After much a do, which included fuck ups in domestic flight tickets, train rides to the airport et al, I finally managed to make my way to melbourne.

Kinda disappointed because I was expecting to fall in love with the city after hearing so much about how "european" it is. Unfortunately, the towering skyscapers were the first to greet me as I neared the city and it reminded me too much of Singapore for me to be impressed in anyway.

Perhaps I'm just a tough customer.

Anyway, in a bid to buy a dress for Jean's wedding, Mart and I went crazy shopping around. The shopping here is definitely way more overwhelming than Sydney. There are so many boutiques on every single street to do boutique shopping would be too stressful for me to handle so I decided to stick to the safe departmental stores and did a damage of *ahem* almost $500 in the first afternoon of shopping :P

At night, we head over to an italian restaurant where Mart's friend is a chef there and have a freaking 8 course dinner with champagne

1. pizza dough balls with anchovies, chilli and zuchini flower breaded and fried

2. caprese salad

Honestly, after the caprese salad I was pretty happy to place my fork down, rub my belly and call it a night... little did I know it was just the beginning....

3. buckwheat pasta and potato with butter sauce, sage (or maybe some other herb) fried crisp in butter

4. There's something here although i can't quite remember what

5. Prawns wrapped in prosciutto with potato and lemon salad

6. Rabbit ragout and thin fettucine

7. lamb with tomato salad

8. Eggplant ball in napoleonese sauce

9. Crepe suzette and vanilla ice cream and coffee... (good good coffee)

The food was good though... =)

after dinner, we both so exhausted we came back immediately and slept... zzz