On our way to Bright, we passes by few area which involved with Black Saturday Bushfire's incidence. Felt sympathy and empathy with all the victims.
Burnt trees all over the area. From far distance the hills look dark in color.
More than 2 months now. The memoir of Black Saturday is still there, but life must go on. Even some of the trees started to have new green leaves. 
Good weather, for tracking on the Mountain. 
Have a quick view. Could see the Silvan Reservoir from here. Beautiful. 
The forest walk at Kalorama Park was not too long. Managed to complete the track within less than half an hour. Still challenging though, up hill and down hill with narrowed walking track.
Later I went to Skyhigh Forest walking track. More challenging compared to the previous walk. There were 3 walking track. Tried all of them. 
Some of the track had steeper slope. I had to be careful when going down hill but the worst part was climbing back up the hill. 
One of the track, led me to the another lookout called the Burke lookout. It took about between 30 - 35 minutes to reach the place. Really steep lookout. Could see part of Melbourne from another angle. 
The only thing I hate was, travelling long distance, but no choice have to bare with it. It took us almost 4 hours to reach Bright. In between we stop few places for coffee and filling petrol.
We reached Bright just before 11.30 am. To our surprise the town was really full with tourists. It was busy. We parked the car and went to Saturday Easter Market. 
It supposed to be autumn now, but it doesn't look that way. Not seen much of colorful tree yet a little bit disappointed though. It going to be a late autumn this year as well as what had happen to the summer.
Good trip for this two young lady. Insisted Zainah to have some money, one dollar each to play some games. We surprised and was laughing when both of them won prizes for each one of them. Lucky kids.
We decided to have our lunch near by a river side. Found a nice shade and we started unpacked all the foods. As usual Zainah prepared all the foods.
So many variety of chocolates you could find at any shops. Small and big. Just choose what ever you like. Went to Safeway my eyes 'blink - blink' when I saw all the chocolates. Uuuuuu. I don't eat chocolate much. But I do like chocolate, just have it in moderation other wise you have to make sure you go for a jog at least 45 minutes to burn all the extra energy you had from the chocolate. :-) 
Not sure how long it will take me to finish all these chocolates. May be more than 2 weeks. I will only take maximum of two of this in a day. You still need flavinoid (antioxidant) from the chocolates though.
It will be so so nice to go to beaches and enjoying nice weather especially like this weekend. Long weekend because of Easter Holiday, from Friday until Monday. So fortunate this weekend, the weather will be so fine. Mild warm sunny autumn at early 20s Celsius, may be a bit cloudy. Nice.
Finally, a home made 'Siomay Bandung'. Usually I will go to Nelayan Restaurant or Es Teller 77 Restaurant to have this menu. I had my first 'Siomay' when I was in Bandung, Indonesia during the period of 1988 till 1995. My Indonesian friends had asked me to try it and it was delicious. I love it. When I went back home, since then I forgot about it until I came here to Melbourne and found an Indonesian Restaurant which has Siomay as one of their menu.
Started my day with a low note. But later in the afternoon my day become much much better. More patients responded to my study, look promising even though they still not yet in the study but hey, better than nothing. I feel confident more will come in after this. And....my Citrix Network access has been approved. Now I can do all my work accessing patients detail and blood results, Thallium test etc and our research virtual file from home. Yeah......
I received my electric bill every 3 months. Since I don't have gas supply to my unit, I really saved a lot. Other wise I need to pay electric and gas bill separately. Currently I am using electric water heater and electric stoves which is easier for me to control the usage. 140 dollars for 3 months and paid the same amount for my last bill. But then, it going to change soon because now the night time is getting cold and winter is on the way. Hopefully I still could maintain the same amount of electricity usage during cold season, which I doubt about it. Well just hope for the best.
This week I want to make a pie for 'me' self. Since I still have some extra pastry which I've made earlier, I thought I wanna have chicken and mushroom pie. Mmmmm...Last time I had chicken and mushroom pie when I went to a DOME restaurant at KLCC few years back. 
I also made a beef curry pie for my lunch at work tomorrow (Monday). Bawak bekal nak jimatlah kan :-)
It end of day light saving time for 2009 in some part of Australia. It started early this morning at 3.00 am where we need to turn back the clock to one hour earlier. {I am gaining one extra hour sleep today. :-) } My mobile phone clock winding back the time automatically. As for the rest, I need to do it manually. We will have long night time starting this Autumn until 4 October 2009.
Not really sure what to give Amanda as a present then I called Adel to give me some clue. Finally I bought few "In the night garden characters" which are Igglepiggle, makka pakka and Upsy daisy. It Amanda favorite cartoon character. 
For Adam at least I know what to buy. Few books of familiar cartoon character, Thomas train, Bob the builder, a Nursery Rhymes and last but not least the toys anything with wheels. :-) 
Both of them like the present very much. :-) 
Not really a battle, but Amanda seems would like to have what ever her brother has.
Even Amanda took one of the books then make it hers.
Amanda and her bottle
Selamat Ulang Tahun buat Kak Ram.
Salam dari perantauan. Makan pulut kuning tuu ingat ingat lah saya ekkk.......
:-)
Initially I wanted to visit Cambridge University. Nik Sherina just came back from Cambridge, she called and influence me to visit the University while I was still in UK. When I mentioned my plan to Suzy (Mike Irani wife) she smiled and convinced me to go to Oxford instead. Which is much nearer compared to Cambridge and much beautiful than Cambridge. That was she said. Then when Mike came into the kitchen she told him my plan. Later on I realised that both of them are Oxford alumni. Hmmm but it true though Oxford is much nearer to go from London CBD. 
I took an Express Double Decker bus to Oxford. It took me about 2 hours to reach Oxford. I was well prepared with foods and drinks provided by Suzy. How kind of her. The bus has wireless Internet connection which I found very convenient.
Was really impressed. Beautiful and Historical. Oxford is a big area to explore. Finally....
Spent the whole day in Oxford. Exploring the University. Some of the area were restricted area and need to pay. Why bother. There were plenty to see. Nice.... 
This is not the picture of the conficker worm. :-) . Try to be careful downloading pictures which is not mine because of copyright law. Anyway...
