Ah...I have been feeling the great aftermath of Christmas...tiredness and that I cbb feeling. There was the delayed Christmas hype, followed by xmas day, which was rather quiet, I must admit and then the mad shopping rush began on Boxing Day. I wouldn't say this year's Christmas was a let down, but rather, I didn't get a chance to fully enjoy it because it came and went with a blink of the eye...but for the record, here's what I got up to during the Christmas week =)

On Tuesday night we had dinner at Outback Jack's for Andre's obsession over kangaroo meat, so that's what he got. I tried the grilled fish, which wasn't bad and dorky ordered some kind of steak and added a sausage to his meal, haha (we shall get to another sausage story later =P). Reuben also tried the Jack's 1kg steak challenge lol! I had never seen anyone attempt it before so I was excited, as was everyone else on the table. They used a cow bell to announce it to everyone..funny! After 30 minutes, Reuben was still trying to eat his steak and hadn't touched his massive bowl of vegetables or wedges...oh well, good effort for a Singaporean haha! After dinner we had our karaoke session at Utopia...hadn't been to the NB one in ages and I think that they really need to rennovate! We got bbt from easyway, because it's so much better and then it was singing time! I sang quietly to myself as usual, just the way I like it =P I remember I was very sleepy by the time I got home.

On Wednesday night, dorky and me started our celebrations for Christmas a few days early by going to Miss Mauds for the pre-xmas buffet dinner. We were so excited!!! I love buffets =D We started off with the best soups, especially the beef stock...his favourite! We stuffed ourselves with salads (got my beetroot fix), seafoods of all kinds (oysters, yum!) and hot foods like turkey and ham =) The desserts were awesome too...I cans till remember the wonderful carrot cake that we had, yummers! After our buffet we decided to make the most of our night out and watched the movie Paranormal Activity. My expectations of the movie wasn't so great from what I had heard from others who had watched it and the reviews that I had read. But, we watched it anyway...I have to say I was really quite freaked out by it! I know dorky couldn't watch the bedroom scenes at all! I don't know why it was so scary, maybe because there were hardly any people in the cinema? Haha but really that night, I had real trouble getting to sleep...kind of kept thinking I was going to get dragged out of bed by the foot =(

Had work on xmas eve. I tought that the day might be pretty cruisey, but I was very wrong. People of all kinds came in and we worked our butt's off...people should just stay home on xmas eve. We didn;t really have the xmassy feel at work either, no one dressed in xmas colours as they did in the past and no presents were exchanged...it was a bit sad. Oh well, I guess I don't really blame Rach for not being in the festive mood, her business was just shoved back at her...poor Rach. Anyway after work I went to woolies and bought a range of groceries for the night's dinner =) Since my parents had a xmas party to attend, I thought that dorky and me could finish off our lamb cuts that we never got to bbq for dinner! So he came over and we started cooking =) Roast vegetables with rosemary, a salad and soooooo many lamb cutlets, which by the way tasted awesome after being marinated for a week haha. We ate everything lovingly and spared 4 pieces for my dad to try too! After dinner we decided to have a look at Christmas lights around the Thornlie area. We used my trusty GPS and found the street that lit up with prettiness =D It was so nice and I guess I felt a bit of xmas cheer with so many people walking around happily with their santa's hats on...I felt that I should've brought mine along too.

CHRISTMAS DAY!!! Woke up nice and early, thanks to my mum knocking on my door to open up presents. I kind of half skipped/jogged to our xmas tree and helped my mum unwrap the pressies =D Got a whole lot of chocolates and photo-related things from my mum's church friends and tupperware! I opened all my presents that I got from my kiddies and wow, some of the stuff they gave were quite nice, like perfumes, belgian chocolates, soaps from Bali and lots of other lovely things..they're so sweet =) After the presents, I helped my parents a bit with lunch. We had turkey, ham, roast pork, prawns and roasted veges! I prepared the vegetables and picked on the ham hehe! Dorky came over just as the food was ready and together we ate heaps for 5 people. After our tummies were filled, dorky and me went to the movies and watched Avatar in 3D! It was an awesome movie and I wish that the planet Pandora really existed...it was so pretty! Watch it peoples! After the movie, went to dorky's place for dinner then just hung out and chatted heaps...such a wonderful day with my family n dorky =) Also, Merry Christmas to everyone, I hope that it was spent with your special ones and that it was filled with the cheeriness of the christmas spirit =)

