Fremantle

Since we had a lunch invitation from Aunt Jaq and her family, we had to leave early for Fremantle today as both my parents had been here before a few years back. Lily and I wanted to visit the markets and since only saw a glimpse of this place last Wednesday, we just need to come back here *chuckled*

We left the house at about 8am and took a slow drive since I can't drive faster than 70km/hr. I discovered something new about my uncle's Holden which enable me to actually reach the accelerator after all. The secret to it, is to sit lower and not raised the car seat. But, I still can see the road so it's fine to be sitting lower and deeper into the car.

We reached Fremantle close to 9am and all the shops are still closed, there are ample parking space which I feel comfortable to park-in the huge car. But, it's a learning experience to read the various parking-time and the amount we had to pay.

While waiting for the Fremantle market to open, we decided to walk around by foot but it's a bit cold and since I was only in slippers, I can actually feel that my toes are freezed up after a while. We came across one very interesting shop that sell soaps but it's all in the form of cakes. You just won't belief that they are soaps!

I got some miniature koalas & kangaroos for my colleagues in Fremantle market but the other deals are a little pricey to purchase despite that they are nice items. Next, we went to E-Shed Market which is a much nicer place to shop compare to Fremantle market, here I bought lots of tea-towels, a few soft-koalas and a 24cm-in size koala; big enough for me to hug. Always wanted to have a koala-soft-toy but never seems to get it from anyone who visit here. So what the heck, just buy it for myself then. It was a good deal anyway. Lily and I bought a lot of things from this shop that is owned by a Singaporean. But, she is also a good saleslady as well... persuading very hard and start telling us that no other shops can sell so cheap like she does...

Fremantle is a nice place to shop around and we wished we had more time and do not have to rush back for our lunch appointment. As I thought, we are late as I was expected to reach home by 11.30am, I sorta of speed more than 70km/hr. Hope that my uncle won't get any saman out of that speed I was driving in. But, Brandon was late to pick us up as he lost his way and not sure how to get to my Uncle's place.

Aunty Jaq's home is such a nice cottage; with a beautiful garden that grows all kind of plants, herbs and even vegetables. We toured around her garden before lunch. We had so much for lunch and just a pity we had forgotten to bring our cameras with us. Mom is the one most dissapointed because she couldn't capture any picture of Aunty Jaq and her mom for old-time-sake. We left their home close to 4pm and Lily just can't wait to get out of the house. I can understand that feeling because she is a total stranger with them.

Since Aunty Jaq sent us back to my Uncle's home, my parents requested her to come in and continue their catching-up while Lily and I left for Cottlesloe to catch the sunset. Actually, was looking for some fcuk-outlet which my colleague advised me but couldn't find it thus we just hangout at the beach for a while waiting for sunset.

The sky will turn dark very fast in winter so we did not stay too long outside and headed back home. Got lost a bit when I thought I can just go home without the GPS, boy; was I wrong. Hehehe...

When we got home, Aunty Jaq is still around but she left shortly after that. Dad prepared dinner and we had a late dinner since our lunch was so filling. Tomorrow, I planned to go Margaret River or somewhere further but Dad is not keen on it thus we settled to take the train to Perth CBD since Mom wanted to get more tea-towels and some other souveniors too. Besides that, Lily & I wanted to hitch another route-ride on CATS since we did not cover all of it the last trip in town.

Swan Valley

Excited about driving to Swan Valley with the help of the GPRS that belongs to my 3rd Uncle. The Holden 3800cc is indeed a huge car, after adjusting the seat, I realised I can't reach the accelerators which Dad remarked, "You are not mend to drive a big car like this". Very insulting though... but I still insisted I want to drive. Hhhmmm...

Swan Valley; the Perth's Valley of Taste. Tourist booklets mentioned that it's 30 minutes away from the Perth CBD by using the Great Northern Highway but since we took the GPRS and also the speed limit is rather slow, it took us close to 45 minutes to reach the historical Guildford town which is actually a small town entrance to Swan Valley.

I just drive along the road with the help of the Map as the GPRS is no longer useful here to assist us. Looking left and right while maintaining the speed limit of 60km/hr, searching for the Sandalford Winery. To my disappointment, there isn't any wines in view, all the plants are black and bald. Even the entrance to this place don't seem open and welcoming. But, we still get down the car and wander around hoping to see some good things. I learned that in winter, there is no wine production too. As Dad remarked the price is not even worth looking, we left the place after taking a few pictures.


