My 22nd!!

Chris' 22nd

So finally... another year! Chris has just +1-ed his age... and hopefully has matured that much more.
For his birthday this time, we had a game of bowling which was pretty good, considering we didn't play for a long time. For dinner we had Korean barbecue which was pretty moderately priced (only $25-28 with 2 shots of alcohol!)

This wine was so good!! I was my first time drinking Korean wine, and this one tastes pretty good. It's called Black Raspberry Wine, a must try in Korean restaurant!

We then headed up to Cockle Bay Wharf thinking that there was fireworks. But after waiting 1/2hr, nothing happened.

So instead, we found a spot for 12 people at The Chocolate Room, and we had a hot chocolate..

This one was so special!! It had a tea light candle at the bottom warming the mug at the top..

Then this was mine.. It was a hot chocolate, and it was so.. strong and sweet! I guess that's what you get for a 70% chocolate hot chocolate..

Cappuccino?

Rea's 21st

Finally... Rea's 21!! She's the last to be 21st among our group of friends. So yeah, finally. It was a simple, but different this time. Some of us went to Galaxy World, which is the first as a group. I didn't take any photos there...
Then we had dinner at a place near Capitol Centre called En Casa. It was Spanish Cuisine, and the food was pretty good, and the service was good considering we weren't going to be the people who will spend tonnes of money there.

Then we had fireworks, these were my favourite shots of the night

Brian's 21st and Healthy's 22nd!

Finally, the second last 21st birthday we'll have in our group, next is Rea. So this time, comparably it was a simple gathering. Just movie and dinner.

One thing that happened without us happening was Katy Perry was at Event Cinemas at Town Hall George Street Cinemas making an appearance on her new movie: 3D Katy Perry: Part of Me.

We watched "Brave" and we thought it might be a childish cartoon, but surprisingly it wasn't. To me it was a very emotional movie where a girl dislikes her mother deciding her every step. But until her mum turned into a bear, they both learnt much more about each other, and understanding each other's weaknesses and strengths. Their relationship with each other was strengthened through pressured and stressful times. 

We had  a simple dinner at Campbells Restaurant at Chinatown, and for the first time, we actually went to a Chinese restaurant, but ate steak... not bad of a place. The service was good and the food was good. Well worth the price.

I only took photos when we got out of the restaurant, and we got to this kind of stuff....

I'm kinda crazy about all this magical levitation right now, because I reckon it makes the photo look so much more interesting. I'm sure by now, most of my friends know me as the "friend who always try to get everyone jumping in a shot." Until now, it still hasn't happened, so I might as well do it on myself and to people who actually want to do it.

Then at Cockle Bay Wharf, there weren't any fireworks, but there was a permanent light display on the two new buildings across from the park.

But since my photos were blurry, I might as well make it apparent.

Group shot!

James' intoxicated 21st

After so many 21st birthdays so far, this has got to be the funniest of all. We had tonnes of games, and alcohol that most of us (this does not include me) ended up pretty much intoxicated. Walking into fans... not being able to even sit properly.. the list goes on.
At first, when we were still normal, we blew some balloons up and drew on them... Here are some of the better ones.

Kevin.22nd

Witnessed by 9 friends on the night, Kevin finally turned into our second old man. For the first time in our many group gatherings, we actually had a Chinese version of Aussie food. Seriously, and we said we weren't Asian enough. The food was alright, and the service is just plain funny. I mean, how often do you see 7 waitstaff and 5-6 of them are all trainees? Not really often to me... But yeah, the food was alright, even though Paul and I didn't get our escargots!! But yeah, next time, next time..
This was probably one of the fastest items that came.. even faster than water, for once.

Paul.22nd

So, our first 22nd birthday of the year, and it's Paul! Yes, he's old now. So that night we had a dinner at Malacca Straits which is at Broadway, and it was a Malaysian Cuisine which is pretty good (well, food wise anyway). And we had presents time which is the most exciting and funniest part of the day.

The first round of presents weren't too, obscene shall I say, and it was actually useful.

Erica's 21st @ Wagaya

And so it was Erica's 21st on that Friday, and it was with her family and all. I've never had a birthday or even attended one with family and people from the organisers side, and this has to be one of a kind! It was definitely much more... warm (shall I say?) and it definitely looked like Erica has a very loving and supportive family on her side.

This was definitely one of the next best things next to affogato!! Mmmm, green tea icecream with green tea..

Laughter at Jacky's 21st

Laughter is always what I wanted all my life. It brings joy to people, lightens up all the stress, and it definitely brings a photo to life! It definitely happened at Jacky's 21st at Bankstown at his father's restaurant. It was quite a night with so much food prepared by his dad, and it was so nice meeting so many other people from Jacky's senior High and Uni.

Tim.21st

I could have never thought that after all these years of birthdays and gatherings, that it is until now that we do Tim's birthday as well! It is surprising and sad that it's also his last birthday with us, before he heads up to Hong Kong... FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE!! This point definitely hits Paul really hard, and it just makes him sad.. and definitely makes us feel like we're going to miss him. But never-the-less, we definitely hope for the best for his career and journey with God!

So this time for Tim's birthday, we chose a different type of activity and this time it was Laser Skirmish! It was quite fun, as we had two games in total. The first game was alright in a way that, there were so many children in it, which was actually quite annoying, as they always would stand next to you and wait for you to re-spawn. I seriously nearly wanted to spank them, and tell them to go to someone else. But in our second game, it was one of the best I've tried since a long time ago. There were no children, no stupid actions e.g., stand next to you until you re-spawn, and everyone were young adults!! The game was actually a game for once! There were actually normal shootings, and people just don't act silly!

