Good day all,

Our destination was the very famous beach destination at Melbourne, Brighton Beach. This Brighton Beach is really famous because its bathing boxes around the coastline. At summer this is Melbournian favorite place to go. Apparently, these bathing box is owned, so you can't just only do something with other properties.

Because it's tourist attraction, you will always find tourist in here. Too bad, most of them stayed only in some of the boxes near the entry gate. The more you walked further, the more you will see bathing boxes free from the tourist. It said it was 1.860 bathing boxes around Phillip Bays Port and Western Post. And Brighton boxes is the only places nearest to Melbourne CBD.

It's a little bit too much people that day, so we didn't really enjoy walking around there. Simple, once you try to have a picture of the boxes, you will get distract by the-don't-want-to-know tourist. One or two.

So we tried to walked a little bit too far from the boxes which have lots of tourists. And yes, in some places that a little far from the entry gate, we found only a views tourists around us.

This beach actually best for having a sunbathing, or maybe you just only want to walked around it. That day the sea was really calm, and didn't have a big tide. At the end of the beach, I found lots of small shells. Some local tourists playing with their family near the rock, or playing with their dog.

Since there was lots of tourists there, so we didn't want to take our time longer at Brighton beach. So we went to another destination near this beach, half moon beach. In this beach we can found the HMVS Cerberus shipwreck.

HMVS (Her Majesty's Victorian Ship) Cerberus is a warship made for served Victoria Naval Force and Royal Australian Navy. Made at 1867 and finished at 1870, it sinked at blackwater, half moon bay at 1924. And at 1993 it was a main attraction for diver around, until it really sink at 1993.

If you are lucky, you could see the shipwreck from the beach. But unfortunately, the only way to get close to the shipwreck is by dive to the shipwreck. Actually there was a remains of the bridge which used to take the tourist to see the shipwreck closer.

Can't see the shipwreck clearly? It didn't matter for me. I enjoy the beach by walked around the beach. We found the beautiful cliff around called ref bluff cliff. This place is the best point for some people did their sunbathing, without worrying getting distract by lots of tourists. As far as we enjoyed the beach, we only met three groups of tourists, some young people, another couple like us, and someone who enjoyed the scenery alone.

We finally went until the edge of the cliff. Actually, if we want to climb the will, we can go to the hidden beach behind the cliff. And that is a nude beach!! LOL. This nude beach placed between blackwater beach and brighton beach.

Well, if you are lucky enough, you can also find some part of the shipwreck aroun it, like what my boyfriends found. 

I love going to the beach. How about you? 

Yes, I love beach sooooo much...

Good day all,

I had this nail polish loong time ago, but I never had a chance to make a review of it, until now. It is Etude House brand, called Juicy Cocktail Gradation Nail. Yes, this nail polish can help us to make a beautiful gradation nail.

This product consist of lots of colors. From calm color until cheerful one. They are Screw Driver, Kiss of Fire, Princess Marry, Peach Crush, Lime Squash, and Kahluah Milk. 

You get three different colors in one box. They already have number at the top of the cap based on the order. Number 1 for all the nail survace, number 2 for half of the nail, and number 3 for the tip of your nail. If you still confuse, you can see how to do it at the back of the box.

I think this nail polish is really good if you put it at summer or spring time. The bright and soft color really fit those seasons.

Where I bought it? I bought it at Koreabuys.com. But unfortunately, this product is out of production.

Hello again,

Another post about noodle. Because for this couple months, I found out that some of Indonesian noodle brand have their new variant of noodle.

If you asked is this product sells at Melbourne? To be honest, I never found this around. But maybe a couple year they will be sells at Melbourne.

This time I write how the taste of BAKMI MEWAH and INDOMIE REAL MEAT. This two different products, have more expensive price than other Indomie goreng. Of course at first I'm hopping they have a different taste or something inside.

This Bakmi Mewah cost me RP8.000 per box. Yes, they wrap this noodle with box. Inside the box it have the wrapped noodle, the spice and also one more wrap consist of chicken.

How you cook it is as same as any Indomie noodle. You only need 3 minutes to boiled it at water, and throw away the water, and mix it with spice and chicken.

The chicken is the real chicken, just like what it said at the commercial. It's bigger than usual chicken cut for another instant noodle. And you got mushroom to together with the chicken. The taste remind me of chicken noodle (mie ayam) at every street food in Indonesia.

The portion is just enough for one person. If you want more you can do it, but my suggestion maybe add the boiled egg for this. 

Now, Indomie Real Meat. For this Real Meat version. They give us two different flavours. Chicken mushroom flavor and rendang flavor. In my place it cost around Rp7.500 each. 

Same like Bakmi Mewah, this Indomie also used box for its products. It have the same way to cook it. 

The best thing from this Indomie Real Meat is the meat is really big, and you can really taste it. In rendang flavor, beside the meet, you can also have the kidney bean inside. The portion is too small for one person, so you will need more. Because for me, this Indomie Real Meat is enough to eat just the way it is, I don't have to put any other thing inside it.

Have you taste the three of them? If you have tell me what's your favorite one?

Good day all,

As a noodle lover, seems not perfect if I am not try the Korean noodle that become a big hit in Indonesia. yes! SAMYANG HOT SPICY NOODLE. I actually wanting it for a long time ago. I interested with it because they said it is the spiciest noodle ever.

Because the price of this noodle is quite expensive in Indonesia (if you compare it with Indomie), so I always decline to buy it.

The funny thing is I have this noodle when I was at Melbourne. One day my boyfriend want me to make him a rendang. Since I don't know how to make it, so I decided to made it with instant spice. So my boyfriend took me to Indonesian shop, near Philippines shop. From its name, I can make it sure it is Indonesian Shop "Indah Shop".

