It's almost the end of the best month of the year with lovely autumn weather, getting spoilt and spoiling others...the downside?...sigh another year older and no taller =(

My birthday came a few weeks ago and I decided to celebrate with the friends! It started with the wonderful uni girls on a Friday night at Burswood. We organised to meet at Sirroco restaurant where I was surpised with a big gift, wrapped in wrapping paper made by kindy's! We did our usual catchup and heard Sara's funny take on life. I learnt that she was the co-owner of her parent's Thai restaurant...gosh her life sure is on track, with her own house as well(pressuring me to get my own life sorted too eeps!). We realised that Sirroco was abnormally quiet for a big restaurant..like really quiet that it felt like we were being watched? The food wasn't spectaculiar, only so-so, but I guess the company was great! We headed into the casino after dinner for a few machine games, which were a total fail, but we got drinks that eased our spirits a little, so all was good. Then it was off the Dome cafe for more drinks of a different kind! As we drank, we saw a large woman wobble on the spot then collapse in front of an audience...so bad, but funny! I believe she was ok in the end! Anyway, after a relaxing and fun time, we decided to call it a night...it was really awesome seeing the girls again and too bad we only see each other every 6 months...they really should move down south! hehe

On Saturday night I met up with the gang for more birthday food goodness...indian! Dorky organised for everyone to meet at the Turban restaurant for a hearty curry-based buffet, because I had always wanted to go there! The staff at the Turban were nice enough to decorate the table for us with confetti and banners...so nice we should've tipped them haha, but no. The night started off really really warm, which effected my appetite a bit, not sure about anyone else though. There were so many curries to choose from, most of them I had no idea what they were because I failed to see the name tags at the bottom until later. They all actually tasted pretty awesome...gosh i love curries...especially the butter chicken mmm! The desserts were more of an aquired taste to me though...except the fruit! So at the end of the dinner, I only ate maybe 2 and a half plates? which isn't much at all for my standards...must've been all the rice that I ate...grr! after dinner it was bowling time, found conveniently next door! We all played 2 games...1 game with the gutters up and one with them down. I noticed that my scores didn't really differ, which was weird, but for others the difference of scores between the 2 games were big! haha! I got to guess and open my presents, thanks guys for the gifts..love them all!! dorky also bought me a pin to take home (always wanted one)! To all my friends that came and celebrated with me...thank you and love you for making my night special xxxxx

The next day was the official birthday day! Dorky took me to freo for lunch, but being mother's day as well, it was sooo packed with people! After walking around for a while, we settled with Soho burgers along the freo cappuccino strip! We were given a funny slanty table outside and ordered their very yummy pizzabase garlic bread and burgers! That meal was so filling...actually the whole weekend was super filling! After lunch we walked about some more to digest then back home it was for me for a special Mother's day dinner. Thanks to you my dork for a wonderful birthday, you always spoil me, you naughty boy! Love you! and love my mum too!

The next weekend was dorky's friend's, Minh's wedding reception dinner at Dragon Palace! I was pretty excited to go there that I took ages figuring out what to wear, but I ended up having my jacket on all night because it was so cold...grr! We were seated pretty far back from the stage, which was ok as I hardly knew anyone there, but we were also seated with the most random weird 30 something year old people! They made nasty comments as we just smiled awkwardly...that kind of feeling...luckily the food was pretty good and there was plenty of wine...so all was fun =) Besides the rude randoms, the night was pretty nice...love weddings!!

The next night was our semi-formal formal dinner! We all frocked up and the guys suited up and got together for the most scrumptious dinner, cooked by our wonderful friend, weiwei! Also, Eva and Jason provided us with good and a bottle of weird red wine too, yum! After a little chitchat weiwei served up a chicken, mushroom and pasta entree...which was yummmmm, seriously good!! Then he prepared our main, which was steak with mash, beans and his own sauces, even more yum!! Then we had Michelle's sweet pink cake dessert, yum! From eating, to drinking and chatting we were then onto photo taking at our little white background setup! The guys put on their serious faces as eva snapped away, then it was the girl's turn! Hehe! Afterwards we tried out the new cranium game that was given to me on my birthday =D It was pretty complex but we managed to play for a while...think we need a whole night in order to finish it though! A great night had by all I'm sure...let's do it again soon!

The Friday night just passed, was wei2 farewell party before his trip around the world! Such a hard working dude...we all think he has definitely earned his freedom! Anyway the party...was held at Kevin's house! Lots of people came in and out and I got to see a lot of my old church friends and some of them sure have grown up...makes me feel ancient. I hardly ate any of the fingerfoods...one of my favourite types of food, because we ate too much at Jus burger =( Wei got a present from all of us, a Gucci toiletries bag (thanks to Tina who organised!) full of goodies, hope he enjoys it! I found that the night was pretty relaxed with my fruitpunch, just hung out with the gang and then we headed off before midnight. So sad...the last time I'll see wei for a while, hope that he has a great adventure!! Anyway afterwards, some of us went and got supper at Hong Kong cuisine...it was a bout to close so they only let us get takeaway. We brought back the food to ama's house for a mini feast and played words with friends on the iphone...jas and me won (of course!) =P

