RiverFire 2008

August 30th, 2008 - RiverFire

It was a splendid display of fireworks... Not only there was fireworks along the Brisbane river.. But there were even fireworks placed strategically on top of a number of buildings within the CBD to light up the whole city.. It would be an awesome sight if you were on the 'Brisbane Eye' in South bank.

The air show was great too.. To complement the fireworks, aircraft flew with flames behind them and that lit up the night sky.. You could see them as those bright streaks running across the picture above..

However, I did not managed to get a good view of the fireworks display that night.. As always, I got turned off by the massive crowd. The crowd had been there since about 4-5pm that day just to wait for the fireworks display at 7pm. Wow.. I wished I could have their patience.. =)

Anime.. (ef - a tale of memories..)

Dear Anime fans..

Exams are over and I got all the time in the world to unwind and relax for the next 3 weeks or so.. I was browsing through my Anime collection and decided to watch some of the series again.. Ef - a tale of memories.. One of my favorites among my list of school life romance titles.

The Anime ran 2 concurrent stories in one.. One of them involves the typical love triangle while the other revolves around a guy who loves a girl who suffered trauma to her head which result in memory lapses.. She will forget everything that had happened to her from the following day! everyday! This does sound familiar right.. It was adapted from a similar concept in Adam Sandler's movie - '50 first dates' in 2004.

All in all.. Personally, the Anime was great. It even managed to draw out a tear or two out of me.. Totally awesome... Catch it if you are free.. Its a short Anime. Only 12 episodes in total.

I added episode 1 as a preview.. Enjoy!!

Buddha Fest...

It was Buddha Fest a weekend ago and I thought I walked over to SouthBank to have a look around and see a lil bit of culture.. Pretty colourful occassion.. The whole place were lit up with lanterns.. Nice.. :) It was a 2-3 day long affair.. I didn't go for the whole event unfortunately.. so I missed out on their fireworks display.. Shucks..




Continued my walk to West end.. Just felt like walking that day.. and to my horror I saw this...





Gosh.. It looked like a prop for a hunted house.. Ghastly!!.. The whole top end of the lampost was covered in cobwebs.. Even the sign next to it was engulfed by the cobwebs.. No wonder the lights around the area were soo dim.. All the lampost in that area were in the same state..

Krispy Kreme in Brissie.

Krispy Kreme Donuts are finally in Brisbane!!!

Everyone seems to be flocking to the shop to get their hands on the donuts there when it first opened a few days ago.. The queue is CRAZY~~~ the security arsenal was complete with bouncers standing in front of the entrance for crowd control and all.. Gosh.. and I thought KIASUISM only exist in Singapore..

Anyways.. I did not join the queue just for donuts even though they were giving free donuts to those who were in the queue waiting.. I rather do something else than join the queue.. Besides that, I did eventually got my hands on a dozen of those donuts on a much less crowded time..



My favourites.. Strawberries and cream donuts and custard filled chocolate donuts..

Easter Holidays..

It was that time of the year where easter eggs, hot cross buns and parties become a much familiar sight wherever you go in the city. Not forgetting my friends of the Christianity faith, it's the time for the remembrance of Jesus for them.. As for me, Easter holidays is just like any other holiday... away from the university.. away from all the crunching hours in laboratories and lectures..

What is left behind after taking away all the uni routine is just boredom on my part..

Such an uneventful day today.. I practically cleaned my whole house today.. Even pick dirt and hair off my carpet by hand today so as to fill in the gaps between my study time.. GOSH.. Can one be more pathetic than that?

To end the day, I ended up doing something I loathe in my whole internet culture life.. I updated my PROFILE in friendster and facebook.. GOSH.. the last time I came up with the profile was at that time when I actually set my account up which was like in 2001 or 2002.. SAD =(

I hope tomorrow will be a better day.. Don't think I want to pick out hair from my carpet or update my profile any time soon.. (T-T) -sob, sob

Random Pictures of Brisbane

Kinda bored one day and decided to have a walk in the City..

Walked to the Queensland Performing Arts Theatre, and saw a nice display that was made out of cardboard.. Pretty simple looking.. Reminds me of an art piece a child would have asked the parent to do for a school project.. Tsk Tsk Tsk.. However, I still like it though.. Kinda nostalgic somehow.

Continued my trip along to Chinatown.. Kinda nice to see the typical Chinatown gateway.. It was quite a sight.. Lanterns hung down from the gate with its elaborate design and colours..

Museum of Brisbane (MOB) at night..
Nothing really majestic about this.. but it reminded me of the Supreme Court of Singapore.. those tall columns in front.. Palm trees around its boundaries.. Only difference will be the watch tower..

Brisbane reminds me of Singapore soo much.. There are places similar to Raffles City, City Hall etc.. the only exception will the beaches here.. They are thousands times nicer than Pasir Ris Beach, East Coast Beach or Siloso Beach.. Will get pictures of the beaches next time.. Love the beaches here.. Lovely waves.. white soft sands.. and it squeeks when you walk on it =)

Supreme Court in Singapore at night.. (for comparison)

My new place..

I finally got to stay in my own apartment now even though it's just a Studio.. I am glad to have my own bathroom!! Yeay.. No more communial showers for me.. :)

This is how my place looks like as you step in from the front door.. Kinda humble.. Enough room for a single person..

This is my cooking area.. Got to be careful with the cooking there.. If the smoke alarm goes off and there happen to be no fire.. It will be a $890 fine.. We don't want that to happen do we.. I know some of my friends who got fined.. Sorry guys..

That's the hallway we walked through as we enter the front door.

My working area.. Nothing else to say abt that.. Just that its the place where I spend most of my days.. (in front of my com.. ) *grinz*

The sink in the bathroom..
The mirror is huge... A must place to visit everyday.. Unless on days where I am sick and decide to stay in bed for the whole day.. Hehehe..

The toilet and the shower cubicle.. :)
This time they are all mine.. No more cleaning up after peoples' mess.. Yeay..