When Perth City is feeling generous...

Eh? What's all the fuss about?

Walking out the the travel shop last Thursday, a big crowd started to gather outside Forrest Chase. Driven by a strong sense of curiosity, I approached closer to the target... carefully. As I drew nearer, my Asian upbringing predicts that there's definitely some freebie action going on. I picked up the pace quickly and joined the line.

Moments later the queue had grew by twice as much. At this point in time I was still not sure of what's up ahead. All I know are two things: one, Freebie; two, hold a piece of paper somehow as demonstrated by the many before me.

The line crawled like a tortoise on a hot Summer's day.
Too slow for my Asian liking. But this particular Asian persisted in her quest.

Looking up a smaller crowd of spectators began taking photos.
Alright then, here's a photo backatcha' :)

5 more people to go before it's my turn. Now I can finally see what the fuss is about and I liked what I saw. Picking up the phone I quickly dialed out to fellow Asians, Rowena & Lilian, for them to come and get one too. Unfortunately Lilian was in training (so she hung up on me) and Rowena's mobile was out of battery. Aw too bad...

So this is that the piece of paper is for...

Holding it in front of a camera activates a 3D dinausour right before your eyes!

Woooooww.... Techhhnooologgyy....

And finally, QuickCam 3000 from Logitech RRP $59.95.

Now what do I do with it?

I don't use webcams! :<

River Kayaking

Last Saturday we went kayaking...

These are Rowena's Feet.
She took this photo on a canoe in the middle of the river.
Paddling out from the riverbank took little skill,
Lift up your head moments later you see something like never before...

Adrian in a mighty Finn.

A picture tells a thousand words!

Renz the Pro! He took to kayaking like fish to water!

Jing An taking photo of little duckies.

Bro Sam conquering the Finn. Apparently it's very hard to balance and guarantees a wet bum.

Hengz & Yorkie.

Hengz in Paw-Paw.

CUTE LITTLE SNOWBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Julia & duckies.

Exploring what's underneath the bridge. Conclusion, nothing.

Keeping cool.

Bro Sam.





Yorkie got so close to the water bird for a pic. He was very proud of his efforts!

Nice pic!

Rowena & I followed these kids around to catch guppies and shrimps.

Group photo time :) We couldn't help playing Gladiators with the oars :P

KAYAKING WAS SOOOOOO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No one toppled over, EVERYONE enjoyed the fellowship.
I'll be sure to go again!!

Pleasant Thursday

This afternoon I found myself with an hour to spare before the CA tutorial. Without giving it much thoughts I headed toward the new business school labs where the snazzy computers reside. Few minutes later I am reassured by the familiar humming of 15 amazing pieces of technology that everything's going to be okay.

But it wasn't okay.

From the First Lab I was soon kicked out as the second year Business Econometrics students entered for their lab session. The Second Lab was packed full of rejects from the First Lab (too bad I wasn't fast enough) and Lab number Three belongs exclusively to Honors students.

Topping the experience off, every cell in my body detested the idea of walking 15 minute back to Reid Library so that I could be in queue for 10 minutes and maybe gain access to an unfortunately slow grandfather computer.

Defeated and insecure, I sat down on the nearest lawn, stretched out my legs and looked up...

And that, was exactly what I saw.

The weather was beautiful, the sun shun through the foliage felt warm on my skin. Moments ago I was in the centre of a dense population of Asians, yet moments later God led me to a mini oasis.

UWA Business School

Part of the Business School

Car park

Taking out the Bible, I began reading the book of Job, some Psalms and Song of Solomon. 40 minutes went past in an blink of an eye. I had a real blessed time with God!

Make shift pillow... I laid down and hit the water bottle inside. That was actually quite painful.

Later in the day I indulged while shopping for luggages: a three scoop of Gelatino ice cream from Harbour Town!

Home Stretch

I'm on the home stretch!

Japanese Crepe

This morning reading the book of Job I had unprecedented cravings for Japanese crepes.

Totally random but exciting nonetheless!

No, this photo was not found in the Bible so don't go searching for it in the book of Job.
How can anyone resist such beautiful thing?

Without much hesitation I quickly grabbed my purse and headed down to the nearest IGA.

