Free Time

I was holding a D-SLR camera posturing to take some nice scenery, adjusting the shutter speed and aperture to make sure the colour balances, and the results were fabulous, exactly like a pro. I was glad and contented, so out for more excitement, I lifted my hand close to my eyes and look through the camera for more shots. The next moment I open my eyes, I saw my hands sticking to my face, and I saw the ceiling of my room and yeah, exactly like a pro in my dream.

I know I misses my camera, I haven’t been taking pictures with my baby D-SLR for a while and the urge to play with it again reacted naturally while I'm asleep. As I haven’t got chance to organize outings, I decided to bring my baby along with me to a casual Karaoke session. It was a risk since I might wreck it or misplace it if I'm drunk! Well, it turn out okay, I got myself wasted that night, but my baby is still in one piece, I didn’t lose it but I lost the lens cover in the end!! Damn, when it comes to unexpected outcome!!!! Not very happy the next day even though I have an extra lens cover.

So, happily I’ve got some updated photos to share in here this time… It was Wilson’s birthday party in New Square Karaoke on last Saturday night, and I was encouraged to bring my baby along to freeze some happy moments. Since I’ve got free time, I edited some nice ones with Photoshop~

Anyway it's late now and got to get up early for work tomorrow again. So, I’m going to bed soon…

Once I got into the Karaoke room, I caught hold of Christine and took a few close-up so I can adjust the settings to suit the room lightings. I think it's just me, I'll try a few shots but the first one is always the best. Yeah, so happy Christine got another photo to add into her personal portrait album.

As usual when it comes to birthday party, a cake is an important complement to the birthday person. And when it comes to my blog space, it is vital to let you know that it's not that easy to capture a nice warm photo with candlelight lightings. Indirectly, I became an important complementary person as well!

Something that I realized after seeing this photo the next day, I can't remember the taste of this cake. After thinking it twice, I finally remember that the cake was divided equally among everyone but one piece sat on the table for sometime - I thought it was an extra one. Since no one claims it, it end up to be the most desperate cake at the end of the day.

After taking blardy heaps of shots of it, I totally forgotten that this piece was mine!! See what I mean? It's desperate - "EAT ME!!!!" and I really want to try it...

This scene is when my nightmare begins, I'm not going to explain the rules of this "Bing Bang" game since I drank like 5 glasses after people bang me.

And this is what happen, I've got too shy after drinking up all the alcohol in the room.

Below are some of the random nice photos I took throughout the party... Click 'on black' to enjoy the best effect~ ^ ^

Best Viewed large on Black.

Best Viewed large on Black.

Night~!

Guan Yu 5yo

I see them once a vacation every year, and I’m always glad that they still remember how to address me when I got home. They have an idea that I’m in Australia but they have no idea where is that place, whenever I pack a bag for outing when I was back in Malaysia – a few questions will come along “You are going back to Australia again?”, “You are not coming back anymore?”, “Why you keep coming back and going off?”

The eldest is my niece, people always say in majority – brain of a girl grows faster. She’s 8yo with lots of empathy – she’ll listen to me, ask questions, stay obedient, teach the right thing to the younger and never liked to play game. While my nephew, 5yo cares nothing more than games and mobile, he’ll ask heaps of questions with interest and work his way until he gets his hand on the mobile game. And the youngest nephew, 2yo who still can’t talk, have the interest to snatch whatever the 5yo plays – nothing else and I call him the king because he gets everything once he shout. All three of them grow under the same roof with totally different character!

It’s the second time that I celebrated my nephew birthday, the first time was in the hospital when he still have bloody stain on his face after birth – they said he looks like a monkey and he falls under the year of Monkey under the lunar calendar, coincidently born during the midnight of day 8 in the new year period (初八) so they said he’s one of the 天公仔 (Hokkien Translation “Ti Gong Kia”) which also mean the son of the Chinese God.

Whether it’s true or not, I can’t be bothered but I do think he have a monkey look and when time goes by, he even acted like one -he become very mischievous when he gets older.

Until today, he has become a smart kid with good memory for his own good. I mean once you teach him something he’s interested like games, he pick it up right away and play it really well – he got a good logical brain and obey his sister but still too naughty to listen to others.

For his 5yo birthday, we made a party for him in my aunt’s place so that my younger cousins can celebrate together, play in the pool, run around the place, dominate each other’s toys, and snatch for the cake and all the delicious food.

My cousins - needless to say that they are game freaks as well since they are boys – the Photostat-face brothers!

The food is so nice that I can’t stop myself as well, best when it still comes with soup! I don’t know what to name them since it’s all cooked by my aunt – even better than my mum’s cooking. Damn!

Home Cook Steam Abalone…



Home Cook Deep Fried Fish…



Home Cook Fried Calamari…



Home Cook Fried Chicken…



How come I don’t get such food for my 5yo birthday!?



And no such cake…



And no such nice photo!



Life is unfair and this uncle can’t agree with me more since he gets everything he wants!

And on the beginning of day 9 of the Chinese New Year, Hokkien put up incense for offerings to the god~

Happy Birthday Tiffany

I still remember helping Tiffany to organise her Birthday party on the big fishing boat last year. It was adventurous and although some vomited because of the rough waves, everyone still had fun to the max! And today, this birthday girl is reborn again~

Water Front @ Port Melbourne

People say that birthdays are good, there are many reasons to it – statistically, the one who have the most live the longest or realistically, you get a reason to eat lots of cakes – especially those super rich cakes from Melbourne!!

Tiffany decided to Waterfront it this time, and this is what happens…

Port Melbourne Waterfront has a good environment stated right in front of the sea. Everything is good except for the weather that day, it was blardy cold and raining, the fact that it’s located beside the sea makes thing worse. In the restaurant, we were "so honored" to be seated on the biggest table with the biggest chair around – the big long rectangular table is so long and big that a whole cow can be served on it! So cool but we were bugging the manager to change us into a round table since we felt too honored and can’t really hear each other from one end to the other.

Tiffany vs Lobster

Anyway that’s not the most important thing. Tiffany had a good time with her lobster even though she’s allergic to shells and her lips become numb when she was having it and she actually enjoyed it, so it’s all good. I was having fun teasing Evelyn about her new hair set - finally she doesn’t have to self-declare about herself as a beauty with her old dodgy hairstyle. Hoho~

Below are some of the decent photos I took that night, I like their seafood platter the most! But, I'll have to forget about the price if I really want to enjoy it~

Evelyn New Hairstyle

Their Kitchen is cool, the setup and the feeling of the restaurant is almost perfect if they don’t seat us on that table…

Baby Snapper – not very satisfying though…

Salmon on whatever sauce – I wonder if it’s nice~


Grilled Seafood Platter

Fresh Grand Seafood Platter – nicely decorated!

Nice atmosphere~

And the table is too big for a group photo so I only grab half of the gang since I don’t want to go through all the trouble to do it.

KTV December

After the dinner, we hopped over to KTV December for alcohol and more celebration!!

Happy Birthday again, and hope you'll have a smooth-sailing year ahead!

And it was a Good Night!