DRAMA NIGHT

Sooo, it's finally our turn, JFTers, to perform in Drama Night!! It was yesterday, 25th NOV 2011. The drama night was held at the open stage, melbourne university. It consisted of 4 dramas, mine was the third one, "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?".

the narrator

The story was about two princes who were fighting for a village girl, Inara. Inara fell in love with both of the princes and she couldn't decide which prince she would choose. 

Inara & Prince 1, Kurama

Inara & Prince 2, Menkaura

The war broke between the two princes, and Inara's father came to the witch, desperate for a solution. The witch made the two princes believe that Inara was dead by bringing an animal heart which looked like Inara's.

The witch and the hunchback

The two princes believed Inara was dead and they apologized to each other and the war stopped. Finally, the king and queen brought two princesses for each of the princes. But, how bout Inara? She came with the witch but finally she was turned into a deer.

group 3!!!!

It was a memorable night! All our efforts were paid HAHA the costumes, props, make ups, etc etc etc. WE DID IT GUYSSSS! CHEEERRSSS :)

Cafe Victoria

Cafe Victoria is well known for it's breakfast. It's a traditional australian-american breakfast. It opens 7 days a week, serves breakfast from 6am in the morning.

The price is very affordable, which makes a lot of people come here. But you must be a bit patient bcos sometimes they need quite long time to serve you.

For the breakfast menu, I suggest to order eggs benedict. It's very nice. Or if you want something big, you can try full breakfast or big breakfast.

eggs benedict

full breakfast

big breakfast

And for the drinks, the banana smoothies wass to die for!hahaha too bad I didn't order that, I was trying Alvina's. But the ice coffee was also nice. With vanilla ice cream on top, it was great!

Alvina - Me

And yup! That's us at the tram stop in front of cafe victoria ;)

Cafe Victoria

517 Elizabeth Street

Melbourne VIC 3000

CHIN CHIN RESTAURANT

Last sunday my friends and I went to chin chin restaurant, which is located on flinders lane. It serves a wide range of asian foods, combination of vietnamese, malaysian, and thai food I THINK. hahaha

It's not an ordinary chinese restaurant, and it's not like any other asian restaurants. Its decoration and vibe is more like a european restaurant with lounge music and dimmed lights. It also provides cocktails and other drinks and lots of ppl come only for a drink.

We ordered the Spicy Corn & Coriander Fritters and also the pork rolls for the appetizer. We also got Massaman Curry of Coconut Braised Hopkins River Beef Brisket. Me personally think that it tastes quite similar with Indonesian beef rendang. And we ordered wild barramundi wrapped in banana leaf, which is very good!!! It's very nice with the sambal on top. HAHA not only those, we got the king fish wings served with fresh kind-of-thai salad. Too bad I cannot get all the photos of the food because of the bad lighting.

But don't worry, I'll give OUR photos!

the MENU

Alfred - Alditha

ME - Stacey

CHIN CHIN RESTAURANT
125 Flinders Lane
Melbourne, 3000

Open 7 days for lunch and dinner

It's a walk-in restaurants which means that you cannot make a reservation unless you have a group of 12 ppl. Soooo be prepared to wait and it's worth to wait! ciaooo

Hopetoun Tea Rooms

Hopetoun Tea Rooms was formerly built for the Victorian Ladies Work Association back in the late 19th century. Now it's a famous coffee shop in Melbourne. It offers breakfast and lunch menu, but it is famous for their tea time.
They serve wide variety of cakes; lime tart, apple crumble, apple tart, lemon meringue, lemon cake, pavlova, and many more.
They also have many kinds of scented organic tea from serendipiTEA.

Lime Tart

Apple Tart

The lime tart is the most favourite one, but I like the apple tart better. HAHA

You better hurry if you want to go there! Hopetoun Tea Rooms closes at 5 pm everyday ;)

HOPETOUN TEA ROOMS

The Block Arcade Shop 1 & 2

282 Collins Street

Opening Hours:

Mon-Sat: 08.00-17.00

Sun: 09.00-17.00

MADAME SOUSOU

Madame Sousou is a French Restaurant in Fitzroy. It serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But yesterday we tried their bfast menu. It was great!!!!
I ordered Funghi A La Parisienne, which is a toasted brioche with buttered mushroom, smashed avocado, and goat cheese rondelle. And I added poached egg on top of it.

