Wiso and myself are having a house party this coming apr 8th.. Whether if you are in Finland, the States, Singapore, Thailand, Brisbane or anywhere, anyone and everyone is invited.. Just Bring Your Own Grog that should be fine.. =0)
It has been a long long long long long long time since I last updated my blog.. Lotsa things happened between then and now.. So let’s see what happened since then…
Katherine’s House Party
Katherine, my former University Village room mate, dropped me a random msn msg one day and invited me to her housewarming.. She mentioned that since I wouldn’t know anyone else but her, that it would be alright to bring a friend along. Along came Wiso.. And with the surest of luck, Wiso met Jess there.. Jess is the ex-gf of Wiso’s best mate, Steve. Together, they got Steve over in a minute. We had karaoke and Vietnamese rolls (The same ones which Kelly taught me when I visited her last winter in Brissy) and beer and tarts and pies and and and.. To cut the long story short, Jess and Steve are back together and all thanks to me.. Cupid’s little help this Ansley Jones I say.
Jess and Steve..
Random people..
Dinner with the High Commissioner of Singapore
And yes, I got invited to his residence for dinner.. The committee members of the Canberra Singapore Club got invited to Eddy and Antonia’s official residence for dinner.. Indeed, it’s no wonder why they are diplomats.. Really nice elderly couple I would say.. I would say especially so as the invite stated "Casual Dress", as Ansley went there in a polo tee, burms and thongs.. Dang! Nobody told me "Casual Dress" was supposed to be "Semi Formal".. Anyhow, Antonia personally walked me thru her collection of Peranakan wares from Batik to books to sandals to everything else.. Dinner was good.. I would say it’s a contemporary fusion.. Maybe even post modern as with everything these days.. Current food which flavors and visuals of reminiscence..
Cannot take pics in the residence so here’s the pic of my place card and invite..
Golden Key Presentation
For the first time in my life, I am getting a recognition for my grades.. Frankly, I have been a grade scraper all my life.. I never really gotten an A or B for anything (Except for English and Science).. And so this award came to me as a surprise… Apparently, I have managed to pull considerably good grades for my 3rd year to be the top 15% of UC.. With that, I got invited to join this academic society, The Golden Key International Honour Society. Amazingly, Wiso also got an invite.. We were amazed as we weren’t best in class.. With a little snooping around.. We found out that the "elite" aka older folks aka teachers pets aka cannot design but can write report people had gotten theirs’ on their first year.. Oh well.. Ain any pics of me receiving the award, Wiso was sitting next to me and they mass distributed the certs… Even the recept after that was sucky.. Oh well.. this will be just another color painted on my resume..
AnS, as swanky as ever.. Shirt tucked out, collar’s up, belt’s sideways and random socks..
Dinner with Swee Fong, Wiso and Catherine
We had dinner at the Belconnen Labor Club. Cheap food with lousy ambiance.. After dinner we headed over to Katherine’s for some more karaoke, eye toy and 2 movies… We watched Crashed and SpaceBalls… Had great fun with the eye toy and naturally killed each others ear drums with our singings…
Me as a character in the eyetoy..
After this round, Wiso admitted "guys should be better in this cos they had practice.."
Katherine shaking that ass..
Swee Fong grooving to the tunes..
Sydney Skydiving Trip
And yes, I headed to Sydney for my skydive trip.. Met and stayed with Pepper and her housemates… Pepper is Janice’s brother’s friend who had recently arrived at Sydney to pursue her degree in Industrial Design.. Ahh.. You see now? Common interest and yet she was game enough to go skydiving with me! HEeheheh.. Anyway, what are you guys thinking?!!! She has 2 other guy housemates, Sean, another ID student in his fourth year and Kim Fai, an Engineering masters student with 2 kids back home.. Indeed they are great friends and company~ Actually, I am kinda missing them right now… Guess it’s the feeling you get when u hang out with other Singaporeans in a foreign land. The common passion for design, fueled by the love for food (as a Singaporean) and even share the local Singapore lingo.. That is something which I do miss, not hanging out with any Singaporeans anymore in UC.. But still, the show must go on.. (not literally dweebs, I’m juz taking a statement outta a Queen’s song with the same title) Anyway, I met up with alot other Singaporeans in this UNSW SSA bar night thingy.. Things were cool but as every tight arsed Singaporeans, the crowd stuck to themselves.. They weren’t sensitive to the others in the bar.. Guess that’s what people do in a herd; stick to themselves.. Please do not get a wrong idea; I had a ball of a time but they are juz not as "fun" loving and open as us Canberrians… Heheheheh.. Also met up with Yew Peng, Chris and the others from the Temasek Club of Sydney. It was nice meeting them as usual.. I reckon, being older, I am starting to enjoy myself more among still older people; that gives me a chance to stone out and let others take control.. Ahhh.. Skydive.. My instructor was from Canberra… My instructor had better camera angles.. My instructor was as fun as me… Heheheh.. I have to admit, I was scared when I jumped outta the plane… But overall, it’s not as scary as the bungee as after sometime, you hit your terminal velocity and all is good; no more "balls in your mouth" as Pinky puts it… Anyway, it was time well spent, and I thank Pepper, Sean and Kim Fai for your hospitality.. =0) Oh, pics of my skydive would be out when I figure how to screen thief a DVD video…
AnS, Pepper and Sean..
Pepper and AnS with our certs..
Sean drunk with beer, AnS drunk from dancing, Pepper drunk being tired..
Holy cow, where did those chicks come from?!!!
Pepper was tickled from the length AnS would go for a shot..
Pepper convincing her strawberry to be sweet..
AnS sucking his strawberry.. Yes, they are the sweetest we have tasted..
Pacman on Oxford St…
Nice, cheap sashimi at Oxford St…
Nice spire with a strange leave growing lamp..
Random kid mucking around a water element at Darling Harbor..
Yours Truly.. Pepper was convinced I should attribute all the attention I was getting from my shades..
