wonderful weekends!

As we wrap up another week,
the insane timetable of squishing everything social begins again

Sat.
was early to the venue so checked out Salvos Op shop, and
wow.... a pair of bright red boots that actually fit. There was no way they werent leaving the shop with me. lol. Can officially wonder woman cosplay now.
But when will there ever be a time. lewl. considering I am a DC fan.

i would just have to stick some white down it front of it :P

Also picked up two niffty books and good ol Forrest Gump :)

So Brunch! woah at Sugar Buns , and what a lovely cafe it was.
Catching up with uni mates always a plus.

Extremely filling lunch!! and generous portions . They are now famous for their milk shakes

popped along to a Honey Farm and learnt many interesting things about bees and honey.
mmmmmmmm taste test everything. SUGAR HIGH

Dash dash to high school friends dinner, ordered the cheapest item on the menu, because I spent too much already. and woahla, friends announce they will have a BABY! We indeed are growing up :P

End the night with a blessed birthday dinner of a church mate . much love.

Sun

Church. Thankful for Mentone Baptist for addressing a confronting and rather alarming yet real report on the issue of domestic violence and its connections at times to churches.
We do NOT support domestic violence in anyway.
It is NOT pleasing or glorifying to God in anyway
and as a church there needs to be much more care and practice in protecting and preaching the word faithfully in deed and action. and when it needs to act to incorporate professional assistance. it should.

Brunch with bestie and his girlfriend.
Very pleasant discovery of a cafe i never knew existed.

Cafe 1809 *link*

then more church , visiting and supporting the boyfriend.

dinner at their close mates house

pooped!

what a weekend. 

thank goodness for clinical team meeting and chillaxy monday :P

til , the next weekend!

Australia Day!!

trip to werribee open range zoo!
Highly recommend.

My favourite would have to be witnessing the sheep shearing shed back in the 1800s =]
I didnt bring a camera so you will just have to visit for yourselves :P

mandatory selfie on safari

great views and vast open plains with lots of poop

up close and personal

Academy of Science | de Young | Japantown

so this saturday after the wreck of a boat party that ended at 1am friday night, i manged to pull my eye lids awake for a 11am venture into San Francisco.

My lovely friends YuChung and Susie were able to join. yay! thankfully, susie knew the way in and out and about, so zilch navigating on my part.
I wish we took the bus (partly because its free) but more so because the BART makes my ears pop like crazy when we go through the tunnels. Ugh. the pain.

As Susie and I were trying different ways to unblock our ears, a random lady opposite us commented " ah you remind me of my daughter when she was in college..." then something along the lines of enjoy your youth, whilst it lasts >.> getting older seems to be something that we cannot escape.

anywho, back to SF.
First stop. California Academy of Sciences.
the worlds LARGEST PLANETARIUM! also was a living roof, rainforest inside and an aquarium.
totally worth it. pity the two guys fell asleep during the awesome show about space and life and our galaxy >.> geez.

learnt how to use the supermacro function on my camera!

jellyfish. so mesmerizing... @_@
they changed colours too!

Second stop was de Young museum, which.. ugh.. we didnt really venture into any exhibits as you had to pay lots, but there was a nice 9th floor observation deck, kinda like the Eureka in Melbourne. Saw SF and the view around the academy of sciences. pretty.

Then JAPAN TOWN!
purpose: to buy these funky watercolor kits the artists at wondercon were using.
didnt end up finding the right ones. and they were uber $_$
niffy town, only half a street long. but did enjoy the stores in the mall.

dinner was ramen! at a restaurant by the name of something along the lines of Iroha,
which appeared to be run by actual Japanese people.

green tea cream. yum!

a random find in japantown stores_

The warning on the cup reads " This product may contain a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer, or birth defect or other reproductive harm."

you can never be too keen on not being sued it seems. =P

Santa Cruz | Big Sur | Road Trip!!!

alrightly!!! finally i finish uploading all these pictures. bleh. takes longer than you think =P

anyhow. last friday 15th was the first time believe it or not, of me venturing into the north side of campus. dang campus is much bigger than i expected. I still need to explore more. too many buildings!

Highlights of the trip_

.got picked up by the car rental company to drives us down. hmm there is five of us international kids and one car rental driver that came to pick us up. hmmm 6 people, for 5 seats. LOL, squash.

. seeing waves crash down on anders

. beach! when it was sunny and warm (only on the last day)

. poking fun at the spanish accent on words, watching susie squeal when tomas pronounced "biscuit"

.the marriage like fights between anders and mayura

. finding an anders-look-a-like in wanted image of a magazine at Safeway

.taking a detour and getting very very lost

.driving down the coastline, via Highway 1

.indian food on Sunday and hilarious quotes from Anders that gave mayura/I a real big ab work out. Anders POST THAT VIDEO!!!

wheee PHOTOS! _

the north gate, looks so different from the south one i'm used to

had awesome french lunch, best smoked salmon/fish ive had at berkeley so far,
probably because i don't eat out much

anders took to the wheel to drive us down to Santa Cruz

wheee baybridge

stopped off at a beach, where some people got rather wet =P

day two = tomas driving
and mayura the navigator

hmm.. we ended up off track and taking a random detour through military grounds,
saw many tanks and army trucks and a stack load of American flags.
then we had to drive past a river 0_0 to get back on track.
woot!
fun times.

the local people were really nice. thankfully we past by a german who was also headed in the same direction Big Sur and he had a working GPS. lol having no signal kinda sucks when you are lost. Also a cyclist was very very helpful. All too much to be just coincidences. Thank God eh?
lol for about an hour we were tuned into a Christian radio channel and I rather enjoyed it.
For some reason no one seemed to notice

road blocks/service due to landslide clean ups

if you look close enough - a waterfall!!

this was rather impressive, it reads "will you marry me?"
anders: " i hope the girl said yes"

hi mum, im alive and i put on sunscreen and sunglasses and a cap =P

ahh it was too pretty!!!

we did end up swimming at one beach. despite all the death warning signs. ZOMG there was a SANDSTORM! how horrible and painful. ugh. and the water was ICE frozen XDthe car was clean >.>

horrid shot of calamari but it tasted v. nice
@ Monterey, CA

pebble beach @ Carmel, CA

entering into the 17-mile drive

Bird Rock

UC Santa Cruz. dang the university did not look like a university,
but rather a high school in the middle of the country.

they also had a forrest running through the campus 0_0
i would be soo lost getting to class

yay group shots

anders, mayura, tomas, susie, thanks for the memories!