Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Well well.. I'm back for another round of updates!
I must say I had a very enjoyable easter holiday this year. Initially I planned to go to the lab everyday but I'm glad friends asked me out and I got the excuse to take a break to clear my mind off work.
3/4/10 SatI met up with Janet to watch 'How to Train Your Dragon' in 3D at the Imax theatre. The movie is fantastic! I had doubts about it at first but I was totally blown away by the movie. Now I understand why everyone is so obsessed with this movie. =)
After that we went to Melbourne central to get tix for 'Clash of the titans'. Yap! We watched 2 movies in a day! Well. Janet wanted to watch Dragons while i wanted to watch titans so we decided to compromise and watched both! Anyway, after getting the tix, we went to Cumulus Inc to have lunch. We've read good reviews about this restaurant and decided to try it out.


Complimentary sourdough bread

From left (clockwise): wagyu, proscuitto, rabbit terrine and salami

Rocket salad with candied walnut

Whoooo.. Rum at lunch time?

Steamed Chocolate pudding with creme frachie and hazelnut toffee

Rum baba.

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Tada!
It goes with the sponge cake! You're supposed to cut it 1/2 and pour as much rum as you like. But I wouldnt advise anyone to pour too much as the cake would soak up the rum and taste bitter.

Janet, with her dessert
4/4/10 Easter SundayI went back to the lab on sunday. (yesh I know it's freaking sunday and I shldnt have gone back!) Was supposed to do expt but my cells werent looking good so I cant do it. Anyway, I went to Esther's place ard 5pm to help out cooking for our Easter dinner! =D
Ppl busy in the kitchen cooking...
Hmmm.. What are they doing?

Lol! It's our dessert! Pastry sheets filled with dark chocolate cube. Somehow it resembles samosa. Never mind abt the weird looking shaped thingy..
End product!
Squid vongole. Kinda looks like hokkien mee. Hahas..
Lamb shank pie!!
We had lotsa of alcohol at dinner. For lamb shank pie, we used up 1/2 bottle of red wine and for vongole, it was white wine. We also opened a bottle of moscato and white wine. Tsk tsk tsk.. Sinful dinner. =P
5/4/10 Easter Monday
Ballarat trip on Easter Monday! Thanks to Ley hian and hui xuan for inviting me to the trip with them. And thanks to their friend, zhen dong who was the driver of the day. Just a little info on Ballarat. During 1850s, people from all over Australia and other countries came rushing to ballarat when gold was found. Yeah! You heard me right! Ballarat used to be a gold mine! Sovereign Hill was the location of the gold mine.

Look at all the "gold diggers'!
whooo!! A real gold bar!

The gold bar is freaking heavy! And it's worth $524,000++

Mode of transportation during 1850s
Colourful candles
Masquerade masks!

Most of the staffs wear traditional costumes that people wore in 1850s. I wonder how they can tolerate the heat.
Bowling alley

Marching Band
Well.. This pretty much sums up my easter holiday. Right now, I must get out of my comfort zone and concentrate on writing thesis and doing my expts!
Ciao!
think again. 8:12 PM