Apparently, they not just sell Indonesian things. Malaysian, Philippines, even Indian things are all here. Even they have three different rendang spices, Indonesian, Malaysian, and Indian. But what I want is Indonesian rendang.

While we were at this shop, we started to look around too. Found lots of Asian things here. Until I found noodle alley. Of course they also sells Indomie. Until I found this Samyang noodle, and it only cost AUD 7 for 5 packs.

AU$7 for 5 pieces... love it

Some people said the price is not too much different with Indonesian price. Well in where I stay this Australian price is way too cheap than what they have in my place,

The next morning, my boyfriend offered me to try this noodle. Of course I said yes. But when it serve I remembered that this is a spicy noodle, I didn't want something happened with my stomach because i ate spicy food for breakfast. So I asked my boyfriend to put cheese on it, even I stil didn't know how spicy the noodle is.

Hot Chicken Flavor...

Is it really spicy? At the end, I can say it is a spicy noodle. But if you are a truly spicy food lover, this nood is not that spicy. So, I was a little bit disappoint putting cheese at my noodle.

For them who are not able to eat really spicy food, top it with cheese, as one of the alternative. And it the taste is not change

Usually, when you eat spicy food, the first flavor is the hot spicy one. But in this noodle, after the spicy one, the other flavor that I could taste was the bitter taste. No other taste than hot and bitter.

For you who like the flavor of noodle, maybe this noodle is not good enough for you, but if you like to play challenge by eating spicy food, especially for you who don't like spicy food, this is the right one.

If you want to minimize the spicy flavor of this noodle, you can add cheese or sunnyside egg, or prepare milk to help minimizing the spiciest flavor.

Then again, this is just my personal opinion about this noodle taste. And this opinion is not the opinion for all the noodle lovers out there. 

At the third day of my second visit to Melbourne, we went to the southern of Victoria. Actually my boyfriend accidentally find this place, when he browsed Victorian map at google map. The place called Point Nepean National Park, at the edge of Mornington Peninsula. From our place to that place took us 45 minutes.



It was the front fortress of Australian army. So we can see lot of fortresses around, weapon building, and also eagle eyes. This place still used until 1985.

To get into this place is a little bit hard. But all is worth it because the perfect nature help us to enjoy it.

Because it is a national park, all the nature inside is protected, animals, plants, even the ruins. It was already afternoon, 3pm, when we arrived there. Thank you for the DST, so we still have sunlight a little bit longer. At the end of our visit, we are the last visitor around. LOL.

We can find 50 historic places here like Quarantine Station, Gunner Cottage, Cheviot Hills and Harold Holt Memorial, Pearce Barracks, Fort Pearce, Eagle Nests, and also Fort Nepean it self.

Parked our car at the Gunner Cottage, which actually you can enter, but we can't because it closed.From here, we can enter to the Point Nepean road. There are two different path to use. The walking path or the vehicle path. At the vehicle path, you can ride your bicycle here.

Point Nepean Tourism Map

At the beginning we used walking path to get to the edge. You can also rent a bike if you want. But, the track is not the easiest one. Up to the hill and very long. It's about 3 kilometers. But from this 3 kilometers, they give us a beautiful nature view.

walking track at Point Nepean

Let's go!!!

Just like any other national park at Australia, they put lots of information for you. They also provide shuttle if you want to ride a bus. Inside the shuttle they also provide a map. You can use the bus ride if you want to pay AUD10 each person.

First stop is bay beach walk. In here we can enjoy the beach view, and also the ruin of the jetty. Or just watched lots of seagulls playing at the shore. But, you are forbid to swim in all of these area.

Remaining of cattle jetty

beach walk and cattle jetty remaining

Remaining of cattle jetty in close up

unpredictable wave, no swimming

Seagull. Can you spot Stephen Seagull?

Good day all,

Remember the post about me having a present for my boyfriend birthday? If you forget, you can click THIS LINK.
Since he have Wookie as his nick name, which is taken from the Chewbacca from Star wars, so it's like a tradition that all the people around him giving a wookie present for him.

Even my first plan was came back to Melbourne at his birthday month, but because of something, I finally flew a month after his birthday. That is a good thing, because it means I have one more month to finish my project.

Where I stay is a little bit difficult to find anything about Chewbacca. Again, I have to depend on the internet to find what I want. The good thing giving the present a little late is that you know what kind a presents he already have. Like this year he got wookie beanie, wookie wine glass, and wookie bottle opener. Sometimes it also stressed you up, because you will need something elese. At the end, I decided to give him Chewbacca Funko-Pop. This kin of toys is a big hit in Indonesia, actually I also want to have some, but still don't know what character I want to have. Again, I am looking for this present at mataharimall.com.

My project actually making my own birthday card. Since I want to give it to him for his birthday, so I am looking for the design all around the internet, until I found one instagram account called@surelysimpleblog. This account giving you lots of example about making very simple design but beautiful.

These are some of the design that I've tried:

First attempt, small wrath

bigger one

Difficult shape one

Sometimes I stuck because I don't know what else I have to do. Because at the same month I arrive there, we also celebrate our anniversary, so I thought I should have one more card for our anniversary. And of course I depend on internet to find the idea. Well... At first this is my first attempt:

And I tried hard to made it:

And at the end, I failed...
Finally I made cards with my own idea.
For the paper, I choosed corrugated sheet paper, because it looks cool, and thick. So I can use it as the basic of my card. I also can fold or cut it.
I also use two kind of origami paper, one with no motif, the other one with the motif.
Beside that, I also add a dry flower.

First attempt of making a DIY card

Inside the card



The first card was not satisfied me, look so bad, so I tried to made the second one.

VOILAAAAA!!!!!

Here you go, the card for my boyfriend's birthday & our anniversary

Courtesy his facebook page