Melbourne: The first week (geez what a boring title)
Posted by ilyana | Filed under Fashion, Food & Nosh
Sorry I’ve been MIA! How’s school you might ask? Well I haven’t cried yet so I guess that’s a sign things are alright? School has made me a hermit because my god it’s intense! The amount of reading I have to do builds up each week and the articles I’ve been given to read aren’t exactly easy breezy beautiful chick lit material because dude, the language used in the articles are so complex I feel like I’m deciphering Latin half the time.
Anyway, I thought I’d just share a couple of photos I took from my first week in Melbourne. Lol I’ve been here for a month and these are the only photos I’ve taken so far, god I lead such a sad life now. I don’t even have time to bring the camera out anywhere now sigh. Ok enough sob stories, on to the photos beech!
Barely half a day in the city and I have officially raped the Lush store in Melbourne. (Pardon the language, I’m high on fizzy lemonade and cherry cupcakes so due to my sugar induced drunken stupor, I’m not responsible for all the crazy disjointed sentences I’m about to type out) I spent an entire hour in the store, touching/groping/spritzing everything I could possibly touch/grope/spritz 8D
I bought a tub of Sweetie Pie shower jelly (purely because it’s got glitter in it LOL and I was itching to spend some money ~_~) It’s supposed to be used with a bath sponge and I didn’t have one at the time so you can imagine how much fun I had attempting to use the shower jelly as a soap in the shower. It’s slippery as hell and needless to say after 10 mins of fumbling around with the jelly, the tiles in my shower were much cleaner than I was ._. Lesson of the day: If the SA tells you to get a bath sponge, get the damn sponge girl.
One of the highlights of my first week in Melbourne was dinner at the Pancake Parlour! They serve arguably the best pancakes and vanilla ice cream in the city all day long *_* We shared a banana split which came with the most decadent hot fudge everrr.
Our pancakes! I had a double stack of pancakes with organic strawberry jam, strawberries and cream - I think I must be the only person in the world who avoids maple syrup when it comes to pancakes. I think maple syrup is cloyingly sweet and overpowers that slight hint of buttermilk you can typically find in good pancakes……I can’t believe I’m actually bitching about maple syrup here, WHAT KIND OF A BLOG DO I RUN LOL?
We were walking on some random street when I saw a store front with nothing but a lift. I peered closer and DIED. ZOMG DIOR! LANVIN! OTHER LABELS I DON’T REALLY CARE FOR BUT HEYYY! I can’t remember how I managed to convince my aunts to get in the lift with me…not that anyone cares but yeah. The store’s called ASSIN which I’m hoping stands for “assassin” and not er “ass in” >_>
I took photos mainly at the men’s section because the 1) photography wasn’t allowed 2) I wanted to make Aaron jealous because they had an amazing collection of Dior and Lanvin sneakers meheh. I love the whole industrial steel minimal look they were going for.
More hot clothes Aaron can’t afford.
AND SOME ACTUAL LANVIN OMG! Lanvin makes some really good suits and I swooned looking at this one, the feel of the fabric *_* I don’t care, my future husband betta start saving because I’m not going to marry him if he wears anything less than a Lanvin on our wedding day HAHAHAH I WISH.
Thank you so much for your comments on my diet entry! I’m happy all of you feel enlightened by it, let me know if you have any questions or w/e. Anyway I am SO sorry I haven’t been reading all your entries - in fact, I haven’t been reading ANYTHING the past 2 weeks. I’ll get down to it eventually when I have the time, school’s a bit chaotic right now with all the reading, cooking and laundry I have to do. I’ll have a beauty entry up next hopefully - meanwhile, take care guys!
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Tags: fashion: LANVIN, life: Australia, LUSH, nosh: western food
33 Responses to “Melbourne: The first week (geez what a boring title)”
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[z:six] Says:
March 21st, 2010 at 10:52 pmLOL at the “ass-in”
And I’ll never look at pancakes the same way again. No more Mac’s hotcakes for me, I’m just gonna keep dreaming of these 
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dejiki Says:
March 21st, 2010 at 11:01 pmThere’s a Comme des Garçons??!!!
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f a i z Says:
March 21st, 2010 at 11:59 pmI wish i’m in Melbourne now! heh!
ilyana's reply:
April 4th, 2010 at 7:03 pmaww well if you find yourself here, let me know - I’d love to show u around ;D
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ikana Says:
March 22nd, 2010 at 12:54 amdayum, looks like food heaven.
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nadia Says:
March 22nd, 2010 at 1:26 ameverything looks so surreal somehow ): damn, i wanna be there!
ilyana's reply:
April 4th, 2010 at 7:05 pmBut I wish I could stay in Singapore though! Melbourne is nice but sometimes you just miss home you know?
