Happy days

Happy mothers day for yesterday all the mummys out there (including Joanne whose birthday is today also, happy birthday Joanne!).

To celebrate the family went out to an Indo Lankan restaurant in Seven Hills where Andy had his Garlic Naan with butter chicken, I had my Beef Kotha Rotti and everybody else had a variation of Dosa, Curry and Vade’s. Probably should have taken photos because it looked great.

In the meantime we’re one step closer to getting the house, still need to get the first home buyers grant thing approved which might take a while. We’ll see.

We’ve decided to have our engagement and house warming party on the same day at our house (once it’s at a stage where we can have visitors) and just have one big celebration so if anyone who’s not in Sydney is planning to visit us that would be the ideal weekend to do so.

Happy Birthday Melly Belly

babymalandme Happy 20th birthday Malisha on the 28th of February from your big sister and big brother-from-another-mother.

We’re going out for dinner on Sunday night, watch this space for pics of those.

In the meantime here’s a pic of baby Malisha drooling and me looking all cute.

~smily

 

 

Who’s Your Santa?

Christmas pics are up!

IMG_3801This 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.

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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:

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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.

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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

3 Comments:

  • 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

Luna Park IBM Christmas

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:

 

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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

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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

Happy 35th Anniversary Mala and Andrew

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group_photo_480Last weekend we celebrated my parents 35th Anniversary at the Epping RSL which was a nice place.

The food was ok, Andy had the chicken and I had the beef, we sat on the ‘kids’ table and shared a bottle of wine with them. I helped Andy resist the urge to go play on the pokies. We took many photos (will upload soon!) and all in all had a pleasant evening.

Continue for more pics

2 Comments:

  • heeyyy i just read this to mum :p she laughed. hehe. still waiting for photos!

    Comment by mal — June 20, 2008 @ 8:27 pm

  • :p yeh the pics are up now, tell them to leave a comment or something, why is our family so technologically retarded?!? (except us two of course)…

    Comment by smily — June 22, 2008 @ 4:54 pm

Family Engagement Dinner

We celebrated the engagement family-style by going to the Fook Yuan restaurant in Chatswood. We didn’t manage to take a single nice photo everybody looks terrible so here are some terrible pics:

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Alert! Bells! Woots!

Toooooday, I asked Smily to marry me. She said yes :)

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Andy.

click here for close-up pics of the ring

12 Comments:

  • YAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! congratz mAh BroThaHhhHz.

    Comment by mal — May 25, 2008 @ 10:44 pm

  • Congratulations! rug rats next?

    Comment by noodle — May 26, 2008 @ 8:18 am

  • CONGRATULATIONS SMILY AND ANDY!! =D

    Comment by Sarah — May 26, 2008 @ 8:55 am

  • Heya!!

    Congratulations!!! I’m cheering for you here at work.. it’s making me look disruptive, i better go do some work!

    Happy for you both!

    Catch up soon… i wanna see the ring in person!
    Cheers

    Comment by Annabelle — May 26, 2008 @ 9:14 am

  • Congratulations, you guys!!! I did wonder… YAY!!!!!

    Comment by Andi — May 26, 2008 @ 9:43 am

  • Omigosh ~ Congrats Sumali and Andy!!

    This is wonderful news! Those are gorgeous photos – Doesn’t Sumali look adorable in that bottom middle pic.. (not that she’s showing off her bling or anything…) =)

    Aww.. Sumali my longest childhood friend is all grown up now! =) (About time! hehe.)

    Comment by Simmy — May 26, 2008 @ 9:58 am

  • Congrats dear!!! The ring looks fab :D . So when’s the wedding ;P

    Comment by Oli — May 26, 2008 @ 10:19 am

  • CONGRATZ Smily and Andy! :)
    CHEERZzz!!!! Thats great news!!!!
    xoxo

    Comment by Alicia — May 26, 2008 @ 10:28 am

  • Congratulations guys. MWAH. love the ring very pretty! Now Smily you do realise when you marry the man you marry the whole family!!!!!!!

    Comment by jo jo — May 27, 2008 @ 7:34 am

  • LOL thanks everybody!!! I’m heaps excited.

    Nigel no rugrats til we at least have a house with a rug in it :p

    Annabelle I’m sure your workplace knows by now how disruptive you are :p Yes you have to come over, I might have some more news to share later. Maybe. I dont know. We’ll see.

    Thanks Simmy :) I wouldn’t say i’m ‘grown up’ yet though!

    Hehe thanks Oli, it’ll be a little while yet like at least a year away.

    Jojo marrying the whole family doesnt sound too bad! I’m glad you’re all nice although Rod’s a wee bit scary hehe…

    Comment by smily — May 27, 2008 @ 10:07 am

  • heeey! congrats to you both!! so happy for you guys. make some babies already please :)

    Comment by rhea — May 27, 2008 @ 4:18 pm

  • Grats guys!

    So happy for both of you.

    Everyone’s getting engaged lately is great!

    =D

    Comment by Aaron — May 29, 2008 @ 10:30 pm

Happy Birthday Joanne

 

Happy birthday Jojo hope you’re having a lovely time in Ardrossan and that you have an awesome birthday.

1 Comments:

  • Thanks, at least one brother remembers my birthday!!

    Comment by jo jo — May 14, 2008 @ 3:05 pm

Srilankan New Years and stuff

IMG_3542 (Large) Heys,

First things, first, there’s a new poll out, be sure to vote on the sidepanel ->

For those of you who have noticed the missing whiteboard, basically it got spammed after upgrading, we can put the old one back if anybody thinks they’d use it but you can comment on each individual post. Let us know.

We spent SriLankan New Years with the extended family, pics are below.

IMG_3461 (Large)IMG_3544 (Large) Our memory doesn’t extend beyond the previous week so last week we had the usual Tuesday night dinner with Andrea and Rhyl at the Inn, last night we helped Annabelle brush up on her pool skills before sending her on a dangerous ride home on the train and tomorrow night we’ll be doing steak night at the Fernando house. Got the motorbike repaired (with the bike repair kit stolen out of its locked compartment) and the car got serviced and its brake pads replaced so we can start getting out again.

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1 Comments:

  • wooo! more food! gotta love it.

    Comment by mal — May 1, 2008 @ 4:55 pm

Happy Birthday Andrew

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Happy Birthday Daddy hope you had a great time at the dinner!

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~smily