St Kilda Festival

Last sunday was totally great. We ( me and my sis) went to St Kilda's Festival. During the summer, many festivals are held throughout Melbourne and the St Kilda Festival is one of them. It is called the St Kilda Festival mainly because it is held in St Kilda by the sea side.

Below I will Show you some of the great pictures i captured with my tiny phone.


Try looking at the photo above and try to guess how many people there are in there. I thing there must be thousands, Looked like we were walking up towards an ant hill.
We had to push ourselves through sooooo many people and fight the intensively strong wind to walk towards the festival.

we started our journey from home of cause then we walked up victoria street toward swanston.
from swanston we grab the no 15 tram to the festival. The journey took us approximately 45 minuets.

After arriving there and making our way through the stampede of people I saw the most interesting game. Have a look see.
What do you think that is?
Any Idea?
There are actually 2 people in the ball being catapult towards the sky.It is just like bungee jumping but instead of jumping down, you are being tossed into the air. It must be scary. The ride cost $30 it was too expensive for my pocket, so I did not try it.

Then we passed by some people who were just sitting around and enjoying the strong wind and the hot sun.


Look how strong the wind was. it looked like the trees were going to be uprooted.

Then there were more rides

We got home at 12 midnight that night and was exhausted. I had a class at 8.30 the next morning and was afraid I could not wake up in time for class.

Overall the festival was a blast.

PIPI

I have not posted anything for along time cause I was packed up on the week end and 2 days
so that day on saturday (Thats where I will start) we went to springvale so we bought PIPI (aka Lala aka Surf Clams) so when we came back I cooked pipi for dinner. the photos will explain it self. It tasted sooooooo gooooooooood, I cooked it with belacan and garlic stalks.

Springvale

This morning me and my sister was planing to have pancakes for breakfast and after go shopping to get some stuff for me, but at 8.30 her friend Soo Fung called and ask if we would like to follow her to springvale.

Springvale is a Vietnamese town where marketing can be done at a reasonable price.

Today we purchased pork to make Bak Kut Teh and wan ton.

The place has several malls but they do not sell clothes but seafood, meat, fruits and vege.

These are the few thing we saw this morning.

Hoyts

Last night my sister took me for a treat to watch a movie.

We went down to Melbourne central to watch pursuit to happyness, lead actor Will smith and his son.

The story is based on a true story, for further info on the movie please go and read it by yourself
here.

Damm the cinema was awesome, This is the first time when i am seated I dont have to stand up to let someone go by. There is ample leg room and the seat are huge. If wan Tze and Hui min plans to catch the show together they can buy 1 seat and it will be sufficient. See for yourself

Sir William Angliss Centre

Hi guys and gals, This here is my college. Orientation week went well and i almost did not have a class, My course coordinator was placing students into their classes based on the old name list he was holding.

As I was a last minute addition to this batch, surprise my name was not on the list and I was not assigned to any class or group.

I was feeling devastated at that moment, but what can I do? what should I do? the course coordinator told me to go home and it was his mistake, of cause he apologist to me and told me to come back on Monday at 11 to know which class he has placed me in.

I went back and thought over it, then it click my mind " the place cannot be full cause the program office are watching the number of applicants closely" then i text my coordinator and advised him to compare the new list and old list to see which are the students that are not in the list anymore.

Then he calls me to inform me that he had already arranged a place for me and i start at 8 on Monday. Phew that was a releave...................

My visit to MCG

Yesterday after a boring day of orientation, we (The pastry and cookery group of students) were informed to comeback tomorrow which is today at 8.30 as we were going on an excursion.

The first thing that cross my mind or any of my other course mates were that we were going to visit a factory called MCG where we were going to see some cooking process or people who are working in the hotel industry.

This morning we gathered at the college at 8.30 in the morning. We thought we were waiting for the bus. Then at 9 o'clock this guy named Andrew gathered us together and split us into 4 groups, so all the pastry students went together.

We taught we were walking to a bus pick up point, to our surprise we walked for 1 hour and there was no bus, then as we were walking we saw the sign board MCG "Melbourne Cricket Ground".

So we were not going to see any kitchen, we were going for an excursion to the MCG. ha ha we were fooled.

So these are the things i saw:

This is the Pitching ground, the stadium can seat
up to 100,000.00 people. the tour guide said that the most people that this stadium contained was 100,022.00 people. awesome isn't it









This is a life size statue of Sir Donald Bradman the legendary cricket player in Melbourne


















This is the view from the the top and ground of the stadium





























This is one of Melbourne born players

And this is how the stadium looked like when it was opened. This is the first stadium where the first test was hit. The guide was saying that every time there was a new technology, the government will tear down a portion of the stadium and reconstruct.


After the long walk we headed back home, and it wasn't that bad. At least I have visited the place tourist and locals head to on the weekends. The 1956 Olympic games was also held at this stadium.

The answer to "Guess What"

It is a bagel, not any bagel but a blueberry bagel, When I first saw it my impression was "I am not eating that it is blue"

But after toasting it and spreading cream cheese, Hmmmmm it is awsome. So Edwin don't spread butter but cream cheese is soooooooo great.