The next night was IP man 2 with dorky and chicken! The movie starred Michael Wong (Donnie Yen) hoho! The movie was pretty good, but I think I liked the first movie better. This second movie made me glare at caucasians, think the ones sitting next us felt nervous and quickly left...poor things. Anyway after the moobie it was dinner with charmanda at Tony Romas, which quickly changed to Hogs breath...too many people dine out on a Saturday night! Didn't have too high of an expectation for HB, my last experience wasn't great, but surprisingly the food was pretty good this night! Steak and ribs were pretty awesome and plus, they gave me so many curly fries that i couldn't finish them! yummm! Twas a good night =)

Ahhhh...i cbb writing anymore, I had other things I wanted to say, but I'm lazy now! So when I can think....i shall be back!

Goodbye April, hello May....the best month of all...no need to say why either...you should all know the reason hehe!

Anyway, let me quickly enlighten you with the events of April!

My parents returned from Sydney with krispy kremes (which disappeared within a day) and said that the only thing they liked about the place, was the variety of food, everything else sucked according to them...guess they had a totally different experience to me then. I loved Sydney! Anyway, after 2 weeks of them being away I was glad for the paros to be back, my cleaning/cooking/washing role dropped by 75% haha, but the nagging increased by say...100% meh!

Also, on one of the nights the gang got together for TABOO night! I was quite excited because we were playing a new game. It required a lot of thinking and brain work, but I think we did pretty well =) I remember that I munched on way too many chips, which ended up being my dinner for that night =( More games please!

The very next day was another FRU event, kicking and running around, with a ball! The turn out was pretty good, 9 people I think with the girls versus 3 guys haha. We kicked, we ran and laughed until our stomachs hurt and in the end I think the teams ended up being quite even although I think the girls were alot better =D Surprisingly, I was a lot more tired after this event than any other! Good stuff!

One of the major highlights for the month and probably the year so far was going to Margaret River =D We began our trip day with breakfast at the markets haha! I swear the food there is pretty good and cheap...had the usual bacon, eggs and sausages with OJ. Bought a few road trip snacks and away we went! We experienced a lot of road works along the way that delayed us a bit, but learnt that those lollipop people that hold up stop signs earn $90 grand a year...how awesome! hehe we finally got into MR town at around 3pm then headed towards Prevelly, where our beach apartment awaited us =D The place that we stayed at was amazing...so so pretty! We settled in and then headed into town to buy something to cook, steaks and sausages with mash...we're awesome cooks now =P The next day was our 3 year anni and we celebrated with a whole day wine tour around the region. We were picked up first by Bushtucker tours in a mini bus and then it continued to picked up other tourists. Our tour guide was called Silvano, who was pretty funny and very polite. He took us to our first winery and there we tasted 6-8 red and white wines...it was alot considering we hadn't even had lunch yet! Next we went to knotting hill and tasted 6 more wines before a light lunch of cold meats, kangaroo, salads and bush tucker haha (bush tomato relish is nice!). We visited more wineries still, including my favourite...the grove where they let us try liquers and ports and made us cocktail shots! Then there was the chocolate factory, the cheese factory then finally the duckstein brewery where dorky got is first taste of german beer...i even drank some! That night, after the tour we headed into town for dinner. We dined on marron, risotto and steak...yum!!! The very next morning we cooked breakfast and ate it on the verandah and watched the waves =) We also made the journey to Berry Farm, which was very country-like, to buy ports for my mum and we also stayed for scones, jam and cream! For the rest of the afternoon we were at the beach watching the famous MR waves, which were cool because they rolled in at different directions and they even clashed into each other! we watched surfers for a while and also visited the MR river mouth, which was pretty nice too. Next day, it was our last for the trip, which meant home time =( But we decided to take the scenic route back and stopped by Dunsborough, Busselton and Bunbury for lunch at a random cafe. It was such a wonderful trip with you, one that I'll always remember, so thankyou and love you!!

Hehe, anyway on the last night of April, the whole gang got together for a reunion dinner at Lackers Grill! The menu looked good, with steaks, burgers and best of all, ribs! I couldn't resist the honey bbq baby back ribs and dorky got the rib eye =) Whilst waiting for our food we mingled and chatted like we used to..it was really nice to have everyone together! The food was awesome and I vowed to go back to lackers again one day...anyone want to join? hehe! After dinner we all went to utopia for more chatting and even met Sing along the way...a bit random though ahah. Fun and satisfying night, ,so thanks to tina for organising =D we really should do it more often =)

Dorky and me have been going on little food adventures lately, think he's getting more and more hungry, because our serves are getting bigger each time! We went for lobster yee mee at singapore hawkers and omg it's really good! you should all try it...the golden king prawns were good too! And just last night dorky and me went to the fish and chip shop at southlands and ordered plenty for just 2 people. We drove to heathcote and munched on the best valued fish and chips, squid rings, pineapple fritters, crab sticks, mushy peas and curry sauce ever! Are we pigs or what? =( Oh well, we both live for food!

Think that's it for now...catching up with friends and food (again) at the end of this week...hopefully it should be good!

Still need to do that photo entry!