The Piggy Is In Town

Piggy arrived on Thursday from KL and I had to play sick so I could spend the whole day shopping with her. Wanted to take her out to a nice cafe for coffee and brekky but being the Malaysian that she is, she wanted Asian food. Ok, so her fiance is English and she has bacon and eggs at home all the time, so she comes to Melbourne and wants to eat noodles for breakfast. Playing the good host, I took her to my favourite restaurant, Thanh Phong in Richmond for noodles. Had to avoid the city cos I was meant to be at a conference at Saville Hotel.

We did some shopping along Lygon St and Sydney Rd, then ventured out to Smith St in Collingwood. We were both buggered by the end of it. On Sydney Rd. we made a stop into Mariana Hardwick. The dresses were beautiful but can you believe people have to make appointments for a fitting? WTF? So if you see something you like there, you've got to tell the sales person you'd like to make an appointment to try on that particular dress. Strange. Their dresses are exclusive but come on, it's not Chanel or Dior couture for goodness sake.

Piggy is going for a non-conventional type wedding with a British India theme. Well, we've been told to imagine a beach wedding, but in a garden. What the? No suits or ties for the men, bridesmaids to be dressed in white and bride to be dressed in bright colours. Given that the bridal party's gotta wear all white with a splash of fuschia, the suitable thing for the bride to wear should be a fuschia dress. And a fuschia dress we did find at The Dressing Room on Sydney Rd. The shop was great with a huge variety of labels. I even saw November Cleo's label there. The dresses were all very pretty and affordable, unlike Green With Envy.

Via Veneto named their fish after Ball Breaker....

Later on in the night we met up with a whole bunch of people for dinner at Via Veneto on Lygon St. to celebrate Cutey's birthday as well as Piggy's arrival. Piggy and I got there early to start drinking and was soon joined by Kam, Princess Model, Plastic, Ball Breaker, SJ, HYC, Cutey, TOT, Mr S, Swing Sister, MM, Shorty, Siew Yum, BBs and a dear friend of mine BKK. BKK was in town from Thailand for the weekend, so I was glad he came to join us for dinner. He's still single at the moment and dating boys here and there but nobody special. Poor guy. He should come back to Melbourne, plenty of nice looking boys here!The booze was flowing as usual. We had 9 bottles of wine on the table and Siew Yum ordered a bottle of bubbly just for Piggy. Eeewww.....

Most of us were highly intoxicated, so much that Shorty was reciting lines from tv's The Family Guy to the people on the table next to us. She's such a laugh and I really enjoy hanging out with her. Actually the lesbians are all such a great bunch of people. Cant wait to do Spain with Siew Yum, BBs and November Cleo. We are gonna be tripping mad!