Wednesday, May 11, 2005
what's the story aussie baby?
here she is with the high and lowlights of their escape to melbourne.THE thrills
- mak's ex uni mates welcoming him at the airport at eight in the morn. how sweet can they get?
- fed square's clean and gorgeous washrooms
- waking up next to her sweetie
- italian food craze and dessert binges
- cool hang out place called cookie at swanston street. it's kinda like a local balaclava, excellent! went to arthurs (confusing toilet signs and anal male door bitches) and honky tonk. supra dodgy name i know, but it turned out to be awesome as the night grew with their excellent deep house, electronica and trance. never ever step foot into icon cos it's the worst ever mistake with crappy people, no eye candy and awful music.
- sweets found a pair of paul smith sneakers at a steal. and what did she pick up? two cool capri pants, a halter, a cami and bonds strings. pretty conservative considering she's always bought a ton more stuff on her usual melbourne trips. why isn't anyone bringing marcs into singapore?
- luna park at st kilda's FINALLY opened. went for a roller coaster ride with sweets and met this older italian dude who got a little green after the ride. heh cute.
- meeting bernie and his entourage (bro and housemate) at cookie again, excellent booze companions
- stuffing mak's old uni stuff into our overweight luggages and barely scrapping our way through at the check in hoping to avoid weight penalties, thank god.
THE arghs
- had inflamed tonsils the night before she left. shucks. had a minor cough fit during the entire trip.
- had to do a transit in KL and was bored shitless at the airport. swore never to travel by MAS again.
- had horrendous tummy aches when the acidic juices decided to have some fun with the gas molecules upon arrival in melbourne. was looking forward to checking into unilodge when she realised rooms can't be released till 12 noon (arrived at 10 plus). drat. how could she forget? thank God for clean public toilets in melbourne.
- wrong choice of footwear. realised to her delight that aussie females had similar dress quirks. dressed up togs but decked in slip ons or birkies (in winter somemore). darn, should have just brought her birkies and worn what she did during her perth days instead of trudging around in her formal looking enclosed flats.
- her first and most pricey pair of glasses broke. sweets tried to repair it but it snapped again, probably unsalvageable *sniffles*
- too much food at cafe tiamo lygon. forgot for a moment the double servings (ozzie and singapore servings differ by a good half), gorged too fast on antipasto and couldn't finish her marinara spaghetti. she felt so useless for wasting the entire plate of good italian yums. *guilty*
- didn't get to catch up with adorncia and john due to tight schedules. sigh....
- was a tad sad when she discovered this cool little strip of cafes along centreway arcade a little too late. they chanced upon it only an hour before they had to hop a cab to the airport.
- realised her forgetfulness and wanted to slap herself silly for not buying "kwei fei" lychee martini liquer at the KL DFS.
- crummy service on the flight back from melbourne
if there's anything she's missing from melbourne right now, it's the "doing nothing routine". how wonderful it is to wake up each morning beside your loved one without an agenda in mind? let loose babe, let loose. *check the flickr bar for more pictorials*
bee wrote this at 9:14 PM
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At 10:21 PM,
adrock2xander said...
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Glad you made it home in one piece...WTF we couldnt meet up...so unfortunate...
bee said...
it's ok, was a pretty tight timing yeah? wished i was there longer though. heh, oh well, i'll probably be there again by end year for summer (or maybe perth). we'll see! :)
