Cute Puppies...

awwww..... Don't know who this belongs to, but the puppies are SOOOOO cute!!! *melted*

A new blog template

Its late now.. just finished a game of online poker.. lost on a K,10 suited, to K,Q... well what to do.. I raised preflop but I guess its alright for the person to call since KQ is a better hand.. used to such beats in poker... anyway its a 10cent game.. so not so bad... think I still got back some money for finishing 17th out of 360 players..

Well, if anyone did notice.. yes, I changed the template for my blog.. finally.. I have been wanting to do so long time ago.. Just that I didn't know how to go about doing it until now.. Just completed the revision for MAA301 earlier.. so thought that I should just work on this blog template thingy while I have the time... Been sleeping real late for the past few weeks.. so I guess my body clock has already adjusted itself to only feel tired at 3am.. Aware that it isn't good for health (especially lack of sleep can make one fat).. but I just find myself more energetic at night.. but definitely got to kick this habit of sleeping late... if not, in future will suffer when I start to work and got to wake up early..

I guess I am just looking forward for my exams to be over and done with... we've got some programmes planned ahead for the summer... we will be spending a weekend at a friend's holiday apartment at the Lakes (i have no idea where that is at the moment).. and probably do more aussie stuffs like beaching... golfing... pokering... etc... just got to experience aussie lifestyle while we are here.... I believe all these will be very good experience for me...

These few days Nic has gradually shown acceptance to the fact that we might not be able to stay on in Melbourne.. Though I understand and can feel that he is really disappointed, but I guess if that's the way our life is planned... there's nothing much we can do... but honestly, to me I feel that even though we don't get to stay on now, doesn't mean that we won't get to come back here and live in future.. I believe if there's a will, there will be a way.. I just hope that Nic can be less disappointed and be a happier man... I know there's a lot of worries weighing on him at the moment.. and guess all I can do is to do my part and put in some effort to search for a job.. if we have done our best, even if things doesn't work out the way we want them to, we shan't feel too bad.. at least we tried... sigh...

Anyway.. hopefully in my next post, I can at least be more certain of what my (or rather our) future lies ahead... I will be wherever Nic wants to be... If he can't get what he wants, at least he has my support... :)

Its exam period again...

Can't wait for it to be over... Though studying is not as bad as working (i reckon) but then having to cramp one semester worth of information into my small little skull seems rather taxing... and hopefully all goes well for us...

So what's on after exams?? The answer is no idea...

All I know is that at this moment, my options are to either try and look for a job here (which I think will be rather tough without being a PR) or to go back and help Nic's parents till April, then look for a job in Singapore... Honestly speaking, I am fine with either alternative... but b'cos Nic is very persistent in staying here, I guess I would have to too...

Sigh!! I wish God can be more obvious when showing us the way... maybe we are really meant to go back... but then again, I don't wish to upset Nic by not putting any effort to look for a job here.. so I guess I just got to do it and see how it goes...

Anyway now I shall just devote my time to prepare for my exams and nothing else... I'd just got to let the future worry for itself... I always believe that God has already arranged our path for us, so just got to take one step at a time... (I am just someone who hates to worry about the future... b'cos to me, my rational is "why waste energy worrying over things that you have no control over".. right?)

Alrighty... Nic is out to Ben's house for a Xbox gaming session... I chose to stay at home simply b'cos I am too lazy to step out of the house... and perhaps to study... but I think now I just want to take a rest... and watch some show instead.. lolx... ;)

Sydney Trip 2008

Alrighty, finally 'found' some time to update on the Sydney Trip last weekend. The trip lasted for 5 days 4 nights, we departed Melbourne on the 26th September and came back on 30th September. Ate soooooo freaking much during the trip and therefore put on soooooo much weight (or at least that's what I think).. :( haven't really weigh myself though cos after we came back from the trip, I felt quite sick the whole of the next day (which is yesterday), so didn't make it to the gym. Was suppose to go today, but then postpone to tomorrow instead.. *diez* getting too lazy... Its time to stop procrastinating and start exercising!!!

Anyway, enough of crying over my weight.. let's talk about the trip....

Overall, the trip was quite a good one though there were some unexpected 'cock-ups'. The first issue happened when we were collecting the car from Hertz. Was supposed to provide a credit card for some security deposit, but then my card has exceeded the limit and Nic's UOB card doesn't seemed to work. So in the end we got to call Cass to borrow her card. But who knows her card was also being declined. Damnz.. what a bad morning to start the trip with.. The worst scenario is to go all the way to Caulfield to pick Amanda and Shuqi up first before heading back to the city to get the car and then back to our place to park our own car before heading to Sydney. This way it will be a total waste of time. But luckily, we managed to find a bank that opens at 9am to clear my credit card bill so finally I managed to use my card and collected the car at around 10am. Was already abit behind schedule.

So after we got the car, we went back home to park our car first before driving to Caufield to pick the rest up. We officially left Melbourne at 11+am.

