It’s funny how we speak to each other so rarely when we’re far apart but once we see each other, it’s like nothing have changed. And i’m saying it cause it’s a great thing :)

This here is a little keychain that Jason got for me. David & Goliath is one of our favourite things.

Also, do drop by his blog to see the many wonderful things in the United States through his eyes. I promise you it’s a real eye opener :)

I know when it was taken, where it was taken and i know how it goes. Yet, i still choose to watch it anyway. And oh god, that awkward moment when you see yourself in a video.

God, i sound like that?
And i look like that when i’m talk?
Oh god somebody please slap me.

I never want to watch myself again. It’s just weird.

Anyway, it’s just some random video that Hoongmao took while we were leaving ZoukOut back in 2010. We were talking bout how we never want to come back to ZoukOut again. That stupid rave.

The video was taken at 8am. Can you imagine that?

Siao.

These were the best screen captures i could get.

Last Saturday, i brought the xbox home with me and i got reacquainted with this gamed called Beautiful Katamari.

It’s part of the Katamari series of games following the initial Katamari Damacy. The concept of the game is pretty much the same through each series:

The game’s plot concerns a diminutive prince on a mission to rebuild the stars, constellations, and Moon, which were accidentally destroyed by his father, the King of All Cosmos. This is achieved by rolling a magical, highly adhesive ball called a katamari around various locations, collecting increasingly larger objects, ranging from thumbtacks to people to mountains, until the ball has grown great enough to become a star.

I guess it’s obvious by now that this game is a product of the Japanese. Only the Japanese can think of such bizarre things.

I discovered this game years ago. Though i’m not sure how, i remember discovering it with Jason. Everything in this game is just so happy-looking. From the characters to the soundtrack. I guess it was very us.

Hoongmao: Is this supposed to be.. therapeutic?

Why, yes. Nothing is quite therapeutic (and fun) like rolling things up into one big ball of junk :D

As Boromir would say, “One does not simply edit pictures”.

Also it took really long to come up with this post cause i have loads of pictures from all over the place, so i had a tough time deciding how am i gonna go about this. Well, i’ve decided to split everything up so there’ll be more posts about my trip ;)

So anyway, back to talking bout Melbourne. In August 2011, i went to Melbourne for the first time.

I’m really glad that i went for this trip. At first, i was sure about not wanting to go because the trip would be really expensive, considering the fact that the trip will be almost two weeks long.

But after some persuasion and consideration, i decided to go after all. And it turned out to be one of the best decisions that i’ve ever made.

BabyGiap and Fei Sing

Of course there were a lot of things to sort out before i left Malaysia. School stuff, mostly. I had to explain to my lecturers and group mates bout why i’ll be missing during presentation week. They all didn’t understand why i chose to travel in the middle of the semester, but thank goodness they approved of my absence nonetheless.

Anyway, it was my first long flight to somewhere out of the country. BabyGiap and Fei Sing were my guardians-slash-escorts to Melbourne as rest were already in Australia for a gig in Sydney a couple of days earlier.

When i finally arrived at the airport in Melbourne and took my first step into the outdoors, i felt like i needed time to take in everything.

The rush of cold wind against my bare face as i stepped out and fresh crisp air that accompanied it, the sky with the prettiest gradient of blue coupled with some white fluffy clouds here and there, and the simple yet stunning scenery during our cab ride to the hotel.

It was all foreign, yet exciting. It felt surreal.

My first few hours in Melbourne was spent with Jason and Cai Jin since i had a couple of hours to myself until Hoongmao and the rest arrives from Sydney. So by being the new kid in town, Cai Jin and Jason were both obligated to take me out. You know, as a welcome gesture.

Good thing i bought a prepaid the first thing i arrived :)

Another good thing is that we’re all living in the city and we’re just minutes walk away from each other. But even so, i didn’t really get to see them as often as i’d want to cause they both had classes during the weekdays.

But nonetheless, it was nice to see familiar faces after landing at a completely foreign place.

First meal at Melbourne – ox tongue rice from Menya

Cai Jin brought me to her place after lunch. The view from her place is amazing, don’t you agree?

This is the service apartment we lived at for our entire stay at Melbourne. It’s located at Franklin Street, which makes it the best place to stay given the price for accommodation.

Our humble unit

Well it may not be as glamourous as some people would like it to be, but really it’s not bad at all. I got used to it just fine cause the place was clean.

Besides, the four of us lived pretty much in harmony considering the fact that the we only had one bathroom. Amazing, innit?

Evening view from our balcony

There wasn’t really a need for public transportation since we were located at Franklin Street. Places like Melbourne Central and Victoria Market were just a walking distance away so it was really convenient.

Plus, why would you wanna take public transport when the weather is perfect for walking?

Coop’s Shot Tower in Melbourne Central; est. 1888

There’s also a place in Melbourne Central called Cho Gao that we went to for drinks pretty often. I’m sure Malaysians studying over at Melbourne would know this place.

We’d always sit outside at the balcony. The weather makes beer drinking so much more enjoyable cause with a weather like that, the beer is always cold.

So we walked most of the time. We took transportation only when we’re going to some place outside the city center.

It pretty easy to navigate around the city too. I could even walk to Melbourne Central alone the day after i first arrived in Melbourne just to get my uggs before heading up to Mt. Buller.

Speaking of uggs, they’re actually pretty useful. I thought i’d only wear them up in the mountain cause of the snow, but i ended up wearing them when we were back in the city too cause it gets really cold at night.

But really, the best way to explore new places is by walking.

Taken during my morning walk to Melbourne Central

At an ally nearby

Nasty taggin’

Spotted an Invader

We started our first night in Melbourne with a blast at a Pure Hard Dance (PHD) party at Inflation. It was my first time going to an underground club so it was quite an eye opener. And i got to see real Melbourne shufflers :D

Why do you still come visit this blog, i don’t know. But i really appreciate the fact that you still do :)

So yeah, i feel horrible for not being able to update last week. I really wanted to (cause i had the mojo) but i couldn’t because i was really swarmed last week. I know i know, EXCUSES! But it’s trueee..

You see, i started working last week. It’s only for a short while though. I’m doing a job for Shu Uemura’s new collection – Mamechiyo for Shu Uemura. Basically we were hopping around shopping malls the whole of last week doing makeup demos, and yours truly was the model ;)

Although it wasn’t exactly tough work, i still had to study cause i had this big finance test that was coming up. And this paper is notorious for failing people, so i was a little stressed out trying to balance out work, study and.. well, play.

Hey i got really caught up with serious time, okay. If i was a Sim, my entertainment bar would be down to red. But if you must know, i studied all week and only took one night off for playtime.

Anyway, i’m happy to announce that it’s all good now! I just did the finance test yesterday and it wasn’t so bad. I just hope that the results won’t turn out to be a troll. Anddd.. my mojo is still around so i’ll be working on some blog posts! ;)

The Mamechiyo look

Also, if you’d like to check out the Shu Uemura x Mamechiyo makeup demo, you can follow me on Twitter for updates :)

Ttfn!