Whoa the strawberries are a bit over priced! Being a good steward of money, I opted for bananas (@ 4.99 per kg) instead. So this morning's crepe will be banana choc flavored :)

Fresh hot crepe off the machine. A nice, beautiful golden colour :) It took literally minutes to prepare and one minute to make... Cleaning up? Wipe the machine with a piece of tissue and it's good as new. Unbelievable! The kitchen was filled with the sweet savour of aromatic crepe.

Time to get creative; this was the BEST part!

For my crepe I did:

1. Spread nutella as base
2. Whipped some cream (so that the crepe won't be so dry)
3. Sliced half a banana and layered them on top of each other
4. Added a scoop of Wendy's Cookies n Cream ice cream
5. Sprinkled Cadbury milk chocolate flakes
6. Decorated with a piece of chocolate.

The rolled up final product.

So what's the verdict you ask?

D.E.L.I.C.I.O.U.S!!!

Utterly, amazingly delicious!

Next time I want to make ice cream chocolate Oreo crepes, strawberry and ice cream crepes and apple/cinnamon yogurt crepes.

One day I might even challenge savoury crepes :)

From finance to dressmaking

This is Julia's latest toy:

*Drum Roll Please*

A MINI SEWING MACHINE :)

Unboxing the sewing machine I find a bag of small accessories, a foot pedal and an AC adapter. The machine comes pre-threaded for immediate use, it sews in durable chain-lock stitch, uses large spool, has 2 speed controls, can be hand or pedal operated and cordless option is available.

I've wanted this for a while now, since I first saw it for $99 on tv's shopping channel.

All I had to do was remove the plastic sleeve and voila!

In high school I took 2 years of sewing classes. During which (from memory) I've made a tote bag, a singlet, a dress, 5 pillows and a pair of (transparent) shorts.

I made this red floral dress in year 8. We took the photo at the girls' swap party few months ago. Each of us had to pick a crazy outfit to take photos in... and I can't believe Ruth chose mine :(

Foot pedal control.

For a mere $25, go get yours from The Reject Shop!

10 little spies on a big mission

Last Saturday 10 spies from BPCWA had a special mission: a sneaky peek into the "promised land" (potential 2009 NYC campsite).

They endured harsh weather conditions...

unforgiving sun...

But alas some were well equipped, like Agent Rowena and Agent Julia...

others turned to food for temporal relief.

Unfortunately Land Lesch had no green pasture for our livestock to feed upon,

or enough tents for dwelling.

Bidding farewell, the spies quickly went on their way to Land Serpentine.

Agent Rowena praying for journey mercy...

the 90 minute trip was nothing because we have each others' company.

Agent Yisan leads the way in climbing over the great wall barricading us and Land Serpentine.

We had to be very careful in not exposing our secret identities.

We saw plentiful of mansions for everyone,

vast green pastures,

and a PA system which impressed Agent Adrain lots.

This is a random shot.

The spies rejoiced over mission accomplished,


they had a feast celebrating God's goodness.

Agent Lilian wrote to report the following:

3^rd May 2009, 1.20pm – On Saturday, there was 10 spies in total that was sent by Bpcwa to observe the promised land. We charged towards the first land up north in camp lesch. When we arrive there, the land doesn’t seem to be fill honey and milk. The Campsite was quiet small which could only accommodated up to 84ppl only. Dining and auditorium and dorm are located at the same place. If campers go for hot water shower system, it might takes up to another 20 mins to re heat. Facilities wise, hmm…caleb took some photos of it.

Then the 10 spies then rush down towards south to observe the land in Serpentine which from far looks likes a bowling alley. This camp site looks very promising. We went for a tour by an inner spy named Kevin. Firstly, we went to the basketball court, I think also known as “gymnasium”. The court is gigantic which consists of several private meeting room which will be suitable for prayer room and discussion room during the camp.

There are few dorms which are not widely spread apart which are good and each individual dorm has its own toilet (even bonus). There are 8 beds in total for each dorm so it can takes more than 100+ ppl. Facilities wise – swimming pools, ovals, bush walking, etc. – Caleb took pics of it. Basically, I have nothing against this camp site except there will be kangaroos jumping around during late evening. There’s also an area called “leader’s room”. In this place, there’s a PA system which looks super high tech and each room got 2 beds which can accommodate up to 13 ppl. Dining can also be used for message and they have piano and projector in the dining room too.

Ok, that’s all, the spy back to work now.