So it is 2007, big deal...it feels like every other regular night and day spent waiting for midnight and doing a stupid count down. Sometimes I wonder why celebrate it? Let's just sleep on it and then wake up to 2007, but people use this as an event to drink and be really stupid, make stupid mistakes and spend lots of money, wearing stupid hats and making loud noises.

Hmmm...well kinda similar to our Chinese new year lol, but that is so much better. You actually have to go and visit your relatives, making nice traditional food, also clean up the house and you receive ang pows (good luck money) from elders. :) You also get to see lion dance, chinese dances, fire crackers that damage your ears haha and all to bring good luck into the new year. I love it and can't wait for it to arrive (Feb 18th). If only I was in Msia with my friends and relatives, we would have a big CNY dinner on the eve of the event and the young ones stay up really late - so that their mother n father will have a long life. :)

2007 will definitely mean change for me, I will move into my new posi on monday doing e-visa work. Should be interesting and then I will also finish my 2 units to finally graduate! Hopefully housing prices in Perth will come down and I will also get to buy a place of my own. But till that day happens I will have to move back into my parents house and chill out for a while. Also I have quit my gym membership, cuz I think it is getting boring and the place really stinks! Ive only just noticed...

I can't be bothered making up any new year's resolutions becuz I think I am just going to break them. Or there is no point, just make a promise to yourself, not some resolution cuz these things r meant to be broken but promises well...there is some moral content attached to it. Just hoping for good health n success/prosperity to everyone!

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Oh yea..merry belated christmas to everyone at Nutang! I didnt really feel it was here this year. I have just been very tired, cant be bothered, out of touch mood that has put a drain on my merriment. I felt it passed by too quickly and I did not enjoy it at all. I did have a few days off from work...and that's all it felt like. Maybe if I had gone to church this time it would've given it some meaning. I didn't really buy gifts for ppl this time, cuz I considered the things I bought from my trip their 'early Christmas' present. All there was was heaps of food, eating and chocolates! Which my stomach is paying for now. Even the smell of food puts me off, I have lost my appetite!

Work was a drag today, not many ppl in, and not much to do. So I couldn't really see the point of going, but I did anyway to get paid. I really want to get the internet access at work, but I'm a bit scared to ask my boss for it. I know I need it for my work but I will probably be going on it to update my nutang haha. I have also started a Myspace...which is so sad. Cuz I never thought I would follow that craze. Eventually I have and so has Fernando. Though I love my Nutang and will not go over to the dark side fully.

Im really missin Yo since she left Perth for good, I never thought I would be the type to cry when my friends leave..but I do. I cry when I have to leave Fernando or my family, but I guess my friends are my family. Life is going to be so much more boring with her not around and no one to chat to and laugh with. Yesterday I went with Michelle, Gail to Mel's house, cuz it was her bday. It was nice to have the girls sitting down and chatting, I felt I had missed so much of theirs lives cuz I havent seen them in a while. It made me feel guilty I didnt know what was happening with them, and would need so much more time to catch up. I didnt say much about my trip to anyone really, I just wanted to listen to what they had been doing these past months.

New year is just around the corner, and this yr I feel I have not acheived as much as I have done in the past. I havent even graduated! Which is grinding against my head! I want to finish one thing at a time before I start another, but atm everything is going at once. I just have to go with the flow...

HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GREAT START TO 2007! SEE YOU AROUND, will visit your blogs :D Good luck and good health to all.

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After 10 hours of flight from HK my frens and I landed in Vancouver, Canada. It was chilly stepping out of the airport. I was scared I would not survive the low temperatures... everyone was bundled up in scarfs, gloves and beanies. Even though the air was crisp my toosh was freezing! Main purpose to go to Canada is to support my fren Yohana, she is in love with this guy that she met off the net. I know it sounds silly but their story is really lovely and I could see it was genuine when he came to the airport to pick her. He hugged her and was honestly glad to see her.

7 days we spent in Canada, I cant believe for so long! I would have rather a warmer country like Msia...but I made the best of it. Vancouver reminded me of Perth, because it was kinda quiet and low key...it probably had a lot of night spots but I didnt check them out. Yohana was of course spending most of her time with her guy...whilst Vira, Tiff and I went exploring for ourselves. It was easy cuz everyone spoke english and food was everywhere. On my first day I ate a bagel! :) With cream cheese YUM, instead of kraft cheese (like they make in Australia) YUCKS!

We got lost on our way to China town, and bypassed the hobo area, which was a bit scary for us girls to handle. We stuck close...but I would often pass an old, mental lady mumbling something to herself (or to me???). Graffiti everywhere and just a weird feeling. We walked all the way from Burrard St to Stanley Park, it was huge! Nice trees and lake there, lovely scenery. But the best was taking the bus to Whistler. It was the first time I ever saw snow!! It was beautiful, everywhere was dusted with the stuff. It was wet though, hard to walk through the stuff in just sneakers...got soaked through! It was cold, but nice crispy cold, not freezing which shocked me! Though seeing it for the first time kinda made me sad inside, missing home a lot and the ppl I love...cuz I wanted them to see it too.

I went skiing for a bit, cuz of the sun goes down at 4 in winter time, we couldnt stay out for very long. :( We did a bit of shopping whilst we in Van, but it was expensive as we converted every price with the $AU. We watched a movie, 'The Holiday' too, to kill time. It was a sweet movie... Our hotel was great, HYATT Vancouver is an awesome place to stay!! Also the accents of the locals were so funny, everything is so pronounced...and they think our engllish sucks! They drive on the right side of the road...which in my opinion is the wrong side. :p lol!

