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Saturday 29 September 2007

Bowling @ Strike! 180907

Strike Bowling Bar

245 Little Lonsdale Street (QV Building),
Melbourne
Tel. 9573 9574
http://www.strikebowlingbar.com.au/
Welcome to Strike.
This is probably the coolest bowling alley I have ever been to! Really reminded me of Cosmo's in Singapore Polytechnic Graduates Guild (SPGG). So Nice! All of us had just finished our briefing with Laubmann and Pank Optometrists in Melbourne Central. The briefing was about helping out with eye screening at The Royal Melbourne Show, an annual travelling carnival which was really fun (MORE ON IT COMING SOON).
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Although none of us except Ben (guy on the right) could bowl well... The enthusiasm was there!
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Luke with a mouth full of popcorn.
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Where else can you find bowling alleys with FREE POPCORN!?!

From left: Singaporean, Taiwanese, Chinese (PRC) and HongKong-er. (Wow!)
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I cant bowl for nuts! :
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Nice balls.

'Xiao' Luke being bullied and punched by his sisters.

See no evil, Hear no evil, Smell my evil, Speak no evil.

After that, we headed over to the bar for a coupla drinks.. The drinks werent too good though, couldnt really taste the alcohol in it.. it should've been priced lower instead of $12 per drink. However, we managed to take over a private lounge room which was really nice and cosy. The entire room was illuminated solely by pinkish red light and a plasma TV playing MTVs. Kinda nice to chill with big groups of friends.

JJ Rating: 4/5 - Great!

Nice place for B'days, company functions, class gatherings, chilling with friends and oh...to bowl.

Thursday 27 September 2007

The Indian Foodies! 160907

Food and Fun!
Food. The Universal Integrator..
This issue reflects just how 'cosmo' we've become as a city (melbourne city lah..). That day, 160709 Luke had just won first in Melbourne Uni Badminton Competition (Open). So I borrowed his trophy as my.. props hehe..
'I'm a Winnah!'
'We all are!'
The Real Winner and his ardent fans..
Next, we headed down to Malabar hut on Sydney road. The journey took about 20min but it was freezing ccc-cold!
We finally arrived!
Malabar Hut

Brunswick, Vic
868 Sydney Road
03 93834200
lesyin@yahoo.com

Lot's on the menu were 'Coming Soon' cuz they were flying chefs down from India. The food was very good! and Very Authentic! They also had Singapore favourites like... Tissue prata and Roti Bomb!!! How's that? Hopefully I can do a more serious foody write up on this place another day..
For now, I give it:
JJ Rating: 4/5
Great tasting food! I love all the food and yes.. its even cheaper than Singaporean Indian restaurants.
Next was chilling out at Brunetti..
Everyone wants a piece of our budding badminton star!





And our guest star.. Rajeev!






Milk 'Moustaches'


'Join Me?'
Sadly, VJ couldn't make it as she wasn't feeling well.. So Rajeev got her a nice 'cure' from Brunetti's


So sweet right? *gushes*

Hehe.. When Luke makes it big, we're all gonna be rich!
(I have so many photos of him for sale now.. *sniggers*)
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Wednesday 19 September 2007

Base Lounge

Base Lounge
101 Lt. Bourke St.
(Chinatown)
My first clubbing experience in Australia! Later go take Ang Pao (Red Packet). Through the right connections.. (Thanks Carolyn!).. we booked a private room so I could get in for free! Since we got a prvate room, we got VIP treatment so no need to queue to enter! Phew... super long queue... almost half as long as MOS (MOS queue is extremely long.. so half is bad enough already) on a Sat night haha..
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Base Lounge is an Asian Club located in Chinatown, Melbourne. Judging by the crowd, I can tell it's one of the more popular joints. The whole club was spawling with Asians.. Not a single caucasian! They play RNB mainly - English songs of course! The DJs (got a few) were not too bad.. but could be better. Mixing in parts from another song like the words 'Sexy Back' from the song 'Sexy Back' was nice.. but I feel that it doesnt really blend in well with the tempo of the song... DJs themselves also seem to be having more fun on the platform than us haha..
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The club was so Asian in the sense that it has private rooms much like KTV booths were we could sit inside and play... DICE! Yay.. my first time playing dice in a club! Kinda weird at first but later on, it was quite fun. Because there were only 5 of us and one full bottle of Chivas, we had to play drinking games to finish them up. Out of the 5 of us.. only 3 of us could drink.. *pukey time*.
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Upon entry they 'branded' us like cows.. not with UV sensitive stamps but with traditional black ink stamps.

