Goodbye Melbourne! and my Graduation....:)...再見了 墨爾本 畢業了:) ...バイバイ メルボルンと卒業:)

Its been exactly two months since i updated.....I have been very busy settling in as well as studying the Practical Legal Training Course towards admission as a lawyer in Sydney....

I will update on what has been happening with my life since the last post....i wanted to include tons of pics of my graduation and the flowers and presents i received from friends as well as pics of the places i went to before i left Melbourne BUT for some reason the pics i uploaded to my laptop have all miraculously dissapeared!!!!!!!! ARRGHHHHH!!!!! Well, this means all the photos i took are now gone save the ones taken with my dad's camera (thankfully!!)...so this shall be a post without photos...

My family came to Melbourne and i took them around to places such as Crown Casino,Lygon St, Chapel St, St Kilda,Bourke St, and Mount Dandenongs had lunch at one of the nice teahouses there...had scones,etc....We also visited my ex-guardian and her family whom is my mother's friend's sister who immigrated to Melbourne after her studies here more than 20 years ago...i needed a guardian in my first yr here as i was only 17 when i arrived in Australia.......

My ex-guardian took us to Mount Dandenongs as well as the Brighton Beach Houses which was my first time despite having been in Melbourne for 5 1/2 years already!!!! Also had this superb lunch at St Kilda beach which is well worth it...they have a set lunch including oysters,etc which is well worth your money!! Forgot its name but its located by St Kilda Beach....:)

Anyways, my graduation came and i was extremely proud of myself that i managed to finish my law degree/arts degree after 4 1/2 years...i did summer school which meant i finished 6mths earlier than expected which saves me both time and money to do my admissions course....the whole graduation ceremony went without much fanfare and the ceremony itself was pretty boring actually...took photos with friends and family, received a bouquet of flowers and a present from friends....after the ceremony, went to have dinner with family and a family friend's daughter from Penang whom is also my friend now since she moved to Melb from adelaide earlier this year.....took my parents to the chocolate place at QV as it is where a mutual friend of mine n my mother's Penang fren's daughter works...she gave us discounts.....yeahhh.....

Anyways, i would like to recommend some restaurants and cafes i grew to like throughout the 5 1/2 years i was living in Melbourne...
(1) Great Space Cafe: Nice cafe and my favourite place for bacon and eggs on toast and also the BEST place for iced-chocolate without cream...i've tried many places and this has got to be my fav place for iced-chocolate...do give it a try if u live in Melbourne...its at Collins Place, Collins Street in the plaza where the Sofitel Hotel is located.....

(2) Don Don: Nice cheap Japanese gyudon and sashimi place.....i'm sure everyone who lives in Melbourne would know this place so no need for intros..

(3) Yong Kei Vietnamese Noodle Place: Located on Victoria Street, Richmond serving delicious Vietnamese Beef noodles soup....

(4) Kokoro Japanese Cafe: Located on Smith St, Richmond serving nice Japanese izakaya-style side dishes with a variety of Japanese cocktails,desserts and etc...

(5) Pacific Ocean House: Hong Kong style seafood restaurant at Victoria Street, Richmond and Chapel St. Nice place and i always order Pi-pa tofu there which is quite nice so do have a try Melburnians....

There are more places which i can't think off the top of my head but yeah...i shall dearly miss these places...

Flew off on Virgin Blue with my family on Sept 2nd for Sydney.....thus beginning a whole new chapter in life...having passed the studying period of my life (well...almost....the practical legal training that i am doing now is similar to uni in some ways but very different in terms of it being more hands-on and structured very differently...u have more freedom too)....
i shall post on my new Sydney life soon, i know its loooong overdue given that i've already moved to Sydney for almost 2 months now...

goodbye Melbourne, Goodbye:)