Monday, July 30, 2007
9:47 PM
finally tried the KFC mashies. its potato balls with gravy. the taste is actually not bad. unlike what Firdaus said. but I think the KFC gravy tastes better in SG and much better in Malaysia.
went for a movie at Cinema Nova. title: I Have Never Forgotten You. its a MUST WATCH! I rate it 6/5 stars. 1 bonus star because this show is just too nice!
8:33 PM
27th July
another very late lunch at Oporto. I love their Bondi burger!!! its finger licking good!
didnt know this was behind the Melbourne Central clock.
28th July
lunch at O-Bento. went to the Supre flagship store which opens today. its HUGE! dinner was at China Bar. the fried beef hor fun is damn salty. I drank 7 glasses of tea after that! ordered the wrong dish. either that or they changed management because there are no more free dessert and side dish.
29th July
10:25 AM
Tonight is National Nanna's Night
Saturday, July 28, 2007
6:01 PM
National Nanna’s Night is an initiative of the McAuley Foundation which supports the work of Mercy Health and Aged Care, a major provider of Aged care across Australia.
Put 28th July 2007 in your diary to spend some time with your family and friends and raise funds for Nannas (and Pops) across Australia.
Friday, July 27, 2007
1:00 PM
I totally support the idea of having guide dogs to help the visually handicapped. SG should have that too! its already in so many countries. and their RSPCA has animal police and stuff. what about ours? =( we should be more animal friendly!
Thursday, July 26, 2007
8:56 PM
24th July
8:49 PM
Kevin Sheedy sacked after 27years as Essendon coach. he's the 4th AFL coach to be sacked this season. I don't understand why they decided not to continue his contract. he's a good coach!
2:04 PM
today's events
11:01 AM
today is Connex for Cancer Day! any transportation ticket bought will have a dollar donated to the cancer foundation.
another Socialist Alternative political meeting 630pm at Trades Hall today. Defending Aboriginal land: The fight against Jabiluka uranium mine!
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
10:53 PM
I aggravated my wound while taking a nap this evening. felt the pain when I stretched my back and happened to lean on it while I sleep. most pain I experienced since the surgery. I keep having intermittent pain now. I was actually thinking of skiing next weekend. hope it will heal fast. definitely not want to hit my back. hope I wont fall.
Spacemen throw out the garbage
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
8:04 PM
I just want to say "what the heck?! 1:5000 chance means there is still a possibility of killing someone or some animal!"
the following from National Nine News:
'Two spacewalkers from the International Space Station have pitched two large pieces of obsolete equipment into orbit.
A 630kg refrigerator-sized reservoir that contains ammonia was cast overboard during a spacewalk by station flight engineer Clay Anderson and his commander, Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin. Anderson also tossed away a 96kg camera mounting.
NASA normally frowns on littering in space, but found itself with no better option than to discard the ammonia tank, which was no longer needed for cooling, and the obsolete video equipment.
With just 14 missions to the space station remaining before the space shuttles are retired in 2010, engineers could not make room in a shuttle cargo bay to transport the gear back to Earth.
So Anderson, who was making his first spacewalk, positioned himself at the end of the station's outstretched robotic arm, leaned back and heaved the junk overboard.
"Nice work," said astronaut Chris Cassidy from NASA's Mission Control Centre in Houston.
Television cameras anchored outside the station showed the huge white tank tumbling away from the station as it flew over the Atlantic Ocean.
NASA is concerned the free-flying debris might strike the station and as a precaution, planned to raise its orbit by 7.2km later in the day to give the space junk wide berth.
Both items will be tracked by radar until they tumble from space and burn up in Earth's atmosphere. The video mounting is expected to completely disintegrate, but pieces of the ammonia tank as large as 17.5kg could survive and strike Earth.
NASA expects any debris to land in the ocean but calculated a 1:5,000 chance that it could injure or kill a person. The ammonia tank is expected to remain in orbit for at least 300 days and the agency will issue warnings if it becomes a threat during re-entry.
In addition to discarding the old gear, the spacewalkers cleaned debris off a docking port so the complex will be ready for new laboratories built by Europe and Japan, and replaced a faulty electronics switch in the mobile transporter that moves the station's robot arm to various work locations along the station's exterior support beams.
The $US100 billion ($A114 billion) outpost, a project of 16 nations, is a little more than half-finished. Additional work on the station is planned next month during a seven- to 10-day servicing call by the space shuttle Endeavour crew, which includes teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan.'
©AAP 2007
6:38 PM
21st July
had lunch at Notturno with Bryan, Chris, Firdaus, Hans and Ryan. no time for pics as they already finished eating when I arrived..hehe..
evening: went to Firdaus' place to watch All Blacks vs Wallabies (yeah! All Blacks won! don't you just love it when they do the Haka?) and Japan vs Australia (yeah! Japan won!)...yeap, I watched them in Melbourne :X was too hungry to wait for Hans and Bryan to bring the KFC over so I cooked Indomie and they had to arrive the moment I sat down to eat.
22nd July
only bought grocery from IGA
23rd July
dinner at this Chinese stall at Lygon Court and watched Prête-moi ta main (French title) / I Do: How to Get Married and Stay Single (International: English title) at Cinema Nova. one word: NICE!
more grocery shopping at Safeway. this is what you see when Red Rock Deli chips are on sale.
my favourite bookstore:
Andrew's Bookshop will be shifting out of Lygon Court from 25th because the management terminated their contract. I feel so sad. its like this sense of loss inside of me. I like to pop by every time I walk pass Lygon Court. I bought so many books from them during my trips here last year and this(will update on the books I bought this year soon). their books are much cheaper than Borders which is just opposite or Reading's which is just across the road. and I bought alot of books that Ive been wanting to get which are published last year or earlier for 10bucks or less. they'll have 2 branches at Ivanhoe after they shift out. I don't even know where that is. lucky thing is, they have an online store. hehehehehhehe!!!! =D
20th July
5:59 PM
bought more Krispy Kreme...my favourite strawberry n cream
takeaway Kelantan nasi lemak from The Nasi Lemak House. love their Kelantan chili
watched Norbit while having dinner. Eddie Murphy is good!
