Melbourne Picspam post + Close encounter with danger? + Wolverine

Ah today is such a nice day. The sun is ACTUALLY out. Bloody hell, the weather's been effing miserable for the past few days, there was at one point, since I came back from Melbourne where it rained and stormed for three days straight. I had to stay in the whole three days. WHAT KINDA PERSON STAYS AT HOME FOR THREE DAYS STRAIGHT?! Because the rain kept pouring like it's nobody's business, the winds were so strong I swear they can send me to Kansas to Oz and back and it was so bloody cold! After a while it subsided and I could go out again, and today is the first time we've seen an actual warm sunny day for a whole week. It's mid-autumn now, and everyday the sun sets at 5.30pm. Can you believe it lol? Also today was the first time I actually saw the sun and moon, up at the same time. Weird. And God must be favoring us by giving us good weather today because Natalie from Colorado celebrated her 21st birthday today! We had a nice lunch at Rundle Street and later tonight, some of them are going to a footy game. Which reminds me, I should watch a real live footy game before the season ends and I go back to Malaysia where there's no point in me going to watch a football match.

Anyway, Melbourne time!

I took this photo at Melboure Central Mall/Station.

Anyway, I wasn't planning on going to Melbourne at first. It was difficult for me to find a place to stay, Khai Gene was hosting her aunt at her place, so I couldn't stay (at The Melbournian dayumn, purple for regal effect), and Aunt Veron's place is in the suburbs, like 50 minutes from the city. I thought I'd save money and go during winter instead, go skiing on Mount Buller or something. However, I found out that most of my friends were going to Melbourne, and if I stay here, I'd be bored out of my wit. After a long discussion with my parents, I decided to go! And boy did I NOT regret it.

When I first got at Melbourne, I didn't go straight to the city like most of my friends did (the Tullamarine airport was about 20 minutes from the city), Aunt Veron picked me up and I proceeded to stay the first night at her place in the suburbs. I slept in the guest room, and when I arrived, there was a little package on the bed for me!

My first Easter eggs the whole Easter!! (I know I'm lame, I didn't bother to get any Easter eggs before because they were on mega-sale and super expensive). I went shopping with her at a nearby mall the next day. She and her husband Uncle Paul (who I had just met for the first time) took me for Italian desserts near Altona. I tried a Canoli, it was so yummy! I regret I did not take a picture with them before I went to the city.

On that evening itself, I took a train into Melbourne City. I then trammed to Timothy's apartment on Swanston Street, where I stayed for the rest of the week. I felt so bad imposing on them (he and his roommate Kenneth), thanks for letting me stay at your place guys!!

I love Melbourne city for so many things! For one, they've got better Asian food. I actually had Bak Kut Teh that tastes like Bak Kut Teh (though it was more like KL Bak Kut Teh, but at least they got the taste right). And some pretty good Dim Sum....yummmmm.... And great Malaysian food, nasi lemak mmmmmmmm.....

I went and did some shopping. I didn't buy much cos' I was on a tight budget, but I did get some neat stuff. I finally got my skinny black rocker jeans. I was real happy I found them because in Malaysia, most marketers are under the assumption that the typical Asian girl is small, petite and like a surfboard, which makes it hard for um...hour-glass-figure or well-endowed people like me, Denise or Jennifer to find clothes. Only in Western countries will you be able to find skinny jeans, my size, my length and the right width for my hips in proportion to my legs. And they're cheaper too! My mom usually buys my Levi's from the US because even at retail, she can get jeans for 20 dollars. I think the same goes for shoes as well. Vincent finally got his first pair of Chucks in Melbourne, (and a pair of new Kobe 4 shoes from Adelaide) because he couldn't find his size, which is size US 13 (freaking giant) in Malaysia.

I also got myself a Gatsby! XD Finally! I have for many years adored vintage and old-fashioned hats and I finally found one that fits! One that looks good on me too! And I think it's cute how I always look like a newspaper boy...or Oliver Twist. Next I shall attempt to buy a Cloche, or a beret, or a Bowler hat. Don't laugh.