Stacey got the Sweetcorn and zucchini Fritters which is also good. It was served with smoked salmon, avocado salsa, and horseradish creme. Here's the picture!!

And Alditha ordered the basic one, the egg benedict. It was served on an english muffin with Tasmanian smoked salmon and tarragon hollandaise sauce. It's quite similar with the one she had at European cafe.

After all, Madame Sousou is a good place to have breakfast with your family, friends, or maybe in business context. The dress code is casual so it's easier for us to go there whenever we want and in whatever clothes we are!

MADAME SOUSOU

231 Brunswick Street

Fitzroy 3065 VIC

Open from 9am everyday for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Raymond BDAY @ Sofia Restaurant

sooo, it's another family gathering on Ray's bday!!
His bday is actually on the 1st of November but we celebrated it on the 5th. We had dinner at Sofia Restaurant, Camberwell. It's a nice Italian restaurant which serves wide range of pasta, wood fired pizza, and also italian gelato.

Pasta Mista for TWO

Pasta Mista is their unique name for 3 different cooked pastas in a plate. It supposed to be shared for only two ppl, but it's way tooo big!hahaha soo we shared it with 6 persons. It was the first time that we finished the whole plate. HAHA

Caesar Salad

Gelato

The caesar salad and the gelato are quite good as well, and we were all full and happy! haha but what's the most important is that the price is very down to earth!!!!!!!

Anddd it's us!!! The birthday boy is the one who's not looking at the camera HAHA

From right to left: Derek-Natasha-ME-Aunty Ina-Uncle Charles-RAYMOND the birthday boy-Uncle Kong Gie

SOFIA'S PIZZA HOUSE

857 Burke Road, Camberwell VIC 3124

Opening hours: 

Mon-Thurs: 12noon-midnight

Fri-Sat: 12noon- 1am

Sun: 12noon- 11pm

happy birthday ROBBY!

happy birthday!

soooo, yeah it's robby's bday!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to youuu from kiddos :))

The night before his bday, we managed to get his eyes closed. We dragged him around the city and finally took him to his room. We've stolen his apartment key so we could come in and prepared the surprise!

Robby with his eyes closed

We gave him a box, which was wrapped by newspaper. He tried hard to open the multiple layers or wrapping! HAHA and he found out there was another box inside the first box, and another box inside the second one :p

1st box!

2nd one

And it was just our trick! We actually didn't put the real present inside the box, we've hide it somewhere else HAHA soo here's what he found inside the last box

finally HAHA!!

'Maaf! Anda kurang beruntung' means 'Sorry! It's just not your luck' ahaha he need to find the real present. And remembering that his room was already full with newspapers, it was hard for him to find it but finally he made it! yeayyyyy

it's KIDDOS :*

It's a memorable night! It was the first time ever one of us had our birthday. We realized that we need each other and we care about one another. Remember, YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND :)))

And it all followed by a dinner at Meat & Wine. Although we need to walk in rain and wind, it was a very good night. We dressed up and ready to celebrate Robby's birthday HAHA

We ordered six steaks for each of us and beef carpaccio as the starter, and also one full rack ribs for sharing. We were so full but happy at the same time.

Me - Alvina - Robby

Alditha - Stacey - Alfred

KIDDOS full team :)

Thank you Robby for a great dinner and thank you KIDDOS for an amazing friendship :**

xoxo,,

KIDDOS

LA BELLE MIETTE

La Belle Miette

La Belle Miette. French words for "beautiful small thing". La Belle Miette is a small shop, small cafe which sells many flavors of macaroons. To complement the macaroons, it offers teas from Mariage Freres and also lemonade.

The small cafe really makes us feel like we're in France. All white furnitures make it more classic and beautiful. They also hv many decorations which are also made from macaroons.

Stacey - Alditha

the girls :*

Come and try the best macaroon in town!

La Belle Miette

30 Hardware Lane

Hardware Societe

Hardware Societe is a small cafe which is located in Melbourne CBD. First impression, CUTE. The decoration and interior of the cafe is very cozy and nice. It only opens for breakfast and lunch, but ppl most likely come here for breakfast and late breakfast.

This morning, my friends and I tried the breakfast menu. The most popular menu is the Croque Madame. We ordered that and scrambled egg, both were good and very nice for breakfast.

