Foods and Melbourne

Due to exam, i have save a lot of $ since i hardly step out of my room, no go out = no spend $, so i have extra budget to treat myself to some good food :D manage to persuade Vanya go 败家 with me~

Saw a blog mentioning a few good restaurant/cafe so decided to explore it, something that is NOT Asian and Italian~
Mrs Parma, located at Lt. Bourke st. (Vanya acting as 路人 there)
It's a bar restaurant, so people go there for good beer, we went for the food.
The drink is order at the bar. This one just lemonade, Vanya never been to this sort of place (me neither) so she decided to follow me on whatever i order....
TADA!! the food, the round round one is Moroccan meatball, not nice that meat ball, as for the pizza looking thing, it's chicken breast, pizza style, unique eh~ taste good too~ cost around $23 this one, standard ang mo restaurant price lah, serve along with salad and chips~
Vanya's BBQ parma. Round one is onion ring~ Doesn't look like big portion, but it's very very full, both of us almost have to crawl out when we finish that meat....

At first Vanya was complaining why the salad and chips not serve as one per person, now we thank god they are not... we can't even finish that 2 bowl~

We sat there for very very long time, cos in the end we are soo full that we have to force ourselves to finish the meat, our $$ ah~~ Almost all customer are ang moh~ and we ate so slow that almost everyone that come in later than us had already finish and left.... the table next to us have already serve 2 different group of customers....

When we finally left, we decided to go for a walk to digest the food.... feel really bad walking with a almost bursted stomach, our plan to shop around the CBD ruined..... plus it's raining =.= so we decided we shud 'hide' in Myer or David Jones
saw this Japanese restaurant, with lot's of 招财猫 in all difference sizes~There's more inside the shop~
Chocolate!! and bear!! been in melbourne for so long and i have yet try out the chocolate from this shop~
Went to Myer's basement... pile of burger cushion~ this one hard to sell off i suppose, saw it since i was back in Melb early this year... lot's of people saw it will "ahh burger" then go hug, hug, then put it back and walk away bah hehehe~ also got Vitamin one~ frankly i prefer Vitamin one cos the fure nice and very springy and soft to hug~ but too springy not as useful as the burger one, prob will exile to the side of bed that vitamin~ burger on the other hand, u can sat on it, sleep on it etc~ since it's flat~ only no good thing is that vege, cheese and meat is a bit hard~ shud use sofer material~ Yes Vanya 'invest' in one... lining up paying for it... I love browsing at Basement cos for some reason most employee can't be found, even finding a opening couter to pay also tricky~ all employee too busy tidy up the mess people make when they try on clothes or skim thru pile of discount item~ Hence it always look messy~ well they purposely let it look messy maybe~
Starbuck again :D it somehow become our favourite 'resting leg' place + satified our desire to drink~ cos it's not available other place in surburb....
Flinder street~ no we didn't go home late, it's just it get dark earlier during winter, this is just past 6.

Tim Burton Exhibition

Monchacha walk into ACMI and went to Tim Burton Exhibition. Don't know who's Tim Burton or think the name very familiar? Well he's the producer + director of that horrible Alice in the wonderland 3D. Didn't watch that? well am sure you watch the old Batman, Batman Returns, Nightmare before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate factory, Corpse bride etc... (Lucky i do like his other works, otherwise a bit @#$% paying $14 to go in) They sure put a lot of effort to the door. The exhibition is still on until October sth, we went very very early.... was intend to go NGV but end up going this one cos we thought it's limited time or something.... well it is limited time lah but it started at 24 June and we went at 29, quite early.... wonder why i accidentally stumble on this and knew about it...
Got batman's car on display there~ Entrance to the exhibition~ from this point onward, no camera~ Quite an interesting exhibition.... now know why Alice is a disaster for me... he can twist any nice fairy tales... his work... his way of thinking.... quite weird....

