floor of champions dinner

Just had our floor dinner. Nothing much, nothing spectacular. It was just a cozy bonding session between the floor members admist the food and wine and glowsticks. It was a semi-formal event so you have to dress up for it.






with the head of our hall-george.

the effects of the glowsticks were amazing.

that's my salmon, and the other option was the beef.




I preferred last year dinner though! We had entrees and nicer desserts. This year, it was straight to the main course, no time wasted. And desserts tasted weird. But the pre-dinner snacks was nice. I guess cause it's fried and you seldom go wrong with fried stuff.

AND I AM SICK.
Sore throat, flu, cough. Can even feel a fever approaching cuz my body aches. =(

Starry starry ball '08

Ursies ball was held last Friday at DeVine, Kamberra Winery. I have absolutely no idea why Canberra is spelt as Kamberra. Maybe, they want to try act cute or input humour?
Anyhow, the venue this year was much better compared to last year, which was held in a race track. The food was also better than last year, albeit a little small in the quantity.
I wore the dress that I bought for the ball last year. I didn't wear that dress last year, so I thought I'll use it this year. =)


that's a cigar I'm holding. The guys bought it for the ball and I borrowed it to take a picture! wahaha.


With chia yuen and dianne when we were waiting for the buses to pick us up.


that's lawrence with his cigar in his mouth. I kinda like the effect of this photo.


daryl and don on the bus.

Upon reaching the DeVine, it was a photo taking frenzy. Everybody wanted to take pictures with everybody. And all are dressed to kill. The girls looking beautiful with their hair and makeup done to perfection and guys looking impressive in their suits. It was a night where everyone looked their best. =)
I too, can't miss out on the phototaking! Swipe out my camera and proceed to snap snap snap. But admist these photo taking, I didn't forget to treat myself to the delicious canapes. I think I must have been too busy eating them that i forgot to take pictures of them. haha.
As it was at a winery, the wines and champagne were pretty good.




eugenie looking sweet that night.


ada, as usual, looks stunning. =)


2 new korean girls, michelle and tracy.


she's wearing a cheong sum! nice.


lawrence, jayshen and jared.
Jayshen came all the way from Sydney to join in the ball.






hannah and gemma. Both look pretty that day.



caitlin and jess.

Without the both of them, there wouldn't be an Ursies ball. 3 cheers to caithlin and jess!
There was also a ursies video made which is better than previous year. The plot and humour were stronger too. I like it.


with hannah.


that's our table photo.
Thanks don and leonard. You guys were so nice! =)


with the gorgeous babes. laura, amanda and sam.
Amanda's dress was like literally bare back. SEXY!!!


with martha. i love her dolly hair and vintage like dress.





don't you think she looks abit like scarlett johansson?

Oh and here's the food! The picture is taken by Jared! His camera behaves between an SLR and a lousy digital camera. There are times when the camera churns out SLR like photo like the one below, but there are times when the camera takes awfully shaky pictures with lots of noise. haha!

Jared's SLR like photo of the food.


so eager to see the camera even when I have a mouth full of food. haha.


chern!


hannah and clare. Oh, and they're both koreans. Koreans are pretty pretty.
We have an korean influx this year. I think the guys must be pretty happy.


And the guys went out to smoke their cigar while the girls enjoy the desserts inside.





While the guys were having a puff,

the girls were having fun dancing inside! Chia yuen spinning dianne around. =)


tango with derrig.




I like this picture though I look like a retard.
And look at what Jared is doing to lawrence! haha!
Now we all know your inclinations jared.




one mini group photo!

I'm still waiting for all the professional shots to come. The ball was quite fun but I guess company last year was better cuz more people went last year.
And I came back so hungry, I had to cook indomee(which is awesome) to satisfy my growling stomach.

I'm having a floor dinner tomorrow! yay to good food! And cuz its a semi formal dinner, the chefs are forced to whip out some food for human tasting. I have been eating shit food the past few days. Sandwich for lunch and dinner cuz the kitchen ran out of food by the time I went. They should have like more food for us what. At the rent of 273.50 per week, and it is in AUD, I think residents here deserve much better. Both food and attitude from the kitchen hand(Linda and Barbara) at that.

first time skiing!

