Happy Birthday, Malaysia!

Happy 55th Merdeka Day, Malaysia! Saya Anak Malaysia, Proud to be Malaysian!

Every year this time, my dad will be looking into the storeroom to locate the Jalur Gemilang, which he gonna put it up in front of the house gate to proudly celebrate 31st August.

It's a national holiday on 31st August every year.
Older generation will truly appreciate this day itself, remembering what Malaysia has gone through.
Newer generation will also appreaciate this day itself, as there are countdown events going around.
And of course Fireworks!!!
I used to go into the city with friends to count down for Merdeka day, more like countdown to another holiday, haha!
I used to wake up early to watch the live broadcast of celebrations at Dataran Merdeka.

Every since moving to Oz to chase my dream, I have never felt so Malaysian before.
I realized that I m so so so Malaysian in so many ways.
Despite the negative news I read everyday about my own country, I still and will love Malaysia!!!

Thank u Hitz.fm, Merdeka Spirit in me shooting high!!!

Happy Birthday Malaysia! I will see u soon! Counting down of 75 days....

Lunch @ Flint

Coming into 8 months that I have move to a totally new environment to live on my own.
New Career, New Friends, New City, New weather, all are new for me. When I made the decision, many was very supportive while many said that I was so damn brave and independent. Come to think of it, YES I was that brave to move to Canberra for a new job all by myself.

It was indeed an adventurous start for me, getting to know the new city, the new company, the new friends, everything went very well, I think I might have done a very very good deed in my last life!!!

And so, all these adventures come from getting into such a wonderful company, people from all around the world, Israel, Brazil, Slovakia, China, Singapore, Lithuania, Indonesia, ETC...With such diversify-ness of colleagues, how can u not love it?

Anywaysssss, there was a company lunch being held @ Flint. Food, freeflow wine, freeflow fries, who won't love it! Everyone was so happy during the event! Here goes some photos....



Pork Loin - which I have chosen. The deco of food was fabulous while the taste was so so, many of them had the baramundi which was so so also. But who cares, the Wines were really great!!!

After food, the band started playing, it's unofficial band, haha...

Aya with me, cutie pie!!!

Tom was busy sipping his milk while I kacau him! Haha...



Games after food and drink! Round 1 FIGHT!!!
 

Peace to more such company event, can't wait for the next one!

Told u that we have such tradition in the company.
Last but not least, a birthday cake as a dessert to end the lunch!

 Thank Q for the great lunch!!!!

Happy birthday!!!

There's a tradition in my current company. Whenever someone is having a birthday just around the day that we all have internal training, we will have a cake for spices in the training, haha.

Training was done today but not many of us attended it, me especially didn't as I went for a technical examination related to my work. And I passed it with flying colors, so proud of myself Wakaka! So after finishing the exam, I headed to the training and I was just in time for the cake, everyone told me that I have a very good timing!

Happy birthday to my colleague!

I believe I can fly

Have u heard of the song? I believe I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky! Yesssss, my first flying lesson was completed last Thursday.
Bought a voucher from living social which only costs $99 for an hour lesson. Pretty cheap deal!

Location was an hour drive away from Canberra though, at a place called Goulburn, Oz's first inland city, located between Canberra and Sydney. When we arrived, the instructor came to greet us and damn he looks so cute! Can't wait to go on the flight lesson with him. Yaya, I was so gonna focus on the lesson rather than him, hah!
While waiting for my turn, another instructor was back for lunch and there goes my chance to getting to know a cute guy, wth????

It's only a small plane, that's why it's so cheap lah, only two seated tiny plane...

My instructor took off, wasn't I suppose to do that? I paid money ok? Probably he thinks that woman can't drive a plane? When we were in the sky, I was asked to navigate the plane, surely I said yes lah! The feeling was excited but nervous...haha.

Flew pass the mountain area with a river passing thru them, the view was amazing! Most importantly I got to fly the plane with my own hands!

Though I felt great but I prefer underwater world!!!

Happy Happy...人生真的很美好！

TGIF!!!! Haven't been using this for quite sometime here, and I miss it, really.
It will be a long weekend ahead, next Monday is a holiday here as it's the Queen's Birthday.
I m taking additional one day off to go on yet another short trip in OZ, guess where?
Check it out in the the next post, tolong rajin sikit visit here! :P

OAN (aka on another note, haha), it's freakin -5 degree this morning when I woke up, crazy crazy Canbie weather!

