White Night Melbourne

The first White Night Melbourne was held on 23 February 2013. I went with my fiance and we reached the city at about 9pm. We didn’t have the program book because we weren’t in the city when the organiser was distributing the program book. According to one of the event volunteers, ALL of the booklets were distributed to commuters coming and going out of the CBD earlier in the evening and there were none left for those during the actual event – poor planning on the organiser’s part.

Overall it was an interesting experience – the clever lighting really transformed Melbourne that I know and the event turnout was crazy. There was a sea of people everywhere, especially around Flinders Street and Swanston Street area circa 9pm to 1am. I overheard someone saying at that the only other time the city was packed with people was during new year’s eve.

It was too bad we our feet couldn’t take us to all the attractions – mostly because we didn’t have the program booklet. On hindsight, we should have plan our route for the night (using the online guide on the official website) instead of just wondering around aimlessly.

Looking forward to more events in Melbourne, next up is Moomba Festival.

I pulled a Felicity

In case you didn’t know about Felicity :

Felicity is an American primetime televisiondrama series that was produced by Touchstone Television and Imagine Television for the WB Television Network. The series revolves around the fictional college experiences of the title character, Felicity Porter, portrayed by Keri Russell, as she attends the “University of New York,” based on New York University, across the country from her home in Palo Alto, California. – Wikipedia

The reason for her to make the move was –

The story of the series begins at Felicity’s high school graduation where she asks Ben Covington, a classmate whom she has a crush on, to sign her yearbook. Moved by his comment that he wished he had gotten to know her, she changes her education plans completely, deciding to follow Ben to New York rather than attend Stanford University for pre-med. Felicity’s overbearing parents, concerned about Felicity’s seemingly rash decision, come to New York to try to convince her to return home and “get back on track.” Felicity has second thoughts about her decision, but soon realizes that she came, not only to follow Ben, but to discover her true inner self.

So here’s my version of the story –

It revolves around real life post-graduate experiences of the title character, silentsiren, portrayed by herself, as she attends the University of Melbourne, across the continent from her home in Malaysia. 

The story begins a month before silentsiren’s return to Malaysia following the end of her exchange program where her then-boyfriend asked her to start a long-distance relationship with him. Moved by his sincerity to make the relationship work, she starts making plans to come back to Melbourne. However, her plan to further her education right after graduation did not materialise. Two years after joining the rat race and months after her engagement to the aforementioned boyfriend, silentsiren finally returned to Melbourne. silentsiren has second thoughts about her decision, but soon realises that she came, not only to follow her fiance, but to discover her true inner self.

Funny thing is my real name is Felicity.