Lazy weekend and weekend markets

Intend to spend this Sunday doing nothing but playing video games, reading and just enjoy staying at home. Sometimes it does get tiring running around everywhere to try and experience and enjoy Perth over the weekend. There's always too many places and things to do and so little energy and time.

Anyway went to Tai Chi lesson at Balcatta yesterday morning. Nowadays we go twice a week and it is definitely good fun and exercise. I guess the important thing about practising Tai Chi or any other forms of martial arts is that you practise at home too and not just when you go for lessons, this way you will definitely pick it up faster and the muscles will get use to a the weird movement that we have to do.

After Tai Chi, we went to one of the weekend markets that can be found all around Perth. This is a new one that we found. The weekend markets only open from Friday to Sundays and Public Holidays. They will definitely have shops that sells vegetables and fruits and these places are definitely cheaper than the supermarkets. There will be other shops that sells almost anything that you might want including things for tourists and the locals. The one we went to is Malaga Market which can be found on the corner of Alexander Rd and Beach Road, Malaga. It is divided into 3 pavilions, the East and West end contains shops that sells things from beads & findings to cooking wares. In the Centre Court, there's a food court and during lunch time, they had a singer performing and a clown going around making animal balloons for the kids. I guess compared to the other markets, this is definitely more catered to the family with children. The greengrocers and butcher can also be found in the centre court.

After getting all our vegetables and fruits for the weekend, went back home to put the things away and then we had to go to attend a meeting a JAFWA. It stands for Japanaese Fan Animation of Western Australia. It is a group of people interested in Japanese animation that gather every weekend at Curtin University to watch anime. They will screen anime from the past to the latest offerings that was recently shown in Japan. Yesterday we watched Captain Harlock (Boy does it bring back memories) Chi's Sweet Home to Seirei no Moribito. You pay $5 for non-members and they will show different animes from 5 pm to 11 pm with break for dinner. Not to bad a deal actually. Didn't stay till the end as we had to rush back home to watch something else.

Even back in Singapore, I've been a TV fanatic and the same goes for here. Instead of watching the local programs, I'll go online to hunt for shows like 超级星光大道 and 国光帮帮忙to watch. I guess we still want to stay in touch with things Chinese and you don't really get much of Chinese TV here only once a while on SBS1 and SBS2. I found 2 good sites so far for it and they both use YouTube for them. One is 综艺Deculture and the other is 爱看大观园. They have other Chinese TV programs and they update them religiously almost every day.