As we continue along the road, we found the Margaret River Chocolate Co. Here we had free chocolates for us to munch and since I had never visited a chocolate factory, I wanted so much to try their hot-white-chocolate drink. But, was I disappointed with the simplicity-dilution of the drink that cost me AUD$4.50 a glass and I waited for ages for the drink.

Since, I decided to drive along the road with the country-side view on my left and right, at times, Dad had to remind me to watch out the winding road. Hehehe... Occasionally, I will suddenly slow down while checking out the signboards for anything we can visit. We came across a bee farm and we stopped to get pollen and Lily got a bucket of honey. As the owner of the shop told us that her bees are away to another state for pollination, hhhmmm... I have no idea how they migrate but she was describing how the bees when in a vehicle and they were release there... but I still do not understand how the bees will come back to their "home".

The rest of the road, we just drive along and see if there is anywhere we want to go in, we tried to visit a farm with some animals in it and we were told we had to pay AUD$10 per person even to take pictures. I managed to video a black-piglet in a cage too! Since, we managed to get a few shots without paying, we left the farm as it was quite crowded with little children and there is a retarded-home having their recreation-day.

As we enter into one of the smaller lane, we came across this very adorable creature; alpaca which Dad managed to get a picture of it when we called it to come nearer. Hehehe... I think it thought we were going to feed it with something. The rest of the journey thru the road, we see cows and sheep, grazing the grass and lots of bald-wines.

When we came into a big-junction, we decided to u-turn back to Guildford town to visit the Pottery that we passed by earlier. There isn't much thing here to be purchase and see so we walked around a bit and left for home.

My parents suggested we should have a late lunch at Waterford Plaza which is the supermarket they went yesterday as they saw a shop selling very cheap lunch. Since we couldn't really decide what we wanna have, we settled for this supposedly-Malaysian-cheap lunch. Gosh!! I will never want to eat here again...


After lunch, we shop in Coles where I got my favourite cheese-spread and some other things I love to eat and it's cheaper here to eat them. On our way out, we saw a nice shop selling decorative items that I decided to get a "human-holding a cello" made of bolts-nuts-&-screws. Just to add another musical-collection on top of my home's piano.

It was a short-day trip out today... and since we can prepare early dinner later, I'm going to sit back and enjoy the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics with the big packet of chips I bought earlier. Sounds cozy yea...

Perth CBD

After my morning shower & delicious breakfast, Lily & I planned for our trip to the Perth CBD while my parents have their own agenda. After the taxi came to pick up 3rd Uncle for the airport, Lily & I walked to the Canning Bridge train station which took about 15 minutes as we walked very fast due to the cold morning air. We have difficulties purchasing the tickets and we did not know how to use it and we missed the train as we were deciding how and where should we input the ticket upon entering the train. So, we asked a man; the sweeper who was cleaning up the station. Silly of us actually because we actually just had to hold the ticket and walk into the train and enjoy the ride. The ticket cost AUD$1.60 each and we stopped at the 2nd stop; Perth Underground Station.


Once came out from the station, we looked for Murray St. and Hay St. Mall and started to walk thru it, from shops to departmental stores; Target, David Jones, Myers and Reject Shop (here in Australia, it's not a clothes store, it's selling A-Z but small-scale store).

I stumbled over this building called; London Courts that I did not know what it was in the beginning and was eager to find out thinking it was a shop selling watches. But, it turns out to be a mini-street inside with small shops & cafe selling souvenirs and lots of other stuffs. If we have time, I really wanna sit in one of their cafe and drink a cup of tea/coffee while enjoying a magazine or just chatting. When we left the place about 5 minutes, we heard the clock chimes. We ran out from the nearby shop and wanted to get a picture of the Armoured Knights circling the "window" above the clock but we were dismayed for not fast enough. Then, Lily remarked, "No wonder it encrypted on the building:- No Minute Gone Comes Ever Back Again, Take Heed And See Ye Nothing Do In Vain."

We wanted to have lunch in Northbridge (where most of the eateries are) but unfortunately, we did not see anything we like there and of course it was very pricey. So, we head back to Hay St. for Hungry Jacks. Yet another fast food franchise we shall not miss when we are here. *Juicy*Yummie* Hehehe...


