CNY in Melb!

Now only wanna post abt CNY in Melb. A bit too late right. haha... But nvrm la. 1st time celeb CNY in other country so must tell a bit....

Well, during CNY which was 2 months ago, it was damn hot... Around 36 degrees... Hotter than in M'sia.. Crazy. Nearly fainted but luckily still alive. LOL..

For this year's CNY, i celebrated with my aunt, jeremy and his fren who came all d way fr sydney.. Jona, and his sis, Jocelyn who came to Melb for studies too. :)

We had a great time too though we are not celebrating with our own families.. except me.. i hav my aunt here.. haha...

So, on the eve of CNY, we went down city with the temperature of 36 degrees. It was tedious but bcoz its CNY eve, no choice..haha.. (... as if) .

As we reached city, we straight away went into Crown casino to avoid the crazy weather. We had hi-tea there.. yes.. in the casino, as all of us felt hungry. Partyly bcoz of d weather too. Blame it on the weather man... And it wasn't tat expensive though to eat there infact its cheaper than outside. Should have taken pics on wat we ate but forgotten. haha..

As we were in casino that time, all of us decided to try our lucks since it was CNY eve, see if we can win any jackpots.. Obviously we were all day dreaming. How on earth we can win so easily... Eventually nothing entered our pockets. :(

After loosing our money in d casino :( , we decided to walk around outside as we heard there will be events for CNY around the stretch of Yarra river. So we walked with the hot weather and sweats all around.. Yuck.. haha...

There... the 5 of us... Luckily we manage to hide our sweats...

As we were walking, we found.........

a giant, clumsy, big, fat "Choi San Ye" walking around and surrounded by loads of ppl. I dun dare to walk near him as i worried he might fall and i'll be gone by then. lol..

There were performances too...

As this is the year of "PIG", we found pigs in d middle of Melb city..
(mum.. i found ur "long lost fren" in Melb) LOL...

Oh.. dinner's time approching.. For sure there'll be loads of ppl and we worried that all d restaurants might be full. and we dun wanna end up eating McD, so without wasting our time, we rushed to Chinatown and look for nice foods to pamper ourself..

Alamak! wat we predicted came true.. Loads of ppl here n there... scary....

Fuhh.. relieved... Just because of the lion dance... Since it was there, we stood and watch for a while. perhaps not a while.. because we waited for the fire cracker, it took us abt 1/2 for everything...

Most of the restaurants were fully booked and we were quite lucky in the sense that we got ourself a nice chinese restaurant who serves us.. YAY! The reunion dinner costs us abt $26 per person.. WOW... Expensive.. but wat to do... once a year.. dun care lah. :P

And my mum purposely send me wat she cooked on reunion dinner, made me miss home so much.. So i made a comparison between d 2 pics... Which one is more delicious? Of coz home-cooked foods!!