Most of his film, notice the main character represent himself a bit... curly curly hair... act weird... his style... His drawing, organs tend to come out, notice all the women got pointy breast.... make you wonder what the hell is he thinking, esp his early work, why a teenager think like that? I like a touch of mysterious in his drawing, like the one you see in Nightmare before Christmas and Corpse bride. There's a lot funny one (if you ignore the organ coming out part). Vanya and i spend a lot of time looking at his work one by one.... that we are overpass by everyone... must annoyed a lot of people for blocking one picture so long hehehe~ paid edi and purposely go liao, didn't look carefully and enjoy ourselves will feel sorry eh~

Overall it is interesting exhibition to go, can spend around 2 hrs there~ one of his work, big balloon hanging outside~

Esp like this Robot boy (if remember correctly) from his book The Melancholy Death of Oyster boy & other stories, said mum and dad is freak out when mum give birth of him. Complain to doctor why he has no skin and have aluminum and stuff instead.... turn out cos the mum been having affair with kitchen appliance.... seriously... what is he thinking... well this poor boy kena mistaken as rubbish bin many time... hence the picture above... even got soket eh~ to connect to power~

Also went to Screen world, probably good for people interested in film and stuff, show you all da history, even got game to play, from very very old ancient pacman game machine to iphone. You can do the Matrix thingy, the famous dodge bullet act here, can email your own 'film' to ya email account if you want.... don't dare go in be siao zha bo lah, to embarrass, esp got lot's of people looking hahaha, we look at other people do it :P
This one very interesting, all the figure is stationary deh, but when very shine white light is on (disco effect type) + the spinning of the table, all the figure look as if it's moving. But look at this one make u @_@ also after that cos of the light. Love this one! shadow show that create monster effect deh! that's me and Vanya, if we move around we look like monster, with saliva dripping around. This one not our best shot, got another nicer picture but a $%^# guy walk pass and ruin it T_T (F***!)
Federation square.... somebody feeding them, darn annoying these birds.
Dunno why got camp fire.... that 2 person is not exhibition stuff... just random people happen to sit there and shivering there ehehe~ They sure look very very cold.... (this one normal dress, those mini skirt or short pant girl with no legging or stoking is the gila one!)

Went for dinner at Dessert house (place that is not famous with dessert)
My coconut milk sago drink (after drink this baru i buy that sago thing in the last post cos feel like wanna try DIY) Vanya's lemon teaVanya's char kuew teow My baked cheese rice :D erm... they should not have use red pasta source.... i prefer cream version... cos i want the baked cheese flavor more, not the tomatoes.... taste okay overall~ got one big piece of pork fillet inside, can you spot it?
Ticket and booklet for the exhibition, the wooden horse not included, hehehe just wanna put it in cos it look nice with them~ that's my necklace~
Buy 2 postcard as souvenir, esp like the baby one... he said "am too young to think about money, love, sport, sex, questions, poison (or whatever that skull mean lah)"

Monash!! why? the 60cent!!

Can't help myself but wanna curse Monash. We International student, ur biggest revenue, pay u soooo much fee per sem, why got 60cent there?$1xxxx.60.... 你怎么好意思要！ u think u r supermarket meh, vegie and fruit weight and price as per kg is it, got 60cent~ which of ur lecturer or tutor got salary as $xxxx.20 is it?

Ah~ bpay... i hate u~ money gone in few click~ am heartbreaking at the moment cos just paid that lump sum of $ for my sem 2 fee....

Random outing

Another ancient forgotten post... post it cos finally upload the picture Went to the new DFO that day and after lot's of walking, decided to take a break at Starbucks. Strange how Starbucks can only be found in CBD Melbourne.... not available in any other suburb.
Ahh~ Picture of Vanya having her first Ice green tea latte and addicted to it since.... been ordering that almost every tine we went Starbucks. My dinner, forgot what is it, Tempura sth,
Side dish - Agedashi Tofu, nice! Both of us really ate a lot... the shop very small so we have to share table with another 2 girl and we finish our main + side dish while the girls sharing table with us can't even finish their mainoops...

