I HEART BRISBANE

TIME FOR PICTURE POST!
no words but only a brief introduction and short description ( but wasn't that's the usual way i blog??)
we are currently the official members of Brisbane environment lovers. so true.
lol.
anyways, thanks to ong's lateness all of us have the same shirt now.
arigato ong sang geng.
wakakaka.. datang lambat lagi lain kali ada baju baru untuk kami! >_<

comparisons on forehead sizes and obviously i lost the battle.

me and my sexy roommate.
heart you jie jie. hahah.

us us us us.
sleeping together every night.
i hope that doesn't sounds wrong.

but sometimes big jie can be a big bully too. torturing poor mei mei.

but all in all we still love each other
and
we still love brisbane.

BRIBSY GANG

Proudly presenting our environmental friendly T-shirt.

getting the best out from the pool

the resemblances of a laughing Buddha.
rub the tummy and you will get luck.
endless of hock in fact.

xoxo,
the brisby shen

Wesak Day in Brisbane

Would you ever thought that you would celebrate wesak day in an all-English country?
definitely not for me.
i always thought that when i am in overseas studying, the Chinese cultures and celebrations will have to be left behind
and that was totally wrong.
because i just had my very first wesak day celebration in Brisbane, Australia.
not any minor event
but a grand one!!!!

Brisbane's wesak day was held in Southbank.
red lanterns greet us upon our arrival at the place.
which really gives me the Chinese atmosphere.
just like my hometown back in jonker street, malacca.

they even sold Chinese trinkets and decorations which is really exciting.

and pretty much reminded me of chinese new year decorations.

wishing pond. flip a coin and may you wish come true.

the Buddha statue.
i had never bathed one back in Melaka because this wasn't a Malaccan culture but it was popular in other states and now i experienced it.
so, mummy daddy i celebrated a pretty much different wesak day.

they even had the seven lotus too which indicated the sevens steps taken by the Prince Siddhartha once he was born

i cannot believe that they even have guan yin statue over there.

and i can't comment anything bad about the celebration organised by the Brisbane City Council.

it was something that deserved to be praised.

make a wish and hang it below the laughing buddha.
in fact i made many wishes yesterday.
i even lighted the candle for my whole family.
the staffs there told me that the candle will be lighted through out the whole celebration.
and i choose good health for my family.

some cultural performances which sometimes i don't really enjoyed.
perhaps i am someone not with culture appreciation.

we spend our whole day at Southbank,
enjoying a chinese celebration in an english country.
we ate vegetarian food too ranging from laksa to char keow tiao to raddish cake to roti canai to tea herbal boiled egg.
i had a splendid wesak celebration in Brisbane.
hehee..

xoxo,
shen

My Sweet Little Home

that's a sneak preview of my cosy little home.
well my previous home was pretty much cosy too but in term of elengance and technologies, obviously the dominance is taken by my new home :
5/19, Vincent Street, Indooroopilly,4068 QLD.
that my heaven baby.

shen's and koo's room.
or more like a playroom?
hahahaah that's our colourful quilt (kiddy version) which we got for only AUS30 each.

our majestic shoe rack!!!
i assume everyone first reaction would be......
"OMG!!! THERE ARE SO MANY SHOES!!! ARE THEY SELLING SHOES?"
you can't blame us when there are 3 girls living together.

that is my favourite part in the whole house.
the kitchen.
yup yup that place to be in.

that's the aisle that leads to the living room.
don't mind me boasting about my house. we went through a lot before we landed on this great house.
our house looks pretty much like a 5 star apartment. right? yes.

our dining room
the place where three of us taste our own culinary skills.

our dining room.
the comfort when i am watching so you think you can dance, the Simpson's, the biggest loser, master chef..etc.etc.etc.
for a tv addict like me, this living room is simply perfect.

my proudest presentation in my blog.
my flat screen plasma tv!!!!!
with built in dvd player.
just connect your usb player and rock your music loud!
how cool is that?
totally flat screen.
wow..
triple wow.

our spacious balcony. hehehe
with the huge table.
that the place we had our house warming.

that's my working paradise. err. not really.
more likely to be the place that i last wanna be on.
the place that freaks me out.
the place filled with stress.
my studying place.

our miniature closet.
though small, it still fits all our clothes.
which is good actually
because it constricts my buying.

our bathroom
there are two actually in my house.
this one is koo and mine.
looks sparkling clean right? cause we keep it clean.

guess that's pretty much of my house.
and that's the mirror huge huge mirror of our closet.
kinda great for vain girls like us.
viewing our reflections every morning before going to uni
has become part of our must must routine.

xoxo,
shen