Royal Melbourne Show 2008

Today we visited the Royal Melbourne Show. In fact its the 2nd day that we went, cuz the first day was with Kor Jie and Lucas, and didn't really get to venture much. Anyway Nic and I had a great time 'dating' at the Royal Melbourne Show.

We reached there at about 2pm+. The sky was a bit gloomy by then (although the forecast said that today will be sunny), so I said a little prayer for God to bless us with a good weather, and sure enough, for the duration that we were at the show, the weather was great, except for a few minutes of light showers but that doesnt really matter. :)




One of the event for the show is the Championship Dog show, where breeders will bring their doggies to compete with other dogs of the same breed. It was wonderful to be surrounded by dogs *grin* I simply love them too much.. and Nic always say that I will go mad when I see dogs.. haha.. but I can't help it, they are just sooooo innocent and soooo lovable.. lolz... anyway, I took some pictures of some giant Schnauzers (its a pity that I can't take any pictures with the dogs):







There was in fact nothing much to do at the show, only atmosphere that brings about the excitment and fun. Initially, I wanted to take some rides, but after a second thought, we decided to give the rides a miss.. (cos they all look so intimidating).. haha... *2 scardy cats* ;p

As we walked around the show, we spent some unnecessary money playing those 'catch-a-soft-toy' games. The first game we played was called '21'. We are suppose to purchase tickets and use the numbers given on the tickets to form 21. This game wasn't simple at all. Firstly, we purchased 14 tickets with $10 and got a few tickets with numbers 4,8,10,6 & 2. However we are not able to form 21 with all even numbers, so we decided to give another try. We purchased another 6 tickets with $5. But still no luck. So spent another $5 (which is a total of $20) and still no luck.

(look at all the tickets we have.. a.k.a money wasted)

Eventually we decided to give a last try of $2 to purchase 2 tickets (and guess the staff took 'pity' on us and decided to give us a 'joker' ticket cos Nic said that all these are controlled by them) . So at last, we got a CAREBEAR! :) But guess what, the staff did not collect back the Joker ticket from Nic, so we decided to go back later to exchange for another one. So we walked on.



As we walked towards the Grand Pavillion (where the food is), we saw this game stall that says "the highest Poker hand wins". Out of curiousity, we checked out the stall. And how the game works is to roll 5 balls into holes of A,K,Q,J,10, and whoever gets the highest hand will win. So we spent another $5 playing the game, but got nothing.

Feeling tired, we decided to take a rest and grab a bite. We had some Dutch pancakes, German sausage roll, fish & chips and squids, as well as a few cups of beer. Nic had a corn too:

(taken with our 'little one'.. lol...)

After 'recharging' ourselves, we went back to the games stall to exchange for another toy using the Joker ticket. This time round, Nic purchased 2 tickets with $2 and walked aside to open the ticket so that the person will not notice our 'trick'. So after 'opening' the Joker ticket, Nic went up to the staff and told him that we want to get a toy since we got the Joker ticket. Immediately, his expression changed (cos we think that he knows that we 'cheated' as he is aware that amongst the tickets that he gave us, there is no Joker ticket). But there's nothing he can do cos if he were to expose us, then he will be as good as exposing himself. Hence, reluctantly he gave us our 2nd CAREBEAR! lolz.....

(my 2 'babies')

But guess cheaters will really reap their retribution. Why? Cos after that we tried our luck at another stall and wasted $20 getting nothing.. :( So we just consoled ourselves that the $20 is spent to get the 2nd carebear. sigh!!! what to do.....

We spent a total of 4 hours at the show. It was really fun... Fun not because of the things that we get to do there, but fun because Nic and I did this together happily... and we really enjoyed it alot! :)

(A farewell shot with a goat)

So tired.. after a week of eating and going out... :( No fun at all.. all the eating makes me feel so FAT!!! argh... made a pact with myself to diet for one whole week after Kor they all leave... got to cleanse my system before going for another round of eating during the Sydney Trip (26 Sept -1 Oct)..