After lunch, we decided to take the the three colours CAT around and go to Harbour Town. But Lily got us hop on the opposite side of the Yellow CAT route so we end up visiting the government offices such as the Educational & Health Department. But, we still enjoy the ride and learned thru the ride and just had to waste half hour or more to get to the Harbour Town as planned.

In Harbour Town; a factory outlet with so many good deals from Adidas, Nike, Esprit and etc that Lily & I regretted not coming here first to shop in the morning. We got a few things for ourselves and we were really happy with the bargain we got.

Next, we planned to get to King's Park for the sunset view but unfortunately as we stepped out from Harbour Town, the sky seems a little grey when it's not even 5pm. Tired from the whole day walk, we decided to catch the bas back to call it a day. Unfortunately, we lost track of the time and we got into the after-work-peak-hours crowd. The bas ride was pretty long and by the time we reach the area of 3rd Uncle's house, it's pitch darkness. And sadly, the bas driver did not know the stop we wanted to get down so we had to walk quite a distance back to the house.

Dad had prepared dinner for us when we reached home and they updated us on what they had done the whole day. Mom started of cleaning the house while Dad make lots of lemonade from the lemon tree in the garden and then, they took a walk to the nearby supermarket next to Curtin University to get some groceries.

Somehow, Dad was not keen to visit Margaret River despite that it's constantly being reminded by Sis to do so... Sigh... Finally, I decided we should head to Swan Valley tomorrow! Had a slight-debate night with Dad because he was not comfortable of me driving the Holden out tomorrow. Despite that, Lily & I were excitingly planning and researching for it earlier after dinner. There are the wineries and chocolate factory that we aim for.

Train: Routes
Free Bas Service: CAT

Perth in a brief

Last night, Lily and I actually had the heater on the whole night when we sleep. It's a new experience for me to actually come for a vacation in winter. We had a very delicious breakfast prepared by our 3rd uncle this morning *Yummie* My all-time favourite; bacon, sunny-up, toast bread & fresh milk. I can guarantee that the rest of the coming few days, we will have very delicious breakfast too. Hehehe...

Since it's Lily & my first time to Perth, 3rd uncle decided to bring us around to the nearby suburbs with his almost 2 years-old company-provided Holden. It's a huge car with 3800cc. 3rd Uncle suggested that he is going to show us each place in a brief; like 30 minutes stop each place and then, we can return to the place we like by ourselves other days when he is away to Singapore for his conference.

First destination, at Avon Ascent where we saw a very beautiful sight in front of us and of course, first time seeing pelicans from a very far distance. Unfortunately, when we decided to walk near to it, they already swim further away into the middle of the wide-river.


Second destination - Fremantle waterfront. We walked around the place & the cafes, stopped for a few pictures. And settled down for chips as tea-break at this place call Kailis; voted for their best fish & chips. Surprisingly here, I grew hungry every 1-2 hours. Must be the cold weather that makes me crave for food every hour. The rest of the journey, 3rd Uncle brought us along the coastal road and we get to see beautiful & big mansions and houses.


Third destination - Cottesloe; I had difficulty pronouncing this place's name though. It's a beach and I just cannot belief my eyes when I see lots of people are actually sun-bathing in winter!! Hahaha... but no naked-top/bottom whatsoever in this beach. There are others surfing and children playing the sands and splashing water near the edge of the water.

We walked towards the "castle" and found a bistro; Indiana. There are 2 elephant-statues outside it's garden and Lily & I wanted to have a picture. One old-Aussie man asked us if he could help us to take our picture as he said he loves taking photographs. Funny, he make us sat on the elephant-statue for so long and we were like tired from smiling... And when we checked, the pictures were "out". So, we got my dad to take a new shot for us *chuckled*


Fourth destination - Sorrento Quay. It's a nice place to come for a day trip with family or friends. It's a place with everything; earth & water. We walked from shop to shop looking at the products & trying to check out if there is any good bargains. But nothing seems attractive after looking at the prices and mentally calculating them after the conversion. Since Dome is originated from Perth, 3rd Uncle wanted us to have our lunch and to taste it's originality here. The price is not cheap but since 3rd Uncle wanna buy us lunch, we shall not grumble over his goodwill. I make sure I tried the food & drink that are not sold in Malaysia.

