The Finders Keepers Spring/Summer '15 Design Markets are back in Brisbane!
I bought some cards and gift tags from Bespoke Letterpress and In the Daylight. Nice cards make me happy. Sending them out makes me even happy! Hehe.
Well, that's about it for today. Thank you for reading! Till then!
"The Finders Keepers is a design market, that features the work of independent makers from across Australia. Founded in 2008, the Finders Keepers has now grown to be Australia's leading design market. With events now held bi-annually in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, the market promotes and supports over 1000 sellers each year.
More of a festival than a market, the events combine design, art, good food, live music and a fun community spirit under one awesome roof in major city locations."
- www.thefinderskeepers.com
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The Finders Keepers Brisbane Market is held at The Old Museum Building, Bowen Hills
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Well, that's about it for today. Thank you for reading! Till then!
It's the season where the beautiful Jacaranda trees starts blooming! So I went on an adventure to some of the popular points of interest to show you how beautiful they are!
1. The University of Queensland
2. Woolloongabba
3. Kangaroo Point
4. City Reach Boardwalk
5. Cathedral of St Stephen
6. Queensland Parliament House, Brisbane
1. The University of Queensland
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| Forgan Smith Building (1), one of the heritage-listed sandstone cloisters enclosing the Great Court. |
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| Steele Building (3) |
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| Saw this shy Masked Lapwing near Forgan Smith Lawns |
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| UQ Lakes |
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| Love the reflection! |
Just for your perspective, UQ St Lucia is such a huge campus and it takes so much walking up- and down-hill to get to one place to another. Great workout when you have to run to classes!
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| Woolloongabba Busway Station. Bus Route 29 runs from UQ Lakes station to Woolloongabba station |
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| Brisbane Cricket Grounds, aka The Gabba |
3. Kangaroo Point
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| Took the bus from Woolloongabba station to Main St. Walked along the Kangaroo Point Riverwalk for quite a while to get this view. Brisbane CBD as viewed from Kangaroo Point Cliffs |
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| Vanilla Ice Cream and Strawberry Ice Cream to cool myself down |
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| Kangaroo Point Cliffs. I was a little bit trembling (not that I have fear of heights) whilst taking this photo from a very steep flight of stairs. |
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| St Mary's Anglican Church |
4. City Reach Boardwalk
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| I crossed the river from Thornton Street Pier just below the Cliffs to Eagle Street Pier with the CityFerry. Walked quite a bit to Boundary Street just to get this shot and walked to the CBD. (It's a long walk just in case you don't know) |
5. Cathedral of St Stephen
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| This is the side door of the Cathedral. There was too much shadow to shoot from the front and there's a wedding going on as well. |
6. Queensland Parliament House, Brisbane
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| Parliament House, George St, near QUT Gardens Point. Saw another wedding just in front this. The City Botanic Gardens is actually opposite this Parliament House so hence the newly weds and their guests were mingling around.
So that's about it for my adventure today. Guess how many steps I walked today.......
The highest temp today was 30℃ and all I had was a pair of sunnies. Good enough. Shorts, no hat, no sunscreen. So I ended up with a sunburnt scalp and super tanned face (except around my eyes), neck, arms and legs. Haha!
So that's about it for my adventure from 8:30am to 5:30pm today. Thank you so much to those who stopped by and read this until the end! Do drop your email on the chatbox on the right so I know who you are. Or you can just comment below. Hehe.
Till next time! xx
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Hello again! It's been a really fruitful day for me today because I get to visit buildings that aren't usually open to public thanks to Brisbane Open House 2015!
"Brisbane Open House is a free event, providing residents and visitors with the rare opportunity to discover the hidden wealth of architecture, engineering and history in buildings and places around Brisbane city.
Held annually in conjunction with World Architecture Day, selected buildings are opened for the public with guided and self-guided tours to encourage them to explore, re-examine and engage with Brisbane's built environment - opening eyes and minds to good design and curious spaces."
- Brisbane Open House
I visited the Queensland Performing Arts Centre a.k.a QPAC, 612 ABC Brisbane (the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), and the Brisbane General Post Office (GPO).
