Melbourne 3rd Revisit: St. Patrick's Cathedral

On the 1st day we arrived Melbourne, we visited one of the oldest church in the city - St. Patrick's Cathedral. It's Mother Church of the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne and one of the architectural glories of Melbourne. It is located in the CBD of Melbourne and is just 10 mins walk from the Parliament house of Melbourne.





As Melbourne is also known as the garden city, so after we visited St. Patrick's Cathedral, we also visited a garden close to the church - Fitzroy Garden. Here are some photos taken in Fitzroy Garden.

There is a very famous building in Fitzroy Garden - Cook's Cottage, a memorial to Captain James Cook.

But we did not go in as we have been there before, plus you need to pay AUD3 per entry. So we just shot some photos right next to it :-\


Traveling in Melbourne City is easy as the government of Melbourne provides very good and most importantly FREE shuttle city circle service (bus and tram).

How to get there:
1. Hop on to a free city circle tram (http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/route/view/1112) and stop at the Parliament House at Spring Street.

2. Walk from Parliament House to St. Patrick's Cathedral. Please follow the map below:


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3. If you are interested in visiting Fitzroy Garden (http://www.fitzroygardens.com/), please follow the map below:


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Here is a map of Melbourne CBD for sharing. It highlights free city circle tram and bus routes.

The Zanmai Japanese Restaurant

Both of us were so so so craving for Japanese food recently! Of the Japanese we had recently, we would like to give a credit to the Zanmai Restaurants!

There are two Zanmai Japanese restaurants; they are 'Sushi Zanmai' which sells 'I-think-they-are-authentic' Japanese food and 'Pasta Zanmai' which sells fusion Japanese+Italianese food. Their Japanese food are simply gorgeous are the food prices are reasonably competitive! Um, Pasta Zanmai is a little pricey as compared to Sushi Zanmai.

Here are some photos for sharing.
Image 1-2: Sushi Zanmai

The unagi is simply gorgeous! and it is no doubt one of my favourite food from the restaurant!
Green tea ice cream - Sunny says it is simply delicious~

Image 3-5: Pasta Zanmai
Went there with a couple of my colleagues the other day!

My favourite food there is no other but the scallop pizza! Thumbs up!!


Other than my favourite scallop pizza, the rest of the foods were very good too! Look at the photos, aren't the food tempting?! Aww...

"SAT in the City" @ Michael Angelo's

Went for an afternoon tea with the hot babes last Sunday @ Michael Angelo's.




Ah, we did not order desserts only but 3 sets of 3 course meals. We didn't take any photos of them though.

Photo time with the ladies. Dar jokes that we are the characters of "SAT in the city" - a Hongkee TV show, duh!

Upcoming event with the babes and the gang - photo session @ Sekinchan! Stay tuned!


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- Written by - MM

KL-Singapore-KL Day Tour~

One fine Saturday (9th May, 2010), both Ys and myself visited our neighbour Singapore.
It was supposed to be a trip for ONE Important purpose but due to unforeseen circumstances, it was then turned out to be a "打了个白鸽转" in SG.

Special thanks to our friend 'Kit Kit' - who is also a new SG PR holder for touring us around his 2nd home :)


The following are the itineraries:

1) Our flight from Tiger Airways departed from Malaysia at 8.30am, and we arrived SG's Changi Airport at 9.30am.


2) Our friend Kit Kit was already there waiting for us. He is indeed a very good friend of dar :) He then brought us to a place called Eunos to try some local hawker food. Guess what, they are selling a glass of soya bean drink at 60 cents! It's very cheap okay!

3) Kit kit then brought us to the Bugis Junction for shopping.

Personally I quite like Bugis Junction. It is an integrated development (whereby some old shop lots are connected to each other) located at Downtown Area in Singapore. Personally I find it looks similar to The Curve in Damansara, but it is a lot more nicer to shop ;)


4) We stayed till 12.30-1pm, then we headed to City Hall, hoping to get some cheap gadgets there (as ppl keep telling us that gadgets are cheap in SG -.-") However, we couldn't get any cheap and nice stuff, duh -.-" and I ended up spending money on clothes >.< and we had our lunch at City Hall.

5) Then, we visited the Merlion - Singapore's Trademark (which is Mermaid + Lion in case you do not know :p) at Raffles Place.


No no, they are not Merlions :p

This is not a Merlion too... Oops! Argh okay, I know you know that it is the esplanade :p

Obviously, it is not the merlion too :p It's one of the newly built casinos in SG - The Sand Casino (金莎赌场).


Okay, this is the real merlion that was stroked by lightning some time ago. Yeah I know it sounds a little silly but it happened -.-" They fixed it and also installed some lightning rods on it. I din't see any though. I can't help but to laugh, hahaha

Look at the sky, it was very dark, wasn't it? Yes it rained, but luckily they were just showers and they stopped very quickly.

Photo time with the Merlion.., Say Cheese~ Wait a minute, do you see the Maybank tower behind the Merlion? Wow! I guess Maybank is doing so well until they can own such a big and tall tower in SG huh!

After seeing the Merlion, Kit Kit also brought us to the place where his office is located at to snap some photos.

6) Alright, we were done with the photo shooting, and I suggested to go to the Vivo city for another round of Retail Therapy. Our legs almost got broken due to walking for too long. Dar said it is a sign of aging -.-

Until a point when we can't walk no more, Kit Kit suggested to go for dinner and he recommended a restaurant called Bosses (黑社会) in Vivo City. We had a 2-hour long dinner, then we said goodbye to Kit Kit and left for Airport.


7) We arrived Changi Airport at 8pm and did some window shopping at the Duty-Free shops in the airport.


The Jet Star flight we took was suppose to depart from SG at 9.50pm, but it was delayed for more than one hour -.-" Due to the delay, we arrived KLIA at 12.00am and home at 1.00am; we were both exhausted. Nevertheless, it was still a fun-filled trip.

Thanks again to Kit Kit for the hospitality! That is very kind of you :) It was in fact our (both dar and myself) very 1st time visiting Singapore TOGETHER! Hence it is a memorable trip ;')

My 1st Marbel Cake Made

I baked my very 1st marble cake at last! Thanks to dar for his sharing his ideas in making the 'marble' in the cake! Wink >_^ Baking a marble is easy, it is just like adding the 'marble thingy' in the normal butter cake :p


Ingredients:
1. Self-raising flour (200g)
2. 4 eggs



The self-raising flour has to be shifted.

3. Baking paper is also a must-have to ease the after-baked cleaning work (I admit I am lazy)


4. Cocoa powder (1-2 table spoons will do), to be mixed with the batter later (batter: 100-150g).
5. Butter (220g)
6. Caster Sugar (200g)

Alright, I am about to start!
Beat the butter and sugar till light and fluffy.
Add in eggs, one at a time, and beat em'!

Then, add in shifted self-raising flour and beat till light & fluffy. (Argh, my hands were so numb after beating em' for quite a while. See, the batter is simply so smooth~ It is ready to be spread in the container.

Next, add in the cocoa batter and mix em' with the batter. This is where dar's way in making a marble cake come into the picture. He suggested to used knife (in this case I am using a chopstick) to mix the cocoa batter with the 'non-cocoa batter' ;)

Okay done! Bake it for 40 minutes (180◦C). Oven pre-heat at the same temperature is required before baking the cake.

Waiting... Waiting... and waiting...

Ding! My freshly baked marble cake!

Dar is ready to try em'!

I think it tasted simply delicious! Though dar it could have tasted better, softer and more tender if the batter was stirred & mixed by him, cos he is more powerful than I am -_-"