Since we had a rather late lunch, it's almost 2pm plus when we left Sorrento Quay. The journey back to Manning St where my 3rd uncle's house is took us about 1.5 hours and of course with the filling stomach hitherto I fall asleep in the car. Since it was still early and we did not know what we should do till dinner time, we stopped by the largest mall; Garden City . We saw Kmart so that's where Lily & I spend an hour here while I browse the food, clothes and looking for a pair of boot. Tim Tam was going for AUD$1.99 which is cheapy cheap. 3rd Uncle got 2 packets for us. Nobody shall miss the Aussie-made Tim Tam! It's my all time favourite night-snack in Papua N.G. too those days.

When we reached "home" (3rd Uncle's house become our home for the next 6 days), the sun was just about to set so Lily and I decided to take a walk to the park nearby called Neil McDougall Park. It's about 10 minutes walk while we stopped by a few houses to admire their garden & flowers. There is a lake here as well so we stopped here to take some pictures of the black ducks. Some are feeding on the insects and some are just swimming in the lake. I sat here for a bit to enjoy the evening chill breeze and when it got dark, we walked back.

When we got back, Dad & his brother are enjoying their wine while munching on some nuts and biscuits. Happily chatting away. Even though, it's cold here, I still wanted to have my bath each day. Dinner was cooked by 3rd Uncle and of course, his cooking is marvelous and he prepared it very fast. Amazing, and Dad is learning from him... Mom said when we get back home to Klang, Dad supposed to conquer the kitchen and prepare the meals from now on. Hahaha... I wonder how true that will be, my mom giving up her "palace" aka kitchen. Very doubtful on that!

After dinner, 3rd Uncle brought us out to the Perth CBD and to the King's Park. Due to the Perth Municipals instructing people to save on electricity therefore unfortunately for us, there are no lights at all in the King's Park. It's supposed to be a very beautiful park at night with all the trees lighted up with Christmas lights. Someday, I may get a chance to see it. As we got out of the car, the night wind was so cold that I wore the huge black coat my Sis borrowed me and I looked like a stalker thru the dark-walk-path. Hehehe... We were here for a while, while my 3rd Uncle describe to us the geographical of the place and we stood at a very nice place that overlooks the Perth CBD. My camera did not take good pictures of the night-view though. We even saw a very big-tree that was just planted a few weeks ago which is very unique but since it's dark, we cannot take picture of it. But, it's a tree with two trunks but one root. Can you imagine it? I wonder if their website has a picture of it... but do click into their website and enjoy their beautiful slide pictures.


After touring the whole of King's Park with the car, 3rd Uncle brought us tour around the Perth CBD at night, one street to another street. Advising us which street we should visit tomorrow on our own. Showing us the shops, night clubs and dining restaurants. One funny place called the "Library" is actually a night club. Hehehe... If I was not told by my Uncle, I'll probably think that it's a library with lots of books and I may wanna consider to pay a visit.

As there are not much activities at night in Perth other than the clubs & restaurants, we head back home. 3rd Uncle purposely used the way that passes by the Perth Zoo so that he can show me how to get there if I wanna visit it while he is away. It was fun to learn the roads and listening to him. He even showed us the way how to get to the supermarkets. I hope my brains will remember since it's in vacation-mode. Hehehe...

Singapore to Perth

This morning, I hanged out with my Uncle at the neighbourhood while I enjoy my wantan-mee & coffee for breakfast. Uncle had his regular morning catch-up with his friends in the kopitiam. Took a shower before depart for the Domestic terminal to catch my Tiger Airways to Perth; where I need to meet up Lily also at the airport.

Unfortunately, my Uncle didn't realized Lily sms him and that's why she ended up waiting ages for me in the airport. We checked in our luggages and then, returned to Terminal 1 for lunch and later we took the sky-train to Terminal 3 to check out the place since it's a new terminal. As we have insufficient time till our boarding, we couldn't spare much time walking everywhere.

After saying our goodbyes to my Uncle, we checked ourselves into the boarding hall. Funny, I don't recall hearing our flight number called for boarding and then Lily heard our flight number calling for last-call. Ahhh... a little panicked, we ran and ran towards the gate... and gosh... it's far!! And when the steward actually checked our tickets, he mentioned, "The whole plane is waiting for the two of you". I felt embarrassed at that moment... but I think he was just kidding because I still see a few people slowly climbing up the staircase into the plane.