Oh, I really can't wait to say bye to Canbie weather for a few days!

Gloomy Monday

Winter is here?
 Woke up to the gloomy day this morning...

Almost wanted to just stay in bed to enjoy the sleep till late, haha...BUT no way....I need to WORK...

Arrived in office with home-made chocolate balls  welcoming the brand new week ahead!!!

4 days more to go. Brisbane, here I come!

We played the game on both Saturday and Sunday, I guess we are addicted to it, everyone was excited!! And on both games, I was the second in place. I MUST WIN in the next game! Anyway, decided to have a dinner at home before the game. We prepared BBQ steak, prawns skewer, baked potatoes, rice and salad. Of course free flow of liquor which we do not need to prepare, you just need to buy it! Hah....

Dinner was really good!!!

Happy Mother's Day 2012

It's so different this year, as I am away from the family 1st time in my life for such a long time, and YES I m still surviving, haha....
Every year, we will normally go out for dinner to celebrate this day but not this year, since I m not around, so I thought of sending them (the mother group? haha) cards, boring right?

SO, something different this time, I have opt to send flowers to them, surprising them with my LOVE.
Did research online, checking many different flower shops online and ended up choosing the best of the best ----> www.love.com.my.

The prices were the cheapest. Though it's my first time using their service, it's fairly simple to choose the item and conclude the order. Chose 3 different kinds of packages, Mum and 2 Aunties. There isn't any delivery charges for KL address and thought it would have some extra delivery charges for another aunt of mine who is living in Kota Kinabalu. No problem on that, once in a blue moon I am doing this, a little charges will be just fine.

1 Day before Mother's Day and I got a call on my OZ number, they called and saying that the delivery charges for KK will be a whooping RM100+, even more than the flowers I have chosen. No way I m going to pay that. They called to ask for permission to charge that to my credit card and I said NO. Order was cancelled, and the other 2 orders were good. I m liking this love.com.my a lot.

The day arrived, and I was rather excited to know what my mum and aunt will react.

Flowers and Chocs for my mum (actually choc for my dad, he loves choc, haha)

Flowers and Wine for my aunt (those are real flowers though they look fake)

Went out for brunch on that day, and was lepaking around in the city with a friend of mine.
Mum whatapps me "Von, I got your flowers, so surprise and they are really nice!", my heart melted, love.com.my did a great job. Sending my love from OZ to KL, amazing. She was very surprised to receive the flowers and was very happy to know that it's from me. What? Am I not caring enough during the normal days? Haha...

Then, I got a missed call from my aunt! Returned her call using Skype, cheaper neh.
She said she was also damn happy to see the gift and didn't think that it's me. What? Again?
Am I loving enough? Anyway, spoke to her for awhile and she is really surprise, my uncle was proud of me too (WTH) saying that the thoughts never came thru, seeing that I m so far away from them.....

But what? I miss my family a lot one, OK?
Love.com.my really did a great job, I will definitely use them again next time.

Happy Mother's Day to the world greatest mum (which is my mum) and the world greatest aunt.

Oh, I got my cuz to buy a bottle of wine for my aunt in KK too, easy measy....haha

Weekend Trip to Wollongong

It's weekend and the plan was, I tag'd along with a colleague to Wollongong (where the sun is).

We took less than 3 hours to arrive safely at Sam's and GuangHui's apartment, with steamboat dinner waiting for us...

It's been like 3 months ago I had steamboat in the cold cold OZ land, and it gets interesting on the way steamboat is eaten in China.

After dinner, we were too full of the food, decided to take a walk at the beachside and lighthouse, the sky was full of stars, super amazing. Took a less than 5 minutes drive and it's the beach!!! How come the job that I m at can't be at a place like this? Why?

The Gong was amazing enough at night, having to live in Canbie for 3 months with that kind of cold weather, here is Heaven to me!

Next morning, we drove to 南天寺 / Nan Tien Temple, was early and there weren't many cars and the crowd is ZERO, was good. Did some walking around the temple, was a huge one. I felt fulfilled and at home since I have got chance to do some prayers and say Hi to the Gods.

