Easter day! and Brothers Birthday

Flowers for the lovely occasion

So happens this year my brothers birthday was coincided with Easter..so it was a double celebration. My bro from Sydney flew down for the occasion and so my brothers had a birthday BBQ with their friends the night before Easter. While they were busy catching up with friends, and celebrating their first birthday together after quite some time ....my aunt and I were busy preparing for Easter day lunch.... I have to say I have never in my life chopped that much garlic!!!! hahaha...I even made two dishes.

Insane amount of garlic!




Eggplant/brinjal dish I made. Not as good as mum's and grandma's, but it sure finished fast. Thats the pleasure in cooking! for people to enjoy, I get it now.

The two Anne's and myself

So after church service in the morning we had our Easter lunch
All who were there (I was taking the pic)...Uncle Adrian, Aunty Ann and Richard joined us

Siblings (p.s. mum maybe you could display this picture at home, I am plump, and boyish in the one you have now, besides that was years ago!)
With the family! wish more of em were around though! (AirAsia....*hint hint*)


ahahaha the twins..all grown up! hahhaa...they were laughing coz they were making a fuss about the holding the knife together thing! ahahaa...

Homemade Blackforest cake made by aunty Anne (it had port in it..now you know how yummy it was)

Easter bunnies and only ONE/two(tiny blue one) eggs...ooops...by the time this picture was taken I had gobbled up the other eggs

In the beginning

The aftermath

And then of to Metro church with the girls

Then it was Good friday

Service was first thing at 8 am in the morning. The service was solemn yet so beautiful. Kristabelle, one of the church members played a beautiful song on the flute as we had a 20 minute reflection and prayer time during the service. I could see all around me people had tears in their eyes.

Below are some symbols my pastor layed out in front of the alter that reflects visually Good Friday..he was so cute to even include a hot cross bun there among the other things...hahaha.

On a lighter note. After the service we went over to a church members house for Freshly baked Hot cross buns!

oooooo yum!! hot from the oven with butter.....

Their cat and birds

Easter Break

It all started with Holy Thursday...

The Passover meal like in Jesus's time..was really a nice experience to be able to have the meal with each part of it explained, so that we could understand why things are the way they are and happen the way they do.

The menu:

The order of service:

Pastors wife: lady with head covered, lighting the main candles up front.

Table setting:

We were served nuts and grapes before we were seated and while everyone was still chatting.These two were something commonly munched on in acient feasts.

The food:

I had much more lamb,this was taken as I was distributing my meat away to the others . I had once piece though, and gosh! yummy!! The homemade mint sauce was made from scratch with only natural ingridients, everything was boiled in olive oil! Fantanstic meal actually...and all made by kind hearted church members!

Non alcoholic wine: It was PINK! and yummy!

Dessert: A piece of honey cake..or should I say a chunk! that picture is only half of what was served..it tasted so good! like honey melting in your mouth, and the whipped cream just balanced out the sweetness! Whoever baked the cakes..hats off to you!

Aside from those dished above, we had a boiled eggs, and unleaven bread with two types of dipping. 1.Horse radish and 2. Harosis:made from apples,raisins,figs,nuts,wine and honey.

Each part of the meal symbolized something. Explanation can be found in the 1st two pictures.

In between we sang some songs..and towards the end even did the first communion. I could tell everyone was having their own special moment.The atmosphere(dark-ish with soft light from the candles, with the smell of freshly roasted lamb,and thoughts of Jesus's last meal) sure helped to set the right mood.

And I just admire how well oiled and close knit the church can be. As soon as everything was over, everyone could be seen busy helping to clear up.From washing and drying the utensils and plates, to sweeping the floor and putting the tables and chairs away. Then when all was done zap! the lights went out! hahahaha...in total darkness everyone said their goodbyes, exhanged hugs and left to their repective homes!

Horrible start for the RED'S!!

F1 is back!! and the first race kicked of at Melbourne Grand Prix Circut, Albert Park. What an awful race! how awful?? so awful that Ferrari got 0 points!!! and Hamilton got poll!!

I wonder why the race was so jinxed! only 8 cars remained towards the end, witm Kimi retiring due to engine failure. Was it because transmission rules were changed? and the drivers were not used to the challenging corners of the track?? who knows...it only means one thing though...DRIVERS you need to turn on your skills full on!!!

Some highlights. Good and Bad:
1. Same as mentioned above..only 8 cars finished the race!!! when 22 started!

2. Kimi from 11th place gets to 8th and soon he is racing behind Kovalainen ready to take over for second place ...he does ..and bam! too sharp so he goes into the gravel, without smashing into the wall he continues at the back of the pack in 11th place AGAIN!! he continues driving and just as he is to over take Glock...he makes another mistake and he swerves off again! poor guy..wonder what was wrong! finally in the end as he tried his best and pushed the car to get back into a decent position...nothing worked ,the car failed him..he had to retire so that Ferrari could get new gears and an engine without incurring penalties for the next race.

3.Race kicks off and Massa spins and he looses his spot. Later on he collides with Coulthard...and boy did Coulthard get pissed! as the commentator said his 'colourful' language says it all! and his car was damaged real bad! However Massa speeds on without problems at first but soon retires and pays the price for colliding.

4. The safety car came out 3 TIMES!!! yup 3! commentator made a good point yet again ' cars were dropping like flies' on that day. And two out of the 3 times the safety car came out, Kimi had a chance to redeem himself, but he failed both times! I was jumping up and down by this time!

5. Barrichello nearly injured one of the pit members, all thanks to the lollypop man who lifted the lollypop up tooooo fast! wooosh! the fuel pipe came out and the pit crew went wham! on the ground. No worries he survived.To make matters worse, poor Barri got a penalty for the pit stop he made when the mishap happened was too soon after the safety car came out..he was in 4th!!!!! but thanks to the penalty he was behind Kimi in 8th when he rejoined. Than they said he(Barri) ran a red light when coming out of the pit lane!! what is wrong with honda's communication!?


6. Towards the end of the race Glock goes for a movie stunt material/James Bond movie worthy crash! wham! into the curb...lifts off the ground and bounces nicely back on the track hard. His car was in bits!! debry everywhere! he is soooo lucky he did not spin over! poor guy was shocked beyond belief I am sure, having been shaken that bad!

7.The new Frenchy(Allez France!!!) Bourdais was racing beautifully!but thanks to his car (sad to say it was a Ferrari engine) that failed on him, he had to retire too!! "Mais tu conduit tres bien Bourdais! ma felicitations!!!" Kubica was racing well too, till the teams stratergy failed and the car zonked out.

8. The funniest and awesome-est takeover sequence..hahahahaa happened. After being at each others necks for quite a few laps,Kovalainen(Mclaren's new driver who took over Alonso's place) takes over Alonso (the camera immediately zooms into the Mclaren booth,ppl were clapping and cheering) BUT.. Alonso over takes just mere seconds later!!(they did not show the Mclaren team's reaction this time) you would have had to see it to believe how good it was and how funny!!

9. And of course Rosberg and Heidfeld did awesome jobs!!! showed skills! They deserved to be on that podium! they stuck it out good!


And while all this was happening on the track throughout the race do you think Hamilton knew anything!!?? no way!!! he was leading from start to finish!! he was driving in his own world in his own race!!! DAMN!!

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