Melbourne Day One

I've been putting off updating this space with pictures from my Australia trip, using fatigue as an excuse. BUT. I've been watching The Little Nonya on YouTube (All hail YouTube!) when I discovered with a glee that it was uploaded by MediaCorpFan (yeah thats the name =.=). Despite not being a fan of MediaCorp, this is one of the shows that I have to, have to watch. And so, all this time outside dance practice, I've been watching episodes of TLN that I'd missed while I was missing in Australia. (((:

Ok, so let's get back to the Down Under!

(Most of the pictures here are taken with Marcus' prosumer camera. I'm so gian to get one!)

The ticket to freedom!

We went to the famed Pancake Parlour in Melbourne Right after we touched down, because it was really early in the morning and we couldn't check in. LOVELY!

And this is the best pancakes I've ever eaten! Is it MacDonald's, or is it just me... But the pancakes in Singapore are never so fluffy, buttery, and non-sickening (you know the aftertaste you get from eating something with a weird taste?). Anyway, that's a scoop of whipped butter sitting atop the pancake, all melting and waiting to be devoured! (: Yum!

The English Breakfast Bernard and Bridgette ordered. The grilled mushrooms were really soaked in oil, but damn, were they good!



Looking bloated and fatigued from the flight. =.=

Check in!

We headed to Chinatown right after check in, with barely 2hours of sleep on the flight.

Bern introduced a must-try Cantonese restaurant, and so we had tea there after trawling through the CBD.

Peking Duck! It was really good.
Tofu, MUSHROOM, and some vegetable.


So we shopped...

And then we ate AGAIN. This time at a famous Vietnam cafe. The price and portion were, of course, "Australianised", i.e, upsized and more expensive. A bowl of beef noodles which would have cost $1+ in Vietnam cost us over $9. But the portions were huge... This cafe is apparently quite famous, a lot of famous Asian actors have visited this restaurant before. Pictures are taken and pasted all over the shop's interior as marketing tactics/decorations. :P

The State Library. I loved it.

And outside the library where everyone was lying down on the grass patch. Wa never see in Singapore one!

Bikes were quite common around the city area. We realised why the 3rd day... Parking was such a pain.

You'd never guess that this was Melbourne Central, a shopping mall.
And art is everywhere in the streets! This is the bottom of a lamp post.
A department of the RMIT housed somewhere near our apartment.
So romantic!
And you wouldn't believe what we found... KBOX right below our apartment! This is the one and only KTV I saw in Australia. I wonder if some homesick Singaporean went there and set it up.

And finally, home. View from the balcony. I believe this was around 8.30pm. Still so bright!

It was a really tiring day one for us, and we were so glad to be back in the apartment. It's really easy to lose track of time in Australia where the sun sets super late. It was also quite sunny, but when the breeze blew, it was wayyyy cold. And it was lucky that jaey warned me to look at the weather reports before packing up in the finaly days, if not I would have brought my summer clothes instead of jeans and sweaters. And so we rested, with an even more tiring day 2 to come. (: