All in One

Food of the Day: Ookyo (some Hokkien desserts)

It has been awhile seen I upload an entry into this blog. Why?
I am sick..... If some of you even bother caring.....

Today the cows across the road from my house are all in heat.... Moo-ing moo-ing moo-ing and moo-ing like crazy..... Or maybe it is this time around where people forcefully squeeze their precious juice which suppose to be given to their offspring, instead being drank by bunch of aliens (in their Moo-ing mind). Tried my best to shut off their Moo-ing, by playing CHE.R.RY by YUI loudly in my room and have a sing-a-long session. But all these proven to be in vain. hahaha. Shut the window? Yes. Why haven't thought of that in the beginning?......

I decided to put new stuffs into my entry. Every entry will have this Food of the Day sign, which said what food I am thinking while writing the entry. It will consisted of mostly Penang's foods. Sorrie. Other people put some useless stuffs like Emotions, etc etc. No use. Some readers just don't give a damn how you feel. hahaha.

For the past few days, I was kinda disappointed, with the rate of people replying you. When you are asking favour from them. I have this assignment which need me to write a safety audit for a laboratory outside my university. It should be a good experience, until everytime I call the OH&S people, they will bring me to a leave-a-message.

Hi I am XXX, and I am currently unavailable. Please leave a message and your contact details. I will get back to you as fast as possible. Thanks. Tuuuuuuuuuuuu (in very high tone...)

Maybe it is my bad English, or their fault. None of them have yet return my calls.... One possible, I tend to mumble a lot, and speak something wrongly when I am speaking on the voicemail.... Example:

XXX sexy voicemail's voice: Hi, I am XXX, and I am currently unavailable. Please leave a message and your contact details. I will get back to you soon. Thanks. Tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Me: Hi, this is Lex from Monash Malaysia. (What the hell? Monash Malaysia? Monash Gippsland, mate, wake up). Erm, sorry Monash Gippsland. (feeling a bit awkward). I am doing this unit that require me to write a risk assessment for a laboratory outside my campus (awkward; I forgot to say 'I am a student'). So I am wondering whether is that possible that I have a visit to your labs? ( completely hopeless, wishing I could finish talking to the emptiness in the opposite line.......) My number is yada yada yada.....

I am completely hopeless in leaving a voicemail..... HOPELESS>>>>>>

Then, I am just so lucky that I manage to caught an OH&S Manager after 5 times of calling which span around 2 weeks time. She did agree with me visiting her Reproductive Laboratory. But she need to ask the Lab Supervisor first. But she have yet call me back to confirm the time.... She promised........ Anyway, I have another good soul, helped me to SDS Environmental Service, visit to microbiology lab! This one, I called and the manager picked up!!! Hurrah!!!!!!!
Was jumping up and down!!! Went to the next room and tell Yannick, for no reason at all. hahaha.

Okay, I am still coughing my heart out.... Need to do 2 performances for the Culture Nite, which is coming in 2 weeks time. The first performance is a Malay dance....... I was being forced to participate...... another one is on my own will, duet with Sookie, with Nicholas the guitarist. Will tell you people about that soon

P.S. this entry is called All in One, not the song All in One. It means I put all the craps into one entry. Just too lazy to put into separate entries.....

Fire Hazardz

Since Vivz wanted to know what had happened to that incident last week, I shall write it over this entry.

If you people are back from holiday last week, and actually went for class, you might see heaps of fire trucks and ambulance over the Gippsland Campus Main Reception. Well this is what happened.

On Thursday, early in the morning, we had lab block which started from 9am to late in the evening of 6 pm. What is a lab block?
I am a science student, and what makes science student lost their life? Labs. Yes, we need to attend laboratory session every week, and carry out experiments regarding to our units. What is a lab block then? It is laboratory session which comprised of 1 week time, maybe lesser, and they the whole day, normally 9 am to 5pm.

And on thursday we have Bioactive Chemistry Lab Block, which involved in extracting organic proteins from materials. Okay back to the incident. On that day, we need to carry out 2 experiments at the same time. Extracting terpenes (something for you to find out, if you are interested, and have the hell of the free time) and setting up for the next experiment.