I also bought these real awesome pair of Gisele Bundchen Ipanema thongs for AUD20. I thought it was a steal seeing as we get Ipanema for like...RM80 to RM90 a pair back home?

I got the white pair and Yuen got the brown ones, only difference is ours don't have the ankle strap and the toe straps are slightly different.

Anyway, I visited places like Chinatown. It's a much longer stretch than the one in Adelaide (duh).

Let's play "Count the number of azns in the photo!"

Melbourne city is really cool. It's got so many skyscrapers! All we got in Adelaide is the thirty-three storey Westpac House.

Random pic I took in the city and edited.

I went to Saint Kilda beach with Philip and Yuen. We went to the flea market, went to look around at the shops (it's kinda like Glenelg, only a bigger and longer stretch), went to a fair, just to look around, and went to the beach. By that time the sun was setting and it was effing cold.

I managed to get some nice shots of the sunset. I'm beginning to like taking artistic photos...BUUUUU I WANT A DSLR. And I adore taking pictures in Australia. The sky has very interesting shades of blue.

I also visited Fitzroy Gardens, because my mom told me if I wanted to do the tourist thing (and if I couldn't drive The Great Ocean Road) I should go there. And visit Captain Cook's cottage while I'm at it. I currently don't have any of the cottage pics on me now, but meh.

In Captain Cook's vegetable garden in his backyard.

Fitzroy Gardens, and Vincent walking ahead.

And now, me being a camwhore. Which hardly happens, so for the sake of the universe, let me enjoy myself while I'm at it.

Me and Yuenny~!

Oh we celebrated Yuen's 21st Birthday too, once before going to Melbourne, and another time at Melbourne.

Before Melbourne.

After Melbourne.

And now for some photos of the boys who let me stay at their place, took care of me and took me out for dinner and clubbing lol. Thanks guys, I really owe you one!

Timothy, who let me stay.

Gregory Thum Chee Hang, who slept over as well.

Kenneth, Tim's housemate and Dom, their friend.

Oh well. Melbourne was awesome. And I would really love to go again, because 6 days in Melbourne definitely wasn't enough.

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Recently I had a close encounter with danger. A couple of days ago, I went into the city, UniSA City East campus to attend the Adelaide Japanese Animation Society's weekly anime screening. After the screening, I walked to the intersection of North Terrace and Frome Road. I needed to cross Frome Road, so I waited at the light. A lady on her bicycle, pressed the button to cross the other road, North Terrace. As we were waiting, a guy hurriedly walks up to the light where I was waiting, to cross Frome as well. He looked nervous and he hung his head down. I realized that he was trying to ignore this other guy who was walking towards us, he was shouting. I decided to steal a glance at this shouting dude, I assumed he was another college student as we were in front of City East campus, yelling at his mate to wait up or something. But then I noticed he was holding something shiny. It was a gun.

Before he managed to reach us at the Frome Rd. light, the light on North Terrace (the one the lady on the bicylce was waiting at) turned green. I quickly turned and followed bicycle lady to cross North Terrace instead of Frome (which was where I should've crossed instead). After we had arrived safely across North Terrace, I turned back to see the that the guy did not follow, but my attention was quickly averted to the sound of police sirens. A copper car had arrived on North Terrace. Two officers got out of the car, started yelling at the guy, who started to run away. They gave chase.

The lady on the bicycle was apparently oblivious to what was happening. She told me that if I saw the guy's face I should make a report.

Then it dawned on me that I couldn't recognize his face, I don't even remember looking at it. When I saw the gun, my brain told me to get the hell outta there asap. Amazing.

I then proceeded to the IGA convenience store and got my first Dr. Pepper soda (SHUT UP WE DON'T HAVE IT IN MALAYSIA) despite the penumonia-inducing weather.

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Oh I went to watch X-Men Origins: Wolverine a couple of nights ago at Norwood with Jay, Thomas and Yuen.

I have come to a conclusion that it was only FAIR. And that is ONLY if you count out the major storyline inaccuracies as compared to the comic book versions. Major spoilers here onwards.

