Weekend Escapade

Karen Cheng Encounter

I realized that I’ve been doing too much things lately that I don’t have the time to chat online or make post in here. My PC is still in an unstable condition where the screen will freeze from time to time when I was watching anime or doing some other things with it - no matter what, I’ll find time to have it fixed through the warranty since its only 2 months old!!!

Last Thursday, I was walking along Chapel St (One of the Melbourne's most vibrant fashion and food strip area). Then I saw a familiar lady in black top and jeans walking alone towards my direction, almost thought I know her in person and was about to say hi until I realized she’s Karen Cheng (The famous blogger that I’ve stalked for some time). I was staring at her for a few just to make sure, and I think I almost freaked her out. I thought maybe I should approach her and ask her to ‘Do the Karen Cheng’ in one of the shop’s mirror – good grave that my camera wasn’t with me at that time if not I’ll definitely look stupid~

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Melbourne Fishing Charters

I had a long weekend. Nick is going back to Malaysia for good next week and won’t be coming back in near future so we planned to organize a trip to get together for some valuable time. Since Warren is having his uni-break holiday, he decided that we go Charter Fishing in the ocean with his 7 girl friends! I invited Evelyn and Philip to sum the number to 8 girls and 4 guys – excellent trip!! Well, not really since the proportion of sexes is not the main idea of this trip, most of us didn’t have a good time since it was raining that day. It’s pretty stupid to fish during rainy day though, but everyone is busy on other days, we have to try our luck against the forecast and everyone end up miserably under the rain… The fact that it was raining and the wave was quite rough, everyone had a hard time and end up getting only 3 salmons and 1 puke from Evelyn at the end of the day~

This is the second time I went fishing off-shore and most of the time, it’s either that we can’t get fish or people start puking from sea sick. I’m thinking maybe next time I should organize to fish along the bay, it might end up with a happier ending~ here are some of the photos we took…

Bad Weather

Warren’s Girl Friends Part 01

Warren’s Girl Friends Part 02

The three big Nubsss: Nick, Philip and Warren since they didn’t get any fish after trying so hard…

So is LJ, my new Nub friend~

And a loser award to Evelyn since she won herself a pile of pukes from the trip~ Myself? I caught some Melbourne pest the dodgy Starfish - they are so dodgy that I can’t be bothered to bring out my camera for it, and then I was told they have billions under the seabed!!

Ada - the best story teller on board!!

Si Shu caught the Biggest Fish for the day

Cheam First Caught Fish in her life!

Enjoying the sausages and bread with Cheam~

And enjoying being fed by reluctant Si Shu, the story goes...

Ada speaks English with strong Vietnamese accent. While Si Shu and I were happily munching away our chips, Ada suddenly said something…

Ada: ‘Fit’ him! ‘Fit’ him!!

Alex -_-ll: *Looking at Si Shu* What is she trying to say?

Si Shu: She’s asking me to feed you and she’ll take a photo of us~

Alex -_-ll: Okay~ *Happily opens his mouth*

Ada: Quick 'Fit' him!!

Si Shu: !@#$%$#@!@$# *Reluctantly fed Alex*

Well… After all, the trip was not that bad~

Everyone got extremely tired that day, the wave was so strong on the way back that half of us on board got seasick and the rest were trying to balance themselves from the shaking boat – it was quite thrilling though…

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Fandango North Melbourne

For me, I think it’s always great to start off the day with a nice meal and go for some activity after that, the day will last longer and more pleasurable. We decided to go Fandango in North Melbourne for brunch since 3 weeks ago but it’s either that we have to wait too long for the queue or it’s closed during Sunday.

It happened that last Saturday was perfect, we got seat right away after the friendly waiter attended to us - the place is small and cosy and they have very limited sits around. We started off with our drinks and realized they make nice, creamy, strong coffees! Clement and Tiffany have been praising it after their first sip~ and as usual - Tiff = Creamy Hot Chocolate, Myself = Creamy Latte and Clement is an all-round coffee lover and had a Creamy Flat White this time. He just love it and he’s been talking about it for two days whenever we chat about breakfast. He even analyzed by himself that the coffee is from Supreme-brew~ What a coffee freak!!!

Drinks @ Fandango

Not long after 20 mins of wait…

The Big Breakfast – honestly and seriously Big!

Delicious Pesto Scrambled Eggs with nice Bacons and Pide Breads – loving it!

Triple stack of Pancakes with Bananas, Strawberries, Home-made Honey Cream Cheese and Maple Syrup.

With a sumptuous brunch, that Saturday was almost perfect~ just need a little bit more we thought… so with a full tummy, we decided to golf it out!!

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Golf Out

So we went over to Albert Park driving range…

Yes! Out of all sports – golf!! I’ve always wanted to learn but I don’t have a good teacher so I simply suck at it~

Little do I know that I’m actually hanging out with a Pro!!

Of course not Tiffany! But she has a good pose though… Hehe~

Philip is the pro who played golf since high school and has always been keeping up with his skills - he’s growing to become my sports idol now~ first snowboarding and now is golf… So I forced him to be my golf master now, pretty one sided but I don’t care as long as he teach me~ Hoho…

It is not easy at all~ I got lectured by Philip many times about my positioning and body momentum… He even said sometimes I move like I’m dancing, not golfing!!!! Well, that’s the priority to professionals since they speak with words that carry gold so that you know how to take it seriously and improve!!

See!! I’m getting there~ *I Love Gold*

I’m dead tired after hitting approximately 100 balls or maybe more, in 2 hours time practicing none stop. I’m totally engrossed into it and after that slept for 4 hours right after I got home… Ha!

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Saturday Home Drinking Session

I’m always greedy during weekend since that’s the time where I can have most of my free time. So Phillip brought over a bottle of Martell to my house that night and hang out with my old pass-out board game inherited from Eddie – no one really pass out though…

What a Weekend!!!