Alice Springs Market

is not held every week or every fortnight or in any consistent manner. We wouldn't have any clue until they advertise it on the television! Strange, huh?

So when my colleague told me that there would be a market this coming Sunday, I made a mental note to make sure I go there and see how its like.

In general, nothing fancy, just food stalls and souvenirs.

Wine glasses holder

Aboriginal art. This was rather interesting!

But the highlight was that there was lion dance performance! Cool, eh? Never imagined that they would have it here. Yay! Go Asians XD

Oh, let me amuse you with my unfortunate event at the market. If you haven't know this, there are flies everywhere in here. EVERYWHERE! No matter where you go, your hands must be switched to the swatting mode orelse they crawl on your face, which is incredibly annoying. I walked from the house to the market under the sweltering weather and naturally, I needed to catch my breath. And as I took a couple of deep breaths, a CRAZY fly WENT into my nose. IN MY NOSE!

Ewww...disgusting, I know.

What's worse was I didn't realize until I felt something moving a few minutes later, which then struck me before frantically searching for a tissue paper. Gosh... it was traumatic for me. Thank goodness for my body's first line defense in my nose. Or else it gets into my lungs how?

No surprise that I held my index finger under my nose throughout the day after that incident.

*wiggles nose*

Missing CNY

for my 2^nd time in a row. New year is ALWAYS very meaningful to me because I have so many fun and good memories. Also, an opportunity to only see some of my distant relatives/cousins. I really miss the boisterous environment at my parents’ hometowns. Especially with the blaring CNY music, exciting conversation with aunties and uncles, ang paus and of course, my beloved CNY cookies- prawn crackers, kueh ka pet, pineapple tart and Jolly Shandy! Huuhuu...

On New Year’s Eve, I managed to cook several dishes for the reunion dinner- SIX to be exact! Though I ambitiously wanted to pull off eight, but, by the time I was about to do the fifth dish, I was exhausted already.

And so, the dinner consisted of tomato fish, steamed egg, spicy black bean prawn, ABC soup, mixed vegetables, tofu with chicken mushrooms.

Yummy, delicious dessert-I loved how my friend beautifully plate up the strawberries and cubed rock melon. SWEET...

As you know, RED is the auspicious colour. In the morning, I realized that my new dress wasn't red enough so I quickly did my nails just to add more 'redness' to my whole presentation. I seriously follow the traditional rules of wearing new clothes and wearing red, in particular the first day of new year.

On the first day of NEW YEAR, we had our ‘yum cha’ session. Guess what we had? Teh tarik and since we haven’t got our CNY cookies, we substituted with chips -_- Well, at least that’s something close.

And funnily, we made SUSHI (my dear friend’s suggestion) in the afternoon. We had green tea hot drink with it. Then, for tea, we had delicious smoothie to quench our thirst.

I’m VERY glad that I am not totally alone on this special festive =) But still I miss my dear relatives and fooooooooooooooooooood.

My favourite picture of the day - SpongeBob SquarePants tin!! How adorable is that? (Von if you're reading, I know you'll like this XD )

Till then, HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone! Have heaps of FUN!!!