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Saturday, April 27, 2013 |

Just some random photos for a random post.

A sulphur-crested cockatoo foraging. Sometimes these cockatoos can give me heart attack. I was walking to uni early in the morning with a half-asleep look, and then suddenly a loud 'GAH... GAHH...' sound made me skip a step. It was a cockatoo calling while it flew passed me. And then I woke up instantly. Swt die. My friend, Vivien, got so excited when she saw them and thought they escaped from the zoo, which surprised me because it was not her first time coming to Australia for holidays. Lol.

A nice day to have lunch on the lawn.

Ducks are everywhere in my uni and it will be a shame if I don't know my uni ducks after spending more than 3 years here. This is a pacific black duck walking towards us while we were eating.

My first time having a duck so close to me. So cute! I fed it muffin. Hehe.

 Presents I got from two of my Japanese friends.

MD is into baking nowadays. This is one of it. I can't remember the name of this cake, so I just call it frangelico cheesecake. Lol. And it's very nice as I like cakes with alcohol.

This menu is still puzzling me. Eventhough my mandarin has dropped to kindergarden level, but I'm pretty sure that two characters mean sugar. Or is curry sauce now called 'sha tang'? @@"

My first roasted milk tea from Chatime. We went during dinner time and so glad that it's empty. Other times are just packed with people plus a long queue.

Waiting for campus bus in front of AgriBio at 6pm. It's getting dark earlier and it is so cool.

White chocolate marble cake baked by one of my Honours mate for my and another Irish friend's birthday as his birthday was just one day after mine. I'm not a white chocolate fan but this cake changed my view on white chocolate cake. It's so nice and minty. The only problem is it's so tiring to cut this cake. One tough chocolate cake. Lol.

Ok, now I'm off to collect another batch of random photos for another random post.

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Posted by Kim

Singapore Zoo

Thursday, April 11, 2013 |

Have a bit of time to go through the photos taken during my Singapore trip and I can say this 3 days trip was definitely not enough! I didn't even have time to pay a visit to my bro's house! Lol.

Anyway, here are some photos of the lovely animals at the Singapore Zoo. Singapore Zoo is one of the amazing places that I will consider spending my whole life in. If there's winter in Singapore, I actually will choose to stay in this zoo over Melbourne Zoo anytime. See how it looks like a forest instead of a zoo? Plus,  some of the cute animals are able to roam around and say 'hello' to you as you walk in.

This post is going to be flooded with pictures. Not too many maybe as I've taken a lot of them out. First one will be the Malayan tapir!! =D

Babirusa. I remember watching these guys on Animal Planet. Their tusks will keep growing and, in some cases, they can become so long until they can penetrate into the skull.

The life of a panda is too good to be true. Everyday eat and sleep in an air con room, and get back massage too perhaps. Lol. Like this then I also want to be a panda!!

After meeting Po, we then shift our attention to Master Shifu. I don't mind being a red panda too. XD

My first time seeing a white tiger and he's already showing me his unglam pose. Haha.

Look at the environment. Not feeling like I'm at a zoo at all. My family was walking too fast! I haven't even get a proper view of each animal and take nice pictures, they're already saying 'next!'. Swt.

 Cheetah!

Jaguar eyeing on the meat that's going to be dropped down.

All time favorite, penguins!

Free roaming orang utans!! You can get 'head prize' if you are lucky. It's either in solid or liquid form. Hehe.

Sea lion show.

Manatee a.k.a. the sexy mermaid. I wanna hug it so badly.

After hearing from people saying how awesome the Singapore Zoo is for years, now that I've finally seen the zoo with my own eyes, I'm fully convinced that this zoo is really one of the best of the best. I still have yet to visit the night safari and the bird park. So I still got a reason to come back. Haha.

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Posted by Kim

22 with Forever-16 Look

Saturday, March 30, 2013 |

Just realised this is only my second post of the month. Lol. I've been up to nothing special so far. All I'm doing is just working on my research project in uni from 8-6pm everyday. I always take the first bus to and the last bus  from AgriBio, until the driver also starts to chat with me everyday. Haha.

Ok! I know all of you are expecting this post already. I've just turned another year older and I totally don't feel like 22 at all with my same old 'Forever 16' dressing style. Lol. I think those 16 years old teenagers now look even more aunty than me. XD

So I had my birthday dinner at Chapellis, located at South Yarra. South Yarra is a nice place to walk and look around because it's an upmarket place with all the shops selling designer's brand clothes, and where the rich people live in big houses.

I've got MD and Yugo, from Nagano, Japan, celebrating with me. At this time, a couple of our friends have already balik kampung for good since graduation. So, only few of us left in our friend circle.

Our entree: half a dozen oysters with bacon. Should have ordered a dozen. Lol.


MD's spaghetti.

Yugo's carbonara.

And my seafood risotto.

I usually don't post my face up, but I want to show my cool Neyo's hat that I got from Myers during year end sales. Nice? So RnB-ish. Haha. By the way, I've already dressed quite decently as requested by MD. If she didn't urge me to dress properly, I would have turned up in t-shirt and track bottom and she's so gonna whack me. Hahaha...

After that, we went for a walk by the river side near Crown. The weather was awesome with the cool night breeze. It's also Good Friday, so Crown was filled with people as there will be a long weekend coming.

We went to watch the fire. It's been awhile since the last time I saw it, which was about 6 years ago during my vacation with my parents.

No matter how cold the weather is, you can always feel the heat wave whenever the fire comes up and warm up your body for a few seconds.

Night view of the city by the riverside.