First, they made Logan (for those who don't know, that's Wolverine) and Victor (Sabretooth), brothers in this story. Since they wanted to focus on the origins of Wolverine as well as his rivalry with his arch nemesis, I guess that was an okay change to the plot. They also made Silverfox and Emma Frost sisters. I'm like "Huh?" Why?".

I assume they just wanted Silverfox to have a motive for what she did in the movie (which is her sister) but I think they could've just made up a random original mutant for that part, because Emma's role in the movie was almost irrelevant and pointless (unless you call leading a band of mutant escapees out of the Weapon X facility a point, but then any mutant could've done that). When I saw Emma on the movie posters, I actually thought she had a bigger role.

Timothy and Jay are upset that they had ruined Deadpool and turned Gambit into a (quote Jay) douche. Deadpool was easily defeated when Wolvie and Sabretooth severed his head. Jay was upset at the fact that he didn't do any fourth wall-breaking (no it's nothing X-Men related, look it up if you don't understand) and make any wise cracks, and of the fact that they turned him into a, quote Jay again, "mouthless, samurai sword-version of Wolverine". Whilst his regeneration powers are supposed to, quote Tim, own that of Wolvie's and Sabretooth's, he was easily 'killed off'. However, I found out that certain theaters around the world (not including the one I was in, dammit) played a secret scene where Deadpool regenerates his head. Now THAT sounds like the Deadpool we know. As for Gambit, he had a pretty minor, if not supporting, role. And I have a few things to say about it. He wasn't cool enough, he didn't speak enough French (mon ami!!), his Cajun accent wasn't strong enough, and I agree with Tim when he says that Remy's cards didn't explode like they're supposed to.

Also Tim and I have come to a conclusion that the reason why the movie faired this way was that it was done by an Australian studio lol. With Hugh Jackman as a co-producer. Okay, I am not dissing Australia OR Hugh, it's just a little joke. It's just I thought it would've been better if Marvel Studios had done it as an independent film, instead of ONLY co-producing it. Ironman was Marvel Studios' first independent movie, and The Incredible Hulk next, and both were, in my opinion, VERY GOOD movies. It's prolly also why the first three X-Men movies had sucked, because Marvel Studios only had some involvement in producing it.

But anyway, what do we know? We're just disgruntled biased fans who ALWAYS think people can do better. 8D

Fighting scenes were cool, effects were cool, and they paid a tribute to the Brotherhood of Mutants by putting the Blob in Team X, and putting in cameos of Quicksilver and Toad in the Weapon X cells (although, Blob was never in Team X, and Quicksilver and Toad were never part of the Weapon X project). Tim says this tribute to the Brotherhood probably is a teaser for the upcoming X-Men Origins: Magneto movie.

Oh yes, Jacqkie reminded me, I also want to watch Star Trek. I had forgotten to write about it in my previous post. I'm not a Trekkie, but I am very psyched for this, because Zachary Quinto (SYLAR from Heroes, yay) will be playing young Spock. And I saw some preview pictures, BOY DOES HE LOOK LIKE A YOUNG LENARD NIMOY. They scored when they cast him as Spock.

Movies I wanna watch, goddammit. And other stuff I've been wasting my time on.

Being a NERD, there are several things I follow, comic book franchises, cartoon franchises, video game franchises, book franchises and even movie franchises. So there will be movies that will be/have been out that I want to watch but have yet to watch. Sad isn't it? That's because compared to movies back home, movie tickets in Aussie are so expensive. AUD12 for a ticket, AUD9 on special nights, that's like RM30 a movie. And they only have salted popcorn, none of our caramel stuff, and boy does that stuff taste weird.

The only movie I've watched so far in Aussie theaters is Duplicity, and it's pretty good. Very Ocean's 11, so intelligent. The tagline on the movie posters caught our attention...

"She's ex-CIA, he's ex-M16, together they're out to steal a fortune."

...and we decided to sacrifice some money and watch it. And I liked it. Very much. Kept me at the edge of my seat yes it did.

