memories of an 18 people group outing

Ah, screw Ichiban and their selfishness and laziness =.=. 

On the last day of June, Wednesday, we had a get together dinner at Ichiban. Unfortunately, they couldn't sit ~18 together so the girls went in first. The boys (+ Waye and Susan) came in after. Well, if you excluded the negative aspects, the food was good and filling and the company was great =D. YOU MUST TRY THE LEMON SPIDER DRINK !!! How the vanilla icecream just melts in your mouth, while the fizziness of the lemon cider just bubbles gentle between your tongue,teeth and cheeks, and the clinking of the ice cubes ringing in your ears like the sound of summer... *drools* Don't you just love spider drinks =D? I felt quite bad when I couldn't finish my ramen =/. Sure it was a big bowl but still, when I eat at restaurants I almost never not finish my meal =/. It's a waste of food and money after all.  

The night didn't end there. After dinner, everyone made their way to Gelatissimo. While eating dessert, everyone just caught up with everyone else who they couldn't during dinner. I know it's Winter and all, but that didn't stop everyone from eating something cold =). I'm not into eating cold things during Winter, but who could resist dessert? Hence, while everyone had their own cup/cone of gelato, Mimi and I shared a 2 scoops cup together =). Raspberry and cherry. I think i liked the raspberry flavour more =).

Next stop was Kingpin Bowling. I took them to the are where you could see the harbour side. There, we just sat around and chatted. Some of us went to play pool, while others went exploring. Gradually, people started leaving but the majority of us stayed back to play arcade games =). It's been a while since I played Daytona hahaha =). Mimi beat me =). I also played this motorbike game and let me tell you, I'm never going to be a motorcyclist =P. I can't even start up  OR accelerate a bike!

PS. Although contortionists are usually female, I think they can make it an exception for Edim LOL! 

PSS. It was great to see Hanh and Derek again =D. 

PSSS. Thanks for the photo Hanh =).

Fiarfield City's Award Night

I must say I was disappointed. Yes, it was great to see different people receive such outstanding awards. Yes, it was great to see familiar faces which I haven't seen in a while. Yes, the good actually tasted good. Yes, there was live musical performances from Fairvale High school. And yes, we got free DVDs about the Bring It On Festival. BUT it was less lively.

I liked last's BBQ for the volunteers. Besides the food, WHICH I helped buy and cook, but people seemed closer. It was more fun than this year's certificate night. Also, everyone received recognition for volunteering. This year, okay it was good that the volunteers that did extra work got the recognition, but everyone else was forgotten. It would've been better if everyone was given some recognition and that those who did more received 'more recognition.' I don't know, that's just my opinion. 

Also, they should've had more food =/. Everyone was hungry and there were quite a few guests, so the food ran out quite quickly. But what about the people who helped out with the event? They had to pack everything up and all, so they were the last ones to reach the food platters. I felt quite bad for them. There was barely any food left for them to chew on =/. They should've save themselves a couple of platters.

I hope this doesn't happen again for next year's certificate night =/. I don't know if I want to volunteer again for next year's Bring It On Festival either >.<. Ngeh.

angry birds and big spiders

On the last Saturday of June, we had a family dinner at out usual restaurant, the Golden Seafood Restaurant.To be honest, I thought the food was a bit disappointing, though it didn't really matter. I was having more fun enjoying the company of my family and playing 'Angry Birds' with my cousin on his i-Touch. It was such an addictive game. We were so into it that my other cousin, Marina, had to tell us off for playing games during dinner time. I guess she was right because, after all, it was a celebration dinner for my Aunt's birthday. 

After the celebration dinner, my mum and I followed Marina and her boyfriend, Andrew, back to her car to be driven back to William's new apartment. Apparently, Andrew's  the son of a family friend from Melbourne. Years ago, when we were going to Tasmania, we stopped at their house for a couple of days. According to Marina and Andrew, I used to follow them around, asking them to play with me. I don't remember that. The only think I remember was the family dog and a young chubby boy. I don't remember the boy's face though. Well, the chubby boy turned out to be Andrew. It was odd to see him again, out of the blues and all. Not bad, just odd =P. 

I digressed. William followed the rest of the family back to my Aunt's car to drive them back to his apartment. At first I thought he bought a new 'house.' It was actually an apartment and there was only one room on the top level O_o. Yes, odd right? The rest of his house was downstairs. Marina was living with him, so her room was downstairs as well. Hector had his own dog house on the balcony. Spoiled dog >.<. Apparently, he was left outside when my cousins went to work, but slept with William at night. It seems like he was still adapting to his new home because he didn't bark at us when we entered, like he usually do. He didn't run around as much either. It was a nice change to have a quiet Hector for once =).

His taste in furniture was quite good, and with Marina's sense of style, they decorated the apartment with a contemporary sense of  design. I especially liked the decorative tree with pinned up photographs of France. There were still a bit more packing up to do, but at least the place's clean, thanks to Auntie. After William bought the apartment, Aunt stayed over o clean stuff out from both the old and new apartment. To be honest, I like the old apartment better because it's smaller. Then again, the technology at the new apartment does fascinate me. There was this cupboard where when you open it, the lights will ope, but when you close it the lights will close. I know because I was left inside =P. Don't worry, there was plenty of room =).  

So after about an hour of complimenting and checking out the apartment, it was finally time to go. This time, I was left with Marina and Andrew while my mum left with the rest of the family. We were going to meet up at the petrol station at Broadway see that my Aunt will know her way back home. Just after we drove out of the parking lot, Andrew started swearing and Marina started .. whimpering? I didn't know what was going on but Marina began to move to the backseat, where I was, so that Andrew can get out of the car from the driver's side. Apparently, there was a huge brown spider hiding in the gap of the window side and it decided to come out after all this time. Andrew went out to kill it. I saw him killing it, but I didn't see the spider. Better that I didn't anyways. I'm not a huge fan of spiders. While inside, I had a good time scaring Marina LOL! Maybe I shouldn't have because after the incident, Marina didn't speak for the rest of the trip... It was still hilarious though =P. I didn't realise she was this scared of spiders. When we met up again and I left to the other car, the family saw me smiling and giggling. I told them about it and they laughed as well. They also told me that both William and Marina were extremely afraid of spiders (arachnophobia). Ah, I should've known. The animal encyclopedia books that they used to give me had the spider pages clipped together. It's been a while since I enjoyed family dinners this much =).