2007 - Tamat

Goodbye 2007.. an eventful year it was and tis blog site is the testimony of events for me. It is hard to believe that i managed to maintain tis blog for over a year, and more amazing that i managed to find things to post every week :-P It helps that Karen maintains her blog concurrently and i am particularly motivated by the growing community of people commenting on tis site ^_^ Seeing everyone's comments gives me the sense there is a thread of communication between us...a feelin that everyone is still here ^_^

Enough of being long winded.. here is the series of pictures from the long xmas-new year break. Feeling like a tourist again ^_^

Body and head have similar character ^_^

Our day at Taroonga Zoo. I must say.. tis zoo is really gud (not that i have been to many zoos..have only been to JB's and Spore zoo.. hee hee) But the views here are spectacular and the animals are active. A recommended tourist place if you have 1/2 a day to spare ^_^

New Year's Eve celebration..our journey started from Meadowbank train station. If you flip back to the to previous NYE 2007 blog, you will find a similar picture. It did feel like deja-vu to ivy and me tis year.

Boom boom again. Happy 2008! Every new year's fireworks seems less impressive from the last. I think i am getting immune to all tis... bad thing about aging is that things and moments impress us less with time. Funnily, when ivy and me watched the news of the world's NYE fireworks, Sydney's footage always look really gud. I suppose waiting for hours just for the few minutes of joy kinda wears you down during the moment.

Another shot of ta fireworks

The queue to get to the train station..dunno why we put ourselves thru all tis year in year out :-P

Xmas Images

To All Family and dear old friends.... thank you for your greetings. Ivy and me would like to wish everyone...

MERRY XMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR.... May all your new year resolutions be kept and happy moments grow in the coming new year ^_^

The following few images summarizes our xmas in Sydney thus far:

Company Korean Xmas dinner.. a few other guys are missing from the pix

"Candy House" as ivy calls it. It's just down the road from where we live. The owner actually collects "donation" from onlookers for his xmas decorations. People have a habit of ligthing up their homes here for Xmas.

Xmas display at David Jones

Shopping "crowd" in the city at 9pm

Sea of lights... the Xmas tree at Martin's Place

The Rock

Our little Xmas tree is up again^_^

The full title should read "The Rock International Church". That was the name of the church that ivy and me attended over the weekend. A friend of mine recommended the church. It's about 40members strong and predominantly Sporean's and Msia's. I honestly don't know how they came out with that name. Anyway, the sermon was a typical pre-xmas talk. I don't know why preachers like to focus on the so called "wisemen coming to visit the child in the manger.." and the habit of waving the bible saying the bible says so... Wisemen from 2000 years back aren't exactly wise by our current standards...a time when everything that goes wrong is the work of evil spirits and sacrifice is the cure of the day. What is written in the bible are the preceptions of the chosen ones... however, the chosen ones lived in a time when the earth was still square, gravity was not known and pumba from lion king had a better preception of planets than the wisemen had. I know my mum might disown me after reading this blog ^_^ Just thoughts and questions... if the gallows rather than a cross was used, will there be gallows in every church now?

Nan Tian

me at tiananmen square.. actually it's nan tian temple ^_^

aahh.. the smell reminds us of the festive season back home

welcome welcome

collage of little buddha statues

We finally took a drive out of Sydney over the weeked. Ivy has a cousin who married a thai guy and settled down in Wollongong. They opened a simple Thai restaurant there. Dropped over their place for a short visit. Would have posted pix of them but ivy refuses to allow me to post pix of her..sigh. Dropped over the nearby temple called Nan Tian Temple. I like that place. The design is clean and neat. The joss-stick smell reminds me so much of chinese new year time back home.

Beckham Galaxy

Bend it like spice boy (his goal scoring free kick)

The only reason why people came to see tis match

I need one of tis

Ta score tells it all.. not the final score though.. Sydney scored another goal but i was too lazy to update my pix ^_^

Work week was as chaotic as i predicted wif the absence of the accounts gal. The new gal is picking up real fast and tis week should be a lot better ^_^ The highlight of my week was the LA Galaxy vs Sydney FC match. I was given a free ticket to the match and was seated about 4 rows from the front ^_^ Amazingly, that's the 1st time i ever watched a live football match or even entered a stadium to watch anything.. really "sua ku". Boring game. The LA Galaxy guys barely ran and Beckham was strolling around the field most of the time. However, i did manage to get a few nice shots of him.. including a shot of him taking the goal scoring free kick. Sadly i didn't get to see the goal coz i was too busy trying to take his photo.. sigh.