Went to Byron Bay with friends to catch the sunrise and some beach activity during Easter long holiday. The view in the lookout point is very nice, too bad we didn't spot any whales or dophins.

The city centre of Byron Bay is not too small, but we're having trouble to find a McDonald/KFC/Hungry Jacks... We have 3 GPS, all TomTom (different series) and saying nearest McDonald is 26km

Overnight in Gold Coast later that night, a lot of driving and but it's fun. Below are the photos taken from my mobile:



Additional info for the pictures above:

Subject	Byron Bay Trip - sunrise view
Location	Byron Bay (NSW)
Date	2009.04.11
Equipment	Nokia 5800
Picture Size	Scaled from 2048 x 1536

(below is the restored entry lost after the server crashed last year...)

Drove down to Toowoomba yesterday with a bunch of friends to join the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers 2007. Not seeing that much of flowers in Queens Park and the parade, that was really quite disappointing but maybe we didn't go to the right place. We decided to head off for food in the middle of parada because it's quite boring. After that we visited Japanese Garden and Picnic Point.

Anyway, below are some of the shots I took with my phone:



Additional info for the pictures above:

Subject	Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers 2007
Location	Toowoomba (QLD)
Date	2007.09.22
Equipment	Sony Ericsson K800
Picture Size	Scaled from 2048 x 1536
Extra note	It was a cloudy day so don't expect much from a camera phone

ps: I think the Roma Street Parkland in Brisbane City got more flowers to see... just my opinion...

今年轮到十二生肖中的猪当老大啦 ！ 更难得的是今年是丁亥金猪年！希望今年金猪年大家能够过得愉快、幸福、顺意又安康！在此祝贺大家新年快乐、金猪年行大运！！

It's Christmas time (again)! Below are some pictures shot lately with my Sony Ericsson K800. My phone is now equipped with a 1GB M2 memory card !

Christmas trees. Oh well, I still think these trees need more blink blink decoration... it's not enough !



Below is one of houses in my vicinity which is fully geared up for Christmas. Very nice lighting !


Two special star shape scones baked by Karen and Winny. Oh well, I'm just messing around more than helping :p


Additional info for the pictures above:

Subject	Christmas
Location	Everywhere
Date	Before 2006 Christmas
Equipment	Sony Ericsson K800
Picture Size	Scaled from 2048 x 1536 / 1536 x 2048
Extra note	Scaling and watermark effect done via FastStone Photo Resizer. Photo saved in 85% quality. Watermark image is created with Gimp.

Also, I've recorded the christmas fireworks last night in Southbank with my K800, you can click here (~9.3Mb) to download or watch it.

Update 2011-08-01: Removed the k800 video link

Guess I don't have to say much with this picture...
Happy Birthday to myself !

This year is something special, aunty made a lot of dumplings yesterday. They called it 催生饺子. According to tradition, you must only eat them a day before your birthday, NOT on the birthday. First time I know about this =) .. those 天津 style dumplings are really delicious ^^

As usuall, I'm greedy and I wished for 3 wishes... Birthday boy is always larger than life... forgive me... hehe :p

Additional info about the picture:

Subject	Birthday cake
Location	Dining table
Date	2006.12.04
Time	7.23pm
Equipment	Sony Ericsson K800
Picture Size	Scaled from 1536 x 2048
Extra note	Image is saved with 85% quality. Watermark effects are done with Batch Watermark Creator 5.1. My feedback about the software? It's shareware but I can spot several serious bugs, EXIF data are not preserved... sucks !

