〈海阔天空〉: the arrival of Kelvin's parents

Hey this is kelvin, louie's toilet-buddy in our house in munro. He asked me to make a guest appearance in his blog. So here i am.

Here's what happened. My parents came to visit me for a week, because they miss me so much and i'm most likely not going to go home until next year, and was set to arrive on saturday midnight.

So we decided to rent a car to pick them up as well as going for our mini-adventures. We decided to go to the Manor at Angel road, somewhere around Logan, and have Dim Sum! God i miss that...

So we left house around 3 plus, and made our way to Fortitude Valley to pick up the car.

We decided to go for Abel because the car is only $39 per day with 100 free km. And Weiting said it's enough to make a return trip to Harbour Town. So fair enough~

We booked a Nissan Tiida, which was 1.8L, auto, hatched -back 4piston car and because i've never driven a car other than my dad's car, it took me quite a while to get the hang of driving it. The roads are pretty new to me also. So yea...

After picking up our white-ride, we've decided to make full use of the car and head for Mount Coot-tha before the sun set.

We were lost.

For a while. Haha. We took quite a number of wrong turns and end up taking an unusually long route to the peak but once there, it was quite rewarding.

The moon was big, round and bright. Think it's the 15th of the month?(Chinese calendar). PLUS, the weather was excellent. Madly cold and windy!

Me and teresa were just standing at spots trying to keep warm. Not that i don't like it or what. I just like to complain. haha.

Here's me trying to act emo. Haha no la! was trying to see whether the GPS works. Partly why we went lost was because technology failed on us. The sky was full of clouds and i suspect that affected the reception somehow.

And here's Teresa "modeling" for Louie.

And here is Louie taking an abstract picture of a couple hugging. For what i don't know...

There was a couple taking their wedding shots and we were wondering how does the bride tahan the cold. Goodness it's so damn bloody cold!

And then i began to start making poses and faces for more photos...

I was actually balancing on 1 leg and my hands were out by the side. But aiya... wind too strong. Made me lose balance haha.

Look! i can squeeze the moon!

Night falls....

Dunno what the picture below is for...

Ok after Mount Coot-tha, we decided to go to the Manor for our Dim Sum dinner. I started fantasizing about all the siu mai, ha kau and char siew bao since the night before and was pretty darn excited about it. So we took a... 30mins drive to the Manor and guess what.

WE DIDN'T GET TO EAT OUR !@^#!@$!@% DIM SUM!

from moment we sat down, ordered, food arrived, ate, paid and then left, took only 15mins in total.

Unsatisfied and Over-charged, we left that place swearing not ever to return(maybe) and left for Sunnybank.

Here, you get to see our satisfied faces!

and all the food here costs us just 30 dollars in total.

Stir-fried Beef Hor Fan

Seafood Fried Rice

Cong-you bing. Shallot oil biscuit. Sorry my chinese isn't good =x

And sheng jian bao. Louie says it's fantastic. But it's just Da-bao and deep fried. Don't like. =x

I was so fuming mad about the Manor thing that i almost wanted to go for sushi after all that!

Here's what happened. We went to the manor hoping to eat dim sum. But then it's only after we sat down and have tea served to us that we found out that they don't serve dim sum until like around 10 plus. And we reached around 7+ 8? And i was so damn hungry by then... we decided to order some entree and then leave to sunnybank to eat.

We ordered some drunken chicken( I don't drink but i know how drunken prawn tastes like. And i don't like the drunken chicken taste. But i dunno... it's probably just me.) and some dong-fen thing. It's wasn't bad. But for just this 2 dishes, IT COSTED US 28AUD!! Y%$#!@%$*!&@^$

So yea.... We still had some time to spare, we went home from sunnybank and waited for my parents to arrive.

The next morning, we drove to west end and valley to buy food because my mum wants to cook and here is what came out of it.

Sweet and sour pork before the sauce.

Ikan-bilis and peanuts

Some vege dish

And some shellfish dish.

This is what you get when you get a mum to stay with you. =D

What's missing is the laksa that my mum cooked as well. It's was the only thing i sort of craved for and my mum cooked it. And damnnnnnnnnn. I miss singapore haha.