Saturday, October 17, 2009

The place to be - Melbourne, the CBD

Basically the CBD of Melbourne is made up from nine vertical and nine horizontal streets. The government is trying to preserve the Victorian style in the CBD and hence most of the high rise and modern buildings are built outside the city. You can get around the city easily by tram, but the traffic can be very confusing too because they have tram lanes and car lanes, and the tram station is in the middle of the road. It even has carriages around the city too! If you take away the cars and the modern trams, it will be just like an old Victorian city.

Melbourne is a vibrant city, even though it is not as fast pacing like Sydney but it's definitely a good place to be at, except the weather is not very nice, the 4 days I was in Melbourne, it was very windy and you see just clouds and more clouds.  It is a smaller city compared to Sydney, Sydney has more high rise buidlings, and more like a business district to me as you can see big, famous, and listed companies around the city and people wearing suits going for work and Melbourne has more tourists and students as the University of Melbourne and RMIT just located around the city, and tourists are just everywhere in the city, like EVERYWHERE. I like how they have information booths and helpers to help the tourists to get around the city, which was really helpful for self-touring tourists like us.

There are a lot of Asians too, it's just everywhere, whenever you blink your eye you see an Asian. The whole city is just like a Chinatown to me, I thought I was in some Asian country. But the good thing is, the Asian groceries and restaurants are everywhere!! And it's cheaper! Well, the cost of living there is cheaper but the rental is crazy!

Okie picturessssssss!!


- The federation Square-


-still around the federation square-


-The very busy Flinders Street Station-


-random building which I found pretty interesting-


-I think this is the old fire station-


-the state library-


-I got locked up in the watch house... =(-


-and got this photo taken, for a crime I did not commit-


-gallop gallop gallop on on the street-


-if you happen to go Melbourne, you HAVE to go to this gelato place in Lygon Street!-


-They have the awesome durian flavoured gelato and it's like you're eating a durian! Their best selling is Ferrero Rocher and I think the 2nd best is the durian flavour already! I had the Durian and Pandan! I miss it alreadyyyyy!!-


-I think this is an exhibition centre or something-


-I am a teapot short and stout, this is in Melbourne Museum, which we got in for free! For being a student!-


-the night view of the city from Yarra river-


-The Crown Casino!! please ignore the stupid pole which trying to steal the spotlight. Everyone was soooo posh and classy looking and made us feel so inferior for wearing just t-shirt, jeans and sneakers.-


-The only picture we took inside of Crown Casino -

That's pretty much about Melbourne city, next up will be the Great Ocean Road!

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Holiday

I'm on my mid semester break for 2 weeks and I'll be flying off to Melbourne and Tasmania tomorrow. Bye bye!! Wil blog about the trip when I come back 1 week later. =D

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Dust Storm



No I did not edit the picture, this photo is taken in my room at 7.40 in the morning today. The dust is not so thick anymore now but the wind is still very strong. According to the news, it's the worst dust storm in 70 years. And the scientist says there might be another one coming up again tomorrow and Friday. Scaryy.... I need to go stock up my food storage already!

Anyway, it's holiday babeh!! 2 weeks of mid term holiday, not that I'm going anywhere but still it's holiday!! Maybe not exactly a holiday as I have three assignments due when uni reopen. For now, I just want to curl up in my bed watching drama series!!

*praying for a rain*
*praying for the dust storm to go away*
*praying for no more dust storm tomorrow*
*praying for the mid term test results to be at least decent*

Saturday, September 12, 2009

How to enlarge picture

Been wondering how did I manage to upload huge pictures? Imma telling you now!

You will need to log in http://draft.blogger.com instead of the normal blogger you signed into. Then upload pictures like normal. Good thing using draft blogger is that you can upload as many pictures as you want at one time, bad thing is when you're uploading you cannot continue to type the post until they are finished uploaded. But another good thing is you can just post the pictures anywhere you want instead of having to drag it down from top to bottom but I already found an alternative for it.

Okay back to enlarging the pictures. After you uploaded and posted, then go to edit HTML and this is the code where you change the size of the photo.


The size will normally be s320 if you choose medium, all you need to do is change the number to either s576, s640, s800, or even s1600 if you want a uber huge ass picture on your blog. Normally I use s576 for all the pictures.


After you have done, go back to compose, you will see the size of your picture will change from this

 to this


Voila, it's as simple as that. Oh one more thing, some blog templete with narrow content margin might not be able to do this, so you will need to change the content margin in your blog layout using HTML.

Hope this is useful. =D

p/s: that absinth doesn't belong to me.

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

It's Spring!

-pretty cherry blossom in the uni-

Flowers are blooming! I ♥ Spring!

Except those insects that started coming out from hibernation that is.

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

2 more weeks!

It's already week 7 this week, 2 more weeks and I'm be on my mid term holiday! And, that also means 8 more weeks till finals and 12 more weeks till the end of the term! That's how fast time flies. I go to uni from Monday till Wednesday only, I don't even know how I spent my weekends and before I realize it's Monday again. sigh... I guess I have been wasting time a lot.

2 weeks ago, I went to ChamShan temple located in Morriset, it's around 40 minutes drive away from Newcastle. It was my first time visiting a temple in Australia and I was pretty excited about it. The temple was nice, the people were nice too! It's more of a cantonese speaking temple, but I'm glad I am able to understand it all thanks to the TVB dramas I have been watching all this while. Visiting the temple is now a fortnightly event for the uni newly formed Buddhist Society.


On a totally unrelated thing, I have tasted my first char koay teow in Australia!!! *big wet eyes* Even though it is not very authentic but the flavour and the fragrance of wonderful char koay teow is there! *bliss*

I just registered for IELTS exam in November, I really hope I can get at least 7 for each component so I don't have to retake it. I really need to brush up my English, I know my grammar is horrible and my vocab is limited. How to score like that! T__T Yesh yesh I know I should read more books but my reading phase comes and goes. And now I'm not in the reading phase. But on a bright side, I just bought 2 books during the book fair last month for 4 dollars each! All I need now is to get myself into reading it.

That's all for now, will update more! It's Wednesday again tomorrow!

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Merdeka Night 2009 - Fusion of Culture

Yesterday wasn't exactly Independence day yet, but everyone's patriotic spirit was there! The food wasn't bad, cannot complain since I'm not in Malaysia but still get to eat satay!! *bliss* There are performances going on and lucky draw. The 1st prize is a return ticket back to Malaysia!! Unfortunately I wasn't the lucky one. =( Anyway, I had a lot of fun! Met a lot of people, it was a great night!

Since everyone will be turning up pretty, I also tried my best to look good too! I think it wasn't bad, since I got compliments from friends! =D Here's the picture after I did my make up.


Here are some photos from yesterday:

-Joe, me and Thia-

-me, Pung and Chermaine-

-Thia and me-

-the ladies-

-Mr X, Kenneth, Michael, LayPing, Me and Ah Fu-

-dikir barat performance-

-see, I am very patriotic!!-

Yep, it was a great night! Happy Merdeka everyone! =D I will be going to a temple tomorrow! That will be my 1st time going to a temple in Australia! I am very excited!! Stay tuned for more!!