OMG I absolutely cannot believe that it has been almost a month !

ALMOST, but not quite, luckily I thought about this place a lot and it came up tonight.

Well after another week of mind numbing work, it was time to GO TO MELBOURNE !! WOOHOO ! And I did, with a little stopover in Adelaide for two hours for the connecting flight.

When I first got off the plane, there was such a huge feel of arriving home, and the sky was clear, very very blue, and the weather was fantastic, sunny but cool. Simply amazing. SherBear picked myself and FredBear up and then it was a trip to DFO for some shopping. Did not see much that I liked/could afford so actually for the first time in my life left with nothing ! That is quite an achievement for me as I actually tried on many things !! But of course, I got dropped off at Seasons where I met up with CCBear and KenBear and then we went for some Brunetti's where things just seemed to stay the same ! Walked along Lygon and bumped into AmyBear and WayneBear as well. Then we all got picked up by CKBear's car and went over to Canning. Great dinner with many many visitors including JasBear, DanBear, AaBear, JaqBear, AlleBear, RayBear (actually stays there so should not count), MLBear, JoeBear, KaiBear...great to see so many young people. Then there were several rounds of board games including an introduction to Dominion and that was the first night.

The next week went completely by SO fast that it seemed like a dream. I only recall certain events so will just list them down here in point form - I cannot wait to get back to Melbourne !

- Walked around St Kilda - attended TasBear's birthday, met BuckBear and so other friends - Dinner at Freshwater Place - JarBear, LucBear, ElBear, NelBear, RachBear, DaveBear, VeeBear - Greco's for cake for FredBear's birthday - AaBear's place for late night games for 2 hours as CKBear having late night assignment - met HaoBear and EdBear and JonBear

- Uni visit - 7 seeds for coffee and great relaxing breakfast - CKBear meetup - CBD shopping trip - bought new Dominion - Smith Street - 4 pairs of shoes - KenBear and CCBear for dinner with AlleBear, CKBear, AaBear and JaqBear following which, played Dominion till past midnight

- Bridge Road shopping- jeans and tops - Port Phillip Arcade - Tourist Centre - HarvBear for lunch - Walk along Elizabeth - 2 bookshops - Baba Budan coffee - KenBear's engineering exhibition - picked up at Grattan Street - Richmond for Roast Duck - SherBear's house for dinner also met JessBear - almost missed train back to city - made it by running - thanks for gym training - Intersection

- CBD shopping - coffee - Max Brenner's - waffles yum - Chicago Musical - coffee on Queen's Street - Elizabeth Street Shopping - dinner was Korean - LaTrobe Street - DamBear also attended - games at Seasons till late

- FredBear breakfast - St Ali - South Melbourne - Chef's Hat - Port Melbourne beach - sunny day - Victoria Market - Rented car with HarvBear - RMIT visit HarvBear's place for first taste of Guitar Hero - late for dinner at Brunswick Street with PatBear/KimBear - huge pie - picked up by KenBear and FangBear for seconds - pizza along Nicholson Street - call from work - solved - Seasons - late night Dominion and PS - stayed over

- Drizzling - slept in - AlleBear, CCBear and HarvBear - Mt Dandenong - Pie in the Sky - Miss Marple's for scones and tea - Sweet Shoppe - Cuckoo Clock restaurant - Dinner with SherBear and XXBear - walked from city to College Square with WayneBear - Convinced RayBear for more Guitar Hero and Rock Band PS games at AlleBear's place

- Packed - walked to city from Canning with CKBear to yumcha at Crystal Jade with JaqBear, AaBear, AlleBear, MLBear, JoeBear - AaBear's place for super board games - afternoon and pizza at night - PratBear and SteveBear - picked up by SherBear and FredBear to airport - long phone calls of anguish - boarded - noisy babies on plane - back to HongKong

And that was my fantastic pretty unplanned Melbourne biannual trip. Will the next trip really be in 2011 ? Or would it be sooner ?

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