White Night Melbourne

Was at the first ever White Night Melbourne in 2013, wasn't as organise, wasn't as epic, wasn't as many people (still a lot of people tho)...this year it is covered by media and been talking about it for weeks so no surprise it is much bigger than last year.

It always reminds me of some time ago when a number of people protested about safety at night time and wanted to reclaim the city at night.

There's this one night, you feel safe in the city even late in the night cause all the people around you, tho at some point, for the same reason you will feel unsafe cause all the people around you when you are one in the thousand of people happens to be near flinders street. However, all those people who gather for this festival had find a mutual way of moving (although very slowly) and allow people to pass through any direction (again very slowly) without any major incidents....

This is the one night when everyone are out to enjoy arts (but for me I found the people more interesting) and more importantly to enjoy our city

All these people i observed in the few hours I was out in the White Night Melbourne: The queue of men at nandos for the toilet cause it is the only place accessible on flinders street even theres only one cubical for men; Little kids whom have never seen this many people in their entire life(so far); Elderly people with walking stick admiring the transformation of the station with projection; Hotel patron who try to get out from the car park and needed the event staff to make a trail for them; Motorcyclist ended up having to push his bike among the crowd; Excited teenagers who got ready to party for the night; People who normally out on a saturday got slightly annoyed cause of all the people out there; people who run into long lost friends; friends who tried to look after or look for the friends they came with; people trying to meet up with other friends,etc etc

Anyway, it is nice to see our city looking bright and alive and fill with people who enjoy it :)

Only Dull People Are Brilliant At Breakfast

Oscar Wilde once wrote: "Only Dull People Are Brilliant At Breakfast".

Not sure am I a brilliant or a dull person at breakfast, but I do want my breakfast to be brilliant.

A bit of background story: I have to work night shift once a week, so I have these hours to use before work starting at mid-day.

Frankly, not a huge fan to work irregular hours and/or till late, but hey i guess it is depends on how you see it

So is this half full or half empty??

Iced Latte from Red Robyn @ Camberwell
Thanks for the friendly waitress who asked the barista to make it for as it isn't on the menu.

Why wasting time to think about a coffee that's not even yours? Therefore I go and get my own.
Thats what I do, which I would go out for breakfast/brunch or do something in the morning so that I won't feel like I spend the entire day at work.

And yes I tried to in-cooperate the phase is this half full or half empty here cause I have that photo :P and yes I know it doesn't fit that well...

Anyway will update my breakfast trip soon, once I have time to sort out the photos.

C.

Pedestrian & Passenger

Cliche as it is, I am writing about why I am writing in my first post. It almost sounds as ironic as the unit I did in uni, where i had to write an essay about how to write an essay.Anyway...

As a part of my list of new years resolutions (yep another cliche), one of the recurrent items, which I clearly didn't achieve, from last year or maybe the year before is to start a blog.

Encouraged by a number of people after I flooded my facebook with coffee and breakfast photos, I decided I should start writing about places that I visit. Since I don't drive (hence the name of the blog), I hope my posts can give some help to other pedestrian & passenger when visiting and traveling around Melbourne. Well, let's face it, Melbourne public transport is pretty horrible but driving sometimes can be worse. And of course, other than food I probably will be writing about random stuff I do while I am not eating, so this won't be just a food blog.






Will try to write and update as much as I can...

As for now I shall prepare for work tomorrow, by actually going to sleep now. Goodnight.