Melbourne - Remaining days

So i forgot to update again...

Anyways, continuing my boring journey in Melbourne. The next day we headed to the Yarra Valley to visit the vineyards and do lunch.

Of course my favourite entree... Cheese platter (actually i prepared this)

The place we bought the cheese from..

Aunt Stef and Uncle Andrew ..

If i was a couple.. id come here again

This is my aunt peggy's home.

The Pitt Stop! :P

The garden...

Mom

Jay was sweet enough to pick me up from home and take me to his new home where we had a bbq lunch with his beautiful kids :)

With a little beatles in the background.. perfect!

Jay's son is OfFICIALLY a look alike of his dad

I want to sit on that boat !! mom said don't waste time!

port is better..

Australia's Cowboy town.. ahhahaa

Sunset at Barham

Grandma's favourite past time at the club house

Grandma, Grandma's friend and mom

BAck to the city we headed to the Yarra river next to crown casino

Whole purpose was to get up to the highest floor of the Eureka Towers and get on the edge. The edge is a box where it will pop out of the building and you can see all the way down.....

Thanks to Uncle Andrew, he got me 2 tickets to go in for free :)

Getting ready to be buzzed.....

THe postcard of how it looks.. I was not allowed to take pictures inside :(

Cause they were selling... here is a blur one of me and Uncle Andrew. I had loads of fun! :P

Melbourne 2010 - day 1

It's been 16 years since I last travelled with mom. I remembered the last time I travelled with mom I was 11 and we went to Medan, indonesia with the lions club from Penang. That was the day I hit puberty...on the plane! Scary experience!

This time around thanks to air Asia we managed to get super
cheap fares to Melbourne to visit grandma, aunts and cousins. So mom agreed on randomly purchasing the tickets beginning of this year and here we are now.. On the plane on our way to Melbourne



The 8 hour flight gave us a chance to bond and catch up! Mom even did a numerology reading for me!!

Arriving at midnight, uncle John was very sweet to pick us up and by the time we got home it was already very late. The next morning, I thought a run at the park next to the house would be good. I was wrong! It froze my ass off!!



After, mom got ready and we were off to the city by train with aunt peggy

Aunt peggy's place was beautiful...here are some pictures of the place













Train ride was fun








Sister catching up :) while on the way to town..

On Swanston street some pictures :)









The cutie there was being cheeky posing but I snapped only after he turned away.


Met up with uncle Jimmy fong and his wife Julie for a drink





And dinner was in Chinatown

Day 2-6 will be posted when I'm back in Malaysia

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Singapore 2010

I remembered so clearly last year when I went to Singapore it was for dawn's birthday and we ended up (me, dawn and melati) having a blast staying in a 5 star hotel (cost was around rm 650 a night) and having to attend this red carpet event - chefs with altitude! It was last year that the capoeira group Argola de Ouro had their batizado during that weekend and I was torn between 2 places but ended up sticking to my promise and spend time with the girls instead!

This year I decided to go for a short weekend trip with nadja and coincidentally the batizado again was during that weekend. Thank god nadja trains capoeira also which made it easier for us to move around in the same interest. Oh and since it was ALSO the f1 weekend, all hotels were fully booked and overpriced. We managed to get a SMALL room for rm 500! The room was like staying in tunes hotel!!

Well here is a short brief of our tiring but fun journey....

First thing that I caught my attention at the changi airport was the free telephone charging booth where you can charge your mobile and lock it while taking the keys like a locker! Wish Malaysian airports had these.. Or do they? Have been traveling so much of air Asia I don't recall klia much anymore



In the taxi we would pass the ferris wheel which was where the f1 was going to be held...


Here we are 4 of us squeezing in me and nadja's small room with lack of sleep ( I think each of us had 1-2 hours max of sleep the night before. Hence not being able to take a proper picture..



I hope this video link is properly uploaded.. Lol.. Some capoeira was in our to do list. Wasn't easy with lack of sleep I tell you!

capo video click here

After the street game on orchard, we took a stroll around orchard road like every visitor that comes to Singapore. And bumped into strange people along the way!


I still think this picture makes a good halloween postcard! :)

Saw funny messages around. I never knew Koreans has jean Pierre as their names.. Very French of them. Don't you think?


The next day, nadja decides we go to raffles place instead.


She suggested we had our lunch at double bay... Hmm.. Australian dining and ill be heading to Melbourne this Thursday. Oh well...


And I just had to order the "recommended" Australian meat pie


And yes...it was truly a meat pie. Full force meat !!!


While nadja had some very very tasty fish and chips!


We just had to get desert after. Nadja ordered banana pancakes..


While I had the bannofee pie. Looks awesome, taste good but still can't beat the bannofee pie from delicious in Malaysia.


I couldn't resist the temptation to shop!! So I ended up getting a new set of swimsuit, pouch for my iphone4 and awesome havainas flip flops!!


Yes! I'm hopeless.. Meet my 6th pair of havaianas added to my flip flop family ..


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Feeling down...

It's happening again!!! .... I wonder when it will stop.

Again I'm back to feeling down and lost with loads of confusion. Dad think's it's a sign of depression and i need therapy. He thinks i do not know how to be on my own and i always need company around me. He starts asking me to change my friends (make new ones and start hanging out with new ppl), find new ones and start joining charity clubs and social clubs. It's been day 5 feeling like this now but this is not the first time. Mom on the other hand thinks i should just travel for a bit but knows i can't since i just started working in a new company. My next travel will be in October but it won't be the travel where i can relax. I'll be headed to Melbourne with Mom to visit the family for a week. Younes thinks i should find a partner soon else i will go crazy.

I have been thinking about this seriously lately about what everyone told me.. and seriously.. I love the friends that i got today.Why should i want to change? I've found my "click" ... People that i feel comfortable with and am happy with. At the same time, my schedule is already soooo full with my running / Walking, college, capoeira and social life.

What other friends do you need when you have...

The TB gang (Tanjung Bungah) - The penang gang i have working in KL. I can basically share everything with them and whine all i want. They will still take my shit.. :)

International friends that often come to visit.. exp: Kim and Ali :) Kim has visited 5 times now i think

Of course my capoeira family: EBC Familia!

So much laughter and they accept you in whatever culture,race and size you are

There is also always my sisters from high school. Though half of them are married/preggers or attached, they never forget each other and still finds time to meet up..every so often

Not forgetting the busy girls in KL and Dawn! Everyone having their own busy schedule but will have time for girls night in/out sessions!

And of course those close to me that i see all the time.. The frenchies!

Some leave, new ones come in.. but i will always have my team...

This is a picture of some of the frenchies during our random party crashing on halloween

Partying all the time....

And my favourite: house parties.

And my happy 2010 birthday at the island of no man. Only us and the boat!

I should be happy.. Should i? why do i still feel down whenever i go home. I started running and all.. yet i am totally absolutely.... hopeless. I think it will be better soon. I hope!!!!

Perhaps mom is right.. i need a break.