We started out with some drinking games..

And then we decided to explore the club..

Below is a low quality pic (VLC Snapshot) of the bar counter..

Then.. going to the dance floor..

(where is Jackie looking at?)

Then.. we headed back to the room for a break...

Where Ah Ma got her Lucky Break... (05 x '1' on the Dice)

MUCH more drinking and socialising..

Back to the dance floor..

The Base Lounge Crowd:

The place was sprawling with.... GUYS. Although the music was alright, people just seem to be standing around the dance floor doing nothing. There were some girls who could dance and were really showing off their moves.. to the extent that they were grinding each other.. 3 girls.. can u imagine! Room for one more?

Apart from that, very few guys were dancing.. many were just standing on the dance floor gawking at the dancing girls.. Come on' mates! We have more than enough bouncers already... no need extra.. lah. '

'Bouncers' are sill ok... It's those guys who like to 'rub' into people around them that really pisses me off.. I'm cool with it... but can u please rub a girl INSTEAD OF ME?

It was still early though at that time.. around 12.30am.. Clearly.. this crowd needed more booze.

So we headed back to our cosy room to get suppress more of our cerebellum (the part of the brain controlling voluntary muscle coordination and movement).

WHAT! ME again!

*guzzles down* the remnants of my 4th Chivas Green Tea.

With inhibition at 50%.. I was finally having fun!! SO back to the dance floor! Woohoo!

We continued dancing.. this time I was really making fluid movements (thanks to inhibition of my cerebellum)
Then this guy with a bunch of roses approached us and gave each girl a Rose
...on the Dance floor!

I've nv seen anything like this before! Roses while dancing haha.. I looked around and most girls were holding roses in thier hands too. Not all girls though.. think he 'accidentally' missed out those looking like John Travolta in HairSpray.

Then it was back to the cosy room where the girls posed with their Roses..

Which is Nicer? The Roses or ME?

Hehe.. *hic* .. I.. *hic* ..also.. *hic hic* got.. ROSESsss! *slurred speech*

BY then I was quit wasted.. down to my 5th glass and a half.
Then I cant remember the sequence now.. I think we went back to the dance floor one last time.. It was nearly 4am now. The crowd was mostly gone.. but there was this super enthu short guy aka 'Shorty' who was still dancing like noone business. We went down for a while and he self-invited himself into our group and began dancing with.. the girls! Eeew..
So we went back to the room.. rested a while, got our things together and left.. It was 4plus now.. so we walked home from there.. Jackie could still cycle home! (Drink Riding!)
The journey home was long and arduous.. I ended up puking on the corner of The Verve.. (Pictures of the Verve coming soon! We went there for Rock Climbing)
Yay! Home sweet home! Nearly 5 am


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Sunday 16 September 2007

Karaoke Mania! @ KBox

Biggest Opto Outing Ever!
This event is arguably the biggest Opto gathering ever! Grand total of 11 people!! So happening! First was dinner at Singapore Chom Chom, a poor, albeit novel imitation of the real Singapore Chomp Chomp is Serangoon Gardens. Dinner -1900 hrs
KBox

52 La Trobe Street Tel. 9663 9663
Darn! I thought I could escape K since coming here.. I was wrong!
Despite the happy outlook... I was DYING inside...
I was the only guy.. (Since 2000 hrs)
..Until Ben arrived! (2130 hrs)
(above) Full strength less Vivien... (2200 hrs)
My Aussie Premiere!

I finally 'broke' after 23oo hrs..

K is a great way to socialise:

Rachel: Come on girls, let's act Cool! :

Err.. why is Amy acting 'Ku' (cry) ?..

Let's try that again..

That's better... (but only Rachel acting cool)

Ah Ma also acting cool..

Jasmine and Rachel singing together..

By now.. most of us were very tired... Endurance K time...


By 0300 hours.. some of us were half dead..

...NOT!!!

Eventually we stayed on to 0400 hrs.. late into the wee hours of the morning! Reached home at 4.40 am... slept by 5.15 am.. Wow! Next day go clubbing!

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