We began our journey to the Great Ocean Road from Rowville at 6.45am. We got lost as I forgot to open the GPS antenna; but we manage to spot a stray kangaroo hoping around the neighbourhood and it was quite dangerous as it was too close to the road and pavement. We finally locate our entry to M1 but I miss the turn; but our GPS guided us back to M1. The traffic was quite smooth amidst the usual morning traffic. Our first stop will be Geelong but it was still raining when we arrive there, so I opted to drive on to Lorne. Di has prepared picnic food for us to enjoy in our trip and I'm hungry. Arief is already full after eating my tuna sandwich in the car. Driving via the Great Ocean Road is quite challenging but the view is amazing; we even manage to catch a few beautiful rainbows in the horizon. We arrived at Lorne by 10.30am, making a pit-stop at their Tourist Information Centre for bathroom breaks and buying a few souveniers. We then decided to have our picnic at Lorne as the weather was just nice. I bought Latte at the nearby bistro while Eliza prepared my sandwich. Arief was busy playing with ducks that was everywhere. After breakfast, we parked at Lorne Pier and decided to walk to the end of the pier. And as we walking rain started to fall and a huge wind came by; and blew off Arief Hilfiger Cap into the sea. It was quite scary and we decided to walk back to our rented car. I need to buy Arief a new cap then :-)
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Cheras, BV & KTMB...
We make an extensive plan for our outing this evening; going to Cheras to attend Eliza's friend "kenduri doa selamat", then to Ja'a house in Bangi and watching Arsenal opening game against West Brom at the old Kuala Lumpur rail station. We went out from home at around 2.30pm and hoping to arrive in Cheras by 4pm. I took the federal highway as it was not peak hour. Arief was already sleeping inside the car. Upon entering Cheras, we are caught in a massive jam. I was out of idea on where should I turn and we ended up making a u-turn back to KL. At the end, we decided to call Eliza's friend that we couldn't attend as we are totally lost and it was already 4.30pm. The ordeal make us hungry and we went to Bangsar Village. We found a nice parking spot beside the escalator and we tried "Marco's Pizza, Pasta & Vino". Arief didn't want to enter initially but when he saw the mini playground inside; he ran in. We ordered soup, spaghetti marinara and regular calabbrese pizza. Arief was enjoying the mini slide; afraid at first but when he saw another girl tried it and he immediately slide through. The food was delicious and I manage to finish eating the pizza; the crust was just nice. We did walked around BV; stopped by ToysRus and Arief was pushing a toy stroller with Barney as the baby (so cute). BTW we found a shop selling tennis racket for infants :-)
We stopped at the nearby mosque to pray before going to Kuala Lumpur Train Station. The viewing party is at terminal 1 and it was nearby to the tracks; we do see Commuters and train pass-by during the LIVE game. It was great to meet up with some old friends. This is not a place that you can bring small kids. We ordered drinks and watched the game via an LCD projector over a big white screen. Arsenal scored first via Nasri in the 4th minute; and it was nil nil approaching half time (Arsenal did have few more chances but was squandered by bad finishing). I ordered fried mee during the second half; and we saw Nasri recite "doa" before starting the second half (he is a French Muslim). West Brom created a few chances during the 2nd half and nearly scored; luckily Almunia & Djorou was alert to the danger. At the end Arsenal won 1-0 :-)
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