Anyway, here are the current movies I want to watch:



I bet Eric's psyched for this one as well, I trust he's been reading the book he's bought. I on the other hand started reading it before I came here, and I just got back into it because my housemate Shiyana has it and lent it to me (SHE LENT ME DIGITAL FORTRESS TOO, WOOT DAN BROWN FTW!). Anyway The Da Vinci Code was, in my opinion, already a pretty damn good book, one I couldn't pull my nose out of. And I heard from Shiyana and Jennifer (whose opinion I trust very much) that Angels and Demons is much better. I AM ABSOLUTELY STOKED FOR THIS. Now I'm gonna try my best to finish reading it before the movie is released here on May 9th...after I'm done with the Diary of Anne Frank (been meaning to read this ever since I watched Jennifer Garner in Freedom Writers).



I am really looking forward to this movie. Despite the fact that I think the past three X-Men movies were sucky as hell. I have already warmed up to Hugh Jackman being cast as Wolverine (he's tall and pretty hairy, Logan is supposed to be a short and much hairier bastard) because I think he's done a pretty good job so far. If any of the X-men trilogy movies sucked, it's not his fault, it's the writers'....and Halle Berry's.

Though it won't wash away the fact that I am already having my doubts for this Wolverine movie. So far my doubts are on how the characters look physically (which is nothing really serious right? I mean we all still pretty much love Gary Oldman as Sirius Black...right?). From the movie posters and trailers, Sabretooth is hairless (what the hell, he's supposed to be hairier than Wolverine!), Emma Frost who is supposed to be sexy with bouncy blonde hair, with a sexy white outfit with a flowy cape, piercing blue eyes with white lipstick, looked so plain in the trailer, with her blonde hair tied up in a ponytail (WTF) and in a tank top. D8 DID I MENTION SABRETOOTH IS HAIRLESS?! D8

AND MAVERICK IS KOREAN?! Since when?! He's blonde, and German!!! Oh well, hopefully this doesn't turn out to be another shit adaptation. At least there's Gambit in it. Let's see how well Taylor Kitsh puts on a Cajun accent in this one.



Fast and Furious (they like playing with them movie titles man). Hmmm, because I loved the previous three movies, because it's got the old cast, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster (I envy her, she's got the sexiest eyes) in it, and...because Greg Cipes will be in it. A small minor role. But I don't care, he's one of my favorite voice actors, I'll take whatever chance I can get to see him in a movie.

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When I went to Melbourne, I insisted I brought my Mac (even though my mom told me not to), so that I could get some movies/series/anime from Timothy (and his housemate Kenneth lol).

So Tim passed me:


OMG I'M RELIVING THE MADNESS!! And just looking at this old picture takes me back...sigh *snickers at younger Hyde* Tim passed me Season 1 of That 70's Show! XD HELLO WISCONSIN!!!

And before I got to Adelaide, I got really obsessed with Ben 10 (I blame my cousin Leroy and Mandy's little brother Gerald), then I moved on to Ben 10: Alien Force. 

YAY NEW SERIES GEARED TO OLDER AUDIENCE SO NOT SO KIDDY ANYMORE LOL. Shut up, I don't care if you think that adults should grow up and stop watching cartoons. You can still be an adult and a kid at the same time, and if you decide to throw your childhood away and not appreciate it, you'll grow up a crotchety old person and will never ever know what it feels like to ever be a kid again! I mean.....I have friends who grew up not knowing the Power Rangers, and that Kimberley was together with Tommy, WHAT KINDA WEIRDOS ARE YOU?!

Ahem, got carried away. No offense to anyone who didn't like the Power Rangers, you'll never know what you missed. Anyway, the Alien Force episodes on Cartoon Network Asia were only just premiering, so I only managed to get into the whole hype really late. And by the time I got to Aussie, I had only 5 episodes. That is until Timothy passed me the whole of Season 1. >8D

And this is what I got off Jay's external hard drive.

