KFC = Killer Fun (with) Chloe

So I'm happy to announce that I just did a trial shift at KFC! They actually asked me to do it at Baulkham Hills and I might or might not end up working there instead of Castle Towers, so we'll see how it goes. Everything is the same except that it's a bit bigger and there's a drive-through.

The trial shift is just something I do before accepting the job, just for me to see whether or not I can see myself working there. It was pretty interesting, I had to do the opening shift so I helped them package the potato and gravy and all that stuff. Everything seems extremely hectic though, people just running around, especially the drive-through people with the headsets trying to race to the drive-through window.

It was pretty cool though and at the end of it I was entitled to a combo meal since the shift was unpaid, so there's that.


Oh and also, here's my jigsaw puzzle I did!

It's a 1000 piece Ravensburger puzzle that Joyce, Alice and Pamela got me as a belated present. I finished it within 24 hours and it was probably because it's most likely the easiest 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle I would ever do. It's so easy to pick up a piece and know roughly where it is in the picture, since the majority of the pieces are faces or parts of characters' clothing. I also had to buy this jigsaw puzzle conserver glue so that I can glue it all together and then glue it to a board before I hang it up. I wanted to hang it in a frame, but it's so big and custom frames are so expensive, so maybe not. I'll probably find some sort of stand or something I have no idea.

Speaking of puzzle I came across this Game of Thrones Puzzle of Westeros:

It was $60 in the shop and it's roughly the same price online. At first I was like, "SIXTY DOLLARS?! For a puzzle?! No way."

But then I realised that it's over 1400 pieces AND IT'S 3D!

There are three layers: the bottom normal map, another layer of the land terrain so that it looks like the land is lifted from the ocean, and then plastic 3D pieces of the landmark buildings.

You can see one plastic piece here and you can sort of see how the land layer is higher up than the sea:

Well I think I'll definitely buy this once some money starts coming in, but looking at some reviews, some people say that it's a really bad quality puzzle since a lot of the pieces seem to fit together but they're not actually right. And since it has over 1400 pieces, and all the land pieces are duplicated, it seems like it would take years to complete, so maybe I would have to buy this closer to the winter holidays...

Here is a cool video of the puzzle:



And now for some movies I rented...

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

8.1/10 on IMDb
85% on Rotten Tomatoes
As I said when I read the book, I was definitely expecting this movie to be a lot better. While it was better, it wasn't that great (I don't know why it was rated so highly, I personally would have rated it maybe a 6 or 7 out of 10). It was still good in showing the teenage troubles that a lot of people go through, and the difficulties of finding your place in life while dealing with your past struggles, but I think that it was weirdly directed and a bit slow moving at times. The actors were quite great, and Emma Watson is so beautiful but I think something was missing, like maybe more narratives or something, I don't know. In the end it was a pretty good film, but nothing amazing.


Olympus Has Fallen

6.5/10 on IMDb
48% on Rotten Tomatoes
This was pretty good for an action film. The plot's obviously not ideal and it's quite overdone since it's about a terrorist attack on the White House and one man goes in to save the day. It's so overdone that it's actually one of the two films last year about a terrorist attack on the White House (the other is White House Down with Channing Tatum).

I think the reason why the show was rated down was because of this overdone plot, but I think it was quite good for entertainment purposes. Also, I think it's one of the few movies where the president is a famous actor (Aaron Eckhart, Two-Face Harvey from The Dark Knight). The other actors (as you can see from the movie poster) were Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman, who were pretty good but Morgan Freeman's role was quite small considering who he is.

It was also quite racist because the terrorists were North Koreans, but still very entertaining.


End of Watch

7.7 on IMDb
85% on Rotten Tomatoes
This movie follows the lives of two policemen in a semi home-made documentary style. At first, this documentary style made it really cheesy and boring, but it shortly became really intense and suspenseful. I can't give too much detail on the film without spoiling anything, but they get into a bit of trouble once they accidentally bust into some huge spider web gang network.

In the end it's really deep and makes us think about all these policemen who put their lives in danger and the things they sacrifice, like having a normal family life.

