Australia Zoo

Okay looks like I need to get a move on withthe semester break entries because I am backing up on posts. Well the Semester break week actually started of with a trip to Australia Zoo with Unidome....

be prepared for heaps of pictures...

People and places around the zoo

On the Way

Enterance

Because I am mean
Cute little kid who joined us

Don't ask
I think he and the rest of them felt right at home....

Such an obscene thing See what I mean....

The Show ...my favourite part of the zoo trip...

The Famous Crocoseum

The birds knew exactly where to fly in and whereto fly out..amazing ..some of them flew in unison and did shapes in the air


Amazing huge as ever bird


Snakes, so not my thing


Crikey!


Steve Irwins creation...waterway from he crocs pool into the crocoseum..they dont have to lift the croc out..it just swims out on its own..how cool

The Animals
At first glance their head were not sticking out I thought they were rocks!
Cute or not!
Those people paid quite a bit to be able to do this


Good all Aussie koala's ..
My personal favourite..cute little piggies at the kids petting zoo

There were heaps of other animals too... dingoes,foxes,tasmanian devil,ducks,tortoise,sheep, kangaroo's and etc.

We were tired towars the end so we just hopped on one of those slow train things back to the main enterance.
All smiles after the visit

Tired Zoo visitors

Semester Break

Yipeee....Sem break is here...well it has come and is almost gone actually...it's unbelieveable how time FLIES! anyways.....this is my first post on what I have been up to during the break. I did some stuff a few days ago, but I am still waiting for the pictures so here is an entry on today's activities.

My cousin has come from Perth and my unlce is back from PNG too, so its been fun fun fun so far. I feel really blessed to have activities to occupy myself duing break.

Well today was like a major FOOD day...from day to night it consisted of food!

Lunch consisted of Roast duck, and Roast and BBQ pork with rice at a place called Little Hong Kong! We dug in so fast that I have no pics. The awesomeness of this joint is that there is free flowing chillies and other sauces. They had sweet chilli sauce, sweet sauce,cilli in soy,ginger,garlic and green chili sauce....it was amazing with the steaming hot rice and meat!

Then we feasted as a family....We had Fried Malaysian Noodles for dinner and Toblerone Cheesecake made by yours truly for dessert!

Noodles

Ingredients for The Cheesecake

The finished Product

A slice of The Toblerone Cheesecake

All of this is sitting in my tummy right now and I am bloated!

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...