有一阵子没有更新我的blog了，好颓废啊……让我把我最近生活里所发生的事情概括一下吧：

不知道怎么搞的，最近我的手提电脑霉运连连，上个星期它被我连跟bed tray一脚从床上给踹了下去，差点落个魂飞魄散、万劫不复的下场……之后我的PCMCIA USB 2.0 CARD也坏了……靠！才用了两年就坏了！还以为Made in Taiwan的总比Made in China强些……郁闷~~ 这下可惨了，我的那些外接硬盘只能走USB 1.1，只能用乌龟的速度来听歌，其余活动如BT下载就免谈了。嗯……宝贝乖哦，要撑到明年 WinVista 出来之噢，那时我就可以买一台桌上型的电脑……然后……嗯……就上E-Bay给你找新主人吧

比较有趣的是我跟朋友、同事5人租了辆车直接开车下悉尼去看 Jolin蔡依林公主 的 《唯舞独尊》 演唱会! 没错！Jolin 在14号晚在悉尼的Entertainment Center开了场演唱会！开了近14个小时的路程，也见证了月亮和太阳交替，我可是第一次在澳洲看到这么多华人聚集在一块。当晚座位都坐满，虽然我觉得有几段Jolin跳的不是很好，不过看公主这么专心及卖力表演，我还是佩服她的。毕竟从头到尾，每一首歌都有跳舞表演，那可不是轻松的事啊！那天的嘉宾是言承旭，出来唱了两首歌就消失不见了，感觉有点莫名其妙的说…有点遗憾的就是公主那晚并没有唱 Love Love Love 这首歌，那是我们都想听的歌呀……

好啦，看照片的时间到了！我用相机拍的照片就不用拿出来献丑了，朋友拍的照片还没要来，以下的照片都是一些Jolin超级粉丝的无私贡献：




虽然，我们都不是Jolin的fans，不过估计跟我们这么疯狂(省钱)的开车下悉尼只为了看Jolin 也只有我们吧…第二天匆匆忙忙逛了China Town，买了想买的东西，就往回程赶…途中13个小时又见证了太阳和月亮的交替…呵呵

ps: 回某人，经过本人亲眼目测……她那不是original的……我确定、一定以及肯定！

明天就是中秋节了（之前还以为是这星期六... 晕）！中秋节怎么可以没有月饼啊？所以我就买了两盒，意思意思一下。 我也有两年没吃过了 呵呵...



至于下面那些照片嘛，都是一时无聊乱拍的... 在国外无法吃到的朋友可以解一解馋

Subject	月饼
Location	Dining table
Date	2006.10.05
Time	Around 8pm
Equipment	Sony Ericsson K800
Picture Size	Scaled from 1536 x 2048
Extra note	Images are rotated, and saved with 85% quality

Below is the scoreboard and also serves as a timetable for those who lives in UTC+10 time zone (EST). This entry will be updated as the game goes.

