Ishani’s 21st Birthday
On Friday the 27th of November, I went to shoot Ishani's 21st birthday with a 007 theme and it was great fun, this was the first event I shot with my new SB900 flash and I love the results, the extra power allowed me to bounce using the high ceiling giving quite nice results. Overall I had a great time shooting the party and it was good fun, thanks to Ishani for the oppportunity.
Photos below:
Theresa’s 6th Birthday
Photos from my little cousin Theresa's 6th Birthday, just a smallish gathering at the Bankstown RSL club for a buffet dinner.
A couple of recent 21st birthdays
It seems like everyone's turning twenty one nowadays with multiple birthdays on a near weekly basis, meaning out every weekend and not getting any uni work done. The past couple of weeks, I had celebrated Alan and Peter's birthday on a cruise around the harbour and the Friday after celebrated a 'Heroes and Villains' costume party to celebrate Marlene's 21st. Both parties had been quite fun and rather rushed, in particular Marlene's with me not having a clue what to possibly dress up as and how to pull it off until that very afternoon of the party. All while stuck completing a set of journal entries for my General Education subject, Science and Religion. I had bought some cardboard and decided to come as Bender from Futurama and I think it turned out okay. I wanna try again and make it better when I have time.
Well anyways, here are the pics from the two parties, I must get a move on with my INFS3608 report due tomorrow.
Phil and Yvonne’s 21st
A couple of weeks ago we head to Strike Bowling bar in Darling Harbour to celebrate Phillip Dang and Yvonne Lau's 21st b'day and it was a fun filled night involving bowling, pool and karaoke and plenty of photos from Ethan, myself and a bit of Gab. Hope Phil and Yvonne had a good time and judging by the photos they did, so once again happy birthday 
. Pictures are below, you've gotta love the expressions on their faces in the cover photo =D. (It just has to be up).
Belrich, Jimmy & Winnie’s 21st B’day
On Friday the 25th of September 2009, we celebrated Belrich, Jimmy and Winnie's 21st B'day with a delicious banquet at Kobe Jones as well as some additions like the Dynamite Rolls, level 5 and then the 'non-existent' level 5+ called level 6 by the waiter. Dinner was a 7 or 8 course meal I believe maybe a bit more or less, but a fairly diverse experience.
It was a fun night out followed by a fairly dull clubbing experience at Docks hotel which had a pretty crappy DJ who could barely beatmatch and a small crowd. I can't really be bothered to write much, weather sucks today and it's a long weekend too.
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Kalee & Sylvia’s 21st B’day
On the Friday of the 4th of September, we celebrated Kalee Choi and Sylvia Wong's 21st B'day at a French restaurant called Baia set with nice views of Darling Harbour. Dinner was a combination of a Garlic and Bruschetta bread (which I missed out on) and then a two course main of various pastas, risotto and so. This was followed by another serving of woodfired Pizzas and lastly a desert of choice. I grabbed the Homemade Tiramisu accompanied with a hot chocolate although a coffee would have been a wiser choice. All in all, dinner was quite nice and was followed by a mashing of Karaoke at Greenbox Plus in a room too small for the group. But photos from this lovely night are below:
Three long months without a post…
It's been a massively long time since I've added anything to my blog despite being out and about a fair bit, nothing spectacular like New Zealand but hanging out with friends and whatnot. More recently though, I've been rather sick and that's made my Uni break fairly unenjoyable, being sick on a trip to Nelson Bay (well Anna bay) is not a good feeling and apologies to the people I spread my sickness too =D. This post will cover stuff I've done from the past three months including plenty of piccies.
I'll try to update this thing more often...
Nelson Bay
From the last thing I did, the Nelson Bay trip, which wasn't so great seeing as I started to get sick the day before we all left meant the bed was my best friend for a couple of days. Staying home while everyone else went fishing didn't make such a great trip and by the time I had recovered, I had already infected others leaving only a few of us to have a few drinks on the last night. Other than my sickness, it was a nice 4 days despite a lotta trouble organising the trip with transport and all that.
Sexy Six B'day BBQ
We celebrated Bettina, Chris, David, Lily, Kathy and Sylvia L.'s b'days all together at Bicentennial Park in Homebush Bay. It was a great day despite being in the middle of Winter, the sun was out and it was lovely.
Awesome Foursome B'day Dinner
I managed to catch a bit of Bob, Gavin, MP and Tina's B'day, unfortunately it was also my dad's b'day that night and I had arrived late and caught up with a bit of Karaoke as well.
VSA Soccer Day 2009
Stephen Du’s 20th B’day
On the 21st of March we celebrate Stephen Du's, known as Duman, birthday, for this occassion the prick made us travel all the way down to Jervis Bay for a day for some fun. The day started with a 6.30am meetup at his house to aim for a 7am departure, this became closer to 7.30am leaving us with only two hours to complete a two and a half hour trip. The solution? Gun it down the highway, the drive down was awesome once you got past the Hume Highway and the small towns along the way, the hills in Kangaroo Valley were nice and windy with smooth surfaced roads making for a fun drive, the view on the way down the mountains was quite spectacular as it was quiet a foggy morning and it seemed like we were driving above the clouds.
The schedule for the day was a dolphin watching cruise followed by lunch and the spending time at the beach where we could fish, snorkel and just enjoy the beautiful white sand. The dolphin cruise was quite sucessful with us sighting quite a few dolphins closer to end however they seemed to be attracted to another dolphin cruise boat, giving them quite an impressive show. Snorkelling around the area was quite nice once I got the hang of it and the view under water was quite nice once I brought a piece of meat to bait out the fish. While swimming back to shore I was luckily enough to witness a school of hundreds of fish swimming around me and the view was simply epic. As the day went closer to the end we set up the barbeque and cooked what seemed to be the best tasting sausages ever as we were all so hungry.
