EASTER LONG WEEKEND WITH LOVE

Hmmm. Just watched Knocked Up. A little dodgy.....but it was still. so. hilarious. And sweet, at the end. Haha. Who doesn't like sweet endings, right?

Well anyways, the mother was here over the long weekend. She touched down on Friday morning (and I didn't sleep, fearing I would oversleep and not pick her up) and I had to rush off for dance practice right after I dropped her back at our apartment.

And for the very first time ever, I fell asleep during dance practice. REALLY. We were dancing in groups because of space constraints and while I was waiting for my group's turn, I dozed off until Gen went "right, De Xin?" And I just subconsciously went "mmm, ya.." until I jumped and realised they were correcting the dance. Not to mentioned I dozed off for split seconds while driving to and from dance practice. Hur.

Faith hitched a ride back with me because she was meeting Allison. Had a good catch up with Mummy and then she went off to meet Allison while Mummy and I headed down to Tiamo for lunch.Mummy had risotto! It was REALLY GOOD. I'm ordering that the next time I go back there.

I had the chicken pasta. Can't even remember the name already. That extra cheese on top was from Mummy's risotto HAHA.

She was test-trying the camera and then *FLASH* blinding.

Mummy ordered tea. I had this chocolate fudge cake. Mummy had a pot of rose tea. Absolutely lovely.

That was...not fresh. And the ganache was so rich AND SWEET it totally killed my chocolate craving until I go back to Max Brenner's again in Sydney.

Saturday morning. Dragged myself out of bed early so that I could bring Mummy to Blue Duck for breakfast =). My first time there too!

Mummy's cappucino.

My long macchiatto topped up.

DON'T YOU JUST LOVE THE HEART. The coffee was really good. Thick, strong, smooth and fragrant. Best drink to perk me up in the morning.

Mummy had two poached eggs on toast. She loved it! I don't know how they tasted because I don't like poached eggs so i refused to try them HAHA.

My scrambled eggs and bacon on toast. The scrambled eggs were SO SMOOTH LIKE OMGAWSH and the toast were really really good. Home made toast =).

Aaah breakfast by the beach. Nice huh. =D

After breakfast, I headed down to Curtin for rehearsals. Was SO dead (no sleep on Thursday night and only about 4 hours sleep on Friday night) I had to drink two bottles of coke.

After rehearsal, I drove down to Garden City to meet Mummy. She had arranged a meet up with her distant cousin, whose daughter opened a pharmacy at Broadway Fair, which is only 5 minutes walk from my place, and son is going to study in Canning College.

Didn't have anything to drink or eat while we were all seated at Dome because I was kinda craving for Michel's Patisserie.
Which was kind of disappointing because the black cherry cheesecake I had was so terribly sweet that I couldn't even taste the cheese in the cake and I had to eat the cherry layer separately so that I could totally enjoy the cheesecake.

And the coffee was burnt. They usually have really great coffee and cakes. Mumy and I suspect it was 'cos of the long weekend.

Performance was the next day. Where I woke up with back so sore it made me really nauseous. Popped 2 nurofens when I reached Curtin. Will blog about Easter Sunday again when I've collected all the photos and hopefully videos! =)

signing off~DE XIN

PHOTOS!!!

Gonna upload some long overdue photos. Finally, hey? Haha that's 'cos I managed to finish my microecons essay (and slept at 5am this morning) and so here I am, taking a short break!

I've been busy busy and just busy ever since the one week study break. After my microecons exam, I had a high school ball to attend the next day (03/05/2008). Was invited by Kang =).(Top) I'm the OLDEST in this picture! But I'm quite sure I don't look oldest ^^.
(Bottom) The little bro. =D

I'd say the ball was a whole new experience for me given I'd never had/attended a high school ball before. There was a befores (when the top picture was taken) where a few of them gathered to...uh...set the mood? I don't know haha. By then a few of them were already drinking (and smoking). Brings back memories huh. The times when I was underaged too.

Half the high school kids who went for the ball were already high before the ball started. Goes to show how much they'd drunk at their own befores. Food was good, although not Hyatt's best standard. Buffet. Could've been better. WHERE'S THE STICKY DATE PUDDING?! And the music was...very high school. Haha. Lotsa disco, hip hop/r&b were a minority, slow songs even more minor haha. Didn't dance a lot cos, er, 1) not my kinda songs and 2) not a familiar crowd.

