This day has come.. today will be my last day in Melbourne … I’m sure going to miss Melbourne very very much… which is expected one… I miss Melbourne now!

Okie.. We went to Queen Victoria’s Market early 9am… we took a tram there… cost us $ 6.80 each person… It was a very good day today .. sunny day..

>> Pei San & I in the Melbourne tram…

The entrance of Queen Victoria’s Market… this market is more happening over the weekend..

We had our breakfast in Queen Victoria’s Market.. very famous German food – sausage and very nice here… and there was really a lot of people waiting to buy the food… it was really humungous :

>> Cost us $6.80 cuz we added extra cheese… the topping that you see – the yellowish one.. is seasoned vege in German style… sour sour one.. but very nice.. hehe…

We sat down to have our breakfast while Pei San met up with her friends a while…there was a lot of sections in this market… dry section, fish section, meat section, fruits & vege section, clothing section, etc… cool right?

>> Dry section… consisted of a lots of sausages and seasoned food here… I was scared to snap pictures cuz don’t know whether I can snap or not.. so just curi curi snap.. lol…

Then we walked to the fruits & vege section… the one I love most was their capsicum cuz “it” was really very very huge and fresh!

>> Saw a few lads snap openly so I also follow.. lol.. the strawberries looked so nice.. so we bought 1 box @ $1.50 only! Later on we found some other stalls selling even cheaper – 3 box only $ 4 only when it was almost time to close down… cool

Ok! Finally came to the entrance of the clothing section..girl’s favourite!

>> Didn’t really snap a lot here cuz nothing much interesting.. lol.. I prefer their fruits & vege section more..

Didn’t buy a lot of things there.. just bought some souvenirs and nougats… their nougats were a bit cheaper than in Malaysia

Saw this doughnut car… a lot of people was lining up… Pei San said that it was very nice and we ought to try… so we bought 2 pieces to try @ $1.80… really very nice lor .. got strawberry fillings… nicee…

We walked home to put down our things…then we went to St Kilda’s beach… yes, beach! This day was a good weather to go to beach

>> Correction here.. my last post mentioned that Pei San’s prepared cheese platter for us.. but it was actually today – this post, which after we went home… lol… miss d cheese platter too much.. lol

Anyway… the tram tickets we bought earlier were a daily ticket… so we can still use it multiple times in a day… we took a tram to St Kilda’s beach…

It was quite windy when we reached there… look at Missy‘s reaction then will know.. lol

I have no problem with the wind cuz I have my sunglasses on.. lol

Time for lunch.. we walked along the beach to the shoplots nearby… along the way, there was Luna Theme Park.. we didn’t go in cuz it was really small and there was a lot of bad comments on this Luna Theme Park

We were hunting for which shop to go for our lunch because there were just so many… and I want to eat salad… really need my vege intake

We finally concluded to dine in one of the restaurant which provided pie and salad.. lol…Missy ordered the chicken pie and I ordered Caesar salad! Yes!

Went back to Pei San’s house for a short nap.. lol.. woke up at 7pm for our dinner @ Lygon Street … gona meet up with Anthea

We simply chose one Italian restaurant for our dinner cuz Lygon street is famous for their Italian food…

Again I ordered chicken salad.. ya ya.. cuz I don’t like to eat so much meat.. Missy ordered Italian penne… super nice ler!

>> See I’m so fat compared to Anthea.. @_@

Lygon Street is not only famous for its Italian food.. it is also famous for its Italian Ice-cream – Gelati .. and also Brunetti – famous cake house!

That was around 9 something when we finished our dinner… we walked to the famous ice-cream shop which was recommended by someone – FREDO’s Ice-Cream… all the favourite ice-cream sold out >.< I just want to try their durian ice-cream la.. why so fast sold out one.. so I just simply ordered… and regretted so much cuz it was too sweet and I had to force myself finished it all … and to make things worst… Missy and I didn’t share this ice-cream.. meaning we ordered 2 FREDO’s ice-cream cost us $ 4.80 each..

