So I would like to take this opportunity to wish all Malaysians around the world a happy Merdeka Day, sorry I can't join in the celebration because I'm not a Malaysian anymore...
Nevertheless, I reckon only people growing up in Southeast Asia would appreciate this delicacy, it is just undescriptably tasty, an acquired taste only few could appreciate. The texture of it's mashy flesh swirling in my mouth as I devour it just send me to heaven. I'm drooling just writing about it!
Where has this D24 Premier Malaysian Durian been all these years?! I heard not many people know about it just yet but I'm sure it won't be long before everyone is selling them. At the moment you can only get them at The Straits Malaysian Restaurant in Doncaster but I hope to see it in my local asian store soon.
Normal blogging will resume tomorrow so in the mean time, go do something else...Thank you!
The superstructure is built as two independent bridges of variable depth, prestressed concrete box girders, separated by a 1.15 m clear gap in the central median. It is supported on five land-based piers, with central pier 3 located on a manmade island. It has four spans with two main spans of 173 m and side spans of 72 m, giving an overall bridge length of 490 m.
Customers have to queue up for a few minutes before they even get served, the donuts get sold quicker than they can make them. We had to queue up for about 15 minutes because they ran out of donuts and we had to wait for new ones to come out.
The Queen Victoria Market is an historic Melbourne landmark and a Melbourne institution dating back to more than 120 years ago.
It hasn’t been just a market. At different times in the past it has been a cemetery, a livestock market and a place to sell fruit and vegetables wholesale. Here we have a huge varieties of cheeses.
More lollies to sink your teeth in.
And fresh fruits and vegetables at low low prices.
There are stalls selling plants like cacti here...
Street performers like this band here from South America...
Playground for the kids...
Sheds full of traders selling anything from clocks...
...to framed pictures; classical or...
...contemporary.
We've only been here once last year when my sister and her family were here. I thought the food was quite good then and we thought of having my birthday lunch here this Sunday, so we went and try out the lunch again.
The premise is spacious with 2 shops' spaces combined to be quite comfortably seated.
Terese ordered the curry laksa which was quite good.
12 years of "Yes Dear"! 12 years of getting thumped by the missus! No, just kidding. It's been a good 12 years and looking forward to the next 12. I'm a happier man than before I met Terese, not going into details I wouldn't have it any other way.
...something quick and simple; lamb steak.
For entree we had pumpkin soup she prepared during the weekend.
Followed by the lamb steak served with mashed potato and butter beans.
It is so busy that the council had to impose the 40km/h speed limit for the traffics going down here.
Hung Vietnamese Restaurant is situated right in the heart of this busy part of Preston. It specialises in "Pho" a vietnamese soup noodle dish that comes with beef or chicken or the special deluxe version that comes with everything.
This is a typical busy Saturday lunch hour at Hung; choke full of people. Apart from the pho dishes, it also has other good vietnamese cuisine and the price is very reasonable. This is one of our frequent restaurants too but today I've come for a quick takeaway lunch for Terese. I managed to find a park not far from the restaurant so I could quickly dashed in to order...
Problem I have with it is that it gets dirty quite quickly especially during the warmer months when algae forms very quickly, choking the fishes in the pond like what you can see here.
So, to clean the pond out, I have to remove the fishes from the pond and put them in a different container temporarily while I proceed with the cleaning.
First the aquatic plants are removed, water emptied and the pebbles removed.
Then using a nylon brush, I scrub the inside of the barrel to get rid of the algae and slime that's built up inside....
...until it is very clean.
Next I wash the pebbles with high pressure water to clean them thoroughly.
When everything is clean, I put the plants and pebbles back into the barrel.
Water is then put back in, you may add water conditioner at this stage but I've never bother with it because the comet goldfishes that I have are very hardy and can tolerate tap water quite happily.
Lastly the fishes are put back into the water and we get a crystal clear pond again!
Here's a before and after shots of the pond, quite a difference.
At the beginning of last century, people with cancer faced almost certain death. Now, thanks to continuing improvement in research and patient care, more than half of them will be successfully treated. This progress is celebrated on Daffodil Day. 
Coincidentally, today is also the day Chinese around the world celebrate The Festival Of Hungry Ghosts when the gate of Hell is open for one day of the year and all the hungry ghosts of Hell take a holiday here in our world!
One particular one that I go frequently is Van Van Vetnamese Restaurant.
Situated in the busy Victoria Street of Richmond, this restaurant is one of the best on this street.
The staffs are friendly and helpful but I think I should get to know their names...
Today, doing my round of delivery to one of our clients in the neighbourhood, I quickly dashed in here to order my favourite lunch...
...grilled pork on broken rice garnished with tomato and cucumber! Yum!
Signs of Spring is everywhere, my roses are sprouting new shoots, bulb plants are blooming and temperature is rising...can't wait, sick of winter blues and long freezing nights.
Blue sky, white clouds and sunshine are the order of the day...tomorrow's another great day with forecast of 20 degrees celsius!