While setting up the next experiment, I've not done the extracting terpenes yet, we suddenly heard Micheal shouting loudly from the other side.

Ahhhh, Ahhhhh, Ahhhhh,......

He came over our side whole shouting and I saw his lab coat was on fire! Quickly he put the fire on his lab coat off. Amazed, I looked over his table, and I saw huge fire over the side of fumehood..... The fire was so fierce I could see Royce was stunt because of it. I was stunted as well.....But the fire was out after awhile, luckily.

Within a minute, we, only science faculty, need to be evacuate from the lab. Standing outside the assembly point for 1 hour, before heading to cafeteria for a free drinks! Waiting for the firemen to do something with that chemical spills and others just stand there for some huha. hahaha

Micheal's was slightly burned and was sent to the hospital. Luckily he was wearing safety goggle, if not, the flame will get onto his eyes.... Then it got me thinking.

What if this thing happen in Monash Malaysia Campus? What will happen. PS. The following thought was my prejudice thinking.

If this thing happen to Monash Malaysia, the whole campus is needed to be evacuated, because the laboratories are underground, and the whole campus was onto of the laboratories.

Micheal, if he studied in Monash Malaysia, will be damaged severely. Why?

1. They don't use safety goggle
2. They don't normally perform experiments in the fumehood

Maybe the whole campus will be ignited because the Malaysian fire department are inefficient.

Micheal will not be send to hospital right away. Just left him sitting around the corridors....

Why all these things might happen? Because the Malaysian are simply not prepared for these things to happen.

The City is alive!

Most respected person in Melbourne CBD, non-stop hulahoop for days

When you wake up, and you look out of your window, what do you see and hear? If you are staying in the city, what do you see and hear?

Car?

Smokes?

People opening the department stores?

Noises from traffic jams?

From these, do you think that the city is alive?

NO!!!

The city is not alive by these noises and these craps.....

It is the street performers who make the city (any city) alive!

They bring music into the city, instead of some kind of music from the department stores, they bring laughter to the city, they bring people to attention, and the most important thing is they bring LIVE to the city.

Every time I went down to Melbourne, I see people performing at every corner of the CBD (Central Business District). People with expensive guitars and stands. People that look like they slept at a trash corner somewhere. People who have decent looks playing on drum that is made of tins and basket. Kids playing X'mas songs with their electrical organ, saxophones. People from all different races.

What are their purpose. You might ask.

Each of them have different purpose. So are everyone on this lonely earth. Some of them are chasing their dreams in performing related business. Some of them are doing it so that they won't have stage-fright. Some of them have only one purpose. To earn a decent money, without breaking the law.

I, being my naive self, always think that money is easy to earn. Maybe I've not in such situation where I have to scrape the bottom of the barrel. But, there is always but, I got kick back to reality for this moment after watching The Pursuit of Happyness. This movie tells us about how bad can your luck be. Some people need money so desperately, that they hold dear to their 5 dollars like it is 1,000 bucks. These people on the street, some of them just want to earn so decent money. They do not give up no matter how deep they fell. Like the most famous person in Melbourne, not John So the Melbourne Mayor; the Asian guy doing hulla hoop for days without stopping for meals. Yes, he is the guy above!

I have never seen him, standing with his own leg, and have a meal before. Most of the time, when I am in the city, I will see him performing along Bourke Street or Swanston Street. He is that good, and determined to earn enough money for him to eat his dinner.

When I got tired of window shopping around city, the place you can find me is around Bourke Street Mall. I'll just sit there and see people perform. Aussie guy playing Chinese instruments; aussie guy blowing didgeridoo; bands playing in front of Myers Department Store; etc etc. They help me to kill some times before I heading back to Spotwoods, my aunt place.

Band performing at Bourke Street Mall, possibly outside Myers

I always pay them some money, coins every time I passed by. AND I URGE you people to do the same. We should appreciate such people. Without them, city would not be so alive.

P.S. It is ashame that Asian cities just don't have such things.

P.SS. Next time I am going to talk about graffiti. That I'll leave for next time.

