One down

Just finished an exam today. Thank God that everything went well. In a way, i would say the paper was easy, not that i knew all the answers, but because there was not much memorizing to do. There were questions i didn't know how to answer, but you know i could still crap kind of thing? As long as i don't fail haha. Lots of it were like grammatical questions, and there was even one question that asked "is this sentence in passive or active voice?" Haha, one mark for that. What i am really worried about will be my coming paper on Friday. After that i will be free from exams! Just when i had that sudden happy thought, the thought of my english assignment will come back to haunt me again.

If you have read previous entries, i guess you know i have been struggling with this subject called Advanced Professional Writing. I still haven't got back my 40% assignment yet, and i am really very keen to know how i did. I am like hoping to get good grades or what, but i just want to know if i passed. It is like having something hanging there, making me feel very insecure. I won't say i am super duper worried about it because i know there is nothing i can do, but i really want to know the results. Shall let that thought perish until i finish my Media Law exam on Friday. Will be heading down to the basement again to study again. That's the only place i can concentrate. Thanks to Huey for reccommending haha, and also accompanying me!

Supper @ 3 am...

Yesterday, i was cruelly dragged out of bed by my cruel housemate for supper. She refused to tolerate the suffering alone, how mean = ( Haha no la, just kidding. Sin msg around evening time to asked if we could go for supper at 3 am after she finished her studying (actually not asked, she forced hahahah). Since it was early, i thought i won't feel tired, so I said if yoke huey goes i will go, and huey's reply was if she wasn't sleeping she would go. When the time was about 12 plus, i was starting to feel tired, so i told Huey i will go take a nap first, and if later if i am too tired, she will just go herself, but do you think she would leave me alone? NO. She was hounding me and refused to let me sleep! So without a choice, i had to wake up and get my arse moving.

I want to sleep = (

Look at the tired faces

We were supposed to go to Flemmington for some kebab thing, like not a restaurant, but just a stall in the middle of a open area, but lo and behold...the place was closed. Turned out that they are only opened till 5.30 am on Fri's and Sat's, and on other days, they are closed at 3am. Thank goodness the place was not too far away from the city. In the end we settled for another greek restaurant near our place.

At Stalactites Greek restaurant

Me and Huey shared a lamb souvlaki : What we were supposed have at Flemmington

I tell you, the souvlaki is so nice! The lamb taste good, and the sauce they used was creamy yet the taste was mild, so you won't feel sick of it. I would say one of the best lamb i ever ate here. Definitely going back for more.

Peiyi, Sin's and Hui Fern's platter. I didn't try it, but they said the eggplant sauce was very nice.

Our table 1

Our table 2

Greek dessert we tried, don't really like it, too sweet!

Remember the matching tees me and huey bought?

The auntie's in action

We reached home at around 4 something in the morn, and i talked with huey till like 6. Tried to sleep after that, but i couldn't fall asleep until like 7 plus 8 in the morning, how irritating. Ended up waking up at 4 pm, hope i can get my sleeping pattern back to normal = )

Dim Sum and Retail Therapy!

Well, exams are coming, and Huey and I are supposed to be in the midst of of preparations but... our dear Sin's invitation for dim sum was too tempting. And that poor little girl is dying to get out of the house so we decided to give in. A supposedly 3 hour dim sum appointment became a full blown whole day outing! Haha went for dim sum at Doncaster again, and than proceeded to Chadstone for some shopping! Terrible thing to do during exam time i know, but i still got some time left? Giving myself excuses again. Anyways, before going for dim sum, me and Huey went to the post office first to post out birthday cards. Sorry Jiesi, i was really rushing an assignment thus explaining the late birthday card.



Outside the nice and big post office



Happy with her carrot juice


Waiting for the sisters to come get us

Our dim sum; i love the pork ribs(left in front) and cow's tendon (right in front)!

Sin and Hui Fern

The sisters

Yoke Huey's and my Mango pudding : Delicious

The sister's "Shuang Pi Nai" (Double skin milk)

Loving it!

