continuing on my birthday...

havent been blogging as i just came back from FOCUS camp. FANTASTIC ONEEE!!



23rd sept 2007
since i went back home real late at 330am, i slept in the next day until 1pm. it's pretty reasonable to sleep 9 hours right... i woke up feeling so... restless, tired still, with dark eye circles-totally not feeling like it's my birthday. i only remembered qf telling me in my ears, we shall go out after i come back at 1pm. i was walking around my room like a zombie and doing my assignment because i've 2 due this coming week (starting on 24th). cutting it short, qf said he needed jess's shaver to shave his hair so he drove me to her place to get the shaver before we leave for Gosford. i was wondering we could get the shaver after we're back?? well, of cos i knew there must be some fishes hiding around cos i can smeeeeeeeeell them. and indeed, i saw marcus's car, jeremy's etc. i saw many of them! with alot of foooooood! felt kinda weird being the main highlight for that day. but it was good.. raymond's chicken was gooood! and the thing is, the day before at sydney i helped to get stuff for zw's char kway teow and until now he hasnt paid up! well, thanks guys for all the food. it was very nice!

okay, the next awesome thing is i've got A BOUQUET OF ORCHIDS FROM A BUNCH OF GREAT GIRLS! mich, juns and jess. woohoo! and they're pink!! purplish actually but i was really shocked man. thanks girls!! muacks!



24th sept, FOCUS night

yipeee! FOCUS! FOCUSers are great ppl. so fun to hang out with especially when they've very different personalities. (thank God i went for FOCUS camp) dinner was great that night. we had persian dinner by lish. it was sourish, with sultanas, nuts etc etc. and then, a cake for meee! there were stars on the choco brownie-cake. thanks ruth for the stars! thanks rachel for the cake! thanks everyone for the greeting!

MY 20TH BIRTHDAY!

IT'S A FANTASTIC 20TH BIRTHDAY FOR MEEE!!!

THANKS EVERYONE WHO'RE THERE TO CELEBRATE MY BIRTHDAY WITH ME. THANKS GOD JESS, JUNS, QF, SERENE, MICHELLE, WAWA, PAKPAK, ZHENJIE, JEREMY, ZW, KC, ETC ETC. AND OF COS THE FOCUS PPL!!! DENE, RACHEL, LISH, RUTH, CYRIL, JONO, STEVIE, PAUL, BOOBIES, DAV, AND THE SAME GIRLS.......... LOVE YA GUYS!

22nd sept 2007
went down to sydney with qf, jess and juns. rented a navy blue yaris. cute! we had fun chats in the car and managed to reach sydney at 1230pm. woohoo! zilver for dimsum! but, we had to wait for 30mins. so we changed destination. marigold. its the worst dimsum i've ever had in sydney.. bad service, soyabean curd was hard. no hah gao and siu mai. how could anyone ever have dimsum without hah gao and siu mai?! well, after asking many waiters, they only said, "lai gan le, lai gan le...". and of cos, none appeared. bad bad bad... jess said their mango pudding is gooooood. there was lots of artificial flavouring to it! yuck! i'll never go back to that place!

next destination: RED BOX. KARAOKE! WOOHoooooooo~ we actually wanted to go to green box but it closed down. hahaha so unlucky. but we found a better one! red box! woohoo. there's an LCD tv, huge room for 4 of us, and many many MANY songs! sang for whole 3 hours.... we're like crazy and high ppl.... hahahah.

next destination: DOLCE RISTORANTE. italian restaurant. we walked, walked and walked in search of Philip Street. we cant find it... but managed to ask a passer-by for directions. and when we finally found it, IT WAS CLOSED AS IT ONLY SERVED LUNCHES. ahhhh sooooooo unlucky! mayb God wanted us to have something else.... hehe. we changed destination.... SPANISH FOOOD!! YUMM... we walked again.... good exercise though.

unplanned destination: SPANISH RESTAURANT (forgot the name). i've actually been there before. had butter rice with seafood and a portion of a suckling pig. sooooo fattening but it was soooooo gooooood!!!!!! even the garlic bread was good. yum yum.

next destination: MY BIRTHDAY CAKES. (notice the S. i've got 4 mini cakes. hehe) we went to 85degrees, a small and creative cake shop. they've got lotsa nice and pretty and tasty cakes! i chose a tiramisu, valentine, hokkaido cheesecake and a mango panna cotta. they looook fantastically delicious. hahahaha.

next destination: MAX BRENNER's. FINALLY A PLACE WHERE WE'D PLANNED BEFOREHAND AS WE DIDNT MANAGE TO HAVE DIMSUM AT ZILVER AND DINNER AT DOLCE. i guess we left the best for the last. although there was a loooooong queue, the choco managed to cover all our restlessness. THE CHOCOS WAS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD. AWEEESOOOOME! we had an italian thick choco hug mug, capaccino frappe, whipped chocolate frappe, a chocolate dip with strawberries and a milk chocolate suckao. THE SUCKAO WAS THE BEST MAN! we were practically sucking melting milk chocolate from a metal straw. it was........ something i've never tried before. there's a candle below and we gotta put in round chocolate chips. we were all sooo fulll of choco after that and felt sleepy. hahaah HOWEVER, there's one more destination. heeh

last destination: DARLING HARBOUR. it's the first time that i'd spent my birthday at sydney's darling harbour. woohooo~ cold and singing the happy birthday song with seagulls surrounding us. haaha. they were actually aiming for my pretty cakes. thanks qf, jess and juns! muaccccks! we went into a shopping centre after that to have the cakes. they tasted gooooood! but was a little disappointed with the tiramisiu. the one at darby street newie is still the best tiramisiu that i've ever had! and its only 10bucks for a big piece! mmmmmm-mmmm! (i dont know how i should type that expression but thats a favourite phrase from boobies chow yun fat)

after that we headed back to newie. a long 2 hr drive but we girls got to sleeeep.... ZZZZzzzz. poor qf had to drive... awwww..... u're the man!!!!! great sydney trip. great ppl to celebrate my bday with. thank God for today!

sighs.

jess. me. newcastle lookout.

me. emmerie. erica. newcastle lookout.

havent been blogging.

