Dreams came true. =D

These past two months have been all about saving up to buy stuff that me and my bro have always dreamed of having. Okay maybe not dreamed la, but we’ve been planning to get a Guitar Hero set ever since we first saw the damn thing. Chinese New Year passed by and after some proper planning and bargaining:Say hello to the Twins,and Drumkit.

Ruffles was a little interested at first, seeing a few pieces of metal and plastic taller than him being put up. But after a while he just plain lost interest and started doing this:

We got two games:Awesome man. But the coming of Brian’s and my Guitar Hero set was potong-ed a bit by the fact that it also came along with a microphone, and my mom and family friend wanted to sing along to Don Maclean’s American Pie. Worst 7 minutes of my life.

Here’s a few more shots of Drumkit and the Twins: Sadly, I’ve been busy getting a lot of stuff sorted out like work, starting college, and other stuff, which sorta left me with little time to play at all == I haven’t even finished Assassin’s Creed 2 yet. WHAIIIIIIIIIIIII

Anyway, after much looking around, research, planning, saving up, and I must add, plenty of grumbling from mom:I FINALLY GOT IT.  No regrets getting this lens. Finally have a portrait lens =D Next objective, by probably next CNY, ZOOM LENS X)

This lens and the 25-80mm should be adequate this coming Saturday when I go to take photos at Earth Hour 2010: Battle of The Bands at Sunway Pyramid.

Call me an opportunist la, but just thought I’d help out a friend by advertising a little on this blogThey’re going to have bands like One Red Paperclip, WENEEDANAME, Wanted Symphony, and Once Upon A Time There Was A Sausage Named Bob. Last name a bit random, but according to Cher Haow, all of them sounded pretty awesome, so I’m hoping and guessing this Saturday’s pretty awesome.

There’s also going to be guest performances by indie bands like An Honest Mistake. Well technically speaking, everyone performing is from an indie band, or is just plain indie la. But go for it la people, this is a great way to start appreciating our local bandscene. And no, their music won’t be available on the internet any time soon. That’s not the way it works for our local music. Hopefully it doesn’t come to that. Anyway, turn of all your lights at home before you come out and join hundreds of others to make a stand against global warming and rock the night away after!

 

 

So once again, till the next post readers,

Au revoir

CNY PART 2. FINALLY =D

I know its been a while, there’s so much to update on, in fact there’s too much to update on, but I’ve been busy what with work and all. Anyway thought I’d just finish up with the happenings during CNY:

My cousins, who have kids a few years younger than Basil *who’s turning 12 this coming monday =D* came over with their families for a short while. A little lazy to layan, honestly speaking, because its just plain awkward when your cousins remember your name, but you don’t remember their names at all, much less their kids. HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!Really wish I had a 50mm lens on me. For some reason the lighting in my house just plain sucks la :\

Went over to Aunty Carol’s at night, like we usually do during CNY and there was quite a spread:Checkit :)

    The food was pretty okay I guess, was still recovering from how awesome the chapati was in the afternoon at Aunty Wai Kin’s house. About the chicken in this picture, no good == like you were chewing on leather. Didn’t really bother to take as many pictures of the food. I’m contemplating whether this should be a part-time food review blog. If I actually had the time and money to go around reviewing restaurants, that is.

Once again, no yee sang, no CNY la. Simple.

I think its actually been a while since I actually took part in the tossing. heh.

William, you camwhore. lol

There was seriously plenty of other food to take photos of but I just didn’t bother as much that time around. :\

BUT CHECK OUT THE DESSERTS:   And that’s not even half of it.

Spent the rest of the night playing blackjack with Darren, Nick, Brian, Ah Ma *grandma*, and some of Darren’s friends. Don’t ask why my grannie was there. =D That’s about it for the first day of CNY. FINALLY. Nothing much happened in after the first day of CNY. UNTIL AMELIA AND SERENE CAME DOWN FOR A VISIT.

I had not seen them in ages, as a matter of fact, the last time I saw them, I was in Bentong for a daytrip and I called them up. Good times *sighs* the first time I rode a motorbike with a chinpit.

I took a lot of effort and convincing Serene’s mom and all, but when they finally made it here it felt so nostalgic seeing them again. They came over to my place and we stoned for a little while until we plain decided to go out because it was just getting too boring and hot at home. So the first, and disappointingly, the only place we hit, was 1U. They wanted to go to place where we could just sit down and chill and have a drink, as opposed to walking all over the mall.Yep. That’s where we went. And as the name implies, we took out time *tm.Kopi Kao and Hazelnut Ice Blended coffee – Mine and Serene’s. I’d show you Amelia’s drink, but she finished it in about a minute or so.Fo shiznits. For some apparent reason, this time round seeing Serene, she looked and sounded a lot like….an aunty la….

=D

Oh wait, here’s Amelia’s drink – or at least what was left of it after 45 seconds to a minute.

It really was fun talking to them again. So we basically just stayed for about 2 hours talking, talking, talking, talking, and occasionally sipping on our coffee, then talk somemore

Fast forward 2 hours and we’re getting hungry. Shayne was meeting up with us at Tokyo-G and we just thought we’d get a bite there laTypical Shayne la. =D

It had been a while since I saw most of my old colleagues there so took the opportunity to do a little catching up and took a few pics while I was at itUci, which is actually short for um. Okay la, to put it short he has a really long name. Cool supervisor.Chee How. No long name. Funny guy. Cool Supervisor too.Jonathan. All-round fun guy, great friend to work with. Didn’t know he was in DU till I got to know him more ==It took us about 5 minutes to decide what we were going to eat. And  you’re looking at the end results of our decision. Yes that bowl of Gyu Don was for the for of us to share. Its. Not. That. Big. And it definitely wasn’t enough for me and Shayne. But we still ate :(

Shayne had to run off for a bit so we hung around a little while longer before the 3 of us had to head back, for a little gathering at home.lol Chee How’s camera shy.At least I thought so la. He looks a little like Nobita doesn’t he?Yea, the guy on the left was pretty random. Don’t ask me, I don’t really know him. =D

Fast forward a little more, we’re waiting for the bus, Shayne still hasn’t shown up, and it looks like its going to rain, and we don’t have an umbrella. So what do we do? We stone and take photos. Oh yeah.

The bus finally arrives and we stone the whole half-hour ride home. We took the right bus, just headed in a different route.

And guess what was waiting for us when we go home:MORE YEE SANG. At that point, I was getting sick of the stuff la.  But I always love taking photos of people tossing the yee sang. For some reason I never get bored of it.A few of my cell members came over tooYoong siblings: Keith(top), Sue Ann & Sue Zann(above). Yea Judith in the middle doesn’t count as a cell member. At least not yetBrandon Lau  Brandon Lau, the only guy in church who shares the same name as me. Well not exactly la but you get the idea.

Everyone was having a relatively good time, enjoying the food and company, but Shayne still hadn’t arrived yet. == I think Ruffles enjoyed the company the most.

When Shayne finally arrived we had a little more fun than we did at the beginning, even staying over past midnight.Good friends they are.

 

Had fun the whole day la basically. It was sort of a mini-reunion, because its not everyday all *or at least some* of us gather around to just have a meal and a good time. It was a shame Shayne had to leave when he did, because me, Lau, Serene and Amelia stayed up, went to the local mamak, and um….drank a little. LOL. A word of advice, you never, ever, ever, want to see Serene drunk. Not a pretty sight.

 

Well its finally done! You’d think there’d be more visitations during CNY, but nah. That’s most of what happened. More updates soon la people. BACK TO WORKK!

 

Till the next post, au revoir.

Maybe I need to bring back more words. Then it’d have more meaning.