Rundle Mall Spring/Summer Fashion Parades 2011 (Video 1)

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WOW! This is how I spent my first Saturday of October. Whole day at home watching TV, all together watched 4 movies! Can’t believe it. It’s gonna be a long weekend. At 2/10/2011 2am, daylight saving will start and need to adjust the clock to one hour in advance.

My holiday will officially ends next Tuesday, now in partial holiday mood because only one class started. Exam result is out and I’m extremely disappointed with it because I thought I did really well sigh… But what’s done is done, need to move on to make sure the coming ones will be good ones to maintain my GPA above 6 if possible because now it dropped to 5+.

Spring is here since September but still in transition period because the weather can be pretty crazy. Last week felt like spring and summer at some days, this week it’s winter -.-”

Anyway, this video is Rundle Mall Spring/Summer Fashion Parades 2011 which happened on 23/9/2011! The weather was soooo cold that day with strong wind and rain, pity the models. Took so many photos but will show you the videos first. This is the first one, another one will be uploaded soon.

Time sure flies, now it’s October. Autumn was awesome, winter was miserable, spring? I hope there’ll be something special to make it sweet. *finger cross*

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Oporto

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Oproto is no stranger to Australians. It’s an Australian franchise with over 140+ stores across Australia, New Zealand, UK, and China.

I saw it many times at City Cross but never thought of trying it out because I only went to Hungry Jack’s there ;p Only until I got the buy 1 burger and get 1 free burger voucher, I finally tried it.

After my last exam paper, I decided to reward myself. I ordered the Bondi Single Fillert Burger (AUD4.98). This is Oporto’s authentic, signature Bondi Burger with 1 fresh grilled chicken breast fillets, lettuce, cheese and mayo served with or without irresistible chilli sauce. I had it with the chili sauce.

Since I got the voucher, means I got two burgers for one price. I gave one to a friend who treated me for my birthday dinner.

The taste? The chili is a bit spicy but if for those who can’t stand a bit of spiciness, it can be rather spicy. The meat was tender and juicy. I would say the burger was kind of tasteless though. Didn’t taste much of the mayo too. Maybe I had too much of Hungry Jack’s *LOL*

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KY Chow

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Again… Dinner after slaving away in the computer pool. For two continuous nights I had dinner at Chinatown. Actually this was the first night, the second night was at J Restaurant. Ky Chow serves Guangzhou food. It is located at 27, Gouger St. Went there with our newly met friend.

I got no idea what the actual name of the dishes and how much they were. I didn’t have my camera with me so only took it with my phone, had difficulty taking any good photos of the food. At the end I didn’t bother to take anymore. Here’s just some dishes we had, I think there’s 1 or 2 dishes that I didn’t have the photos.

We had almost all the sweet dishes.

Right: Chinese Fruit Hawthorn Pork ribs ($11.80), very sweet but I like it.


Left: Sweet and sour chicken, very sweet too. Nothing special with this though.
Right: Egg plant dish, it’s on the sweeter side too.


Left:Vegetable (I don’t know what is this vegetable called ;p) with garlic.
Right: Don’t remember what is this, I think it’s a fish dish. Also a dish that was sweet.

It was a sweet dinner *LOL* The total bill came up to AUD70+ for 5 people.

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J Restaurant

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A coursemate treated us for a dinner before exam. We’re all slaving away in the computer pool before that. When dinner time came, we all went for dinner at J Restaurant serves Cantonese cuisine. It is located at Grote Street. Same row as Time Supermarket. When I reached there I was like OMG-this-is-gonna-be-expensive! The interior looked so posh!

There were 4 of us and these were the food we ordered. Will try my best to identify them as I wasn’t the one who ordered the food. Didn’t bring my camera too so I used my phone to take the photos, that explains the horrible colour of the photos.

Left: This is Sauteed Potato, Eggplant and Capsicum ($10.80). I love this! There’s a balance of sweet and salty also I love potato and capsicum. Yummy!

Right: Ox Tripe with Chilli and Soy Sauce ($6.80). I don’t remember it’s spicy or not. I guess it’s not spicy enough to make me remember the spiciness hahaha…


Left: Cucumber and Black Fungus with Garlic Sauce ($4.80).

Right: Half Shanghai Style Crispy Duck ($16.80), Best eaten hot and with the sauce. Once it’s cold it can be pretty oily.


Left: Steamed Pipis and Egg Dish ($12.80), quite salty but great to eat with rice.

Overall the food was not bad and the prices of the food were reasonable. In fact, the food we had can actually fed 5 or 6 people instead of 4.

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Festival of Innovation 2011

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Yesterday was my last day of holiday. Class starts today. On my last day of holiday, I spent it at UniSA Mawson Lakes Campus volunteering for the Festival of Innovation.

It’s my first time going to this campus. My friend and I actually missed the stop, we took the wrong bus ;p We thought the bus would stop there but it didn’t. Phew… Luckily I noticed the sign “Mawson Lakes” earlier on and sensed something amiss after seeing the bus stop number reaching 47! I immediately asked the driver where we should alight. We quickly got off the next stop and went to the opposite side of the road to catch another bus there. Good thing we were in time as the next bus came at 11.50am, we were only few minutes away to 11.50am! If we missed this, we would have to wait till 12.50pm! We’ll be late for our job by then as our shift started at 1pm.


I think this will be my first and last time here…


So must take photos ;p


Walking into the university compound. It really felt like going to university unlike my campus. City West felt like a college but Mawson Lakes really gave me the feel of going to a university.


If I’m not mistaken, this is the largest campus of UniSA. This is where civil aviation, engineering, computing, and all those technical programmes are conducted.


Left: Here I am! Mawson Lakes! Generally this campus has more male students due to the faculties located here which are almost male dominated field of studies. I was told by one of the students that there’s only one female student in his class! WOW!

Right: A section of the event.


Left: If I’m doing something related to my bachelor degree, I would be based in this campus. It’s huge but very inconvenient unlike the city. I think I wouldn’t be able to venture out more or having fun like what I’m having now if I study here. Too far and out of the way unless I drive.

Right: Me in the t-shirt 😉 the sun was so bright but the wind was soooo cold! Taken during my lunch.


Left: The balloons they’re giving out hehehe… Matching colour. I was at the welcome booth working as the counter. It wasn’t as happening as UniSA Open Day though, not many people. I guess it’s just too far and it’s only concentrated on things related to this campus.

Right: The booths. I didn’t get to tour the campus and also check out the event because I couldn’t venture anywhere as a counter. Some more, reached there later than expected due to the wrong bus we took, so there’s no time to explore. Got ourselves registered, had lunch and start work in half hour.

It’s a good thing we didn’t have to take a bus back to the city as one of the volunteers offered to send us back since he had to go through the city to get home.

Overall, it’s a great experience even though the responsibility wasn’t that heavy, the job was quite simple too. At least, I finally get to step into this campus since I’ve been hearing so much about it. I have a friend studying in this campus and many of my friends were students here. Haven’t got the chance to visit Magill(can take a bus from the city, if I’m taking journalism, I’ll be here) and Whyalla(need to take a plane or four to five-hour drive by car or long distant bus, waaaay too far) campuses yet.

That’s how I spent my last day of holiday. No more holiday until December.

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