Visit of Mr Ong

We got a surprise email on Thursday night from Jenson, informing that he "may" visit us that very weekend! Not wanting to get our hopes high, we decided to treat it as nothing. This is bcoz Ong cannot be confirmed on the flight unless there is an available seat since he is buying at staff price. So jealous!! But very uncertain! So, early Saturday morning (about 1.30am), we get a sms from Ong saying he managed to get on the 11pm flight and will be arriving that very morning! We could finally sleep in peace and woke up early the next morning to prepare for his arrival.

It was really surreal that day with Ong's grand arrival and it felt really good to see a familiar face and such a good friend here in Melbourne. We had a good catch up over Yum Cha at Shark's Fin Inn and then, a week full of activities followed..


Reunion yumcha at Shark's Fin Inn

The very next day, we planned a fishing trip to Mornington after attending mass at St Patrick's Cathedral. Ong wasn't very good at fishing, and er, neither were we that day! Between the 3 of us, we only managed to catch about 7-8 fishes, and all flatheads!! Ong and Gie sat out front of the boat which was great, enjoying the good weather and picturesque view. Jem was afraid he'll fall into the sea so he stayed safe in the boat! We did catch up again for some seal views! hee


Boys @ the Cathedral


Great company once again!


Picture perfect!


Dance then.. wherever you may be!


Posing with Desmond's big catch!


Ong finally caught one!!


Hush broz at Sea!


Can you spot the seals?

The rest of the week flew by with after-work plans. Unfortunately, Gie really fell sick during Ong's visit so the sickies were spent sleeping and trying to get better. On the after-work hours, we brought Ong to touristy places including a night at Crowne - where Ong left $10 richer and Jem slightly poorer. But nevermind! heh.. We also had a good time with Michelle and Pearle, who also had the privilege (? hee) of entertaining Ong!


Big Breaky at Brunswick Street with Michelle *yumm

It was a funny (on hindsight) story about the night we caught Russell Peters' stand up comedy act. We decided to have dinner at Greasy Joe's, Fang's recommendation for supa burgers at St Kilda's and came across the billboard for Russell Peters & Friends last night comedy act. The price tag was abit hefty but after some deliberation (Ok.. it was quite a long deliberation) we decided to go for it! It was about 7.45pm when we bought the tickets and thinking the show starts at 8.30pm, we thought we still had the time to have our greasy burgers. Well, that's what the lady selling the tickets told us. Putting too much trust on that old lady, none of us checked the tickets and when Jem said "if the show starts at 8.30, how come so many people waiting outside already?" Lo and behold, the show actually started at 7.30pm! We were quite pissed but had lil' choice so not wanting to spoil the rest of the night and waste the tickets, we wolfed down our giant burgers and rushed to the theatre. It turned out that it was money well spent as Russell Peters, Ahmed Ahmed & Joe Koy cracked us up for 3 hours! Strangely enough, Russell Peters the main act, wasn't the best that night! Our favourite was Joe Koy!


Russell Peters with Pearle.

Of coz you can't expect a trip with Ong without a night of clubbing! Or 2 nights in this case! And so it was, we went clubbing (for our first time in Melbourne actually!!) with the clubber Ong and had a pretty good time! No pictures were taken during clubbing but we did bring Ong to the infamous La Porchetta for dinner one of the before-clubbin nights. Sigh. Gie likes pasta & ang mo food but La Porchetta is seriously overkill!!


Pre-dinner drinks, backpacker style


Ong loves La Porchetta!


So does Jem.. but not Gie!!

Too soon we had to say "seeya later" to Ong and it was pretty sad to see him leave. The whole week passed like a dream. It was great having you around Ong and hope to catch ya again soon!