19th July
Monday, July 23, 2007
11:03 AM
watched Fantastic Four - Rise of The Silver Surfer, finally.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
11:06 PM
Hope that labrador is really alright because the bike was badly damaged. they should send it to a vet or something. animals don't show when they are in pain.
'From correspondents in Briancon, France
July 18, 2007
T-MOBILE'S 2007 Tour de France jinx continued when Marcus Burghardt crashed after hitting a dog during the ninth stage.
The German rider could not avoid the Labrador retriever as it crossed the road 50km into the stage from Val d'Isere.
Neither he nor the dog appeared to be injured, but the bike was badly damaged.
T-Mobile has lost three riders in this year's Tour.
Australian team leader Michael Rogers crashed heavily during stage eight, on the descent from the Cormet de Roselend, and pulled out with a shoulder injury.
Mark Cavendish from Great Britain gave up his first Tour during the same stage, while Patrik Sinkewitz from Germany withdrew from the race after hitting a spectator as he rode to his hotel in Val d'Isere at the end of the day.
Sinkewitz broke his nose in the collision. The spectator was taken to hospital in Grenoble in a serious condition but regained consciousness late on Monday.
Reuters'
9:57 PM
watched Fantastic Four before going to bed last night.
couldn't wake up this morning. couldn't even wake up in time for lunch at my favourite Korean Restaurant. my lunch was takeaway from Rose Garden. was so busy with my NDS games that I was so late for Fantastic Four - Rise of The Silver. watched Transformers instead. I don't know why the ticket's only 8bucks. supposed to be 15bucks. bought a booklet of 5 tickets for 50bucks but didnt use that in the end cos the Transformers ticket was only 8bucks...hahaha!!
takeaway Hungry Jack's to Firdaus' place to see the Koreans vs the Indos. a war took place at his hse...haha...and the hot tea I requested for turned out to be just hot water. the manager at Hungry Jack's forgot about my teabag. oh my...
Im drinking Harvey Fresh chocolate milk now. as recommended by Sarah. its really nice!!
Nintendo DS lite and Microsoft Windows Vista rocks!!!!
movies
12:10 AM
watched Harry Potter at Hoyts Carousel last week. I slept throughout the movie. its not that the show is boring. well, I wouldn't know because I fell asleep the moment the show began. maybe because there were too many commercials before that. or have I grown used to sleeping in cinemas? I did that the previous week while watching Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End. I thought it was because the beanbag was too comfortable.
was invited to a Brunetti event this evening at Cinema Nova. watched this show called Evening. I like it very much. meaningful. bring some tissue paper along if your gonna catch it.
will be watching Fantastic 4 - Rise of The Silver Surfer tomorrow, collect my jeans from Guess, have dinner and watch Korea vs Indonesia at Firdaus' place. no time to update on what I did in Perth yet. but I promise I'll post soon.
Monday, July 16, 2007
11:34 PM
im back from Perth. Perth is not as boring as I thought because of friends there! I wanna go there again! thanks Uncle Mike, Daff, Sarah & gang!
Melbourne is very windy tonight. not surprising that its very windy but its extremely windy now.
will update soon on the stuff I did in Perth. stay tuned!
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
2:38 AM
stayed in most of the days after Jianfu, Sarah, Glen, Xiao Yi and Freddy left Melbourne because the weather has been so cold. I just feel so lazy and kept sleeping. finished watching the whole series of Heroes. its nice! also watched F1, Wimbledon, Tri Nations, Tour de France.
another reason I stayed in: sore throat =(
I only went out on friday to send my jeans for repair and dinner at Lemon Bistro. expensive and not as good as Your Thai.
and today, to help Sarah buy more Krispy Kreme. haha...I so wanna eat them just now. had an early dinner and finished all the instant noodles we had. dinner was in Chinatown. their chili seafood fried rice is really nice but don't try the one that says choose rice or noodles + 3 ingredients + choice of sauce. I chose rice and satay sauce thinking it'll be fried and quite unique but it turned out to be just white rice, satay sauce by the side and ingredients in this soup. this is my 3rd consecutive dissatisfying meal here. wanted to go to Pancake Parlour for dessert but bought a DS lite on my way so I decided not to spend more money eating dessert.
4th July 2007
Thursday, July 05, 2007
2:13 PM
its another day of waking up late. first meal of the day's at Koko Black.
dinner's at Mee Kong. not as nice as the Vietnamese food in Chinatown which I always thought was another branch of Mee Kong. no wonder the menu looks different.
3rd July 2007
2:13 PM
had lunch wif Sarah and Glen at Tiamo 2(I never liked tortellini. this is the 1st time I actually enjoyed eating tortellini) b4 heading to Essendon DFO. yes, it is the DFO I mentioned last yr. about how crazy I was...the effort put in juz to get there. took a train, walked, took a tram and walked for another half hour. but we took a cab this time. haha!
2nd July 2007
2:11 PM
96 passes by South Melbourne Market. I think this graffiti is legal with the market's opening hours and stuff. but anyway who cares whether its legal or anot. I love graffiti.
Sarah, Glen and I shopped at the new DFO at Spencer St after lunch.
dinner's supposed to be at Sante's but it was full. we had buffet at King's instead. followed by some gambling at the casino.
