Nerdilicious Beauties & Smexy Nerds

Nerdilicious Beauties & Smexy Nerds

more photos to come…

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ep04 the Princess and the Frog

i can’t show ep03 because the video was to long for youtube and my video got rejected … sigh oh wells

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an extension of my very being

I love

how Facebook

has inexplicably become

a truthful extension of our very being.

because FB says it, it must be true... right XD

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ep02 Voltage 12 Boys!

Hello Boys,

Take a gander at this to find out just whats been happening!

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more like Hot Day Out!

Well I’m back in Brisbane after driving 12 hours down the East Australian coastline to a big city known as

SYDNEY!

why would I endure such a painful drive… for a lil music festival called Big Day Out! and a lil band known as MUSE!

The Gold Coast event tickets basically sold out within 15 minutes of going up for sale so was lucky enough to snag some of the tickets for Sydney’s second show.

But the whole experience was pretty awesome.  Drove down with Mark, Kenneth and Jimmy and we had some pretty good male bonding moments.

Some of the highlights.  Well let me take on you a photographic adventure!

a lil town called Urunga!

Man those random little towns you stop off along the way are some of the best moments of a roadtrip.  My last roadtrip to Melbourne, we stopped off in a lil town called Taree for lunch which Nick, Trung, Josh Lee and myself RAVE about (stop by Raw Sugar Cafe there).  This time it was a little town called Urunga.  The food wasn’t that great but this small lil town had an AMAZING bay.  Crystal Clear water litterally!  that was perfect temperature and a nice breeze…

our first victim on the road

this was our first victim of bug splatter.  a HUGE GIGANTIC march fly.  its guts splattered all the way up our windscreen haha

PASTA!

We arrive in Sydney around 8PM on friday night, so our first order of business was to find some FOOOD!  We stayed at Mark’s Aunties place in North Parramatta and the location is tops, 10 minute walk is Church street which is basically equivalent to Melbournes Lygon Street or sorta like West End in Brisbane.  We had entertainment vouchers so we scoped out the restuarants and decided on this particular Italian Restuarant called Stephans.

Why this photo out of all the food? Because I wasn’t expecting the Pasta to a) be this big of a serving and b) taste SOO AWESOME!  The pizza also rocked my world!

Swallowed WHOLE!

this was the entrance to BDO a giant blow up boy who eats people.  after i saw this i knew BDO was gonna be something different and what made it even funnier was when you walk in you are burping and munching sounds… when you walk out the back you hear pooing and fasting sounds… lol!

the sea of people

in the "D" waiting for Muse

LASERS!!!!!

all lights on me!

so the whole purpose for going to BDO was basically to see Muse.  We arrived at BDO around 11am and Muse were scheduled to play at 9pm.  So we saw Bluejuice, Kisschassy, Lily Allen, Powderfinger, Hilltop Hoods just to name some.  Big Day Out turned out to be about 40 degrees midday.  It was NUTS hot… my water bottle felt like half boiled water…  and then in the arvo it went major overcast and rained and the temp dropped to 20degrees.

The moshpit was called the “D” and they only allowed a limited number of people in so we secured ourselves a spot about 3 hours before Muse came one and had to endure through Mars Volta which i thought wasn’t to bad, but when you play nonstop for 1 hour straight… it got a wee bit annoying.

But then MUSE was finally set to come on and man it was worth it! it was definetly Worth it!  I gained a new found respect for the band’s musical ability especially the lead singer who plays all the electric lead lines and sings all the songs as well.

The weirdest moment though was seeing people jump and lift their hands in songs during the show.  I felt a huge sense of awkwardness because to me jumping and lifting my hands is reserved for my God.  I did jump and lift my hands for fun, but I said to God, “if people can worship a band so zealously, then i can worship you even more!”

MR JT aka Jonathan Tan

the Wangsta! aka Jonathan Wang!

