HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!

Woweeee, so we seemed to have survived the year 2010 without too much drama, hooray! What year it has been too! It was full of events, food and friends! Now I never managed to tell you about the end of 2010, so let me recap before I get onto the upcoming events of 2011...let's go back in time =)

The month of November for me, was a dash to save up as much money as I could for my sg/hk holiday!! I basically worked as much as I could at the cafe and teaching and in between those times I went to Tong 86 with Tree and his new tree-friend, let's call her princess tree, why? well because she's as tall as a tree and very princessy! Anyway she seemed quite nice! I learnt that she had failed her driving test at least 6 times, learning auto...so I guess I like her already haha! After dinner was movie night with the friends! Such good times watching the human centipede!!!

Dorky also started his 2 week holiday, hooray!! We spent the first week eating out, watching movies and shopping, which was great! At the end of his first week we attended Tam and Will's engagement party! This was my first ever engagement party and I was super excited about it! They had 2 spits of lamb for us to chew on as well as some super yum vietnamese spring rolls, salads, noodles, chicken and the best CUPCAKES! Dorky and me also took some photobooth photos, which was awesome...I want to hire it one day!! It was a pretty fun night and I can't wait to go to more engagement parties! So friends...go get engaged soon! Thanks to T&W for inviting us and congrats!! =D

At the end of November I was shaking with excitement because I decided that it was my turn for a nice break, so I flew solo to singapura to meet up with Jas!!! We had a very fast paced 4 days in sg where we ate glorious food with my favourites being the buttery crabs! JB food! dimjoy dimsum! macarons! provence mini pizzas (omg to die for!)!! Muji marshmallows! and the best bar chor mee in toa payoh!! We also went prawning for the first time ever, using rods to catch farmed prawns! It was fun, but I really sucked at it. I let so many beautiful prawns go. Oh well, better luck next time I guess. Thanks to Jas, her friends and her family for bringing me around and for all those meals =D After 4 days, Jas and me flew to hk! EXCITEMENT!!! new place for me to visit! I had plenty of expectations, which I guess wasn't a good thing because I did get let down with the shopping...gaaaah! Why did the hongkies have to sell so much winter clothes for?? Surely people don't need to wear thick furry jumpers at only 20 degrees right?! Shopping was hard, but for cosmetics and other things, I have to say it was damn cheap! Anyway at the beginning of our hk trip, michael, jas and me headed off to Disneyland!!!! So much colour, people and happiness all around. I felt like I was in a dream...except the whole lining up for rides (that sucked). The next few days was shopping and eating with the arrival of charmanda. We also went on a day trip to Macau! A new place to explore =D It took us around an hour by ferry to get there, which wasn't too bad! Macau, to me was like a little world within a world. They had free shuttle buses that took you to all the hotels and heaps of taxis to take you to the in betweens! We visited the venetians, which was so nice as well as the sands casino. We ate glorious portugese food too, yumm...I feel like those clams now. We also did a bit of sight seeing and tasted some portugese egg tarts at a random stall (which were the wrong ones, according to Alan) and also Macaus famous cookies, which were free to taste..shame I was already way to full to take advantage of it. Back in HK we did some sight seeing including the giant buddha, visited some popular markets, lan kwai fong (where the parties were at), the avenue of the stars and a few other things I can't quite remember =D The best part of HK however, was the FOOD! Gosh I swear most of my money went to eating food, in particular crabs, razor clams and mango desserts! So good! I was also able to try some new things like, snake soup, smelly tofu and schezuan food. Was a good trip, but wished all that time that dorky was with me too!! Can't wait to go back again =D

Coming back to perth was quite sad and yet exciting. I missed dorky so much more than I thought I would so I was really glad to be back to celebrate his birthday at La vela, which served good good food! We stuffed ourselves well with pasta, steak and oysters! The next day we celebrated again with lunch...dimsum at dragon! we ate our favourites but no salted egg buns!At night we celebrated dorky's birthday once more with the U2 360 tour at night! The tour was so amazing and gave us both goosebumps..the amount of people was overwhelming as was the band itself...it was just so epic! Hope that Dorky enjoyed his bday weekend, because I sure did!!

As an early xmas celebration, dorky and me went to eat at miss mauds! This time, we didn't get our free bonbons =( but that didn't dampen our spirits too much...the food was satisfying and we somehow got free drinks! Hooray! Can't wait for next year's buffet hehe!

Christmas this year wasn't too eventful because my parents left for a weekend trip but...there was a lot of food and A LOT of cooking for both dorky and me. Plus...it was super hot that weekend so it made us a teeny bit frustrated. I guess at the end of it, we were both satisfied with our efforts and enjoyed unwrapping our presents! Instax and spongebob...who could ask for more?? On boxing day, we had our secret santa gathering at Eva's! We exchanged gifts, which is always fun! Thanks to my SS for my new masterchef cookbook! Lurrrrve it! Merry christmas!

Just before new years, we also had another gathering...pot luck at Serenes! We sat outside with the bugs and enjoyed stuffing our faces with food! Rach's mini burgers were awesome and so was Michelle's strawberry dessert! Mmmm! Afterwards we played taboo, which was such a stressful game, but we didn't quite lose =P Thanks for a great time peeps!

For NYE, dorky and me decided to go to nb for it's street party. I had never been before and wasn't too sure what to expect. We arrived 3 hours before countdown and raomed up and down the streets just people watching and counting how many australian native tribes we could see. We watched live bands play for a while and before we knew it, people had started to countdown to the new year! How exciting!! After the number 0, I think everyone was waiting for some kind of fireworks (or maybe it was just us!) but they just never came! There was glitter and flames....but that was it! ahah oh well..it was a nice welcome anyway!

So that now brings us to the end of events of 2010!! On the first official day of 2011, dorky and me went for a movie by Burswood and watch the legend of the guardians. We had a really really great time with our picnic rug and nibbles and I guess what made the experience better was that the movie was actually good! HOOT! HOOT!

The next day we attended Tree's 25th birthday thing at princess tree's place. It was a 40 degree day and we were stuck outside because it was a pool party...but we didn't bring swimwear =( Soooo, we ate the bbq food instead...steaks and sausages, yumyum!I guess there wasn't a whole lot to do but to dip our legs in the water and chat, which we did! Anyways, we lasted until the late afternoon and headed off for dinner! Happy birthday!

It was my dad's birthday on the 4th! I didn't get my dad a present, which I felt bad for, but I did make him mini pineapple and mango cakes, which turned out pretty good! He appreciated the efforts and i had fun....it kind of put me into a baking phase again! Anyway happy birthday dad!

On Friday night we celebrated the return of Jas with karaoke! A fun and entertaining night as always with the gang!

SO! here we are now 10 days into the new year. My new years resolutions for 2011 starting from today...