Us outside the restaurant

The last time @ Golden Dragon Palace

After our dim sum, as mentioned, we went to Chadstone because our dear Sin wants to go Koo Kai to look for stuff. I wasn't expecting to buy anything at first but i ended up buying 4 t shirts, 1 spag top, and 2 necklaces. There was a sale though, i got one matching tee with Huey which just cost $5 bucks! Haha totally love that shirt. Peiyi had to rush to work and Sin had to go meet her friends for dinner so we left Chadstone, and me and Huey went for Vietnamnese food!

Special spicy Vietnamnese noodle and combination beef noodles

This is my favourite Vietnamnese restaurant for beef noodles

That marks the end of our day. Totally enjoyed shopping; it really does make a person feel happier = ) Hope i can concentrate for my exams now! Pray hard for me please darlings....

Do take note

I just updated the zoo entry today, but it appeared below the entry that i blogged yesterday. i guess it's because of the date thing, so if you want to read about my zoo experience, scroll down to the entry after Esaius's Birthday.

Anyway i finished with a presentation today, so that made me have the mood to blog. This was my first "formal presentation" here in Melbourne. I guess it didn't go too bad, but it could have been better. The nerves got me, and i guess all of you know when i get nervous, i talk damn pretty fast haha. So like a bullet train, i rattled everything out. I kept telling myself not to do that, but i just couldn't help it. I got a 10/15; not too good, but i won't say bad either. First thing i passed in this stupid english sub!!! Thank God for that, got the 40% report coming up, and that's what i am really worried about.

When i was fretting about the presentation yesterday, a song suddenly came into my mind, it goes:

I cast all my cares upon you
I lay all of my burden, down at your feet
And everytime, i don't know what to do
I just cast all my cares upon you

I really hope i can happily sing this song after handing up my assignmnet. Like what my mommy told me, do it and just leave it in the hands of God, and accept whatever outcome it may be. How tough that can be huh? But if i am really willing to leave my burdens with God, i am sure i will feel much "lighter". May he give me strength to do so, Amen.

Esaius's Birthday

I wanted to blog about the going to the zoo, but i got lazy halfway updating the pictures. Besides, the internet here is quite slow, and i got quite a few pictures to upload so wait till i am a little more free ok? After Monday i should be quite free, because that is the day i will be done with the English assng! Gosh this assng has been giving me lots of problem, doing but failing all the time. Is my grammar really that bad?? Oh well, i really hope God will carry me through. Anyways i will be blogging about my dearest didi's birthday. Even though i was not there for the celebration, i feel so happy just by looking the photos. I spoke to him on the phone on his bday, and i totally had no idea what he was talking about. Think its been too long since i last saw him, I miss you didi!

His celebration at swensens

Celebration at home

The birthday boy

My other two sweethearts, so cute!

Looking forward to the day that i can be back with you guys again!

We're going to the zoo zoo zoo!

Finally finished updating the zoo entry! Sorry for taking so long guys.

We settled on meeting at Melbourne Central station to catch the train to Werribee, bought some breakfast as it was going to be quite a long ride, took at least 1 hour i think.

While waiting for our train

Huey's and my breakfast: Chicken Teriyakki with sweet onion sauce, my favourite!

And we arrive at the station. Pretty quiet and isolated place, and the stupid shuttle to the zoo like comes every 1 over hour or so, and we just missed the bus when we arrived. So the other alternative was to cab there, the zoo was pretty nearby anyway, and that was what we did.

We finally reached the Open Range Werribee Zoo

Settling our tickets

This zoo is different from the common ones we usually go to. They have more of a safari theme; something like a improvised version of Africa, so Sin and I went crazy exclaiming at every hut, signage or bridge that we saw. Haha sound so sua ku, but it's definitely a different experience.

