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Maybe someone up there will listen to my wish. I have made a few wishes and my wishes finally came true after 1 year. I have not stopped hoping. You can make a wish now either by praying to God or by submitting your wish via Leo Burnett’s Make A Wish Website. Josiah and I had a great lunch at Yum Cha Dragon Restaurant at Docklands over the weekend before walking along the Docklands Waterfront. Dim Sum was nice at the restaurant although nothing out of the ordinary. By saying that, I meant the type of dishes one can typically find. I didn’t bother posting up photos because dim sum all look the same, really. Service was good although we did reckon there was one pretty waitress who seemed pretty “gutsy” and a little “stern”. It was really reasonable for us because I used the 25% discount off from the Entertainment Book. The Enterprize ship dates all the way back in 1835 that first brought the settlers into Melbourne. This is a replica of the ship.
Oh, this final photo is a little random, I know. I was cheeky and said on Twitter that I had brought Joel Madden (Good Charlotte) out for shopping on his trip here, to buy Nicole Richie a new dress and a few people believed me. Diana had a good eye and saw him so she requested a photo. This shot was taken by Benji Madden, how nice. Diana really has a good eye! The last time she spotted Dannii Minogue and her hubby while we were on Chapel Street. Diana said Minogue’s perfume caught her attention. You might meet Lady Gaga shopping next to you tomorrow. Anyway, life is good. I can’t emphasize enough! LIFE IS GOOD! I am very happy, so many things are looking up! Whee! Food entries next. This year, I’ve been somewhat lucky to enter a few small competitions through submission of entries, slogans, comments and so on. Earlier this month, I won a pair of free movie screening preview of The Killer Inside Me by Vice Magazine Online. All I had to do was just submit my email to them. Also, I won a pair of heel pads from Scholl by submitting a slogan on their website with my recent purchase. The latest one I won was a pair of tickets to the Taste of Melbourne, winners announced here. I was one out of five winners who submitted an entry of which Melbourne restaurant I like the most and why, at Jeroxie’s website here. Being the very “kiasu” (eager to win) me, I submitted a very long entry about Cafe Rosco, an Italian cafe on St Kilda Road. My entry on Jeroxie’s website My favourite restaurant in Melbourne is Cafe Rosco (407D St Kilda Road – next to McDonald’s and Subway), which is a branch of Rosco’s at Chevron (539 St Kilda Road). Rosco’s is an Italian Restaurant that serves the best pizza and pasta. With a whole lot of variety of pizzas, their hot pizza favourites have to be Tandoori Chicken, Red Devil (spicy) and Gourmet Vegetarian pizzas. So versatile, they accomodate easily for extra chilli, no anchovies, add or minus this and that, just the way you want it. Their whole range of pastas are to die for! They can cook Spaghetti Marinara in tomato or cream sauce. Absolutely yummy! Pastas range from $11-18, really affordable and they allow you to order entree size too. In terms of service, they have friendly waiters and waitresses, very homely ambience with dim lighting. It does help that they cater for take-aways in case I cannot finish my large portion of meal. If I want to have some of Rosco’s food at home, I could call them up to have them delivered since I stay in the area. They will arrive within 20 minutes. Simple, easy and yummy. Suitable for vegetarians too because they accomodate well! Please, let me win this Jeroxie!!! I want to take my hubby to Taste of Melbourne 2010!!! Taste of Melbourne 2010 My tickets arrived shortly in my mailbox. I was absolutely delighted! My date for the day had to be my hubby. All I needed was an empty stomach, a good camera and a bag (to purchase food).
The Taste Of Melbourne was held at the Royal Exhibition Hall in Carlton. It was large and suitable for this event.
At the queue outside, we bought coupons $1 = 1 Crown. The crowns were coupons in exchange of money although money and credit cards were also used in transaction within the building for more expensive items. This was a good way to prevent money floating around within the building. I suppose, safer for the vendors too. If you’re wondering how much we spent altogether just on food, drinks and munchies, we spent about $70 = 70 crowns.
The atmosphere downstairs.
Monash Musical Group.
This one is for this who love shoes! Fancy some $30 edible shoes?
If I had bought them, I think I won’t eat but display them!
And my favourite always has to be studded stilletos! Enough of seeing food, we were already hungry by 12.15pm.
The first thing we ate. I was so hungry, I didn’t take note which stall this came from. Then, there were more chocolates!
Blocks of chocolates from Dello Mano. The next stall, called Bellini sold me a set of multi-chopper!
Fantastic, I tell you. I spent $50 on these (cash instead of crowns) and it came with two types of blades, a potato peeler and some containers. Whee! New *kachang* for my kitchen!
Next, presenting some really cool modern refrigerators SMEG that cost around $3-5k! Le Trai Teur Restaurant was quite a hit.
We had some yummy bruschetta with pâté and shredded cabbage!
There’s just something about food that fosters relationship. Anita smiling away while Craig looks out for more food. Teehee!
And then, myjojo was resting for a while before he prepared his stomach for more food afterwards!
Looking down the hall.
On to the other side of the hall, all the exhibitors. The next dish is really yummy. Really popular with a long queue!
This is the yellow curry of wagyu beef with cucumber relish! If I didn’t know how to present this dish, I’d call it beef curry with cucumbers!
Then, after all that food, we had a glass of Mojito. Yum!
Yummy!!!
And then, more drinks from Smirnoff Vodka Blood Orange!
This drink’s dangerous because you can’t taste the alcohol. This drink’s great to fool Supermom!
