新年快乐！

Happy Chinese New Year! Haven't been celebrating this festival since I studied abroad. I miss those flashing red decor by the street side when the CNY was around the corner. I also miss the hilarious yet meaning CNY advertistment/public annoucements on television. Not to mention the feast before CNY was always scrumptous.

Undeniably disheartening when the memory is getting distant and you gotta try hard to recall those happy moments.

It was nice to hear from my family who's enjoying their time back in hometown. My little brother couldn't stop showing off those festive food that I like when we facetime-d. Irritating indeed. After all it's me who did not plan out holiday well and missed this important day. Lesson learned.

Got a greeting from chang yuan all the way from Japan today. Very touching. I shall keep in touch with all the good old friends like him. *check your email by the way*

Last month I went to the wind farm here in Palmmy. Breath taking scenery. When I first moved here I always admire the pretty windmill twirling on top of the hills. I'm glad I visited the farm. Will definitely go up there again.

Super windy!

Erjie's Wedding

二姐和姐夫，新婚快乐！

21.1.12

21.1.12, mirror image of a date?

Today I celebrate my existence in this world for quarter of a century. I've been blessed to witness and appreciate the wonder of life from birth till now. Millions thanks to my dearest parents who brought me here.

It's a relaxing and sunny weekend. I got to sleep in. Spent some time with my loved ones. Chocolate apricot torte as birthday cake. Amazing presents. I couldn't ask for more.

Recently I'm addicted to a song by Six60 entitled 'Only To Be', the chorus goes like this:

Yeah yea, I'll live just turning pages

Yeah, well I know it's worth the ride

Ain't it good to be alive?

母亲节快乐

五月的第二个星期日，你打算如何与你心爱的母亲度过呢？

我没有骇人的文采，不懂如何以语句来表达我的心意。刚在网上看到一些感人肺腑的母亲节寄语，不禁感叹自己的语文能力不及他人。无论如何，我在此向我敬爱的妈妈说声： ‘母亲节快乐！’。 儿子不孝，都已经好几年没有和你一起度过这意义深重的节日。你一定回答说：‘哎哟，求学要紧，有心就好啦！’ 对吗？ 哈哈！

我答应，日后事业有成，必定让你天天过母亲节。

Kia Ora

Just finished paediatric run, so i'm allowing myself to chillax for the next couple of days before i need to start studying for my Maori exam. Just in case for those who don't know, Maori is the indigenous people in New Zealand, and our medical school in Christchurch has a comprehensive teaching block specifically on their health. Next week we have a case presentation and a few station exam, including Te Reo (Maori language). Hopefully it won't be too hard.

James came over last week and we celebrated his birthday in advance. We went to Kaikaoura for whale watching and had uncountable meals at Osaka, haha! It was really amazed to look at the gigantic creature in such a close distance. Definitely a good experience, hope he enjoyed it too. Another one thing to tick off in my must-do list in NZ!

Increasing Stress Level

Had a great weekend, couldn't believe it's already over. Long presentation tomorrow, end of paeds exam on tuesday..... gosh, so many things to study, so many things to do, but what i really want to do now, is to zzzzzzz....

My laptop power cord created some smoke and sparkle justnow, luckily my laptop is still functioning and hopefully the adapter is still usable because one adapter costs $90, awfully expensive. So tomorrow i gotta find some time during the day to buy the power cord, really troublesome, sigh!

Wish me luck!

p/s: Happy Birthday to Sin Mei (had a steamboat party in raenna's house in the afternoon, nice food!)

今年的除夕夜

夜深了，我才恍然记得今晚是除夕夜。没有家人在身边，农历新年也只不过是平凡的一天。有所感触当然是免不了，能做的就只是祝福家人欢乐喜庆。

回想以往的除夕夜，是多么的令人雀跃万分。 久违的亲戚，压岁钱，满宴，烟花，贺岁片，假期，红包，零食等都让每个小孩眉开眼笑。中学以后到外地求学，除夕夜变得更具有意义，深受体会团圆饭的重要性。尤其是那一刹那与多日不见的双亲重逢，不管生活有多艰难，你都会知道他们永远的默默支持你，守护你 ，站在那扇永不关闭的家门口。

去年年尾假期有幸与家人团聚，已足以补尝今年独自在外地过年的感伤。不知何时何日再共能享这份天伦之乐。。。 但愿人长久，千里共婵眷。

我这儿的时钟已过了12点，那岂不是大年初一了！恭喜发财！ 在家乡的家人们必定还在慢尝那顿团圆饭 。披着疲惫身躯的我，刚从妇产部值班12小时回来，誓要写完这份稿才安心，忽然想起家母时常说的一句话：‘[广东音]好就女人，不好就累人‘，真好笑！

今年的农历新年，是我养蓄精神的好一天，太阳不晒屁股都不会离床。祝大家新年快乐，心想事成，读书的学业猛进，打工的步步高升，做生意的横贯满盈，搞政治的快快反省，oops!

My Birthday

Memorable birthday celebration at Auckland. Thank you so much, my friends!

Beh's 24th Birthday

We celebrated Ah Beh's birthday on Tuesday night, after our haematology test (very tricky paper....). His actual birthday was on monday, but he said it would be better if we postponed the outing. Besides nobody would have the mood to celebrate one night prior to the exam, in fact, everyone was pretty stressed up on monday night.

So we had dinner at China Bistro on Tuesday night. This was the second time we visited the place. I chose the place because ah beh liked it very much, and i personally felt the restaurant was not bad, in terms of price and food quality of course.

After the dinner, raenna went back and eng ann brought us to ancestral to have bubble tea, which ah beh had been craving for since ever. We chatted till late night, but my tummy was bloated like a pig till next morning, haha!