Boxing day! Woke up quite late and ate christmas leftovers for breakfast haha. Went out with dorky and together we ventured into the christmas stocktake sale in the city. It was quite a mad rush there, especially Myer! Dorky was very successful with his purchases, but I failed to buy! I just can't shop when there are too many people around, it was quite stressful! We even waited in the Myer line for around 45-60 minutes, craziness! We didn't shop for long, but it felt like we had been for the whole day. I'd had enough really, so I was quite glad to move on to watching the Glory game with Alan and the two Calvins. There were so many people in our area that I didn't see the first half of the game...stupid! They scored 3 times in the first half and then at second half we found seats, yay! They scored once more then then game was over 4-0! Quite a win, I must say =) After the game we headed to Eva's house for a Leeming Christmas with friends! We played the game FRIENDS, which was quite a cool game...it half revealed our secrets, I say half because some people lied about their answers ahaha! We found out some pretty juicy stuff about it each other, one that surprised us most was that Amanda prefers length to girth when it comes to her sausages lol! And that her reason for choosing length? They fit better in the buns and the meat is more lean ahahah funny answer that got us laughing and crying for a while. After that we exchanged presents, I had Rachael as my secret santa and she had me!! Haha thanks heaps for the lovely gift hehe =) Then, after Wei2 left we played the Friends game again followed by a quick game of pictionary, which is always a fun game haha! Had a really great time with everyone, love my friends hehe =D Merry xmas to you all!

Sunday went and had dimsum at dragon palace. It was very packed and we were asked if we would like to eat upstairs, so we did! It was quite a different set up to what I had imagined. We ate on a dancefloor bar bench, sitting on barstools hahah and felt like falling from being too high up in the air. The bench was circular so we were staring at other people as we ate, it felt weird!! I guess next time we get asked to go upstairs, we shall say no thanks haha. Quite a different dimsum epxerience though! After lunchy we went shopping in the city again..it was round 2 for us! I finally bought a few things awesome, clothes mostly hehe! And I also bought a new books series called the Vampire Diaries. I know, obsessed with vampires haha, but I've been watching the series and quite liked it, so I thought it was time to read what goes on in the story =) The city, I was happy to say was much less busy thank goodness! At night, dorky and me headed to the casino! He wore his lucky red shirt and had his belly ready for me to rub. We started off with Carvers for dinner, because he had a free meal voucher, so eat until we couldn't eat no more, we did! Then we had a browse around the game floor watching people play. He changed $100 for chips and played at the roulette table...I still don't quite know how to play that game actually. But he played until most of his chips were gone and just as he was about to use them all, he placed one on the number 5 at the last second and guess what? The little ball landed on 5!! Haha, can't say that I have ever seen that happen before, but it was awesome he won bacl that $100 plus $150 more yay! Then it was my turn to play. Played on the machines and again, just as i had run out of credit I won 5 symbols thingoes in a row and doubled my money..woot! I guess it was quite a lucky night for us..must've been the rub of the belly =) Anyway, we left pretty early, before the crowd got in...phew! Had a great day out with my darling haha!

Monday, dorky and me had lunch at Bullcreek Hawkers and I got my chicken rice!! Yay! After eating we headed to Carousel and browsed the shops a little bit and I bought a necklace =) We hung around until 4pm and then went upstairs and watched Sherlock Holmes! The cinema fille dup fast because we were in such a small theatre. The movie was pretty good, it was clever and witty. I kept thinking Jude Law was Ewan McGregor though until the credits came out, whoops! Carousel also has frozen drinks now! Coke, grape fanta and raspberry fanta =D Mixing them up is tasty hehe! Movies are so much more enjoyable with a nice slushie! Anyyyyway, think that was it for Monday...we both went home and relaxed and psyched ourselves up for work =( But what a great weekend we both had...thanks so much to my dorky for everything...muahs!

Tuesday, it was back to work and it was super busy and we were down a person! I really didn't think that people would want toe at out after the long weekend, but I guess I was wrong about that! I'm just so happy I found parking! Everyone at work looked so glum, Rach thought that the reason was because we had all received crappy presents haha...no we just didn't want to be at work....At night I was picked up by wei2 at 9pm and we then picked up Eva and Jas for some Christmas light fun and photo taking! We found the famous street in Thornlie but omgosh, no one had their lights on! What a failure of an adventure haha! We slowliy made our way back home and scouted for lights around the area. We found a nice looking house and some flashing stars to pose against. I want an SLR camera now!! haha. We spent ages posing and trying to get the lighting right...it was also really windy and cold so it made Jas go crazy I think...she kept making funny sounds hahahha! After driving around somemore we gave up and went to bbt, yay! Satisfied my cravings for sago. We went through maccas as well and had an apple pie and the rumours are true, the pies really have increased to $2.25, what a rip! But I guess I'd still eat them haha! Got dropped off and then headed to bed and read more of th Vampire diaries =)

So much happened during the xmas break, but it all happened too quickly for me to really enjoy it all. I just wish time would slow down a little bit because the new year is coming up really fast and I really did not keep to my 2009 new year's resolution haha! Every year I say this...next year will be different!!! I hope that everyone had a happy and blessed year and that 2010 will bring even more joy and great times together...best of luck everyone =)

Nooooooooo!! Neglecting blog again...eeep eeep! Sorry my poor blog, I'll try and update more often hehe. Anyway, let's start with the highlight event for December...





