Few days since I came back to Malaysia, I decided to write about the trip.
This is actually a very rare case cuz after high school I don't update my blog as often as I used to.
I normally write about things few months later and then date them back to the actual date so that it would seem like I wrote about it when it happened, lol.
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Anyway, back to the trip.
We reached Melbourne at around 11pm on Christmas Eve, had some home-cooked noodles & slept.
Ohhh, 14 came to see me before I sleep just to see me. Awwww.
Since it's still holiday here there's no place to go, but there's this one place that's never closed.
And it's >>>>>>>> (drumrolls) >>>>>>>> CASINO!!!!
So we went to the Crown Entertainment Complex, where the casino is at.
Had dinner @ San Antone by Bludso's BBQ inside the complex.
Wanted to eat at their food court actually, but there's crowded af.
Left the casino at around 11pm to see the fire show outside Crown. It was so not what I expected haha I thought it's gonna be those concert stage firework kinda stuff.
The next day we went to the city again. Had lunch @ Mekong Vietnamese, they said it's a famous pho place but I didn't like pho so yeah, no pho for me. Their portion can feed two me tho.
Anyway, Sw & Joseph were going to this 'fireside gathering??' ' (some Hearthstone event), so I get to spend my day with 14 all alone, yay finallyyyyyy.
The line at Pandora was kinda long so they gave us mineral water while we wait, tsk tsk so nice.
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Waking up to one huge bowl of cherries (from the cherry tree in the house garden)!!
It's Christmas day today, as a Malaysian you might think that Christmas day in a foreign country should be very happening. The truth is.. no shop is open for business on Christmas... Only a few Chinese restaurants are open because idk why also. So we had out lunch at a HongKong-style restaurant, where I had this wonton mee:
It's Christmas day today, as a Malaysian you might think that Christmas day in a foreign country should be very happening. The truth is.. no shop is open for business on Christmas... Only a few Chinese restaurants are open because idk why also. So we had out lunch at a HongKong-style restaurant, where I had this wonton mee:
I assume this is the local HK wonton mee? So different from the Malaysia wonton mee, but Malaysia's nicer (in my opinion haha don't judge).
Nobody can stop me from grabbing the handle!! @LawTeanHoe
Went home to take nap cuz no shop opens means nothing to do.
Home-cooked dinner (don't jealous) :
After dinner we drove out to see some houses with really nice Christmas deco.
We googled them, but we drove to like 10 places and only these two have deco. (AH got scammed)
One thing to mention is their McDonald's, 24 nuggets for $9.95!!
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Western breakfast mou?
Let you all guess who is the only one who got something on Boxing Day.
When everything is on point, the lipstick, the sunlight, the hair. Tsk how can I not post this.
Boxing day lunch, everyone is so good at cooking. Just look at that roast duck, seriously.
I bet you thought this cake was bought, but nahhhh,
Since it's still holiday here there's no place to go, but there's this one place that's never closed.
And it's >>>>>>>> (drumrolls) >>>>>>>> CASINO!!!!
So we went to the Crown Entertainment Complex, where the casino is at.
Had dinner @ San Antone by Bludso's BBQ inside the complex.
Wanted to eat at their food court actually, but there's crowded af.
I was actually happy that we decided to eat here, where Joseph's mom ordered 500ml of wine just for herself and me. I spent the next one hour feeling dizzy and having stupid/crazy snapchat conversation with my best friend, while blindly following Sw and Joseph walking from table to table. I thought that's it, my night is complete. But the time I was give the chips and sat down at the table, gg you should have seen my face, that instant addiction. For those of you who haven't tried gambling at casino, don't do it. lel
Look, here's a photo of my hand holding chips & it's blurred because I was so thrilled that my hands tremble haha nola it's because I was walking.
Left the casino at around 11pm to see the fire show outside Crown. It was so not what I expected haha I thought it's gonna be those concert stage firework kinda stuff.
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The next day we went to the city again. Had lunch @ Mekong Vietnamese, they said it's a famous pho place but I didn't like pho so yeah, no pho for me. Their portion can feed two me tho.
Anyway, Sw & Joseph were going to this 'fireside gathering??' ' (some Hearthstone event), so I get to spend my day with 14 all alone, yay finallyyyyyy.
I had to post this cuz when I was going through other people's itineraries, they said this is a must-go tourist spot. I wasn't even looking for this place, I was just aimlessly walking around with 14 & randomly walked into this building (I don't even know what's its name), but the second I looked up I was like "EHY THIS!!"
Summing up our day in a collage.
Spent most of the time shopping because everything just seems so cheap when you're travelling, you get me? Hahaha got matching friendship rings because Pandora is cheaper there hehe.
And then we went to this cafe called Little Rogue Coffee because 14 highly recommended their Matcha Latte. It's hidden at a lorong, so much feels. (Just like bumbung, or lorong mamak.)
Sat at the window seats because there's no empty table, business so good lol. Altho I can't take nice photo of the drinks at the table, but I get to look at those people passing by or just sitting on the road sipping coffee. Angmo really knows how to live their life.
As we were walking back to the bus stop she asked me what else I wanted to eat, so we went through my foursquare list and we decided to go the Aqua S ice cream shop.
Should have paired pink with blue *sigh* regret sia.
They only have 3 flavours & it changes from time to time (14 told me), I think the sea-salt flavour (blue) is permanent tho. Anyway we got all three, the green one is coconut and the pink one I just couldn't recall. They are too sweet for my liking but very instaworthy, altho I didn't take any instagramable photo idk why.
Had dinner at 14's Korean BBQ shop, I really don't know why I didn't take photo of the dinner. Costed 100+ dollars leh, you try convert back to ringgit, wacao. But the boss gave us 2 pieces of wagyu beef and a plate of fried glass noodle for free, cannot complain already lol.
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Today we went to Brighton beach, ayyo finally a tourist spot. Took awhile to find parking but a kind soul gave me a paid parking ticket because she paid for a whole day parking and she was leaving.
Lunch @ Brighton Baths Cafe, their tartar sauce is really nice. The fish & chips cost $22 but I guess it's okay? Not sure about the food price range at Australia, but the ambience there is ♥, dogs lying all around, strong wind blowing from the sea.
And then I went shopping again kekeke. Had to stop because Sw & Joseph said their legs cmi. *smh
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The next day Joseph brought me to Chadstone Shopping Centre because his leg has recovered. So nice of him, because of him I got a kangaroo charm as he said I should get something related to Australia since I'm here and that makes perfect sense..
If you zoom into the photo you can see a kangaroo, lol.
Lunch at Chadstone's food court, had this from the china noodle stall recommended by Joseph. Spent so long looking for an empty table, people here just love food court.
Dinner @ Wagaya Restaurant in the city. They have really nice sushi and the price is so reasonable! Well not like Malaysia cheap kinda cheap, but compared to other food places at Australia they are reasonable. Also the deco there is super niceeeeee.
Not sure if it's me shaking or the car lol
We ordered the strawberry soju, peach rice wine, egg roll, kimchi stew & corn cheese. And tbh, all of them are fantastic!! Especially the rice wine, it's so thick and foamy (100000x better than those bottled rice wine). 14 told me that Joomak makes their own rice wine & soju, tsk wish we have Joomak in Malaysia.
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It's road trip day!! Today's:Domaine Chandon (winery)
Yarra Valley Chocolaterie & Ice Creamery (chocoolate factory)
Cherry Hill Orchards (cherry picking)
The winery is perfect for photos, all the green background with perfect natural lighting. Just pay $12 you get to taste 5 types of wines.
Keeron
Junming
They say the ice-cream outside the chocolate factory is a must, $5/6 for one, 7lan big.
There's this band?? performing at the cherry farm. Damn they're so good looking, especially the one holding violin, he sings well too.
I bought these because I thought it's cherry cider!!! Turned out to be cherry juice!! The cider is placed at the other corner!!! FMLLLLL
My first pho in my life, got the chicken pho cuz I'm a Buddhist I can't eat beef. I still prefer the vietnamese vermicelli tho.
Went home to nap so that we have energy to go drinking at night. Again took me one hour plus to get ready as I'm really bad at putting on make up and contacts because I only put on make up when there's really special occasions (< 5 times) and I only wear contacts when I put on make up.
If you ignore the fat face it's not bad right. LOL
For someone who couldn't go out late at night, in case you don't know it's me, I don't even have a curfew, I'm just not allowed to go out at night. Someone like me, get to go out to drink at night, you know that feeling? For the first time I get to walk into a club (I've never been near to a club), and drink few rounds with my best friend? And go down to the dance floor where there's all angmo? You can never imagine that feeling if you don't have STRICT parents. If you know me in person I'm a super outgoing & crazy person, when everyone first heard that I've never been to a club they be like "You're lying" "Impossible" and etc. But yeah the point is that it's my first time at a club. Although we went to the club by accident, we wanted to go to bar & chill but Joseph wanted to go this rooftop shisha place which is closed so we searched "hookah" on foursquare where we ended up here. They did have a security (is that what you call that guy?) which this high tech machine they use to scan your ID/Passport before you go in, and I just thought Melbourne bar has really high security lol.
Wow this is a long one so maybe you can ignore since going to club is not so big of a deal for you people.
Joomak again cuz that day Joseph didn't get to come with us. Rice wine is love!!
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It's zoo day ehy, zoo on the last day of 2017~
Family photo, don't we look like a family together?
Sitting on the grass eating snacks, ayyo so good to be foreigner.
Wombat neh, how cute.
$4.50 soft serve
Jap ramen @ Westfield food court
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Look how I spent my new year eve night, just the right way hahaha
Happy 2018 everyone!
