17 I'm Back! with 10 Most Memorable Event in 2010

Dear friends and readers,

Words could not express how much I missed you guys and how much I missed writing in this rusty blog of mine. The sheer guilt of abandoning all of you has haunted me for the past 6 months, especially when several loyal readers asked about my well-being. Thanks :') But fret no longer my friends, for I am BIA - Back in Action!

I will be honest here. Life's been very difficult for the past few months for many mixed reasons. However, I have overcome it with lots of support and love from people around me. For that, I am truly blessed and thankful.

It's quite impossible for me catch up and even update you guys over the things that happened to me over the past 6 months in just one entry. But I hope this short recap would be a good start:

My 10 Most Memorable Events from 2010

#1 Coming to Sydney



It was 4 days before Chinese New Year that I left my family and friends in Malaysia. I haven't seen them for 1 and a half years now, and I kinda missed them...

Wanted to fly home end of last year, but Dad shooed me off, saying that the house has been 'cleansed' by a medium, and my presence would invite bad energy and break the seal. Lol nah, he just said don't waste money.

Anyway, life has been different here in Sydney. Feels like I have got the chance to grow up and see the other side of the world where the grass is greener, literally.



Oh yesh, I am a big boy now!

#2 Making new friends

I met some really cool people here in Sydney, who turned out to be really good friends who I could count on.

I missed my big sis Kit. She was my housemate, one of my first new friends here and the one whose prank failed and almost saw me naked LOL. I still laugh thinking about it now.

Life in Sydney would just suck big time without all of them.

#3 Hello Melbourne!

It was such a good week there with my cousins, aunt and uncle. I had the best Dim Sum and Thai Food ever, enjoyed the beach house, saw the award winning penguin parade at Phillip Island, played tennis, basketball and footie with Jono, and went for a youth meeting and got in touch with my spiritual side.

All in all, for that 1 week, I had a blast, and only spent like 28 dollars :) Thanks to the family.

#4 Dining with the big shots



Had lunch with the Minister of International Trades

and dinner with the Deputy Prime Minister

That was fun...

#5 Went to Canberra for MASCA's Got Talent competition.



Won 3rd place with our dance routine...



Met a female dog.

#6 Losing AUD2000 in Casino

Ouch! Ok here's a lay down of what basically happened that fateful night. Went to Star City with a good friend of mine from 7pm till 6am in the morning. At one point we were on a winning streak and everyone was just staring at us and wanting to be our buddies. A China aunty even commented on why are we students playing so big. I was up AUD2200 and he was up almost 10K.

Well, we should have left... By 4am... everything went downhill. Ya, in the end I lost that much. I know i know, foolishness + greedy = big hole in the pocket. Haiz what a night to remember painfully...

P/s: Please don't tell my dad. I don't want a hole in the head.

#7 Hosted Malaysian Festival 2010



Me and my good friends, Tracy and Ilyana were selected to be the emcees of that big event. Well it turned out to be quite an epic fail. We didn't rehearse and I end up blurting nonsense on stage for hours and kinda embarrass myself in front of 10,000 attendees. Thank God for mr Raj to the rescue.



The good part out of that nightmare was I got to interview Adam from Masterchef Australia (and also poked him saying "omg you're REAL... i thought you're only on tv")

LOL, buat malu je...

#8 Got A Job in a Korean Restaurant

Worked as the hall staff...



Met this cute waitress...

flirted a bit...

and got fired after just 2 weeks working...

SCORE!!!!

#9 Got Hired by the best Malaysian restaurant and one of the top restaurants in Sydney.



Turns out to be the best thing that ever happened to me since I came here.
The irony is that it's just NEXT DOOR to the Korean restaurant. Yes rub it in their face.

Will let you know more about Mamak soon. That restaurant is worth a blog post by itself.

#10 New Year Countdown at the heart of Sydney

Went bar hopping with mr.Foo, met up with friends and watched the most beautiful firework display ever from the balcony of Homebar. Apparently the fireworks are synced to the music that was broadcasted on the radio.



Sydney is after all the capital of new year's eve of the world. It was simply the bomb and we partied till sunrise! woohoo!

and that my friend, is the 10 most memorable events that I had last year.

With that, I am officially back in blogging yo. Just wanna say thanks again to my readers for not giving up on me and hope to catch up with you guys soon!

Cheers!