recession


ITS OFFICIAL WE'RE IN A RECESSION -
(Dec. 2007 until ??)




CNN Link

taken from BET: BET LINK


His popular song: Sexy Lady

Posted Dec. 1, 2008 -- Just in case you thought Yung Berg was somewhere loving a light-skinned shorty, think again. The young rapper has been criticized for statements made on a Shade 45 radio show where he cited his preference for light-skinned women in a very unique way. Berg said he didn't like "dark butts" and for a number of weeks after, he paid for that statement. Now, almost six months later, Yung Berg is still trying to correct his flawed quote by casting dark-skinned women in a new reality dating show.


Another crazy show is about to air: I thot this was interesting since I am yes one of those that are addicted to reality shows.

Today is Black Friday!!! Too broke and too lazy to want to stampede for any deals, but good luck to you all.

Black Friday stampede killed a man 2008
man who died at walmart this morning because he got stampede over by the crowd....what a sad way to die. - (and its only 9am!)

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Twilight Series

picture Yup I am one of those that just loves this series. Makes me feel like a HS teenager again. Whats not to love? It has romance, it has vampires, and it has action. I got the book at a very great price.


*tip* BnN is selling this set for 58.10 (if you buy with a MC, u can have 40% off with code H4D4U8B - for non members
-This coupon is valid from November 26, 2008 to December 1, 2008
-$58.10 online price - 40% non-member discount = $34.86 (plus tax) and free shipping; members can get this for $31.38.

More Things to come...


<----Things i've done in Australia....and we've done it all....

and we're off to Magnetic Island....xbasepackers..."x marks the spot" - our tour guide was lame/funny but more lame, at least he was really nice...hahaha



This is me holding a baby crocodile!!!


We made it up the Fort hike...well just to the range lookout...






us just chillaxing...w/ 2 swedish girls we met...mona and claudia...(they went snorkeling with me and nick ...it was cool...snorkeling by ourselves, no instructors...just in t he wild...we brought bread out there to feed the fishes and they all came swimming to us...what a site!)

SCUBA DIVING!!

its been awhile since i've updated!! its because i rarely had stable internet access....so we finally left sydney! no more work...vacation finally begins!!

We flew down to Melbourne on the 17th -
-lucky us we got some friends of friends who helped us out...bobby, jax & her crew.


-Melbourne is known for its arts and shopping...has cool structures all over the city...it has new and older buildings...it reminded me a lot of boston...and nick of chicago...it was really nice...

- we did the great ocean road! Saw the 12 apostles...it was really nice!

21st we flew up to cairns!
I WENT SCUBA DIVING TODAY!!! IT WAS AMAZING...i can't say enuff how much i love it, and how beautiful everything is....i hope my underwater camera comes up with some nice photos...and it was in the GREAT BARRIER REEF!!



Me and Nick saw a baby shark! swam with lil nemo!...got to hold a bunch of moving things! it was amazing!...jo saw a sting ray! so many fishes just swimming around us...a bunch of blue school fishes...oh...it was GORGEOUS and BREAKTAKING!!...Thats me and nick with Nemo! haha my celebrity pix of the day! thats the sign for a clown fish...



The next day we went to cape trib! we spent a night up there...along the way we quite a few things...

like feed kangaroos!


i even held an olive PYTHON!!!!


Went swmiing in the Rainforest Creek!...it was cold...at first....and lots of fisheys swimming around us.


There was these GREEN ANTS...they have a green buttom...and they make these cool looking hives thingie...and u can taste it...so we did....to me...it was kind of tangy..stingy...bitter..and lemoney...pretty cool...not bad...

We did a DainTree Rain Forest Cruise....It was so relaxing...saw a baby crocodile...green frogs...bats...

I WENT HORSEBACK RIDING IN THE RAINFOREST!! i've always wanted to ride a horse ever since i was a little girl...haha...its true...it was awesome...my horse was named ringer...got to walk, trot, and canter the horse...stopped at creek to drink some water...it was so much fun....


Our pool was so cool tropical like. I do kinda like the tropical weather, it rains a lot...but i hate that is mosquito season! we're all bug bate! soo disgusting! so itchy all the time!...

Thats splash is my big canon splash! hahaha


I ran in the poolside during the rain, i tripped and fell....and heres the BIG BRUISE...it hurts too!

DarlingHarbor @ Nite

They had a light show at town hall, I was going tos ee what all the buzz was about, but the line getting inside was super long! both out of the left and right of the building! This tree is really pretty, down by Darling Harbor, it has kangaroo that jumps around the tree. If you focus at the middle of the picture, it has the white kangaroo there in my pix. (Somebody jumped into my picture! haha )

The night view of the harbor.



SlideShow - thru Dec 15th



A slide show thru December 15th
* Highlights of us
* walking thru the Sydney Bridge
* the Fish Market
* & Cherry Picking!

