Ph(f)oto Friday: Puppy

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 him a cute puppy cake - it's funny in terms of how the situation was. Cute dog vs grumpy D. :P

We got this 3D cake from Breadtop, an Asian franchise bakery in Australia. It comes with 3 different flavours - mixed fruit, chocolate and tiramisu. We were not quite sure which cake D likes, and the option was between chocolate and tiramisu. We ended up getting the tiramisu one, after all, we know he likes chocolate, coffee and booze! As T said, since we had the say of how the cake looks like, we will get one that he will like. ^^


Side note: Hols finally coming up!

Merry Christmas :)

Merry Christmas and enjoy a cupcake, or two :)


Side note: And a very happy new year!

Ph(f)oto Friday: Best view

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 ^^

Weekend trip to Shire of Hepburn

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 probably one of the nearer drive from Melbourne CBD, taking only about 1 hour and 30 minutes, making this an easy getaway without taking extra annual leave, if you are in the annual-leave-saving-mode.

It was a success, many thanks to Little P who drove and make it happened. I am still not qualified to drive, as Malaysian driving license if not one of the recognised license allowable for conversion. Yup - will need to do all that tests from scratch.

The very summarised version of our trip would be - some bits of nature, a little of relaxing and plenty of eating.

Side note: I am in need of a break...

17th Japanese Film Festival



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 watched was Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror and Tokyo Marble Chocolate. I went as a audience by myself.

 

Thereafter I found out about volunteering for the film festival and roped in my partner-in-crime to volunteer in the 2012 festival. We did both pre-festival and festival sessions. Pre-festival sessions are basically promotion sessions, we went in to cafes and shops, and asked if we could leave some leaflet (booklets in the past years) in their shops as promotion. Festival sessions are sessions during the festival itself, we gave out survey forms for completion and collect them back thereafter. This year, we also need to man the film festival booth. It was fun and easy volunteering session. ^^

We watched Thermae Romae and Bunny Drop. Initially we wanted to catch Rurouni Kenshin but it was sold out.

 

Up the flight of staircase to cinemas

Fast forward to this year - we volunteered again as we had fun last year.This year we were assigned to ACMI again. Historically, there are two venues in Melbourne - ACMI and Hoyts Melbourne Central. Somehow both times, we were assigned to ACMI.

 

A table was set up across from the staircase, for promotion of movies :)



We were seated here on parts of our duty session

This year's movie list

 Our pick this year... Midsummer Equation, movie version of Galileo ^^

 

Oh look! Masaharu Fukuyama

 

 

Side note:

 



Ph(f)oto Friday: Shiroi Koibito

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...

Melbourne Night Noodle Markets 2013

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 of their usual operating eateries.

I have been to the market once in Sydney, but I heard it was the first time it was held in Melbourne, from 18th November for two weeks. Little P and I checked the market out on a Friday, the 22nd of November. Umm.. so yes - I am a failed blogger again, as the event has been completed.

We, however, had some good food though ^^

So were a lot of people too...

For entree - we had this from Chin Chin



Pork sliders with sriracha and burnt chili mayo

First course, from Longrain

Grilled chicken, rice noodles, coriander, yellow bean

Little P said the sauce reminded her of superior chu cheong fan from her hometown in Ipoh.

Second course, from Mamak. Mind you, this 6 skewers did not come cheap at all. I am sure my mother will choke on her saliva on hearing that these tiny bits of meat easily comes up to RM 27.

Satay chicken

Third course - grilled octopus from Grilled Calamari. Somehow I can't find any photo on this dish, must've been too busy gobbling up one of Davy Jone's long lost relatives. :P

Looks like the glutton one was only me, I was saved by Little P - she took a snap!

Dessert - 2 scoops of ice cream from Serendipity Icecream. Our pick - Japanese Green Tea and Sticky Fig & Honeycomb. Both were really good, though if I need to pick on it, I hope the honeycomb to be in smaller piece, rather than the big chunk.

We were ready to call it a day, then we saw these on our way out... food trucks!

We settled for Ghost Kitchen (above).

Sweet potato fries

Salt and Pepper chicken

After a very full-filling dinner, we called it a day.. after taking a couple of more shots of the lanterns.

Side note: I learnt my first Russian word - поросенок (pronounced as porosenok), meaning little pig

Ph(f)oto Friday: Bumblebee

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 it.. bleh