Afters was the best I reckon. Drank one cup of tequila+coke (credits to StanS). Wasn't really in the mood to drink actually. Lazy. Heh. I enjoyed it best 'cos the boys were getting pretty high and stuff. At least StanS didn't drink so he could drive me home haha. Thanks, Stan!

Next up! Mishi mommy's birthday! 6th of May. Her brother, JoshLau, planned a surprise for her after her dinner with Charles.As usual, Mango was pretty much the centre of attention if not Mishi. They're like a happy family, Charles, Mishi and Mango =D.

Then, birthday again. Haha. Sek Cheng's! 07/05/2008 was the surprise. I think her actual birth date was 08/05/2008.Yayyy! Happy birthday, girl! =)

Been catching up with a few friends lately. Met up with Petrus last Thursday (15/05/2008) for dinner at Applecross. His place is...quite an interesting place to drive around. Haha. We ate at Viva Restaurant. Risotto. AWESOME TO THE MAX!

Just yesterday I had dinner with Ben Lin at Subiaco. Sicilian Café and Restaurant it was. Their pasta was great and affordable. Didn't expect much since their price ain't exactly that high. I thought Ben's Chef's Choice was good though! My gnocchi in pesto sauce was pretty good too but I thought the texture of the gnocchi could be improved. Pizza dough was heeeaaaveenly ^^.MORE DESSERTS NEEDED!

We walked over to Oriel for coffee and cake. Caramel and choc fudge cheesecake and banana and white choc cheesecake. Two words. TOO sweet. Way too sweet, man. But their coffee was terrific. Long macchiato with hazelnut syrup for me and cappuccino for him.

You wouldn't believe it but the whole night was spent talking about our fav hollywood actors/actresses. What a way to catch up haha! But at least I found out he's also a foodie and I can just ask him out whenever I feel like trying somewhere new/good. OH AND HIS SUPRA WAS SO SUPER SEXY minus the fact that it's an auto. Sorry, Kenneth, Ben's Supra beats yours anytime. Wahaha.

Today's catch-up friend was The Good Friend, WX. Tiamo!(Top) My long macchiato with hazelnut syrup.
(Middle) My penne ramazzotti. TWO THUMBS UP! Although the pasta was not al dente. I really love my pasta perfectly al dente. Bijia can relate to that.
(Bottom) WX's tenderloin strip. He says "TOO MUCH CHEESE!" Haha but I love cheese so...*shrugs*. =P

Drove (in his BMW!) to Dalkeith to take a look at the suburb. I have to say. ATAS AREA! All their stuff are all so expensive! Roses at $40/dozen and tulips at $30?! Things in IGA distinctly more expensive?! Oh my. Gosh.

Got home and sleeeeep.

(Top) Mummy's cappuccino.
(Second) My long macchiatto.
(Third) Mummy's gnocchi. AWESOME OK I TELL YOU! CHEWY GNOCCHI!!!!!
(Bottom) My lasagne. Not bad!

Mummy and I bought the Perth Entertainment Book (PEB) and I've been using it quite a bit! Tiamo's with WX was also paid at a discount thanks to the PEB. And the last four pictures were at Heather's Hutch (140 Broadway, near Greco's). Nice and small and cozy! Love love!

Looking forward to more good food with the PEB for the next year or so! No doubt I'm gonna buy it every year.

signing off~DE XIN

AAAAARGH!

I really need more time. Dance practices may be over but my time just never seem to be enough. Nvm. I'm here to blog about what I wanted to blog almost a week ago haha.

Last Wednesday there was Zion Leader's Meeting (ZLM) again because we wanted to be prepared for Easter Service. After the meeting, there was supposed to be a dance practice for the stage people BUT only 4 of the 7 of us were there and only 3 of the 4 of us practised because Karen had to talk to some people. So in the end we only marked through the counts and that was it.

On Thursday, after having lectures and tutorials from 8-12, Wei Xian was supposed to help me with my stats lab but I couldn't sign in to the sch's computer and I really couldn't stand it anymore so we ended up having lunch together instead haha!

