World's Hottest Burger - Wellington Pt, QLD

Saturday, 17 Jan 2009 - More than 10 of us made our way to Welling Point on this day so 3 courageous man who would like to challenge their pallates to the World's Hottest Burger just because they want to ...














get their names on the wall.... (it was so serious that they had to sign a disclaimer to discharge the diner's responsibility should anything untoward happen to them in their quest....)

And the 3 courageous men are....



Rey, Esmond and Haw....


and here are their cheerleaders....

And before they can sink their teeth into their challenge, they decided to cut the burger into quarters so it would be more manageable (the burgers were bigger than a tea saucer!)














With encouragement from all around them, they begun their quest...















After the first 3 or 4 mouth full, Haw decided to pull the plug. It was too hot for him... Esmond and Rey badgered on... with running noses, red faces and sweat...













Twenty minutes on, and Esmond was on his way to "licking off his plate"....
















When he's done, he had to wait for another 5 minutes without water or puking in order to qualify.

Esmond said that the hotness did not bother him at all. What bothered him was the sourness from tha jalapenos and the dry beef patty and the general bland tasteless (other than hot and sour) burger.... In fact, he found it quite disgusting (and to think that he paid $14.95 to make himself suffer...)

And after 5 minutes, Esmond was officially a "winner". He can have his name on the wall...



























Ten minutes later, Rey had also accomplished his challenge.... (the challenge to Rey is not the hotness but the size of the burger. It was too much for him! So much so that he had to unload some after we've left the diner....)

And so, for their bravery, steel palate and engorged tummy, they have their names (complete with country code!) down onto the register...



The victors!



Since we were so full, we decided to walk it off at the beach...

But instead of walking on the beach, we were up in the trees... well, 5 of us anyway (Michael Chan, Roger, Kin Onn, Esmond and me....)




And two of us decided to come down in another way - a la koala or roast pig way....

It was a blustery day at Wellington Point and boy did we have fun...

But the day did not end there..... (see next post!!!)

Look who's back....



Mid Jan 2009, our dear friend Roger dropped by in BrisVegas for a week to catch up with friends....


Most of all to catch up with his badminton kakis.....


Look at the two posers below...

















Act like pro sia.... ha ha...


As with all reunions, there were loads of makans with different groups of people at different venues... One of them being the Old Oshin (forgot what the new name is....) at Sunnybank Plaza....

The boys even took the chance to pose with Rey's cool bike!



It was good to have you back in Brissie Roger... Too bad it was only for such a short period of time... Next time, make it permanent!!!

Project House No. 2!!!

Last year, with Heng Onn and Christina's help, we did some painting in the house to get rid of the atrocious maroon, pink, orange, blue walls....

This year, with Kin Onn and Glady's help, we changed the flooring in the lounge and the 3 bedrooms.... We had engaged people to help rip up the carpet and install laminated flooring....



But before we could do that, we need to empty out the rooms. So, when we came back from our picnic at 17 Mile Rock, we came home to pack and put all moveable things from the lounge and the bedroom into the dining hall and kitchen...



Early the next morning (29/12/2009), the installers arrived and started their work...

Before long, the carpet were ripped off and the cement floor underneath cleaned to ensure that it's leveled.



Then up goes the underlay....



Then came the separate pieces of laminated flooring and the skirting around the edges....

In one day's work, they've changed our carpet floor to laminated floor....

The work was done at around 4pm +... We had then proceeded to clean up and put the furnitures back to where they belong...

Now the house looks brighter!

The only down side is that there's no where the dirt can hide now so we need to clean the floor more frequently compared to when we had the carpets....

"Sam Sengs....."

On 28 Dec 2008, we headed to 17 Mile Rocks (just like last year!) for a picnic with the same gang (minus Heng Onn and Christina who were in London - freezing their a** off!) ....



What a spread we had! (of course lah, we'll always have a spread with Peter and Oi Hung around!! What's more, we now have Kin Onn and Gladys!!! ha ha ha...)



After gorging ourselves silly with food, we played "heart attack" until our hands are sore before deciding to work it off by exploring the park.

The park used to be an old quarry...

One thing caught our attention and before long, we were clambering up in no time...

A space cube (that's what I think it's called....)

Esmond and I were the first to climb onto it... we were then joined by Michael Chan and Peter too!



It's not as easy as it seems to be... you have to navigate into / around all the different ropes / cubes.... sometimes you have to be a contortionist to get into a particular cube.. ha ha


That was the highlight of the day (at least for me... he he...).

When we've had enough of the park, we went for a little retail therapy at DFO - Jindalee before heading home for the day....

X'mas Eve + Haw & Yan's House Warming Party....

X'mas eve of 2008 was celebrated at Haw & Yan's new home... Their purchase of their home was completed in early December.

Thanks to their tremendous effort, they managed to get the house ready for the party in 3 weeks time!

Haw and Yan had organised a BBQ session at their place. Loads of people were there (as evidenced by the cars parked along the street)!



A few of us took turns churning out food for the crowd....

As we were too busy eating and catching up with our friends, there weren't much photos taken of that event...

We had a gift exchange and stayed till past midnight (again!)....

It was fun. Thanks to the wonderful hosts....