Older photos – part 2
Next up we have my partial attempt at Sculptures by the Sea at Bondi Beach, partial in the fact that I only got half way before having to leave to head to dinner. Definitely need to make more of an effort to go, more than once preferably as it's one of those events that is always so much fun (photographically). So much choice of subject and in varying environment makes it a challenge to capture something different.
Would love some comments on this photo, bit of an experiment with the composition and the post (and funnily enough, not even a sculpture itself!)
Below is my take on Sculptures by the Sea 2011.
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So the reason the photos from above were cut short was the need to attend Steve's and Janet's birthday at Hurricanes in Darling Harbour. Photos from the night below, nothing too fancy seeing as I only had my 35mm f/2 and no flash with me (I've been pretty lazy these days).
Click for pics of Steve and Janet's 23rd
Older photos – part 1
So I have a whole bunch of photos in the backlog that I never went through and figured I should put them up before touching the photos from my Asia trip. These were from back in October of last year, quite a few months ago, this is part 1 of 2, I'll have a couple of more galleries for November as well.
First up we have some photos from Jimmy and Winnie's 23rd at Encasa where we delighted ourselves a raft of various Tapas and Spanish dishes. Quite liked this restaurant and the food was pretty amazing, so good I attempted at making my own. That dish was the potatas bravas, basically fried potato cubes with a spicy tomato salsa and garlic sauce/mayonnaise.
Click for Jimmy and Winnie's 23rd B'day pics
Second is some photos from out little night out at the night noodle markets. It was a fun night involving a whole variety of Asian foods from noodles to seafood, buns and even Japanese pancakes! Mix in a little wine and good company and it was a lovely evening. To top it off, we did a sugar hit at Spiedo inside Westfield Sydney, quite tasty 
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Night Noodle Markets 2011
That's it for now, check back soon for part 2 and hopefully some photos from my Asia trip.
two two with little lily
So thanks to everyone who made the night so (un)memorable, I had a great time from the bits that I do remember and so glad to have had so much awesome company to celebrate with. Hope to have another one next year and hopefully see you all there again!
Many thanks to Jimmy Lam who took these photos 
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Another year goes on…
and my liver takes another pounding and so does my memory. Had a killer night on Friday with plenty of holes in my memory but definitely a great time celebrating my 22nd birthday, feel so old! No longer able to be in denial and telling myself that I'm still 21. Celebrated the night with Lily Tran at the ever-so-classy venue of Sanctuary Hotel, because you know, the drinks are cheap. Here are the first lot of photos from my DIY photobooth consisting of my D700, flash and 17-35mm f/2.8 lens and a remote trigger, perfect.
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Set up seemed to work okay, I think it didn't fire a few times but in the end I was just too drunk to notice but it seems like it did its job.
2011 begins, and I’m almost there
So after this post I'll be a couple of photos from being up-to-date, but since I stopped blogging for a while until now, quite a few things have changed, I'm finally in my final semester at Uni with another two subjects to go (seriously can't wait til it's over) and in addition to that, I had started full time work. Such a drastic change from being able to laze around and bludge to getting up before 7am getting ready to catch the train every day to work. Days at work vary, some insanely hectic to others where you're not too busy. Team's been great, everyone around is heaps friendly and always willing to help out and answer questions. I won't mention the awesome start to the year, walking out of the Etihad Stadium with a huge smile on my face, if you weren't there, you wouldn't understand.
Deb's birthday wasn't too far away from the start and I was there to take a few snaps.
Next up was my man Mike's 22nd birthday. For some reason this kid decided not to have a 21st birthday but instead, opts for a large 22nd! I just don't get him sometimes, but it was a great party despite me not being able to get back in at 12 as Aurorar bar sucks and no re-entry after 12 is permitted. Cover photo is in black and white because I'm moody and all that 
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Tang turns 22
Final set of photos to complete this post is little Yvonne's 22nd birthday, celebrated with plenty of food.
