Bye Bye Goldie

Today is a sad day, I'm mourning for one of my goldfishes that sadly passed away. It had been with me for the last couple of years now but sadly it is gone. I had it when it was just a baby when I brought it home from the aquarium, it had grown big and at the time of it's passing was the biggest fish in the tank.The cause of dead; dropsy, a mystery illness that is still not understood yet. It causes the fish to bloat and it's scales to stick out from it's body and death soon follows after a few days. No one really know what causes this but I have had a few fishes died because of this disease before.

Now I've only got 5 fishes left in the tank, kinda think of it I'm not very good in keeping goldfishes! They keep dying on me! Oh I don't know what I've done wrong, the pH was right, water condition was good but they still die on me! Damn! Maybe I'll put plastic fishes in there from now on..

Suck On These Balls!

Arnott's Tim Tam Balls have been around for sometimes now but I've yet to sample them so when we were at the supermarket yesterday, I just gotta give it a go.

I've had Tim Tam biscuits for many years and it is one of the best biscuits I know. So it's only appropriate that I give these balls a try.

Pop open the box and out come these chocolate balls about 15-20 mm in diameters. According to the packaging, you can suck on it, kiss it, crunch it, seduce it, chomp it or melt them in your mouth. I tried all the different ways but they all taste the same any way, DUH!


Bite one in half and you can see the biscuit wafer covered in thick chocolate. Crunchy but still taste exactly the same as the biscuit form so I'm not too impressed with the new ball shape. Maybe they just make it so you can suck on it. Go on, suck on these balls!

Hard At Work

Let me introduce you to D my boss. D is a fantastic boss so fantastic that we can do whatever we want.
Here he is hard at work catching some zzz, it's been a hard day's work and he needs his beauty sleep. But seriously, it was a very quiet day and that makes us all fell asleep. Happens to me too but I'm the one who's got the camera! HAHAHAHA...

Check Out My Brick Phone

This post is in response to narrowband's post today on his beloved Nokia phone, recently passed into phone heaven..
Have a look at my phone, Nokia 5110 the ultimate brick phone. This is my first phone and is still my current phone! No joke here! It is tough as brick, dropped countless times but still working. Why would I need to get a newer fancier phone with all the latest gizmos and gimmicks. (I'm actually waiting for it to die but it just doesn't want to die!)

The only problems I have with my dinosaur phone is that it doesn't show caller's numbers and the battery is wasting quick and it's loose so it disconnects sometimes. Other than that, it's still working for me so before it dies, I'm not getting another one. It'll get jealous!

Down By The Yarra

Last weekend, Terese and I decided to go for a walk down by the Yarra river. This part of the city is called Southbank and on the weekends it is usually full of people.
There's a craft market under the Arts Centre.
Street performers every few yards apart. This guy thinks he's Houdini.
Children taking advantage of the warm day to get wet on the water display.
This is the Eureka Tower, right in the heart of Southbank. It is still under construction and will be the tallest residential building in the southern hemisphere or something like that.
Across the river on the other side is the Melbourne Aquarium. I've been there twice but I don't think it's worth the money you have to pay to get in unless you can get a special deal on group booking or some promotional deal that they come out every now and then.
And who can walk past the Crown Casino on Southbank, let's go check it out.
A bit quiet today, maybe it's still early. This place is usually packed full of chinese patrons, we all know how much the chinese like to gamble. Some are so hooked on it that they would sell their family homes just to feed their insatiable habits.

Well at least the State Government is happily racking in millions of dollars from this money making beast from the taxes it collects at the expense of the poor pathetic losers we all are!

Hello..would you like sex service with me?

Today I had a business proposition from someone. I was doing some shopping at my local shopping centre when I went back to my car and heard someone calling out to me "Hello, hello, hello".I looked up and saw this woman probably in her 40's not very pretty but also not overly ugly either but she looked kind of spaced out a little. She had messy hair and bad make-up on. She kept calling out to me "Hello, hello" and I wasn't too sure about her so I just replied "Yes?" She then came close to me so that she didn't have to speak too loudly. She didn't want anyone but me to hear her say "Would you like sex service with me?" Straight away I said "No thanks!" to which she replied "Thank you" and she walked away.


I must say this is the first time I've been offered a proposition for a sex service by a hooker. Fair enough she was just offering her services because that was her profession but do I look desperate enough to have to pay for sex? Prostitution is not illegal in here but soliciting clients in a public place like this car park is. She probably need some quick bucks for drugs but she's not gonna get it from me, sorry but I'm too scared about sex with prostitutes or strangers!

Melbourne's Stargate

There's a new park/playground in the heart of the Docklands and I must say it's quite amazing.It has the usual amenities you find in a playground but there's this structure that caught everyone's eyes..
..it's the big round thingy with colourful balls surrounding it. The balls will actually swing round the rim of the big circle when the wind blows on it so you can imagine how cool it looks.

Kinda reminds me of the Stargate where aliens from other worlds could travel to Earth and vice-versa. I was hoping to see them flying through the worm hole that forms from the big circle but no such luck today, it's just another statue, a nice one I might say.

