How nice if I was there..

My ah ma's 94. 

 

There are so many of them. Ah ma with broad smile. Everyone looks good. Overloaded with yummy food. So warm so happy.

but




I wasn't there...................... :(

The return of Khai Chi

A mini gathering at our house before Khai Chi's big day, finally we met up after 3 months!

❤ Khai Chi's BIG DAY! ❤

 

❤ Us at Sydney Opera House ❤

 

❤ Khai Chi and me ❤

 

❤ Congratulations Khai Chi ❤

the holder of Bachelor of Music

The Dikir Love

We had a dikir barat post-performance gathering at Jesmond Park last Thursday. It was scheduled at 11am, I had to wake up early in the morning to Woolies to grab something to prepare for the pot luck. Practically saying the fridge was empty due to the overloaded-activities spring break.

And so, I made this Baked Tuna Stuffed Shell Pasta. 

Early. In. The. Morning. At. 9. Cut. Cook. Fry. Seasoned. Stuff. and Bake.
Damn semangat right?

BBQ at the park.

Stupid super duper strong wind. Blew away the cups, the plates, the chicken, the skewer, and the krispy kreme, not the people yet luckily.

The group photo.

 

❤

 

Most of them are first year or second year students, only few little kittens of us are graduating this soon. Dikir barat brought us together for the Merdeka Night performance, no one knew that this will prolong that far and the bond between us has strengthened as time pass by.

We never had a full squad rehearsal, there must be someone absent. We never had the practice started on time, would at least delay for 30mins or even an hour, we are too Malaysian. There were times we couldn't reach on agreement, and there were times we had sourish faces on all.

 All these never fail to bring about the DIKIR LOVE WAR

p/s: thanks to Cien and Maple for the overloaded ❤ :)

❤ Woooooops Dikir! ❤

Sandboarding!

We have this sandboarding trip at Anna Bay planned in few days' time and so we went in 2 cars on last Friday. The weather was so good - not too windy yet not too cloudy - and the sun kindly hid for sometimes for the sake of our skin. You know, we are all putera-puteri lilin. Some are going to screw me if they read this because I'm always the one complaining how scorching the sun is. It's a desert place wehhh, not a shade that I could find at all. :) And noo.. in fact I am not so puteri lilin but people who knows me would know that it takes less than an hour to burn me and almost a year or more to be slightly fairer, just slightly, and I am absolutely sick of the super-duper charcoal tanned days.

After half an hour drive we arrived at Anna Bay, boarded this err.. 4WD bus(?) to the very deserted place. They very semangat people woke up early in the morning for this very tiring outdoor activities, cheers people!

Seeeeee... so desert-ish right!

You enjoy the 15 seconds of joy sliding down the slope and as tired as a cow when you finally climb up to the top again. The first try going uphill was the worst one, I felt like going to collapse soon. As I said, as tired as a cow. LOL. It has been a long time since I last had this "collapsing moment", just like me finishing the 400m back in MSSMPP.

This proves that how long I've never been doing any exercise that requires so much of my energy and challenges my stamina. Ooops.

Even if you're exhausted you will never be tired of posing for the camera.

We planned to do 10 rides, and later on increased to 15 rides to challenge ourselves.

Everyone kept counting down 14 times left, 13 times left.. and until 10 times left..

We knew we were not going to get that 15 times because our princessy-Jim's arm was mis-located because of a fall and rolling down the slope. And so 10 of us ended up in John Hunter Hospital for 3 hours. :)

Poor Jim! Count down to 5 weeks to recover fully.

The group photo of the Sandboarding gang!

Shall we go again one day? Ahhh.. if we have the time! :)

Spring break is coming to an end, 2 weeks of break - that's it. A lot more to catch up, I'm way behind my blogging!

Posting from Canberra

I'm in Canberra right now. Hua is sleeping soundly now.. really soundly =p Bee is in Sharon's room showing her the newly bought dress.

3 days 2 nights in Canberra is so short, and I'm going back to reality tomorrow. Ouch.. Many things to catch up after that. How I wish this holiday could be longer, and I don't mind spending more days in Canberra although it's pretty 'nothing' over here, I love it =) Living in Newy for 2 years, I don't feel the life here is overly dull, in fact I'm sorta in love with the slow-slow and dull-dull life.

Bee and I watched a few videos on Facebook just now, she laughed and she cried...

and she said I'm emotionless. :/

Oops.. Hua is snoring =]

Will update more when I'm back, not much pictures anyway because the dumb-dumb me forgot to bring my camera out this morning.

:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

It's spring time!

How should I say? I guess it's true that life is getting more and more happening lately ever since the dikir barat team is formed. Although you might have heard me saying again and again that my life is getting more and more interesting, I still wanna emphasise, who cares. :)

Ever since I joined dikir barat (and yes I know I've been mentioning a lot about dikir barat recently) there have been more friends more functions more events more outings and more gatherings.

• Raya Open House at Davis Ave
  

My first time to raya open house :) by my friends. So on last Saturday after the dikir practice in the morning whole bunch of dikirians went to Bizi's house, everyone was so hungry after starving for few hours. Yea it's not surprising that we didn't take our breakfast because the practice was scheduled at nine in the morning, it was awesome that people could actually wake up. =]

Kad raya kad raya~

• Lekor Mission at neighbour's house - Completed! 

We have been craving for keropok lekor since a month ago and finally we made it. It's really hard to get a time that fits everyone especially during holidays! Can you believe that we actually made the lekor at 9pm and everyone went home at 3am? Eating the deep fried lekor in the midnight was so unhealthy =S but I should excuse myself for once awhile. HE HE HE...

 

Our lekor is more like fish nuggets :) especially the one that made with fresh fish, it tastes so..... fishy!

• Ondeh-ondeh - Me and Hua! :D

 We spent 3 hours in the kitchen doing ondeh-ondeh from scratch to serve our sudden crave. :D From discovering the pandan paste is actually come in green colouring that I would have to put aside my specially-bought green colouring, to boiling the ondeh-ondeh and found that the palm sugar hasn't melted wholly, and to cheating by steaming the unmelted-palm-sugar ondeh-ondeh, finally we felt so.. overdosed by the green balls. =/

Sent some over to neighbours. It's not that bad I hope, at least the texture doesn't disappoint me but quite unsatisfied with the palm sugar I bought here. So... not-palm-sugar, more to like brown sugar. Hmm.. anyway, we've planned for our next mission. Kuih dadar! A very time consuming one. :)

 

• Mok's birthday at Nobby's Beach

Our dikir barat leader a.k.a. my neighbour a.k.a. a-doctor-to-be in 4 years' time! Did I mention that my neighbours are all medical students? :) Happy 20th Mok!

How do I define 'happening'...
Randomly asked to go for coffee at night because it was too boring at home...
Not too hectic of outings, moderately having fun...
Woke up in the morning receiving two texts asking whether or not there's any plan for the day...
Spontaneous plan at anytime...
Life oh life? :)