intoxicated

went to hunter valley yesterday. hunter valley is famous for wineries. so obviously it is a wine trip. so we set off at 8am and arrived at a small countryside place at about 11am where i proceed to have my pumpkin soup, hot chocolate and my first taste of alcohol of the day... it is know as the jungle juice... sold at at tarven right next to the breakfast place... the jungle juice is no juice at all containing 18% alcohol... i only had a small glass... but nearly peng... and that is not the end of it... went on to three different places, the McWilliam winery, the largest family run winery in hunter valley or australia.. hmm... cannot remember already, where we had our lunch of steak and more wine tasting... six different kinds here.. but don't ask me the names.. i seriously don't remember. i like the dessert the wine and the port....

i thought that was the end of alcohol for the day... the bus brought us to another winery, the McGuigan.... where we porceed to have MORE wine tasting.... the gold medal winning dessert wine is nice, but again don;'t ask me the name.... i think we had at least another 6 kinds, which i decide that to survive the trip i shouldn't drink all, cos i seriously don't want to drunk at wine tasting, so i took a sip and pass the rest to my friends, except the adward winning german white and the dessert wine.

then we hopped on to the bus and arrive at another location for some free time and my friend decide to taste more wine, and we went on to taste another 4...

the wine here is really cheap, and the winery is really interesting, maybe i should go further my studies and become a wine maker.

Stuff i bought:

the jungle juice
the McWilliam dessert wine
the McGuigan desset wine
a champange --> reserved =)

now my only problem is how do i get all the stuff home?!!!!

Sydney Fish Market

since ah ci ask about my weekend trip.... i shall post some pictures of last weekend where i had gone to sydney fish market... yum yum...






of course i did not spend my whole weekend in the fish market.... i went to casino to where i was given 10 dollar free credit and won about 1 dollar in the end haha... but that one got no pictures cos cameras are not allowed and i think i look under age cos the sercurity gaurd actualy check my passport before there let me in.... hmmm.... other than that i also did some shopping cos that is the only time that shops will be open when i am actually free. got 2 jackets at a good bargain. =)

Unsucessful Attempt

attempted to run on saturday morning 19th August 2006. attempt failed. we got side tracked first by a huge toy shop then by university of sydney. yup, so that it. no further attempts to excersise since i got here and am just getting fatter and fatter with all the food i am eating. i think some divine help might be needed. haha. (and no mona, i am not going to take part in some marathon in sydney, or any running events)

since my camera is still spoilt, most of the pictures taken is with other people, but i will post up some of what i have. haha. of food mainly.



this is a typical breakfast that we eat every morning, the options consist of juicy mushrooms, scrambled eggs, grilled tomatos, sausages, bacons and toasts among other stuff...


This ice- cream is know as gelatissumo... not sure if i spell it correctly. the flavours here consist of mixed berries, strawberry and mango... it is really good, and i going to explore more flavours.
yup... that all the pictures i have of food at the current moment.... there is more food that there is to be seen......

Picnic By the Lake

Yeah! finally managed to post one picture! no, my camera is still not working, this photo is taken by one of my friend. =) thanks goodness there are like other cameras around. for lunch today we decided that we should have a picnic at the lake opposite our company. so we da bao our food, which is actually not very nice, from the company cafeteria and walk across to the lake for lunch. the view make up for the not so fantasic food and we have seagulls and other assorted birds joining us for lunch. =) we took quite a few pictures, but becos i am using dial up now, it take ages to upload 1 picture, so only got 1 picture. (obviously)

Yup, then for dinner, we went to town hall area for authenic korean food. the kim chi is damn nice. i think i am gaining weight like nobody business... haha but who cares...

yeah tomolo shops opening later, and can walk around somemore. if can will try to upload more pictures in the office. =)

3 1/2 movies and 1 Baileys

hey greetings from sydney! After 3 and 1/2 movies later and 1 baileys i finally arrived at sydney. Singapore Airlines is great way to fly. soon after we board the plane (which is packed fully) we were offered warm towels before the plane actually take off. Then, soon after we took off we were given our headset, i plunge into my first movie (no, no super mario for me this time). there is like 80 movies to choose from ( where do i have to fly to finish watching everything, that is if my eyes didn't pop out...). being a animation freak, i went for "over the hedge". Then, we had breakfast onboard.... there is like bread, butter, jam, tea and juice... which i dutifully finish. ( i hate to waste food). then i went into the second movie, "take the lead", not bad quite nice... then i decided that just watching movie is not enough, thats when the baileys comes in... ( dun worry i got self- control and dun intend to get drunk on a plane). Then it is the third movie "ice-age: the meltdown" (yup, i know another animation), then it is lunch, the food is nice, we have lamb curry with potato salad and bread, but i must say that the dessert is the best, triple chocolate ice- cream. yum yum. movie plus ice- cream what can you ask for. haha. then i finally decided to watch a german movie" fisherman and his wife" which i didn't manage to finish cos i landed in sydney already. argh... i want to know the ending... this is one time i hope that the flight could be abit longer. haha.

okay if you are wondering why there is no picture. this is because my camera gives up on me and i haven't even talk a single picture yet. ARGH. CMI.

