Food in Melbourne

First of all, I'd like to thank all of you who shared with me your opinions on my previous post. Thank you sooooo so so so much for taking the time to voice out what you think! It seriously educated me a lot on how to be a better sister! I grew up to be the eldest so most of the time, I didn't have anyone to talk to since my younger siblings couldn't understand much and I didn't realise how I'm putting my past on my own sister by not bothering about her school life! I should have talked with her more about it. I seriously don't want her to go through the kind of shit like having no friends. Seriously, it's the worst feeling ever. And if she cannot even confide to anyone at home, that'll be so sad.

Alright! That aside, let me just continue with some pictures from Melbourne. By the way, I lazy resize la. Sometimes I wonder if you guys prefer the smaller pictures or the full sized one. Let me know if it does bother you.

Breakfast @ Globe Cafe

My chilli corn cakes with avocado, fetta, mint and Tasmanian smoked salmon - Tasted quite... exotic? Dunno if that's the right term. Wasn't bad but wasn't exactly yummy either. Very... strange combination.

Aileen's spinach and horseradish potato hash with poached eggs and hollandaise.


Wk's breakfast jaffle with fried egg, bacon and tomato.

@ Soda Rock Diner which is a really cool place. It's exactly like the diners you see on American TV shows. Like Back to the Future, or Cinderella Story (the one with Hillary Duff).

I think this was the Cheese Burger, which was really nice!

Look, they even have a jukebox on top of each table and mind you, they do work! I think it was about AUD1 for 3 songs. I picked Suga Suga (Archie's theme song), Glenn Miller Big Band's... something which I can't remember. I've been missing in action in uni's Big Band rehearsal that I can't even recall that piece's name. And also another song which I can't remember.

Look at the cheese freakin' oozing out! Mmm...

There's also a pinball machine which Wk played and lost in about 5 minutes HAHAHA. Ok maybe I did exaggerated but I remember he walked back and whined "Cheating one the machine!" HAHAHHA.

@ Maccas


Mighty Angus! How cool is that they even have a website!!! Ohmigoshhhh this was soooo good I'm craving for it right now! Sourdough bun, thick, tender and juicy beef patty, bacon, melted cheese, onion, mayo and zesty relish! *stomach drumming...

Lastly, @ White Tomato, Korean food.

We tried their Spicy Beef Hot Pot but it was toooooooooo oily. Seriously, the whole pot was filled with oil. Putting the oil aside, I actually quite like it. I thought it was quite nice.


Seafood pancake which was yummayyy!

Oh you know, I googled 'white tomato' and guess what popped out?




WTF

Seriously, there are such things as WHITE TOMATOES!??

Crazy. Anyway, from today I won't be updating often cos I'm preparing for my masters audition tape huhuhuhu T________T so, enjoy this video of a compilation of the pictures from my visit to the Tesselaar Tulip Festival! There are too many pictures and I'm just too lazy to upload it here so I figured the best way is to compile them. I do have individual pictures but if you're not my friend in Facebook, then too bad lah don't need to see. But they're not very interesting lah anyway.

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Ok bye!

PS I just noticed that all the pictures I put up are food, food and food! Was that all I did in Melbourne? Lol.

Bully

I was told something really shocking a few hours ago. Apparently, my sister has not many friends at school because her classmates think her hair's weird* and they refused to hang out with her. And I can so imagine people jeering and laughing at her hair. Assholes. She has this one friend (might be her ONLY friend), not sure a he or she, who does hang out with her and sometimes, under conditions. That so-called friend made my sis finish his/her homework and 'threaten' her that he/she will not hang out with her if my sis doesn't do his/her homework for him/her.

I was so shocked, I cried. I seriously don't know why. A sense of familiarity perhaps?

Not that I used to be ignored in school because I had funny hair but I do remember not having many friends around. Some days, I walked alone and ate alone during recess. And I also do remember trying really hard to please people just to get more friends. And by pleasing, I mean ways like what my sister's jerk friend did. And I can tell you, if you have not been in situations like that, you can never understand the kind of pain and misery I went through.

Anyway, that's not the point. The point is, I really need opinions on how I can help my sis now. Don't tell me to scold her friend because that'll mean losing her probably one and only friend. I was so shocked because I never thought things like this could happen to her because she has always been bubbly even after returning home from school. I found out all about these from my brother. I feel so bad as an older sister now =(

*It's very stiff and big, almost like having volumizing hairspray all over it and the strands are really dry and coarse. And you know all the Chinese schools' super freakin' ridiculous rule that girls must have ear-length short hair, it doesn't help at all because the shorter the hair, the bigger it gets. But seriously, I don't see any problem with that at all, it's not that she's balding or anything.

