospitable during my stay at their place in PJ. Thanks for everything! :) Japanese dinner with my ex-colleagues from UOB bank.Millie and ISiew Yin and Joanne - my favourite girls from uni, missing Ai Ling though My Singaporean friends, James and Adrian from uni days. Thanks for coming all the way to Melaka to visit me :)

Bangkok 2009

Photos of Bangkok trip with May Cy in Oct 2009.

Our first night in Bangkok and we went crazy ordering the food. This was dinner for 2 girls, we had 2 more dishes which aren't in the photo.

This tower belongs to meeeeeeeeee :)

The puppies were sooooooo cute, wanted to carry one home.At the floating market. It was a terribly hot day and I was suffering from the heat :PThe boat lady finally took pity on me and let me use one of her hats.

Yarra Valley and Kinglake

We took mum to Yarra Valley to visit the wineries. Who would have thought tht the Grape Picking festival would be on as well. There were so many 'pemabuks' around and they were extra friendly. We visited Domaine Chandon, De Bortoli, Yarra Valley Dairy and Beechworth Bakery. Here are some photos.

On a sadder note, we decided to drive by Kinglake after the wineries to see what was left of the town after the horrific bushfires in February. It was difficult driving through the long narrow winding road with sun in our eyes. Actually, Keith did the driving so I must thank him. The ride itself was equally difficult. There was an air of absolute silence in the area. The trees were completely blackened with the ground completely scorched and ashes metres high. We saw destruction of houses, cars, signboards, huge tree trunks on ground. Everything was so blackened. I can only imagine how terrifying it must have been for those caught in the fire. Nothing could have lived. The road like I said was narrow and winding, and trees so close to the edge of the road, there was no way the victims could have driven fast enough to escape the raging fires. It would take years for the people of Kinglake to rebuild their lives. Here are some photos of the destruction.