This post is dedicated to Be

Okay, i was intended to do this when i receive ya parcel and the postcard from HK but u know typical Angeline got lazy... lazy to upload picture~ Anyhow it's never too late and never too much to say this again - Thanks Be, for the bloody bunny and the postcards, it meant a lot to receive something, even just a word from an old friend, miss u dearly, miss all our random outing together, miss our couple-like msn and sms time, wish u are here with me :(

ps: kyah~ thai post soo cute :P

Junk food

Angeline's love sweet stuff~ hence i tend to buy + try out lot's of them! I can run out of any sorta food except sweet stuff... bad bad...

This is from Laurent's (very nice patisserie place!), i don't remember what is that rectangle one call edi but it's quite nice, the round one is orange tart, love it :P not cheap but easily sien deh so small piece like that is enough to make my day
My lovely cup at the back :D This one is sparkling grape juice, somebody recommend it to me, saying it's good, well it is good, not too sweet, taste like Ribena + CO2 =.= hehe~ not much different with the sparkling juice we have at home, it's not expensive $3 sth but it's just not something we would buy when at Coles or Woolworth cos it's in glass bottle aka heavy to carry when we do our grocery. I also buy another apple one later, will upload picture when am not lazy again~
Lipton ice tea!! um... no ice inside and i don't drink it cold... don't even wanna buy cold one if possible... so dunno why they put 'ice' there. This one very very small bottle, free deh, one day i walk pass campus and saw them giving this out, the guy there said "take as many as you want" so we all 不客气 take a lot muahaha~ one flavor each~ got lemon, peach and green tea + lemon, ahem~ paiseh ah, the lemon one i drank edi when i took this pic~ There's 2 other flavor (white tea and mango) i think but they are not promoting that so no free 'sample' Now the bottle become my 'water bottle' since it's cute + easy to stuff in bags.

Macha ice-cream!! This one not bad :P but i don't mind if the macha taste can be a bit more stronger.

Japanese snack!! good grace am not in japan, otherwise i would pour all my $$ into snack. Ate the pink one, nice but a bit too sweet... Just notice it got 期间限定, the green one is macha, also 期间限定, yellow one is honey, got another not in the picture, draw a pancake... pancake flavor? will take a pic later and upload it next time... Gosh, the package so adorable i tak sampai hati ate it!! cos once i ate it have to throw package, otherwise i could summon tonnes of ants to my room!! The candy one is coffee as can see in the pic, white one is milk, blue one is my favorite! soft drink candy!

The milk biscuit... made in malaysia... but i never saw that in Malaysia leh? new product? the biscuit is nice, smell very sweet, but taste milky not sweet~ The box is nice but throw edi as soon as i finished it... The small package thing is green milk tea..... 马玉山 brand from taiwan... eh drank one pack, a bit sweet... maybe i should add in coffee and make my own green tea latte instead next time.... Finall, DIY sago with coconut milk... i like this drink... so i decided to buy one and try DIY myself see how it turn up.... still haven't try it out.... taiwan product again and it said "新好男人， 偶尔也该下厨房” so should i get a guy to make it instead?

Party World

Hmm... this is really very long time ago punya outing~ few months liao baru upload the pic wakaka (pia飞) Anyway, Lala and I been wanting to try out other Karaoke places but too bad most of them operate at night only T_T... So we decided to give Party World a go. (not my first time there...)


We went on a weekday afternoon - cos cheaper and also we are free on that time~ Party world is charge on per person basic and have a minimum spending requirement, best for 3 person... but we don't have another friend in common to go with T_T (this requirement a bit @#$% lah, what if couple wanna go, bring a 'light bulb' along?). Then you can order foods and drinks up to the value of the amount you paid, aka if they charge $18 per person, you can order food and drinks value at $18, any extra $ exceed you would have to pay lah, sound nice? yea well, foods and drinks are usually expensive and not really worth it if you want me to purposely pay for it. Forgot how much is that small room cost since it's such a long time ago thing (2 months+) but the overall experience just okay lah~ have lot's of song and are up to date but u sorta need to know Chinese or good in Chinese input to be able to search, they really need to hire someone to sort their music library properly, some song are sorta 'hidden', you 'click' on the artist 'folder' and could never find it, but if you enter the name and search one by one, you might find it.

