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"I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe that loving is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."

Audrey Hepburn

You know you love me,

*winks*

My name is Alice and I live in my own Wonderland. That's why people call me Alice in the Wonderland.

Okay, kidding. I'm Frederika. Or also known as littlemissspicy in the Cyberworld. I'm seventeen, moodswinged, noisy and definitely not your type. Just so you know, I have a thing for alleys and guys in uniform. And you know I love my Chuck Bass.

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Monday, March 08, 2010,7:06 PM

Melbourne as it is.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of these photos. All the photos are taken from this blog here, unless stated otherwise. The quotes below are also extracted from the same blog.

Just imagine, the wintry air and the laneway cafes, the smell of burnt coffee, the old streets with new shopwindows, the rumbling of the trams, whispers in the art gallery, the echoes in St Patrick's cathedral, footfalls on cobble stones, Old Arts of Melbourne University, rustling the fallen maple leaves. Just imagine - you latch onto the passing airport coach, and then the train, and then the tram, and then the right bringing wind, and spread out before you, is all of Melbourne...

CBD area.

Southbank and the Yarra River. Can you spot the PricewaterhouseCoopers building? Remember my post a while back in November? (:

Queen Victoria Market. There is something so elegant about this lady. It might be the red hat or the shawl. I dunno. I think she only needs a pair of Jackie O sunglasses to perfect it off. Lol. But then it's winter.

And of course, the Melbourne University. That's the Old Arts building, the one with the clock thingy. I've just walked past this place today on my way to the bookshop. Haha. Normally when the weather is nice there would be many people sitting on the grass, but as you can see this photo is taken during winter. So yeah. The path you see will lead you to the Grattan Street. If you would just scroll down abit and look at the map of the university, this place is numbered 195, located right below red dot number 14.

...Now, the lamplights come on, and the streetscape resembles something out of a movie scene you would see in the darkened cinema, a little distant, a little unreal. You would wish for a dash of drizzle, just to finish off the picture with a token cinematic denouement.

Lygon Street. Just a couple of minutes walk from the Uni. And this is also where I wait for my bus home everyday(:

Beautiful, right?

But the secrets to Melbourne

are not along grand promenades or in mega-shopping malls

- they are between these edifices, in the interstices of concrete and stone,

behind chain stores, beneath slants of sunlight.

Find an opening gap of a laneway wall-to-wall of spray-paint and graffiti,

and Melbourne reveals itself: indie bookshops in a city of literature,

quirky cafes in a city of coffee,

old record shops in the underground in a city of mazes.
In a different universe, in a world of its own, a secret gem to discover.

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