Ok here we go again! I'm super outdated again! but better late the never right? ok so first of all I have pics from this years Riverfire at Southbank,Brisbane.After the Beijing olympics I think even Brisbane city council was inspired to put on a good show..they had 3 times the fireworks this year as compared to last year.

And now the videos.....

Singapore....

Is it just me or do you guys realize also that Singapore is suddenly coming out unto the international stage with a BANG!!!

Firstly they won the bid to host the 2010 first ever Youth Olympics



Secondly, They hosted the first ever Contender Muay Thai






Thirdly, The first ever F1 Night race!!!!!!!



Can't wait...will be quite interesting!

p.s. The contender so far is good...finals next week

1 month and 8 days later

ok so I am 2-0....yup as the tittle suggeest 1 month and 8 days into it. Sorry for the lateness with the birthday blog.

Well below I have mentioned a little on the festivities with friends, besides that my brother took the family out for birthday dinner at the Belgian Beer Garden/cafe on the day itself.

The restraunt/pub is known specially for its beer. It serves special white(blonde) strong belgian beer apart from a wide range of other Belgian beer. There is no such thing as light beer on the menu. But the place also has the usual bar with the more common drinks on one side and the place is extremely noisy buzzing with chatter as customers are allowed to talk however loud they want to, and the seperation between the dining area and the pub is pointless! So you can actually scream,yell and say anything at all and nobody cares. The place is called beer garden because its famous for its authentic Belgian beer and garden because off to the back of the place is a garden where people stand around talk and drink. Food wise, the place is sought after for its mussels! The menu is limited to a few speciality dishes only. Thus you can be sure each dish is prepared on a more personal basis and is bursting with flavour and quality.

The Place

Famous Belgian Blonde(white) Beer

We all know why this picture was taken

The beer. There are different kinds of beer, and each beer is named someting different and represented by a different gnome.

My drink, Mojioto

Appetizer 1: Baby squid crumbed in lemon pepper w caper mayonnaise

Appetizer 2: Baked snails(escargot) in their shells w garlic and herb butter

Appetizer 3: Beer battered fries and caper mayonnaise

The Mains

Gently pan fried Barramundi with side of mash potato and blue cheese cooked w spinach

Belgian handmade sausages with home made garlic mash and sauteed onions w herbs

Good ol' medium rare steak with baby potatoes and steamed asparagus in a light red wine sauce

My main: Scallops cooked in garlic on a bed of fresh lemon and herb rissoto

South Australian Boston Bay mussels in white wine, bay leave,persillade and cream in a traditional belgian pot

Dessert:Belgian waffle w Grand marnier and orange zest,confit orange caramel, topped with dark chocolate ice cream

Awesome meal and great company, altogether a very pleasent evening out.Lots of merry-making, laughing chatting and picture taking.One of those special occasions where indulging is strictly a must! Pitty not everyone I wished to be there could be there. Oh well reunion end of the year! yay!

The August Birthdays

aiyayai.... Its been ages since I blogged yet again! well lets see..... I have mid-sem's but I am blogging, why? because I need a break. Just recovered from a week long of flu and fever! yup 4 days in bed feeling horrible. Not a 100% cured but back on my feet which is awesome!

ok so I shall blog about a long gone event. The August Brithdays.....

First up was Navin's belated Birthday celebrated a day after mine,and the girls threw me a mini suprise. 2 weeks later Natali celebrated hers. Here are the pictures.

We had 4 cakes! well I had one, the cute little yummy white pavlova..the other 3 were the Brithday boys

Cutting my cake

Friends and presents

Food and us

Then the picture taking began......

Don't ask...

Then some random spur of the moment impulse got us all into two cars and off we went to Mt Coot-ha. It was 12.30 am and in the middle of winter! The first pic you can clearly see they were not happy to be there! Malsha unlike the rest was fine. Second pic we put a smile on our faces and made the trip up there more than just jump out of car freeze....jump back in!

Bumped into Batman and Snow White at Maccas when having coffee after the butt freezing

Next Brithday

Two of my friends and I decided to go wtih traditional wear

Errmmm blurry pic of us toturing the girl in white...what were we doing? we were popping balloons on her head! yup! on her head!
Group picture....

I had to leave early this time around because I had 8 am class the next day. But my friends continued on by reliving their childhood...also at a mad hour in the middle of winter

The host and hostess of both parties.

hmmmmmmmm

Is it just me or are you people suddenly getting bouts of excitement just like me at the thought of GOING HOME not being too far away? Dont know why, but eversince Uni finalized End of Semester Exam dates I have these sudden happy and jittery thoughts of "Hey I'm going home in November....yipeee..what to eat!? do??"(can't help it that food comes to mind first.Once a penangnite,always a penangnite)

But the reality is that Mid-semester exams are around the corner and there are lots more of material to cover before EOS exams...bleeehh!!

*Update: Looks like Lin is thinking bout the hols too! jut saw ur blog..wow you have like the whole few month planned out! hahahhaa...

From where I left off

Alright so somewhere in between that winter break where the friend stayed over, I had orientation ... yup I had to go for yet another orientation! why? because I changed uni's. And its for the last time I promise! hahaha...because finally I am where I have always wanted to be! ok so not always.....but yeah since I was old enough to know all this Uni business. ( voila Jenn there is your answer, that was what the countdown and sneek peak was for.... hahahhaa...not a park and pancakes)

So many booklets and information sheets...honestly how many trees wasted? oh well no choice I suppose. And yup they gave us a lollypop! With uni logo wrapping...weird no? but cool nonetheless.

Alritey moving on.. my aunt decided to kick start my birthday festivities early by paying for my entry ticket to Movie World at the Coast, so off I went after like what? 13 years? Some attractions were way cooler when I was littler BUT I loved all the rides I didn't get to do as a kid! those were wickedly fun!

My personal favourite ride.. The Superman Escape!

Batman Wing

If only i was that brave and drove on real roads! in a real car!

Keepsakes from the trip

On another note, did I mention while browsing thru a lifestyle Sunday market with our visiting guest,my aunt was like Prasaaannnaaaaaaa look what I found!!!... and I am getting it for you! hehehe...

Alright I shall continue. Following a hectic,busy, tiring yet FUN filled, adventurous winter break,some of my friends who had gone off to different places to have their break came back.And the very next day I think, we all met up for a lunch hang out session followed by 'Dancing on the street' at Southbank in the city. As usual we were shrieking and laughing and giggling trying to all tell our holiday tales and catch up.
Hmmm lets see then what happened? oh yes then the week-end before uni re-opened my uncle took us to a Chinese Restaurant called Landmark for Yum cha(Dim sum). We had to wait an hour in line to be seated!Yup its that popular! Surely enough the food was good! and the variety was amazing. But it had its flaws..the MAJOR flaw was that the service was utterly horrible!! they couldn't handle the big crowd! On top of that the lunch cost my uncle a bomb! hahahaha...big hole in his pocket!

The looooooooooooooong queue

Food...The fried and steamed stuff...ermmm and I think the freakish tripe is there in the pic...the one thing I would never touch!

Veggies in soy sauce, Roast duck and stuffed brinjal

My personal favourite for the day, Scallop coated in melted cheese

We had all the other traditional yum cha stuff too like prawn dumplings, yam cake,"su mai" and etc. The pictures are really bad because I didn't have my camera with me, they were taken with my phone.

And of course EGG TART the perfect ending

Well people, I think that's all for the overdue posts from winter break. Much has happened since uni has started. It's like week 5 now!! and I will be having 3 mid-sem and one of the 4 mini exams for Micro over the next two weeks! so the birthday post would have to wait! till then, take care all and God bless!