We took away from Broadway. When we got our food, I went to buy stuff from IGA 'cos I was gonna bake that afternoon.Wei Xian had lunch with me at my place. He had stewed beef noodles while I had beef bee hoon. When we were done he went back and I started baking. I was tight with time so I only managed to do the base. Heh.

There was dance practice as usual that night. Really. Tiring.

Friday. Good Friday? Yep. With dance practice at 9am. Haha. I have to say just the dance practice is really fun. But the before and the after were really crap. It just felt like I was about to just collapse any moment. No joke. Not to mention late night studyings. Hmmm.

Dance practice ended on time that day 'cos lotsa people had to leave for cell outings. My cell? Nah. No outing no nothing. Haha. In the afternoon I just continued baking. I did the cheese part. Then night time was cell!

Rest of the pictures here. As usual, I zonked out that night. Gah.

Saturday, went down to Curtin for practice at around 12.30pm. Danced for about and hour and all the dancers (and Mummy) went to Karawara to buy lunch back to Zion Centre to eat. The moment I got into the shopping centre, I saw this.

Hahaha. DAMN CUTE! Omgosh. I cannot imagine any guy wearing any of my leotards. So if you happen to read my blog, and happen to be a guy, and happen to take any of my leotards by mistake, please DON'T try them on. Don't wanna own any stretched leotards hahaha.

Anyways, dance practice lasted till about 4pm. Craziness. Oh wells. Got back, wanted to crash but ended up just using the computer. Oh wells. Haha!

Sunday was the day! Easter service! We were supposed to reach by 7.30am but we were late due to some last minute hic-ups. Good thing most of us have done our make ups and just needed to touch up a little here and there.

Each performance was given about 1-2 tries on stage only. Pictures were taken before the dance. Man, the memories. =(

Service was really great. The dance went on well! As you can tell, I wasn't the best haha. Lotsa hard work has to be done on my style and technique. It's still too ballet-ish. Hahaha.

After service, Baby and I just walked around the carnival. Both of us had char siew rice while Mummy had nasi lemak (she said it wasn't that great). I also had candy floss! It's been a while! Ok, no. Maybe half a year. Heh. But still! I loved it ^^.

Baby kept trying to drag me into a lot of the games. ALL, in fact. But obviously I didn't play any heh. I knew I could've gone into the water dunking machine but I didn't want to =P.

The rest of the day was spent at Baby's place. He was supposed to go for service at St. Thomas Moore at 5.45pm but both of us were too tired. We slept our whole afternoon away lol. Before we knew it, it was about 8.30pm already. Went Tiamo's for dinner.

The Tiamo's pictures are still with Baby so don't blame me for the lack of photos haha. We had seafood misto. It was enough to feed THREE people. So we obviously couldn't finish heh. We also had a cup of wine each. Chardonnay. Perfect with the seafood.

After dinner, we went back to Currie Hall and watched soccer with the other Currie Hall people. MAN U WON! 3-0! Awesome awesome awesome to the max! Baby wanted to take the Supra and send me home after the match but in the end his friend, Ron (I think), took us for a drive around King's Park instead.

I. Tell. You. The Supra's engine was REALLY POWERFUL. Now I know why Baby's been so tempted by it. But I can imagine the fuel consumption. Haha. It's really up to him la. He's the one who's gonna drive his car most of the time anyways =D.

So Baby lent me his sweater and walked me home. That night was really freezing. It was already about 1.30am by the time I got home. Baby got back to Currie Hall pretty fast to watch the Arsenal vs Chelsea match haha! I wasn't really interested in that match =P.

My Monday started pretty late into the morning. Went to deliver cheesecakes haha. Yep, I finished baking it. I finished it on Saturday, in fact. Saturday was only the topping. I delivered them to quite a few people. I really hope the cheesecake's good. Heh.

Surprised Baby with his cheesecake and card in the evening. Was hiding in Jame's room for close to an hour =P. I felt really bad taking up so much of his time. But ya. Baby asked what if he didn't get back that night. HAHA I'll just walk back before sunset.

Tuesday school started. Will blog about Tuesday onwards another time. Till then!

signing off~DE XIN