Sweet treats

Hot chocolate 


Marshmallow friends 

Don't really know why but I spotted these in my Meromero Park window a couple of days back - Hot chocolate one day and then marshmallow figurines the next. Then ants came by soon after and probably ate all the marshmallows...:S

My Commonwealth Games schedule!

With the Games just around the corner, the events that are getting me all excited are not really the sports events :P but the arts festival that is happening at the same time all over the city.

Got hold of a festival guide yesterday and I realised that there are so many interesting events that I want to catch and the best part is that they are all free!

I have even done up my very own schedule! It looks like it will be a busy 2 weeks for me :) Hehehe!


My schedule! 

Another road trip

We took a trip out to Daylesford and the surrounding towns today given that tomorrow is a holiday (Hooray!).

Not really a fruitful trip (literally, since we didn't visit any fruit farms...hehehe!). I got a herbal tea from the Kyldara Herb Farm that we visited in Trentham and an organic walnut loaf from the Himalaya Bakery in Daylesford. We didn't go for any spa treatments although the area is famous for those but I guess there we might one day since we know that they are there in abundance. It also seems to be an area with a lot of focus on organic food :)

Many of the small towns there seemed like sleepy little towns with nothing really much going on (could it be because it is Sunday?), except for Daylesford which was bustling by comparison.


Piper St - Kyneton 


A hot day! The clouds look like they are evaporating away! 

First anniversary

This weekend marks my one year being here in Melbourne! Can't really say if it has been a long or short time. Looking from the perspective of being away from Singapore and my family there, I would say it has been a really long time. There are so many things I miss about being at home. Don't think I would list them all out here though...But it would not be difficult to guess - it could almost be everything! I have never been away from home for so long.

On the other hand, one year here seems to have passed rather quickly - the days just seem to flash by so fast. I have been to many different places around Victoria (e.g.: the Mornington Peninsula, Phillip Island, the Great Ocean Road, Yarra Valley and some parts of Gippsland) and on the whole, it has been a great experience. I have even been at my workplace for 10 months already!

My Hello Kitty toaster!

My new toaster! 

Hehehe! I finally got one! I knew I wanted one of these when it appeared in a Cnet newsletter I saw some time back. I spotted it in the Target catalogue on Wednesday evening and when I went there at lunch time on Thursday, it was sold out! Couldn't believe that these things could go so fast here. Probably due to the Asian population in the city? I was planning to try and get to some suburb store to get it.

Fortunately, I managed to find out that a colleague lived near another store and she agreed to pick one up for me that evening :D Hooray! So nice of her! Now I can have toast with a Hello Kitty face on it! :P

Personal DNA test

Faithful Director

This is a rather interesting test and does tell you quite a bit about yourself. If you do want the details on mine, look here.

Dreaming bunny

Dreaming 

Spotted Bobbi daydreaming...She was just sitting there with her cute paws on the edge of her potty for ages. She didn't really even move when I put the camera in front of her face :)

Poppi returns

Hey! Poppi has reappeared! Possibly after finding food somewhere because now it is not empty anymore :D

Exercise time

Thought we might let Bobbi bunny out for a run while we have dinner each day so that she will go home on her own once she gets hungry - I usually feed her when we have finished eating. In that way, she can get her exercise running around the house.

It turned out to be exercise time for me too though. Naughty Bobbi kept trying to run to the places that she is not supposed to go to (i.e.: under the TV console where all the wires are). As soon as she realised that I did not want her to go there, she would start making these dashes in that direction just so that I will come and run after her. Then she would dash off happily, binkying away. Spent half my dinner running around after her...not a very good idea...

Eventually, she did get tired with the running, went back to her cage and flopped down in her favourite spot. She was even too tired to eat for a while...hehehe!

Oh dear...Lost a pet...

Poppi has gotten too hungry and left Bobbi in my Tag Friends window...:( Boo hoo!! Couldn't get food fast enough for it - Mrs Cocco didn't appear for quite a while! It left a letter - in Japanese that I cannot read so I don't know what it said but anyway, I guess it must have gotten fed up. There goes my blob of panda...

Cow Up A Tree

The Cow Up a Tree 

Went to the Docklands today and saw this rather cute art installation. It is called Cow Up A Tree. The story behind is that many years ago, a violent flood swept up herds of cattle in the Gippsland area of Victoria before subsiding and revealing the carcass of a cow stranded at the top of a tree.

The work also makes reference to Australian artist William Dobell who, during World War II, served as a camouflage labourer and worked on papier-mache cows that were moved around the base of airfields in the hope of fooling Japanese pilots. This work came about upon the artist contemplating what would happen during a flood on Dobell’s airfield.

Doll festival

Oooh! Cutouts to put your face in! 

Found that 3 March is Japanese Girl's Day called Hina-matsuri (Doll Festival), which is why there was this cute cutout for posing for pictures in. Trying to get Bobbi's face to appear in the right spot is almost like trying to park a car (although I don't drive...:P).