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aaron Says:
March 22nd, 2010 at 3:44 amB I T C H
just be glad i love u no matter WHAT.
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megan Says:
March 22nd, 2010 at 5:03 amThat mango soap looks like a block of butter, haha.
Omg, that banana split~ Looks so yummy!
ilyana's reply:
April 4th, 2010 at 7:06 pmhey megan! Thank you so much for dropping by! The banana split was indeed lovely lol ;P
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nlngstar Says:
March 22nd, 2010 at 6:48 amnice place… wish i can go
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mynakedlunch Says:
March 22nd, 2010 at 10:04 amOMG THE PANCAKES!!!! So tempted to just lick them off the screen!
ilyana's reply:
April 4th, 2010 at 7:13 pmThe pancakes are the BOMB. I swear this is probably the only thing I’ll miss when I fly back to Singapore.
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makeup morsels Says:
March 22nd, 2010 at 11:01 amwow what am I more jealous of the store full of Lanvin or the banana split? actually I think the banana split since there’s no way I’m ever going to be able to afford Lanvin *sighs* Hope school settles down a bit soon, try not to get too overwhelmed and I’ll look forward to hearing from you soon
ilyana's reply:
April 4th, 2010 at 7:16 pmHahah IKR, I don’t think I’ll be able to afford Lanvin either but hey it’s not my job to buy Lanvin - it’s the guy’s so I’m not particularly pressured lol. I’m having easter now so everything’s kinda slowed down which is a good thing because GOD I need this break so bad.
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Catherine Says:
March 22nd, 2010 at 4:46 pmEek! Good luck with school! I know you’ve sounded realllllly busy so far, but at least you’re settling in right?
I think you take the MOST AWESOME Lush pictures EVER LOL. Every single time I read one of your Lush entries I wanna go to a store and play with everything LOL. The shower jelly looks amazing! LMAO - hope you got a sponge by now. =P
Also… your food pics never fail to make me hungry! So craving pastries right now and all I have is baby carrots and hummus. ;_;
And ooooooooh. That Lanvin looks AMAZING!
Hope you’re doing well, hon!!! *hugs*
ilyana's reply:
April 4th, 2010 at 7:24 pmYep I’m settling in just fine but I wish my workload wasn’t so crazy :/ I hardly have time to blog nowadays which is pretty saddening.
THANK YOU! I’m glad you enjoy them because I know there are probably massive amounts of Lush photos floating online, I must be the 182437305th person with photos of Lush on their blog. Actually, I haven’t got a sponge! I don’t know, I just keep forgetting to buy one so the shower jelly’s stuck in the dark end of my bathroom cabinet erk :/
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evie Says:
March 26th, 2010 at 6:46 pmwahh lush!! i love your photography skills!! lol at the sweetie pie..hehe and the fooddd!! makes me wanna fly there to grab them..XD
wahh gorgeous material on the Lavin~ilyana's reply:
April 4th, 2010 at 7:28 pmThank you evie, you’re such a sweetheart! Sweetie pie has an amazing blackberry scent which I am in love with but I need to get a sponge before I can use it again and as usual, I’m hopeless when it comes to remembering things I *have* to buy in favour of things I don’t really need.
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tomi Says:
March 28th, 2010 at 6:57 amAh that sparkly bath jelly looks def too pretty for me to even attempt using.. I would probably buy it and just like.. you know look at it. normal stuff o.O. those foods look sooo good!!!
ilyana's reply:
April 4th, 2010 at 7:43 pmThose were my exact thoughts before I bought it actually lol! But well I succumbed to temptation and eventually used it >D They were indeed, scrumptious! Thank you so much for commenting btw! <3
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Sue Says:
March 28th, 2010 at 9:24 pmwah! your food picture sure looks yummy! =D
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Blair Says:
March 31st, 2010 at 7:26 pmAwww sweetie, it sounds like a scary yet amazing time. Have loads of fun in Melbourne!
ilyana's reply:
April 5th, 2010 at 9:19 pmIt is indeed scary omg, class is a bit daunting sometimes because everyone here seems so smart but well, I’ll try my best with the studying - thank you!~
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Dee Says:
April 2nd, 2010 at 12:23 pmFOOD HEAVEN! I wish I was in your shoes<3
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StoryBookDreamer Says:
May 1st, 2010 at 12:29 pmLOL, those marshmallow bath melts look interesting. It sucks that your tiles got more clean than you did, what a waste! That pancake place sounds absolutely yum and pictures are to die for!
April 4th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Surprisingly I tried the hotcakes from Mcd here and it just fails in comparison to the ones we have in Singapore - oh well I guess I’ll stick with the Pancake Parlour, it’s pricier but oh so good.
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