The food, I order the noodle, lala order the bento box, the drink i choose soft drink, lala choose milk tea. Foods are okay, eatable, but milk tea leh... ehem... i knew it... this sort of place, never serve nice drink, even if they do, the amount is a bit.... so am sticking with soft drink type. My fried noodle~ kinda small~ Nice when still hot, so better eat it fast Lala's Bento, asked the waiter what sort of meat, he sorta "eh urm it's stir fried pork...er..." turn up it's 卤肉 lah! not bad~

Dunno is it getting old edi or what, we sorta less interested in sing K, less desire of "i wanna go sing k"

Some cam whore:
My lovely camera :P
.... dunno what's she's doing....

It's freezing out there~

It has been awfully cold for the past few weeks that thanks god am in my semester break now, i cannot wake up for early class or do homework + study in this freezing room~

Frankly, am been constantly freeze by this coldness that 15 degree is warm for me now.... (lately max temp is 13, low temp around 4 or 5). Anyhow walking down the street, i notice there still many girls who walk around with short (really short just like the one you would wear in 40 degree days). Are their Hypothalamus totally screw up and they don't few hot and cold or what? tak sejuk ke? You only get winter for 2-3 months a year and Melbourne don't even snow, cold weather like this only last for a week or so (then it get normal then the cold is back again kinda crazy weather), so why waste the chance wearing + show off ya winter clothes now and save the summer clothes for the actual summer?

Been hibernating again these few days whenever i can. Winds are my lullaby... i can keep on sleeping and sleeping whole day long (wake up once in a while playing fb games then back to sleep), thank goodness once again that's it's holiday and i have nothing that i need or can do (beside go out spend $).

On side note, it's snowing on the mountain!! wish i got $$ to go... why is ski trip so expensive? T_T Checkout the photo here~ The Age

FIFA World Cup 2010 song

Gosh, i miss the world cup atmosphere back in malaysia since malaysian gila bola even though our own country football sucks, tak apa we support other ang moh country~ haven't see any bola since after form 5. (no mood for bola when i can finally touch a tv and satellite remote controls)

Here, well Australia are in the league, teaming up with Nz i think but don't think anybody care. It's AFL + Wimbledon Open season, i think aussie care more on that 2~ After Ricky Martin's, i haven't been listen or get attract by FIFA song since (esp i had been in 2 nation who into a different type of football for the past 4 years), so here's this year version.

Anyhow, here's 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP song, indeed very African feel :P

This one is chinese version by Jacky cheong, k'naan and dunno that girl English name, her Chinese name is 张靓颖:


Here's the K'naan and David Bisbal Sudafrica version:


Personally i prefer this version hahaha in favor of the version which got a language i don't understand hehe~

So anyone into FIFA? i got free cup from McDonald for that hahaha~ got the pink and purple one :P (i suddenly crave for sth hot and crispy + soft inside ie fries) why miss out when mcD is opposite *kaching* $_$ nxt target: blue one.... hahaha

泡沫之夏

Exam is a week away, haven't pick up the mood to study 'spartan style', really need that in order to make sure i get through this...

Anyhow, no mood study = will sort of surf here and there, and then i saw this 泡沫之夏. Wah~ i read about that they gonna make drama on this few years back when i was waiting for the third aka last book for this novel. My thought still the same, won't watch or even if i watch i probably don't have the patient to watch it till the end. Nevertheless the name still attract me to click in to see the trailer and stuff haha~

泡沫之夏 was one of the first romance novel that i read. Honestly, am very slow in stuff relate to love or relationship, i almost never thought about it despite watching so many drama and movies. Love was an alien back then hahaha which kinda explain why in my teenage life i gila stuff like ghost story, crime novel, sci fi novels, movies and game. I watched love drama like winter sonata but i never think of relationship at all, dunno what am i so busy or so occupied with back then.