And just now when she was packing her schoolbag, she realised she left a stack of her homework books in the tuition centre. She probably asked my dad to something about it but instead of helping, he refused to and I think my sis probably asked a few times and got rejected cos after a while, she went on packing while crying really badly. And then, as if the matter's not bad enough, my parents went yelling at her telling her its her own fault and she should bear the responsibilities herself. And then my mom suddenly changed the whole topic and yelled at her about her hair saying it's so stiff and dry because she uses too much shampoo and that she doesn't take care of it.

Like what the fuck??? I am freaking sure you can't find any 9YO out there who actually knows anything about haircare! I myself did not! I'm pretty sure my mom too!

I don't understand why instead of thinking of a way to solve the matter, they prefer yelling and making people feel like total crap.

It's not like my sis has been forgetting to keep her books. It's her freakin' first time! And for goodness sake, it's a whole bunch of her homeworks which she probably needs to submit tomorrow! And again, we all know Chinese schools' super freakin' ridiculous school teachers who spank their kids in whatever shit they do e.g. talking too loudly, talking too much, forgetting to bring books, forgetting to complete homeworks and whatnot.

It's not that she forgot 1 book, 1 subject or 1 homework. She forgot one whole stack! Yes it clearly is her own fault but hello? Have they no pity on a just a 9YO?

If I were to have finished ALL my homework already and still got spanked just because I forgot to bring them to school and my parents would not want to help me no matter how much I begged and how hard I cried, I would totally feel like crap and cry a river too. She is after all, only a 9YO girl.

But yeah, that's my parents. Me and my other siblings were all raised the hard way. Yelling all the way. Which pretty much explains why, we don't really talk to our parents. Unless its the essentials like school fees, allowances and stuffs. Otherwise, pretty much nothing.

I'm not saying I don't love them and they don't love us as their children. I'm just a little heartbroken to see a scenario like this. Its like seeing the past of myself.

But anyway, do leave me your opinion.

Spring Cleaning!

Lazeeeeeeeeeeee. Lazy to blog, lazy to edit and upload pictures.

#228 - Made this for dinner. Yummy! Fresh pasta rocks. And I totally made those beefballs myself, they're not ready-made ones ok.
#229 - I love-hate Maccas at the Tullamarine Airport.

#230 - Reached home in the morning and saw this on my table. I hate this picture. I look fugly =(
#231 - Did a little bit of spring cleaning on the box I keep all my skincare/hair products and whatnot. Threw away a whole lot of junks which I've not been using for a long time. Can you believe it? I saw one Bodyshop Body Butter and it was manufactured in 2001 holy crap that stuff's 8 years old!!! And no, I've not been using it anyway. Ugh.

#232 - Bought some stuffs in Tesco and finally organized my makeup products which have been pouring out from my small pouches. I've accumulated an amount that my pouches no longer can be zipped up anymore. So I got that tiered mini plastic drawer, a letter holder and a pencil cup.

My vanity! And a few books that I am currently reading and will read soon.


1st drawer - Face and lip products. 2nd - miscellaneous stuffs like fake eyelashes, eyelash curler, nail polish, some eyeshadow bases, gel eyeliner, sharpener, tweezers, scissors etc.


3rd - brushes. I actually bought the pencil cup to store my brushes but I was a little grossed out thinking about dusts which might get trapped in the bristles so I decided to keep them inside the drawer. 4th - powder eyeshadows.

For my huge eyeshadow palettes, I got a letter holder and stacked them in it. And for the pencil cup which lost its function for my brushes, I put all my mascaras, eyeliners and another eyeshadow primer in it.

Actually, I'm still not quite happy with the organization. I wanted to separate the miscellaneous tools, blushers, face products, lips, eyeshadow primers/bases and eyeliners but clearly, 4 drawers are not enough -_- Looks like I need another one hrm. Well, that's not what really bothers me. I have a feeling that all these might slowly build up in the future...

Yet Again

My baby's sleeping like a baby now while I'm munching the addictive honey roasted macadamia nuts and packing, and getting teary once in a while. Julie and Julia was very inspirational, but it ended in a weird and sudden way. But at least the movie did get me to want to pick the book up and start reading it. I've gotten all the things that I wanted in the checklist. Yes even that Smashbox primer cos I instantly loved how it felt on my skin when I tested it. I can't wait to use it. I need to go remove my makeup and wash my face, tone and moisturize it nicely before I board on the plane. It's gonna be yet another long, sad 8 hours flight back home. I just hope I can fall asleep and not think about anything. I'm seeing McD's before going into the terminal. I'm seeing us hugging and tears streaming down my cheeks like nobody's business. I'm seeing me walking away without turning back and me crying buckets. Damn I hate LDR.

Yet Another 'Last Day' Here

These few days I have been feeling like a maid. Or a slave. Hrm sounds a little wrong. Whatever. I don't mind being a maid/slave if I can just stay here T____T *prays that my flight tonight will somehow be cancelled, or delayed! Argh!

