Boat Making

Keith has been very, very, very busy last couple of weeks building his boat model. The house is filled with dust flying everywhere due to the drilling, sawing and sand-papering of wood. I can't hug him these days cos his shirt and pants are always covered with saw dust. When he's naughty, he'll come give me a hug and wipe the saw dust all over me.

I've also helped him with the boat, but only very minor bits. I've taken photos of the bits I've done, but also photos of the overall ship which Keith has put so many hours into. The ship's called HMS Bounty. There's a girl glued to the front of the ship, I wanted him to paint her to look like me, but too bad...he has painted her a blonde instead! Says that if she had black hair she wouldn't stand out. The red dress she's wearing is after one of my red pieces, so I guess that makes up for it. I could dye my hair blonde anyway! Here's a photo of her and the rest of the boat.

What Keith has done as above and what I've done as below.

P/S: Actually what I've done is to just coil and glue the green thread into circles and tie the green thread to those little rectangle chips of wood. As for the second pic of my work, I've only built the little boat that's above the slightly bigger boat. See my shoddy workmanship! *Grin*

I've been called a slacker..

KatKat's called me a slacker for not updating my blog, so here I am sitting and pondering on what to write. Nothing interesting has happened so it's a bit hard.

Let me see... I have been nicknamed 'Quality Queen' at work because I'm the only one so far who has scored a 100% 25 times consecutively while being remote monitored and double jacked on the phones. For that I've been given a certificate of achievement and also a free paid day off work. My manager told me no one's come close, so I guess I should give myself a pat on the back ;)

Besides work, I have been busy 'facebook-ing' and helping Keith build his miniature wooden ship model. He does the difficult bits while I do the easy, simple bits like tying, swirling, glue-ing ropes and double knotting threads to tiny bits of wood. I'm also reading Harry Potter Goblet of Fire at the moment.

Recent purchases I made are OPI nail polish, Clinique superbalm moisturizing gloss in lilac and almost lipstick in black honey, MAC select spf15 moistureblend foundation and MAC mineralize skin finish natural powder and some Alannah Hill tops.

I wish the weather in Melbourne would warm up faster, it's spring now but still can't go out without a jacket. Friends in Perth and Sydney are already wearing short sleeve tops or sundresses while I'm still stuck with layers. Daylight saving will start on the last Sunday of October so we'll be 3 hours ahead of Malaysia after next week.

I think I've blogged enough for tonight. It's 12:26am and I start work at 7:45am tomorrow, which means I have to wake up at 6:45am. Yikes. So good night for now :)

Notebook not working

I think my notebook or the HDD is dead :( Can't load windows today, and it says system disc error. Tried rebooting and reinstalling windows from the CD Rom but it won't load *sigh*. I've given up trying.

Bye bye notebook....09/10/2007 6:30pm... I'll miss you :(

Arghhh... spywareeee :(

My notebook got infected by spyware two days ago!@!#$!% Thanks to clicking on a link sent by a friend on MSN messenger. Now all my files, photos and stuff are lost :( Had to reformat the whole HDD and reinstall Windows XP. Grrrrr....... the notebook is also making funny whirring noises as Keith got frustrated with it and gave it a smack! However, I'm glad the notebook is not a total write off yet and I can still surf the internet. That's the main thing :)

New topic....I've found a Malaysian restaurant in Chinatown that makes good Nasi Lemak. Yummmm... the rice has decent coconut milk in it, the sambal tastes good and they serve it with either beef rendang or chicken curry. I love their fried kway teow and teh tarik too. Yay, now I know where to go to get my Malaysian fix :)

Had a haircut today... more like a trim. Still same style... boring and conservative. Bought some clothes from Alannah Hill, my current favourite Aussie designer. Her things are very girly and the shop assistants are extremely friendly and helpful. They look fantastic too :)

Watched Little Miss Sunshine on dvd couple of days ago. It's a very good movie of the dysfunctional American family. Do watch it if you can. I'm waiting for Ang Lee's latest movie, Lust Caution. A segment of it was filmed in Malaysia and the movie won Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Anyway, it's bed time for me now so nite nite folks :)

AFL Grand Final 2007

I remember catching a train to Melbourne with Keith and Marcus to watch the AFL Grand Finals 2006. It was West Coast Eagles (Perth) against Sydney Swans. We were rooting for West Coast of course and they won by a very close margin. It was my first time ever watching the AFL and I enjoyed it.

