saw ken-chan on the way home!!

was driving home from badminton session (therefore in shorts and sport shoes) and saw ken-chan (ok not its real name but i just like to call it this way. bleh.). so I parked somewhere and crossed the road to play with it, until its owner came...

vid here:


btw, the name ken-chan is from the jdrama: kekkon dekinai otoko - a very witty and cute drama, and the dog even won a prize for that drama lolz.

My recent playlist

love pink love pink love pink!
heard her interview on radio days ago. her voice is ueber cool and she's really hillarious!

neway, love 'so what' really much
cant embed it here somehow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bNDr1A6dTU
the song opens with: "I guess I just lost my husband/I don't know where he went"...

Lykke Li the swedish singer is awesome too!!!

love the spookiness of the song, i'm good i'm gone.

and i love Katy Perry!!!

simple. in tokyo.


baby you are the weapon I choose. these wounds are self inflicted.


u r so gay. lolz.


love her voice

some older songs.

the garden. mirah. spooky tune. i love minors.

voodoo child. rogue traders: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m7PfRxeh3Q


and i still like the old version of i'm yours by jason mraz more. it just gives goosebumps with wongfu's vid.

The hidden artsy old town, Ljubljana, Part II

So continue from the previous ljubljana entry and the video, here are the pictures taken in the town center as promised =D

Since I concluded the previous entry with a picture in the hotel, let's start with the hotel breakfast =p. I only get to spend one and a half day in this nice lil town (and another two days in Maribor) - there are much more to see in Slovenia so it is definitely worthy for another visit.


love hotel brekky

on the way to the town centre:

i see this chicky graffiti everywhere in different pose


chinese restaurants are so 'chinesey' here

cute girl on the street =p
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even cuter girl on the street
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lols


i love this facade so much


church in the centre


Vlado kreslin - a famous slovenian folk rock artist


Alps can be seen from the town


castle on the hill can be seen from the town too


one of the three main bridges

the market:

with everything you can imagine








baby cot?






=oo=


the parliament?

3D graffiti:





egg on the road xp

And since we have to catch a train to Villach, Austria in the afternoon, we said goodbye to the town and got back to the hotel...



Kinda busy lately with some papers. But I've got some really nice pictures taken recently from the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia and hopefully I get to write on that soon =D.

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just join from the above link and voila! you can (=p) get a free ticket with every cell phone number you have!

My secret palette II and random stuffs

It was like 30deg today so I brought mum swimming =D. Somehow I can do freestyle better than breaststroke or backstroke miraculously (I used to do backstroke the best (frogkick+ reverse butterfly) followed by breaststroke). Anyway, mum hasn't swum for ages (infact never really swim well before (like me months ago)) so I'm just getting her to do the kick correctly. Met a gal who joined swimming lesson for the first time, and she asked me how long it does it take to know how to swim. So I told her bout my progress:

2 May : Joined swim class (to those who can't understand why some people don't know how to swim, we just don't have that much of animal instinct as you do, or perhaps we just lack that much of fats (that is less dense than water) )
16 May : Able to kick fast enough to float and move forward. Can do bit of breast stroke and backstroke

In the first few weeks, I practised twice (2 hours each) a week and I really keep kicking - for those who don't know how to swim, I think this is the biggest hurdle. You need to learn to kick straight (with a bit like pointy toe) and making big splashes. And of course you won't get it right away - the muscles need time to develope, but you just have to give it all you have and kick hard! Trust me, you will feel like a happy fish when you finally get it =D

and btw, happy birthday to Huangqing!!!


and since the weather was awesome, I hanged around in the garden after the swim...

apple flowers


i know i dressed up very samseng. lol.


wib lavender. too many bees therefore the distance =p


golden spidey


beeeeeeee


beeeeeeeeeeeeee


beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

ok back to work :O

Some clips I took in Ljubljana

I know, my voice sucks, my chinese sucks, the comments sucks. T.T ToT TOT

what is 三聚氰胺/malamine?