Metrosexual Blokes

Seen my lab block finished earlier, I shall write more craps onto my blog!

What you people might notice these days are guys are becoming more metrosexual orientated. What is metrosexual, one may ask. Metrosexual meant guys who take good care of themselves, with expensive products which gals normally will use. Let's start from top to toe.

Hair - Nowadays guys only spend 20 bucks and above on their haircut. Unlike the golden days, where a normal bloke will only go for 5 bucks cut (P.S. by the Indian barber). Any salon shop with the name Barber, are doomed to be bankcrupt except they are in rural area. I don't understand what really happen to the Aussie salon, they really sucks.... The way they cut our hair really make me regretting everytime I ever come out of the Aussie salon. So I've decided to go Asian stylish salon instead! About hairdo, Asian are definitely better. The hair colour might not be their natural hair colour, with all the highlighting and dyes. Some guys will even go to the extreme, curl perm (>.>) or straight perm their hair! Every morning, they need to be blow dried, style with matt gum/ matt wax then followed by hairspray to keep the style throughout the day.

Face - These days, there are all kind of facial washing for Men. L'oreal for Men, Nivea for Men, Clinique for Men, etc etc.. Before such trend are conformed, guys just wash their face with normal soap. Which my dad still do.... Blokes with pimples are just plain bad luck. But now, blokes wash their face with these facial cleanser, followed by conditioner, then even some with lotions.

Eyes - Gals put stuffs over their eyes to cover the eye-bags. Blokes? There are new products which help blokes to reduce their eye-bags. I have no idea what advantages on that... Not that gals will look at those for long...

Mouth - Well, I should put all these stuffs into face, but what the heck. Okay, what do you do if your mouth are dry and started cracking in winter time? Some blokes will put lip-gloss. I have had a lip-gloss for Men, no taste and smell! I don't want to smell like a gal with strawberry lip gloss.....

Clothes - Unlike the 80ties, blokes in this century spend quite a lot of time, matching clothes before going out. Brown colour shirt definitely cant go with brown pants and brown shoe.... But we only do such thing only for dates! If hanging out with your bloke friends, I don't think most of us will care. Some of my bloke friends actually worked in a boutique, just to get cheap clothes out of the store. By the end of the month, his money will be mostly gone back to the store, instead of using it as daily expenses. Others only wear Quicksilver/Billabong clothes. No matter how crazily overcharged are those clothes.

Perfumes - Perfume, yes perfume. They are not only the best friends to gals, to men as well. Some of my friends are crazy with perfumes. One for different occasions. They are not cheap, especially in Malaysia. But we can get quite a reasonable price in Australia. Father's Day, perfume can go down to only 20 bucks per bottle. Don't even mention Mother's Day.

Shoes - Which blokes don't have more than 2 pairs of shoes? One shoe for normal casual wear, one for formal wear. Aussie definitely have one or two things about thongs.

These are now, or maybe for some people. In future, most blokes definitely will be heading to the pedicure/medicure salon for their nails... Putting cosmetics when going to some places..... etc etc. So pardon us, if in the future, we need to powder our nose also before going out for a date. hahaaha. All we need to do are; take a good shower (hopefully not a bubble bath), wash our face, apply some lotion on our faces, apply the anti-eye bag lotion, change our clothes, dry our hair followed by styling and hairspraying, spray a few puff of perfume, wear our shoes and we are ready to go! ahahahaha.

P.S. I, myself, am a metrosexual blokes, not going to argue about that. What I hope is that I don't been influenced by the norm to go pedicure center someday... Metrosexual blokes are not gay, and will not be.

Grampians

Sunset at Grampians

It was 5am in the morning, when Kelvin tried his best to wake this drunken idiot up. I was still drunk when I went up the bus, only have 2 hours sleep. Managed to get heaps of sleep in the bus, because from Churchill to Grampians, it takes about 6 hours. When I woke up, we were already in Grampians!

Grampians

Reach the caravan park, and went for lunch. I was so so hungry that I went and buy one pineapple pizza, while waiting for my kangaroo souvlaki. Lunch wasn't so good. So I was determine to have better food for dinner.

