Melbourne - Part VII (Day 6 & 7)

Finally, I can continue on my Melbourne Trip.

Haha. I know it was a month ago already but heck it.

I'd like to look back at this trip in the future, thank you very much.

Brunch with Cheng @ Stalactites (22nd August, 2007)



Everyone claimed the kebab (what's kebab in English? lol) was really good there and it was a must-try. To me, it was so-so. I definitely had better. Well, duh, seeing that it's sold everywhere here and all.

Anyway, Cheng and I managed to catch up a bit. He was telling me about how he misses home a lot. The late night outings (mamak, playing com, yumchar etc) and the night life and the food over here.

Gosh, I don't know how I can live without all that when I go off to Vancouver as well!

However, I can certainly leave our corrupted government authorities (will I be black-listed for saying this??!), the hamsap immigrants that are probably more than 50% involved in rape/burglary cases, the psycho weather that's humid and raining one day and humid and excruciatingly hot the very next..

So many things!

Yeah, but I won't go there. Need to finish up on my trip!

So after brunch, I met up with Candice and we went for a short shopping trip.

Then, we went to have...

Tea @ Max Brenner (22nd August, 2007)


He's got his face printed on serviettes!


This is some crazy waffle. Tapau any waffle you can ever get in M'sia. OMG. I WANNA EAT IT AGAINNN LORR!! SOBBB!!!


I ordered this because the serving looked cool.

What you do is, you drop those little chocolate thingies into the boiling milk and stir it with the stirrer and suck it with.... the stirrer!

Like so:

Cool, eh?

The milk is refillable so you can keep slurping until your chocolate drops are finished.


The chocolate drops are milk chocolate. MY FAVOURITE SORT OF CHOC!

That night, I was overfilled with chocolate and couldn't have any dinner.

We went over Daren's friend's house and had a home game of poker.

This was were I got to see how the semi-pros and pros do it! Was fun and a good experience to watch them play.



I played the Wii a little and also with this adorably adorable Pomeranian.

Check him out:

He's undersized for Pomeranian. And he's not even a pup anymore! Okay, fine, technically he still is. But if I'm not mistaken, he's almost a year old!


Whisky's Pin's dog. And this Pomeranian (sorry, I forgot he's name) reminded so much of Whisky!

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The next day, we woke up bright and almost early (11am!) and headed over to walk-walk in Victoria Market.

Touring around in Victoria Market (23rd August, 2007)


This is just the entrance to the Wet Market. Erm, I think. Haha.



Saw lotsa nice tinklets here and there but nothing I'd like to purchase.

Oh, and I saw this too:

I swear, these two people look EXACTLY like Ju Nn's younger sisters!! SO ALIKE!!

I'd love to have myself sketched but no time and no $$ :(

We also bumped into this:

They sold ooogly clothes though.



Somewhere around here was when we bumped into Gyson and decided to head to the Wet Market to buy some scallops and oysters. YUM!!


Freaking oysters and scallops are so darn FRESH! Can't get none of this back here. My tummy's growling already :(

Oh, Joh mentioned to me before that eating a lot of oysters makes you very hamsap. Raises your libido, apparently. Fact or fiction? Find out for yourself! Haha.

After Victoria Market, we headed to Richmond to meet up with Daren and Mei to have a late lunch.

Lunch @ Richmond Street (23rd August, 2007)

Sorry, I can't remember the name of this Chinese Restaurant.



We had:

I'm not a fan of Siu Yuk but this is pretty yummy.


Heh. I managed to take a shot of this only after it was half-eaten. I tend to forget to snap my food sometimes. Anyway, I don't know what this noodle is called but it looks like Cantonese-Styled Fried Kuey Teow with Beef Strips to me. It's pretty tasty.

After downing the food we ordered, Joh dragged Me to a Viet Restaurant to have our 2nd lunch: Phö.


Haha. Eh, FAMOUS OKAY COW AND CHICKEN.

Actually it ain't called Cow and Chicken but... there's a head of a cow and a chicken so... yep!


It's really good lor. I miss it already :(

SO YUMMY! Can't get it back here. SOB!

I'm such a pig. Right about now (almost midnight), because I'm blogging about all these food, I'm making Andrew pick Me up to tapau Roti Canai. Heh.

HUNGRY, OKAY?!

Blogging takes up so much energy.

OKAY!

For dinner, we went for Jap food because... well, they were all being so considerate and planned to go there because I wanted to eat Jap food so badly.

So we went to have...

Jap Dinner @ Ito (23rd August, 2007)





That's all of us.

The food:


It's really GOOD! Addictive sort of drink. You can drink and drink and drink until you get diabetes. Something like what coke does to me. Addiction, of course... not the diabetes part 0.o

I just made a weird smiley face.

Moving along...


Center dish. I actually... can't remember how this was like. I suppose like any other Stuffed Dumpling.


Good Sashimi. Nothing spectacular.


This is my dish. It's yummy, of course. I love Unagi. But again, nothing spectacular. Very satisfying to my Jap craving though!

After dinner, we went to..

Chill @ Madam Brussels (23rd August, 2007)


My first alcoholic drink in Melbourne. City, that is. I had a wee bit during the Ski Trip.

It's.. well, I've never had a Cosmo before so I wouldn't know how to grade it. CAN'T BEAT A MALIBU!!


Joh's lips are so red. Like he put lipstick. Haha. He was just really, really heaty.




I LOVE her curls. So pretty!



And that's that for the 7th day!

Ratatouille & Movie Reviews

No, not Ratatouille the movie.

No, not the dish either.

This is the REAL DEAL.

It's some violent shite going on but... well, I guess it's only right for me to blab to the world what a violent, sadistic boyfriend I have.

A few days back, Andrew and his brother, Phil, booby-trapped a rat using a ZINGER burger.

