Melbourne Street Art

Let’s take a walk with Graffiti

Something common in Melbourne but unique to the others is the Street Art. I have no idea about the history of artists in Melbourne, but I’m pretty sure they are good at vandalizing buildings with creative Graffiti! It’s no surprise to find a striking patch of Graffiti when you enter a dark, dirty alley around Melbourne - you’ll find yourself stunned since they are so cool!!

Last year around October, Street Graffiti was legalized in Melbourne as there are too many ‘noobs’ around the city who illegally design vandalize monikers on buildings, alleys, train stations and public toilets with colourful spray. Throughout all these years, the problems got so big that it’ll cost millions of dollars to clean up those vandalized streetscapes. So, the idea was to replace the amateur art pieces with new ‘pro’ graffiti. As in the street culture, it is impolite to deface another artist’s graffiti finished work and somehow it works. Regardless of that culture, I think no one will bear to dirt these masterpieces.

Along an alley is the graffiti of movie Princess Mononoke (Anime Movie made in 1997 by Hayao Miyazaki aka the director of Spirited Away)



Then we monkey around the wall with tree spirits like idiots

Lame with the main character Ashitaka

And find them absolutely creative!

There’s this very cool lane near my work place…

Colorful city covered with gorgeous and vibrant lane ways!

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Melbourne - the leader in street art. What say you?

Happy Birthday Tiffany

I still remember helping Tiffany to organise her Birthday party on the big fishing boat last year. It was adventurous and although some vomited because of the rough waves, everyone still had fun to the max! And today, this birthday girl is reborn again~

Water Front @ Port Melbourne

People say that birthdays are good, there are many reasons to it – statistically, the one who have the most live the longest or realistically, you get a reason to eat lots of cakes – especially those super rich cakes from Melbourne!!

Tiffany decided to Waterfront it this time, and this is what happens…

Port Melbourne Waterfront has a good environment stated right in front of the sea. Everything is good except for the weather that day, it was blardy cold and raining, the fact that it’s located beside the sea makes thing worse. In the restaurant, we were "so honored" to be seated on the biggest table with the biggest chair around – the big long rectangular table is so long and big that a whole cow can be served on it! So cool but we were bugging the manager to change us into a round table since we felt too honored and can’t really hear each other from one end to the other.

Tiffany vs Lobster

Anyway that’s not the most important thing. Tiffany had a good time with her lobster even though she’s allergic to shells and her lips become numb when she was having it and she actually enjoyed it, so it’s all good. I was having fun teasing Evelyn about her new hair set - finally she doesn’t have to self-declare about herself as a beauty with her old dodgy hairstyle. Hoho~

Below are some of the decent photos I took that night, I like their seafood platter the most! But, I'll have to forget about the price if I really want to enjoy it~

Evelyn New Hairstyle

Their Kitchen is cool, the setup and the feeling of the restaurant is almost perfect if they don’t seat us on that table…

Baby Snapper – not very satisfying though…

Salmon on whatever sauce – I wonder if it’s nice~


Grilled Seafood Platter

Fresh Grand Seafood Platter – nicely decorated!

Nice atmosphere~

And the table is too big for a group photo so I only grab half of the gang since I don’t want to go through all the trouble to do it.

KTV December

After the dinner, we hopped over to KTV December for alcohol and more celebration!!

Happy Birthday again, and hope you'll have a smooth-sailing year ahead!

And it was a Good Night!

Monblue n Linda's Bday

I’ll give myself a few 2 more minutes before I wake up and ready up for work whenever it’s Monday! Today is the worst I think, I’m soO tired!! I hate it when my body clock couldn’t re-adjust/recover from my weekend parties. Well, hopefully Tiffany had a pleasant Birthday celebration last Saturday night.

I managed to get my ass to office on time - I look awake, eyes open and smiling but in fact until now I’m still half awake!! My brain is reluctant to think today, I can’t be bothered to give proper answers to my leader’s question and I’m glad he’s a person who’ll answer his own questions, all I did was listen and nod my head today.

Today’s weather sucks big time, after the frost rain last Saturday, even the Sun in Melbourne got slack! The whole day is soO cold and moody, I even feel like I’m in my dream right now!!! I think I better go get some food and shower then off to sleep~

But before that, Happy Birthday Linda! Have a great one and hope you won’t get another bouquet of nightmare blue roses this time~

Guess what!! I’m surprise this is the only one photo I had with you individually~ consider priceless? It's a 5 yo photo!!

Best Wishes!!

Fake Ego

The weather got so bad yesterday that it started raining ice for the whole morning, Melbourne got so cold that I don’t even want to get out of my room. Then I found a website while surfing around…

And guess what I’ve found!

I didn’t know I got so famous that people started painting me…

Putting me up as Model in their shop…

Advertise me on the streets…

Want a piece of me…

Even the sign I made got famous!

And picture of my favourite ‘FK’ group was displayed in the busiest district! Amazing!!!!!!!