Nic drove all the way up, taking a total of 9 hours. We had 2 toilet cum petrol breaks along the way. Think he sped all the way at the speed of 140km/h. We arrived in Sydney at around 8.30pm.

We planned to go for a late dinner at Pancakes on the Rocks. But before that, we checked into the hotel and took a shower to freshen up ourselves....

After dinner at the Pancakes, we went to meet Amanda's friend and join them for clubbing at night.

Day 2: We woke up on time (around 8am) and left the hotel at 9am as planned. The itinerary for the day was to visit 2 flee markets (Glebe market & Paddington market). Everything went as planned. At night we had Korean food for dinner. After dinner, the girls went partying with Amanda's friends while Nic and I returned to hotel early to chill and relax...

Day 3: Happy Birthday Nicky Boy!!! (its Nic's birthday today!)... and as it was a Sunday, Nic and I made our way to mass in the morning. After church, we headed back to hotel to pick the girls up before heading to Sydney Fish Market... *yummy seafood*

At the fish market, we had sashimi, prawns, crabs, oysters, etc. The seafood was sooooo delicious.. *yumz* and I bet this must be Nic's happiest birthday cos he get to eat his favourite seafood.. :)

After our brunch, we headed back to the hotel. That day was a hot day and so everyone was feeling very lethargic after the heavy brunch. In the end, we took a nap before going out for shopping. We went Myers and spent the $150 gift card which Nic won from last Thursday's poker. I bought myself a pair of shorts, a top, a trial pack of Clinque cleanser, a mascara and a blusher. *happy*

After shopping, we went to Lowen Brau for dinner. We had pigs trotters, sausages, some veal dish and beer. During the dinner, there was a performance at the restaurant. Both Nic and I took part in their beer drinking competition, and of cos, I tied with the other girl contestant in the girl's round, and Nic got 2nd in the guy's round. haha... think we can really drink man!

Anyway that was a happy day indeed, and I am sure Nic enjoyed himself alot that day. :)

Day 4: Second last day of the trip. We had dim-sum for brunch. After brunch, we went to Sydney Opera House and Bondi Beach. In the evening, we had ribs and steak at Hurricane's Grill. (gosh.. so much of eating...). After dinner, we went to Star City and contributed $200 to the casino... *so sad*..

As the night was still early, we decided to play some drinking games in the hotel. So we headed to Coles to buy cards and liquor. We played "I Never" and some "Asshole Tai-di" till around 2am before turning in.

Day 5: Last day of our Sydney Trip. We checked out at 9am and proceed to Pancakes again to have breakfast. After breakfast, we headed back to Melbourne. We left Sydney at 10.45am.
The journey back seems longer than the journey up. Nic drove all the way as well. But this time round, we were not so lucky. We got a speeding ticket of $243!!!! Cos Nic was speeding at the speed of 140km/h and didn't see the police car. *bad luck* So after the fine, Nic drove all the way at the speed of 110km/h, and we arrived in Melbourne at 8.30pm. After that, we had Korean food for dinner.

It was good to be back 'Home' again... Melbourne is still the best! :)

Alright, here are some of the pictures taken during the trip...:





























That's all folks! Stay tune for the next post!!!

Time to study.. Gotta rush an assignment which is due next monday!!! -_-

Exams are coming too.. My paper will be on the 12 & 13th Nov.. Nic's will be on the 5 & 6th.. Damn he will be ending earlier than me... then he will be enjoying himself while I am still preparing for my papers... *sucks* :( But what to do.. just hope that both of us can do well for this semester too.... *pray hard*

Ciaoz!

Royal Melbourne Show 2008

Today we visited the Royal Melbourne Show. In fact its the 2nd day that we went, cuz the first day was with Kor Jie and Lucas, and didn't really get to venture much. Anyway Nic and I had a great time 'dating' at the Royal Melbourne Show.

We reached there at about 2pm+. The sky was a bit gloomy by then (although the forecast said that today will be sunny), so I said a little prayer for God to bless us with a good weather, and sure enough, for the duration that we were at the show, the weather was great, except for a few minutes of light showers but that doesnt really matter. :)




One of the event for the show is the Championship Dog show, where breeders will bring their doggies to compete with other dogs of the same breed. It was wonderful to be surrounded by dogs *grin* I simply love them too much.. and Nic always say that I will go mad when I see dogs.. haha.. but I can't help it, they are just sooooo innocent and soooo lovable.. lolz... anyway, I took some pictures of some giant Schnauzers (its a pity that I can't take any pictures with the dogs):







There was in fact nothing much to do at the show, only atmosphere that brings about the excitment and fun. Initially, I wanted to take some rides, but after a second thought, we decided to give the rides a miss.. (cos they all look so intimidating).. haha... *2 scardy cats* ;p

As we walked around the show, we spent some unnecessary money playing those 'catch-a-soft-toy' games. The first game we played was called '21'. We are suppose to purchase tickets and use the numbers given on the tickets to form 21. This game wasn't simple at all. Firstly, we purchased 14 tickets with $10 and got a few tickets with numbers 4,8,10,6 & 2. However we are not able to form 21 with all even numbers, so we decided to give another try. We purchased another 6 tickets with $5. But still no luck. So spent another $5 (which is a total of $20) and still no luck.

