Showing posts with label Life at Monash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life at Monash. Show all posts

Thursday, October 06, 2011

Exploring Melbourne with Christine

Haven't been updating my blog for a while since my birthday last month. I thought I should blog about what Christine and I did when she came over to Melbourne. It's her second time visiting Melbourne and I thought we should explore more makan places together (since she had already visited those touristy places)...and we did =D

Turkish lunch at Brunswick

Lebanese pastry from Balha's at Brunswick
Christine and I at the Shrine of Remembrance

First time trying out Koko Black hot chocolate

sunset in Melbourne
sushi burger....yummy but a bit expensive though

us at the Royal Botanical Gardens

desert 'garden'

coffee at the famous Brother Baba Budan
look at the ceiling of wooden chairs

Flinders Street train station at night

We went to Brighton Beach too one morning =)

we love the beach

colourful beach huts


We also went for a day trip to Great Ocean Road....and surprisingly it was HOT when we were there!

the must-take picture

the view is absolutely stunning

with few of the Twelve Apostles that were left

pretty isn't it?

they call it London Bridge

I love this view, it's just amazing

I am glad that we had so much fun together and certainly happy that I got to see her before I graduate. We managed to update each other with our lives and happenings around us, which is great =) Hope we will meet again soon!

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Food, Friends and Fun

Amirah invited us to her house for Raya last Wednesday =) Made me miss the food back in my home town...never mind, just few more months to go!

yummillicious food!

Raya sparklers

last Raya celebration in Clayton

Shean Wei came to Melbourne with his dad for holidays, and we got to meet up on Friday!


at the Shrine of Remembrance

Went to the Olympic Park and AAMI Park unexpectedly after walking out of an exit from Royal Botanical Gardens....I have never been there before and I used to wonder how to get there, and then somehow we were at the place!

colour-changing lights

Melbourne Cricket Ground
We took the train back to the city for dinner, and while we were walking towards Chinatown we bumped into ah Buu's brother! It has got to be fate....Shean Wei's dad was just saying that it is easy to meet Kelantanese when travelling while Shean Wei said it would be quite impossible in Melbourne, and that he would treat the person to dinner if he did meet any - well we did meet one this time! It's just funny to recall that Angelene and I bumped into ah Buu at Amsterdam airport few months ago....and now his brother (I didn't know he has a younger brother)....fate fate =)

The next day I went boating with the Monash gang, at Studley Boathouse.

ducks ducks ducks

有点山芭的感觉……

row, row, row your boat...
After rowing boat for an hour, the 13 of us sat down in front of the cafe to chill...it was a fine sunny Saturday afternoon and we had warm coffee and hot chips. It feels great to just relax and catch up with friends that way...just then, I thought I saw someone familiar...all of us turned and looked, it's a Prof we all know from Paediatrics last year! None of us dared to go up to greet him as he probably wouldn't know us anyway, knowing that our cohort consists of 300+ students and we are just the few out of that 300+....but Yu Wan went to say hi before we left, haha...

On Sunday evening, Grace came to pick Christina and I up to Amirah's house - Grace planned to make tofu burgers! I brought avocado pudding over but I -absolutely- forgot to take a picture of it (nothing special anyway, just a bowl of green stuff) but it tastes really good (and really easy to make too)!

making tofu burgers

Christina's own recipe of fried Chinese mushrooms

Tofu burger with mashed potato as side

Unfortunately I couldn't taste how good the tofu burger was (it must have tasted really good with the lemon juice and herbs) as I was (and still am) down with a cold! Didn't get to taste much of my favourite avocado pudding either but I knew how it tasted like coz my dad used to make it at home (it's his recipe anyway)~

Sunday, August 28, 2011

August in summary

Can't believe that I have not blogged for a month! Have I been that busy? Not really actually, finished my general medicine rotation (miss the free lunches for three days per week) and just started a new rotation last week...anaesthetics, pretty interesting!

Everyone tends to look forward to weekends nowadays (more so ever than before), as it is the only time we get to catch up.

1st week (Thursday): Indian dinner at Carlton with our Scoopon vouchers bought earlier in the year

entrée

a few mains and dessert

us girls


accidentally found this place in the city....it changes colour!

2nd week (Thursday): Adilah cooked us nasi lemak a few days after she came back to Melbourne!


yum yum nasi lemak

3rd week (Friday): went all the way to Coburg for Middle Eastern food....kebab and baklava!

Middle Eastern desserts + baklava

with Tam and Camy who are doing BMedSci this year

the almighty mama Adilah =)

3rd week (Saturday): first time to Chelsea beach.

夕阳西下+海洋上的倒映

突然有美人鱼出现

trying to produce some 'unique' photo...



海鸥自由翱翔


we played frisbee

3rd week (Sunday): Grace suggested we go to Jells Park because it was a sunny afternoon.

we played frisbee (in the mud =.=|||) and had Grace's yummy vanilla slice

4th week (Friday): Adilah invited us to bake raya cookies at her house.

sugar high

Today: had fun making star-shaped pancakes!

I love to decorate and take pics of my food!

Winter is coming to an end....

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Wonderful weekends

Have been spending time together with friends (and good food!!) last weekend and this weekend, which is great =)

Went to Afghan Gallery restaurant at Brunswick to celebrate Amirah's birthday last Saturday...luckily I managed to find the place with my phone's GPS as I had absolutely no idea where the place was! And first time being at Brunswick too, and it was so dark at night....*shudders*
Afghan food

the boss of the restaurant brought this sparkler out with the dessert we ordered when we told him we  were to celebrate Amirah's birthday....what a sweet surprise!

5 of us....trying out my newly bought camera remote~

And today (Sunday), we had breakfast together at a place in Richmond as suggested by Gina...errr I mean brunch =P

'leafy' coffee to kickstart our day!

our brekkie

love this pic!!

with Gina and Ravind

I went to the city in the afternoon to meet up a junior of mine from secondary school and INTEC, Shu Wen.

postcard pic, yes?

*Shu Wen and me*

Just nice to catch up with a friend whom I haven't seen for almost 5 years and talk about what's been happening with our lives and friends around us. [Her guy friend who went with us mentioned to me that us people from KB just seemed to know whoever from KB no matter whether we actually know that person or not e.g. my friend and her friend's friend know each other hahaha.] We went to Degraves St (yes second time for me!) for coffee (I had hot chocolate since I already had flat white in the morning) then walked around the streets, took some pics here and there then came across Brunetti cafe and decided to have some cake =)

cakes at Brunetti cafe
Weekend well spent =D