Food in the plane is expensive and in S$ currency but we are hungry and we ate their meal that is fish & rice. Taste okie. Forgotten to take a picture of it as my camera was in my hand-carry in the compartment above. I also bought their chips while watching a few drama series that I save into my laptop. Lucky, I had my laptop with me to kill the boredom. The flight was occasionally rather choppy and Tiger's plane is same size with Air Asia's plane thus you can imagine, flying 5 hours is not a pleasant thing. Cannot complaint if wanna travel budget though...

Arrived on schedule in Perth International airport approximately 9pm. It was pretty funny when Lily & I reached the custom-checkpoint counter... We did not write any address on the white card that we supposed to fill up as we did not know the address of my 3rd-uncle. So, the guy asked us, "Do you have a place to stay after you exit this airport?" and we replied, "Yes, at our uncle's place" and he asked, "You do not know which street he stays in?" and we replied, "No". And he looked a bit concerned and asked, "Is there someone picking you up outside the airport?" and we replied, "Our uncle" and he smiled and returned us our passports. Hehehe...

Lily forgotten to declare the biscuits that she carried in her hand-bag and only recalled it when we were lining up to exit the luggage checkpoint so she sorta of informed the lady at the end of the line and she asked us to go to the "declare lane". To our much surprised, we do not even have to open our luggages and all we had to do was just to put them over the x-rated machine and off we are free. Yippee... I was a little worried and lots of them were just unlucky and were opening their luggages for check. Phew... we were so glad about that...

Dad, Mom & 3rd-Uncle were actually waiting for us outside and Mom was in shocked to see Lily with me. Hahaha... we had a good laugh because I asked Dad to keep it a secret that Lily is joining us for the Perth vacation. Since, it's not the first time Dad & Mom visited Perth, I feel that it's really a good idea to get Lily to come along and I never regret that invitation a bit.

Upon exiting the airport, the cool breeze welcomed us into the night and Mom actually wore quite thick and she was amazed I was not feeling as cold as her. We reached 3rd-uncle's house and we had a late dinner. Just had some to ease the hunger before we decided to get ourselves comfortable in bed. I choose to sleep on the floor in the same room with Lily since I tend to wriggle around when I sleep *chuckled*

Alright, time to get under the blanket and snooze and just can't wait for tomorrow to start our journey in Perth...

Journey Begins..

I'm applied for leave from today onwards but as I couldn't finish my work over the weekends, I had decided to call in to office and of course by 4pm, I'm getting stressful thinking that my work couldn't finish also. By 4.30pm, I gave up and pack to leave the office with an exciting mood.

Got to LCCT and I start my journey to Australia via Singapore budget airline. First flight will be from Kuala Lumpur via Air Asia to Singapore. Had my dinner at MacD before I board my plane. The flight is early and have ample time to get comfortable in our seats. To my much surprised, this flight did not show us the "safety demo-instructions" that all flights are supposed to be compulsory to do. Nevertheless, we landed 15 minutes earlier from the schedule time. Just before I manage to catch a short nap, they had announced us to prepare for landing. Gosh... that's fast!!

Reached Terminal 1 - Changi Airport and it took quite a far distance to reach the custom-point and our luggage collection. My cousin brother had arranged to pick me up. But, we were like playing "hide and seek" in Terminal 2 where he said he wanna grab dinner with Hwee Kuan but turned out we keep moving until we couldn't meet up. Hahaha... It has been a while since I had walked so much in such a wide airport and honestly, I had to catch my breath with all the excitement of landing and getting into a country that is not strange to me at all.

Finally, settled down in Sakae Sushi and catch up with Hwee Kuan & Jeremiah while they had their dinner and I savour a few cups of Japanese tea. I'm just too tired to even move my gum & jaws. After that, we paid Jia Ler a visit at his grandma's place before we head to my Uncle's place for the night. But, my cousin decided to bring me out for a car ride around certain parts of the city and of course, this trip, I made into Chijmes. Hehehe... It's a nice place to have a good & expensive meal. Just so excited about tomorrow...

Love & Hate

"The oppossite of love is not hate but it's indifferences"

I learned about the quote today at my church sermon, which I feel that it's very meaningful and I would like to share it with my readers. Forgive me for I have forgotten the writer that first quote this.