Photos from the day trip are below:
Driving back was another rushed drive as we were late for dinner scheduled at 8pm. Dinner was a Thai buffet at the restaurant Duman previously worked at, despite being 40 minutes late there was still plenty of food left for us to eat. Not much to write about the dinner but the photos are below:
Coldplay & Kim Le’s B’day
Feels good to finally have my site back up after my host decided to go bankrupt 
not to fear as it's back now and unlikely to go down again. I'm still in the process of redesigning my site and splitting it up to three sections, you'll see when i'm done 
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Anyways, March was quite a busy month with Uni starting up again and getting busy already despite only have 3 days of uni. So far in March though I've been to Coldplay's concert which I found to be quite good, our seats were quite far back as we only managed bronze reserved. They put on a good show with pretty nice visuals, the lasers were wicked, really bright and vivid colours. Highlights would have been Yellow and Viva La Vida for me, moreso Yellow due to the dropping of the Yellow balloons/balls, sucks that we weren't on the floor so we could grab some of the butterflies. Although it was a great show, I felt like there should have been more and being my first "real" concert, it was damn short but I guess that's the norm.
Pics are below, they're the best I could do.
Also in March was Kim Le's 20th b'day, we celebrated with dinner at Positano at Parramatta, we all had different meals which were quite nice. Headed out to Bamboo in the City afterwards for a bit but ended up being a waste of time, that place is shit, horrible atmosphere and people moving all over the place as they get to and from the bar. Not going there again, lucky I didn't have to pay to get in though.
Pics from Kim's b'day are below:
Tang’s 20th B’day
I've actually got a few things to catch up on with posting, but since Michael Tang thinks he's so awesome, I decided to post about his birthday outing first. Very simple night consisting of dinner, karaoke and clubbing for a few of us, awesome night out and felt good to go clubbing after a while (even though it was RnB). Dinner at Oscars Bar or Restaurant, just across Pyrmont Bridge and then Karaoke at CEO and clubbing at Havana.
Photos are below
Short post, because I really can't be bothered XD.
Ben Kha’s B’day – 01.02.2009
To celebrate Ben's b'day we headed up for a trip towards the Central Coast area to a place called Dora's creek for some fishing, it was a scorcher of a day and by the time we arrived the sun was already up high and killing our skin. As soon as we arrived the rods were unpacked and lines were cast in as soon as the prawns started to thaw up a bit. Our luck was low as bites and nibbles were far and wide, the fish didn't seem to be eating our bait but would happily munch on the bait of the man next to us. After a while we paused for a bit for some lunch, we had wraps, pasta, sausages and sandwiches during this time I managed one fish after leaving the line for a while, unfortunately it was a tiny fish which we wouldn't be able to keep. After tossing it back, it was Stephen's turn for a fish ironically it was the same type of fish as I had just thrown back and similar in size, so unlucky once more.
After finishing lunch I reeled my rod in to find it extremely hard to do so, it was like a big fish, but the lack of tug made me think it was seaweed, but this was really really heavy, as I slowly reeled it in, it appeared to be a large rock. But I was curious to see how my line had managed to clip a rock and have it stay that way. After struggling to bring it up over the bridge it was surprising to see that it was not a rock but a lump of some sort of shell fish, I think Mussels, despite being covered in seaweed and stuff I chucked one on the bbq and it tasted alright, the others weren't as daring though.
As the sun burned our backs it was decided that it would be a good idea to head down to a beach to cool down, we drove back to The Entrance making a quick stop at the local shops for some drinks and ice cream. While at the beach Kim and Winnie somehow managed to get stung by Blue Bottle jellyfish while waddling in the water for 5 minutes at most whereas Belrich and I were in the for quite a while came out unscathed. Anyways, it was a fun day out and we all hung out at Nugen's place afterwards enjoying a Pizza dinner anda yummy fruit dessert thingy prepared by Tina. Pics are below.
Aimee’s 20th B’day Sunrise
Yet another Birthday doing the Sunrise again, and that meant another day of waking up extremely early to witness a beautiful lightshow which lasts for about 3 minutes and then you're left feeling extremely tired due to the lack of sleep. It was pretty fun though, we headed to Maroubra and the beach is surprisingly nice in the morning and the water didn't really seem that cold as expected. We continued the celebrations with a swim in the morning while we waited for the barbeques to come into operation at 8am. Breakfast was then served at 8am once we could light the barbeques and cook the eggs, bacon and sausages, this was complimented by some pancakes and maple syrup. Unfortunately for me I was quite tired and didn't manage to stay and left at about 1pm. Pics of the beach sunrise are below.
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Richard’s 20th B’day Sunrise
Happy birthday to Richard who turned 20 on the 5th of December 2008, what better way to celebrate then to have a good sunrise on the beach at 5.37am. He was forced to suprise us and suprised we were, because when we arrived, there was no sign of sun, the skies were already lit and nothing was to be seen. What's worse is that it began to rain as we were out on the beach so we couldn't even just hang out at the beach, so we headed to Bondi Junction, had breakfast and hung around the shops for a bit.
Well Happy Birthday to Richard and too bad it wasn't a better day.
The few pics from that day are below:
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Eric’s 20th B’day
Photos from Eric's 20th B'day, just a few snaps from dinner at Ajisen Ramen and then the rest of the pics were from karaoke at K Square. Happy b'day, hope you had a good one
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Amy’s 20th B’day
Here are the pictures from Amy Chaisumdet's 20th birthday party, was quite a fun party where Amy surely had a great time as she was sleeping by the end of the night 
. I must say though, she seems to be able to take a quite a big hit of alky while being quite unsteady on her feet, still managed to take in another 4 shots (or was it 5) of tequila in a matter of minutes and still be fine the next morning!