It was an eventful weekend. Drove 4 hrs to the cherry farm, in Young.
"Rain or Shine or even Hail!"
We saw heaps of sheep farms along the way, (haha not cows!, no smell)

We were lucky, cuz it rained all day, except for when we picked cherries.


WHAT??! NO REGINAS?!!!

Vegemite

I had my first vegemite sandwich at work. My co worker Anne Marie made it for me...she brought the viet bread and "you must add butter with your vegemite!".
She didn't wanna put too much, cuz some people in the past have hated it...but i really like it...its not bad...its salty...(honestly to me, it taste like soy sauce...but in a paste form...)





I ALSO MADE DINNER WEDNESDAY NIGHT - It was soooOoOOooO good!
*chicken marinated with oyster sauce, saricha (hot sauce), & blk pepper
(Inspired from Jamie)
* cooked to perfection, with a little carrot, onions, and tomatoes

New Home

This our new home! we love it...now it feels like home....and not living out of a hostel...



We saw Miss Saigon last weekend.
Loved it...it was really good! Great seats...nobody was in our row, so we jus scooted to the middle...it was kind of smaller so any seats is good seats...a bit bigger than the pantages but it reminded me of that theater...

cat, "No...it's just juice." --- pointing to Jo's cup

cat, nikola, me, jo



This is us walking with Ying (ING) across the sydney bridge! it was awesome, very pretty view, we're going to skip walking across the bridge (cost too much)eh cuz this was just "about" the same. The 2nd pix is of us imitating this random man standing making this claw faces so that we would smile in our 1st picture...and he has a picture of us randomly in his camera as well...(wierd asian girls)



We walked across the bridge to see LUNA Park. Out of breath, but we made it...ta da!



Walking back to the City, we saw them...isn't he cute...peace sign and all =


Our favorite Street. George St...its practically our home.





This is Town Hall - (day time) at night it has light projection, very beautiful, will have to capture that another day...


At the QVB (queen victoria building) it's a big shopping center - 2 floors below the tree, and another 4 above...its a huge tree!!



**Its been awhile since I last updated, cuz i change jobs and no longer had internet access =)
i'm back now which means I found a new job...working for NAB - a bank...its a really nice place with a great view as well.
- btw i am almost done with my cold = )

being sick

being sick sucks...

being sick and can not sleep sucks more...

being sick and can not sleep, because when you swallow it hurts, and your nose won't stop runny... sucks even worst...

it all just sucks

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells



XMAS IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!
HAPPY THANKSGIVNG Ya'LL!!!




TO all the ones I've known:
I'm truly grateful to have you in my life, for a brief second, a minute more, or a decade thru the years! my days would just not have been the same! luv and miss you all


This is us hearing the aussie jingle bell song for the 1st time!




THIS IS THE LYRICS TO IT! YOU CAN HEAR A MAN SINGING IT TOO

Our new Hostel


We went to a museum of the prisoners near St. James. Fanta has been around for long time.



Walked thru Hyde Park. St. Mary's Cathedral is one of the largest, oldest church here. I decided to get a tattoo!!!! wat'chu think? Oh and we moved into our newest hostel. It fits 45 people in a room. All we get is a hammock. Pretty neat eh? It's pretty much all we can afford right now...Watchu think of it?

Palmolive


Palmolive Shamp. & Conditioner - Do we have that back home? I thought i was in the liquid detergent section!

Good things come in small packages!


I went out on a Wednesday night to the Sidebar and had happy hour with the IEP peeps. It was fun. Drinks for 2.50 (you can't complain!) Met a few interesting people. At some point in the night, this guy asked me to take a picture...i figured i was going to take their picture, but he wanted me in it! i stood up and i knew why, he was 6 ft 8! I was half his size. LOL his friend wanted to take a pix too! 6 ft 4! I met Dallas (Canadian) who was about my height and yeah, we'd make pretty odd looking couples.




Anyways...i went to Lindt's Cafe today to run Hot choco for a few of my coworkers. OH man my dark hot chocoloate was SO GOOD...i just want to crawl under the table and sleep now. I couldn't resist and I bought two bars - a joghurt pfrsich-aprikose (which i believe is peach apricot) & joghurt himbeer-vanille (raspberry vanilla).

NewTown Festival


Nam told us about the Music Festival they had down in Newtown. It's pretty cool! Crowded, with music, booth, food, and best of all it was FREE! We had Turkish Gozleme which was pretty popular there, spinach, some kind of spread, a little meat in a pita.

The right is us at China town...eating a viet banh mi! hehe it was yummie! $3.00 bucks that satisfy the hungry tummy.

Bottom is a clip of the place.


These are pictures from last weekend.
We went to a backpack expo (yes we are nerds, but it was fun! thats where we met our Nieghbour celeb, I won a 2 tickets for a museum in melbourne, chapstick!(much needed), free beer, saw a guy with a snake, but i was too scared to hold it.



Below is us at Kings Cross, a bar we saw on the way home, the bottle shop with a pretty cool name....It was a pretty fun weekend.