Camwhore time. This is the only spot we could find that has sufficient light for camwhore because flash is making us look like 'kiong si' (chinese zombie).

I always look like a dwarf beside him. Swt. And I am loving my LeSportsac bag. XD

So the in next picture, he was forced to shrink himself to our level. Looks better. Lol.

Before I end this post, I must post some of Bun Bun's photos as I cannot resist his cuteness! Allow me to present our Easter bunny, Bun Bun!

How I wish I can have his eyes. So big!!

 Bun Bun with his Easter eggs.

Looking just like a soft toy. So cute!!!

I couldn't decide which one to post up, so I ended up posting all of his pictures. Haha.

So there goes my 22nd birthday. Though it's not as fancy as Jake's Charbroil steakhouse, but a nicer-than-usual dinner is good enough according to my family's tradition. Haha. Lastly, Happy Birthday to myself and also Happy Easter! =D

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Little celebs in the zoo

Sunday, March 10, 2013 |

My first day back at the zoo after my break has been an awesome one. There's actually a new arrival in the zoo early this year and I didn't have the chance to see it before I went back for holidays. Ahh... I missed the cuteness.

So tadaa!! This is the new little celebrity in the zoo. This picture was taken by the keepers very early in the morning. And it's a boy!


On my first guiding day, the crowd was not as massive as before. So I took this opportunity and quickly snapped some photos of the baby.

Can see the baby? His mom was teaching him how to flick some sand on to his back. So cute! The teenage elephant behind it is his sister, Mali. The other big elephant in front is Mali's mom. At the moment, the baby still doesn't have a name. Few Thai names have been selected and it's up to the people to vote for their favorite name.

All the young elephants have the same father but different mothers. This is Mali's another small brother, Ongard. I've been watching him playing with the tyre the whole morning. Toooo cute!! His little tusks are visible now, which make it easier to differentiate between him and Mali. Before this, I always looked at their tails to identify who is who. Haha. Ongard used to be afraid of water when he was a baby. I still remember how he ran for his life when the keeper tried to splash a bucket of water at him. Omg.. that was so funny!! Hahaha. But he loves to swim in the pool now. Lol.

That's all for the elephants. The next one I want to talk about is our all time favourite, Timon! Meerkats are altruistic. So you will always see one or more of them acting as sentries to look out for danger while others foraging and playing. And it's what this fella was doing in the picture. He was so high up on the bush and so close to me, so I cannot not take a picture of him. Lol.

Melbourne's weather never obeys the rule. It's still hot like summer when it's supposed to be autumn now. Where else can you find an autumn that is even hotter than in Malaysia? Look. Even they are already fed up with the heat. I should add a caption in this picture saying "pang-nangs-nya~~~". (that's how my bro says very hot) Hahahaha...

There are more babies in the zoo. Out of five baby meerkats, I managed to see two of them running around. They are only few weeks old and they are soooo tiny! Look at its size! So cute!

When are they getting a Pumbaa?? Hehe.

The band was getting ready for twilight concert. Although I can get free tickets but I haven't been to one yet as I'm still waiting for musical bands that suit my taste. Sometimes they have got orchestras which I missed out. Ahh...


That's my zoo updates for this time. Now back to my work. And autumn ah..... where are you??

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Back to the grind

Thursday, February 28, 2013 |

After a month of silence, finally I'm back! My 3 weeks holidays back home were barely enough. There's so many things that kept me occupied and they're definitely much more interesting than my laptop. This time, I actually don't find Malaysia that hot anymore after my above 40 degrees Celsius oven experience in Australia. However, I still don't like the humidity. Cannot breathe! Anyway, I made the most of my 3 weeks except that I didn't manage to eat ALL the food in my list. My 'lou shue fun' ah! And my 'tau fu fa' ah! Also my mee rebus and 'yau char guai' ah!! Noooo..... =( I think angmo also wonder why Malaysians always talk about food. Lol.

I'm back to uni once again, but this year will be so different. I don't sit in the lecture hall anymore, nor do I get half day classes. Instead, I'll be going to a new research building and work on my project from 9-5pm everyday. I got my own desk and a working table in the lab. It's similar to an office and it feels more like I'm going to work rather than going to uni. Lol. 

In my uni, there's a campus bus that goes round the campus to transport people from one part of the campus to another. During my undergrad years, I never had the need to take this bus. Now, because the building is located at the other end of the campus, I finally have the chance to fully utilize this campus bus. I only need to walk half the distance, then hop on to this bus and it will take me straight to the building. How awesome! Haha. Even the driver can recognise me now. Lol.

My first week back here has been driving me up the wall. Besides catching up with the sessions that I've missed out, at the same time, my laptop was having PMS. I was so worried that I really have to bring it to someone to fix it, and I'll be laptop-less for days (I can't work without my laptop), but luckily it recovered and everything went back to normal now. Phew... Another thing that kept me running around was the last step of my enrolment. Was still wondering why my statement of account and my online learning website was not updated. After I've submitted my last enrolment form PLUS an extra email to 'blow' them to get mine done as soon as possible because I was desperate to gain access to my subjects on the website. Man.... they are truly efficient. They did put me on top of the list despite there were hundreds other International students who enrolled on the same day. So I got mine settled within 2 days instead of 1 week. Haha.

For some reason I got 2 days off and I'm glad to have a bit of rest after a messed up week. I get to have some time to visit my blog and also some candy crushing. Hehe. It's also the last day of summer! Finally! Felt like the summer this time is going on forever. So, say goodbye to summer and please welcome the most awesome season of the year, autumn! =D

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