One year later, we've got Geelong Cats against Port Adelaide in the AFL Grand Finals 2007. Obviously my loyalties will be for the Geelong boys. True to form, they battered the Port Adelaide guys by the biggest margin in AFL history with the match ending 163-44. Go Cats!

Lunar Eclipse

I witnessed a spectacular lunar eclipse today from my own balcony. The first stage of the lunar eclipse was shadowed by clouds. However, it slowly cleared and what I saw was a beautiful sight. The moon was slowly diminishing and became golden to crimson red, what they call a blood moon. Here's some photos that Keith took tonight.

21st

Thursday night, August 23rd, I was invited to Sania's 21st birthday party. I know Sania from work and she's one of my closer friends in Australia. We click cos she's only just been in Geelong for 2 years or so having migrated from India with her family.

It's been a loooooooong time since I've been to a 21st. I can barely remember mine, forgivable I guess since it's more than a decade! I'm getting olddd *sniff*sniff*

*Think*Ponder*Think* If I'm not mistaken I had dinner at Hillarys Harbour with Kat Kat, Jo and Hung for my 21st. We then went to a karaoke in Perth where the rest of my friends turned up. Kat Kat ordered various shooters that contained banana midori for me to skull. There were about six in total I think. I'm not sure how I survived that night, I must have because we made it to Excapade after that for some clubbing. I still have photos stashed away in Malacca, at my parents place. Hmmm..... nice sweet memories.....it's all coming back to me now. Nice to have shared it with you Kat Kat, Jo and the rest *hugs* :) Wish you were there too SleepieKoala!

Anyway, here's some photos of the birthday girl and me.

Finish Deathly Hallows At Last

At last... I've finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It took me roughly 3 weeks I think. Now I'm going to start from the very beginning with The Philosopher's Stone. Missing the second and third series but it'll be a while before I finish the first one anyway. Will head to Borders on the weekend to get them.

Bak Kut Teh

Keith asked what I wanted to eat for dinner this morning and I told him Bak Kut Teh. So when I got home from work I found a pot of Bak Kut Teh boiling on the stove. It was so yummy eating it with yam rice in the cold weather. I had 2 serves of rice! Forgot to buy "tau foo pok" but still tasted delicious. Will be having Bak Kut Teh again tomorrow night :) Yummmmmm.

Watched "The Queen" on dvd tonight, acted by Helen Mirren. She did quite well in her role. With my current fascination for penguins I went to hire a documentary titled March of the Penguins as told by Morgan Freeman last night. It's worth a watch as the emperor penguins are still able to demonstrate love in the harshest place on earth.

Fairy Penguins

We arrived in Sale, Victoria after 4 1/2 hours drive from Torquay. The drive was pretty relaxing as it was on a freeway all the way through. The scenery was quite pretty and I got to see lots of small towns on the way. We stopped at Maccas and I had the new "Name It" burger which was quite nice. They are running a competition for the public to name it.

We spent the afternoon and evening with Simon, Sanchia and their three beautiful kids in Sale. Next morning, we took the long coastal drive which took us to Yarram, Wilsons Promontory, Wonthaggi and Phillip Island. Wilsons Prom was beautiful but we didn't have enough time to explore as we had to get to Phillip Island before dusk to watch the march of the fairy penguins. Arrived at Phillip Island at 5pm and waited for an hour before the first batch of penguins appeared. They look so cute walking along the beach into their burrows. They are amazingly small and walk with great speed. Too bad there were only about 200-300 of them due to the cold climate. Summer and spring is the best time to go with estimate of about 1500-2000. No photography was allowed, thus no photos of the cute little things.