Pic: backstage costumes at the Lyric Theatre, QPAC
This is the only picture I took at the QPAC because I was too immersed with the guided tour and the magnificent architecture and engineering of the 4 theatres! I cannot name you exactly the terms and architecture jargons they used but to make things short, everything is specifically and carefully designed for their own purposes to maximise the sustainability. Even the foams in the audiences' seats were designed specifically for acousticity with or without the audience sitting on them! We were brought backstage to have a look at the loading docks (one of the most efficient systems in the country!) and the mechanics behind each theatre. It's really amazing to learn the behind-the-scenes!
Pic: The QPAC, which houses the Lyric Theatre, Concert Hall, Cremorne Theatre and the Playhouse. Designed by Brisbane architect Robin Gibson in the mid 1970s. (Image Source: Google Images)
Pic: The Lyric Theatre, the largest venue for the QPAC, can hold up to 2,000 patrons (Image Source: Google Images)
Pic: The QPAC Concert Hall, the second largest venue for the QPAC, can hold up to 1,600 patrons. My first visit to the Concert Hall was in May this year for the UQ School of Music's Symphonic Dances from the West Side: Bernstein Meets Carl Orff. (Image Source: Google Images)
After the QPAC Tour, I went to 612 ABC Brisbane which is just next to the QPAC.
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Pic: the cameras are no longer rolling manually but controlled but the producer in the other room. so when the news goes live, there will be the news presenter alone in the set. how cool! Pic: Brisbane General Post Office (GPO), built in 1872 by contractor John Petrie and architect F.D.G. Stanley.
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Hello! I don't know what brings me back to this blog again but I finally have time to do a proper blog post during this winter break! Nevertheless, I do remember somebody telling me to keep a blog to have something to look back in the future.
And that's about it!
I promise I will try to update as often as I could with my already hectic schedules when I'm back to uni. Till next time!
And thank you for reading :)
Just a little update about my new life now: A full time Bachelor of Nursing student at the University of Queensland.
I came to Brisbane on Feb 19th, 2015, on the first day of Lunar New Year. Good thing about not being too sad leaving home, I had my mom travelling with me and I'm staying with my cousin and her family probably until I finish my degree.
As I mentioned earlier, I am on my 1-month semester break now. Semester 1 was definitely a roller-coaster ride for me as I was adjusting to becoming a uni student. Heaps of assessments and written assignments which I was not good in the beginning. It was a little bit hard to adapt to my uni programme because suddenly everything has become so specialized and I need to learn the Australian culture to adapt to my course. I was one of the countable international students in my course and the only Malaysian amongst them! But I am very thankful for my Clinical Lecturer, Ms Elizabeth Kelly (Registered Nurse/Registered Midwife), who guided me along the 12 weeks of Semester 1 and have seen me improving bit by bit from day 1.
(Being in a health science/medical stream does not only include factual sciences e.g. biology, but social sciences which evolve every day as well.)
So what do I do as a nursing student?
I spent 2 days in class (1 day of combined lecture and 1 day of Problem-based Learning (PBL) in a smaller group of 15), and 2 days of Clinical Placement in the hospital, in a week. In short, 2 days of theory, 2 days of practical, in a week. My Clinical School is Mater Health Services, South Brisbane. I was placed under the Department of Haematology/Oncology at the Mater Private Hospital. Mater Health Services were founded by a group of nuns known as the Sisters of Mercy in 1906.
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| Taking a selfie on my last day of hospital shift |
What do I do in my free time?
I cook, I watch dramas and I annoy my little niece, Maybelle Dang. You can get fresh produce easily in Australia and it would be a waste if you do not learn how to cook! Well, besides that, a friend of mine who is studying in the U.K. who inspires me a lot in cooking so that made me want to make good food too.
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| My niece and I, photo taken on her 5th birthday last May |
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| Kimchi Fried Rice I made recently |
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| Clean eating: Pasta Salad |
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| Pan-grilled Salmon with Sautéed Broccolini and Lemon-Butter-Garlic Sauce |
I promise I will try to update as often as I could with my already hectic schedules when I'm back to uni. Till next time!
And thank you for reading :)
