Brisabne lions beat Carlton blues

Last night, we went to Telstra Dome to watch the AFL game between Brisbane lions and Carlton blues. The crowd capacity was about 33 thousands which I would say 90% are blues supporter. It was a close match till the last quarter lions manage to out score the blues 136 to 124. It was a chance for my wife to wave the lions flag in style which is our first game for the season. Maybe the next sporting event that I should go for will be NRL or cricket game...haha don't think I can last a 5 day test series cricket game...maybe can consider a one day game.
** As for the photo, I was trying to take a shot with my mobile phone with panorama view but it's a bit mis-alignment.

ANZAC Day parade

Live blog at swanston street: Just finish my haircut in the city and had a look at the ANZAC parade. They do all their drills in english and their commands are not loud enough as I think the fruits and meat sellers at Vic market are so much louder when they shout out their specials of the day. I still think Singapore marching is still on of the best compare to all countries except countries like Korea and China as way much better. Tributes to all war veterans.

Small gathering at Lizzie's place with delicious Singapore food

Last night, went to a friend's place for dinner as their parents are in town. Lizzie's mum cooked some wicked preserve vegetables with pork belly, nonya chicken with potato, assam chili fish head curry with lady's finger and eggplant. The food was fantastic but we couldn't finish it as there was way too much. This is about Singapore gathering...the guest must never feel hungry after a gathering. Should have taken some pics.....darn.

But the best entertainment of the night was a real story encounter by one of the girls...... that goes like that (Maybe I have modify it a little bit) :

Mr Vac: Ohh....ahhh....hmmm...
Missi: Yes Sir, how can I help you?
Mr Vac: Ahhhh...hmmm...(panting)
Missi: What's wrong?
Mr Vac: Ohhh...(panting) I got.... ahhh...I got....my penis...Hmmm.(still panting) stuck in the vacuum cleaner..
Missi: Arrhh.....what brand is your vacuum cleaner?
Mr Vac: Ahh..oohh...(Still panting....).???????
Missi: Is it turn on as suck or blow...
Mr Vac: ?????

WHAT THE?

Road trip to Melbourne by P.I.L.

What is P.I.L.??? Parents in-laws have finally make their trip to Melbourne. They were here for only 8 days but the amount of food they had eaten would normally take them 2 weeks to finish it. The weather was nice and cool but for them..it's freezing cold...but the weather becomes warm again once they board the plane.

They arrived on a Saturday morning which we head straight to Victoria market for coffee and did some shopping after they drop of their luggage at our place. We then have some wood fired pizza (Smoked salmon and lamb). As for dinner, I cooked for them mussels pasta (2Kgs of mussel) and oyster. Look at the pics...





















In summary, here are the places we went for food...

• Yum Cha & Dinner at Dragon Boat on Yarra
• Pizza, pasta and salad at La porchetta
• Vietnamese beef noodles and coffee at Victoria street
  
• Chicken parma, Wedges, fish & chips and beer at James Squire Brewhouse
• Gelato at docklands
• Chinese food at rose garden
• Korean food at oriental spoon

But on the last night we have a good dinner at home. We have alot of nibbles such as cheese, olives, sun dried tomatoes, octopus, smoked trout, wine and fruits. Last but not least the seafood hor fun which I have cook for them.

Shanghai Trip (The Bund)

On the 2nd night, I went to Shanghai Bund with a few colleague from China. We cross the river at Shanghai Bund via a underground ride which showcase light shows about traveling through time. A return trip cost about $40RMB whereby each way is about 3mins. I have taken a video of the ride with my digital camera as shown below.

Wat a pose!

My best friend SM Teo's son Jonathon. Isn't he cute with that pose. This is just a trial using my Sony Ericsson W850i to create this post.

Big breakfast

This is what I call "Big Breakfast" which most cafe in Melbourne will sell. This particular big breaky you get 2 thick toast, 2 eggs, 2 sausages, 3 rashes of bacon, tomato and mushrooms is at Victoria market (Corner of William Street & Franklin street). The sausages they give you at this place is not the cheap thin sausages but it is thick and long. Usually, I will just make my own big breakfast with toast, egg, sausage, baked beans and mushrooms (depend on season). Mushroom and tomato are not in season now, mushroom is about $7/kg and tomato about $5/kg.

Shanghai Trip (Eating trip)

(Taken at KTV with Shanghai agent (left to right) - Javen, Alex, Me, Allen, Cher)

I was in Shanghai during mid-March on a business trip to give my china agents training on my company in-house program. There are also agents from Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Ningbo attending the training. But most of all, I finally get to meet up with my shanghai agent that I have been working with for a couple of years.

During the whole trip, I have eaten so much chinese food which most of them are spicy food. The most interesting restaurant that I went was the porridge steam boat which we cook all the raw food in a stock like porridge water without the rice but when we finish the food, they put back the porridge which by then had so much flavor.

The other place that we went was a popular eating place for Shanghai girls as all you eat in the restaurant is crabs and little crayfish. Everyone was wearing plastic gloves and apron when eating and on that night 9 of us actually eaten 12Kgs of crabs and crayfish.

Just spending one week in shanghai, I miss my western food so much that when I ‘m back in Melbourne, went straight to my regular pub ((Royal Standard Hotel @ Walsh Street) to have chicken schnitzel roll with chips for $6.50.

Left: Cher & Javen having porridge steam boat






Right: Eating little crayfish and crabs