AAaaaaaaarrrggggghhh!!!

There's a burglar in my room! HELP! He's going to rob me of my laundry! *feigns horror*

To be honest, when Todd entered the room earlier to give me a fright, I did jump outta my wits

Probably recalling the shitty moment when my house was robbed when I was only 16.

Those burglars did look like that.

Anyway! If you've checked this post out, yall would already know what I wore for this costume party 🙂

For those who didn't, here it is –

Hi there! 😀 I'm Jessie, the one-half of the dynamic duo from Team Rocket

This is James, my other half.. and together we form Team Rocket!

When we were pre-drinking in South Rec Hall before the party, it was awesome to see most of our friends all dressed up already.

Below is Team Rocket Jessie & James X Ninja Turtle Deanna!

I superlove this photo because of the photobombers behind us 😀 😀

Do you see them? Cute max!

A masked phantom X Esmeralda from Hunchback of Notredame X Jessie of Team Rocket X a pirate!

We had fun fooling around in the rec hall while getting smashed at the same time

A ballerina X Jessie of Team Rocket

(watch this ballerina, she will transform into a leopard later)

Here with buddy Cleefy as Yogi Bear!

Or rather, paedobear as some of us teased him with 😛 😛

Alex the Identity Crisis (white guy trying to be black) and I

Check out those silver plated teeth! Coolies

With Bardha as Belle of Beauty and the Beast

Except that this belle wears a mask!

So we skulled our drinks and left for the party when it started kickin' in.

When we got there, it was time for some shiznit… as the party only begins when we rock up! 😛 😛

Are you readdddyyyyy!?

Remember the ballerina whom I told u would transform into a leopard? There you go.

A leopard X an identity crisis X Jessie of Team Rocket X Soviet (USSR) officer!

Team Rocket X Laura the pirate! (and Rowan in some yellow monkey pyjamas LOL)

More fun shots with ma party peeps! 🙂

This Catholic nun reminds me that I should probably go to church more often 😛

Masked rider Zoro X Team Rocket!

We hit the dance floor and danced like there was no tomorrow!

I had lots of fun camwhoring with all my friends – especially the ones who dressed up as something! – and even random people I didn't know. Oh well, alcohol and parties are definitely the social lube of everything.

So it's all good! 😀

When I spot someone in a cool costume, I'd point at them and grin

… camwhoring then comes naturally like clockwork!

Who is this? He looked pretty cool that night.

Doesn't matter because it works both ways; lots of people came forward to take pictures with us too!

Our moment of pride was when people whom we don't know, yell from afar, "OMG IT'S TEAM ROCKET! LOOK!" 😀

Whoopeedoo! At least the money we spent and the effort we took proved to be worthwhile.

More picture-taking with more people in cool costumes!

Mario Bros X Team Rocket

Yogi Bear X Team Rocket

another redhead (what character is this?) X Wonderwoman X Team Rocket

So technically, everyone was camwhoring with everyone!

But here's the BEST costume – I dare say – on a guy tonight.

Wait for it! *drumroll*

Now who's your sexxaayy mama?

😛 Cross-dresses always rock costume parties!

More piccies with my gurls! 😀 😀

Do you see my friend Daniel as Buzz Lightyear & Tarryn as a hot pirate in black? 😀 😀

Oh and Verity went as a Pilot! Man… she was a wasted nut that night!

It was really new to see her collapsing all over the floor and scrambling on the table!

Whatever she smoked, gimme some of that too! 😛 It's gotta be intense, I bet

With Josh and Alex!

I'm diggin' that new Japanese koi tattoo on him, don't know if its real though.

I don't recall seeing it on his arm prior to this party!

Or maybe I could be too wasted to notice, who knows? 😉

Us taking the stage to parrrrrtayyy!

And after all that fun and drinks, I suddenly needed to pee.

Not that you needed to know that lil piece of information but whatevs, now you do. 😛

I found an Avatar na'vi in the bathroom!

Take #1

And since the bathroom lighting was so pretty, #Take 2! 😀 😀

Came out from the bathroom, and Varun dressed as Varun wanted a piccie with us 😀

After all that sweat and energy-pumpin' tracks, it can get real hot and stuffy wearing the wig!

I remember sweating buckets underneath it, but couldn't be bothered to take it off, where do I put it? 🙁

So it's a good idea to get rid of all your hair and shave your head for a cause, Laura 🙂

And turn up in an army camouflage outfit. How smart!

More piccies taken at the deck where it's cold and windy!

much love!

Also, the deck is where our favorite security guard, Antonio was standing!

He's one helluva security guard Unlike other security guards.. especially the creepy, perverse ones in Malaysia!

Super-blinding reflective security guard X Team Rocket

Remember Yogi Bear in the beginning of this blogpost?

Give him a lil squeeze, for it's BEAR HUGS TIME!!

Alrightey! Last piccie of the night before we – in our current state – drag ourselves back home.

Sometimes I wish I could just sleep there and then, not having to walk back the lonnnnngggg way home.

But then again, my long walks home are often very, very nice

Again, I daresay, COSTUME PARTIES ROCK THE HOUSE DOWN!

