70s & 80s party

recently BIL's gf organised a surprise birthday party with 70s and 80s as the theme.
guests were invited and sworn to secrecy but birthday boy knows better. he knew we were doing something for him but he isn't prepared for these!!!!




ppl come dressed as 70s chicks, rockers duo, afro boy


charlie's transformation from rockers to er...spice girl?? pass the ball was played. charlie was lucky enough to get the ball 3 times, hence the 3 different outfit he has to wear on top of his own wig and other stuffs..

everyone with their outfit from the pass the ball..

me in the flowery dress and big sunglass courtesy of jocelyn!

howick annual spring show

on sat, sept 30, the howick orchid society held its annual spring show. the committee took friday afternoon to assemble the hall and on saturday morning, it started at 8am-judges judging the plants and trophies awarded.

i volunteered as the certificate writer, so time past real quick and the show opens to public at 10am. i was also in charged of the door, so me and jim, collect and dish out entry tickets to the public.

show was a success. due to my limited memories in my memory card, i took only some 60 pics..but here are my favourites.

1st row: l to r: numerous trophies, beautiful cymbidium, more cymbidiums in different shades of colour, the most right is called Son of Freak. What a name.

2nd row: white paphiopedilum (Slipper orchid), odonts alliance type orchid -they are really colourful and i am tempted to buy to add to my collection but i didn't, as they can be quite demanding.

3rd row: cattleya/laelias, lycaste, more cattleyas or laelias- they come in all shades of colour, thanks to the work of hybridist.

4th row: Pleoines , they are alpine type plants, heaps of australian dendrobiums, another white/greenish intermediate cymbidiums, and finally, the grand champion, - masdevallia.

distressed

as much as i like spring, i also detest it. it gives much of those 10 sec showers all through the day. today the wind is particularly chilly. heard on the news it's due to the south westerly.

anyways i am distressed because many of my plants have been blown all over the place. the mix is all over the compound. *Grrr and it's too cold and wet for me to clean them. i managed to put some of my plant back to where they were.

and i have moved the zygo out on saturday because i discovered mealy bug on one of the leaf of the zygo. (this is a sign of warmth). but now it's raining so much, i am worried the poor plant will not cope. *ARGH! meanwhile, i have taken in the dendrobium (harrold hirsch x louises rainbow) because the flower's starting to bloom

currently :

reading: dan Brown's angels and demons

snacking: jack link's Beef jerky peppered flavour- i feel like i am chewing plastics. the rougan is so much better!!!!

congrats to the newlywed

on Sept 23, jake and i attended hanford and sarah's wedding. hanford was jake's sch mate, then colleague, now ex-colleague.

their wedding was held at belmont baptist in the north shore. it was a mixed ceremony of english sermon and chinese exchange of vows. i thought it was very sweet. they did a powerpoint of pics of them from when they were newborns to adult. and i find it real interesting, as kids, they have posed at the same spots around HK. (they met in NZ)

at night, the reception was held at a chinese restaurant. here, we took a pic with the newly wed.
the food were yummy... 

Mid-autumn 06

yesterday it's the chinese mid-autumn festival. i remembered writing a post last year about mid-autumn. we had steamboat last year. the agenda hasn't changed, we had steamboat again last night. it was just nice as the weather was cooling again yesterday.

about a fortnight before the mid-autumn, aunt SY made us some mooncake. HOMEMADE!!! yum! see pic above. there're a few flavours - red bean paste with pine nut, red bean paste with yolk, lotus with yolk, lotus with pine nuts. Man, we were spoilt. i think her mooncake looked bought too, except it didn't come in those fancy boxes.

was told that to 'set' the mooncake after baking, it has to be laid bottoms up.
i flipped two over to take the pics of the patterns of the mould.