Jake Gyllenhaal is also really amazing in this. Apaprently most of the on-screen banter was improvised between the two main actors, and they did a really good job at that. There were a lot of swear words, which made this movie have about the 6th highest number of swear words in a film (which just makes me wonder what The Wolf of Wall Street is like).


Seven Psychopaths

7.2/10 on IMDb
83% on Rotten Tomatoes
This movie is extremely weird. I didn't get it at all. People rated it really highly because the film was mocking Hollywood film-making and because of it's amazing humour, but personally I found it quite weird.

As the name suggests, it just kind of goes through these weird characters who are pretty much psychopaths. The storyline is that someone is trying to write a Hollywood film called Seven Psychopaths, but he's having trouble finding inspiration for the types of psychopaths he should write about. In the meantime, his friends, who are dognappers, end up kidnapping a Shih Tzu owned by an extremely psychopathic mafia boss.

Like at times it was funny, but the whole movie wasn't that great. Woody Harrelson is still amazing, but the movie was too ridiculous for me to take it seriously enough, even when it was aiming for comedy.

The Lion King Musical

Yesterday Diwan took me to the Lion King Musical!

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He bought me the tickets for my birthday but it was all booked out until February, and even still, Capitol Theatre was packed!

I've never been in Capitol Theatre before but it's so beautiful! The statues and artwork around it is incredible and the ceiling is painted this mesmerising blue that you can't help but think it's the sky. The randomly placed light bulbs don't help either, since they look like the stars in the night sky we never see.

The show was about 2.5 hours long with a 20 minute intermission in the middle. We were sitting in Row P, which I was afraid would mean we wouldn't be able to see much, but it was still an amazing view.

Unfortunately we weren't allowed to take photos of the musical (as expected), so here are some photos I got off Google and some photos that are from my $25 program book.



Best song (including the original movie songs and the newly added musical songs): Circle of Life

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Firstly, it's hard to not make sure that it's the best song of the musical, since it's easily one of Disney's best songs in general. Secondly, it was the opening of the entire musical, so I didn't really know what to expect, and when the antelope dancers came in and the giraffes on the left walked through it was just amazing! And when these giant costumed elephants started walking down the aisles of the crowd, it was such a magnificent sight. The costumes were done so creatively to expose the artistic values of both the humans and the creatures they were playing. Thirdly, when Pride Rock came through, it was magnificent. They really took the original movie imagery and turned it into this amazing and towering staircase that (I have no idea how) managed to move around the stage in a circle. Fourthly, I love choirs! The choir for this musical was stunning and they had all these native African singers performing, it was beautiful.



Best props: Staircases
I couldn't really find many good pictures for the Prise Rock staircase, but you can sort of see the front of it in the Circle of Life picture. Here's a picture of it's side:

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It was really cool because they curved it around this circle on the floor, and it looked so much more spectacular on stage.

Scar's elephant graveyard staircase was amazing too:

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Best costumes: Scar and Mufasa's masks and the Hyenas
I really loved Scar and Mufasa's lion masks because they were so clever.

When they are just standing upright, the mask looks like a crown on top of their heads:

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But then when they bend low to attack or threaten someone else, their mask drops down to add to the fierceness:

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The hyena costumes were also amazingly clever, because the way they did it really helped bring out the ugliness of the hyenas.

The performers had their head as the hyena's hunches, with a mane on top connecting to the actual hyena face, while the hyena's front legs were sticks that the performers used as walking canes.

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I guess you can't really tell in that photo because it's quite dark, but from far away the costumes definitely looked ridiculously disgusting and misshapen.



Best characters: Zazu, Timon and Pumbaa
All these characters were done really well, particularly because they sounded so similar to the original movie characters.

Zazu was amazing because the actor was just a puppeteer controlling a limp bird, but he himself acted just as crazy and colourful as his hornbill bird.

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Timon was amazing because he too was controlling his meerkat like a puppet.

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I know what you're thinking: the guy's green! It looks ridiculous, there's a green guy spooning Timon!

At first, yes, it seemed really out of place. But soon you started to forget about the green man because Timon looked extremely real. From the way he walked to the way he licked his fur clean, it was all done as if it was an actual meerkat. The green guy behind him of course stood out from the background, but the performance was executed so well that he seemed to blend into it instead.

