So, wow. Yesterday I had the best food (and probably most expensive too) of my life. Huge, huge thank you to Serena and her goddad for letting me tag along with them. Had lunch at Lucky Chan, which is a Chinese restaurant at Crown along the Yarra River, with the yummiest beef I've ever tasted. Apparently they feed their cows beer and massage them and let them listen to sentimental music to get such good meat. Hmm. Dinner later at Koko, which is a Japanese restaurant in the Crown Hotel. Sashimi, yum.

Now, Crown has a fire show every hour on the hour, so the pillars along the river light up with fire (okay, that sounded weird, but I don't know how else to word it). Koko is on the fourth floor, and the side that's facing the river is completely glass-paned, like ceiling to floor, from wall to wall windows. So everytime the fire show started up, the flames were like right outside the window. Whoa.


A picture of the fireshow from Google, since I tried taking a picture once before and failed miserably with my pathetic camera.

Went down the casino before and after dinner, where Serena won money at roulette. Hee. I for one do not understand how people can sit at the Pokie machines for hours. Pokie is like the slot machine, I guess. So, yeah, you just sit there and...poke. Till you get like three pictures in a row.

Oh yeah, and the two times I went in, I got stopped for an ID check. WTF. I suppose that's saying I look young. Which I reaaaaally don't know if it's a good or bad thing. Ish.

While we were leaving, the PM was just about to leave Crown too. Such a majorly huge convoy, I tell you. About twelve guys in suits were just standing around waiting for him and his group, to probably finish eating dinner; and there were like five cars lined up outside the hotel. Janette Howard, John Howard's wife, came out first, and oddly enough, her exit wasn't as grand as our PM's.

So, yeah. Our PM looks every bit the PM you see in the newspapers. A little shorter than I expected him to look. I'm not being very articulate today, but he looks pretty jovial. Oh, and Siti Nurhaliza and Datuk K were with him, and she's very beautiful in real life. Serena and I were debating whether or not to go up to her and ask for a picture, but there were so many other people with her and the PM, and then there were the men in black standing around, plus, we weren't big fans, and didn't want to risk being jakun; so we didn't. Lol.

Oh yes, and Datuk K? His moustache very lebat. Really.