It's the hols :)

Mid-sem break is here! :) That means one week of so-called holidays which btw has to be spent on working on assignments and stuff. Not much of a break I would say but at least there's no school :) To start off the holidays, went to support my team on Friday for their AFL Semifinals. MCG was packed with Collingwood & Geelong fans (~100,000!) Was such an intense & exciting game but unfortunately, we lost by 5 points :( Just one more goal and Collingwood would have been on their way to the grand final this Friday. Real Sad :(

Met up with Alisa and some of the housemate's gang after the game for a crazy night at Sevens. The club was overflowing with students all on holiday. It was insane but had tons of fun :)

Spent Saturday working on our Ravioli production manual with Claudio. Our production run is set to be 2 weeks after hols. Am going to hiring Bani, Meelin, Alisa & Ann as our workers for the run tentatively. Haha. Should be really interesting to see how our workers follow our manual. It's giving us such a headache though. Urgh.

Today was fantastic. Went for the High Street Northcote Music Festival. Martin Martini was performing there :) Great set as usual and there was this fellow (bottom right) who was dancing in a real strange way. Had such a gd laugh haha.

Hot dog & beer for lunch! Drinking beer is such an Aussie culture I realise. Basically, Aussies just love to drink.

Went around to check out other bands who were performing.

Another hot dog & beer to end off the festival! :)

Caught an independent film thereafter at Lygon called 'After the Wedding'. Was pretty good! It talked about a Danish aid worker in India who had to choose between his ideals and family. Finally, met up with Bani, Claudio & Meelin at Meelin's place. She was having a bbq and unfortunately i missed that part cuz I got there late. Heard the food was great :(

And that marks the end of the weekend to the start of my hols! 8 more weeks till the next hols and good ol' Singapore!

Footy Fever

Yet another week gone!! Yikes & Yay. Yikes to exams being just ard the corner and Yay to going back to humid ol' Singapore soon! :) School & work was hectic as usual, started on my Food Chem mini project: Analysis of Natural Peanut Butter vs. Processed Peanut Butter. Interestingly enough, peanut butter is actually a rather healthy product. It is high in monounsaturated fats, fibre, protein & Vitamin B3. Can seriously consider peanut butter sandwich for my lunch box now :)

Highlight of the week was going to the Toyota AFL Finals on Saturday night with Vaughan & his parents at MCG. It was totally awesome!!! Quite an experience I must say :D

Collingwood is Vaughan's team and by default (as he puts it) is my team as well. Haha. Collingwood was playing Sydney Swans in this elimination round. Winner of the night will play on in bid to reach the grand finals.

Us in our Collingwood jersey!

Apparently, the culture of the footy in Down Under is always meat pies washed down with loads of beer..and that was what we did :)

The stadium was packed with fans draped in their teams' colours, be it the jerseys, scarves, jacket, caps etc etc. and the air was abuzz with such excitement and energy! Loads of cheering and singing and flag waving and of cause swearing and angry shouts :P

The very excited & supportive Collingwood fans! (+ one Sydney Swans fan:P)

Our team won by around 30 points btw :)

It's been a long week..

..& what a week it has been! For starters, Melbourne is starting to see nice warm sunlight with cool breeze. Spring is very very near! :) We are all enjoying the glorious sunshine and taking all chances to sit out and busk in its glory haha.

As mentioned in my previous post, we celebrated Alisa's 21st birthday on the 24th. Started off with a drinking session at my pad followed by Toff in Town for Martin Martini. It was a night filled with too much liquors, wines, beers (which made everyone Very Happy High indeed) and crazy dancing. Was a Great night! :) Happy Birthday (again) my dear!

My latest buy for the house! An extremely pretty candle holder for all my scented candles. Am very pleased with my buy haha. My pad is smelling heavenly nowadays :)

Random pics of me & Alisa at Starbucks enjoying a nice coffee after dinner with her parents. Her parents came down for her birthday, which I thought was really sweet of them :) Btw, the both of us are highly addicted to the beef noodles at this Vietnamese Restaurant along Swanston. I think I have been there a total of 4 times this week. Yikes.

Went down to Toff again for Martin's last gig at Toff on Friday 31st and hit Equinox with Alisa and some of her friends on Saturday. Lotsa man action, 3 smashed mugs of beer & butt flashing X2 by one of the boys (must be the drinks!) sum the night up. Crazy!

And today was spent at the very lovely St. Kilda Beach! Was great sitting by the beach, feeling the warmth of the sun on your shoulders while enjoying a nice salad and juice. Dear Alisa got herself a hat from the craft market and I met an artist whose works I totally fell in love with! The best thing was he said I could drop by his studio to take a look and perhaps do some stuff for him like stretching canvas and doing background paint for his works and in turn he'll teach me how to paint!!!!!!! How awesome is that?! Should be checking the studio out next week :)

Ended the day with a nice latte and some reading at Gloria Jeans Cafe @ Borders after Alisa went back. Ah, this is why I love Melbourne life :)