Melbourne

Day 1 ( 9pm , S'pore Time) : Changi Airport , Flight SQ227 to Melbourne !!!

6D/5N with dear and family :)



Day 2 (7am, Melbourne time) : After a long 7 hours, we finally arrived at Melbourne Airport :)



Onto the coach we went to embark on our new journey ...




First up, The Werribee Open Range Zoo !!!

Some picture with this big hippo :)

Following that, a visit to the Parliament of Victoria, very majestic looking building

Visited the Cathedral as well. My aunt said the people here originated from Italy, no wonder the buildings looked alike those we can find in Rome !!

Last but not least, we visited a reprical of Captain Cook's house when he founded Australia i believed :0 before heading to our hotel " Citigate Melbourne"

Day 3 : Visited Sunny Ridge strawberry farm :) Happily plucking my strawberries, each person was given a box to collect the sweet, fresh and juicy strawberries :p

There you go, our collection after some hard work !!! But she pose pose only lar, both boxes were collected by me !!

We visited a winery and had lunch at an italian restaurant , i had salmon while dear and family had duck :)

To finish off the meal, warm choc cake with ice cream :p yummy !!!

Following that tasted some of the wine, took a last shot before heading to the next destination

Visited a maze and took this beatiful shot :)

Visited this Shanghai Szechuan Restaurant for dinner :) Ironically it was famous for its chilli food, therefore most on the menu were spicy food. Because dear's parents were not exactly the best of chilli lovers, we ordered 4 dishes all without chilli :)

Supper at night was McDonalds and of course the lovely strawberries dipped in chocolates :)

Day 4 : Visited the Victoria Flea Market, followed by a mega shopping mall ~~

Lunch at the farm, i had the mixed combo of chicken and beef :P

Close contacts with several animals but i just want to highlight this troubled kangeroo. Didnt want any food fed to it. So seeing its misery, i instructed it to jump into the river to end its plights (:

Another kangeroo, oops did i just showed some vulgar gestures ???

Trying to strangle this ostrich !!

Visited the chocolate factory as well before visiting the penguine parade. No photography was allowed though.

Day 5 : Free and easy day, went walking about the streets, saw thus cute little dog in a shopping mall

The beauty of Melbourne ...

Trying to squeeze all my buys into my small luggage :) small if you were to see luggages of dear and family :P

Day 6 : Had donuts from Krispy Kreme, known to be one of the best in Australia !!

Melbourne Airport, back to Spore we go ~~

On this flight SQ 228, back to Singapore we go to end a pleasant journey in Melbourne City

Recovery

Thank God, i think my leg recover just in the nick of time to carry on the activities lined up for the week. Thought it still hurts a little, its in a much improved condition! Just went to post office to collect an item for dear with my brother and subsequently went to Fajar to eat something. Wa, the speciality of the noodles stall, mee really not bad. When we reach home, i was astonished to see yet another letter from post office asking me to collect another of dear's parcel!!!! ARGHH !!!!

Lots of activities lined up for the week. First, a BBQ tonight with Lester and company. Following that, movie session and Karaoke with dear on Friday before bowling in the night :) Saturday is another BBQ session, this time with Dear's SIM classmates. Rounding up the week, we have a gathering at my house with Village. I think my neighbours' will get an earful with Karaoke, Majong and rounding the night with steamboat :)

So my dear little left leg, please be blessed to recover asap please :)

Forgive & Forget

Forgiving and forgetting is not something hard to do. All it takes is some effort and the task will easily be accomplished. But more often than not, its not easy for people to do it. However, i would urge all my friends to put this into practice because hatred, in the end, will cause even more unhappiness and anger. So remember this teaching from yours truely :) Once u learned this, i believe everyone can live in peace and happiness :) But its not easy i know !!

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Yesterday evening, my mum brought me to a chinese sinseh to rub my leg. In the end, i had a bandaged on and never left my house today for fear that the injury will be aggrevated. Thank you Weiru, Dada and qiaoli (mum) for visiting me :) I truely appreciated it.

Unfortunately, more often than not, the night don't usually end a good one. Something unhappy happened and i certainly hope it will quicklybecome a history of tomorrow and disappear. However, it always do not happen the way you want it to be. It always have to go through the process of bitterness and the feeling of miserable before it can even be resolved. So much frustration boils down to the heart only god and i can understand. I guess time is the ultimate cure for only it can heal all wounds.

sprined ankle~~

Hai~~ was having my morning jog when i suddenly felt this sharp pain on the part of my left leg below the ankle. Initially i thought it was going to be fine and i continued with my jog. Somehow, it worsen and i finally stoped at a bus stop to check out the conditon. It was a little swollen and i had to hobble to a neaby void deck to rest.