More? Bring it on!

I hear Toga party is on after Easter Break, unleash the Caligulas, Romans and Greeks!

I've said time and time again about how much I enjoy theme parties, fancy dress parties or costume parties of any sort.

The thrill lies in going to a party as someone/something else, you bet!

To date, I've rocked up according to lots of themes; often as an individual, but not this time round.

So… prepare for trouble!

And this time, make it double! 😉

Childhood friends of mine would know how much of a Pokemon aficionado I was – or, am still, to be exact. Heck, remember when I was zealously addicted to the newly launched Pokemon Black on Nintendo DS written in this post?

I used to know  all (then) 151 Pokemon names by heart and all the soundtracks too.

So… who am I? 🙂

Does it ring a bell yet?

Okay, guessing game's over!

Thankfully, my fellow Pokemon fan and partner-in-crime, Kon and I decided to go as this dynamic duo.

Watch out Fancy Dress Party, here we come!

Make way for….

JESSIE AND JAMES OF THE INFAMOUS TEAM ROCKET!

If you've been living under a rock or had a deprived childhood of not knowing who they are, allow us to introduce ourselves in this video –

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4TPri39cxk&feature=related

I've always loved villains of any movie, of any kind. Maybe cos I'm morbid like that.

And so, I dolled up on the night of the Fancy Dress party to look the best I can to be one-half of this wicked duo while my partner James was also getting ready 3 doors down the road.

Hmmm… not too bad replica, right? 😛

She's my hero!

It was a very, very spontaneous idea, in fact.

Kon and I were just talking about the upcoming Fancy Dress Party over Facebook chat one night and randomly dished out ideas of what would be nice to go as. And suddenly, we conjured the idea of going together as the dynamic duo we are.

Going as individuals are a very common thing, everyone would go as individuals.

So what will really make one stand out from the crowd?

Two heads are always better than one, and packs a bigger punch too!

What could be better than Team Rocket?

To protect the world from devastation

To unite all peoples within our nation

To denounce the evils of truth and love

To extend our reach to the stars above

Jessie!

James!

Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light

Surrender now, or prepare to fight!

Oh and here's a trivia if you didn't already know, Jessie and James of Team Rocket are not a couple nor a romantic pair!

They're partners, or in other words, a duo. (I used to think they were siblings when I was 10 years old!)

But a very adorable duo if I do say so myself! 😀

That's why I love them so much, and they're kick ass too!

Wicked, ey?

This post is dedicated to my absolute love for Team Rocket and commemorating the awesomeness of this tag-team!

But what's coming up next will be…

The entire Fancy Dress party! Lotsa pics with my buddies all dressed up as insane characters too!

Oh and, it was fun when we browsed online for the costumes and surveyed the prices $$$

If any cosplayers are interested, E-bay and Milanoo has custom-made gears you can look out for. 

It takes up to 3 weeks to reach you, so ya ought to plan in advance!

This is Team Rocket, signing off!

When I think of barbeques, I think of beachside barbeque parties/gatherings that has been a frequent activity between my buddies and I.

But ever since I set foot in Australia, I began to realize that the barbeque lunches or dinners had a vast difference
 

It revolves around so much meat and well.. meat.

Back in Malaysia, we'd barbeque almost everything and anything.

I'm very familiar with, and personally love having fish balls, prawn balls, cheeseballs, sausages, crab meat sticks, chicken wings, marshmellows, prawn balls, jacket potatoes, capsicums, nuggets, squids with my barbeques.

But over here, it's all about ONIONS, THICK MEATY SAUSAGES, STEAK and BEEF PATTIES.

Plus, their barbeque pits are different too.

It's not like the usual chicken wired ones we have in Malaysia, but rather a slab of metal griller thingy.

With some 6 barbeques I've been to in Australia so far, it has always been the same oily, meaty thing.

Probably it's because that's their usual Australian way of barbeque-ing that I need getting used to.

Yes I was hungry so anything goes 🙂

Here' their routine – Light up the charcoal, oil up the barbeque pit, fry the onions till they're golden brown, barbeque the beef patties and sausages till they're all greasy-fied and ready to be eaten with bread and a choice of mayo, tomato sauce, BBQ sauce or mustard

And here's ours – Light up the charcoal (or dig a deep, wide hole in the sand with bricks and chicken wire if it's a beach BBQ), poke a combination of our fave pieces through a skewer, butter them up, chitchat while rotating our skewers and waiting for it to be ready

For unknown reasons, my Aussie mates have suddenly taken a shine on Malaysia after all my sharing of stories and lifestyle I have back at home and are planning a trip up at the end of the year! Yay!

I really can't wait to show them our Malaysian style of barbeque parties... something like the beach barbeque party I had in 2008.

That was 3 years ago, just so you know. 

Some random piccies from the barbeque party 🙂

Two of my housies, Elizabeth and Narelle 🙂

It was in the middle of summer, so only God knows why it was SO COLD almost every day

Anyhoozers, it's a good reason for a hot, sizzling barbeque evening! 🙂

I could kill for a barbeque with my friends back in the beaches of Penang Island, Malaysia anytime.

I miss our kind of barbeque heaps!!!!

Rawr!!!! So yeah, I know it has been a few days since my last update.

Had been so occupied, you have no idea!

Lotsa things happen and everyday is likened to unfurling, pleasant dreams and memories

But for today, I wanna share the pictures I shot from the Jungle Party which I attended with my mates!

Ya ready to get down wild and vicious animal style? 😀 😀

So we were all getting ready for the event, dressing up, making up, putting on props and taking pictures!

Managed to only take 2 piccies before the party – as everyone else were still busy dolling up

Deanna aka lioness and I

Clayton aka Tarzan and I 😀

Again, it was a rainy and cold night this time.

So off we went in Clayton's car and zoomed off to the party!

Laura aka WWF Panda and I!

The jungle trekkers Josh (and his friend) and I!

It was awesome fun throughout the night.

A different version of a masquerade party, if I do say so myself. Cos so many peeps came in full-fledged make up and masks that it's honestly difficult to recognize who it was!

Check it out :

Who's behind the mask? 😛

2 TIGERS VS. 1 LEOPARD SHOWDOWN!

Leopard vs tiger showdown!

Also, I freakin' love how the culture here in Australia is conditioned in a way that everybody rocks up ACCORDING TO THE THEME of any parties instead of being a spoilsport and not dressing up nor looking the part at all.

Yeah well, back home in Malaysia, only the party heads dress up while the rest doesn't give two hoots to even party along with the theme.

A zebra, leopard and tiger on the loose!

Jungle natives and I!

Here's a piccie with me and my gurls 😀

 LOL see the sniper in the bush drinking a can of Smirnoff ahahahaha

Boomboombooom!

Environmentalists going green!? 😀 😀 hahaha

See that creepy guy in the background lolol

Say helloooo to my awesome housie, Milly! 😀

She's looking so fine in her leopard top

One of my best buddies here, Verity the leopard! 😀

Rawrrrr!

More leopard gurls in the house!

OMG SUPER CUTE! Bumped into Laura aka Dora the Explorer!!!

Loves!

With Jade… also a fellow leopard tonight 😀

Rawrrrr

Now this, I swear, is something I will never dare to wear!

It's a really hawt one-piece suit … she has guts 😉

Now, with so many jungle animals around, who's there to catch 'em all?

ASH KETCHUM WITH HIS POKEBALLS OF COURSE!

Gotta catch 'em all

I'm not sure what Jack Gamble is tonight, but my 2 cents tells me it's either a bee or a baby tigga.

But then again bees don't have ears. So, bright yellow baby tigga it is! 😀

snake! For a change, snake skin girl!

Oh and, remind me (and yourself, if you ever go to a Jungle-themed party) to never wear leopard prints.

Because for chrissakes, you'll see like 60% of people rocking up in that and you wouldn't wanna be just another common face in the crowd!

Or unless you do 🙂

See Vanessa's epic make up!

Melikey 😀 😀 Whiskers and look at the nose too!

Here's looking at you!

Blurry piccie but yeah, Abraham the bush and I! 🙂

With Danny the….. Mexican lost soul in the jungle LOLOL

So like all the parties we go too, we let loose, dance the night away and get ourselves so smashed that it's epic!

Phew I had lotsa tequila and vodka shots on this night that by the end of the party, I was getting a tad woozy 🙁

Thankfully, Deanna walked me home though 😀

thanks gurl! xx

Wokay! That's all for tonight.

More updates soon. Also, my apologies to certain prudes if the dress I'm wearing is a little revealing though.

After all, that's how we roll – getting down wild at jungle party! RAWWWRRR!

Now that my assignment marathon is over, it's time to clear up the rising hill of clean laundry on my bed.

Yes, as I mentioned here, my bed hasn't been slept in for a week; my room is tantamount to a touch-and go-hotel room, where I'd just come in, change my clothes, freshen up and head right off either to uni or south rez.

Anyway! I've got some time to chillax before diving headfirst into the next round of assignments again.

Mother Nature celebrated with me today – with such a lovely weather 🙂

Altocumulus clouds! I've never seen quite like it before.

It's all white and fluffy! Arranged so haphazardly against the azure canvas, I couldn't help but to stop in my tracks and watch it with admiration.

I mean, sure, I've seen lotsa clouds before but these little specks are really cute as!

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Here I am on my way back from grocery shopping at Woolworths 🙂

Bought lotsa stuff for my dessert baking session for 1 birthday party and 1 BBQ party this week

If you noticed in the background, yeah there are construction going on around Churchill at the mo.

They're prolly trying to upgrade the skatepark or to quote my mates, they might be "building a rape dungeon" -__-"

Right.

Oh and, as I was walking over to South rez after shopping, I came across these lovelies snugly rooted amidst the grassy field.

It's an Agaricus Bisporus!

Yup, White Mushroom is its common name 🙂

I wonder if I could just pluck it off and cook it ala Portobello mushrooms? haha

It's nice spacing out one day from the busy city life to actually breathe and give nature a chance to take the front seat

Have you explored your neighbourhood lately? Or even your backyard?

You totally should, you'd be surprised what you might find there!