Cute little hut houses where you can have a mini picnic

We were surrounded by grasses like these when we walked the trails, and chickens were roaming around freely. And as you could have guess, that made yoke huey very irritated, which made me feel very happy!!! Haha. She hates chickens because she thinks they are very dirty, and there were chicken shit all over also.

The pretty looking signage

There are supposed to be monkeys behind, but i don't know why you can't see them hmm.

Into the grasslands i go!


Man made attractions


Campfire place





Inside the tourist center. Sin now its my turn to look pregnant here haha


The cute Meerkats we saw along the way


The lion enclosure with no lions in the pic haha; and sin your turn to look pregnant!


row row row your boat...


Obstacle bridges


The very beauty of nature...

We didn't really get to see the hippos in action. They were all sleeping and lazing around, none were swimming or moving, so i guess we just had to make do with the fake one.

This little one was playing around that particular hippo when we wanted to take the picture. His parents told him to move away, but you know being a kid and all, he couldn't take instructions well. So our dear Sin just opened her arms (you know the come give me a hug action), and he went happily right into it and posed for the pic! What a friendly kid = )

After finishing the first trail, Sin got bit hungry, so we went to the cafe for brunch. Hmmm but only she ate, so not we but she haha.

Happy with her pie and LOADS of ketchup

Me trying not to fall asleep

Next on, we went to explore the second trail. Its somewhat like a open park where the animals are allowed to roam about freely. However, we were advised to stay on the paths only, so of course we can't go chasing the animals. Anyway there were only emus, bandicoots(which we didn't see at all), wallabies and kangeroos.

Entering the unknown zone....

I told the two that since they had a gate like that, i am sure there must be some kind of animal roaming freely inside. And of course they felt vulnerable haha, so i walked first. I was constantly turning back to talk to them, and i didn't notice what was right in front of my footpath...

A huge emu!

ok, that did shock me. Thank goodness Sin screamed when she saw it, or i would have blindly crashed into it. And who knows, it may not like me and start pecking on me haha. There were plenty of them walking about, but they don't attack you. Just basically minding their own business. One of the park rangers said they love humans? Cause they basically grew up in this enclosure.

Yoke Huey and Sin

I wanted to go closer to it for a photo shot, but it started walking halfway through.Damn.

A random pic along the way

After all these walking, we were all prepped up for or vehicle tour. I think this will be the closest i will ever get to Africa. We booked for the private tour, which means less people and a personal guide. The guide would also drive of the pathways (which the general tour guide won't), and try to bring us as close to the animals as possible. Our safety was the top priority, so she would move the vehicle away asap when she senses an attack.

Our vehicle

In the vehicle

The bulls, they looked quite ugly anyway haha. And not forgetting, they were like shitting and pee-ing like non stop, didn't smell too good for sure.

Eh huey, you can camouflage in with the bulls, same colour!

The cute camel: doesn't it give you the kind of awe.... feeling?

The two of them

We saw some other animals along the way like wild horses, cows, antelopes, but i don't think i will put all of them up here. I would want to put up pics of the giraffes though, but the pics are in another camera so too bad. They were really sweet, when they saw our vehicle approaching, they actually walked up to the vehicle, and one of them like knew how to walk around the vehicle so that everyone could have a good look at them and take pictures of them. So clever! Unlike the stupid cows that wanted to charge at us, but we got away in time thanks to the fast reflexes of the guide.

We then proceeded to for mini picnic at a nice cool area. Free hot drinks and peach muffins, yum yum.

Everyone helping themselves

This was our beautiful and friendly tour guide. I think she looks like Renne Zellweger, you reckon? Anyways, after our picnic we went back to the vehicle to look at more animals but no pics of that with me now. Left the zoo and met up with PY for dinner at Richmond. Both our camera's batt was flat by then so no pictures as well.

I enjoyed myself that day quite a bit, and the experience was definitely refreshing. Don't think i will go back a second time though, it's like worth it for a one-time experience, after that nah. Going to look for some food now, hungry.