Just for Fun @ Photofunia

Brekkie Paradise Fitzroy

I just added Nuffnang Australia and made my stat counter visible. I have always wanted to join Nuffnang since they have cool logo and poll layout. I tried to change my counter to the one Linda using but somehow ‘since date’ from that counter is not working in here so I took it out and replace back with my old one, doesn’t look that bad though. Anyway, I still want to alter this site when I have free time…

From my previous post, I mentioned that Fitzroy is the paradise of breakfast and indeed, they serve wonderful brekkies…

Mario’s

Marios is good with eggs! Nah, I don’t mean the game Super Mario Bros, I'm talking about the restaurant in Fitzroy call Marios. Tiff and Min were humming the song of Super Mario when they heard the name, I thought they were familiar with that place since I've never been there as well but it turn out that they have no idea at all.

Marios is a cosy place, it’s located at the heart of Fitzroy and it’s crowded during weekend. We sat outdoor at a cosy table, very much like a city type of ambiance where busy people keep walking pass our table along the street. Tiff and Min wasn’t too satisfied with sitting outdoor since it was quite warm that afternoon, but it’s all good after Tiff had her Ice Chocolate - “Whoa! Their Ice Chocolate is soO nice!! Really!!! You try?!?!” Quote Tiffany… We all thought it must be the weather effect~

Then, because of the warm weather effect again, we made suave decisions and ordered similar brekkies. Four of us had Egg with hollandaise sauce after I told them that they serve nice Egg Benedict and Florentine as well as Scramb… We can't be bothered to decide more than that~

So we all end up with Poach Eggs with Hollandaise Sauce... difference between Egg Benedict [Bottom] and Egg Florentine [Top] is the Vege and Ham in between the Muffin and Poach Eggs…

It was the first time I had Egg Benedict and it’s really delicious, the hollandaise sauce was perfectly made and so were the poach eggs. Some disappointing facts are, the portion is too small for me and the price is not that cheap.

Photos taken from Clement’s Cannon SLR [Colour Fading Effect]

Should have told them that Mario’s Mushroom is good for growing bigger, just like Mario!~

Filter

Just a few shops next to Marios is Filter. They have totally different environment – spacious, calm vibes with relaxing songs and modern setup with lots of paintings within the shop.

Spacious Ambiance

One of those paintings that hung next to me actually costs a thousand Aussie dollars… Chi Sin!

We had coffee but it didn’t taste as good, although they have strong coffee taste but the smell of the coffee definitely isn’t comparable against Fandango’s Supreme - Clement love Fandango’s but I prefer Ici’s.

Min Min Egg Benedict again~ from the look of it, Marios is so much better!

We have one chief recommend – the Scramble Eggs with Pesto? Not too sure but it doesn’t taste bad at all. The eggs were well scrambled with some ingredients~

Tiff and I had the signature dish of Filter and they actually sign Filter with dark soy sauce, very special and unique. Then the menu description for Filter eggs writes ‘fried eggs in bread’ – how?

We were curious and this is what happened. They sliced out 2 portions of the bread in circle shape, then replace the empty space with eggs and fry the bread along with the eggs, then toast the sliced portions and place them as decorations for that dish! Creative and very nice as well!!

Filter is a Good place to hang out and we are totally satisfied with what we ordered!

Santa Teachings

Christmas!! Nah not yet, in another one month time~ As for now, people here is getting ready to celebrate for the big event. Actually not really ‘celebrate’, it should be ‘to decorate for the big event’. I’ve heard that Singapore has all the glaring lights hanging up around Orchard Road already… Totally unlike here, not much decoration was done along the streets though. Oh yeah, I nearly forgot! Singapore is famous for ‘ Kia-su’.

Melbourne prefers to decorate in a different way, not too exaggerating, not too stressful for those decorators yet meaningful – I'm talking about the process of how Santa really works.

Anyone believe that Santa Claus exist when they were younger? This li’l fairy tale teaching might be interesting… Everyone know Santa delivers presents but who exactly make those presents?

Christmas College for Elves: If you realized in the picture, there’s only 1 Santa Claus (the fatty jolly Gnome) while the rest of them are Elves. Do you know that presents are made by magical Elves in the Christmas College?

First: They collect wish requests from individuals in the Letters Department, Elves then sort them out and sum up the quantity to produce or whether the request is appropriate as a present or not…

Second: After appropriate decisions are made, toys and gifts are produced by Elves while Santa Claus decides where to store them…

Third: Elves then help out with Santa to put all the toys at the right location in the big storage room…

Forth: When the time of Christmas is near, with the help of Elves again, they dispatch all the wrapped present into the transport department so everything will be in order during the day of delivery~

Fifth: At Christmas Eve!! Everything will be ready for delivery, magical Elves then make flying reindeers that pulls the Gnome’s Sleigh and off he goes to do his job as Santa Claus!!! That’s when everyone get pressies in their Christmas socks~

Hohoho~