Pumbaa's costuming was amazing, and the fact that all three of these characters sounded so similar to their original movie versions, I was so mesmerised by it. I hope they're all getting extremely valuable pay checks!



Best character adaptation: Rafiki

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They changed our beloved shaman into a woman (and the program book says it's because they wanted a greater female presence in the story), but I think it was a great change. This same female Rafiki was the one who sang the Circle of Life opening, and she also did an amazing job at showcasing Rafiki's humourous nature. It was interesting that they actually made her look like a human, while they still referenced the fact that she was meant to be a baboon, but I think it added to the character's power and importance in the story.


All in all, this was an amazing musical, I definitely recommend it if you can still get any tickets. I hear that it's still performing even in April, so if you're thinking about seeing it, you won't regret it.

The only thing is that I didn't really like how they sung the songs, as they changed it up quite a bit, but it wasn't bad or anything, I guess I'm more of a traditional song fan. But it's definitely worth it for the choir, the artwork, the costumes, the entire atmosphere and the entertainment value of it.

One of the funniest quotes I think was when Mufasa was jokingly threatening to fire Zazu and Zazu was shocked, exclaiming, "FIRE ME?! NO! Please don't send me back to TASMANIA!!!" I don't recall it being in the original film and, in light of Diwan's recent Tasmania Med scare, I thought that was pretty hilarious.

A job, Two books and a Movie.

I got a job at KFC!!

Yay for oily foreheads and pimple breakouts.

And yay for money.

I had a difficult time trying to find the right job; so many places wanted full time employees (like The Body Shop or some food places) and even KFC was advertising for part-time but I was able to ask for just 15 hours a week so yay.

I start in March and it's at Towers so come visit whenever you can =]


Also I started reading Pride and Prejudice a few weeks ago. It's quite a long novel, about 900 pages long so I'm slowly crawling through it. It's quite interesting, I thought it'd be really dull but since the ebook came with my Nook and since it's Number 2 on the Dymocks' Favourite 101 (as well as top 5 at least for a lot of book lists), I decided to read it. There's 3 volumes, each with about 20 chapters so it's quite heavy, but I'll let you know more about it when I finish.


I also finally saw Cloud Atlas!

7.6/10 on IMDb
66% on Rotten Tomatoes
There's no way I can properly review this without giving you a run-down of the book it's based on. It's really difficult to tell you what this story is about because it actually comprises of six stories:

1. The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing
Set in the 1850s, this story is a diary with entries written by an American lawyer crossing the Pacific ocean.

2.Letters from Zedelghem
Set in the 1930s, this part is comprised of letters from an English musician to his gay lover who works for a reclusive composer as a means to one day become a famous composer himself.

3. Half Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery
The third story is a mystery/thriller novel about a young journalist putting her life on the line as she investigates reports of a nuclear power plant.

4. The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish
Then we turn to the only comical story in the novel about a senior man's unjust residency in a nursing home because of a prank his brother plays on him, and his plot to escape from it.

5.An Orison of Sonmi-451
The fifth, and personal favourite, story is a dystopian one set in futuristic Seoul, where the main character is a fabricant humanoid who was manufactured to work at a fast food outlet called Papa Song's, and how underground rebels help to free her from her slavery.

6. Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After
This last story was one of my favourites too, and it's set way into the post-apocalyptic future where, after 'The Fall', the people of Hawaii had to start living like barbarians again among leftover futuristic remnants of technology.


The most interesting thing about this book is how it's structured. Stories 1-5 are split into two parts, and the novel is set out as: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

It is revealed that each main character from each story is reading or watching the story from the most recent time period (i.e. person in story 3 reads story 2, whose person reads story 1). So the crazy thing that made this novel really stand out is the fact that everything and everyone was sort of connected.


Now for the movie.

I think the movie did quite a good job at doing this. The stories were all over the place though, it didn't follow the structure of the novel, but it more or less just kept cutting from scenes of one story to scenes of the next story so that at the beginning of the film we were at the beginning of each story, and at the end of the film, we were at the end of each story.

