girls of bardon sakai in melbourne (part III)

The rest of these shots, are pretty much random in order. Just shots of other sights in Melb.
Saw horse carriages in the City. Felt really cold from the winter wind. Thought "horse ride in winter = New York"! Haha. Close enough!
Cost us $60 for a 15min ride. Worth the ride for a group of 4.

As if a real horse carriage ride wasn't cool enough, we went on to ride the carousels at night, too!

Final shot of Munks in Melb. Sad face. Goodbye Melbourne.

girls of bardon sakai in melbourne (part II)

Thanks to spoilt China kids holidaying in Melb, we got to tag along for a free ride to one of Melb's must-see tourist spots, the Great Ocean Road. Yay us! A bloody 4hour drive from the CBD. Left the City at 4am, drove non-stop till the sun came up. A sight of a lifetime.At the end of the 'Road', lies one of Australia's famous and familiar "brochure shots", the 12 Apostles. You may remember these shots from various random pictures you might've found scrolling thru Facebook photo albums of people you know who're in Australia, posing and striking the favourite asian "peace signs". You always hear how people say that driving down this road is an amazing experience, but nobody ever says how BAD the actual drive is! Early warning to those of you who might consider driving down this "great road".

Great Ocean Road = winding, snakey, twisting bends and turns ahead!

Picture this, steady speeding at 60km/h then a sudden slowdown to 20km/h around a U bend. Now imagine doing that consecutively for the whole 4hour drive... we got car-sick and nearly threw up in our throats. Blergh.

But at the end of that drive, the view was worth every bit of barf you nearly threw up on.
(Apologies about the shaky hand-cam shot. Winter in Melb = C-C-COL-LD-D!!)

girls of bardon sakai in melbourne (part I)

First things first. Apologies for the late update since we got back from Melbourne. Alot as in ALOT ALOT ALOT has happened in the last 7 days. Lyn, if you're reading this, we forgot to tell you something! Err errr... Ronnie left for Singapore for good last Friday 11th =( but we'll get back to that story a lil later...

Anyhoos...

Melbourne was fun!
(LYN, WE MUST GO MELB AGAIN! AND THIS TIME I MEAN WITH YOU! HARUS!!!)

Won't be saying much, will let the pictures do all the work.

First day out in Melb? Bumped into a former coursemate FangFang (nama manja, bukan nama sebenar) who happened to have flown in from Brissie the same day we did. Yum cha-ed in Chinatown wearing a "koni-chiwa" top.
WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME!
Haha.

We've been told that Melb's famous for food and the arts.
No objections, Your Honour. We rest our case.

For anyone who's been down to Melb, any Melbournian will INSIST on taking you to Max Brenner for their extreme chocolate overdose of anything and everything. We opted for the chocolate fondue, where we got to play around with our food. Slices of banana and strawberries plus marshmallows poked and dipped in warm dark and milk chocolate.

NYUMM!!

Then, there was the ultimate nasi lemak at "Nasi Lemak House" on Grattan Road in Carlton.
(Thanx Mr Fazuzu for the recommendation!)

And then,
we found out about the OTHER extreme chocolate hotspot, Koko Black on Lygon Street.
Bellisimo!

Pictured above : the Belgian Spoil and the Wild Strawberry Ice Cream Mousse Martini

We also have people to thank for for taking us around. Extra info, our initial Melb trip plan actually included SEVEN (that's right. SEVEN!) other people who hadta bail out last minute due to many unforeseen "excuses".

AHEM.

Had lotsa help finding good food thanks to Kim and Tansil, Julie and Linda, and Karen and Jenny.

Oh, Munks is now also known as AUNTY Munks. Meet 1yo Felicia Wong, her lil niece she just met for the first time.

Since we've already got 'food' covered, we also had all the spare time hunting down 'art' in the City. Graffiti hunting was fun! Found most of them in hidden alleys and narrow streets...

to be continued...

talk about talent!

QUICK PITSTOP!

While randomly YouTubing early this morning, we stumbled upon a video of a home-made clip by a girl named Mia Rose. Now this is ONE discovery we won't let go unknown. When you've got talent, you've GOT TALENT!

Check out her other video clips. Whether or not she's been signed up for a record deal, this is one girl to look out for. (But we reckon she's already been signed up with some independent label)

Did we mention she's HAWT (yes, not 'hot' but 'HAWT'!).
Some people have it all ay.

Apologies for the last video's audio quality.

If we said that we fell in love with her, does that make us gay?

Disclaimer: We are NOT homo-phobics of any kind. The videos posted above were taken from YouTube and is not in breach of any copyright laws at the time of publication.

be back in 7 (days)

Adios, fellow readers~

We're off to Melbourne early Wednesday morning and won't be back till next Tuesday. Expect alotta pictures on our next update!

On the sidelines,
latest goss for you Teresians out there:

Now, we here on girls of bardon don't normally endorse or support bitching of any kind. But THIS one wasn't written by any one of us, so I guess that doesn't count ay?

For all you Teresians out there, we're sure you know who this is. Man, somebody/people must really REALLY hate her to actually go thru all this trouble. What dedication and devotion.

Why all the hate? Where did all the love go?

Click me!

We're not sure whether to agree with it, or pity the damn girl.
Kids nowsadays...