Anyway, Kor Jie and Lucas has been here since Saturday.. it feels good to have them around.. Lucas has grown so much and is now so chatty.. though he's abit demanding at times, but he's really sweet too.. especially when he just walks up to me and call me "Aunty Terra" in the sweetest tone.. lol... hmmm.. *thinking to myself* isnt it nice to have a kid??

Well well, dateline for the assignment is approaching... did most of it by now, but really not confident in doing well at all.. somehow my mind seemed to be blocked... can't get any inspirations at all... so guess just try to amend to the best i can and leave the rest to the marker (or rather to God).. :)

Alrighty we are now bringing kor to play APL at Foresters Arms...

Ciaoz!

**O ya, before I forget to mention this.. Last Friday was a very 'fruitful' day for me... cos (1)
I got myself my very own pair of Oakleys last Friday.. hehe... (see the one in the Royal Melbourne Show blog dated 23 Sept) .. and (2) Nic brought me a Gucci wallet:

(^_^)

Finally a STRAIGHT FLUSH!!!

Lolzz... so happy to have won poker yesterday! Won a $150 Coles-Myer Gift card which we intended to use it for the service of our car. Had quite a bit of luck yesterday, made some good folds, good bets and some shitty-but-winning calls. But the best hand that I had was none other than the straight flush!

I started off with a pocket 9s, I raised my bet preflop to $1000 (worth of chips). 2 other people called. Flop came out K (hearts), 9 (diamonds), Q (hearts). Seeing that I hit trips, I raised my bet to another $2000. This is to prevent any other unfavorable hits by the other players on the turn and river. But the 2 other players went all in on my raise, which I definitely had to call. So I did. Anyway the turn came out a 10 (hearts). At that point, Moss (another player) already had 2 pairs (K & Q). So if any K or Q comes out or J will give him a full house (where he will win the pot) or a straight (where there'll be a split as there's a straight on the board). But then luckily, no Ks or Qs came, but only a J (hearts). Although there's a straight on the board, but because one of my 9s is a 9 (hearts), thus I got a STRAIGHT FLUSH! (^^)

Evidence taken by Nic:

Happy!!!

But then at the thought of my assignment :(

Can't seem to write anything for it.. No inspirations... But hopefully, really hopefully I can get some soon... *frustrated*

Alrighty, back to do some work now... Will be going for gym later and then probably clubbing tonight cos its Gary's (Nic's friend) birthday....

Again, quite some time since I last wrote something on the blog.. sometimes blogging is really good cos at least we will always be reminded of our good/bad times... and to me, to be reminded of bad times can prevent me from making same mistakes again..

Its officially Spring w.e.f. today! Finally Winter is over.... but then, Summer is soon to come... so which is better?? Human beings are always so contradicting aren't we... we want something, yet we want another thing as well... but its never going to be the way, we can never have the best of both worlds... so guess the best thing is to do our best...

Anyway, did something which made me feel bad yesterday.... Its about the MAA301 assignment... I was suppose to do it alone until Phan asked me to do with him and Shing.. which I agreed.. but because I really wanted to finish it before Kor & Jie are here for holiday, so I did push them alittle.. But anyway things turned bad and I told Phan that I would like to do it alone.. so feel bad towards them.. but then I thought to myself, if I keep thinking of them, i will only be the one suffering cos i will probably need to rush things at the very last minute... so hopefully this is the best alternative for all of us...

Ok now to school work.... almost half a semester has passed, but I am still lazing around.. really hope I can concentrate more on my studies... sigh... these are the last two units.. hopefully I can do well for them... its just like running a marathorn, I want to finish it nicely... don't wanna fall half-way.... so I MUST really get to my books and stop all poker and dramas ... :) Hopefully I can do that....

Alrighty.. that's all I feel like writing... maybe will blog more often from now.. and that's provided I am not lazy.. hahaha...