The Cube

Don't play play - I'm a tiramisu cake! Some sort of sequel to my colleagues, D & T's story. It was D's birthday a couple of days back and T wanted to do something funny. As D is cranky and grumpy most of the time, T thought it would be funny to gift...

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Merry Christmas and enjoy a cupcake, or two :) Side note: And a very happy new year! ...

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This is got to the best view...   ... from a cross trainer (I have seen by far.) Side note: Ha! Little pig in Greek is called γουρούνι, read as gouroúni ^^ ...

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Shire of Hepburn is a local government area as part of Western Victoria. It includes the towns of Clunes, Crewsick, Daylesford, Hepburn Springs and Trentham. Yup, in the ABCD order As part of our weekend trip, we visited a couple of places in Daylesford, Hepburn Springs and a bit of Trentham. It is...

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Promotion leaflet doubled as origami paper Umm.. ya - I'm the failed blogger (again!) as the festival has ended as of Dec 8th, Melbourne being the last stop. It had made a tour around the country, started since September. I found out about this annual event back in 2011, and the movie I...

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Hey! Look what I found? Surprise! Shiroi Koibito in the heart of Melbourne City. I didn't get any, but got this instead. ^^ Side note: Year is coming to an end... ...

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This was part of noodle market, not some lantern festivals I am not too sure why it is call noodle markets in the first place as there were other food on sale, not just noodles. In short, the market basically is just a place where some restaurants bring their food and sell/showcase outside...

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Little niece was digging through the box of Lego and said she was looking for bumblebee. After a while, she took this block out. So, does it look like a bumblebee? :) Side note: I was such an idiot today, left my house key at office and had to go back to grab...

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I first learned about Advent calendar after I came in Australia. All I know was it is used to countdown to Christmas. Probably mostly for little kids, as the more common ones I see are those in the form of a large rectangular card with "windows" and each window contains chocolate or something....

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Spring into Shape is a series of 3 runs, one each in September, October and November. We got the promotion email because we joined the expensive The Age Run. I happily moved the email to my trash bin but Little P's eyes shined at the sight of free running T if one signed...

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Mmm.. ya - Brinjal prawn is my translation. I have no idea what it the actual name. Little P and I went to have yum cha brunch. We have a few default dishes that we usually take - egg tarts (how can one not like egg tart?), liu sha bao (ahh.. the yummy...

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Pin and win! When I was staying in Sydney, all I know about Melbourne Cup was it is a big race event, and work organise sweeps, nibbles and drinks were provided to watch this horse racing event that probably goes for just a couple of minutes, followed by chats and probably early day off...

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I know it is might be a little strange to take a picture of a throat lozenge but the first time I was offered one, I was like, "Ooh, this lozenge is pretty!" LOL So I decided to take a picture of it, and yes - still much to the amusement of my co-workers....

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D has a lemon tree at home, and on off he would bring in one or two lemon to make lemon drink. So far I had drawn smiley face on his lemons and hid them, so D has a standing instruction that I am not allowed to disturb his lemons :P He mocked...

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Grab one and paddle away! In her googling spree, Little P found out that we could try our hands at Dragon Boat Racing (or in our case, just Dragon Boat-ing, what race?) with Dragon Masters on their come-and-try-day to look for new paddlers. We made our way to Docklands on a breezy cool-ish...

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