The guys in our group playing in the game... there was only Erica, Rea and I which wasn't in the shot. 

My very early 21st in Sydney..

Hi All!
So, it was my (really early) 21st in September (when my real 21st is actually in October), and yea, we had a friend gathering for it at Sydney Park, and it went quite well!
There were also many opportunities to take photos of both people and landscape.

Chris.21st

Photo taking was supposed to be a mighty craze for me. Every gathering, every object, would get my snap at least 5 times. But not this time. Thanks to exams, I had to go home early. This got all my photos on Chris’ 21st dramatically lowered to only 3, a group photo. That really sucks. This is probably the most embarrassing moment so far for my photos. I mean, for me, a minimum would probably be around 50 shots.
Another reason why it was so little. Because we had bowling again, the shots were lowered. First reason why this was lowered. The lighting around that place is bad. It’s so dim, and if I used flash, it would bring down the atmosphere somewhat created by the location.
One more reason why. Exams. They just took up all my time, and the only time I could study was on Chris’ 21st gathering. If I didn’t I would have to miss out on something even worse than just Chris’ 21st. I would’ve had no family time on Sunday, and studying my crap off on the Sunday night, because the exam is on Tuesday, and if I didn’t finish doing my summary, I would fail the exam. That’s a pretty good reason.
So, I took 3 photos out of the whole gathering. And only 1 turned out the best out of the 3. That’s so embarrassing.
That’s it. Only one good one… I didn’t really want to post this gathering up due to the lack of photos, but once I thought of the unfairness on Chris, I needed to post this, or, it’s an extremely embarrassing point!

Bowling Rea to her 20th.

YAY! It’s me again! Aren’t you happy? LOL. OK. Whatever.
So it was Rea’s birthday (a while ago) and we went bowling at KingPin down at Cockle Bay Wharf. It was quite good. Originally, Rea was going to make us some really disgusting drink if we lose. But luckily, she cancelled that drink and we went for bowling (if it wasn’t cancelled we’d all vote for ice skating!)
It was quite a good time, since we haven’t bowled for quite a while now (since high school days?) and we actually weren’t all that bad!
But unfortunately, on that day, I thought I had enough batteries on my DSLR, but nope. One battery level was definitely not enough for the whole day (don’t ever try that again). So yea, I was quite lucky that I brought my Casio with, otherwise, the photos would’ve came to an end! But seriously, the quality of the Casio was a bit depressing.
Birthday girl~~

Happy Birthday to Brian and Healthy! And the new technique is working!

Ahhh.. Funny times. Honestly, every time I go out to take photos (usually gatherings), I am always the person who gets laughed at. Always. I’m not saying it’s good, but I honestly think what I do sometimes, is pretty silly and stupid. Which makes people laugh at me!
So, as a cause of this, I looked through my pictures, and I found that most of the people looking at my lens, doesn’t really smile (or it’s just really fake). And I thought that maybe by using my stupidity, I can take better looking faces! And it was first used when we had our gathering for Brian and Healthy’s birthday. It worked pretty well (except the fact that I nearly fell into a rubbish bin just for it to work), it got people laughing and having natural looking faces (not fake). This was the aim. but maybe next time I should really try another way of doing it…
Ok, ok, enough with the jibber jabber. Yesterday we had a gathering for Brian’s and Healthy’s birthday. It was pretty cool, but not very good for a photo shooting (the sky is so dark at like, 5!) We watched the new Kung Fu Panda 2, and I honestly felt really emotional to the end bit when Po came home to see his father all safe and well. But I have to admit, the Kung Fu Panda 1 was much funnier than this one, although this has the funny bits.
So what did we do next? We were wandering around (like, normally, or shall I say, it’s our tradition!) and we went into the new JB Hi-Fi at the new City Westfield. And then, we headed to Darling Harbour and we had a very long stroll until 7. At that time, we took some photos and had some nice conversations with each other.. Apparently Paul is going to Tahiti?
Oh yea, whoever wants a copy of these shots, just e-mail me.
So my first shots was just some architecture..

Happy Birthday my dear brother!

Hello all!
Yay! Another post! I don't know why, but I'm really happy about making myself blog about my experiences. But not everything is about me, so I do hope you like reading my stuff too!

So on the 13th, it my youngest brother's birthday. It was really cool, as he had a mango ice-cream cake! We also had our uncle and aunty over to have a dinner with us.

So yea, let's wish Aaron a happy BELATED birthday!

And no, I haven't forgotten about photos (I'm still sane)

Happy Birthday to James... And Bon Voyage!

Hello everyone

Well O well. So it's James's birthday eh? So how old are you James? 20?! WHAT?! You're that young?!

Well, it's true. He is probably the youngest guy in our group, and yet he is pretty mature and smart at most things.

So today our group decided to throw him two parties: One birthday, and one going away party. He will be leaving for Sweden in about 5 months time (?) and will be studying there for half a year (that's what Sexy Lee said. If it's not true, then ask him).

First up was Kevin getting stepped on by James's dog, JJ.

A very obscene party with Paul and Kevin's 21st

Hi everyone.

Welcome to my new blog, and this is just a new page for my reviews and experiences.

I could review my experiences with my new 52 week project, or I can post some of my outings with my friends. Hmm, decisions, decisions. But I think I'll go with my friends gatherings first, then my 52 week project a bit later on.

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So, this year we began a friend gathering with a pretty obscene birthday party. It was quite an experience.

First was the cake. This cake took a total of 3 1/2 hours to complete

The Making of the Cake