Alrighty, doing a favour for my friends. Here goes:

Location

• Southbank Towers, 83 Queensbridget Street, Southbank.
• Close to CBD, convention centres, restaurants, entertainment, sporting venues, transport facilities.
• Trams at doorstep; Flinders Street Station across the bridge
• Convenience store and Asian grocers right downstairs
• Safeway and South Melbourne Market is a ten-minute walk away from apartment

Apartment

• Three-bedroom with two bathrooms apartment
• Views from balcony boast of the Yarra River and Crown Casino
• Each room has built-in wardrobe and its own balcony
• Three separate storage rooms and one laundry room, two dryers and a washing machine 
• Housemates are 2 guys, 1 girl and a cat who thinks its a dog. 

Other Information

• Clean, easy-going, respectful tenants
• Welcome smokers, beer lovers and good story tellers
• Rent is AUD$900 a month
• Minimum stay is 7 months
• For more information - call +61416568026

Above: Southbank Towers (right)

What’s a good way to ensure that your guests have lots of fun while enjoying your meal? Get them high and tipsy by adding wine into your food.

Fried Scallop Rice with Wine

1. Boil rice with rice-cooker.
2. Fry cut long beans, carrots, mushrooms and scallops with a dash of salt, oregano leaves and pepper.
3. Stir rice with a glass of white wine with olive oil in a pot containing the boiled rice for an exclusive rich taste.
4. Mix fried vegetables and scallops into white wine and olive oil with rice.

I would call this semi-risotto, as it’s normal rice, but the tastes like risotto, except more dry.

Four servings. Guess which lady didn’t want rocket leaves? Liz.

It was a good catch-up with Sean Lim.

After that, the five of us (including Ken who reached later), went to Rosco’s for good dessert.

*salivates*

Sean & Liz.

Kim, Sean, Liz, Ken & Josiah.

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Here’s what I cooked today for lunch and dinner.

Mixed Minced Beef and Cabbage

Heat vegetable oil. Fry minced garlic and one cut “chili padi”. Fry minced beef. Add soy sauce, pepper and oyster sauce. Add cabbage and fishcake. Simmer for two minutes.

Since we had rice in the afternoon, good to balance it with some pasta at night.

I surprised myjojo with:

Aglio Olio Spaghetti with Beef Strips

Boil spaghetti with a tablespoon of salt. Add olive oil to heat pan and fry around 10 cloves of minced garlic. Add a dash of all the following ingredients and mix with boiled spaghetti.

Stir-fry beef after marinating with dark soy sauce and oregano leaves.

Dinner was truly a success. I enjoyed it. Hehe.

Here’s how men stack dishes.

Here’s how women stack dishes.

I’m still feeling abit… hmmm… I don’t know how to put it. I guess watching “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” made me reflect on life a little more. Josiah and I had just returned from watching an AUD$16.50 movie (expensive for me but worth it) at the Jam Factory with Dennison and Andrew after a cute meal at The Oriental Teahouse (yum-cha a.k.a. dim sum) for dinner.

After three hours, I walked out of the cinema, with my eyes a little teary. It was a great movie with great time factor, reflecting from the female lead’s point of view. Daisy was her name, as she was old and close to her death, telling her daughter about her father (oh no, I’m such a spoiler!) Benjamin Button.

Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) was born a monster-baby, a weird disease where he was born an old and wrinkly baby. His mother died conceiving him, and his father a rich man who owned a “button” factory left him at an old folks’ home. Ben grew up at the old folks home and as he got younger, found his way out and travelled around. He fell in love with Daisy (Cate Blanchett) who was the grand-daughter of his friend at the old folks.

You would keep guessing Ben’s age as he got younger and Daisy got older. Of course, it was lovely when they both met at around the same age, when he was 49 and she was 43. At that time, they both had a baby.

Guess who the baby actress was?

None other than Shiloh Jolie-Pitt. As in, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s real baby - at that time she was 10 months old.

Benjamin Button left Daisy after the baby turned one and soon he started getting really young.

He went back into the old folks’ home as a little boy suffering from dementia and eventually died as a baby who lost his memory.

This movie is about:
1. Living life looking past death - living at the old folks’, Ben saw many of his friends leave the world as he got younger.
2. Cherishing the people around while they are still around
3. Being practical, ensuring security and stability of loved ones - Ben left his wife and daughter to ensure that she grew up having a real father
4. Truly loving “the one”

I just love how the movie started off with the analogy of the clock turning backwards and how Brad Pitt was “made-up” and dressed through different phases in life, apparently dress apparel was from Levi’s. Another amazing thing about the movie was how Cate danced. I googled to find it she really knew ballet, she did study ballet when she was younger and then dramatic arts later that studied movement. Good choreography did play a part as well as body-double in a few areas of her dance pirouettes. Her arabesques were rather low but that was how ballet was danced in the early 19th century. She’s graceful.