Just Blogging Around

This is my third visits to AQWA this year. Everytime any visitors come to Perth and it happens that they want Kian and me take them around, we will North all the way to AQWA in Hillary.

I love AQWA compared to The Aquarium of Melbourne. AQWA has more collections, and there are more varieties marine animals.

This is one of Dragon Seahorses kept in AQWA. It is only available in Australia. Physically, it is quite similiar to normal seahorse, except Dragon Seahorse has more fins. Dragon Seahorses are very fragile and sensitive. They are able to detect sound around 600meter in radiation; they are very sensitive to light, therefore bloody tourist like me cannot use flash in my camera.

Oh! This is one of my favorite session in AQWA– Touching marine animals! Yay!!! As you can see here, I am holding two star fishes. The one on my left is bigger and it is harder in texture, meanwhile the one on right hand side is smaller and way softer. Why they are different? Come on, different species mah… simple as that. =) I touched sea cucumer, fishes, and durian-like marine animal… Damn “geli”, yet damn cool!

From left: Todd (AQWA tour guide), Rudy-a new friend of us, Kian

Todd is tour guide of the day. He is cool and friendly. He answered most of the questions I asked. He started as volunter in AQWA, and after few months, he was offered a job. We spent most of the time with Todd. =)

This is Kian and me, before entering to the Shipwreck Coast, typically known as “underwater world”.
TA DAH!! Check that dude out! This is biggest stingray in the world/Asutralia according to Todd. Say HI to this giant stingray. =P
wOw wOw wOw! Another stingray… I am wondering if I am given a chance eat this stingray right, I can either BBQ or grill this dude, and you know what, I can use all sorta flavors such as Curry, Lemon and Pepper, bbq dark sauce, honey mustard??

Hehehe…

Ok, this dude behind is is 25 years old turtle. According to Todd, in term of turtle age, she is only 15 years old. Wow! That’s impressive!

This is Northern Australia crocodile. He is superb active. He has been running up and down thru’out the whole moment when we were standing there. Crocodile has 2 types of eye lids– outer (opaque) and inner (transparent). In outer water surface, it uses outer eyelids, however, as it dives into water, transparent inner eyelids will “roll up” acting as goggle, so that its vision still remain clear in water. How cool is that?

Ah… this is jellyfish. My dad used to tell me “Chinese eats everything”.. Hmm.. I am wondering if Chinese eat jelly fishes as well?? =P

You can look up more infomation of AQWA from their official website http://www.aqwa.com.au By the way, if you come down to Perth, I dont mind making my 4th,5th… trips there. =P

Ok.. I am off to bed now. I am heading to Rottnest Island tomorrow~!

Ciao

Me and Kian were voluntering at WAAC. Oh yeah, I tagged Lena along with me. I love WAAC activities. I like to do things that Chinese not normally like to do. Typical Chinese do not like to talk bout HIV/AIDS and death; they are quite preserved when come to “safe sex” education; they absolutely don’t want to know much about Gay and Lesbian. If happend they have a gay son.. they probably will use Harry Potter’s Nimbus (broomstick) chase their son away from house. (not? i have no idea, just made it up for fun)

Ok! Since not much Asians involving WAAC and I am a Chinese.. I have a “role” to help those people out, right? *wink wink*

I went to “Remembrance, Reflection & Celebration” WAAC 20th Anniversary Exhibition at Perth Town Hall.
Sarah, vollie adminstrator rang me during my exam. I still can recall all I said to her was “Yes, see you there.. and I will be taking Kian with me.. and my camera…and Lena..”
I was supposed the one taking pictures, but I am not good at taking pictures in dim light. Consequesntly, I “sent” my Kian to be cameraman. *cough cough* Plus, they need vollies to help out to serve and prepare food and drink. =) ha.. see! there was a point.

I carried 5 trays of finger food platter..smile all night, asking invited guests if they wanted to have something to eat, greet.. I tell you, the porcess was not simple as you think. Carrying food around was not easy yet screening thru those information of WAAC–history, establishment, development of WAAC, vollie history… I was so so touched, knowing people are working so hard for everyone out there. Quite a numbers of them are gay and lesbian, so what??? They are beautiful! They do more that those heartless dude out there.. I give them all my respect.