SCORE. I've been meaning to download this for the longest time. An X-Men fan like me? NOT download this? Pfft. As if. Oh yeah, *points at lady in white* THAT'S what Emma Frost is supposed to look like. Aw but this picture left out two other members of the new X-men under Wolverine's leadership: Warren (Angel) and Bobby (Iceman). Two of my favorite American voice actors are in this series: Steven Blum (Wolverine, and also Cowboy Bebop's Spike Spiegel and Ben 10's Heatblast) and Yuri Lowenthal (Iceman, also Ben 10 Alien Force's Ben Tennyson and Naruto's Sasuke Uchiha).

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Also, I've been watching a lot of anime recently, because I have recently gotten back into the whole anime thing since Gurren Lagann last year. I managed to get Code Geass and Code Geass R2 from Tim, and I gotta tell ya, it's one of the most epic things I've ever watched.

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Now, those of you who actually pay attention to my anime rambling, those of you who are my anime friends, you probably would have noticed me refusing to watch this anime before. I have many times compared it to Gundam SEED, which I didn't bother to watch past episode 10 cos' it bored me shitless, and I have totally denied its existence because I was never a fan of mecha (robot) anime. I knew it was done by the same people who did Gundam SEED so I didn't give it the benefit of the doubt. I thought the characters looked too feminine for my tastes (again like Gundam SEED). I even made fun of it by calling it Code GAY-ASS (I still call it that though). I decided to give it a chance because Tim said it was good, and I knew Cappy was a huge fan of it, and well....she's got pretty good taste. AND I FOUND OUT THAT THE CHARACTER DESIGNS WERE DONE BY CLAMP. CLAMP was one of my favorite manga/anime artist groups ever. They are the ones who inspired me most times to do what I love doing, and that is drawing. And that won me over.

What is it about? Basically how one young man starts up an army of rebels to free the country of Japan from the clutches of the Britannian empire. TRUST ME. It's a lot more complicated, serious, intriguing than I make it sound. I MARATHONNED THIS FOR THREE NIGHTS STRAIGHT. I slept at 6am one night because of this, and here I am after just watching episode one of season 2 and it's nearing 3am. It's THAT good. What's in it? Tyranny, racial and class conflict, government and economical collapse and corruption; people have described the main protagonist Lelouch as "A rebel with a cause, but without conscience." The contradiction in that sentence alone suffices for a great anime. Since I had just immersed myself into the world of politics due to my International Studies course, I find this utterly intriguing and amusing at the same time. Carlos Santos of Anime News Network said that the theme of the anime...

"...reflects the malaise of a generation: the realization that old, rich, powerful people have screwed up the world and that the young are helpless to do anything about it".

Then there's Vampire Knight.

Like Ben 10 Alien Force, I had only gotten like 5 episodes, before coming to Adelaide. Tim's housemate Kenneth passed me the whole of season 1. After finishing it, I'm like "WTF?!" I need to see season 2. It's not as engaging or as epic as Code Geass, but it's a pretty enticing story. OH DID I MENTION IT'S ABOUT VAMPIRES? And that it MAKES BETTER SENSE OF THE VAMPIRE/HUMAN LOVE STORY THAN TWILIGHT EVER DID? Gawd. Bella's such a Mary-Sue (look it up), can I kill her?

I've gotten other stuff from Tim like movies, and Devil May Cry the anime. I haven't watched them yet, so I can't really give much comment, but oh well.

Wow with this post I've been to many levels of geek, movie geek, comic book geek, cartoon geek, TV series geek, and anime geek. HOW MUCH GEEKIER CAN I GET?

Sorry for boring all of you.

WHAT THE HELL?!

I haven't even left Melbourne and I already miss it!! What the fuck?!

What I'll miss most? The hustle and bustle of the city that we don't get in Adelaide. The shopping, the great Asian food (that is scarce in Adelaide), and the KRISPY KREME!!!

What I won't miss, expensive public transportation, and the immense number of Asians lol. But still. Melbourne is an awesome awesome place.

