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Saw this on my commute to work on an officially spring morning (September is suppose to be spring anyway). The weather is still somewhat like winter and red maple leaf just somehow reminded me of autumn. Regardless, this little leaf made me smile - on a cold Melbourne morning ^^ Side note: Photo...

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Silvan is a town in Victoria, Australia, about 40km east of Melbourne CBD. Silvan is new to me, I would not have heard of this town if not for Tesselaar Tulip Festival. From the festival's website, Dutch migrants, Cees and Johanna Tesselaar left the Netherlands in 1939 on their wedding day with a...

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  So - what's the connection between Taiwan and Korea? Grin - just simply because both are one of the many multicultural events here in Melbourne, and they were back to back, a week after another. Taiwan Festival was on 1st September and Korean Wave Festival was just a week after, on the...

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Pardon the blurry photo, this is the only one I have. Don't know what was in my head at that time, that I didn't take another shot with the fruit nicely placed on my desk. Probably too eager to tuck in. Despite the very subpar quality, I want to post this, to remind...

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Durian mooncake from Little P. Happy Mid Autumn Festival to all ^^ Side note: Time to light some lanterns! ...

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Australia on Collins is actually a shopping centre on Collins Street (hence the name on Collins), between Elizabeth Street and Swanston Street. Before I joined my colleague on daily runs (Fridays are free days), my manager would remind me to go out of the building, walk about as part of OH&S (Occupation Health...

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I have not been to Mornington Peninsula despite it being a popular day trip option from Melbourne. There were plans but just didn't materialise. The first time the plan just fell off, and the second time I was sick. Third time's a charm, so they said and it is probably true as I did make...

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Tangelo and Lemon One of my colleague, D was having a bad day and was grumpy. Colleague T was trying to 'stir' him and drew a grumpy face on his tangelo fruit. T said this tangelo face resembled D and called him Captain Crankypants. Actually, prior to grumpy face on tangelo, there was another...

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