Mackenzie's Fall

After lunch, we spent heaps of time at Mackenzie Fall. It was quite a nice fall, with some water. Years ago, it should have more water than now, but what can you expect from the world most dry continent.

Titin and I at Mackenzie Fall

Guys photo at one of the lookout. This is where we took the sunset. Freezing cold while waiting for the sun to set... We did go to the Jaws of Death lookout as well. Look pretty cool!

Best's Great Eastern Winery cellar

The next day we went to winery, for some wine tasting and tour around the winery. That place was pretty awesome, with smell of wine everywhere in the underground wine storage. Brought one bottle of Shiraz, but Cynthia brought like 3 bottles!

Photo of the vineyard.

Studio photo of me with barrel of wine? Nah, it is real. I can guarantee that.

Drunkards

The Leongs: One is drunk, one is undrunkable, and another one is gone (from this picture)

This entry should be posted on Saturday, but I was already on the way to Grampians trip. Okay, this is how it goes....

On friday night, after doing my bioactive assignment, my body and mind was eagered for some liquours. SO, when Wayne came to give me the sleeping bag for the Grampians, I begged him to bring me along to Tina's Birthday party. I wasn't invited, just crash the party for booze! I was planning to have some 'highness', and wanted to go back to sleep at 12.30am. So I thought/planned...

When we went into South 3, the first person who saw me, Sookie, said "WHY so LATE?" I answered that we are famous people and will come to party 'fashionably late'. She replied me with a smile and a big heavy punch... Ouch... When I first came in, Jackie greeted me and I told him I needed a drink. Anything will do. Very good of him, he got me a tequila. While talking with him and Byron over the counter, Farah came and took my tequila away. Dammit. Instead we were given Cowbow smoothies ( a smoothies will liqour). That was nice. Took a shot of that, followed with a beer given by Jackie. While drinking that beer, Byron shouted for another shot of Cowboy... Shot it down again, and I am slightly high to dance on the floor with most of the gals that day. I don't think I saw Selegne drunk yet and Sharon was scared of drinking because of last week...I wasn't drunk, till....

Okay, I have no idea what kind of drinks I drank that day, I definitely remember, I've two tequila shots. With the 'undrunkable' Sookie and 'controlable' Wayne. Tequila is awesome!!!! After those shots, I went and dance again. Had somemore shot again and followed by group shot again. Countless... When I started to get the feeling of drunk, all I did was dance around with gals (still sane enough not to dance with guys, you might not know at the down under...) Hahaha. Joking. All night long, I keep on telling everyone these three sentences:

Oh shit, tomorrow I am going to Grampians at 6am, and I am still partying now

I need to wake up early, and I am still drinking

Screw Grampians, I am staying to party (totally wasted)

After the last shot, should be like the 7th wine shot (wine also can shot; how pathetic huh), or maybe after 6th whiskies shot... I totally no idea. I was so drunk that I could not walk straight. I could not control myself anymore. I remember going up the laptops and speakers table and asked Sookie to find this song "Turn Me On" for me... But she could not find it, and I was in total wasted stage. Ben came to the party, in home shirt and a short. That guy play a prank on me while I am drunk. Asked me which gal I liked?.... I am not going to tell you people the answer, cause I am drunk (My excuses).

At that time, my Japanese was very fluent, as compared to normal awake stages. I think I need to be in a drunk situation to speak fluent Jap? I wonder.... That time I don't think anymore. I just speak out loud. Haha. I was dragged back to my home, South 6. Using the $60 Grampians trip which I paid as a motivator to move me. That wasn't all. But I am not going to tell you people what happen in my room... That will remain a secret. Hahaha

Okay, the next day Kelvin came and woke me up. Tried twice, but in vain. The last time, he used the same thing again, " You are going to Lose 60 bucks", and right away I was sitting on my bed... Hahaha. Went up the bus, still in a drunk stage... Luckily the trip took 6 hours, and I was totally awake after that time.

No hangover, I wonder why.But most of the stuffs went out to be cloudy and blur...