Oh and I'm proud of the fact that before I came to Aussie, I was addicted to Starbucks, and after two months of being deprived of Starbucks, I didn't have a single Java Chip frappuccino in Melbourne......must be the Adelaiders' loyalty to local coffee house Cibo.

That, and I spent all my snack money on Krispy Kreme doughnuts and Krispy Kreme Original Kreme Latte Kravings... *Yuen-style*"Mmmmmmmm, Krispy Kreme. Good doughnuts and good coffee..."

Now excuse me while I go calculate the amount of grass I have to eat to save up money for another trip to Melbourne in the winter so I can ski and drive the Great Ocean Road.

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Shit. I have to pack.

What we did to the game of Monopoly

This is the story of how, one night, a bunch of Malaysian students, destroyed the game of Monopoly.

Us neighbors at Lorne Avenue apartments have the occasional game of Monopoly every other night. Because we live in Magill, which has pretty much nothing to do within a 3 kilometer radius at night. So we play Monopoly.

We originally played with SHORTCUT RULES. You don't have to get property of all the colors to begin buying houses there, just get a property, step on it again to buy a house.

Initially we thought playing with these rules will speed the game up, but actually....the original rules makes things go faster. We realised this in the past two days.

And because original rules say you have to get all the property of a color before buying houses, trading got a lot more violent. I have never, before this, played a game of Monopoly when swear words go flying back and forth across the board.

Yesterday we took the game to new heights, when Thomas, Reagan and Surekha decided to form an alliance, SHARE their property and going so far as to Reagen and Surekha funding to build houses and hotels on what they owned together: All the yellow property (Coventry, Leicester Square and Picadilly) and all the dark blue property (Park Lane and Mayfair). Whatever proceeds they got, went to Reagan and Surekha, due to Thomas being in debt to them. Basically, Reagan and Surekha are doing this to keep Thomas afloat in the game (he was nearing bankruptcy).

After a lot of arguing, we decided okay, maybe this is fair and valid, plus the rulebook did say "You may make up your own rules." The rest of us, Jay, Kien, Ronald and I, had to do something about it. We combined all our property, which equalled to all of the light blue property (Angel Islington, Euston Road, Pentonville Road), the brown property (Old Kent "Kien" Road, Whitechapel Road) and the red property (Strand, Fleet Street and Trafalgar Square), and three train stations. At this point, any loose property we had that didn't have matching colored property, were already not important. So we each contributed some of our money into a 'slush fund', and the money from this fund would go into building houses.

What happened was, Thomas, Reagan and Surekha's alliance reduced the game to only two players.

You shoulda seen how many houses and hotels were lined up. We were paying no less than 500 quids a hit. Whatever money we got went into the slush fund. No one was winning individually. In the end Thomas went bankrupt first, and later all of us did, Reagan and Surekha triumphed, and we vowed never to play Monopoly this way ever again.

I used to say "I can't cook for nuts." NOT ANYMORE!! >8D

Yes, I have started cooking! XD I didn't cook back home, because my maid and my dad take pride in cooking for us haha (and if they let us cook we'd prolly ruin dinner for the rest of the family). Let me show you some of the stuff I cooked that I took pretty pictures of, from the simplest to most complicated dish.

1) Hot Chocolate

Lolz, you're probably going "What the hell?!". Hey this isn't Milo and I don't have one of those fancy milk skimming machines, I actually have to boil milk for this. I have a cup of hot chocolate whenever I feel like it (usually on cold nights or evenings). I usually don't have marshmallows in my hot chocolate, but I saw a bag of Easter marshmallows on sale at Foodland for AUD1.99 so I decided to get them (which explains why I have a bunny and a ducky floating around in my chocolate).

2) Tom Yum Maggie Mee.


I make Maggie Mee look complicated lol. No it's not, actually, I just added browned minced beef and boiled potatoes and carrots to my noodles. The parsley was just to add flavor and make it look pretty.>8D I wanted vegetables in it so...