After sometime, i managed to bring myself to a nearby bus stop. I had no loose change but a $10 note with me and there wasn't anyone that had change with them. Fortunately, a helpful guy offered me $2 worth of coins to take a bus!!! Hee, must be my looks lar, see me so pitiful so offered me some money. Afterall, people in Bukit Panjang are still very helpful~~ Thanks !!

Its all over!!

Finally the examinations is all over !! What a boring period it was, having the same routine everyday. Now, all is gone and i can finally heave a sigh of relief :)

How fortunate i was as well to finish my papers so early while others are still slogging out there. All the best to everyone. Sitting at home now, watching DVDs, msning, and slacking is such good time :) Planning for a tennis session later with JT and company.

Celebrated Qiao li's belated birthday last sat, eating at Waraku and finished the night at a KTV pub before heading to dear's house. Hopefully, more activities will come along before i head for Melbourne in 2 weeks time :)

cheers ~~

Well, work is piling, exam's coming, life gets busy, nevertheless i always take some time to breathe, real hard this time. With the relief that all those mid term tests are over, i came to realize that project deadlines are rounnd the corner and the exams are emminent.

However, there's always room for some relaxation ya. Celebrated 11 month anniversary with dear at East Coast 2 weeks back. Well i shant go into details, everything detailed is in her blog, mine is just an overview :) Also had time to celebrate weilun's 23rd birthday while meeting so many classmates. Had bowling session with part village, part poly gang people. Laughed real hard that day and was totally exhausted.

Back to school, its yet another busy week. Projects, tutorials, lectures, tests juz cannot fade away! Nevertheless, had spring cleaning yesterday with dear's help. Cleared 3 big bags of thrash and rearranged the formation of my room. Things look fresher when everything moves! And den back to reports now !!!! Argh ~~~

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I guess life's afterall so hard. Its definately not easy to understand someone, all the more its hard for others to understand you. I mean sometimes i find myself so hard to understand so how on earth can others completely graspe my thoughts?

No one's perfect, no one can sees each other completely, all the more no one can see beyond the horizon when caught in a situation. It is always that moment of inablility to control that leads about conflicts and unhappiness, yet i would safely say that few in this world can have that ability. Perhaps animals can but i just aint sure about humans.

I guess i am the only one on earth who can understand and tolerate myself, not that others cant but i am confident they wont be able to do better than me. Humans are constructed with different needs and wants, we cannot understand each other but i guess only compromising can help solve all problems.

Enough said, its back to studies! May i be blessed to do well in my soci test~~

Some pics to share!!

Well, today was a day out to bugis: Bugis Junction, Bugis Street, Bencoolen Shopping Centre and OG but i bet many haven come across this, Burlington Square!! Not that it has anything interesting inside but i was introduced to this authentic Korean provision shop some years ago selling products ranging from tidbits to maggi mee to frozen food, all imported from Korea. So price surely a bit ex la and given my pattern, i see see only lorz :) an ideal place for korean freaks~~

Well, the other day i went to Faculty of Law with my classmates and while walking along the corridors, it reminded me of SAFTI. Well, they always leave the best for the elites right? I saw this very cute looking "lizard?", "chameleon?". It was smiling at me while i was taking a picture of it :)

Was taking some pics the other day with dear. I decided to make funny faces. Sub-consciously i did this. Dosen't it look cute?? Dun look like me right but still suave as eva ~~

Was browsing thru the many photos in dear's photo album and suddenly came across this taken 2 yrs back!!! Wee, very pretty right?? I like the big big eyes and toot toot mouth !! whaaa ~~ cheers ~~

'Live The Dreams"

Anyone watched "Live The Dreams" on channel 5 today? I was watching TV yesterday when i came across the commercial. Thinking that it should be quite entertaining, i decided to watch the live telecast. For 1 thing, i love hearing contestants sing!!!



I should say that the contestants were quite good. After all they were the last 6, shouldnt be that bad :) There was only 1 girl left in the competition but she sounded the best amongst the 3 solo singers. I thought the last band had the best voice but i cannot remember the name !!!



However, something quite disturbing happened. Not that i minded but i thought that should not happen on TV. Dick Lee was giving his comments saying that the band did not put in effort in the song at all. The lead singer, arguely the best male singer around, turned behind to take a mike and Dick Lee asked if they were not interested in his comments. The Malay singer said no, he was merely turning round to take his mike. So i think it was so stupid when Dick Lee asked him to repeat what he commented which the singer obliged as though taking the roles of a primary school student and his teacher.



The lead singer seemed to have lost his cool and when Ken Lim said that the performance was poor, he immediately replied "thank you". I thought that was quite disrespectful to the judge. However, i think Ken Lim must have annoyed many with his type of critical comments and asking of the fans to keep quiet and listen to him.