Then Pei San suggested that we walk to Brunetti.. she said the pastry there very nice and cute one.. Anthea also agreed on it

We were so full that we really couldn’t have any share of these nice and cute pastry.. but Pei San kept persuading Missy to try their tiramisu… so she bought one for a try… they even put it in a small container.. cute!

>> We didn’t manage to eat it that night… cuz really too full d… so we ate it the next day… it really tasted very nice

Phew… after so many blog posts of my Australia holiday… I next went to Adelaide after this Melbourne trip… so you guys stay tuned ya!

3 hours ++ flight + 2 hours time difference… finally we reached Melbourne airport. It was early 7am!!! Freaking cold out there! The coldness reached till my stomach which made me feel soooo chilled… even when talking to Missy there was breath vapor coming out from our mouths…super cold @_@

As we were taking Tiger airways (budget airlines), the arrival terminal is super lousy. There was just a simple rooftop to cover yourself. No staff can be seen nearby. The toilet was like those temporary toilet.. And once you got out from the “door”, it was a car park welcoming you. >.<

We walked to the main terminal of Melbourne International Airport to have our breakfast.

>> Homemade soup of that restaurant – Hidetide tasted quite nice

>> Big breakfast panino.. the bacon was quite salty… price for this meal was AUS 12.50

>> Waiting for Missy to snap this picture… waited till I’m frustrated … so looked so bored

Then we took skybus into the Melbourne city. The skybus cost us AUD 30 for a return ticket.

Reached  Southern Cross Station. There were lots of people around. This is one of the 3 largest train stations in Melbourne city. Another one is Flinder Street Station. One more I have forgotten the name. lol…

We walked to Missy’s friend (Pei San)’s apartment, which is 3 blocks away from Southern Cross Station… phew… quite tiring with the big bag at my back… >.<

Got the keys from the housing agent cuz Pei San was working that day…

It was a cozy apartment

>> I like the toilet the most.. lol…

We took a bath and nap then only went out for the walk around city

Our first choice: Shopping! It was the closest to Pei San’s house and we were not familiar to the road.. lol.. Direct Factory Outlet-Spencer here we come!

There were a lot of shops there.. but not the brands I really like.. sad… the one has the brand I like is nearby airport.. which is too far for us… *sigh*…

Kinda hungry so we got our lunch first…

>> Powerade again.. lol… kakaaka…..

>> Spicy Chicken with Rice by Australia-Chinese. Quite a big portion so we shared it Cost us AUD 13.30 for this meal

Bought myself a pair of FILA sports shoe. Not very cheap. so so only. AUD 60. Keep it for Chinese New Year next year.. lol… wonder if I can keep it that long.. hmmm…..

Tried a CK jeans… AUD 65.. I do like it… but Missy said the jeans makes me shorter… so I didn’t buy it.. Missy found 1 which suits her well… but she complained too expensive… so didn’t buy… >.< which later she regretted so much after a few attempts on different jeans.. lol…

Some snap shots of Melbourne:

We just simply got a Melbourne city map and walked to Dockland… lol…

>> City tram

We hopped on one of the free tourist tram… lol… brought us round the city…

Got no where to go…so just went to Waterfront

Kept walking and walking….. so not used to walk so much.. lol…

Wanted to see night view of Melbourne… so we walked pass Crown Casino… there were lots of food over there… wow! We just couldn’t decide which food for our dinner.. lol…

Finally we had our dinner @ Pizzahead… cost us AUD 14.40 :

>> Their pizza really big .. and tasted very yummy as well …

Reached to the top of sight viewing building – Eureka Tower within seconds… cost us another AUD 16.50 @_@

All I can see up there was the night view of Melbourne city… there were lights every where…

This Eureka Tower even has a special section, where you can view Melbourne city below your legs. It is called “The Edge“.. additional charges implies. We didn’t go for it as I got height phobia… it is damn scary ok? If the glasses broken then I sure die already… ya ya.. I can still go for roller coaster… but that is different. That even I’m scared I will still go play.. lol…

Anyway, we stayed there for quite long… cuz I took a nap there while waiting for Pei San got off her work.. lol… too free already and all the shops were closed…

>> Just posted some night view here.. cuz all too dark already… well.. we can see Pricewaterhousecoopers‘s building from here.