I have got Bobbi appearing in both the boy and girl spots with some photoshop creativity...hehehe!


Photoshop magic 

The zombees are also dressed as hina dolls and there are cherry blossoms all around as this festival is also momo-no-sekku, which means a festival of peach blossoms.


Zombees dressed up 

I really wouldn't mind having one of those hina doll sets complete with the giant chest...:)


Dolls 

Tag friend adventures

Gone swimming 

Was just wandering around on Tag Friends to get some nice colourful pictures to liven up my blog :). Here Bobbi and Poppi have gone for a swim in the sea and a giant pet bird joined in as well...:S

Singing pigs

This does nothing much but the guinea pig drawings are really quite cute. Click here to go to the operational one where you can mouse over to hear the pigs sing.

Crazy doughnut morning

Spotted giant queues forming in QV square downstairs this morning and heard that they were giving out free Krispy Kreme doughnuts (and you thought people only loved to queue in Singapore). Cannot imagine joining such a huge queue to get one doughnut...Anyway, since we had a bird's eye view from the office window, some colleagues could not resist going down to check it out once the queues got shorter. They were even planning to go to Safeway to buy their own doughnuts if there was no more...hehehe!! The doughnut mood was in the air alright. When they came back up with news that there were still lots more to go and it didn't take much time to get one or two, a few of us decided to go and check it out as well. As luck would have it, when we got there they had decided to speed things up and were giving out doughnuts by the dozens (one whole box each)!


The queues for doughnuts! 

The doughnuts were good though...well worth the 3 minutes it took us to get the entire dozen...hehehe!

What a way to promote the doughnuts even though the shop isn't even going to be in the city but somewhere far out in Narre Warren and will only be opening in June!!!


The Box 


The contents! 

Crazy rabbit

Found this interesting page with a rabbit who thinks the cursor is a carrot.

Pancake day

Today is Pancake Day and also Shrove Tuesday which is the day before Ash Wednesday. This day came about as in the past there were feasts of pancakes to use up the supplies of fat, butter and eggs... foods that were forbidden during Lent which is a period of fasting.

In any case, pancakes are one of my favourite foods so I decided to go down to the City Square to see the Pancake Day festivities that were being held there. There was a police band playing and tents with pancakes for sale. There was also going to be a pancake tossing race but I didn't stay for too long. Didn't want to be under the noon sun...:P


Walking pancake 

Inspired to have pancakes, I headed to AIX Cafe Creperie Salon to get my lunch - a crepe is similar to a pancake anyway :). Got a roasted peach with amaretto and ricotta crepe...Yummy!


My lunch 

Lucky lucky

Was just about to head to the market but then decided to come home as the sky was really darkening and there was going to be a thunderstorm. Soon as we got home, it started to rain...and then it hailed for a while even! Heheheh! So exciting! Luckily we were safely home :)

Only thing is now we have no food for the week. Might have to go to the market tomorrow instead then.

Have been having a tough time limping around these couple of days. We had a fire drill at our office building on Thursday and had to climb down 25 storeys. I didn't feel too bad after that but apparently my knees did not feel the same. After the fire drill, I was going for lunch with a colleague and upon meeting a tiny step in the road, my knees decided that they had enough work for one day and gave way. I found myself almost flat on the road. Luckily there was not many people around or cars passing by at that time even. :(

Suffered a gash in one knee and bruises on the other. Went to a nearby pharmacy and a nice lady there cleaned up my gash and even gave me a discount on the plasters...hehehe!

Having a wound on the knee is really not great - it is incredibly hard to go on stairs without a rip. Hope it dries up soon. Scary picture of wound ahead...


Poor knee 

Bunny rubs

It is quite satisfying to give Bobbi bunny her head rubs :D. She really does like it and shows her appreciation by purring. Can't actually hear it but you can feel the vibrations on her head. She is really quite an affectionate little fella and will follow me around in her cage. If I could hear her, I bet she is calling for more head rubs...hehehe!


Hmmm...where shall I run to next? 

Beautiful cupcakes

Went with Charli to Prahran Market this morning (Darlink went to play badminton). Thought I would get some marketing done there as we did not go to the market yesterday. Unfortunately, many of the stalls were not open (should remember never to go marketing on Sunday at any market :(). Anyway, I had another reason to go there - wanted to find the Crabapple Bakery which I read had beautiful cupcakes.

The shop (although in the market) is really quite pretty. Lots of English style teapots and tea cups around and generally a girly place. We sat down for tea and tried 3 of the cupcakes, one flourless chocolate, one lemon and one white chocolate raspberry. They all looked so pretty it was rather difficult cutting them up :P


Look at the cakes! 


Pretty tea set & cupcakes 


Flourless chocolate cupcake for Darlink 


Charli trying to eat a rose...hehehe!