However i was delighted as the band cameback with an outstanding 2nd performance of the night. They may seemed arrogant to many but i really like the voice :)

The tale of 2 umbrellas~~

Well well this had got to sound unbelievable but its True Singapore "Ghost" Story. Replace ghost with umbrella instead :)

I remembered clearly it was a Thursday, 2 weeks ago on 20th Sept, at the Sociology lecture theatre that Viviane came to me, in front of her my "raindrops" umbrella. Well, i named it raindrops as it certainly looks like one, just look at the picture! I was packing my bag the night before and had decided not to bring "raindrops" along to lighten my load.

"No wad, cannot be wad, i didn't bring my umbrella today ma, how can i drop it!" i exclaimed. "It's really yours, just now i picked it up at subway below the chair you were sitting on before you left." she convinced. Half believing her i replied "really meh", den took a good look at the umbrella and saw the torn part of the umbrella that i had accidentally caused on "raindrops". "Oh ya maybe i forgot la, i think its mine, thanks."

There almost 2 weeks past and nothing happened ...

Just today, she asked me how was my umbrella. Puzzled by the question i asked her why she asked me that. Thats when she told me she had actually not picked up the umbrella from subway but from a lost and found counter at Yusof Ishak House near the photocopying room, somewhere that i have never been before. Puzzled, i told her its really mine as i have not seen another similar umbrella at my house and the umbrella has signs(torn part) that proof that its mine. She said she was sure it wan't mine as i couldnt have gone to the photocopy room before. Then, Yiling mentioned that we shouldn't use other people's umbrella as there might be "ghost" in it and joked that the ghost might have prevented me from finding "raindrops".

I got home and was bemused to find "raindrops" hiding in that 7-11 plastic bag i have always contained it in. Confused by what to do, i approached my mum. She told to put the umbrella back to the lost and found counter but i complained that its too far away. "Leave it in the car" she instructed. Then i told her what Yiling mentioned. She agreed, thus told me to leave it downstairs on top of the letterboxes instead.

So i picked up fake "raindrops", was heading downstairs when i suddenly had an "errie" feeling. I decided to call dear but she was busy doing project!!! So i quickly went downstairs, constantly looking behind me to make sure that "nothing" was following me :) I had to secretly leave the umbrella on the stool instead of the letterbox as there were many people around. Pretending to open up my letterbox after discarding the umbrella, i quickily made my way home :)

What amazed me was it was going to rain soon as an uncle sitting in the void deck was carrying an umbrella in his hand and i overheard 1 housewife asking another if she had kept her clothes due to the oncoming rain ...

Happy term break!!!

This had really been a tremendous week. To start off, it was a well deserved 1 week break after several weeks of studying although many would agree it wasnt exactly a break. To add more glory, Man utd beat Chelsea 2-0!!! I attended Kenneth's birthday and farewell party and met many army pals. All the best in Sydney!!

DEAR rounded off my Monday with this surprise. How timely it was as i was juz lookin' for some supper!!!







Tuesday was not too bad, first studying at coffee club(pacific) before going for movie "invasion" . Boy it was nerve-wrecking. Almost got me off my seat in several scenes.








Wednesday saw the arrival of this newborn baby gal, Tagen, i think can get into guinness book of record, newborn with most hair!!! Sleeping so soundly despite the commotion :)





Thursday was rest day, no studying. Was in school doing project and too tired for anymore studyin by the time i got home.








Friday, its bowling time again !!! 2 weeks since the last bowling session with family. Its such a fun game :o

Lantern Festival~~

Couple no 1, me and dear , the near 1 yr couple, boy dominates the gal (boy in front) ~~

After a 20 days layoff i am finally back to update myblog. So tired and busy every night with school work, i just lack the energy to update my blog. Now that it's a short break, i can finally catch my breadth.

A great lantern festival once again this year with bbq and the yearly carrying of lantern. I should say the attendance was great and perhaps even more than ever, with the addition of more members to the small village. Only my enemy, who had something on, failed to turn up. Otherwise, it was an all high attendance!

Now enjoy these pictures although many of them are "stolen" from others' webpage :)


Couple no 2, edm and gusni , the over 1 yr couple, gal dominates boy (boy behind) ~~



Couple no 3, weiru and ivy, the less than 2 months couple, standing quite closely to each other

Couple no 4, Jt and Jasmine, the "just" couple, completely sticking to each other :)

Mom!! WOW, looks even prettier like this, flying hair!!!

Haha BIG head, quite cute ya tis pic, i wanna pinch those "chicks"

Fish~~ Serious!!

Not to forget the special guest, Eun, almost as tall as me!! she muz have worn heels~~

Getting ready to move out with our lanterns, its such fun every year~~

Thoroughly enjoyed myself that night~~

Just look at how fun all these can be :)

Dear getting pretty excited over carrying lanterns, keke last time young nv carry before!!

Always time for another take!! Happy lantern/mooncake festival!! Yea, not to forget, weicong was there the night too but he left early for some party time so didnt get a shot of him.