Winter in July!

Seeing that my last daily eventful updates was on 7th of July, i should start updating haha!

Anyway, 8th was a stay home day because i was sick. :( that explains my lack of updates.
haha!

9th July 2012

Yummy Ikea food!
i still love ikea meatballs :D
richmond is not that far at all! hahaha.
not even when i am sick. LOL.

see, it made me so happy that i even had the mood for ice cream! :)

and we came home after walking around for some japanese curry
^^
honestly i dont think i hanged out with guys so much my whole life. lol.

10 July 2012

Had dim sum with the lovely girls!
or should i say buffet haha.
LOVED THEIR COMPANY and joy is super epic, as always. hahaha!
i would put in the photo of our faces but i dont have the photo.
LOL

12 July 2012
woke up early to do my timetable!
but it still sucks, :(
i have such long days boo.
oh and here's the funny thing!
i dont remember anything else that i did.
but the photos of food reminded me of the things i did.
HAHAHA!

papaya salad (served with sticky rice but i took that picture yuckily so its not gonna be posted here!)

TOM YUM SOUP!!!! which was super delicious btw. hahaha

pad thai! (name of restaurant so its a shld try) - cant remember how good it was so maybe not that good hor. 

had lunch at pad thai restaurant!
the tom yam soup was so YUMMY!
satisfied my tom yum soup craving!
it was cos of the tom yum soup that led us to richmond on monday actually.
the thai restaurant i wanted to go was closed in the afternoon. -.-
and since we were so near the tram stop that heads towards ikea, we ended up there.
LOL.
anyway, we went to walk around and ended up at the lobby of this hotel.

my memory fails me. i forgot the name of the hotel but look at the fireplace!!
it's real fire okay.
we snuck inside for awhile to keep warm before heading to this place.
*drum roll*

and thats macaroons in the little bag 

HOT CHOCOLATE!!! (trust me on this - the one at seven seeds is by far the best i had.) this one's not bad too. but i love seven seeds' one!! 

classic curry company for dinner .
i've never had so much indian food my whole life.
but ccc is like super economically friendly and yummy!

13 July 2012
Exploration day! :D

port melbourne! 

i did  the most fun thing ever. i posted the photo of the ship and said we were heading off to Tazzie. 

LOL!

and everyone thought that i really went there HAHA!

PUNKED!

the boys really liked that place and were even talking about staying there together! :O

and i saw this little house that had the swing in front! 

just had to resist the temptation to hop on it lol!

saw this and absolutely miss my dog :(

but its so cute! i dont even see it in sg. haha

left port melbourne after awhile. 

*main attraction was the port. and the seaside houses which had the sentosa cove feel 

and since we were already at the Southern part of melbourne......

of course we head to

the graffiti is so nice here. 

its at the wall of the tram stop, and basically the word is south melbourne (in case anyone can't see it)

i love this place! 

i sort of like the ambience more than Queen Vic mkt. 

well it definitely helps that the place is cheaper too HAHAHA
we walked around for awhile more before heading back to civilization LOL.

somehow we had the mood for ramen, and since ajisan was just opened....

their gyoza was not bad but their volcano ramen was not spicy at all!
idk what sg's one taste like because this is my first time having volcano ramen haha.

14 July 2012
we had Grill'd for dinner today!

they give you this cute souvenir which you can choose to keep or put in one of the three jars each labelled with a different charity organization (they donate $1 or smth to the jar which you put the bottle cap into!)

i forgot what we ordered but mine was a summer sort of burger.
and haha because i didnt order fries, the guys gave me a few from their meal after i snapped this photo LOL!
and since we were not happy without desserts, we went to max brenner!!!

im obviously not the only one crazy over desserts :)

15 July 2012
camberwell market today!
explorations are so fun.
haha.

this guy sells all the lego man things! damn cool! and they look so cute.
and the guy was super cute too. he was posing for the lady taking a photo of his toys and when she didnt take him he was so sad!

someone's trying to be funny here.

because i did not buy breakfast, i decided to buy dessert HAHAHAHA!

at domain interchange

masterchef sherman's risotto!! (it's really yummy btw)

and booo im tired again. :D haha

The Question of Humanity

I was stopped by this lady while i was walking around Melbourne Central with Sherman on Friday.
And whatever conversation she had with me left me disturbed tremendously.
Well, not tremendously, but well, I WAS disturbed.

It is really often that i get stopped by people who are helping the poor in Africa, etc. This lady is one aggressive volunteer/worker. I quite like Australia's policy where they get those who really want to help out the poor. They go for long term commitment over one time donations. Then again, i find it impossible for me to chip in a dollar a day for the poor in Africa when i am here living off my parents and trying to save as much as possible. Well, that, and that i just don't have that big of a heart i guess.

This one dollar i donate a day might not reach them in that dollar. And I'm not making up stories. I have worked for these organizations before. The staff work on commission. They sell a ticket, and when they manage to sell off one booklet of 10 tickets which cost $10 each, they get to keep $30. Do the calculations. From the $100 earned from the booklet, $20/$30 goes to the employee, and something along the lines of $10 goes to the company itself. The total money going to these countries? $60-$70?

And they call themselves volunteers.

I'm not sure about Australia, but this was what i did. Never stuck around long enough to even finish the book. I felt so so sorry when i asked this lady once and she tried to find $10 through her pockets and wallet to give $10 to me because she found it so hard to reject me.

How i even survived 3 days i have no idea. It was so tormenting.

Anyway, i digressed.

This lady was really offensive, at least I found her approach offensive. She first launched into a whole full-of-conviction talk about females who had to undergo surgery to remove part of their sexual organ to reduce their sex drive or smth along that line. They would be considered unclean if they weren't dragged to do this surgery and people would avoid them. Sherman looked embarrassed. I could tell, i wonder why she couldn't. There was a guy there, she should be mindful of the words and the content. To make matters worse, she even asked me how i would feel if i was in that situation, and asked him how he would feel if it happened to his mom or smth.

LIKE WHAT?!

After she spent such a long time talking to us, i said no. She doesn't take no for an answer i realize.
Thing is, i said i need to think about it. And she said "well if you went home, you definitely wouldnt think about it and wouldn't take action."

THERE YOU HAVE IT.

You know that we aren't willing to make that long term commitment so why are you pushing us?
After knowing that my no meant no, she decided to target sherman.
and she specifically asked sherman to pick one out of the three options that he could help should he want to help. after he picked one, she went on with statistics on how he can help them with his dollar a day.

How she went to Africa and saw the poverty there, etc. I cue the guilt-trap and tears in now.

Oh and here's a catch. When i was walking by the opposite street again,  i saw her walking out of starbucks with another one which i would believe is her colleague/fellow volunteer. Maybe she was using the toilet (which i obviously don't believe), but I'm quite sure lil miss giving would have chosen a cup of 7-11 coffee if she was really so affected by the problems in Africa wouldn't she?

Well, it also didn't help matters when she was talking to me in broken English. I am unable to tolerate broken English in conversations with me. It is a torture.