Christmas pics are up!
This Christmas we drove to the Fernando’s and had Christmas there which was lovely. Dana and Rod’s present had arrived at the house by then so it was nice and convenient. Thanks Andrew and Mala for the awesome new printer and Dana and Rod for the games, DVDs, handbag and throw rug, Malisha for the egg boiler/poacher and the waffle maker, Amila and Khris for the griller, Jo, Wayne and Bob for the aquarium and everybody else who sent us cards and warm wishes they were well appreciated.
Dana, Malisha loves her new bag and Mala and Andrew are hogging the almond biscuits but we’ll steal some when we go for dinner mwahahaha. Jo we’ve decided between two places for your pressy and settled on the bedhead so we can use it as a bedside lamp thing:
The preparations for Christmas lunch was very efficient this year and all teh food was delicious. The company decided to give us a ham for Christmas this year and it turned out very nicely.
Thank you everybody who celebrated Christmas with us this year. For New Years we’re chilling out at Amila and Khris’s place, stay tuned for pics/blog.
~smily
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We were invited down to Terrigal recently to stay at a beach house with Simmy, Jonathon and some of their friends (including Eric from Ruse and Angela who works near where I do – small world!) Angela and Simmy were the organisers and the house they picked was pretty flash with a great kitchen, nice big TVs and plenty of beds.
The traffic wasn’t too bad – the drive down was far too short, it’s only an hour or so away from Syd but that’s perfect for a short trip.
Fun was had by all on the beach (Simmy and co made a…mountain!? with a…moat??) and in the town, mini golf in Mingara, Tumbi Umbi was great even when it started raining at the end and the pizza place we went to was delish. Hopefully we’ll get some pics from the mini golf later.
 
Me and Andy (mostly Andy) made chicken schnitzel one night but we were under a lot of pressure to measure up to the other gourmet meals the others had made earlier! Speaking of which, Simmy and Jonathon’s Japanese Takoyaki balls were very nicely done. The mini-trip ended annoyingly when the car was bombed while we slept with flour and eggs. The gloop was really tough to remove as it had baked on pretty hard in the sun. Tip: use the pan from a plastic dust pan to scrape it off.
 
It would have been nice to stay for longer as we were having a lot of fun (even with the people we’d never met before! Those of you that know how socially awkward me and Andy are will be amazed by this) but yeah we had to get back for the Fernando Family Christmas Party and help prepare. Stay tuned for pics of the Christmas festivities and possibly New Years pics if we remember to take them.
~Andy and Smily
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IBM had it’s Christmas party at Luna park this year (again!) so Andy stayed at home this time while me, the folks, Malisha and Nadine went to enjoy the rides that Andy hates hehe. It was open from morning until 9pm so we went after dinner. Fun fun:
above left: Nadine and Malisha freaking out on the Ferris Wheel of Doom, also known as the Ferris Wheel. above right: the view from the top
above: me, Malisha and Nadine on the ride that goes around and around really fast…let’s just say centrifugal forces = squished and sore Smily. I seriously thought I was going to be crushed to death by the girls.
Anyways that was fun, IBM christmas parties usually are, no party bags for us now though we’re all grown up. Looking fwd to the next one.
~smily
Hey peeps,
Sorry I haven’t been blogging again… I pulled my puter apart. again. anyways, its back together now and 98% operational! 1 fan and 1 temp gauge isn’t working, but thats not essential.
Here is a couple pics of the sexy lights in action…
The camera died early on in the shoot, so i’ll upload more once the battery is charged!
Andy
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Smily here. Well I haven’t blogged in a while but I had to about this hilarious moment. On the weekend I told my parents to go look at my site. I actually meant my portfolio site but they thought I meant this one. My dad couldn’t remember the link so he typed in “Andy and Smiley” into Google which wouldn’t have worked at all as he spelt Smily with an e. But on that list of results something that caught his attention was the link with this title: ‘Andy and Smiley Sleeping Together’ which sounds sooo bad!!! Poor mum freaked out. I won’t spoil the surprise but go ahead and [click here] to check out what it actually turned out to be (don’t worry it’s safe).
In other news I’ve just started my new job as a front end web developer (more design work involved than my previous php developer position) and I’m really liking it so far. As most of you would have already known my last job really sucked (but to be fair they had good perks). My new employer has got a big project coming up that will take a lot of hard work so unfortunately this means we won’t be able to take the time off that we had planned on earlier to drive down to SA but will definitely plan something in the new year.
This blogs a bit boring with all text so here’s some random photo from our Sri Lanka archives:
 
Pic 1: Andy on the glass bottom boat where we looked at corals, fish and a turtle.
Pic 2: Sumali and Malisha at the waterfall restaurant in the mountains.
This Christmas we drove to the Fernando’s and had Christmas there which was lovely. Dana and Rod’s present had arrived at the house by then so it was nice and convenient. Thanks Andrew and Mala for the awesome new printer and Dana and Rod for the games, DVDs, handbag and throw rug, Malisha for the egg boiler/poacher and the waffle maker, Amila and Khris for the griller, Jo, Wayne and Bob for the aquarium and everybody else who sent us cards and warm wishes they were well appreciated.
 
Yeah its good to take a short break every now and then if you can but soon you’ll be having a huge long one!
So, I subscribed to your blog (finally) a couple of weeks ago, and this is the first post I’ve received through my viewer at it appears to be a week late…hmmm…not sure about that one.
Anyway, I’m totally stoked to be able to reply!
It looks like you had a really nice Christmas. Great to see the pics.
Hope your New Years was good, and we should catch up again soon!
Comment by Andi — January 10, 2009 @ 3:27 pm
doh that was my fault, i actually wrote this post a while ago but forgot to publish it until yesterday… Yeah we should totally catch up, this time of the year it seems we don’t see each other much. I’m going to get Andy to write his birthday blog now…
Comment by Smily — January 11, 2009 @ 8:54 pm
Yay, glad you like the pressy. It looks good! Did I tell you I am using one of those fish thingies for the baby’s night light too! Not long now and you will have another niece. (four weeks to go) The girls back in Bordertown throw me a baby shower the other week which was awesome. Bloody long drive though.
Comment by jo jo — January 19, 2009 @ 8:17 am