This is the what happend behind the exhibition– food preparation! yay! sushi! I tell you, the platter might look small, but they were damn heavy, I carried till I felt like I have dropping arms..

Opss.. sorry, abit distracted. Back to AIDS/HIV thingy, I pray for everyone…everyone.. May the force be with you. God bless.

I was really lazy to go out after exam, all I want to do is stay at home and rest, not sleep. All I want to is watching tv, dvd, blogging, eating cucumber, tomato and carrot sticks.

The thing is, I never get to do these quietly cause I am too busy catching up with friends and checking out new place for food. Ah! “Post-exam syndrome” I call this.

I meet up with some friends at Valentino, Mediterranean Cuisine. Thank Buddha, the initial plan gathering at Matsuri Japanese Restaurant didn’t work because Matsuri didn’t open for lunch time. =) Aiyah.. I seriously didn’t want to have Japanese food already cause I had almost the whole sushi platter when I was coluntering at WAAC (WA AIDS Council)

From left: Jackson, Joyce, Yen Li, SM, Thien, Me and Kian. The aussie guy in sunny standing behind me was random. =)

The lunch started with Bruschetta. I tasted a bit, generally not bad. But I wonder why they add the dark sauce around the dish. It destroyed the taste a little.

Jackson had T-BONE STEAK–400g T-bone steak cooked to your liking served with gourmet potatoes and a petit Greek salad with Mushroom sauce

Thien had SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE–Valentino traditional meat sauce served on al dente spaghetti pasta with shaved Romano cheese.

Yen Li had LAMB SHANKS–Honey & soy baked lamb shanks served on sweet potato mash with homemade onion rings and jus.
Joyce had VEAL SCALLOPINE–Tender slices of sautéed veal in light mushroom sauce served with garlic mash potatoes and buttered broccoli.
SM had this ..which I am not quite sure what is that. =)

Cynthia and Kian had nothing but coffee. Why? As we already meet up with another group of friends for dim sum before Valentino.. hehehe, I can’t have 2 lunches in 4 hours time =)

Thats the reason why I tasted nothing from those dishes I show you, and yeah, another cofession to make, those food descriptions are shamelessly copied and pasted from http://www.valentino.com.au

Have fun~!

We had dead weekend last week. We didn’t do much at home, beside reading, studying for exam and doing nothing at home suX. That kind of “you-see-me, I-see-you” weekend certainly a weekend that you are looking forward to.

Kian took me to a local Hong Kong style BBQ restaurant. We wanted get “washed” by the crowd, re-balancing mental frequency by sitting in a busy spot. Instead of talking to each other, we sat quietly and listened to the noise. I assure you, this is an altervative method of “meditation” =)

Good One BBQ Restaurant opened during the beginning of the year. It was definitely a good news for me as I no longer need to travel all the way down to Northbridge for descent HK roast.
Good One serves all sort of Chinese food; they specialise in Hong Kong style cooking. This restaurant owns by Hongkie, and you can even tell their shop design is very Hongkie too =P
Kian ordered sizzling Japanese tou fu with chicken mince in hot and spicy sauce. This is his all time favorite. The tou fu is deep fried, giving very unique, crispy and not-so-oily taste. The sauce is absolutely divine– not too watery and not-too-starchy.
I ordered combination of roast duck and roast pork. If you go to this restaurant, you MUST tell them you want the breast part of the duck, otherwise sometime the lady boss may “accidentally” give you other parts that you dont want to eat. I am their regular customer, I know this quite well. And I tell you what, you dont mess up with the lady boss, otherwise she will show you her “superb PMS” face. =)
The roast pork is yummie. I like the crackers(skin), they are very crunchy.
Have a close look of the duck breast.. They are yummie. I like the texture and the way they roast the duck. They are not that oily compared to other Hong Kong BBQ restaurants. They sorta have this “clean” feeling. However, some of friends don’t really like it as they think the duck does not have maximum content of fat. =P

Oh yeah, parking is not a problem and you can park your car behing the restaurant then enter the shop from back door. See, even the way to get into the shop also very Hongkie.. (what else I can say?)