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Heloooooooo!!

Exams are overrrrrrrr~~~!! It was my toughest semester yet and I am glad it is over and done with! These weightless shoulders sure feels good!

Anyways, I promised to be back after my exams and catch up on my backlogs. I have been accumulating backlogs... :X I'll try to get to all of it in these two weeks lah ok.. I get so tired whenever I do long posts so I keep pushing it off and procrastinate. So maybe I'll break it up into a few little shorter posts alright? :)

Ok.. where shall I start with? Hmmm... Attended my first concert in Melbourne! That dated exactly 2 months ago... Better late than never posting it up I suppose :P

Whenever I look at the stats of my posts archive and how my rate of publishing is decreasing tremendously, I feel sad-ish but yet, at that point of time it didn't motivate me to keep up with the posting. The past semester has just been too crazy to spend my free time editing pictures and writing a long post of how the good things have been. As much as I miss writing down my life stories (altho they are mainly food stories) to ease my stress, but I love me some sleep and chilling and lazing more HEHE

These backlogs posts are just going to be about the outings I had and some kitchen experiments. Boring days that are uni related are not required to be written about.

Anyways, back to the concert I attended. It was Eason Chan's! I ain't that big of a fan but since Wei Nian asked dear and dear said ok, so I just tagged along :D





Overall the concert was pretty good. One thing for sure, Eason is such a great singer! His live singing sounds exactly like what you hear not live. Like seriously one! And altho, the whole night I think I only knew five songs he sang, but I still enjoyed it! :) And he is such a funny guy! The way he talks and entertained the crowd, he seems like a genuinely nice artist.

The concert ended nicely around 11pm.

Next, potluck party @ the boyfriend's friend's house.







For the rest of the night, we played mahjong and had a karaoke session! This house of theirs has like a karaoke machine so everyone basically just kept singing and singing. It was a potluck plus cheung k party man!

p/s: Sorry that all the photos at the potluck turned out so yellow and green! It was seriously not a very good lighting to be taking nice pictures of. Or maybe I should have played around with my white balance..


Next outing was with the S9s! Initial plan was to go to The Grain store for brunch but since we did not make any reservation(I know right.... since when do brunch places do reservations....), we couldn't get in. So we headed over to Degraves street instead and entered any random cafe that could sit 8 people.




Food wasn't great lah to be honest. It was more like a makan together session. But since we couldn't really chit chat much because we were seated in two separate tables, we went for bubble tea after brunch and just sat there for like an hour plus catching up about whatever. And then after that we all headed back home. And that was before 1pm I think?


En Lin was in Melbourne and of course whenever someone in the close circle of friends comes here, it is a must to meetup. And I obviously was the one who decides on where shall we go for food and this time, I chose Maccaroni Trattoria Italiana!

I've heard so much about how affordable this place is and how it serves yummy authentic Italian food! Plus when Steph was here, she went there too and she told me it was good! So of course, must go and try!





The meal was niceeee!! The food tasted great but I don't think it is the kind of restaurant that you want to go with a bunch of guys because the food portion is quite small. These 3 guys that I was with wasn't filled up after this meal. Hahaha! But for me, it was just nice! And I seriously loved how everything tasted so subtly yummy and authentic!

Next stop after dinner was for cakes @ Brunetti on City Square.




And that's it for this post! All of this happened before Venus Bay and I thought I'll just break it up here. Because next will be a post solely on Adriano Zumbo in Melbourne and after that another continuation of backlogs until right now.

You should probably be seeing at least 2 more updates by next week! :)

Now that I am exam free, I have even more free time to catch up on these posts. And especially because I hardly have much friends left here for me to go out on outings with as regularly as I did last time after my exams.

So now all I do all day is literally lazing around. Watching series, eat and sleep. Now that I am at the boyfriend's for a week, added another one more thing to do, which is to annoy him. Muahahaha!

Wokays, I shall be back soon!

Love,
sher xoxo.

Hey....

Ola peeps!

Am back to write about my Venus Bay trip that happened exactly a month ago HEHE :D

First time ever going on a road trip/weekend getaway with the boyfriend's friends andddd it was fun! Laid back countryside and ulu-ish but fun!

And there aren't any hotels in Venus Bay so we rented someone's holiday home to house the 10 of us. The house was quite nice leh..













After settling down for a bit, we all went out to dinner in the little tiny tiny town. It was just a less than 5 minutes drive away and there were only a total of 3 restaurants in the whole of Venus Bay.

And we went to The Cavity which was the most happening one as there were so many people and it was also a happy hour Friday kinda thing so everyone was like chatting away with beers in their hands.






Those were the only dishes I took pictures of basically they were just whatever in front of me and most of us ordered the same thing anyways. Or if not, then its because they are at the other end of the table and also cause I don't know them very well so I paiseh wanna stall them and take pictures of their food lor..

After dinner, we drove to the beach to catch a glimpse of the clear starry sky. Which was so so so pretty!!!! Like literally the whole sky was painted with thousands of dots of flickering glittering stars!

Initially we wanted to go to the beach and chill there at night but it was also quite scary because there was literally no one there except this one guy on the beach shining his torchlight all over as tho he was looking for something. And also cause it was like super duper windy and super duper cold. So we decided to go back home and chill instead.

Once we got home, we had the fireplace up and running and then we started our game sessions. One side of board games and whatnot on the couch and another side of mahjong on the dining table.


