As promised in this post, it's to the city again I go!

It's a voyage I've always looked forward to. Adjourning from the suburbs in Camberwell via Metlink Train.

Can't help that this city girl is always waiting to burst out into the urbans!

I raced the train to capture it passing by!! 🙂

Anyway, excitement over. Let's rewind. First I had to walk to the nearest train station, which was about 15 minutes away by foot. *pants*  So I started walking…

Sucha sunny day today, ain't it?

… and walking  

… and walking

I loved how the insane weather held up just for me 😛  

At least I'd like to think so hehe  

…..and walking  

… and walking! Good thing I put on some real good & comfy kicks.  

So yes, I finally reached the railway tracks half an hour later LOL.   That's due to all the shooting, taking in the perfect view of mother nature and stopping to smell the flowers.

Yeah, literally, I did stoop down to pick up daisies, how ladylike of me *coughs*  

Oh look! I'm standing in the middle of the tracks.  

Let's just hope a train doesn't come by while I work the camera 😛  

Standing right in the middle of the railway 😛  

Okay, enough fooling around 😀  So I finally arrived the train station, Hartwell Station, along the Alamein line  

Bought my Metcard and hey ho, let's go!  

Train was very efficient, it came right on the dot according to the board which displays each train's estimated time of arrival.

So I got in and it was kinda empty, but it'll eventually fill up with people as it gets closer to the city 🙂  

After less than half an hour, hello again city!! 🙂

I can finally breathe some air into my "metropolitan" lungs

Aaaahhhhh *inhales and exhales*

Shot this from the inside of Flinders Street Station

It's one of those beauuuuutiful train stations that never fail to capture the interest of tourists.

In the short moment that I was there, I've already spotted 10 odd foreigners snapping away!

The breathtaking urban life before me

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Melbourne city 😀

Can't helping taking a shot WITH it too 😛

Similarly to Bukit Bintang or KLCC area back home in Malaysia and Orchard Road in Singapore, Flinders Street and Swanston Street here in Melbourne are pretty much always abuzz with a myriad of people… anytime of the day!

Swarming with people at most pedestrian crossings

When I got to the other side, I wanted to take a touristy ride all around the city on a free service called the City Circle Tram. It's a brown tram which circles the main zones of the city.

So hop on with me!

Here I am waiting right opposite Flinders Street Train station at one of the tram stops.

It comes every 5 minutes or so, very efficient!

You can see many other tourists (and some locals) waiting for it too.

I can't wait to see what's in store for me in the city. Elizabeth Street, Swanston Street, Queen Victoria Street Market, Burke Street, the State Library of Victoria, Southbank and so many others!

Walking along Elizabeth Street!

Was too excited touring the city! Sucks that I got hungry at 3pm-ish

Because at that time, most of the yummy food court shops at the Queen Victoria market had all shut 🙁

And if you didn't know, all the malls in Melbourne closes at 5pm.

YES FIVE O' CLOCK IN THE !@#$%^&*( EVENING.

I miss hanging out/shopping in malls till 10.30pm back in Malaysia!

Wonder what do Australians do after 5pm? Dinner and then go home?

Anyway, speaking of my lunch, I was too late! The only stuff available were Subway, Maccas (Yes, that is what they call McDonalds in Australia), Hungry Jacks and all the other fast food stuff. Bummer 🙁 🙁

I ended up with Subway and omg the Subway there has SO MUCH MORE CHOICES compared to the one back in Malaysia.

Okay, nevermind the fact that we don't/can't have pork nor bacon, but I'm also talking about the variety of sauces/bread/condiments!

Disappointed! 🙁

I didn't come all the way to the city to eat fast food nnoooooo

Issokay. There's always another day!

Besides, I headed up to Lygon Street for their Italian food with a good friend of mine, Alexis.

Went to one of the chocolate lounges with buddy Violet and her boyf James

Greek food for dinner with fellow Malaysian pal Rebecca 😀

Now, those were yum! (and a dent in my pocket yeee-ouucchh)

Back in Flinders Street Station the next day to do more exploring!

Where did I go and what did I do on both these days?

That's for another story, ye? Wait for it, dear readers, you'll see pretty damn soon, you bet 😉

So there was all the buzz for a week on the Free Beer event that was said to happen on 12 August at 6pm.

It got everyone talking about it, yours truly included!

The question is, IS IT FOR REAL?

Simon grinning coyly in the background lol

Well, there were lotsa doubts as to why there was gonna be a Free Beer giving session at Asia Cafe anyway.

Is there a catch? What's the clause? Any fine print? No way!

See it to believe it! 😀

Here's the freeTigerbeer twin tower my friends and i made!
 

So yes, all the doubts were cleared the moment it struck 6pm. It was really NO JOKE! A group of friends and I have been around since 5 something and I must say, the session went superbly well and smooth for one whole hour plus.

There were no shoving, no fights and no snatching, but plenty of daylight robbery of beers! There were just so much to go around, close to 8000 cans of Tiger!

Wen, Suresh, Samuel and I were the first few in line

behind us were a whole beeline of people zomg

ON YOUR MARKS!!

GET SETTTTTT!

GOGOGOGO!

Let's bust some booze in the house!

All of us had 4 cans of Tiger each for the first round!

yummmmmy!

Back at the table with Adele

the rest was going again and again for round 2 and round 3!

Tim arrived when most of us got back with our free beer already!

The line was already waaaayyy too long and backed up till the very end of Asia Cafe

And when I say there were lots of people, THERE WERE LOTS OF PEOPLE.

I mean it! I saw peeps from all races, all ages (there was one in school uniform that Tim and I saw LOL) and I bumped into so many random and even old friends! 😀 😀

Including my cousins Meng and Shaun! LOL

From the distance, I heard "eh is that Jess? JESSSSS!!!!"

😀 😀

And as usual at every Tiger beer party, Sean the big guy from Tiger will always be there 🙂

Glad to be here at yet another Tigerrrific event!

Sean and I

So what's the purpose you ask, about #freebeer?

Well, Tiger has been around for reaallllyyy looooooong time since 1932.. and just to keep up with the modern times, they decided to repackage themselves into a more contemporary platinum design that would appeal to a wider crowd!
 

Now, today was a really generous launch. So smart! Making all their consumers happyyyy 😀 😀 😀

I certainly found it really appealing too! No more old man design 😛 😛 😛

Same great beer, with an awesome facelift now

For the first time ever, my refrigerator is *very* well stocked with ice-cold beer! 😀 *hic*