The film is structured, according to novelist David Mitchell, "as a sort of pointillist mosaic."
-From Wikipedia

At first it was really confusing because the scenes from each story were extremely short, so you didn't really understand what was going on, even an hour into the film (and the film was a whopping 172 minutes long). However as the film progresses, the stories start becoming longer and longer and you get to see how similar the stories are and how the characters start resembling different themes and stuff.

The main thing about this movie was the idea of reincarnation and past and future lives affecting the outcomes of each other. It also deals with elements of evil, injustice, redemption and self-awareness.

I really like this quote that the author of the books said about the film:
"The reincarnation motif in the book is just a hinted-at linking device, but the script gives it centre stage to link the six worlds with characters, causes and effects." The film will also feature all the principal actors playing multiple roles of different ages, sexes and races. "A novel can't do multi-role acting: a film can," says Mitchell. "The directors are playing to the strengths of their medium, just like I try to."

For a better depiction of what all this means, I found a really cool character map here (they're not really spoilers but maybe don't look at it too in-depth just in case):

Unfortunately, because of make-up, prosthetics and unclear voices, you don't really get to fully appreciate the reincarnation motif. A huge negative is the fact that there is no way you could enjoy this movie without subtitles. During the beginning, they actually talk about past lives and all that quite a lot, but you don't really understand it because for the first hour the movie gives you nothing to understand.

I still hold on to my belief that this movie is for the people that read the book, but it's a really good adaptation and in the end it did help me understand the book a bit better because it gave us a clearer image of who was reincarnated to whom, and who always had similar roles in the battle between good and evil.

Bonus: One of the best quotes (it was in the book too but it was amazingly delivered here):

Haskell Moore: No matter what you do it will never amount to anything more than a single drop in a limitless ocean.
Adam Ewing: What is an ocean but a multitude of drops?


Well that was a rather lengthy movie review and since I'm too tired to keep blogging, I'll talk about the other movies I watched in a new blog.

Until next time.

Pre-Semester Mediocrity

I finally saw Frozen!

8.1/10 on IMDb
89% on Rotten Tomatoes
This was really hyped up, but for some reason I didn't like it that much. A lot of people were saying that it's better than Tangled, but honestly I think this movie was sub-par.

In case you haven't seen it or heard about it (unlikely), its another Disney fairytale. Elsa, the oldest, was born with magical abilities to create ice and snow. This is unknown to her younger sister, Anna, and the rest of the kingdom. On her coming-of-age coronation day, she accidentally lets this slip and, scared of what the civilians will think of her, she runs away. Accidentally setting off a winter storm, she entraps the kingdom in an eternal winter and Anna tries to go after her to bring her back and bring back the summer.

So yeah, I didn't really like this plot line, I think Tangled was so much better. The main thing was that there wasn't really any back story, which is a classic with Disney fairy tales, explaining things like how she got her powers and all sorts of things like that. There also wasn't a very strong villain; the movie seemed to suggest that fear itself was a villain in our lives which, while true, could have been presented better. Some parts didn't make much sense, and I feel like they would have made more sense if they provided a back story, just like with Tangled's magical flower.

I also felt that they were trying too hard with the humour, especially Olaf (since most of the humour came from him). Don't get me wrong, there were good moments of humour but the majority of it was very forced.

Another thing was that Idina Menzel's singing voice didn't match up with the look of Elsa at all. At least with Tangled, Mandy Moore's singing matched Rapunzel's movements and she had a Disney princess voice. With Idina, her voice seemed really mature and it felt like it was just overlaid on the animation since it didn't even match Elsa. I still love Elsa's talking voice, but her singing voice was also very strenuous and nasally.

The stuff I did love about the film, however, was the ending with the true love. I really loved how they took our traditional views on true love and gave it a new spin. I also loved the title song, Vuelie, as well as the opening song, Frozen Heart. While I didn't like Idina Menzel singing Let it Go, I still really like the song and I really like Demi's pop version of it in the credits too. Ironically, the Let it Go sequence was my favourite in the movie because of the amazing visuals and since I've been crazy about ice and ice sculptures ever since X-Men 2.


Also, I made a 3D egg jigsaw puzzle!