Croque Madame

Scrambled Egg

The range of prices here is around 20$ for food and 5$ for coffee and tea. This affordable prices make ppl from different backgrounds came here everyday.

Interior

Me - Alditha

HARDWARE SOCIETE

120 Hardware Street

Victoria 3000

Monday to Sunday

8.30 am - 2.00 pm

Gaijin Japanese Fusion

Gaijin is a restaurant in Melbourne, owned by Indonesians. They offer wide range of fusion sushi, which are similar with those in Indonesia, Sushi Tei and Sushigroove I think.

What I recommend from this restaurant is Gaijin Special Salmon Salad and Spider VS Dragon Roll. They are the best seller in Gaijin. The dishes here are quite small, you better order many of 'em HAHA

I came here with 5 of my friends. First, we ordered 2 appetizers and 6 plates of sushi. It all gone only in a couple of minutes!! Then we ordered 3 more main courses, which are also good. The fried rice and beef teriyaki are nice, but the special king fish is the BEST.

Gaijin Special Salmon Salad

Spider VS Dragon Roll

Gaijin PROMO :

ALL YOU CAN EAT SUSHI ~ not valid on public holiday

GAIJIN JAPANESE  FUSION

135 Commercial Road - South Yarra

Victoria 3141

Dinner 6.00 pm - 10.00 pm

Monday to Sunday

Lunch 12.00 pm - 2.00 pm
Saturday to Sunday

Lincoln Square - Bali Memorial

Lincoln Square Park is a memorial park for Bali bombing's victim. It is located at Lincoln Square, Swanston Street, Carlton. The park is not too big, but it's quite nice and fresh bcos it is surrounded by big trees. 

me and alvina

Luckily, this park is just in front of Trinity College, the place where I study. And today, our biology teacher let us study outside, in the park, remembering that the weather today was very nice. It was a bit hot tho but we found a nice spot under the shades of a tree. We spent one and a half hour there. Doing tutorial questions, chatting, relaxing, and taking photos HAHA

biology students

Aaaandd, it's US! It's not the whole class of course. Some students decided to stay inside the classroom with aircon. Too bad huh? That was actually six of us there, but Ranon took the photo for the girls haha

OKAY! Hopefully tmrw's weather will be as nice as today! Cao ~~

BAILLIEU LIBRARY

Baillieu Library

Library? Sounds boring right? But not this one!

Baillieu Library is the biggest library in University of Melbourne, which located at Parkville Campus. It supports the need of undergraduates, postgraduates, and also researchers. This library acts as a place where students study hard, struggling, but also as a place for relaxation.

Ground Floor

Students, included me, spend much of their times in Baillieu. They might be studying for exam, doin assignment, or simply just using the wifi connection HAHA

I often hang around here lately. We just meet up there, doin some homework and helping each other with their difficulties in college's stuff. We always end up having a nice chat and conversation instead of studying hard and seriously. But that's the best part from our routine in the library.

BAILLIEU LIBRARY

Opening Hours Semester Two

Monday - Thursday : 8.30 am - 10.00 pm

Friday                   : 8.30 am - 6.00 pm

Saturday & Sunday : 11.00 am - 5.00 pm

alvina - alditha - me!

ENJOY ur time in Baillieu Library!

new life in Melbourne ~ KIDDOS!

It's time for my new life here in Australia, fellas!

KIDDOS. what is it? dunno. who knows? dunno.
It's just a word. Yea, a word. But what lies behind that word is the important piece. Our FRIENDSHIP!

So it started on the 3rd day of orientation in TCFS *maybe*
Six of us decided to watch transformer together. And our first restaurant ever is Papagino's. I never thought that we will be this close, but that's how we are at this very moment.

Kiddos is my second family. Every one of you has made my day in melbourne better. We spend most of our times together. College life, shopping, eating, exploring melbourne together.

college life

it's OURS!

shopping @ chadstone VIP night

the meat & wine restaurant

explore MELB!

That's some of things that we've done together. Hope we can still be together in university, even when we are gonna be in different faculties. You guys complete my lifee :))

"Lean on me, when you're not strong, and I'll be you friend, I'll help you carry on, for it won't be long, 'till I'm going to need somebody to lean on." - Lean on Me