Happy birthday Adrian (Nov 2007)

Happy birthday to my brother Adrian (top right). We had a small family dinner at Il Padrino. The chicken and marinara pizza and Caesar salad there was alright. For dessert, the tiramisu with chocolate gelato was yummy!!!!

I feel as we grow older, celebrating birthdays are not very exciting anymore. Agree???? However, it's a good time to get together with the family.

Interior of my parent's newly built house

We will start the tour with the kitchen. It's my mum's favourite spot in the house. She loves the new stove and she's yet to learn how to operate the dishwasher.


Next to the kitchen is the downstairs family living room. It's mainly a place for my mum and dad to relax and have their glasses of wine in the evening.


Stepping out the family area is the formal lounge area near the main door. It's mainly for entertaining guest. My dad is really proud of his fire place. This is where the high ceiling is.


......going up the the stairs to the 2nd level.......this is where the bedrooms are. There are no pictures of the the bedrooms coz it's a little messy. *BLUSH* Let's move on......on the 2nd level, is the study/library area.


That's our chandelier and a top view of the formal lounge area.


Last but not least, this is the upstairs family lounge room. It's mainly for my brothers and myself to relax. This is my favourite place to finish off my busy day at work..... watching Foxtel or my TV programs. Aaaahhhhh!!!!

Hope u enjoyed a quick tour of the house!!!!

Happy Birthday to my dearest Daddy!!!! (Sept 2007)

My dad came in for the weekend to celebrate his birthday. It also acts as a house warming party too! Nice timing!!!! These are the people that came to our new place: Jeff and Jan (dad's golf buddy & wife); Yolly & Darrell (neighbours); Allen & Myrtle (neighbours); and Auntie Margaret & family (Uncle Ramon, Kristos & Sar Ko Po).

My mum prepared a delicious steamboat. There was so much to eat and drink!

For dessert, we had to wait till we sang my dad's birthday song and blow out his candles on his ice cream birthday cake. Baskin Robins is really good at making them..... we even had 2 flavours in the ice cream cake. (Rum & raisin and Cookies & cream) Yummy!!!!


This is us at the kitchen attempting to cut the rock hard ice cream cake which has been in the freezer for a while. I was actually stabbing the cake.....hehehehehehe.... ;)



For some entertainment, Kristos did his Taekwando demonstration. He was qualified to represent the state for his age level. It's that great! You should see his focus, movements and flexibility. Impressive!!!! Auntie Margaret and Uncle Ramon are very proud of his achievements.

All of us had a great time together.....old and young. Once again, Happy Birthday Daddy!!!!

Pictures of my parent's new house

As promised, I've manage to take some outside pictures of the new house. (Photographers: my dad and I) I'll take pictures of the interior of the house once it's all nicely decorated. It's a vast difference from the old house..... it's magnificent!!!! That's what I think anyway. *SMILES*

This is the view from the balcony looking into the park opposite the house. Beautiful and relaxing isn't it?!

These are the front views of the house from the park.

This is me trying to be like my babe, Eileen, taking the reflection of myself. However, my skills are not as professionally done as my sexy babe. (give me some pointer babe. I keep getting the camera in front of my face.) Hehehehehehe..... ;) By the way, that's the window to the indoor kitchen.

This is the Alfresco at the back of the house. There is an outdoor kitchen where we can hold BBQ parties or gatherings. Cool hey!!!! Also, notice we've not much grassed area to look after???? It's good as we're really bad at gardening. The outdoor landscape feature is nice and neat.....very low maintenance. Excellent!!!!

Personally, I think this is the best picture of all!!!! It's my dad and I. Unfortunately, it's a little dark coz we took the picture with the camera timer and we placed it in the wrong angle. Bugger!!!!

Mum's birthday dinner

My dad specially flew in for the weekend just to celebrate my mum's birthday. We went to Blue Water restaurant at Applecross...... very cosy place! My bubs and I had the seafood platter for 2. Yummy!!!!