Ah Beh, happy birthday again!
Bee Ling, happy belated birthday! ( i already wished you in fb yesterday)
Kajen, happy birthday in advance! (will wish you again in fb tomorrow, hehe!)

Raenna's Birthday

Happy Birthday, Raenna Chan! (not going to reveal your age, don't worry, haha!)

Last Tuesday, we (occupants of 14 Gloucester aka flatmates) went out to a japanese restaurant called @Tony's in Riccarton to have early celebration. We went there at lunch time, so not many choices. Overall, the food is ok.

Group photo after the lunch (ah beh seemed a little bit too excited?)

Raenna and me at Hagley Park

After the lunch, we walked to Riccarton Mall and wasted a few hours there loitering without getting anything. It was a fun day though.

Raenna, hope you had a great day!

Happy Belated Birthday to my blog

My blog is 2 years old! Hooray! The actual birthday was last week, 11 of july. Just realized it after i msn-ed with caryn justnow. Oh ya, happy belated birthday to caryn's blog as well! Her blog is one year younger than mine, haha!

It's definitely an achievement to keep a blog alive for 2 years *self praise is no praise, hehe*. I know sometimes the content could be dry and boring. Thanks to all my readers for laying your eyes on this web page, by now you should have know that certainly i have no potential to become a writer, yet you still visit my blog, i really appreciate it.

For all the time we spent together in the past 2 years, cheerz!

Dajie's Wedding

Today my sister is having her happiest day of her life, she is getting married! My parents have been so meticulous in preparing this wedding, they repaint the whole house, set up an automated gate, build a balloon arch, omg, it's gonna be so happening!

I still remembered last year before i left malaysia, me and my mum were discussing the theme of the night, music selection, food to be served, possible performance or programs... so detail as if we were going to hold a grand gala of the century, of course, we want to give the best night for my sister and brother-in-law.

Sigh, wish i could be there to share this joyful moment with her and my family...

Congratulation, my beloved sister and bro-in-law!

Happy Mother's Day

母亲节快乐!

Happy 22nd Birthday, James

Valentine

My wishes to all reader a very happy valentine's day. The picture was taken this evening at Victoria Square. It was so crowded because the city council organized a lantern festival/chinese new year celebration there. For the first time i saw so many living people in christchurch, haha!

新年初一

Lecture notes of CNY, hope it brings good luck, haha!

First of all, i wanna wish all of you Happy Chinese New Year. I wonder how nice it would be if i were back at home now. In Christchurch, it's like nothing happen on this festive day, can't blame anyway, most of the residents here are Caucasian, and the asians here are mostly constituted by japanese and korean. I finally experience of being minority in a society....

Anyway, today has been a great day. I went to school (after 6 months of holidays...), attended a brief introduction/lecture on New Zealand and its health care system. Had a tour around my school, led by our seniors, Henry and Andrew. Well, all of these took half of the day and now i'm finally back at my flat and resting. Tomorrow will have another two lectures, ethics and Maori Health. Sigh, tomorrow gonna be a challenging day!

Missing all my friends and family back at home....

新年快乐,万事如意

Chinese New Year 2009

Ah Beh and me have no family to celebrate CNY this time, so we take out ang pao and pretend that we are in CNY mood, haha!

My 22nd Birthday

Dark Chocolate from James, Lovely Card from Swarna, Touching Letter & Ang Pao from Mummy, Interesting Novel The Zahir from Aaron and Kajen

And a big THANK YOU to all my friends who sent their wishes to me, it really meant a lot to me. Though no fancy party or massive present, i enjoyed my birthday in Christchurch. Walking around the city, sight-seeing, getting things done, haha!

By the way, i'm truly glad that james purposely came down from Auckland to celebrate my birthday as well as helping me out to settle in. Seriously will owe you a lifetime....

Getting older as year passes by, so as the resposibilities and obligations burdened on my shoulder. No more naivety, no more fooling around, time to be a GROWN-UP! can wait till i graduate ah?

Photoshop exercise - G13 Reunion

This picture was taken in one of the reunions in Yuen Yuen, Subang. There is one reunion coming up in this Thursday, for further information, please contact Ailing.

冬至快乐

为了应节， 妈昨晚买三团糯米团回来，来搓汤圆。都想不起最后一次搓汤圆是哪一年了，这次重温搓汤圆的滋味，感觉还不错！

冬至的源由，我其实也不是很清楚，只知道要吃汤圆。（唉。。。现代的华人只会因食物而想起节日，其真正的故事与意义则一闻不问） 惭愧得来，我在写这一篇文章之前，上网查询与了解一点有关冬至的故事，嘻嘻！到了21岁才明白冬至的意义，希望还不迟。

搓汤圆其实是一家人共同做的事，但昨晚只有我和妈担当此任务。不过我也很享受搓汤圆的过程。搓啊搓，汤圆圆又圆！忽然间想起昌元以前的花名是汤圆，真好笑！以前当我们还很无知时，喜欢给朋友乱取花名。我都有很多花名啊， 好像：美美，妹妹，mui姐等等。 小时候，我很讨厌这些花名，感觉好像在挑战着我的男子气概似，有时还会因此而生朋友的气。现在想起来，我只能傻笑当年的我幼稚又无知。如今大学里的好朋友都叫我mui mui, 不但没生气，反而还感觉有几分亲切感呢！

是时候吃汤圆了， 祝大家冬至快乐！

三大团的糯米团，才RM3, 还有三种颜色任君选择

我家的搓汤圆大师，妈妈也

大功告成，汤圆庆冬至