If you like to watch the wheel turning in the wind, you can watch it here (3.12MB).

Welcome To New Quay

Welcome to New Quay, Melbourne's latest suburb in the Docklands.It is basically a stretch of residential apartment buildings with great restaurants and some retail shops by the water.
This is where all of us should have our apartments, close to the city but far from the traffic jams.
Have your pick of the apartments, they all have nice restaurants downstairs so you can just have your brunch when you get out of bed. Don't worry about cooking, stuff that, enjoy the good living!
Then you should also get a boat or a yacht, park it right infront of your apartment building so you can take it out for a ride around the bay on a nice day like today.

And when there's a game on at the Telstra Dome, you can just walk across the road and you're there. Who needs a car!

That penthouse on the top floor is mine (not).

Lunch At Da Pasquale

This is actually a extended post from the last post. I would like to show you in more detail an excellent pizza restaurant that we frequence regularly because it serves good food and good value for money. It's the Da Pasquale Pizza Restaurant.As you may have already known about the street party that went on last Sunday. This enabled the restaurant's owner to move the tables onto the street so that customers could have an al-fresco dining experience in the sun with live entertainment.
We weren't too keen on eating outside so we decided to stay inside while the party rages on outside.
They make authentic italian gourmet pizzas with woodfired oven here, my favourite is the Frutti-de-mare or the seafood pizza.
Check out their woodfired oven, the temperature can get very high so it doesn't take very long to cook the pizzas. They use a flat 'shovel' to get the pizzas in and out of this oven.
We didn't feel like pizzas that day so Terese ordered the Antipasto Mediterraneo, a selection of cold italian smallgoods, cheese, mussells and sun-dried tomato.

I ordered one of my favourite pastas; the Fettucine Carbonara which has a egg and cream sauce with bacon and parmesan cheese. Trust me it tastes better than it looks!

Street Party

Fairfield had a special event going on last Sunday, they had to close Station Street to accomodate this special event. This special event is called the Open Mind Day and everyone is invited to enjoy the day.The event was organised by the traders on Station Street in Fairfield to create awareness of mental illness in the general community. Did you know that 1 in 5 of us has this illness?
They even had a special stall set up for everyone to obtain information into this illness and hopefully we as part of the community would be more tolerant and concern for those who are unfortunate enough to have this disease.
With the street closed a lot of restaurants were able to set up tables on the street to accomodate more customers and they even hire entertainers to keep everyone amused.
Some have roast pig and lamb on the spit, the lamb looked like a dog to me and that turned me off! But I'll still eat them.
It was a warm day and the ice cream shop was doing really well. I've never seen queue lining out into the street before!
Even the japanese shop Matsuya had a stall outside selling japanese pancakes, sushi and japanese ice cream too! Tell you a secret, these are not japanese but chinese pretending to be japanese selling japanese food. Stupid Ang-moh can't tell the difference, to them we all look the same!
There are lots of rides and games for the kids too like the giant snake & ladder board game.

And who could go past the fashion parade showing off the clothes from the op shop. I know these are not professional models but they could not afford them so these young volunteers are doing just fine. Well done Fairfield!

Floral Fantasy At Crown

Crown Casino is currently holding a Floral Fantasy display in the atrium and it is free for everyone to enjoy. The display will be open every day till the 23rd of this month so it's only going to on for another week or so.There's probably millions of flowers of different species to make up these wonderful displays; here we have the "Humming Bird" display though I can't quite picture a humming bird in there..
Then we have the "Flamingos" standing on the water. Now that resembles a few flamingos unlike the Humming Bird.
This is just some floral landscape, not supposed to be anything, I don't think. Those big flowers are actually made of small flower buds of different plants.
This is everyone's favourite I think because everyone seems to be having their photos taken in front of it, it's the "Peacock". This is a male peacock because only male peacocks have colourful feathers and they show them off like this to attract their female partners so it is most appropriate that on the opposite side of this peacock we have the star attraction of the Floral Display..

..the female peacock called "The Bride". It has a long tail made from hundreds of white flowers like she's wearing her wedding dress!

Siaran Tergendala

Attack Of The Birds!

Between the months of August and October every year is the time when the Australian Magpie birds breed and during these months they are very territorial and will defend against other birds as well as people.At one of my local libraries they have such a problem with the magpies and signs warning of possible bird attacks have been put around the area to warn people to be careful and to watch out when they are in the area.
The magpies are protected by law so you cannot harm them or relocate them, all you can do is to get out of their ways! They usually attack by striking with their beaks and claws so it's a good idea to wear a helmet or an umbrella when you are in their territories.
Terror takes flight! They tend to come down to the ground to pick on bugs to eat and attack people while they're at it. I was hoping to get pictures of them attacking but no such luck today.
It would be perfect if I have pictures of them attacking me but that's only in the Alfred Hitchcock's movie. So to show you the magpies attacking people, I've prepared one earlier..

..here's a magpie attacking a postie(postman). Some magpies are more aggressive than others. Too bad I can't shoot them!