It was the boring life in NZ and the new people i met asked that make me start thinking about the fact i never think about going into a relationship with someone. But even that, the fact am single and still busy and occupied with stuff now shown i still don't really think much about it... oh well, it really require the right timing, right person, right feeling for the chemistry to happen... as for why am i so busy and occupied? i seriously dunno, my day just gone in a flash without doing much... like read novel, read manga, write assignment, do homework, play FB, watch anime/movie/drama, go out with friends, go grocery shopping, uni ... a day just gone like that....

Anyhow back to topic, i said it's one of the first romance book i read cos i buy several books at that time (first time go buy edi buy few books in a go hehe~) so i don't remember i read which one first~ didn't realize this book gonna have a sequel so i fall in that trap and end up have to read all. (am one of those must see the ending sort of person, i start up a book, if interested i will continue read and i must know the ending or i will keep think or dream about it once in a while) But then also thanks to that few books, i end up addict to novel, which lead me to find out i can read them free online!! haha but sort of hard to find lah those kind of website, esp good book + popular website usually need u to be their VIP member or they don't have ending there. My personality, cannot tahan that! Now probably not easy to find a website that let u free reading all 3 books of 泡沫之夏. Probably lock the climax in the VIP area. Can go google if u interest in reading it. Beware of china website though, cincai click will bring in a lot of ad-ware to your pc.

Now i read variety novel, but the most i read is love romance story cos i can finish one up first (in holiday i can finish 4-5 books a day) and they don't make me think. Crime/sci-fi/mystery story make me think, some time even make me go google up history and stuff on the event or person mention. Research for my assignment pun tak ada as passionate as that. Which also why i read them more slowly and less often. They are also harder to find free one online. Romance story got tones of free website for that and since i only read Chinese romance one, even easier. English book got better copyright protection... After i start 泡沫之夏, for a while i read a lot of youth romance story, plot and setting all so similar but still can dream dream and read happy happy. Now am sien with them already hahaha one big factor that cause that is 17/19 years old are very far away from me now. Spoil my dream bubble if i come back to reality plus am one of those when like it very much will read/do tones of that thing until i sien with it. Just like how i sien with ghost story back then. (or the Bookworm series, Famous 5, Nancy dew etc) Keluar topic again~

泡沫之夏 is a triangle love story between a girl who is an orphans with 2 boys, one of them also an orphans and was adopted into the family that adopt the girl and her brother. The other boy is the successor of a giant group. sort of like a noble too the family, well respected and rich + good genes aka good look lah. Umm... the whole setting well u know just the fact darn good look edi very not realistic haha good looking some more + talented then really... Which is why it's best remain in novel/comic. Having a real human version always spoil my dream hahaha i already have a blur imagination of the character living in me, seeing real people acting them spoil that imagination. Just like how twilight + it's sequel spoil my Bella and Edward hahaha~ so am not watching and not comparing for my own happy imagination sake nah, tak payah spoil my dream that i had at my 18. Nevertheless if you wanna watch it, it should be okay cos the girl eventually end up become an artist and so is the boy (the one who also the orphans). The boy become a big star edi while the girl still gambate, in the progress will involve a lot of other 'artist' which is why they would pick a lot of not bad looking males and females into the drama.

Also as the character are singers and actor in the drama, it's 剧中有另一场剧 (drama inside a drama) kinda feel, taiwan people way of speaking cannot bring me into that drama inside a drama as much as china, hong kong and western one. Even when watching the actual drama i can feel the 'it's an act' kinda feel edi, it don't touch me in my soul as much as other. The only time when taiwan drama become enjoyable to me is when there's old actor inside who speak well or when they incorporate some dialect. This drama original novel is written by China people if no mistake and character all so dreamy dialect will spoil it doubt they incorporate that in.... so even not tempting.... (i know not tempting but write so much~) I like the novel. Dunno if i just read it now would i like it that much as u know how when ur heart feel different, things feels different too. But i read it when my heart love this sort of story so i remain Liking this. The book i only owned the first vol which the cover is the image below, the other 2 book i discover the wonder of free novel website hahaha, 3rd one esp i read it when the author began posting up on the web for limited time that moment, so i read the free not perfect edit version (ie got some word error, typo etc)