Was super excited to see JT since i didnt get to see him off in Brisbane.  Glad to see him faithfully attending Hillsong.  We also got to hang out with the Wangsta in his hometown haha.  Had viet that was really good.

lost my breath for a moment

litterally… i did.  We visited Hillsong’s Hills Campus, the campus where all the Hillsong Celebrities are (lol) and it was REALLY hard to find a seat because all the seats we’re reserved by books, scarfs, bibles and this was about 30 minutes before the start of service.  So we got ushered into the wing front row and while minding my own business some beautiful chick catches my eye… and my heart skipped a beat… Brooke Fraser was standing in front of me… Mark told me to go talk to her but I couldnt even talk properly to Mark after seeing her… LOL… then Joel Houston was on the stage talking and then saw on the PA desk worship cheat sheet that Jad Gilles was tonights Worship Leader.  and to top it off… John Bevere was the guest preacher!

It was like a dream come true!  The service was REALLY energetic and i felt the presence of God for sure!  Blessed by the one visit… although no one approached us to say hello, i think coz we came in as a group.  The only downside… a group of guys that sat behind us who were being idiots throughout P&W…and they were regular church goers… sigh…

forgotten beauty

I have been experimenting with B&W photography for a lil while now and have been amazed at the contrast in patterns and the detail that can emerge from our surroundings.  This lamp post grossed me out, but as soon as I flicked my camera to B&W mode this spiderwebbed covered lamppost became somewhat of a forgotten beauty.

Anyway that is a summary of my trip down to Sydney… there is a video on my FB account as well… you have to see Mark and Kenneths Blossoming romance haha..

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one huge photographic update

So because I’ve been munching through Psychology study all day, i thought i would reward myself with doing the much needed update on the happenings of this big asian’s exciting life.

p.s. its gonna be mostly a visual post aka PHOTOS GLAMORE!

ONE: the land of the rising sun & cheap food!

Met up with Adam during my overnight stay in KL and had a huge seafood feast!

I usually laugh at Aaron's attempts to model, but gotta admit this ones nice.

Amazing Buffet in Macau. About 60m of tables. These plates of food are all from the same restuarant!

Totally different world

On the giant veranda of the apartment block that houses my grandma's retirement home

Family moments.

I particularly like this collage because my Dad’s family is a strong community.  Since my grandma had her stroke, my dad’s 2 brothers visit her everyday and help her change and clean her up.

Don't usually edit photos but decided to have a go. Typical scene at a traffic light

unedited, took advantage of Fung's multicolour external flash (thx man)

learning from the wise

love the contrast of the blue and red. unedited as well

in the elevator on the way up to our apartment

an escalator inside the putrajaya convention centre where GC was held

random artistry

Fish pedicure anyone?

endless delights

new friends Nick and Eunice

love random happy snaps

attempting to eat my fist

taiwanese food ROCKS!

dad's first jumping photo, mum's 2nd and my first with the parentals!

random artistry

patiently waiting

intersection

this snap makes me feel uneasy haha

a moment to herself.

at the queen's head at some geopark

there were all these lifesavers just sitting around. Can understand why since most of the China Tourist walk right up to the edge of the slippery cliffs lol

serendity amongst the rocks

how big do you think this cup really is?

this is no illusion, it really is that big!

this place is famous for its Buk Kuk Teh. i think we basically ordered one of everything... and they give u free refills of soup!

have been blessed to see my family grow closer together in the past couple of months!

welcome to y-hope 2009 camp. yes those are waterbombs... but not even all of them

what's the time Mr Wolf? DINNER TIME! kudos to Darren for the snap!

total pwnage. kudos to Darren for the perfectly timed shot!

the mighty JCNEAZ

the "run into the photo as soon as someone holds it up to themself" culture is a worldwide phenomenom

all the single ladies.

losing in a game equals severe embarrassing punishments or forfeits as it is known in y-hope

TWO: Christmas Traditions

after the whole asialand travels, the first big event up next was CHRISTMAS!  i love christmas, besides the food i love getting together with ALL the relatives.  this year’s christmas felt different… in a good way.  In the past we’ve had disputes over who should bring what, who should host it, who should organise it then on the day everyone is usually rushing off.  But this time we we’re overloaded with food and we spent a fully 12 hours together just eating and chatting and playing rockband.  Good times.

