September fun~~

ok what have I been doing? you must be wondering eh? haha

Sep 12 was my friend's birthday (the monday after our spring break trip) so we prepared a little surprise party for her and then there was a mass ponding (in which i got ponded as well)

Sep 16-18
my mommy came and i spent the weekend with her eating a ridiculous amount of good food (might upload pictures later)

On saturday we bought cakes and macarons in Balmain, went to the city and ate at Din Tai Fung, then walked to a ramen placed (ichiban boshi) and ate ramen, then went to Chatswood? i think to this dessert place and ate snow ice (and other taiwanese-ish desserts), then a couple hours later we ate at a Chinese restaurant and then I went back and ate cake and macarons = fat victoria lol

Sep 20
Beach Thursday! went to Coogee beach that afternoon cause it was really nice and then got discounted ice cream from my friend who works at a gelatto shop nearby and then went to the city to eat sushi with mommy =)

Sep 24
our dorm had a cruise party with a black and white theme, so we got all dressed up and went on this cheesy looking cruise with bright blue lights lol it was called "Good Time Cruise"
...i think it would have been less cheesy if we weren't dressed so nice but it was super fun since there was free wine and beer (and soda) so a lot of people got drunk - i didn't :P
it was a nice view though =) went around the harbor a couple of times...except it was cold and rainy

after that, we went to Pancakes on the Rocks =) and then walked in the rain and cold to the bus stop and then we played a game of Catan after that
OH i haven't explained my game addiction to Catan have I? I've been playing it A LOT - check it out - so much fun haha

so most of the time after dinner i'll play a game of catan with the texans + a guy from connecticut haha

other food adventures:
- went to Madang (korean restaurant)
- went to 阿里山? ah li shan?, which is like a Korean Chinese restaurant - one of the Korean unnies set up a blind date for the other single Korean girls so they went on a blind date there and a separate group of us went and spied on them haha
- went to fish market last Wednesday for lunch

this past weekend - on friday i went to darling harbor for dinner then movenpick for ice cream! and then to the observatory and walked around the opera house at night and then went to max brenners <3

on saturday i went to Manly Beach for the Manly Jazz Festival - pretty fun! it didn't rain and i got to go on the ferry for the first time
plus, there was good music, i got a good chai latte and ate fish and chips for dinner =) of course it just so happened that we had fish and chips for lunch at our dorm the next day

annnnd that basically sums up the fun stuff i did these past 2-3 weeks! i promise i will try to upload pictures later!!

SUPERAWESOMESPRINGBREAK part 2: MELBOURNE

Sorry for the insanely late post about my Melbourne trip!

Tuesday - we arrived at night and took a maxi taxi to our hostel - Home @ the Mansion where our friends from IH were waiting for us and they made us dinner (so nice!)

and dinner was kangaroo sandwiches! it was good =)

after this we were so tired we planned to go to sleep - and then we met our roommate Joghan! he's from...Germany i think lol and apparently people just call him joe but we just kinda called him either joghan or johan lol
we had a bet going on how old he was and i won lol cause he's like at least 30

Wednesday - woke up super early around 5:45ish? for the Great Ocean Road Tour which consisted of

the Cape Otway Lighthouse
we ate lunch here and they gave us the traditional bread + sausage bbq stuff and potato salad i think...if i remember correctly but anyways it was a really good lunch!

the Twelve Apostles

basically what everyone comes to see when they're on the GOR


Razorback


i think this is Lochard Gorge...i think haha
this is where some guy saved a girl and they survived through the night in the gorge - it happened a loooong time ago apparently


steep cliffs...on some beach lol
i think the most significant thing for this is the stairs we were on because Aboriginals would just climb up these cliffs and then this one guy decided to build stairs leading down to the beach

also learned how to spot koalas in the trees! that was cool and we got to see koalas actually walking on the ground! apparently that rarely happens

here's some random facts about koalas: they don't drink water, eucalyptus is toxic so that's why they're sleeping all the time - to create an enzyme that will help them digest it, their pouches point backwards towards their butts and a baby koala's first meal is their mom's crap aka pap (that's what our tour guide said)

so Wednesday was a really really fun day =) except it wasn't over lol after the tour we went to Lygon street to eat Italian food - if you're a guy and you're with a big group of people, the Italian restaurants will try to give you a good deal so we got free drinks =\ the wine wasn't good...

after THAT we went karaokeing in this really dodgy Korean place where we had to leave through the back door but maybe that's because they didn't have a license or something lol

Thursday - wake up! eat dim sum at...red dragon something? lol then went for crepes (i didn't get one) at Melbourne Central and shopped for a bit and then had lunch at another Italian place on Lygon Street (which was totally better than the one from the day before) with our friend from IH who's from Melbourne

after lunch with him and his friends we went shopping at Bridge Street (a street with all these little boutiques) and then went to KOKO BLACK!! which is a chocolate cafe like Max Brenners =) here's the stuff we got courtesy of my friend inky's nice camera

and remember the bet we made about joghan? since i won everyone bought me a hot chocolate haha

Friday - we went to Queen Victoria Market for shopping! it's basically kinda like paddy's market

then we went to Coconut House nearby for Malaysian food and had a total food coma after that cause the food was so good <3

yea we totally went back to our dorm and took a nap and rested and wrote postcards haha

then around 9-10 we went out for frozen yogurt at Cacao Green which is actually owned by Red Mango - except it has so much fancier things like waffles and cheesecake and blueberry syrup for toppings (that's what i got)

Saturday - we went to Bridge Street for shopping again haha then to Ying Thai on Lygon Street for lunch, then to Melbourne Central for more shopping and then to Federation Square

inside they have free exhibits so it was pretty fun

they had old school video games and gaming systems, stuff about movies, costumes, a thing where you can make your own matrix dodging bullets kinda thing and other fun stuff

and then after that we got ready to go out - we walked to the Crown Casino first

along the river there's like columns that shoot fire out - like a light show

after that we went to Spice Market, which is this really classy club - f'reals man, everyone was in suits and dresses and stuff

Sunday (last day!) - woke up, ate brekkie (aussie way of saying breakfast apparently), walked around the area surrounding our hostel and then went to the Discount Factory Outlet

walked across the Yarra River to get there

then we ate ramen and crepes again and went walking around more places

after that we went back to our hostel to get our stuff and take a taxi back to Sydney!!

and that concludes my spring break trip - seriously the most fun spring break trip i've ever taken; it was seriously awesome =)