Life is a party

We'd done alot of parties during this time of the year and few of them were dressed up parties (that was why I'd been so busy and hadn't have time to blog). It was so much fun I decided to post a few photos of our costumes.


The man in black, literally...


You guessed it, theme was Black & White Party


And this was for Beach Party.


Gotta rush guys. I have life to save.


This Christmas was an Angelic one por moi~


Still learning to fly



Know the reason why I couldn't fly?

I am the Devil In Disguise!! Muah ha ha ha!!!!

Part Two

Okay so where were we when I wrote about the story of my life from the previous entry on the 16th December?

Oh yes! I attended Farmer's Santa Parade. Apart from that, I went to Coca-Cola Christmas In The Park as well!! The real deal actually happened on the 13th December but because I was working on that night, we went to the rehearsal night on the 12th December.



And because Coca-Cola was the main sponsore of the event, all employees in the company and their family members got to stay in the 'VIP' area, which meant we could get really close, or pretty much right in front to the stage if we wanted! No complaint to that~

And the best thing was that we didn't have to worry about dinner because Nando was doing the catering for Coke staff!!! Christmas came earlier!!



There were volunteers doing collections as well. The collections this year went to Surf Life Saving instead of Youthline like past years.



The program said the rehearsal started at 7.30pm, and it did.


Our hosts for the evening ladies and gentlemen: Petra Bagust and Jeremy Corbett


First up, introducing... Tama Samoa, with whole lotta self-slapping actions!!


Guys from TV3's Sticky TV




Don't know who he was but he was cute, and very nice voice! Later found out his name was Robert Enari... still don't know who he is...


A Ha! The old man himself!!


Even showed us some dance move!! Pretty funky too!!


Multi-talented Santa. To be honest, this was one of the best Santa impersonator that I've seen in a long time! Maybe this is Santa himself!!


This guys were bloody fantastic!!


Tim Beveridge with Diamond Dnace troop, love their fluffy outfit!

As we sat quite far away from the stage on the first half of the show, we decided to go right up close to the stage for the second half. And we eneded up right in front of it, leaning against the stage. Cool leh~ Couldn't get much closer than that!

The second half started with a big bang! They had Elemeno P singing one of their biggest hits 'Baby Come On'! This hit is so well-known by everyone in the whole country thanks to Telecom using this song for pretty much in every one of their advertisement!


Elemeno P rocked the house!!


And the crowd went absolutely wild, including moi~


Sweet & Sour Dance Crew. Not like Chinese Sweet & Sour, but these guys are Sweet & Sour with a kick! They won 2008 World Hip Hop Championship.


And the time had come to light up the Christmas tree. Eventhough it was only rehearsal but guessed they had to make sure everything worked.


A Lucky family was chosen to turn the lights on.


Ta dah~~


Tim Beveridge and Elizabeth Marvelly sang O Holy Night


The Oti Brothers and Little Sister Mattia


Aaaahhhh!!! Mr. Cutie Shane Cortese!!!


And accompaniedy by the Outrageous Fortune actor and actresses!!




Ooppss! Munter's butt. Sorry guys this was one of those things, an unintentionally intention shot.


And here they are, our Godmothers of the event and NZ legends in music industry, Tina Cross (left) and Jackie Clarke




And the Godfather of Christmas In The Park, Frankie Stevens


Goddad and Godmums performed together, make sense eh!


Santa arrived to the main stage later on on a sail? Where were the reindeers!!


Let me entertain you said Drew Neemia.


Drew and Ainslie Allen


And so the show concluded

What a fantastic show! I must admit, and hubby agreed with me, that the talent this year was way better then previous years!! It really blew us away. Eventhough there were no fireworks at the end of the rehearsal night, it was absolutely worthwhile.

Last but not least, Coca-Cola wished everyone Merry Christmas 2008.



And till next year, so long old man. Hope you go for a walk more often when you are not too busy during the year.

Christmas Day 2008

After a busy few weeks leading up to this festive day, we decided to have a quiet Christmas Day this year and it was actually fantastic! We did pretty much nothing apart from barbeque breakfast/lunch. Slept and rest up most of the day. In the afternoon we decided to take a drive around town. It was dead, dead and dead on the road! Good for a change for this busy city I thought.

We drove to Kohimarama Beach.




Snap shot towards the Rangitoto Island from Kohimarama Beach. Click to enlarge.

Nothing much happened over this side of town so we headed to Franklin Road, Ponsonby to check out their infamous Christmas lights display.

To our surprise, there were hundreds of people around, like us, had nothing better to do on Christmas night, came out and strolled along this long stretched road with houses decorated with colourful fairy lights.








This one looked a bit Asian style with big lit lanterns.




Hawaiian Christmas




Guess this was the reason why Santa didn't come visit me... he was stucked on this fella's chimney!!!!!


This was probably one of the most impressive decorations in the hood.






Sailing amongst the stars. Very clever.


Shhh... think Santa is inside..












Reminded me of Star Trek don't you think?


Lonely reindeer in the big city, staring upon the darkened sky...



It took us about a good hour plus to walk up and down Franklin Road. The weather was nice, crowd were in a cheerful mood, everyone was happy. It was a great way to end this holly day.



Hope you all had a great Christmas Day too.