For me, "love" is a word and feeling that is no one definition, no right or no wrong to it's actions. As for "hate", it is a word I do not like to use at all because it's a very deep hurtful feeling and I had grew up not wanting to have this feeling in me. And as much as I dislike someone or something, I will never come to a point to hate the someone or the something. Thusfar, the quote somehow makes it meaningful and worth pondering over for as a "food of thought".

Broadway Musical

Yesterday evening, I had a phone call from Jaime asking me if I'm doing anything tonight and of course, I won't be doing much other than bringing home work to do. So, she invited me to watch the Disney Beauty & the Beast Broadway Musical at KLCC. She got free tickets from her sister and other than herself, her mom-in-law & her aunt-in-law are watching as well.

Since I'm worried that I'll be late to arrive Alan's place, I had obtain permission to leave the office at 5pm instead. Got to Alan's place rather early and rested a bit while playing with Gabby while she is fussing and laughing around. Had a light dinner at around 6.30pm as it was too early for me to eat much. Nevertheless, the dinner is simple home-cook and yet lovely, just a bit too spicy to consume to much in case my stomach cannot take it.

Looking forward to this as it's my first experience watching broadway musical. We were lucky there is not much traffic since we took the highway and pay thru a few tol-gates. We are early and just as expected... Malaysians are always never punctual.

The musical started at around 8.15pm as the Organisor would like the theather to be filled up and nobody will miss out on anything since it's not cheap to get the tickets. Despite that we have free tickets, I'm really honour that I'm sitting at the 7th-row from the stage. No video-ing allowed and I don't wish to do that as well since people do pay to watch it. And I enjoyed myself very much despite that it ended till quite late.

Career Transfer

Officially effective 1st June 2008, I was transfered to another department upon my request in May 2008 as I had enough of handling a problematic staff. Since I know she is also a personal favorite of my ex-boss, there isn't much I should stay-on in the department I'm not being appreciate for the hard work and effort that I had put in for the last 2 years. Furthermore, I personally feel that it's time I request for a transfer as I had indeed feel there is no challenge in just always doing the routine work for that matter.

I shall not brag on and on about the old-role... as it's going to be the past soon. Well, I still had to complete the old-case while slowly handover the old-task to another staff. This month, I'm handling 50/50 of both old and new department. But, to my much dismay due to some complicity of a "special project", my Corporate GM requested me to continue to hold responsible for this "special project" which forecast to complete by mid-year of 2009 and if things didn't quite turn out as forecast, it will be into the 3rd quarter of 2009!! And this easily will take up about 15-20% of my new role *sobs*sobs*

I did not regret for the request to be transfered but the comfort of my old work-place is very much missed by me despite that I only sat at my new work-place from yesterday onwards. My Corporate GM kept rushing me to move to my new place because she knows that my previous GM will continue to give me task to handle if I'm at his sight. So in order for him to notice my disappearance will only he realized that he shouldn't be asking me to handle things under his department.

Eventhough, I have nothing much to fear at my new work-place but it is still an open-concept work-place without any cubicles and my back is actually facing to my Corporate GM's room and we are divided by a walk-way of the main entrance into the 2nd block of our office-building. Thus, everyone that walked into this 2nd-block building can basically see what I do with my laptop and they can easily just haunt me from behind by leaning against the not-so-high cubicles. Hhmmm... pictures explains it all...

~ Previous Work-Place ~

~ New Work-Place ~
~ The walk-way behind my work-place ~

Gosh... I can feel the soreness of my legs & backbone tonight due to yesterday moving, I had to move my files and things myself and I happened to wear high-heels to work yesterday. I had to climb the staircase from 1st floor at 1st block to ground floor at 2nd block for more than 8 times. Just so, I don't have to see the "faces" of the Admin cum IT staffs who are responsible for our "moving" each time we are required to do so. I rather do it myself and not see their "black-face" that they will give...

For a history-record, this moving is the 5th time while I worked for 2 years and 7 months in this company. It's crazy but this is how the company works. From cubicle-concept to open-concept and back to cubicle-concept and now again to open-concept. I'm not sure to laugh or to cry...

Dinner with church friends

CK bought us dinner before our CG meet-up at his place. He gave thanks for his promotion at work as well as his good-outcome from the court case that he supposed to attend.

We hardly take pictures when we hang out and this happened to be also WT's phone-camera that caught everyone's attention this evening when she offered to take a group picture before we dig into our food blessed by CK from God. Thanks CK!