On Saturday it was my dorky's birthday!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY my darling bebe =D I hope that you had a wonderful birthday weekend =) It was super eventful and although you didn't get much time to relax, I still hope you loved every minute of it, because you deserve to enjoy your day!!!

(Dorky with his Birthday log cake haha and a lighter as his candle!)

We celebrated his birthday on Friday night with a dinner at Nicholson's bar and grill! The servings there are pretty massive and quite yum too! He ordered a seafood marinara and I got fish with prawns and beer battered chips! Such a great dinner =) We were also seated outside, which was awesome because we were right next to the fountain they had and also the air was just right too, very comfy haha!

On his actual birthday he had work (boo!) but afterwards we shopped for bbq groceries! We bought heaps of food, the most we've ever gotten together haha. I also bought him a cake even though he already received one from work =) Now he has lots of cake at home. Also I got quite emotional that day, I'm not sure why? But I'm guessing it was because of my P!!! Grrrr!! Anyway, I went home after that and rushed my butt off to get ready for his work's Christmas dinner! I didn't know what to wear so I tried this and that on and finally found something to wear but couldn't find shoes and as I was still looking dorky had already arrived and I wasn't ready...sigh. I just wore anything really haha. Dorky looked very smart in his formal attire hehe muahs! We went to the Royal Perth Golf club? It's the golf club you see that's next to the freeway...never thought I'd ever go there, but I'm glad I did, because it's quite nice inside! We arrived and mingled a bit with his workmates. I noticed most people were old and had families haha. We sat at the IT table (the computer geeks) and pulled our bonbons! I got marbles as a prize! Just what I always wanted!! .With the food...we started with prawns and mussels followed by a buffet dinner with turkey, hams, fish, polenty of salads, cold meats, vegetables and red wine beef...it was all quite impressive, much better than last year's xmas dinner anyway =) For dessert, not so impressive haha. There was fruit cake and fruit mince pies, pavlova, brownies, fruit salad with mango, which dorky almost ate!! They also had prizes which were raffled off and I actually won something =D Haha I was so happy even though I won something I didn't really want...speakers! I had a really great night and I hope he loved it too, thanks to my bebe for making me a part of his work family =)

On Sunday, I woke up early-ish and started preparing food for the bbq! Made pasta, potato salad, vegetable kebabs and my mum made mee goreng! Woah lots of work to be done, lucky I had the morning to myself to prepare otherwise there would've been chaos with my mum cooking too haha. Dorky was also very busy out and about buying some last minute things for the bbq, like mountains of ice! Finally, we got everything together and went to Millpoint and were disappointed that all the sheltered areas were taken up! So we just used a bbq pitt and found shade under a tree. People started arriving really fast haha and we weren't organised! We got lots of help and soon everyone was settled which was good! Had a nice time eating yummy seafood (scallops!) and sausages and chicken wings yum! I hope everyone enjoyed the food hehe. Dorky did most of the cooking, even though I said I would hehe, but he seemed happy there catching up with Fooky and Calvin =) Hope that my bebe had a great bbq!!! There's still lots of lamb for you to munch on! Also, some highlights...

• Jas, Ama, me and Fooky got sprayed with coke!
• Jas and me went spinning on the spinning playground device and somehow Jas got sand in her hair and down her back?!
• The notti seagulls that ate our buns =(
• Beer coated scallops!
• Tiger prawns!
• Hot weather, making us all sticky
• Ama = seagull lol
• Reuben going red from the beer!
• Burnt my finger =(
• Presents!!
• Dorky!!
• OMGWTFBBQ!!!!

