I’ve never really watched a game of Australian footie before. Sure, there’s always something on TV, but I never sat down and paid attention. Monash was giving out free tickets for an AFL match between Melbourne and North Melbourne for last Sunday. And to my previous experience with basketball, going to watch a game live is the best way to learn about it. Plus, I thought it was an awesome way to soak up the culture and what not.

Almost every guy I know in Melbourne has one of these balls. It makes me thing of Mr. HoongSek

I swear, I really should have at least Wikipedia-ed the rules on how to play Australian football, at least, but oh well. LeonPhotoPro, MichieMicrowaveQueen and I just picked a team and yelled along with the others I just spent the time there watching the game, taking photos, muching on Dominos’ and a meat pie, and of course washing it down with some Carlton Draught!

North Melbourne fans don blue and white, whereas Melbourne’s colors are red and navy blue.

Something happened in the crowd, I’m not too sure what. But the next thing you know there was orange smoke coming from the other side of the stadium.

MichieMicrowaveQueen and Fei.

Luckily Fei came in time to teach us a little about the scoring system. I’ve yet to find out the proper rules about kicking the ball and all that, but I know that a player has to bounce the ball once every 5 meters while running!

AND THEN… MichieMQ and I saw the cuuutest thing ever!

Isn’t that the most adorable thing you’ve ever seeeeen?! Awwwwwww!

Another really cute thing was what happened during half time (footy goes by Quarters, so this was after the 2nd quarter)

It’s the mini AFL! If you look closely to the upper right hand corner of the picture, I think you can see Mini Melbourne vs. Mini North Melbourne!

The personal pizza pie cost me $7.20, but I was starving! Even a pint of Carlton is cheaper than that man -_-”

Well, I have to say it was a good experience, and I’d definitely want to go again. Just maybe NOT for Melbourne games. Come on Geelong!

The crowd can get really angry, but not as vicious as football fans in England. Though there was this one kid sitting behind me who couldn’t just shut the fuck up. His mom even told him “Thomas, stop swearing!” to which (I shit you not) he told her to shut up. Yep, that’s right. I bet Bogan moms all teach their sons the same thing, -_-

Peace!

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I’ve just managed to watch Prince of Persia a couple of days ago. I don’t think this post would be too much of a spoiler, since that movie’s been out for ages now. I remember thinking to myself halfway through the movie “How the hell is this a Disney movie anymore, when everyone keeps dying?!”

That being said, I didn’t own a PS2, all the God of War games I played were on someone else’s, so I never got to follow the Prince’s story.

Anyway, being me, it was one of those nights that I spent on Youtube and I decided to search for Jake Gyllenhaal, being the sexy ass man that he is and all, and this is what I found out

Apparently, I’m not washing my hair enough…

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Here are a few looks that I’m liking. Simple, but suitable for every day

Oh Spring, how I long for thee.

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I’m currently listening to Paramore’s cover of the Foo Fighter’s My Hero. I love that song. I was Skyping with my mom earlier and she asked me why I haven’t been blogging consistently. Apparently her colleagues are asking the same question too, hahaha! Hi guys! I’ve been settling in, and there hasn’t been much to talk about in regards to Frankston. But I’m getting here…

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Last Thursday marked the end of Multicultural Week in Monash Peninsula. A bunch of us from the Overseas Student Society worked all week to set things up and hope everything went well. It carried out pretty smooth and everyone loved the free food and games. There was America & Australia Day, Asia Day, Africa & the Middle East and finally Europe.

The food spread was pretty cool. It ranged form sushi to souvlaki, pizza, lasagne and all that. And of course there was all the beers and wine. I like uni in Australia! If you follow me on Twitter you probably would have seen photos of belly dancers, sumo wrestling, bike trailing and all that.

So that Sunday following the end of Multicultural Week, we all got together to celebrate the success. Well, maybe we were just looking for a reason to celebrate. Hehe. Plus, the guys just got a new BBQ pit from their neighbor that I’m sure Mr. HoongSek would love! Anyway, the requirements for the BBQ was that EVERYONE had to suit up!

This is Sam. He’s from Japan. And it was his brilliant idea to to suit up. True story.

Look at the grill! It looks like something out of License to GrillI on AFC. Sorry, okay. I know I damn sua ku with the whole grill thing.

The great thing is though, that everyone DID suit up. Well, ALMOST everyone. But the effort was there. I put on a dress and make up and even did my hair on a Sunday afternoon. Not something you’d see me do very often. Especially to a barbecue, with the smell of the food getting onto your clothes and hair. But I have to say, barbecues in winter are heaven!

With Martin (Indonesian) and YongUno (his name’s actually Kim Yongsang), who’s from Korea

LeonPhotopro, GwebtheFAB (Swaziland) , Shayan (Bangladesh) and Sid (Pakistan).

That’s Aleem from India. He’s the OSS director, and Akila from Sri Lanka

And a whole bunch of us including Yukako from Japan, Steven from Singapore, Di from Mexico/Hong Kong and Leyshani from Malaysia.

Talk about a multicultural barbecue, right? It’s like MCW never ended. So cool.

Anyway, peace out! Time to get cracking on my presentations for next week.

xoxo

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By recommendation of TwilightActiongirl’s Bunga, I dragged a friend all the way down to Brunswick St today just so I could try out the Little Creatures Dining Hall. My friend, walking on what he’d call an ankle in the healing process grumbled “this place better be worth it” while walking down two blocks, was silenced when we walked into the place.

It looked pretty plain from the outside. We were just walking straight down the street. Good thing I saw it across the road. From the outside, it looks like any other restaurant in Fitzroy, but when you step inside, it’s big and bright, and just full of life! Even at 1.00pm in the afternoon, the place is full of people for lunch, from brunch or just coming in to have a couple of pints.

*photoprops to Google. It was nowhere as sunny today*

Today (Saturday) welcomes customers with a cook frying sausages right in front of the entrance. I can’t remember exactly what the blackboard behind him said, but there was leek & lamb hotdogs and some other porky hotdog. Yummo! It smelled good, but we had to look for a place to sit, it was so packed!

I think it’s a great place to just chill out over a Saturday afternoon. They don’t take reservations over the weekends, though, so you just gotta try your luck and walk on in!

Another thing I liked about the place: there are random trinkets all over. Just gotta take your time and look around.

I wanted to, but was starving from walking so much and waking up late-ish! Sleeping in on a Saturday morning is a given though.

Look at the prices! I wanted to try all their ales, but we didn’t have enough time

Remember what I said about there being random things to look at? Try and see if you can spot a pair of shoes.

I like that you can come in a group, or just two of you and still be able to sit there for hours on end. The place has such a great vibe. Noisy, coz there are so many people, but not the bad kind of noisy.

The kitchen

My really fatty lunch! All for $26!

Still can’t rival the Sid’s Burger though… Nothing on the Sid’s Burger

I was in a pretty finger-trigger-happy mood, so I decided to play blogger/tourist and snap some photos!

Behind the bar

Oooh and they sell t-shirts! I’m gonna bring extra cash there next time. I hate how all merchandised t-shirts go for at least $30 a pop. Bloody daylight robbery, I tell you! -_-”

Ooh delivery bikes. These were so cute!

And a little bit about Where They Came From

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