Made some hashbrowns for breakfast. Will be going out to Vic Market in a bit to get the addictive honey roasted macadamia nuts that Maggie introduced to me. Omg that thing is super addictive. And the good part is it's healthy! :D And it's uber cheap as well! I think it's only AUD6 for 200gm? I'm pretty sure it's overpriced in Malaysia. And I don't think honey roasted macadamia can be found easily back at home. So, I'll be getting at least 500gm of those man!

And some other last minute shopping before we hit the cinema to catch Julie and Julia! Yes it's out today! The movie's at 4pm so I gotta buy all the stuffs I want before that because shops here close at 5pm how sad. Let's make a checklist of what I should be getting.

1. Macadamia nuts
2. Something from the duty free shop
3. Maybe another book? Will drop by Big W and see if they have 'The Last Song' by Nicholas Sparks.
4. Softlips! I better stick to pine coco.
5. Hrm... Still contemplating on Smashbox's Photo Finish Primer cos it's too expensive T_T

Did I miss anything?

I Miss You Already

It's 2.30am here now (sounds weird, can't figure if it should be the other way round - "now here"?) and Wk's at the living room working away with his design stuffs while I'm here bumming. My flight's tomorrow at 1.45 am. I know, that's a crazy late flight and I picked it on purpose. I always pick the latest flight on Thursdays because my work basically begins on Friday afternoons. I try my best to maximize the amount of time I'm here, with him. And I think its quite evident already that I'm sad and emotional right now. This visiting thing's like a drug. You get euphoric temporarily and suffer when the effect withdraws from your system. The higher you get, the harder you fall. And yet, people still do it. I still do it. As much as I love being here, being in my comfort zone, being in the arms of the person I love and have been missing, I hate it when I need to leave. Everything feels like a sweet dream - short and sweet. I can really go crazy if this shitty LDR keeps going on.

And it's so funny now that I find myself living to the lyrics of Aerosmith's 'I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing' where it goes like "I don't wanna fall asleep cos I'd miss you babe, and I don't wanna miss a thing...". At this hour I could've probably slept away but somehow I don't want to sleep just because he's not, yet. What a corny situation eh? Heh.

Ok. I'll just go practice my violin. Yeah. At 2.30am. Haha.

Update

Okay, I've finally edited the pictures that have been rotting away in my camera. Uploading them now so might need to wait till tomorrow to update here with pictures.

I'm about to go back home. So far, I've been enjoying myself. In fact, too much that it's not helping my practice schedule at all :( But whatevers. I'm not regreting every single second/cent I spent here. I feel so familiar with this environment now. I adapted to the cold, the dressing, the transportation, the shops, the good stuffs around, the food, the price eventhough I still do convert sometimes, the people. It almost felt like I have been living here for a very long time when really, it's only 3 months, cumulatively. I'm not complaining to go back of course. Ultimately, I still love my home, my bed, my annoying sister, my weird but loving parents, my ji mui, my karaoke gang. And I do miss all that. It's just that... haih. LDR again.

But I guess there's nothing I can do when I don't really have much of an option but to officially get myself that freaking visa that allows me to be here, do I?

I seriously hate the daylight savings. It totally screwed my body clock.

Ooh I bought a new book! The Time Traveler's Wife! I was actually contemplating between that and Twilight cos they were both discounted at Big W. I got the former cos I personally am not interested in Twilight's storyline (because I simply don't believe in love at first sight at all, or falling in love without any reasons) and I don't understand why so many people love it. Yaya teen girl and vampire fall in love blablabla AND SO??? Ok maybe it's just a personal thing. Or maybe I should have just read the book and not watch the movie first. I am not crazy over the movie at all. I hate Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan) there (actually I hate her real personality as well haha) not because she gets to act with Robert Pattinson ok, I just think her acting sucks in it. I quite like Robert Pattinson in Harry Porter as Cedric but not as Edward Cullen in Twilight cos I think he's kinda weird in the movie, the way he talks and all. Yes he's charming but er... I'm not going gaga over him. I better not criticize him more otherwise I might get flamed or just get butchered by fans of his.

Ok to cut the crap short, I'm not saying the book's bad cos clearly, I haven't read it so I can't judge. I've watched the movie and wasn't inpressed by the story, and plus all the weird and sucky acting were just a turn off for me. I may start reading the book if someone can tell what's interesting about it...

Oooh yay the pictures are up! Just a continuation of P365 though.


#210 - Maccas = McDonalds. Angus beef burger damn nice!
#211 - More on this next time. It was sooooooo beautiful!


#212 - =)
#213 - Aaaaah finally a shot of Pancake Parlour haha sounds like I'm addicted to it well really, I am.


#214 - Bought a dozen of fresh Coffin Bay oysters - as claimed by the seller in Vic Market, don't think they really are Coffin Bay oysters - back just to try them. Not as nice as those in restaurants though. Why!
#215 - The mess Wk created.


# 216 - LOTD = Look of the day.
# 217 - Today's lunch.

Ok gtg.