15th sept.

it was a great day. went to nicky's place for lunch. she prepared everything! sushi filling etc etc. den we only went there to wrap them up. she's such a nice girl. after wrapping up we walked to the Blackbutt Reserve. it was a very short and chit-chatty walk. 5 of us (mich, serene, jess, juns and me) were gossiping, talking about random stuff. and the good thing was we chose somewhere shady and without BIRDS. but there were lots of duckies. hahaah. sorry mich, i attract duckies. we finally got to eat our nicely-wrapped sushi! not forgetting serene's chicken pie. not from scratch! she bought frozen dough and made the filling. well, as usual jess was the MAN. she climbed over a rope wall. i think it's called a rope wall but anyws, the main thing is she's tough. haah. walked back to nicky's place and had apple crumble with vanilla ice cream.. yum yum. and also dancing!! =)

many of us went to Istington Baptist church for its mid-autumn festival and outreach. it was all in chinese. kinda complicated as they used really bombarstic chinese words. anyws it was a good experience and they had good food! mooncakes, cheese cakes, many many more.. after that we went to darby street for a drink and talked alot alot... like the-ra-py.. dav's favourite. hee. well, jess suggested gg to the beach after that, so me, emm, ericA and dav went to a newcastle lookout. the night view was fantastic but a little scary when i looked out into the sea. cos you know, its really really dark and there're ppl who're having the-ra-py. (we guessed but werent that sure, ahah). we went to bar beach after that and were shouting out to the sea. something like 'yam seng, booobies....'. y boobies? cos of ericA...... haahhaha. ask him la. and we were concerting in dav's car. hillsongs.

18th sept

sighs. emo, down, sad, no confidence at all. God please tell me what i should do. is this part of Your plan for me?

i've been thinking that i've been spending too much time in FOCUS or rather, hanging out with FOCUS ppl. Lord, i ask that You would strengthen me. in all ways. be with me. thank You Lord. i hope FOCUS camp will be good. canberra trip will be fun. esp with dav, eric and jess. thanks guys for coming with us. 1 worry down. love ya FOCUS ppl.

Thank you ppl who've been there for me. esp God. no confidence in the flesh.

fun night yestd....

AH HUH! TODAY'S SEPTEMBER 11TH!



FOCUS was fun yestd!! i dont know why, mayb its bcos dene isnt there? ops. dont tell him. hhaa. I DEFINITELY MISS HIS COFFEE! well, junshi and josh made good milo. although josh burnt the electric kettle and serene was the eye witness (without telling him that the kettle was an electric one).

we cooked yestd, and i forgot to bring mushrooms and matt had to go back to bara and then when we're at dene's place i realised i forgot all about the mixed vegetables and we ended up stealing dene's whole pack of PEAS. yuck! i didnt eat the peas anyws. hahaha.

bible study was goooooooood! esp with my group... heh. jess, juns, joyce and david. the loveable and fast-in-going-through-the-questions group. we even came up with a song on 1Peter 3:18. and actions too! with elmo as our inspiration. haha.

and the weirdest thing of all, yestd was like the only night in a blue moon that i wore thongs (slippers) to FOCUS. and guess what, i think about 5 things happened to my poor right foot.

1. Juns stepped on my pinkie toe but she was really sorry. i forgive you!

2. Serene splattered ice cream on my foot while trying to break. the wafer in her bowl into 2. i forgive you!

3. Jono totally stepped on my foot!!!! he's half-forgiven. hahaha

4. Jono, again, dropped a spoon and it almost hit my same foot! he's fully forgiven, i guess. hah

5. Joyce stepped on my foot! without shoes, thank God. Matt was trying to step on the back part of my thongs. naughty people.

it was great anyws. fun people!!!! our pasta was good too. esp the cute bows. hahah
today was great too. went to the gym. almost died but i felt lighter. hahahaa. making myself happy. had a good bible study too. the topics we talked about gave me lots to think on.
thank God for the days!

In school...

oh wells, i'm in school on a SATURDAY. kinda sad huh. what to do.... quizzes and assignments are due soon. anyws, had FOCUS yestd. it was good. we drew pictures on Genesis 19. it was an awkward chapter, especially the last part. hehehehehe... but we didnt draw that part actually. a good talk by dene. and lots of questions answered. had chinese food from oceanic. its weird actually, that aussies pronounce oceanic as oceeeeaaanic. they emphasize lots on the eeeaaa. well, they're aussies. auuuusssssies. AND! we played with Elliot the cute, intelligent prophet-to-be. he's always coming up with his new toys to play. and i'm glad that he did ask me to play with him. hehehe. hes soo cute that i'm thinking of abducting him someday, without dene and rachel knowing......

Weird

good weekend. sydney, food, shopping, hair cut, good weather, had fun. FOCUS today. weird. don't know why.

went charlestown yestd. saw krispy kreme. long queue. donuts.......

my soya bean curd turned sour. my strawberry white chocolate mousse was good.

good talks in the afternoon.

went to an italian restaurant yestd. good food. great salmon pasta. fantastic tiramisu. friendly boss.

went to a shop with interesting household stuff. expensive.

went to a shop with nice clothes and accessories. saw a fat cat. thought it was a fake one. i poked it and its head turned around. gave me a shock. but it was a cute lazy cat.