Results:
1st Place: Italy
2nd Place: France
3rd Place: Germany

FIFA World Cup 2006 - Scoreboard

#	Date	Group	Country	Score	Country
1	10/06/2006	A	Germany	4 : 2	Costa Rica
2	10/06/2006	A	Poland	0 : 2	Ecuador
3	10/06/2006	B	England	1 : 0	Paraguay
4	11/06/2006	B	Trinidad and Tobago	0 : 0	Sweden
5	11/06/2006	C	Argentina	2 : 1	Côte d'Ivoire
6	11/06/2006	C	Serbia & Montenegro	0 : 1	Netherlands
7	12/06/2006 2:00am	D	Mexico	3 : 1	Iran
8	12/06/2006 5:00am	D	Angola	0 : 1	Portugal
9	12/06/2006 11:00pm	F	Australia	3 : 1	Japan
10	13/06/2006 2:00am	E	United States	0 : 3	Czech Republic
11	13/06/2006 5:00am	E	Italy	2 : 0	Ghana
12	13/06/2006 11:00pm	G	Korea Republic	2 : 1	Togo
13	14/06/2006 2:00am	G	France	0 : 0	Switzerland
14	14/06/2006 5:00am	F	Brazil	1 : 0	Croatia
15	14/06/2006 11:00pm	H	Spain	4 : 0	Ukraine
16	15/06/2006 2:00am	H	Tunisia	2 : 2	Saudi Arabia
17	15/06/2006 5:00am	A	Germany	1 : 0	Poland
18	15/06/2006 11:00pm	A	Ecuador	3 : 0	Costa Rica
19	16/06/2006 2:00am	B	England	2 : 0	Trinidad and Tobago
20	16/06/2006 5:00am	B	Sweden	1 : 0	Paraguay
21	16/06/2006 11:00pm	C	Argentina	6 : 0	Serbia & Montenegro
22	17/06/2006 2:00am	C	Netherlands	2 : 1	Côte d'Ivoire
23	17/06/2006 5:00am	D	Mexico	0 : 0	Angola
24	17/06/2006 11:00pm	D	Portugal	2 : 0	Iran
25	18/06/2006 2:00am	E	Czech Republic	0 : 2	Ghana
26	18/06/2006 5:00am	E	Italy	1 : 1	United States
27	18/06/2006 11:00pm	F	Japan	0 : 0	Croatia
28	19/06/2006 2:00am	F	Brazil	2 : 0	Australia
29	19/06/2006 5:00am	G	France	1 : 1	Korea Republic
30	19/06/2006 11:00pm	G	Togo	0 : 2	Switzerland
31	20/06/2006 2:00am	H	Saudi Arabia	0 : 4	Ukraine
32	20/06/2006 5:00am	H	Spain	3 : 1	Tunisia
33	21/06/2006 12:00am	A	Costa Rica	1 : 2	Poland
34	21/06/2006 12:00am	A	Germany	3 : 0	Ecuador
35	21/06/2006 5:00am	B	Paraguay	2 : 0	Trinidad and Tobago
36	21/06/2006 5:00am	B	Sweden	2 : 2	England
37	22/06/2006 12:00am	C	Iran	1 : 1	Angola
38	22/06/2006 12:00am	C	Portugal	1 : 1	Mexico
39	22/06/2006 5:00am	D	Netherlands	0 : 0	Argentina
40	22/06/2006 5:00am	D	Côte d'Ivoire	3 : 2	Serbia & Montenegro
41	23/06/2006 12:00am	E	Czech Republic	0 : 2	Italy
42	23/06/2006 12:00am	E	Ghana	2 : 1	United States
43	23/06/2006 5:00am	F	Japan	1 : 4	Brazil
44	23/06/2006 5:00am	F	Croatia	2 : 2	Australia
45	24/06/2006 12:00am	H	Saudi Arabia	0 : 1	Spain
46	24/06/2006 12:00am	H	Ukraine	1 : 0	Tunisia
47	24/06/2006 5:00am	G	Switzerland	2 : 0	Korea Republic
48	24/06/2006 5:00am	G	Togo	0 : 2	France

Round of 16

#	Date	Group	Country	Score	Country
49	25/06/2006 1:00am	1A-2B	Germany	2 : 0	Sweden
50	25/06/2006 5:00am	1C-2D	Argentina	2 : 1	Mexico
51	26/06/2006 1:00am	1B-2A	England	1 : 0	Ecuador
52	26/06/2006 5:00am	1D-2C	Portugal	1 : 0	Netherlands
53	27/06/2006 1:00am	1E-2F	Italy	1 : 0	Australia
54	27/06/2006 5:00am	1G-2H	Switzerland	0 : 0	Ukraine
55	28/06/2006 1:00am	1F-2E	Brazil	3 : 0	Ghana
56	28/06/2006 5:00am	1H-2G	Spain	1 : 3	France

Quaterfinals

#	Date	Country	Score	Country
57	29/06/2006	Germany	1 : 1	Argentina
58	29/06/2006	Italy	3 : 0	Ukraine
59	30/06/2006	England	0 : 0	Portugal
60	30/06/2006	Brazil	0 : 1	France

Semifinals

#	Date	Country	Score	Country
61	5/07/2006 5:00am	Germany	0 : 2	Italy
62	6/07/2006 5:00am	Portugal	0 : 1	France

Third place

#	Date	Country	Score	Country
63	9/07/2006	Germany	3 : 1	Portugal

Final

#	Date	Country	Score	Country
64	10/07/2006	Germany	1 : 1	Portugal

FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 is here! Personally Im not crazy about this but gotna "give face" to those socceroos since it's only happening once in 4 years.

Anway, I fell asleep half way watching the World Cup match between Germeny and Costa Rica this morning. Maybe a wide screen plasma TV can keep me this-not-a-big-time-soccer-fan awake for whole night but I'm pretty sure a 21" TV will not !! hehe...