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I bought this last year in Malaysia for about $2 (AUD). At first I thought the picture was printed on the puzzle pieces but when I opened it:

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Good thing they're numbered though! There's 40 pieces and they were numbered 1-20 twice, for each side of the egg.

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The pack also came with a base for the egg to stand in and some stickers (so I'm essentially doing two puzzles):

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I couldn't take a decent photo of all the sides of the egg, so here are the four views of the puzzle as shown on the box:

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Oh yeh... Lotso's also been placed sadly on the bottom all by himself (and they didn't even show him on the box)!:

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I have no idea why they had to go and print stickers for the puzzle when they could have just printed the puzzle on the puzzle pieces themselves... I mean look at this:

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Because that totally matches up.


Also, I saw Hotel Transylvania just today:

7.1/10 on IMDb
45% on Rotten Tomatoes
This film had really really low expectations for me. Honestly, I don't even know why I wanted to watch it because I remember seeing the trailer for it and just thinking it was the cheesiest thing ever.

It's an animation about Count Dracula opening up a hotel for monsters and trying to prevent his teenage 118 year old daughter from encountering humans, since he thinks we're all evil and dangerous.

It's actually quite alright (granted if you go in knowing it's going to be pretty cheesy since it's a kid's comedy). They had some good humour at times and some nice references to pop culture, but it's probably not a film I would rewatch. It's still enjoyable though for the animation and entertainment quality.


Well, that's it for now. Uni's coming back in half a month and it's going to be pretty hectic. I've got 3 days at Uni but I really need to knuckle down for Psych, since I need at least a Distinction average for the next 3 years to get into Honours to start to become a Clinical Psychologist. I'm also looking for another casual job, but not many places are hiring for casuals. Wish me luck!

Also, if anyone's stuck on getting cheap Uni textbooks, you should try out Textbook Exchange (now called StudentVIP Textbooks), where students advertise their second-hand textbooks for cheaper (since Co-Op is heck expensive). Just beware of what edition and stuff you need.

Another cheap site is Book Depository, which is a UK based site that has free shipping and really cheap prices.

Other good sites are Booko and AddALL, which compare book prices, together with shipping costs, from a range of websites.

I know most of you know all this already, but I knew a few people who weren't sure how Textbook Exchange and stuff worked so here are just a few tips.

All the best, and I'll blog again in about a week's time!

Melbourne!!

Last Sunday, Alice, Pamela, Joyce and I headed to Melbourne! It was our first ever trip together so that was pretty exciting.

Day 1: Sunday
Our flight was at 6am in the morning so it was an extremely tiresome start. We arrived at Tullamarine Airport and so we had to catch a bus to the city. We just caught the SkyBus which was an express to the CBD, but it was $28 return (originally $30 but you get a whopping $2 off per person when you buy in a group of four) and later we were thinking whether or not a taxi would have been cheaper (but probably not). Actually, I don't think we even checked whether or not normal buses ran from the airport to the CBD, but maybe it was all just a big scam to get more money off tourists.

Anyway, when we arrived at Melbourne CBD at about 8am, we headed to Docklands for the Sunday markets and browsed around Harbourtown (which I kept wanting to call Laketown). The Docklands markets were alright, it was only about 15 stalls but some of them were really nice. I don't recall anyone buying anything though, since it was a bit pricey and we had just landed so we weren't really sure what to expect with Melbourne shopping. Harbourtown was alright, all their shops were outlets so everything was quite cheap. I feel that Docklands wasn't really that great of a place to visit though, unless you were going for the sightseeing (which still wasn't amazing).

Next up we caught the free tram to Carlton Gardens, where we looked at the Royal Exhibition Building and entered Melbourne Museum.

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Royal Exhibition Building
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Melbourne Museum was probably the highlight of the trip for me. I love museums, and this museum included everything from:

Tiny dinosaurs

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And the eggs they came from

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To record-breaking beetles

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And colourful insects

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To truckloads of taxidermy

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Exotic birds

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Squirming snakes

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Amazing boats

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And even olden-day Melbourne

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They also had a Mind and Body section that was all about dreams and psychology and optical illusions and things like that that were amazing!

I loved this place, definitely check it out if you ever go to Melbourne.