>> My legs actually shaking over here… have to sit down… scary…

After that we walked back to Pei San’s apartment… waited her for sometime… so we went to Subway for a drink…

There goes our first day in Melbourne…

We were going to Great Ocean Road the next day. Pretty excited because we booked this day trip online. Cost us AUD 69… >.<

Finally I’m gona reveal where I’ve been to this 2 weeks.. lol… guess many of you have found the answer from my last post… sure yeah with the kangaroo pictures… who doesn’t know right?

Yes, I’m in Australia for 10 days! Stopped by KL for 3 days shopping spree! It was a great trip. Reason? It was supposed to be a budget trip but we have friends that added spices to our holiday + enjoyed myself very very much in Australia + bought a lot of things (not in Australia, but in KL.. lol)

Well.. in short… I really love Australia very much. The weather was just fine.. tho is considered very cold (for Spring) to me (but not the locals >.<)… but I really like the city especially Melbourne very much.

Special thanks to wonderful Stephanie for keeping us company and let us stay in her house, the sweet Michelle for fetching us around and letting us sleep in her bed with heater (sweet), the friendly Jessie for having dinner with us, the nice Melisa for staying up to open the house door for us, the thoughtful Pei San for bringing us around and let us sleep in her bed as well, the cute and funny Angelynn for showing us Adelaide and fetching us around, the kind Dancy for accompanying us, the great Sean for letting us sleep in his nice and new guest room, the funny Robin + Vivian for adding spices to our holiday, the warm Anthea and Alex for a short meet up in Melbourne … in case I forgot anyone I’m so sorry.. don’t mean to… but you guys really make a good host and excellent friends… I enjoyed my holiday to the fullest and you all had created  great memories for my 2009 holiday. Muaks and hope to see you guys again ^^

We were kinda worried on the H1N1 virus… so wore mask:

>> No one else wore… non of the Australian in our flight wore mask.. @_@…

Since we had around 7 hours in LCCT before our flight to Perth.. which was in the midnight 12am >.< … so we hang around LCCT… nothing much I can say.. but Missy said it has improved a lot since the last time she’s been there… hmm… more shops and restaurant… lol….

The McDonald is still there (sure la!) Taste of Asia also still there… added Marrybrown, Old Town Kopitiam, KFC and some souvenir shops…

Had our dinner in Taste of Asia.. Missy ordered fried bihun special – which is fried bihun + curry chicken..RM 9.90.. I ordered Noodle soup.. RM 9.90 as well..

Taste? Not bad.. and quite big bowl as well… Missy’s fried bihun was very dry for her

My camera battery ran low around 7pm… so we found ourselves the power point and sat down to wait for it to get fully-charged…

After walking around LCCT, we realized one thing… a lot of foreigners were really daring. They just dare to leave their luggage unattended and check out the souvenir shop/newspaper shop @_@ Amazing isn’t it? Hello, this is Malaysia. Not your country which is safe from theft!

Saw this while charging my battery:

Since there was ample time before we boarded the plane.. we went to Old Town for the toast bread

Finally it was time to go on board..  the Air Asia X

>> erm… picture was actually taken when we were on the way back from Perth… cuz it was 12am in the morning and I’m supposed tobe in my bed!

The in-flight entertainment looks quite promising.. just that you need to pay RM 30 if you want to use it.. they have lots of movies, songs, games… not bad if you are taking long flight.. unless if you plan to sleep all the way then no point buying this.. lol…

Meal I pre-ordered.. quite disappointing as it is just chicken + potato + 1 mineral water and cost RM 20 @_@

After 5 hours we finally reached Perth International Airport! Phew… backache already… *blek*

Anyway.. going through the immigration is super stressed up… so scared they detain us for detailed question… lol… they even have dogs to smell on your luggage.. just in case you try to be funny… lol… and the dog is Jack Russel… cool isn’t it? and it is very cute as well… The immigration chic that brought the dog out was also very cute and pretty *wink*

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