Andrew called it, "It's last supper." He even claimed the rat had it good having a Zinger as it's last meal.

I know rats are gross and disgusting, but I'm still unsure if they deserve such cruel torture-before-death.

Looking at it in a humanitarian perspective, it seems incredibly malicious to do such a thing to a living creature despite the fact that rats are dirty, slimy, hideous and are common thieves. But I mean, they ARE still living things and it IS their survival instincts to live in sewers and live off people's garbage, right?

But looking at it in a, I'd say a normal (for some people not saying all, eg: Andrew) point of view, they're just pests that deserve to die. Plus, one female rat can produce 76.3 young in just ONE YEAR. Another source says if you put ONE female and ONE male rat (very fertile) and leave them in an ideal environment, those rats may produce up to... 200, 000 other rats.

One year. One couple. 200, 000 RATS.

So, after having this all in your knowledge, let's see what you think of my darling boyfriend's show of torture towards the rat.

Here's a short 4 second video of the rat... "Just to show that it's alive and caught," Andrew said.

I was actually going to post up the video of Andrew and Phil TORCHING the rat with a lighter and a flammable mint spray but guess what....

YOUTUBE TOOK IT DOWN BECAUSE IT HAD "INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT"!!!

It's THAT violent!! He told me all the rat's whiskers were burnt off and the smell of burning rat skin was horrendous but slightly diminished by the mint spray.

And still, THE RAT DID NOT DIE.

So they went and boiled water.

You're thinking, "Oh, that's normal. Everyone boils water and pours it into a tong where the rat is trapped in and covers the tong so they won't hear the squirms of the rat."

Well, watch this:

Their conversation a bit the violent. Please excuse them.
Andrew told me he poured the boiling water directly aiming for the rat's head. The clip is pretty blur (thankfully) but at one point, I think you can hear the poor rat squealing in pain! And then it staggers slightly, and soon after, it's misery is lifted.

And here's the... end result:
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WARNING: FOLLOWING IMAGE MAY CAUSE SERIOUS WAVE OF NAUSEA AND/OR VIOLENT SPASMS.
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NOTE: I'M SERIOUS. DO NOT CONTINUE SCROLLING IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO SEE ANDREW'S VERSION OF RATATOUILLE.
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DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU. AND DON'T GO GIVING ME NONSENSE LIKE, "OMG. HOW CAN YOU POST SUCH A THING! IT'S HORRIBLE... YOU'RE HORRIBLE!"
IT IS FOR VIEWERS WHO ARE... SADISTIC OR JUST TREMENDOUSLY CURIOUS.
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I feel so bad for posting this up... yet, I hate rats! I FEAR I HAVE MIXED FEELINGS. Oh, well. As long as I wasn't the one who killed it... (very selfish thought, I know)...

HERE IT IS:

Check out the razors on that thing!! And.. is it a FEMALE???

Oh, well. That's one less rat to worry about.

Please don't get defensive on me over ONE rat, okay? If Andrew does this for a living, then maybe you can get as defensive as you want.

*I just want to clarify that I am more than aware that everyone has their opinions... but no one is asking you to necessarily say them out all the time. Unless you desperately want to annoy people or get a slap on the face or something.

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Movie Reviews

Fracture

With Anthony Hopkins starring and heartthrob Ryan Gosling, I expected SO MUCH MORE. It's not nearly exciting or twisted enough. I'm not saying it's predictable... but the twist is just... so simple! Far too simple. A common thief could've planned that out. A good detective would've figured it out. But based on the movie, because emotions were involved, the detective didn't perform, I guess.
However, it's really entertaining to watch Anthony Hopkins because he is indeed a real performer. And Ryan Gosling is droolsville but all in all... MEDIOCRE.

Ratings:

Reference:

Brilliant! A Must-See!
Exceed Expectations. Two Thumbs Up!
Satisfactory. Enjoyable.
Mediocre. Very Average.
Bored to Tears. Almost Slept.

Functionally Retarded. Left Cinema.

Hairspray

Almost an All-Star cast! Michelle Pfeiffer is absolutely sizzling and incredibly snide in the movie. John Travolta is very entertaining and very fat too. James Marsden (Cyclops) is charming as ever and who knew he could sing?! Plus, he's gonna be starring in The Enchanted which I so absolutely am anticipating that movie. Zach Efron is 10 times hotter and 10 times less gay in this movie than in High School Musical. Amanda Bynes is funny and perky as usual. Brittany Snow shows her bitchy and bimbo self here. Queen Latifah has a blonde head which contrasts not so well with her dark skin, but hey, she can sing!
Overall, it's a good movie. Fun, cheerful and enjoyable to watch.
Andrew LOVED it. He kept wanting to watch it again. HIM. Not me.

Ratings:

Reference:

Brilliant! A Must-See!
Exceed Expectations. Two Thumbs Up!
Satisfactory. Enjoyable.
Mediocre. Very Average.
Bored to Tears. Almost Slept.
Functionally Retarded. Left Cinema.

I Now Pronounce You... Chuck & Larry

HAHAHAHA!!!
Even looking at their pic makes me laugh.
It's really good. I thought it was really funny. Slight conflict towards religion (mostly Christianity) hence the phrase from the Christians during their opposition with the gays, "God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and STEVE!"
Haha. I thought that was funny. The whole movie's funny! Gotta go watch it. And if you're keen in seeing Jess Biel's boobies get you-know-what by Adam Sandler, you need the DVD. They cut the whole thing out.

Ratings:

Reference:

Brilliant! A Must-See!
Exceed Expectations. Two Thumbs Up!
Satisfactory. Enjoyable.
Mediocre. Very Average.
Bored to Tears. Almost Slept.
Functionally Retarded. Left Cinema.