3) French Omelette


I like the deep fried omelettes that we usually eat back home, but they're usually drowning in oil. So I opted for the French Omelette, which traditionally uses butter instead of oil. I know it's fattening, but it really gives a nice creamy buttery fragrance to the omelette (and it's not so jelak as being drowned in oil). It's also a little tricky when you're frying it, cos' I need to make sure I stop before the whole omelette sets, and is still creamy and shiny (in other words, not too cooked).

4) Fusilli Pasta Bolognese


Ah the simple Bolognese Fusilli, nothing much to say about this other than the fact that I added Ikea meatballs and chopped carrots and button mushrooms to the sauce while cooking. Oh and I had pineapple juice with it the night I took this picture. I think I was also watching The Biggest Loser on TV while eating this.

5) Vichy Carrots


Why do the French have to make the simplest of dishes seem so complicated?! O_o I misestimated the amount of butter, so while waiting for the liquid to finish seeping into the carrots, I seemed to have overcooked the carrots XP. But you know what, in the end, it still tasted great! Just a little mushy.

6) Cheese and Bacon Risotto with Meatballs


Made from Arborio rice! Is what it's said on the box. 8D This is my first time making or eating Risotto and it felt strange eating 'Italian rice'....with CHEESE! D8 I think I know where all the Hongkies got the idea of making cheese-baked rice for their fusion food restaurants. They had a little recipe on the back of the box, I followed it, but I changed it haha. Instead of using red and green peppers, I used broccoli and cauliflower, instead of using chicken breast, I used Ikea meatballs and minced beef, and added mushrooms and sweet corn kernels.

7) Spinach and Ricotta with Garlic and Sour Cream baked with Fusilli and Potatoes


I gotta start using my Angelhair pasta, because I keep using my Fusilli. O_o This was one of the most delicious things I cooked so far. Chopped boiled potatoes plus Fusilli in a tray, then topped with sauce plus mushrooms, then popped into the oven and baked for 15 minutes. SO GOOD. D8 BUT SO FATTENING.



Now, for some extra pictures!

This is Cibo's caffe latte (on the left) and skim cappuccino. Like my mom said, the Australians and Italians see making coffee as not just a ways to make money but also as an art. That is why there are no Starbucks in Adelaide.

These are the pretty cupcakes from Cocolat, a coffee house specializing in a variety of chocolate drinks, chocolates, pastries and snacks. They're expensive though, these cupcakes, they go for about AUD4.50 a piece, equalling to about RM50 for 4 cuppies.

Also......

Meet my new friend, Lagann. I bought him for AUD11.90. I was hoping to get Kamina or Simon, but when I opened the box, Lagann popped out instead. Now I'm in love with the little guy. And he brings me luck when I'm playing Monopoly with Yuen, Jay, Thomas, Kien and Rachel.

Why is he hiding in an empty box of Pocky?

It seems he is hunting.

He caught me a nice ducky and rabbit for my Hot Chocolate, well done Lagann~! XD WTF I got bored, so sue me!

In other news:

1) My housemate Shiyana came back today, you should imagine my shock when I woke up this morning, walked out of my room and nearly stumbled over a giant suitcase. I walked back into my room immediately so it could register in my brain that she had came back from her home country. I was creeped out for about 5 seconds, because yesterday I was watching "Crimes that shocked the world" and "Beyond the Darklands" last week, and they were covering the BTK murder of Wichita and William Matheson the psychopath murderer. Why do I creep myself out this way?

2) I am going to Melbourne for Easter hols, will be visiting Aunt Veron and will be staying at Timothy's place. Hoping to see the Great Ocean Road. Will celebrate Yuen's birthday with her in Melbourne, whee~!

3) Had a nice Korean barbeque getting-to-know-each-other dinner with the usual neighbors, Jay, Yuen, Kien, Sherry, Rachel, Deborah, David and the ones we just got acquainted to, Sheena and Naveena. 

4) Discovered that one of our lecturers is a sarcastic douche. But it's pretty cool in a way, like Miss Gayatri back in Taylor's. Only she's much nicer, and her sarcasm doesn't poke people in places that shouldn't be poked....Oh and she's definitely not a douche.