Nathaniel's 15th Birthday

He's actually 25 or 26 or 27 liao.. But just don't wanna admit that he is old. I dunno how old he is exactly, cos everytime i ask him, he just changes the subject.. kua kua kua.

Anyway, we went for karaoke after work and he baked his own cake!!

Birthday boy!

So cool lor! Tiramisu Chocolate Cake! Without the alcohol lah.

Crazy girl who eats with a knife

Yummy chocolate cake! Lots of cherries inside. I love it! But so fattening. Haix.
I ate using the giant knife cos.. heh. Easier to eat mah! Cut and eat. The forks so mini. No kick lor.
2 siao char bo singing a super old old old classic Chinese song. "I choose you" by the mustache man and the forever young char bo.

And time for crazy group self-timer shots!

From Left:

Ching Hwang Hwang Hwang Hwang, Janice, Nathaniel, Moi, Choco Lee

My very 1st tourleading assignment!

Here's my tour group of 25 people~

This picture was taken at Mt Showa, an active volcano that is still spewing smoke.

Here's my 1st night hotel room.. the best hotel IMO throughout the whole tour..

Lake Toya Sun Palace

It's overlooking the Lake Toya with a lovely view of Nakajima Island.. There's a daily fireworks session just outside the window at 8pm and the buffet dinner is TO DIE FOR!

Too bad there's so many China nationals working there, it doesn't feel japanese, but like you're in China cos all these cheene kept speaking mandarin to you and keep shouting heavily accented (and off pronounced) japanese phrases.

Next day we went to Nakajima Island, took a cruise there and here's a pic of the forest trail.

Apparently these trees take minimum 60 to 70 years to grow so tall!

Bear Ranch @ Mt Showa

One word to describe the bear ranch: SMELLY

Norboribetsu Hell Valley

Bought a orangey demony keychain for Money from here, bobbing head, very cute. The souveniers in Hokkaido very personalized one. Only avaliable in certain places.

Eg; The Hello Kitty in Norboribetsu is wearing demon skirt and holding a club while the Furano Kitty is hugging lavender flowers.. etc.

Shiraoi Ainu Village

They are the aborigines of Hokkaido, and only 10,000 of them remain.

Super Fresh Seafood

Apparently most of the tour groups come here.. so it's a wee-bit rip off.

Sobetsu Strawberry Farm

I never imagined that strawberry bushes are sooooooooooo small and short! It is my first time plucking strawberries! So fun! :)

Anyway, there are many crop fields in Hokkaido, and my passenger keep asking me what crop is this, what crop is that.. And i got all of them correct (according to my driver Mikami-San).

Potato, Corn, Onion, Tomato....

And you know why I know?

Cos i play Harvest Moon! The plants look exactly the same as in the game! So i know lor. HAHAHA.

Furano Flower Farms

I took tons of pictures. Damn chio lor.

Otaru Glass Musuem

There is Hokkaido's oldest steamclock which chimes every 15mins. Can you spot it in the picture?

Li Xiao Lu

Asakusa Temple

Last day was Free & Easy and my group opted for a Tokyo City Tour.. So I managed to go to Ginza, Harajuku & Asakusa Temple..

Luckily i managed to buy Yaya's burberry blue label bag at Harajuku (my local guide helped me to buy, i showed her the picture) and some Fancl products.. But i didn't manage to buy the TenseUp EX cos my luggage overweight liao. 38kg! So sad. Cos it's really cheap there and i promised to get for Money & Wany. I dunno why my luggage so heavy lor! Must be pipimon's chocolates and lavender pillow.
I went to pray and ask for a lot at this temple.. Heard it's very "ling".

The lot says I must be patient in order for success in career and love... and some other things about my family. It's a good lot, but not the best.

Haix. Patience!

That concludes the Hokkaido tour! It's not my first time to Hokkaido, but I really enjoyed it a lot! And being my very first tour that I lead as a tourleader, of course I feel nervous but I pulled it off! Yay!