(look at all the tickets we have.. a.k.a money wasted)

Eventually we decided to give a last try of $2 to purchase 2 tickets (and guess the staff took 'pity' on us and decided to give us a 'joker' ticket cos Nic said that all these are controlled by them) . So at last, we got a CAREBEAR! :) But guess what, the staff did not collect back the Joker ticket from Nic, so we decided to go back later to exchange for another one. So we walked on.



As we walked towards the Grand Pavillion (where the food is), we saw this game stall that says "the highest Poker hand wins". Out of curiousity, we checked out the stall. And how the game works is to roll 5 balls into holes of A,K,Q,J,10, and whoever gets the highest hand will win. So we spent another $5 playing the game, but got nothing.

Feeling tired, we decided to take a rest and grab a bite. We had some Dutch pancakes, German sausage roll, fish & chips and squids, as well as a few cups of beer. Nic had a corn too:

(taken with our 'little one'.. lol...)

After 'recharging' ourselves, we went back to the games stall to exchange for another toy using the Joker ticket. This time round, Nic purchased 2 tickets with $2 and walked aside to open the ticket so that the person will not notice our 'trick'. So after 'opening' the Joker ticket, Nic went up to the staff and told him that we want to get a toy since we got the Joker ticket. Immediately, his expression changed (cos we think that he knows that we 'cheated' as he is aware that amongst the tickets that he gave us, there is no Joker ticket). But there's nothing he can do cos if he were to expose us, then he will be as good as exposing himself. Hence, reluctantly he gave us our 2nd CAREBEAR! lolz.....

(my 2 'babies')

But guess cheaters will really reap their retribution. Why? Cos after that we tried our luck at another stall and wasted $20 getting nothing.. :( So we just consoled ourselves that the $20 is spent to get the 2nd carebear. sigh!!! what to do.....

We spent a total of 4 hours at the show. It was really fun... Fun not because of the things that we get to do there, but fun because Nic and I did this together happily... and we really enjoyed it alot! :)

(A farewell shot with a goat)

So tired.. after a week of eating and going out... :( No fun at all.. all the eating makes me feel so FAT!!! argh... made a pact with myself to diet for one whole week after Kor they all leave... got to cleanse my system before going for another round of eating during the Sydney Trip (26 Sept -1 Oct)..

Anyway, Kor Jie and Lucas has been here since Saturday.. it feels good to have them around.. Lucas has grown so much and is now so chatty.. though he's abit demanding at times, but he's really sweet too.. especially when he just walks up to me and call me "Aunty Terra" in the sweetest tone.. lol... hmmm.. *thinking to myself* isnt it nice to have a kid??

Well well, dateline for the assignment is approaching... did most of it by now, but really not confident in doing well at all.. somehow my mind seemed to be blocked... can't get any inspirations at all... so guess just try to amend to the best i can and leave the rest to the marker (or rather to God).. :)

Alrighty we are now bringing kor to play APL at Foresters Arms...

Ciaoz!

**O ya, before I forget to mention this.. Last Friday was a very 'fruitful' day for me... cos (1)
I got myself my very own pair of Oakleys last Friday.. hehe... (see the one in the Royal Melbourne Show blog dated 23 Sept) .. and (2) Nic brought me a Gucci wallet:

(^_^)

Finally a STRAIGHT FLUSH!!!

Lolzz... so happy to have won poker yesterday! Won a $150 Coles-Myer Gift card which we intended to use it for the service of our car. Had quite a bit of luck yesterday, made some good folds, good bets and some shitty-but-winning calls. But the best hand that I had was none other than the straight flush!

I started off with a pocket 9s, I raised my bet preflop to $1000 (worth of chips). 2 other people called. Flop came out K (hearts), 9 (diamonds), Q (hearts). Seeing that I hit trips, I raised my bet to another $2000. This is to prevent any other unfavorable hits by the other players on the turn and river. But the 2 other players went all in on my raise, which I definitely had to call. So I did. Anyway the turn came out a 10 (hearts). At that point, Moss (another player) already had 2 pairs (K & Q). So if any K or Q comes out or J will give him a full house (where he will win the pot) or a straight (where there'll be a split as there's a straight on the board). But then luckily, no Ks or Qs came, but only a J (hearts). Although there's a straight on the board, but because one of my 9s is a 9 (hearts), thus I got a STRAIGHT FLUSH! (^^)

Evidence taken by Nic:

Happy!!!

But then at the thought of my assignment :(

Can't seem to write anything for it.. No inspirations... But hopefully, really hopefully I can get some soon... *frustrated*

Alrighty, back to do some work now... Will be going for gym later and then probably clubbing tonight cos its Gary's (Nic's friend) birthday....