Got this from adriana.
http://www.shadowgov.tw/?p=news,detail,12623

our trip to the ultimate this-BIG waterfall =D

So it all started from Charlie wanted to go to the mounts with the ones under the same roof. And then Frank asked the 10k steps to join. Then Sorrell wanted to join. Then Sorrell said can his German friend come. Then I said ok he can come if he is cute. bla bla. So it goes from four people trip to like, sixteen =D

So we brainstormed/argued/fought for our opinions to be accepted (ok that's in my imagination) and I won (yes also in my imagination) and we decided to go to Sherbrook falls. To see the magnificient falls lol. After much huuhah thanks to the daylight savings and lazy bums, we finally reached the dandenong ranges:



the gangs... (duliang is still on-the-way lol)


(he later came in his sexy pose)


so we went bush walking and admiring the vegetation. ok. the truth is everyone just talked and walked so fast that I was always left behind. lol.





















my bff


we are born naturally cute. bleh.


look! matching cap and jumper!


Don't know why Huangqing's bag is so girly looking. =p


look at how much he likes his bag.



Iris made fruit salad (I cut half of the mango and peeled one banana lala),Frank prepared Xinjiang lamb bbq, Sorrell prepared aussie sausages and I made super-nice-xxxx-looking salad =D






Don't know why everyone look like gangster here. like uber cool.


Sorrell bohsong (not happy wib) me.


No lah. see he smile so cute like that.

Then we all pretend to cook.






(... too many edi)


the real cook


With his wife. Like very romantic.

Until some joker comes in.

lol.


Wait til aisha poke you.

Then Sorrell decides to show off his skills. Including



and bbqing-wib-car-engine. no. no one dare to eat that.



Oh btw. We lost our way to the falls in the first walk. So we decided to check that out after lunch. Like, how can we miss it!

On the way...





no I don't know what is he doing.



Finally.

Behold.
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The magnificient falls...



Like. so. small. =______="

lol. haiyah. australia got water problem mah. =p

Thanks everyone who showed up. You guys are superb. Special thanks to Frank who organised everything though everyone ignored his email. lols.

Ljubljana - the undiscovered gem of europe

I know I should be coding/writing now but my blogging bug bitten me so hard that I can't stop the itch. lol. so here it goes.

I was visiting the Maribor Uni (Maribor is the 2nd largest city in Slovenia) and took some time off to the capital of Slovenia.

Ok. Let me first answer this question - where is Slovenia??

(circled in purple. I know. Such a gay colour. lol.)
Located in center europe, it's below Austria and next to Italy and Croatia. People speaks Slovene (under Slavic family) but the younger generations are pretty good in English. Yes, much better than the other european cities. Although the country has only 2 million people and is relatively small, it offers one of the best cuisine (I guarantee this) and awesome sceneries (alps, lakes (bled!!), caves etc). I didn't have much time to explore around but have already fell in love with the country.

Took a train from Maribor to Ljubljana:

Note: 'j' is pronounced as 'yi', so Ljubljana is pronounced as Lyublyana or I think easier as Liubliana.


very very green




cornfield. that reminded me of once, when we were marking exam paper, a student from Caufield wrote Cornfield as the exam venue. We just ROFL when we saw it.


exponential to the power of negative x plus exponential to the power of positive x = ??




one of the main attractions - Dragon Bridge, one of the famous three bridges of Lj. Coincidently it rained so heavily when we got to Lj - maybe the dark clouds are called by the dragon. spooky. lol.

There's an ancient castle on the nearby hill (walking distance. in fact, the city wasn't very big so it is possible to explore the city on foot). There's cable car that brings you up for around five euro I think. Bad memory edi T.T




Going up to the top of the castle


At one of the many art galleries in the castle. Apparently people here are very artsy. So many nice nice galleries pulak.

And then it rained cats and dogs so we were trapped in the castle. Decided to check out the cafe.


Surprisingly, the food wasn't too pricey for such nice environment. Just 2 euro for a glass of wine.


And continue to cw a bit since it's still raining out there.




meow


I was thinking 'there's a hole in my heart' when I took this.


Some spooky art gallery


Told ya it's spooky








Back to the hotel. Stayed at Hotel Park for around 70euro per night. Oh btw, taxis here are cheap. Just 5 euro from train station to hotel, and 5 = pet in slovene. lol I remember this so well.

In short, it's a really lovely nice little city with lots to offer, and the best thing is, it's not packed with tourist like some other european cities. Therefore it's really really clean and adorable =p. Will write up on the town center next!