Sports Celebrity spotted

Making our way to Melbourne, Phill and I took a 2.5 hour train ride from Benalla to Melbourne and arrived at 10.30am at Spencer St train station. After leaving our bags at one of the the station's lockers, we set off on the day's journey shopping! We wanted to go to the Melbourne Show today but decided we'll do it tomorrow instead cos Friday is late night shopping and it makes more sense to do our city shopping today.

However, our accidental celebrity spotting for the day begun when we first arrived in Melbourne and crossing the road from Spencer St train station, we saw Paul Roos who is the coach for the Sydney Swans footy team. He had just stepped out of Gloria Jean Coffee and was smsing on his mobile while standing outside Gloria Jean's. While we were walking past, Phill said, "Good Luck, Paul". And he replied "Yeah, thanks". I was really surprised how tall he was and slim too. On tv he looked abit short and plump. And I've always thot he was cute.... =P

The Sydney Swans will play the West Coast Eagles tomorrow in the grand final match. They have not won the premiership since 72 years ago so they are the sentimental favourites to take the trophy.



Coach of the Sydney Swans Footy Team, Paul Roos







After that bit of celebrity spotting, Phill and I had our first Mcdonalds meal in ages, we shared a quarter pounder meal cos we were going to have lunch later. It was yummy!!! After walking a few bookshops, we then decided to have katsu-don for lunch instead of dim sum. The katsu-don was delicious and reminded us of Tamako (Thomson Road) in Singapore. We were glad that the japanese place we went to served such good food cos it was more of a wild guess since we never ate japanese in melbourne before.

Phill bought a few stuff for his tank modelling and at about 6pm, we met my cousin, Nicholas at South Yarra station. Together with his friend, Alvin, they were there with Nick's two dogs - Yoogie (think its spelt this way) and Wa-wa.

When we arrived at his apartment which was not too far from the train station and so very convenient, we sat around, talked and more of Nick's friends joined us later at the apartment. Alvin and Derek were Singaporeans. Seng was Australia-Vietnamese but Teochew like I am. Lynn is Malaysian. We went and had dinner at Ocean Pacific (I think that's the name), a Chinese restaurant at South Yarra, and the food we ate reminded me of Chinese food back home. We had chicken ribs, beef and asparagus, duck, char siew, spare ribs and vegetables. It all came up to $15 per person which was reasonable considering the exorbitant prices of Chinese food here.

The day thus ended pretty well, with quite a few good buys and yummy food! It feels good to be in the city for shopping and food once in a while.