This is the Cranberry version of it.
Next is the Ashton Lodge chutney section! I tried all eight selection, a small selection of this man’s entire range. They were all hand-made at their own premises and contain no artificial colours, flavours, preservatives or gluten. They only use apple cider vinegar. Made in Australia. I bought a bottle – the Roasted Pumpkin Chutney. Then, there was the chocolate section. Green Black Organic chocolates.
Chocolate Fountain…. just dip your marshmallow inside and let it melt in your mouth!!!
The exhibition featured alot of Australian made products and not the conventional products we see on supermarket shelves.
It’s alcohol time. Tuaca’s quite an interesting one.
They mixed their Tuaca with some ginger, lime juice and so on. Tasted really yummy.
There was something different about this too. They added some popcorn in this. Rather strong, I just went… “wheeee!!!” afterwards.
Now this one’s a little odd as part of the exhibition. Eyesential, free instant eyelift. I guess we can categories this as “food for the skin”? Next on, salmon all the way!
Tassal offered nice Tasmanian salmon served on a cracker. Looks absolutely divine. Oh, just so you know. Many samples were offered apart from those they sell in exchange of crowns.
They taught us how to cook the salmon too. Then, the chef asked an odd question – asked who would like to have the skin? And guess which odd participant decided to raise her hand? I can’t refuse some yummy skin – that is the best part of the fish you know! I rolled the entire skin and put it into my mouth. Others stared at me weirdly while I happily enjoyed my omega 3 salmon skin. Teehee!
MMmmmmmMMmmmm…yummy! Okay next. We had about 6 crowns left. We used 4 crowns for a biscuit ice-cream and 2 crowns for this pathetic amount of Barilla (that I can cook for myself) but I wanted to buy this to donate to I-forgot-which-charity. 5 penne rigates. Haha!
Poor jojo’s got ice-cream at the corner of his mouth, so funny – eating this biscuit ice-cream!
Oooo… feeling sweet?
Posing next to the Ben and Jerry ice-cream colourful van. So cute!
Finally bumped into Jeroxie (Penny Cai) and Henry Tham.
Humbled to have met such a prolific food blogger in Melbourne.
Final glass of Pinot Grigio to end the wonderful day at Taste of Melbourne 2010.
Very, very, very happy with my purchases that day – Bellini multi-chopper, Ashton Lodge chutney and also some mixed garlic salt. Here’s a video I took of a juggling bartender:
The Commonwealth Games 2010 is coming up in New Delhi India in early October. Recently, I have been receiving some keyword search “josiah ng cycling quotes 2010″ that led to my blog. As Josiah’s PR Manager, I should be releasing information to the media regarding his updates but honestly, what is there really to update besides the fact that he is indeed working hard, training sessions have doubled, his food intake has doubled too (kind of) because of the additional training he does and he has been taking measures to ensure he gets the rest and training he needs leading up to the Commonwealth Games 2010. Josiah is in good form at the moment, we can only wish him and his team-mates all the best for the Games. There comes a time when a hype is needed but really, for Josiah, now is the time to train hard for not only Commonwealth Games but also the Asian Games (China in November) and World Cup in Melbourne afterwards.
But seriously, if Josiah can get me a gold this Commonwealth Games, it would be the greatest birthday present I can ever have (since he won’t be around during my birthday on 5 October). My birthday and anniversary celebrations are always postponed. He’s usually not around. I think when you’re a married couple, you can kind of expect this. Sniff. It’s not always dandy. Sacrifices have to be made. This is the reality. Anyone who said it’s a fairy-tale marriage, it’s not true. Time to wake up, yo! Having said all that, this week’s looking really good. We are very happy!
Above: Seriously, one should really consider wearing a cycling helmet while pole-dancing! On Monday, I had my end of term performance and had a few friends come over to support my routine. It was a 3-minute routine to the song Bicycle Race by Queen, of course symbolic to my relationship with my cyclist hubby. It was meant to be entertaining and funny, hope I didn’t make Josiah’s face go too red that night but it was all in the name of good fun. It was a performance meant to develop the entertainer in us. My classmates performed too and as always, it’s lovely to see everyone perform their very own different styles.
I’ve edited the above video, chopped out the horrible bits and put up some “not great, but can do” bits. I have so much to learn from others and so much more strength to build. I wish I can show more photos but I heard as it is, apparently my website has been considered as an IT blocked content in Malaysian companies due to my pole-dancing content. I guess I can now say that my blog is not really suitable for your 12-year old sister or daughter. Here are some updates about the pole-dancing scene here in Australia. Australian Pole Updates There are 8 weeks in one term. Pole Divas new term is commencing next week (I failed my Advanced 1 level and will be repeating it!). More details on timetable at Pole Divas Prahran / Mornington / Moonee Ponds / Richmond here. Miss Pole Victoria 2010 announced here. Miss Pole Dance Australia 2010 competitor list announced on their website here. Also, Felix Cane (Miss Pole Dance Australia 2006, 2009 winner and overall winner Miss Pole Dance World 2009) will be rejoining Miss Pole Dance Australia 2010. I told Josiah about this and I was just saying how unfair it is for her to join again as she’s won numerous times and Josiah replied, “You’re biased because she’s too good. Why can’t she re-join the competition?” Of course I am biased, I mean, she’s reached the top, now it’s time to give others a chance  |
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This kind of makes sense. Now, if I were to translate it to Olympics’ track cycling, I’d say, Chris Hoy has won gold many times, time to step down?
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