It’s about time - Australian First Female Prime Minister.
Although the Prime Minister appointment happened by default (as opposed to her pre-decessor Kevin Rudd who’s voted by the Australian Public), I’d still like to congratulate Julia Gillard for being the first Australian Prime Minister.

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Following the footsteps of Austrian-born Australia, Gustav Weindofer, who climbed Cradle Mountain in 1910, I decided to spend a day hiking a small portion of the  Cradle Mountain National Park.
Cradle Mountain is one of the best multi-day walks and its overland track requires bookings in advanced due to its popularity and limits of hikers allowed to [...]

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Daniel Alps at Strathlynn (Ninth Island Vineyards)
95 Rosevears Drive
Launceston, Tasmania
P: +61 3 6330 2388
F: +61 3 633 02599
After I landed at Launceston airport, I hopped into my hire car and drove 45 minutes alongside the amazing scenery of Tamar Valley. We were heading towards Pipers Brook Ninth Island Vineyard for a late lunch at Daniel Alps at [...]

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So one of my friend asked me where she should go for Easter seeing we all had a 4 day weekend. She wanted something back to nature with beautiful sights, fresh air, nice walks and somewhere very relaxing, so I recommend that she should head off to Tassie! (Tasmania)
I was in the middle of setting [...]

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Salix Restaurant (part of Willow Creek Vineyard)
166 Balnarring Road
Merricks North Vic 3926
Ph: +61 (0) 3 5989 7640
One of the best vineyard views at Mornington Peninsula is at Salix  Restaurant. The 1.5 hour drive to get there was so worth the ride! You should definitely visit Salix Restaurant if you are ever near the area.
Below are [...]

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One thing I really enjoy on friday nights in Sydney is going to the weekly night market in Chinatown. Chinatown night market sells knick knacks ranging from mobile phone covers to fake tiffanys jewellery. However, I go there especially for the food. My favourite are the desserts. You can find dessert such as black sticky [...]

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Are you a True Blue?
My recent random conversations with a friend using All Australian slangs
Mai: Fair shake of a sauce bottle mate
Friend: she’ll be right…no shit storm ere
Mai: Too right. Some sheila just got hitched. That’s not a knife, this is a knife
Friend: Hitched!? Crickey. You’d av to be couple bottles short of [...]

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Happy Weekends!
Living in Sydney is about the weather, the beach and the market!! In Sydney, you get an abundant of growers or farmers market. The ones that I visit often are - the rocks, potts point, and my favourite Pyrmont Growers Market.
Pyrmont Growers market is held on the first Saturday of the month. You can find fresh produces ranging [...]

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This year I have visited Perth more than I’ve visited my hairdresser :). I usually travel by myself or with a colleague or two. If I happen to travel with my boss(es), then we either stay/hang out near the water or the golf club (one of my bosses is a sailor thus loves water, the [...]

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Cheap eats!
Today I went lunch with one of my girlfriends at Tokio Japanese Takeaway Cafe (16-17 The Causeway, Melbourne - Australia). This little cute takeaway has several seatings and is run by a very nice Japanese lady. I have been their loyal customer for more than 10 years. It’s hidden in the alleyway of Melbourne [...]

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