Since we were around the area, we had lunch at Lygon Street, which is a street that's renowned for it's Italian eateries and cafes. Apparently it's got quite a night life to it too, but it was too far away from our hotel to go back again so we just had lunch at a restaurant there.

Then after that we checked into our hotel and chilled in the pool/sauna (which was disappointing because the temperature didn't go beyond 26 degrees for safety reasons).

For dinner we went to Chinatown, which was literally the cleanest Chinatown we've ever seen.


Day 2: Monday
On Monday we did this Arcades and Lanes Walk that had some street art included, and Melbourne Central as well.

The lanes here are so cute, cosy and pretty and the shops are so amazing!

One particular street we were fascinated with was Degraves Street.

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On one half they had shops which were amazing, particularly The Little Bookroom, Clementine's, and Il Papiro. Then on the other half, they had all these cafes/restaurants that were very cosy.

I also bought a $5 DIY paper aircraft model pack:

I cheated a bit and used some sticky tape to hold up the bottom wings
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We also got to see some street art:

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Then at night we headed to Crown Casino where I won $45 at roulette!


Day 3: Tuesday
By now we were a little tired because we crammed a lot into the first two days and we had walked around so much. I guess we expected it because our trip was only 3 and a bit days so we shoved everything into those three days. Originally we were supposed to leave at night on Wednesday but they pushed forward our flight to 2pm so that made things a bit worse.

Anyway, first we headed up to Queen Victoria Markets. They're kind of like Paddy's markets but with more variety I suppose and a lot more cooler things (including cafes and churros stands).

From there I bought yet another DIY model, but this time it was a foam Phoenix which turns out to be about 30cm in length:

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As well as a little souvenir model of the free City Circle tram 35:

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Then we headed to South Bank and South Wharf, which had this really pretty bridge:

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We spent hours at the South Wharf DFO but I was so tired I just slept on the sofas outside while the other girls shopped around.

We were originally palnning on going to St Kilda and Brighton Beach after this, but honestly we were so tired we just went back to the hotel and watched My Kitchen Rules like we did every other day.

Also, the transport price system is so bad in Melbourne. They have Myki cards which are like Opal cards, but you need to buy the actual card for $6 and then top it up with more money. I understand that part, but the part I don't get is that it's not at all tourist-friendly. If you don't need the card anymore, you can donate it to "charity" (i.e. they will just resell it). You can't even get a refund for it like in other countries. On top of that, when you load money onto the Myki cards, it expires in either 2 hours or a day (depending on what you purchase), which is quite frankly ridiculous.

Anyway that was my little rant.

Then we headed to some Mexican restaurant called Touche Hombre where I had the most delightful fried chicken wings.


Day 5: Wednesday
Alas, our last day had come so we were packed and ready to go... except we didn't know where to go...

So we just chilled around Federation Square which, to be frank, was quite boring. I didn't really understand what the point of it was but maybe that's just because we weren't bothered enough to walk more than 50 metres into it and just sat down outside.

We did get to see Flinders Street Station though, which was amazingly beautiful:

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All in all, I really enjoyed going to Melbourne. I would probably go back in a few years to see the things I missed out on in this trip, like some more street art, more Melbourne-esque cafes and eateries, St Kilda and Brighton beach, more of the Melbourne nightlife, and especially the Colonial Tramcar Restaurant! That was a bit over budget so we didn't go to that one but I'd really love to experience that one day. I'd also really want to explore more of Melbourne and not just the CBD.

The Melbourne life is so incredibly different to Sydney. Firstly, the streets are amazingly clean. Secondly, the cafes and laneways makes everything so much cosier. Thirdly, the grid layout of the streets makes it so easy to get to places, and probably creates the effect of less traffic and less people in the city (since most people are in the laneways or in other main streets and not just clustered onto one main road like George Street). Fourthly, the trams are cray. We were literally standing in the middle of the road with the tram stopping 20 centimetres in front of us with no barriers. Fifthly, the street art makes everything just a tad cooler.

Next up will most likely be Tasmania, and then maybe Perth after that! I need a job though to pay for all of this so let's hope I get one soon!

Until next time kiddos.