i was unable to update cause we have used up our download quota for the month.

the thing with australia is that unlike in singapore where you pay for faster internet connection and can download as much as you much, here you pay for faster internet connection as well as how much of quota you can download. so i got to be selective.

i am so much more busy with the arrival of sha sha and serene. though ser is leaving later tonight. trying to balance out playing a good host and catching up on my work as well. forgive me girls for not being able to entertained much! ha. but it is nice having familiar faces around.

i did managed to do a trip with serene up to mount dandedong for a couple of hours. it was a gloomy day and cold as well. but well, nothing is going to stop us from our lovely scones at miss marples tea room. it was lunch time so the little cottage was busy, so we had to wait for a while. Joyce, serene's friend, suggested going to have the best pies in the world, just round the corner, at a shop called "pie in the sky". it was simply delicious. considering how australia is more westernized where their food is concerned, the chicken tandoori and beef rendang were the best of the lot.

After polishing off the piping hot pies, we trooped off to miss marples. everyone have been raving about the place, well not everyone, just kelvin tan, so i am definitely looking forward to having their famous scones! so our first stop miss marples! just a litle background information on who miss marples is- she is a fictional character from agatha christie's novels, an eldery amateur detective, who often solve unsolved mysteries. i think the shop just borrowed her name cause inside it just look like a very nice, cosy place to have good lunch and tea. i think most of us felt like we were being transported to england, cause we were having a good cup of tea, with scones and fine english weather( gloomy and cold and wet).

after miss marples, we went to look at parrots. but me being afraid of virtually anything that moves refused to go near those birds. i only managed to look at them from afar. after bird watching, we headed to port melbourne. if you want to go to tasmania, this is where you catch the ferry from. Port melbourne is like the more sophiscated area, mainly the richer people live there. but i still like it there, very relaxed with clear blue skies and no rowdy, drunk aussies around. while sitting down, we were entertained by a group of boys who were doing circuit training kind of thing.

alrighty, i am going to cook lunch now. hungry.