I skied for the first time on our national day!
HAPPY 43rd BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE!
I miss homeeeeeeeee!

The ski trip was a one day trip organized by the MSO committee.
The trip to and fro from the snowy mountains, the ski gears and the day pass cost AUD115, which is a fairly good deal.
But we had to rent our ski outwear ourselves before heading up the snowy mountain!


look at how huge the gloves are! haha!


lawrence ski wear! He's gonna wear alot more layers underneath.
The temperature up there is roughly about -4 degrees?

We had to wake up at 4am in the morning cuz the bus leaves at 5am.
The bus journey to the snowy mountain is about 3.5 hours and leaving at 5am allows us to have a longer time to ski.

We reached bullocks flat (bottom of the mountain where you rent all the gears) at about 9am.
The whole process of trying on and wearing that transformer shoes took us nearly 1.5hours?
The boots are so hard to put on and so difficult to walk, not forgetting that they are quite heavy too!
After we tried on the boots, we had to collect our skis and skis poles.
And the skis must have weighed like 10kg?
I had so much difficulty bringing them walking here and there on the transformer shoes.
I got so tired before I even started skiing. haha.

check out our transformer shoes!


han and david! all fully geared and ready to go.
we are on the skitube (which is a train) that ferry us from bullocks flat all the way up to the snowy mountain.
The mountain that we went to is called Perisher blue.



caught stoning on the skitube up. Its 20mins ride.
And woohoo, look at my chubby cheeks. wahaha. How fat. Amazing.

And yay! Finally we reached!
Perisher Blue, here we come!

I know this is gonna sound quite dumb, but it's my first time seeing snow!!!!!
SO EXCITED CAN??
Although its not as nice as I hope it'll be, but still!
It's SNOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!~


Lawrence is very excited to see the snow too!


first time see snow, must take more pictures. LOL.
And there were like ten people with the same jacket, cuz everyone went to the same shop to hire the ski jackets.
And there was only 1 design for each sizes.


with han. her goggles were damn cool lah. So professional looking.
I look like a penguin.


the guys. edwin, david and lawrence.


on the skis.


It is so cold that your hand will turn red in 30 secs when you take it out of the gloves.
But the 'photo-loving' us kept taking pictures despite that.
Pictures more important than hand.




how perisher blue looks like.


me with all the heavy gears off!

After like 3 hours of skiing, I'm gonna take a rest.

Sleep on the iceeee!

now look around to see if there's anybody laughing at me.

attempt to get up cuz I saw people laughing. haha.


lawrence felt tired and took a rest too.

After the short recharge, we are ready to go again!

trying to stop after coming down from the slope.


stopping succeeded, so now for a picture!



the last few pictures that we took before we left.
I like these last 2 pictures. =)

And oh, I can't ski. =(
I fell down so many times.
The falling down part wasn't painful at all, but the getting up part is such a pain in the ass.
There were a couple of times I fell voluntary cuz I did not master the snake turning yet so I was gonna crash into the person in front of me and I didn't know how to turn.
So the only way was to fall to prevent the crash.
And there was a few times people crashed into me from behind when I was skiing, and so I fell.
Of course there were those times when the the speed was a lil too fast and I panicked and fell.
My muscles ached all over now from pulling myself up.
And I think I look like a swimmer now. Cuz i used so much of the hand muscle.
It really ain't an easy task getting up when you fell down.
Imagine the 10kg of skis + 4 kg of shoes on your legs, and the slippery-ness of the slope cuz of the melting snow, the long skis that's in your way hindering your every movement.
And when you finally get up on your skis, the skis tend to slid down themselves cuz it's too slippery and you fall again.
But all in all, it was still a fun fun experience.
I didn't regret going, in fact I enjoyed it alot.
Though of course it would have been more wonderful if I was like a expert skier.

The Ursula ball is this friday!
I dunno what to do with my hair! Urgh.