The temple is really big and nice, I believe they checked on the FengShui before building it too, haha, it's facing a lake and right behind is a tiny hill. Walked up the hill and here it is the bell that I rang to send regards and love to my parents back in KL.....Mummy and Pa, I miss u both lots, just tahan a bit, time will go real fast and I will be back with you soon.

The pagoda is the place where many ancestors are living there, we are not allowed to speak loud when we entered.

There were many cute kiddo 小和尚around, very very cute and they are doing all kinds of action, like exercising, reading, sleeping, etc...one of the attractions in the temple, as there were many people stopping to take photo with them rather than the temple itself.

Amazing View from Kiama Lookout Point

Headed to the market at Kiama but unfortunately it wasn't open that day, Sam got the wrong info. Anyhow we stopped by to look at BlowHole which is famous, was rather interesting to see the waves beating onto the rocks and it formed a fountain like the whale splashing water, nice. Manage to capture this tiny little one it did, good enough.

 No market to visit, we headed to another town named Gerringong where there is a tiny market only on every 3rd Sunday of the month. Small booths were selling food, vegetables, books, clothes. It seems that Oz is famous to have these kinda weekend markets every now and then. Nothing much at the weekend market though, and we settled down to have lunch at Deli & Cafe.

The food portion are huge but very delicious indeed.
We ordered one dish each, regretting after the food arrived.
I didn't even finish half of my nachos and have them tapao'd, they are still in the fridge, gonna throw it away, since it's 2 days back, hahhhh...

There was this fabulous view of a rock pool that we stopped by to take some photos too. So wanted to just jump in to feel the water, it's like swimming in the sea but there weren't any waves, it's a new thing for me. Didn't do that, didn't have clothes to change into.

It's like a swimming pool just next to the sea and it's surrounded by the sea rocks. In the pool, it's like the ocean, there's sea life there, algae, small fishes, etc. Really something new to me.

Went by some stores in town to grab some groceries, surprisingly there were more asians than in Canbie, and of course there is asian stores... 

Had dinner at Outback Steakhouse which was really popular in the Gong, we waited for 1 hour to get our seats though we called to make reservation earlier. I love the Sangria, the food was ok too, but the crowd was crazy, restaurant was packed.

The next morning, Sam and GuangHui brought me to Sea Cliff Bridge, which took us about 30min drive there from the city. The view again was amazing, the wind was stronger that day, but still it's not as cold and strong like Canbie.

 After seeing the best view of the Gong, the next best thing happened, Barbeque by the beach!!!!! We went to this supermarket to get the meat and stuff, and off we went to the beach to have them all cooked. Was a bit cold that day, hence I m wearing the long sleeve. The food was amazing, the view was amazing, the friend was amazing, everything was amazing.
It's also my first time to have BBQ right in front of a clear blur sea and sky! I hope many more to come, hehe.......


The next thing I wanna do!!!

Yes, I manage to dip my fatty kaki in...finally...

 My both new friends did an amazing job, preparing dumplings for dinner, they were so juicy and delicious, how I wish I could make them too. Unfortunately, my cookings sucks....haha...
Check this out ------>        Before And After.......

The Gong was really an amazing place to be, I really would love to stay at such a place. It's actually Winter now and the weather is darn cold in Canbie, and it's like Summer there, the Sun was shining, I was just wearing a baby T and jeans on the first day. Though the next day was a bit chilling, but it's not as cold as Canbie. Thanks to the amazing host (Sam and GuangHui), so nice to get to know them, we clicked well too. I LOVE THE GONG!!! I will be back again, wait for me plz...

It's March 2012...

One month into the life of living away from home in Canberra, Australia. I still cannot believe that I have made such a decision to move away from my comfort zone and embark on this interesting journey.

Yes, it's very much interesting still though 1 month has passed, hard times at the begining are all gone and I m pretty much used to it now. (I still imagine myself living back in KL and loving the life there....)

Interesting as in there is a new job waiting for me, there are new friends waiting for me to get to know, there are bombastic incidents to be happened, countless parties to attend, etc...you will know more when I story more on the next post which I am targetting myself to do so, wanna note down my adventurous moments in the oz land...

As of now, I moved into a fully furnished house, sharing with my other 2 colleagues, one from Slovakia and the other is from Brazil...you can imagine how interesting it is...haha...