Hailing in Melbourne

7th March 2010

36th day in Melbourne

Raining ice and water

Weather in Melbourne has been really bad for the past 3 days...Yesterday, it even hailed! Ice has been dropping from the sky, hitting the roof and windows...It's so loud and i'm really afraid that there might be leakage from the roof or the hails will break the windows..This is the 1st time i've experienced bad weather in the new house so i really don't know how sturdy is this house...luckily, none of that happened...People said that it was not the worst hailstorm so i really don't know what to expect for the next few days..As i'm writing this, it's raining heavily outside :(

Went to Shao Bing & Ray's house for dinner (She's the primary school friend of Jia Ying and Jia Ying's Minn's friend, the kind soul who let us house-sit for her for 3 weeks)..It's complicated huh? Well, actually, no! Basically they're all Minn's friends lah...simple? K, so they invited us for dinner and she made this really delicious glutinous rice stuff in chicken...it's really not bad..We later had a few rounds of Pictionary and guess what? Shao Bing bought a cake to celebrate Jia Ying's birthday in advance..Awww...so sweet!! Even though they've not met each other again after Primary school, she still remembers her birthday...You know, this further reinforced my belief that the best friends are made in Primary school, when children have no motivations in making friends, just pure liking and sticking by each other...

So it's Minn and my turn to host for the next time..so you see, it's like this hosting rotation going on and the main idea is to bond and to improve on the culinary skills...It's not a bad idea I think, especially when i've taken an interest in cooking...Really! I've been cooking for myself for the past 2 weeks and though i only know how to cook a few specific dishes, i've this learning desire for more dishes...So i guess it'll be okay during our turn...

For those who've not seen the photos of my new apartment, please go to FB..i'm too lazy to post up the pics in so many different places...hehe...Go and take a look and let me know what you think..