Wen: Minsoo's Birthday Celebration

My friend Minsoo turned the ripe old age of 20 a few weeks ago.  We went out to lunch then hit up a dessert shop... yes.... they only sell desserts.

All the things in the background are cupcakes.  They specialize in fancy gourmet cupcakes!

We each got a cupcake and Minsoo got two.  Mine was called Black Forest or something.  It's actually the one on the far left side.  It was sooooo good.  There was cream filling lined with rasberry jelly.  Too bad they were $3.50 each, or I would totally eat these things like bread.

 We ended up at the Town Hall.  We wanted to climb the clock town, but unfortunately I think the building was undergoing renovations and the whole building, including the tower was closed!

Instead, I climbed the stone lion in front of the tower!

Aftreward, we went and had bubble tea.  I got taro flavored tea, which is why it is purple... anyway, it was decently good!  The tapioca pearls were awesome.

Wen: Iranian rice and Japanese curry fest!

This was a while back, but I'm a little behind on blogs!
My friend Mehryar invited a few people over to his house for some international food!  There were students representing Germany, France, Korea, China, USA (I guess that's me? Haha!) and of course Iran and Japan.
They made Persian rice, BBQ chicken, Japanese rice and Japanese curry.  It was incredibly delicious.  There was even tadik!!

For dessert, the French guys made crepes!  We added Nutella and Vanilla ice cream.  It was SO DELICIOUS.

Wen: Doomben Racefest

I got free tickets to see horse racing a few weeks ago.  I've never had the urge to see a horse race because:
1. I do not enjoy gambling
2. You can't eat the horses (only joking!!!)
Anyway, so I went there with Ling, but Ling wasn't able to get in because she didn't have her passport.  Which brings me to my next point of how horse races are just an excuse for women to dress over-the-top and for everyone to get drunk. 

The actual racing part was quick.  Apparently there were simultaneous races going on around Queensland.  The races were staggered so you could watch and bet on races in other cities like the Gold Coast and Sydney etc.

Apparently afterward there was a mini concert by a singer named Ricki Lee.  I had never heard of her, but apparently she's semi-relatively famous in Australia.  Also, they kept mentioning the fact that she has a song in the new Sex and the City 2 Movie. 

















Anyway, so her song was good I guess.  Also, it was cool to see a semi famous person up close. 
I left soon after because the other songs all sounded like padding for the CD. 
I went shopping at Chinatown afterward and got awesome food!