Haha, thanks to everybody that turned up and made my dorky happy =)

At night, we went over to Jas's house and spent the night playing games. We tried out the supermario wii game, which was fun! Team work ppl!! And, we also played a card game called BANG!. It was a pretty cool game, I must admit...we all got quite into it, although poor ama was out of the game really fast haha! Next time we'll keep you alive =) To end the night, we played bluff...i suck at that game, I don't bluff!! Had a great day with all my friends and of course my wonderful dorky =)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY =)

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OK, let's backtrack a little bit back to last Saturday (12/12)! Dorky and me went shopping for a clock for Sara's house warming party. We left it a bit late, but meh...we got it in time and that's what counts I guess haha =) And the clock we got was cool, you can put photos where the numbers 1-12 are, I hope they like it =) At night we went on a mini road trip up north to Beechboro, where Sara and Kim's new house was. It was very nice and bright inside, so lucky...I want a house too! The party was outside, where there was lots of gluten-free party food for Tracee hehe! There was also fruit punch and Sara, Nat and me made super long straws and used them to drink the punch because we were too lazy to use cups ahahah fun fun! I had a really good catch up with the uni girls too (even though Jess left after 40 minutes) I do miss them heaps sometimes, I just can't believe I've known them for 5 years now?? Too bad they live so far away, otherwise we could catch up more =( Hehe, I hope our plans for a Mandurah picnic happens suring the holidays =)

On Tuesday night, Dorky and me went to the WLPS end of year concert to watch the pre-primaries but I think we missed it. It was really windy too so we didn't stay very long. We then went to Campari Italian restaurant, where my brother used to work! We had a good, but kind of expensive dinner there...spaghetti bolognaise and and a penne dish with really good garlic bread! After dinner, since it was still early we went to Dome and had a nice hot drink and chat before we headed back home =) I love nights out with my dorky =)

On Wednesday I had relief teaching at WLPS in the pre-primary class! The kids were all so excited and crazy! Haha but it was fun because it was the second last day of school =D We played some xmas games outside, did some fun xmas activities and they also had a special xmas lunch with special ice cream lol. They were so funny, it was a nice end to my teaching semester. Oh! and I also received so many presents from the kids! I wasn't expecting anything at all, but I did and I was so overwhelmed I felt like crying! The parents were all so lovely to think of me =) I only wish I could've gotten the class for next year, but oh well, I guess things happen for a reason! If I ended up in Kal, then I wouldn't have met the wonderful staff at the primary school =) Wish them all the best and I thank them for all their help too hehe!

Friday! Jas had friends over from Singapore, Andre and Reuben! We went to Fremantle in the afternoon for their first outing adventure =) We went to the markets where they bought lots of Morish nuts and they tried the crepes there! They didn't finish the food haha. We walked around and picked up Jas's degree from Notre Dame (yay congrats!) and then we ended up at the Maritime Museum, where we promised them boats and sharks lol. There were boats, but no sharks haha! We browsed a bit and waited for Jen to arrive so we could have lunch at Cicerellos =) I think we ordered too much food...a seafood basket, seafood platter, salad and a fish and chips. We barely touched the food....so bad! But it did look great and overwhelming haha. AFterwards we went back home and rested =)

On Monday (after all of dorky's bday celebrations) Jas took Andre and Reuben on a road trip to Margaret River and I tagged along too! We left at around 9am, went to IGA and got out money and bought lollies and sunglasses? haha. Then off we went! Saw lots of farm animals along the way and barren lands and we all thought that everything was going well until I don't what happened and we ended up somewhere in Mandurah and got lost for 2 hours so we stopped for lunch at chooks? HAHA! I kind of thought that our trip would end early but nope, we persisted on and followed my GPS and finally after a few hours, ended up at our destination...the Margaret River Chocolate factory! Jas and me stole lots of free chocolate samples =D Greediness heehehe! But they were so good! We bought a bag full of goodies each and Andre and Reuben enjoyed some chocolate drinks...apparently the hot chocolate was good, so I might have to go back one day and try it =) Then after the chocolate factory, we decided to go visit the fudge factory, but we say a cheese factory along the way so we stopped and had some cheese tasting =D The cheeses were good! Jas bought a sweet chilli one =) Then it was the fudge factory, which was in the town I think...fudge was super sweet, but pretty good...we got some to share for karaoke...can't wait to try the peanut butter one! After we did that (which didn't take long at all) we decided to head back to Perth haha. The trip back was much shorter and more fun...everyone was acting all excited because they were all busting to go to the toilet haha! Heard lots of stories about NS...Andre talks heaps! (Must be a Singaporean thing =P Dorky does it too!) hehe. We finally reached kwinana freeway but there was a jam because of a truck spillage..omg it was so gross! There were guts on the side of the road...it was sick! Ew, bad images for life! Anyway we decided to bring the sg boys to try our version of Hawker food at Bullcreek hawkers. Haha, they were not impressed! I wasn't either...no chicken rice!! Overall we were gone for 12 hours! it was tiring but had a good time so thanks to Jas for bringing us all there, you're the best =)

Haha, ok...that's it for now =) Until next time folks....christmas fun in 3 sleeps =D

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OOPS! Seems like I neglected this blog for a while! With good reason though!!! Anyway, now that things have settled down, I can finally share what has been happening...super briefly though, maybe 1 or 2 sentences for each event? hehe...OK in no particular order...