Mei Kwan's 20th Birthday @ Money's house

Invitation card

Location

Other than buying a new car, Money moved into Paterson Edge near Wheelock.. super chio house.. And here's a lil sneak peek into her exclusive, beautiful 2 bedroom apartment!

At the entrance of her house...

Usually don't have balloons lah. It's becos of the party that's why got so many lovely pink balloons.
I didn't know that Mei Kwan (Money's sister) love pink and Hello Kitty! Same same as me can! If i knew, i'll get her a lovely Hello Kitty merchandise instead of the crystal accessories set we got for her.. Oh well, there's always Christmas and next year! :)

Money's Shoe Collection

Only the ones on the rack & in the shoeboxes are hers...She's more of a bag girl than shoe girl.. so not really as many as you would imagine.

Venus Fly Trap

Her mosquito trapping device. But i think it's too small to gobble up much mosquitoes... and there's a lot of mosquitoes around her house cos behind her condo there's construction going on and since it's raining like almost everyday, there's lots of mosquitoes breeding!

Money's other dog

This dog is cuter than her chihuahua, Monster.. cos that dog hates me. Bit me on the lips when she was just an 10week old puppy, and now whenever she sees me, she'll bark and charge at me. Crazy dog.

Lovely Pink Roses

There are flowers everywhere in her house. For both FengShui and aesthetic reasons..

8 DOGS & A CAT

So cute right? She got these from Thailand when she went there with her bf. Another bigger painting is the elephant one that can be seen in the picture at the entrance of the house, and half of it can be seen below....

Joyce, MeiKwan & Me

The theme of the party is NERD. But since all of us are so old, we came as we are..
(Anyway we're considered NERDY by the younger generations lor)

Pipimon relaxing....

3 of us fooling around

Only 3 of us left in the house cos everyone went upstairs to the swimming pool (at the rooftop) and started on the BBQ, and since Yaya is not here yet, we waited in the comfort of the air-conditioned house... and play....

WII!

Feature Wall

Money did the flowery deco herself, and her TV is huge lor!
Joyce and Pipimon having fun playing Tennis & Bowling, swinging, shouting & shrieking...
Note the blue balloon that she's holding? It's her lucky charm..
It looks like a dick, and more so, after i added 2 "testicles" onto it by twisting 2 ugly globs of ball-like thing with 10 mini twisty ball-like things on it (testicles are ugly. period) So while they're playing, i was self-entertaining myself in Money's kitchen.

Self-Entertainment

After a while, Yaya arrived and we went up to the pool side for the BBQ!

View from the top

I tell u hor.. Youngsters have no experience in cooking...

Took them so long to cook a few pcs of food (but we appreciate the effort lah), and cooked in the darkness with one poor boy using his handphone as a torch to light up the food so they can see if the food is cooked not... We shooed them away to go and eat, and the EXPERT in BBQ came and conquered the pit!
WUAHAHAHAHAHHA! - Ignore me, i'm being weird and boliao.

BBQ Pit

Within 2 minutes, I found the switch to on the spotlight, turned it on and screamed: "Let there be light!"

And the youngsters all like so shocked that there's a spotlight pointing in the direction of the BBQ pit.. Oldsters like us no need use handphone to shine light on the Chicken Wings lor. hiak hiak hiak.

Birthday Cake

Group Picture

After the cake-cutting, we went to 3 Monkeys Cafe~

Queen Gang is Love!

Pipimon got his face rubbed into one of the drag queen's breasts and he asked me if i minded..

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Haiyo, firstly that person is a MAN with a penis. Secondly, it's a MAN! Thirdly, it's a MAN! Just with implanted breasts. We went back to Money's house afterwards and her sister's friends were still around.. it was 2am..I called for BlackJack and Money brought out her very expensive and brand new..

LV playing cardsComes in 3 colours! Damn fucking chio.

Comes with a nice paper bag! Hahahahahaaa....

I won $40++ in BlackJack! Feel quite bad cos the biggest loser is this young boy called YiJun who lost all his money and had to pawn his Football ticket that has a prize of $147.50 to Pipimon for $100.