ANZAC Day at the Shrine of Remembrance

ANZAC Day? What's that? Anyway, I woke up early to watch the Anzac Day parade march from Swanston St to the Shrine of Remembrance. The march dismissed at the shrine about 3 km away from my place.

The shrine is built; "In remembrance of those who served and those who died in the Great War of 1914-1918 and armed conflicts and peacekeeping duties since."

Lots of senior citizen joined the march. Flooding the road with banners, flags and emblems proudly. Some travel in style, in their vintage cars, probably they were too old to walk. Some in wheelchairs, walking sticks and some even with their prosthetic legs. And I noticed, people cheered and clapped louder for these guys. The marching lasted for more than 4 hours.

They had 2 bands playing the whole time, alternately, to give rest to one another. It must be damn tiring, huh? They kept on playing and repeating a number of music pieces until i can recognized the play entitled,"Glorious Victory". La, la, la, la, la, lalala...

At about noon, i felt tired so i went home. Happy ANZAC Day, yea, it is a public holiday.

Kerry's Birthday

We attended Kerry's birthday dinner at Little Malaysia. A restaurant in Liverpool St. This is Mei jie, Min Han's boss at the restaurant. She sometimes help her out during the weekends. The place is small but the low-key lighting ambience feels cozy.

Elaine is there too. Remember her from Singapore Poly? Doing architecture? She is now in Melbourne.

From left: (ignoring the 2 cheeky girls), Kerry, Denise, Elaine and Min Han.

Go for your Life! Festival of Cycling

How do we put our bicycles into good use? Join a cycling event! It was held in Albert Park, about 45 mins of riding from the place we stayed. Getting a free T-shirt was something for me to look forward to.

They were having this Grand Prix Time Trial Challenge for serious cyclists as one of their main activity. For Min Han and i, we just sticked around for the leisure riding around the park.

As when these mascots appeared from nowhere, this event turned out to be like a family day, for those who wants to spend their time cycling in the sun. Meet 'Ranger Roo' and 'Constable T Bear'. Soon enough, a band group started playing some music. Guess who manned the band? 3 men and a woman from a local police department in their uniform! Dude, they really love their job. Big wow.

Early Dim Sim

This lazy fine Saturday early morning, Min Han and i went for dim sim at the Shark Fin Inn restaurant. Meeting up with Min Han's workmates too. Not really that early, 11.30am. And it is still morning. We cannot be there any earlier because they open at 11.30am... hehe :)

I am really not used to getting up with a weather this cold. And it is not even winter yet. I think by then, waking up is going to be difficult.

Anyway, back to the restaurant, the food is good but the service is lousy. Or they just didn't liked us.
From right: Hayley and her husband, Wen, Kei, Wiebke and Florence. This picture looks like as if we are attending a chinese wedding dinner.

Dim Sim is the Australian way of naming dim sum.

To the newly wed, Hayley and Wen, congratulations. And Kei, you are so funny. "Mosh mosh, pan suki ka?" :)

Tibetan and the Han

To split or not to split? This is a demonstration i came across this morning at the State Library of Victoria. The march of the chinese people forced the closure of the intersection between Swanston St and La Trobe St. They are going against the independence of Tibet.

Being a political expert idiot, i have no say about what is going on. I am just interested in what people can do to make a change. Power to the people. All of them could be wrong, but who knows what is right? A tough rat year for china huh?

Hey, what was i doing there? I was on my way home from Coles doing my groceries. What shall i eat today? That sounds more like a problem to me.

Day out at Fed Square

We gonna test out our new bikes! Let's go somewhere! Hmmm, somewhere not far. One fine day, here we go... Federation Square.
















Here in this pic, there is a Canadian woman street performer doing her tricks.















At the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI).

Where to go with my push bike?

Sitting in the reading corner at Borders, i was deciding on my ride list in Melbourne. Oh man, don't know whether i can still take the challenge on long distance riding. Even the shortest trip is 16km, recommended in this book! I was expecting to see 5km and below. I guess there isn't any good place to ride nearby huh.

Getting my wheels

I got 2 bicycles from Big W that came in a box. Just dialed 1800 251 311 and a delivery guy sent them over. Smiled and asked him to keep the change. Okay, just kidding.

Poor me. i had to carry them home all by myself. It is impossible for me to carry them both so i had to drag them home one by one. Yeah, drag... everyone was looking at me by the noise i made. Luckily i was staying quite near to their store. About 10 mins walk uphill. Poor me again, i had to drag them up the slope.


You must be wondering why i didn't get it assembled and ride home. Yeah, that's a better idea. The thing is, they were on sale, only a few units left on the shelves. I did not have any tools to fix them at that time too. So i grabbed the bikes first, opened them up, checked for what are the tool needed, then only i hunt for the tools. Cos, cheaper tools did not come from the same store.

Fixing is easy but alignment on the brakes pad takes awhile to adjust. People called bicycles as 'push bikes' here.

My 33K seat

This will be my longest holiday in Melbourne so far. I will be spending 2 and a half months there. Wassup in Melbourne? It's autumn now, winter is coming soon. And my girlfriend, Min Han is there!

Best time for me to catch a movie on the plane, can't sleep with an upright seat. But i get quite a good view there. Thanks to my childish assault to a check-in officer at the airport by saying,"I want a window seat, I wanna window seat, awannawinow seat, awanawinosit!".

Oh, by the way, 33K is my seat number.

Flying off to Me!bourne

My sisters sent me to the airport. Thanks, May Po. How much did you pay for your parking there? :) This is my first time flying from KLIA. Wooo... Malaysia Bulllley!

As I was checking-in my baggage, I had this thought. MAS allows baggage check-in 8 hours before flight departure and SIA allows 48 hours. Who would do that? For people travelling in a group, maybe. And for those people who is gonna leave the country and never come back, maybe. But not for me. 2 hours is still kinda difficult for me. I could easily say,"Did i bring my toothbrush?" and "Oh, shit..." follows.