Dorky and me celebrated out 2.5 year anniversary =) He cooked me a beautiful dinner with garlic prawns, pasta, wonderful side dishes, ice cream and champagne. It was all very wonderful and he even sent me a menu haha, so sweet and thankyou =) Love you so much!

Don't know if I mentioned this before but...i finally got my P's!! I really didn't think that I would pass the HPT because I kept missing opportunities to click when I think I really should've! But yay yay yay!!

It was also Ama's 21st birthday =D She held a party at her house and I think most of the people there were relatives? Hehe there was a lot of food to go around and the cupcakes looked so pretty (only because jas and me helped her hahaha =P). Had lots of fun and i hope that ama had even more fun =)

Serene also had her 21st birthday! (the day before I think). It was held at her house, but it was super cold outside so we camped by her light! We looked through her amazing photo album and munched on some yummy nibbles! I hope that she had a great birthday =)

Jas left for Singapore/Hong Kong and Bangkok =(

Met up with the gang once, for San Churros.

I started and finished my 4 week block of teaching in a pre-primary class! It was such an amazing time for me and I am just so glad that I did it! I learnt a lot during this time and it just felt so good that I could've taught for free! We made ice cream together, looked at the water cycle and did lots of science experiments, planned an assembly and got through it successfully! We learnt 4 new sounds and in the last week started out own Santa's workshop and sent home presents in the nick of time hehe! So good and I would love to have another opportunity to teach like that again =) The teachers there were so sweet, they gave me flowers and 2 cards...ony was from my class! Love them all =D

Rachael had her 21st birthday at the Rosemount hotel! It was an animations versus fairytales theme so we got to dress up!! I went as a girl version of Mickey mouse and dorky went as a superdork (superman). We had fun organising the costumes and were super proud of our efforts =) Rach looked beautiful as Cinderella and her cake looked awesome as a fairytales castle! Hope that she had a fabulous time too!!

Dorky and me went to the Britney concert too! It wasn't as good as I had expected it to be? The show itself was pretty cool and action packed, but Brintey herself hardly interacted with the audience. She probably only said 2 lines throughout the whole show? Not good enough Britney and also there was no big screen to look at so we just stared at a sparkly dot all night!

Went and had Jus Burger in Leederville a couple of times. OMG the best burgers =D Yummy cheeseburgers with my new obsession...beetroot!!

Did relief work a few times too! It was good to be back at the school. Felt a little bit run down though. I even got the flu and was bed ridden for 2 days =(

Watched a few movies including The Time Traveller's wife (good and sad), The Box (weird!), 2012 (epic!!), Where the Wild Things are (weird, but in a good way), New Moon!!!! (Jacob is hot =P)

Had a Saw 1-5 movie "marathon"....waiting to go see saw 6 now!

On Sunday, started the morning at Garbos to look for a present for the twin's birthday! Finally found a bras n things and got them PJ's! Then we headed to Swan Valley for a birthday lunch with the twins. Sara and Kim were there too! It was nice to catch up with them and the food was awesome, although $38 per main was a bit pricey! I got the twice cooked pork belly and dorky had the lamb. Very good white wine as well! After lunch it was straight to the Glory game and they drew 1-1. It was a pretty average game, but I think we didn't pay much attention because we were so tired from the day already. Anyway...after the game we freshened up in the car and headed to Jade restaurant for a wedding dinner! We were put on the loudest and drunkest table haha. Alan and his friends were crazy loud, even dorky's parents were too! I felt a bit scared at times, but it was all good and fun =) The food wasn't too bad, we ate until we were super full! Yum and thanks for the invite =D Craaaaazy day!

Started work at the Percolator again after a month! I was very surprised to find out that Kylie had quit and in her place was Rachael again! She messaged me at 1:30am grrrr!!! I thought random sms's had finally come to an end. But oh well..I guess it's good to have her back as well...but old frustrations will return! I'm not too sure on the details of why Kylie quit either...think she just gave up after 5 months...meh!

Argh can't think of anything else now =( It will come to me sooner or later hehe anyway...that's it and hopefully I cant get back to regular blogging again =)

ciaoooooo
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