PRO JELLY'S made by Alanna!

thats basically 8m of table covered in foood - there was so much left over we ate the leftovers for dinner and didnt even finish it!

Chan's, Seeto's, Wan's, Paul's, Wong's & Leung's (not even everyone!)

THREE: NYE

Spent NYE running around to the various parties.  First up was dinner with the Voltagians at Malaya in Market Square, followed by a NYE/House Warming party at Lucy’s bachelorette pad (which turned into an all out boys vs girls boardgame war, lots of yelling and complete persuasive nonsense & the never ending cheeeeeerrrrssss! ending with a nite in at Anthony’s place.  Sorry got no snaps from Lucy’s.

look at Anthony's amazingly huge bowl of Laksa from Malaya!

Asian drama poster much?

what New Year's Day probably looks like for most of the world

FOUR: KaBANG!

why it was called Kabang no one knows… not even I do, it was just the first thing that came into my head.  just a nite out bowling with our ministry heads who work really hard at making things happen each Friday nite!  Love ya all!

the team minus mei & chris

discovered a really cool trick with my SLR. Ghost Bowling!

more ghosts!

FIVE: midnight KBBQ and manly sleepovers!

a yearly tradition has emerged between Fung, Sean and myself.  because we we’re strapped for days our sleepover happened after the tuesday night prayer, which meant dinner was gonna be late, but boy was it worth it.  perfect cool calm nite air, mixed with great company and masses of food.  We ate till about 1:30am XD.  Why call it a manly sleepover?  well a guy friend told me a friend was staying at his place overnight and i said… your having a sleepover? and he said “No guys don’t have sleepovers! its called… crashing at my place.” lol

simply awesome

bird's eye view. LOVE THIS SHOT!

SIX: making alternatives

so in the recent weekend a White Water Rafting adventure was organised by Powerhouse.  Unfortunately i couldn’t make it since it was pretty expensive and was convicted by a 16 year old to make the mature decision *sigh* so instead Mel organised an alternative outing to Natural Bridge in Springbook National Park, Robina Town Centre, Broadbeach (which i was adamently pushing for and was well worth it!) and then a mega feast of kbbq, sukiyummy aka sukiyaki and a hotpot.  got unoffically married during the trip… lol

the proposal on the not so natural bridge

the waterfall at natural bridge.

going Tarzan and Jane

babe, honey, mum, pancake, lou gung

love mel's face.

elevation!

if this doesn't make you want to live at the Gold Coast i dunno what will!

lovely ladies

ninja stylings

nothing's better than the asian squat

pretty realistic looking ain't it haha

blessed to be journeying with 2 awesome school mates

the raging ocean

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Ep01 My Driving Experience With Aaron

Decided to make a bloggerish type video so check it out!
this is what happens when you decide to be a passenger in a learner drivers car.

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I’m sorry Haiti

I’ve heard about it, read it about it and prayed for it.  But it’s only until now that I actually feel it.

Forgive me Lord for my pride and self-righteousness towards a country desperately in need.

Haiti six days later

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entry 03| home

So…

I’m home.

back to life.  back to the ordinary.

that’s what my flesh says

but my spirit says

welcome back to life change.  you never left and extra-ordinary life with Christ

more to come about my trip!

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most exciting e-mail evah!

WAHHH!!! Only God can pull something out like this!!!

I wonder what my grades are going to be now???

update:

my grades went from

6 5 4 5

to

6 5 5 5!

Praise God! this is the first semester ever that i haven’t gotten a 4!!!

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