Yvn's 22nd
So just another post and I'll be good to go, apologies to those waiting for photos (if you want them quick pay me 
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Last moments of 2010
So the last days of 2010 went by rather quick, first and foremost a lunch outing with the majority of the crew that did BIT or ISM starting from 2007 (God that was a long time ago) to celebrate their final days of Uni (not me though, because i'm special). It was a nice lunch courtesy of Christine, our course coordinator who's helped us through hundreds and thousands of emails and queries. It was a a nice gathering and good to see everyone before we all parted ways.
- bitism lunch
Once back from my trip and having a few days of long away rest and sleep, it was time to be out and about again, firstly, a BBQ at Lily Tran's house to celebrate Christmas. Nothing better than spending a nice summer afternoon with friends around the BBQ with a drink or ten. No one ended up too drunk and with my fairly okay drink count, I was still quite good.
Christmas at Lily's - 2010
No summer is complete without a fishing trip of sorts, so early one morning we make the trip up to Clifton for some fishing action. There were quite a few people there already so we couldn't get prime position, but we pushed on anyway and hoped for some luck. But as you can see from my album title, it was somewhat fail, ended up catching 2.5 fish (one of them was a tiny bream). Nice thing about getting up early is catching the sunrise and I've finally done some sunrise photography.
Lovely sunrise
One of the final set of photos for the year was from my younger cousin's birthday who despite his size, is only 12.
Wilson and family
So these photos represent the final days and weeks of my 2010, but it was such a thrill being able to spend the transition into 2011 with an all night party with the number 1 DJ, Armin van Buuren. Such a great event and you really can't top seeing Armin for 9 hours straight, still remember the climatic countdown with the drummer just hammering away, almost as though he couldn't keep it up. Small glitch in the countdown but it was one hell of a night. Spent the next few days exploring a bit of Melbourne which was quite fun, but definitely gotta plan another trip down soon.
Well that wraps up 2010, I'm a step closer to getting this blog updated and getting the rest of the photos up.
Photos from the past few weeks
So, I've been a lazy ass lately and photos have been piling up without being posted, so I've just thrown everything into one post.
First is VSA cruise of 2010, a lot of fisheye photos in this one, suprised I managed to get this in focus.
Next up are the photos from the VSA UNSW BBQ from August.
Also, 10 years later after we had all left primary school, the time capsule we had put in the ground in the year 2000 was finally dug up. Some things had changed at school, while others largely remained the same. As our memory of what was in the capsule was quite fuzzy, we all remembered the things in there being better than they actually were. The contents were a bit disappointing.
Within the last few weeks, our friend David Huynh had the privilege of graduating, finally after years of work and thousands of dollars, he's got the piece of paper which makes it all worth it.
Nugo also tried to redeem himself with his 22nd birthday (not many photos from this one), most of you will remember he conked out really early for his 21st and this time round, he wasn't gonna disappoint.
Thien and Kalee also celebrated their 22nd birthdays with a Korean BBQ dinner at the Bakehouse garden in North Strathfield complimented by two games of ten-pin bowling.
And most recently, during the mid sem break, I went on a trip up north to MacMasters beach on the Central Coast. Wonderful time with decent weather, and when it did get chilly, the jacuzzi was a nice touch.
My 21st B’day party with friends
Photos from my 21st b'day, thanks everyone who came and made it an awesome night, from the photos it looks like I had a great time, but I don't quite remember much from 11pm onwards. Hope you all had a blast
Eric’s 21st Birthday
On th 19th of November we had a nice dinner at Bar Luck in Cabramatta to celebrate Eric Souksai's 21st Birthday with a nice simple and relaxed theme of 'geek tshirt'. He wasn't too strict on the theme but we got some nice shirts from it (surely not from me =D). After the dinner we also headed out to Tang's house where we stayed til about 4am talking shit and playing poker, work the next day was not fun.
Photos from the dinner are below.
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 .
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.
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:
