Thursday, October 7, 2010

Melbourne Macro Shots: Tudor Village and Fairy Tree

More macro shots!
This Tudor Village is like awesomely small. It was all fenced up and we can't get in.
So my macro shots were all courtesy of my brother's Canon.
Took alot of zooming and alot of steadying my hand on the fence to get them right.









The Fairy Tree was standing behind the Tudor Village.
It was a good thing that it was fenced up because I just wanted to touch every single creature carved there!
I had a hard time deciding how to photograph some of them, in the end I only manage to isolate out a few.



Spooky eyes in the dark. (My favourite out of all Fairy Tree shots)





Friday, October 1, 2010

BK!!!

I've wished long
And I've wished hard
Finally it is freaking here!!!






Burger King is in Penang!!!!

It was quite a rush to go there on opening night, and just waiting for the table, waiting in queue to finally get it with all the crowd of hungry BK fans!
What surprised me was seeing some pretty old folks eating alongside their adult children there.







Here's my mushroom swiss.
Although I remember they used to have double mushroom swiss...wonder what happened to that.











And of course the beloved onion rings!!










But sadly, I'll only give the meal a 6 out of 10 (1.5 of that comes from finally arriving in Penang) because the size has shrunk and the mushroom tasted like it came straight from a can without being rinsed. Onion rings definitely earned 2 points. The unevenly cooked fries and the rubbery mozzarella cheese sticks was dissappointing.

Oh well, at least it has arrived, right?

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Melbourne Summary

So here's a log of things.
It's a mixture of places and stuff I remember was awesome.

27th-Board plane-Nodame Cantabile 2 The Movie
28th-Highpoint Shopping Center-Yum Cha
29th-Altona Beach-Built a Bear-Lauren's birthday
30th-I try so hard to recall, but I can't seem to remember how I spent the 30th. Memory lost
31st-Urquhard Bluff-Great Ocean Road Memorial Arch-Twelve Apostles-Loch Ard-Port Campbell
1st-Footscray Market-Strawberries-Footscray Library
2nd-St. Patrick's Cathedral-Fitzroy Garden-Conservatory-Miniature Tudor village-Fairy Tree-Brunetti's-Melbourne General Cemetery
3rd-Birds at Sherbrooke Forest-Puffing Billy-Yarra Valley-Fergusson's Winery-Healesville Sanctuary-Dingos-Predator birds-Koalas-Kangaroos-Platypus-Dinner with Shawn and WenC at Palazzo
4th-Direct Factory Outlet-Unagi fried rice-River's Cashier
5th-Melbourne Aquarium-Penguins-Underwater area-Dinner with Shawn and WenC at their place-Sliders
6th-Federation Bells-Hungry Jacks-Churchill Island-Wallabies-Koala Conservation Centre-Penguin Parade at Summerland Beach
7th-Tram to Victoria Market-Melbourne City-David Jones-Robin Hood's Play
8th-Botanical Gardens-Shrine of Remembrance-Flower Clock-Churros-Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at TownHall-Allans Music-Casa Del Gelato
9th-Port of Echuca-Rocky the cockatoo-Paddlesteamers-RSL-Oscar's Wharf-Cuba Libre
10th-La Porchetta-Canola flowers and rocky fields on the way back from Echuca.
11th-Direct Factory Outlet-Highpoint Shopping Center Arcade
12th-BBQ afternoon with Carol, Mary, Shawn, WenC and the Ung family minus one-Chocolates from Carol
13th-Ballarat-Sovereign Hill-Candle Making-Gold Pour-Wheelwrighting-Redcoat Soldiers-Sweet Making-Gold Panning-Gold Museum
14th-Tram to Victoria Market-Dinner with Shawn and WenC at the CornerShop.
15th-Board plane-Letters to Juliet-Last 10 minutes of Nodame Cantabile 2 The Movie-Changi Airport's Butterfly Garden

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Melbourne Flower Shots

Here are my macro shots of flowers!


Saturday, September 18, 2010

I'm Home...

Been exactly that for a couple of days actually.
I'll probably spew out the details of tours and what-nots in the next month or so.
But am currently not sure how exactly to characterize a holiday that not only captured your eyes but changes something inside.
It takes a whole new level of maturity to be a concierge and to be openly discussing life issues for roughly 20 days.
Wanting to hold on to that and be that something more right back here is still something I'm trying to figure out.

How do I do this? Where do I start?

Feels like I'm walking on jelly feet.