And then we called it a night.

Day 2,

I woke up to smell of eggs and bacons. HAHHA! And guess what, the boys are the ones who are up early cooking us breakfast hehehe I should feel bad but aiya its okla.. HAHA!


Then we got ready and went out to town to rent some fishing gears. Because the plan was to go fishing and also catch pipis for our dinner along with the BBQ things. Little did we know, there aren't any fishing gears to rent and you have to purchase them sooo we decided not to go fishing and go straight to pipi catching.

Drove to No.1 beach to start things off. I think there were a total of 5 beaches and they go by No.1, No,2 and etc..






After seeing some bigs ones, me and the bf and everyone else decided to help and catch too. I went for it! Was still afraid of the ocean but I went for it! And only managed to get like two pipis.. Better than nothing lor..


Then we decided we had to go and get more so we drove to No.2 beach! And that was when I went all in and gung ho in catching pipis!

The ones who caught at the No.1 beach rested while the others who was lazing around initially went full on catching mode at the No.2 beach. And we caught soooooo much!! Thanks to mua who told them to go to this area which I saw so many people catching there and with half filled buckets of pipis. At this specific area, we seriously caught so so much!


And in case if you guys haven't notice already, yeap we all went catching without a license. HAHAH! But no one actually cared anyways.. There were people driving around on the beach to keep an eye but they didn't really bother much as long as we don't use a shovel. Which we did have by the way but didn't use. It was so much easier to catch it with your bare hands!


Then we all headed back for lunch. As it was only left with 5 of us on the beach because the other 5 went back first and tapaoed lunch for us and also to go back and bath first.



And also waited for my turn to go and bath as I was drenched in salt water and sand waist down. BUT by the time it was my turn to bath, all I got was ICY COLD WATER!!!! It was warm-ish when I go in and by the time I had shampoo in my hair, the water turned icy cold!!! OMG it was so so bad!! Had to endure it and just get the soap off my hair and literally jumped out of the toilet.

The whole 3 days I was there, I never once had hot water at all! Like seriously... And after that shower I actually caught a cold. Thank god I brought my polaramine and so I popped a pill and stuffed tissues in my nose and fell asleep for like an hour.

By the time I got up, I was good to go! And the plan was to go for a walk at the coastal park. I was asking the rest if it was a leisure walk because I didn't have like proper shoes and all and they were like yeah yeah soooo I went with my slippers instead.

And when we finally got to the place, I knew I was in the wrong attire... Slippers were a totally bad idea!



I was like spooked! We were the only ones in the area and there isn't a proper path anddd there isn't any light! We were walking halfway around 30 minutes in and we were starting to lose light because the sun was setting and I insisted that I wanted to turn back and head back to the car because it was feeling abit scary already.. Some went on walking further for another 15 minutes or so while 4 of us turned back.

Turning back also means another 35 minutes walk back to the car ok... When we were almost reaching the car, I could hear like tribal music and stuff and I was like "walk faster!" saying to myself altho my legs were killing me from all the up and down in sand and grass walk.. Plus those huge gigantic ants on the ground weren't really helping especially that I was in slippers...

Thankfully we reached the car safely and I happily started my social media hopping the moment we were comfortably cooled and locked in our car.

Then waited for the rest to get back and then we headed home for dinner. BBQ time! And pipis!







I was so filled up from dinner man!! So much food! And so, after all that eating, all of us just chilled on the sofa and talked and played Mafia while drinking ciders and beers and also eating desserts.


I think we called off the night pretty early. Before 12? Mainly because some were going out to catch the sunrise and also the rest need to wake up early the next morning for breakfast and also cleaning up the place cause we have to leave by 1030am latest.

Day 3,

A few of them really did wake up early and went out to catch the sunrise. But me and the bf are pigs and obviously didn't wake up for it. And here are some pictures that lim wei took of the sunrise :)


And by the time I was up, breakfast was almost ready already. hahahaha! I am a seriously big pig :P


Then we all got ready and started cleaning up the place and cross checking if we missed out on anything.


And had to pack up all the rubbish and transport it to the dumping ground. There aren't any rubbish bins for the house and everyone have to drive their rubbish out to the dumping place one.

After that, we left Venus Bay and headed over to Leongatta. Hoping to go around and see if we could find anything interesting to do but in the end all we did was drive around and sat in the car most of the time till it was time for lunch.

We stopped by a little town called Loch for lunch.



After lunch, we adjourned our journey back to Clayton which we reached around 3 something? Got back to MA and rested for about close to two hours before we headed out to dinner at Newmarket cause we gotta drop someone home and he stays in Newmarket.


It is my second time there and I was quite skeptical at first because I didn't have a good experience the first time..


The food was pretty good! I'll definitely be back again! And then to dessert after dinner!


But I think the branch on Flemington Road isn't doing as well cause the mango jelly tasted bitter... But I still finished it nonetheless cause apart from the jelly, everything else was fine.

After dinner, we did some grocery shopping and then headed back Clayton.

And that's it! That concludes the whole trip!

I don't think I'll be back with solid updates until my exams are over which is on the 26th. Am so swamped with FYP poster presentation and report and exam preparation and the exams itself..

Shall be back whenever I can sit down in peace.

Till then, bye y'all!

Much Love,
shereena.