All in all it was a nice stay in Canada, I dunno whether I will return though...seems so much like Perth! I would prob like to go to HK or Msia more...esp since I dont have to travel so far. :p Had the worst last night in Van though...Yohana treated us to sushi and sake...6 BIG bottles of SAKE. And I was quickly tipsy and rested my head on the table, I also embarassed myself by chucking up in the restaurant. :( My friends were laughing at me...but I was just gone and lost my composure. Never again will I drink Sake, it is my poison from now on.

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The trip from Msia to HK was only 4 hours which was great to hear cuz I was already tired of travelling on plane. We reached there and met up with Yohana's mum, who had a driver to take us to the Marco Polo Hong Kong hotel. It was a nice short stay at the hotel, the weather was a perfect 25 degrees and service was really good. My canto was very rusty, I sounded so funny and my sentences hardly made sense. My friends depended on me though so it was hilarious. I couldnt haggle very well with the shop owners in Mong Kok market cuz I have the naturally 'sweet' voice which is hardly ever intimidating and not used for debating.

First day we had a rest, shopped a bit on Tsim Tsa Tsui district and had a wonderfully "rich" seafood dinner with Yo's mum and business partners. It was too much, shanghai hairy crab with brown vinegar was so nice but damn rich and fatty! lol. Not only that but fish, and the best warm almond dessert in HK! Not too sweet, not such a strong almond smell and very smooth.

Second day, we ate dim sum with Yo's mum and her assistant. It was quite nice, but I was still full from the night before. Though I got to taste the different dishes and it could not be compared to what we have in Perth. After the driver took us to Oceans Park, a theme park, bigger than Disneyland. We hung about, looking at the sea creatures including jellyfish, seals, sharks, fishes etc. Also went on 2 rollarcoasters which made me very nauseous and scared. Im not good with rollarcoasters and have to shut my eyes whenever it goes down really FAST! We also got to see pandas, and they r so CUTE! Afterwards we found our way back by catching a HK cab. At night we went to Mong Kok, I bought all sorts of chinese things for my parents and we spent most of the time haggling over clothes! Tiff was sick that night and could not join us. The HK female and male shop owners really flirt with you to get business, it was funny to see hehe.

Third day, it was the finally day. We had to catch our 3pm flight to Vancouver and had to squeeze in Disneyland before we left. It was a very magical place, lots of rides, things to buy, all the different lands to discover, e.g. tomorrowland, adventureland etc. Felt like a kid again, but damn it was a hot day! Loads of China tourists there too. Very rushed, but we covered most of it, the theme park is not even finished yet...Oceans Park was probably bigger.

That was that of HK, smoggy place, but the streets were cleaner than I expected. People were generally ok, except for the 7Eleven lady and the street store owner who cursed us to die on our trip...cuz we didnt buy anything from her. They can be so pushy! But they too have to make a living. I want to go back to HK again! This time bringing my family along, cuz they would love it!!

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At Kim's house, with her youngest bro and her chow chow, "BOW"

I have just arrived back in Perth on Saturday morning 1:40am, I am seriously jet lagged and in need of sleep, PLENTY OF IT! I had left Vancouver on the 15th Dec, 11 hours on Lufthansa to Frankfurt airport. There me and my friends slept in the lounges provided in the airport and bummed around for 12 hours til our next flight. Tiff, Vira split from Yohana and I cuz we were on our way back to Perth, whereas they had continued their trip onward to Indo. I have suddenly gotten used to sleeping on the plane and no longer afraid of the take off and landing of the plane. Indeed I was no longer excited but just plain tired and my body had just crossed 3 times zones in a span of 28 hours. I was getting tired of plane food, and how it tasted so plastic and how sitting down has turn my butt into a pancake!

Overall the trip was a blast! I had especially enjoyed my time in msia, catching up with my 12 yr long penpal, Sin Yee for the first time face to face. That was something I needed to accomplish in my life. She was the most sweetest, kindest friend ever and she is everything our friendship was on paper. I also caught up with Kim, and went to her house and met her parents and bros. Also became esp aquainted with her chow chow puppy! It was nice to see her home and have her take me around to Sri Hatamas to try the supper foods and shisha (Egyptian smoking device)...hehe which was rather notti of me cuz I dont smoke. It was a fragrant and sweet tasting, lemon mint flavour which complimented our drinks. I got to eat from a fresh coconut. Run around megamall, and one utama buying lots of shoes and clothes of course. ;) But never got a chance to hang out at KL city. The wedding was great, it was Tiff's older sis's shindig and it had all the trimmings of a traditional chinese wedding dinner. Great food, powerpoint slide, jokes from both sides of the family, loads of pics and heaps of fun.

I also got to meet my granny and my tai pak. My cousin sisters now all have boyfriends, husbands and kids...it is so nice to be an auntie and play with my nieces and nephews. They are so cute! They treated me to lunch which was the BEST Hokkien mee ever tasted! And to durian, my granny asked me to eat all of it, and I managed half a durian to myself! Felt sick and smelly after but it was for her hehe. I met a new friend in msia from Kim, Wing who is one crazy chick took us to ss. 2 to have asam fish and teh tarik,...it was really nice to enjoy the msian food that I have missed so much! Street food can never be compared to shopping mall food in msia!

When I landed in Msia for the first time, it was humid...but I grew used to it, wasnt uncomfortable at all. I had a rash come up a day after...showing that my skin is not used to so much moisture. I felt really touched when I got off the plane, as if I had returned to a familiar place that I call home, can be quite emotional...strange enough since I have spent most of my life in Perth, Australia. I just felt so at home, with everything...except the dirty drains!!! hehe. Ate lots but I didnt put on any weight (phew!), I think walking lots helped keep the weight off. :D I think I miss more of the ppl than the place...

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