Flying off again

i am flying off again to sydney... for work... will be back in sept.. hopefully... not sure yet also... but i am living life on the edge... my bags not packed.. as usual... living life on the edge and got tonnes of stuff haven't buy and settle yet... got this unpleasent feeling that i might fall off the edge haha...

oh ya.. finally uploaded some photos on the vietnam trip.. if you all interested can go have a look lah..

ps.~ to everyone that come down yesterday. thanks. to cheez, wendy, mona, ping- sao and vic... yup i will definately bring the food over... including the hello kitty fried rice. =)

Bored

Currently at work. having absolutly nothing to do. absolutely nothing. just waiting for time to past so that. i am so bored that i might grow cobweb soon. maybe i shall go drown my boredom in the free milo that the office provide (which btw i had already drink two...) can't wait for work to end.

Wanderlust

off to vietnam in about 12 hours but my bag is not packed. (yaya i going to do it now, as miss sam says live life on the edge. haha) see ya when i back.

for more update check: www.wanderlustvietnam.blogspot.com

Grand Finale

July race is over. Good fight TeamNUS. for the gals, it had been an amazing juorney, and thanks for the grand finale. i know you all will come back stronger next year. i have confidence in you all. =) Thanks to everyone that had been part of my dragonboat career up to now. thanks, really. To Sir, thanks, you had been one of the best coach i ever had.=)

As for the race, i would not say anything more, as you many others have already blog about the race and the results already. (i am lazy, i admit. refer to other people blogs.) and most importantly, the results doesn't matters, and it would not changed or erased what was felt. For those who think that we have lost, you are wrong. we have won, only we can understand why because you cannot see past the medals we have got, but we have. to these people, all i have to say i feel sad for for you, but too bad. haha.

THIS IS IT

my final race as a nus dragonboater. after this race, i will never be able to go back and row as a nus rower... this is it. one last and final race for nus, for all my team mates for all the three years of my dragonboat career, all the friends that i had to neglect because of my trainings, for my family members who have to put up with the irritable me.

one last one. hang in there. jia you! all the way! no regrets! i believe.

~thanks for all the presents. for detailed pictures kindly refer to wenya's blog. the factory standard get higher for each race, but miss sam still win hands down this time round. =)

expensive

if you think that uni eduation is expensive enough. pls kindly take in the cost of the graduation also. it is NOT cheap. like seriously.

one more reason

i just have one more reason to go back to school.... other than collect the graduation gown and i die die also must eat the subway there once before i graduate... my laptop gave up on me again!!! need to go back to school to fixed it... hope everything inside is not lost... most of them a irreplacable... i don;t care mush about the reports and stuff... not like i will need them anymore... but my photos and songs... oh man don't want to think about it.... bleach!!!

Penang race

Been to Penang and back. this year we did get our dao sa pian and more r&r, but the trip doesn't seems to be as fun as it was last year. i will pass up some photos if and when i got the photos. ( hint to those with camera).

hell

i think i have just been to hell and back. think this is one of those that you ask " why the hell did i do it?" when doing it and hopes that it is worth it in hindsight.

Ultimate Freedom

I am officially free!! It is all over! this also means i an officially unemployed, but who cares!

Last Lap

last lap. then my official student life will be over

i seriously dun care

i seriously dun care. i live my life my way and you live your life your way. i dun care. Go get a life. there is more to life that what the hell you do in school.

~ich muss mein Leben leben and du musst dir Leben leben.

i am selfish

~just when i thought i can finally have peaceful sleep without having to worry about projects or tests ---> MY HP RANG!

guess who? sometimes i just wish that Hp are never invented, this is one of the time. bleach!!!!

if not for the project that is due tomorrow.. i would have scold you and hang up!

think i just failed my german. shit.die.

Muddies

yeah we did it! Champion! well done team Muddies!

I would like to thank my team members Yunci and Kah Kuan for all the encouragement and support given throughout the whole race. wouldn't have done it without you all pushing me all the way through out the race. Thanks for going at my pace when you all could have gone on much faster. THANKS =)