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.

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:

 

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.

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.

1 Comments:

• wooo! more food! gotta love it.

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

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

~smily

        

3 Comments:

• that food was soooooooooo yummyyyyyyyyyyy!! and the cake was awesome too. yay!

  Comment by mal — March 12, 2008 @ 8:41 am

• hurro,
  where is the whiteboard?
  whens u guys going to invite me up for a visit?
  taking scotty to the HBT conference in may at cairns, snokling, gondala riding, you know the usual hardware stuff.
  have you seen the make over i gave Borderonline?
  yeah I know I rocks
  bye N
  oh bought an eeepc- linux is so cool, and a kombi cos i could

  Comment by noodle — March 31, 2008 @ 10:05 pm

• hewo,
  the whiteboard is gone cos it got spammed! Upgrading = bad. You’ve been invited up to visit for months! Hurry up before you’re uninvited…

  Comment by andy and smily — April 25, 2008 @ 2:20 pm

Twas a merry christmas at the Fernando household, the food was awesome (thanks mum) and the kids were a lot older this year entertaining themselves with poker and darts. Who remembers the days of hide and seek?

     

I think this was the most multicultural we’ve ever been, we even has a dog (Toby) join in on the festivities!

   

The men sat outside, the kids guzzled down the dessert and the lovely ladies lounged out in the lounge.

   

The memories will last for a lifetime,
andy and smily

Stop The Press!

Sumali has found her cooking niche! She brought some frozen chinese stuff, and used the steamer Dana bought us for christmas and it was aaaawesome!

Andy

2 Comments:

• Great to hear you tried the steamer, you will be supprised how much food you can steam, and how good it can taste. It will be a lot cheaper if you cook your meals at home, instead of going out. I have started working at the primary school. I love it there are a few jobs I can’t do because of the pain. But mostly everything is okay. Bye for now luv ya, Dana

  Comment by dana — August 9, 2007 @ 8:07 pm

• hehe yeah, we’re trying…i bought a whole bunch of spices on the weekend to try them out and see what happens.

  We finally made it to craft hobbies today, they didn’t have dvds but they had a lot of books. Some were like a collection of tutorials for particular quilts and some were more general like a book on doing different borders. What kind of stuff do you do at the primary school?

  Comment by smily — August 11, 2007 @ 7:02 pm

Yeah we haven’t been posting that much lately…but here’s the latest: We’re contemplating leaving at the end of our lease but there isn’t much nice choices out there for us. Plus we like the fact that pizza hut, kfc and subway is a 5 minute walk away…and Bunnings and maccas being a 5 minute drive away. There’s a few places closer to where we work but they’re all pretty grubby….we’ll keep you posted anyhow.

In other news, Bordertown High School is on facebook now with Andy, Andrea, Jo and some other people i dont know on there. If anybody’s reading this that went to Btown High, go check it out.

The traffic seems to be getting worse and worse lately, there’s always an accident somewhere. Andy has awesome work hours and gets to miss out on all the fun. There’s a tonne of photos on our camera memory card I really have to get them up. We checked out some craft places for Dana but there really isn’t much around…there was one magazine that came with a dvd but Andy said Btown had those already. We never made it to hobbysew so probably this weekend. We’re also going to get shelves for Andy’s work on the weekend cos he’ll have the work ute for the weekend.

~smily

1 Comments:

• Hi! Thankyou for checking out the craft stores, don’t worry anymore. Sounds like you are very busy at work Andy. Sorry that you may have to move it’s a bummer moving all the time.
  Rod’s okay to have his op on the 13th September. We will be going through all the panty cupboards this weekend, to get rid of all the thing that are not allowed to be eaten. He is on fluids for the 1st month after the op.
  I don’t know have I’m going to do it, but I need to finish fixing the house, because I want to sell and move to Yorke Peninsula. Has Michael caught up with you, about Christmas, he and Kate would like to have a family Christmas at their new house. So if you are down for christmas that is where we will be.
  Hope work isn’t getting you down to much.
  Luv Ya both, Dana.

  Comment by dana — July 27, 2007 @ 10:17 pm

We walked to the chinese place in Pennant Hills on Friday night for a lovely dinner, we both love san chow bow (minced meat mix wrapped in lettuce leaves)

  

While Andy was off in South Australia over the long weekend I spent some time with the fam, did Malisha’s Myer shifts on Saturday and Sunday so she could study and then had the Monday off which will be my only day off for the next 3 weeks. Poor Andy is going to have to entertain himself (won’t be a challenge for him at all i’m betting). On Monday before Andy arrived (flight delayed by an hour), the fam went out for Yum Cha in Carlingford which has myteriously lost a lot of its usual customers…we contemplated why over chinese tea, rice noodles, dimsims, calamari, prawn dumplings, chicken rice, beef and pork noodle, fish balls, green veg (the nice type), soya bean pudding with syrup…there’s so much more variety when you go with a big group, we ended up having a lot of stuff. I took pics with their camera, will upload in due time…

~smily

1 Comments:

• wah! what pics ?! there were no pics! or was there..?? -ponder-

  Comment by Mal — June 13, 2007 @ 5:45 pm