and that ladies and gentlemen..was spring break.

Sooooooooooooooooooo much have happened since i last updated.

Let's see.
First was Hari Raya or Eid as it's known here..We spent the whole of Tuesday cooking and stuffs. I cooked beef rendang, sambal goreng and nasi minyak. We even had Adabi ketupat! Tassha's grandma gave a variety of kueh, of which i ate most of the pineapple tarts. The gang came over on Wednesday, and it really felt like Hari Raya. Played raya songs the whole day, and even made a music video like those tacky ones you always see.me and the food


our lovely house




and then! came our Shark Island outing on Friday...we took a ferry to the island, thinking it prolly has loads of picnic-ers there..but we ended up being the ONLY ppl on the island until like an hour later.. cool or what!?! it's this small rocky island off the sydney harbour, with a great view of the bridge and opera house. We waded around among the pools of water, but the rocks had sharp barnacles on them tho. I tore my yoga pants in the process. sadnesss...
it really was worth every bit of the 17 bucks cause the ferry ride itself was so fantastic. Really felt that THAT was the kind of sydney experience i was hoping for! I was already satisfied with that outing as a birthday treat for myself...

BUT.

my birthday just got better.

received a package from the dearest...had a good laugh opening it up when i saw a mass of facial cotton pads used as packaging material. haha...
he gave me a pair of gorgeous swarvoski crystal earrings! and it was so sweet that the earrings were suitable for sensitive skin! he remembered! hehe...

then came a card from Hafiz! with 50 aussie bucks in it!! hehehe mmmmwax!! the letter meant so so much to me. thank you fiz...

mummy sent me a card and a gorgeous dragonfly necklace and earrings set...and an amber pendant too. i loved the card, she drew little cartoons of my cat and the fishes...haha

AND THEN.

the morning of my birthday...came a knock on my door, as i was dyeing aisyah's hair..
it was a huge ass box of long stemmed south american pink roses with chocolates too!!!
it was from mummy too!! actually not really lah.. mum gave Mervin, auntie nancy's son who lives in sydney, money to surprise me with something...and he chose the roses and chocolates.. so sweet!! Love it love it love it!!

so the plan that night was for 4 of us to dress up and look good and have dinner in the house... so i wore my brand new copper dress which i bought last week...and the girls shut me up in the room , not letting me go downstairs..so i sort of knew something was up, was thinking they probably cooked something special.
so i sat in my room looking like a fat cow in the dress actually, and talked to jeevan on webcam!! he finally bought one! saw his face after three freaking months.. my birthday just could not get better.

But it did.

Finally i went downstairs, carrying the laptop so jeevan could see everything..and saw the three girls in silly party hats and tassha was barbequeing chicken outside! then i heard a meow!! and HUDA popped out of the laundry room!! and then BENNY AND MAX popped out too!! hhahah... it was just so fantastic..

we ate and talked and laughed, and even put a party hat on the laptop so that jeevan could join in the fun. haha...

then the fireworks came on. that's when i thought oh. my.god. fireworks...on my freaking birthday!
we played with sparklers too....
and just when i thought the night had come to an end...the girls made me sit down in front of the comp...and showed me a video on youtube. it was a video they had made just for me!!
i seriously wanted to cry...

thanks so much girls for everything... and everyone who sent me stuffs.. appreciate it so so much!! my 22nd birthday was so fantastic cause of all of you.. love you all so much.