The Oriental Tea House

Today I went to the Oriental Tea House on Little Collins Street, Melbourne. There is an amazing range of teas and teapots to buy, and the great thing is that you can try the tea before you buy a box. They do a Yum Cha service, but not on Sundays, like today. I had the Clay Pot Chilli Dumplings which were quite impressive, and Honey Pepper Steak, which was great too. If you don't want to buy a box of tea, there is a vast tea range on the menu. The walls are high, but drop down near the counter where a top floor with more tables is situated.

I would recommend this restaurant for a nice day out in the city.

Pottermore Insider Site Updates

For a long time people have been asking when the Chamber of Secrets is coming out on Pottermore. I have been answering comment about this with: Go the www.insider.pottermore.com, and look to the sidebars. There will be a sidebar saying "Site Updates" and click on pottermore, then you will see updates on the progress of CoS.

Another regular question I see posted in my common room are about help with dueling and brewing. With dueling: make sure you be as accurate as possible, and waiting until the ring around the letter is biggest. REMINDER: You can only practice against your house, not win points against them. With brewing: make sure you read the instructions very carefully and be cautious. I am aware that you only have a certain amount of time to prepare, but make sure you don't confuse the measure counter. The best potion to brew is a Sleeping Draught: as it gets you 11 house points, the largest reward of all the potions. It uses Valerian Sprigs, Lavender Sprigs and Flobberworm Mucus, all costing 1 galleon from Diagon Alley. With a copper cauldron (the fastest cauldron, pewter being the slowest), it must be left to brew for 53 minutes.

TIP: Make a potion, and while waiting for it to brew, duel and duel and duel!

Le Petit Gateau with a hint of Tiny Tower

So I heard about this place called Le Petit Gateau. It's a cake shop, and their cakes look AMAZING! I'm hopefully going there on the weekend, so I'll keep you guys posted on how it is.

visit www.lepetitgateau.com.au for more details. The gallery is definitely worth checking out, the cakes look AMAZING (better refrain from saying that one more time)!

I've now got 35 floors on tiny tower and anxious to reach 50! For those of you who don't know, in Tiny Tower, you basically run a skyscraper, build more floors, keep businesses stocked and rent residential floors out to 'bitizens'. Instead of facebook, there is bitibook, where bitizens will post about their lives, about when they have to restock the floors they work on, and some references to other Nimblebit games, as well as some rather funny comments. It's a free app for iPod touch, iPhone and iPad, and suggest you get it immediately! It's an awesome game!

Cloud Animals

How cool is this? I just saw these huge clouds out of the car window and spotted this teddy bear shaped cloud!

An Exciting Time of Year!

Well, bonjour!

Everyone on Pottermore are really excited for tomorrow's results, and there are a lot of contradicting posts about the scores. For more details on this, refer to the older post about Pottermore, but I am pretty sure housecup.info has it covered. They now have (or I just noticed) a sign saying that 'at ... time, ..... was leading .... by .....', so we have an idea of when this was. Houses can jump infront of each other very quickly, so keep on dueling and brewing! I think the claws and puffs are reluctant to duel, but brewing certain potions (like the sleeping draught: 11 points) can get you way more house points than dueling. 

UPDATE: Last time housecup.info was updated was (2am PST).

And just one little thing before I go...

I went to Oz Comic Con, and it was AMAZING! There were tons of things to buy, and I came out with 3 badges (Keep Calm and Don't Blink, The Game and S.P.E.W: Society for the Promotion of Elflish Welfare), a MARAUDERS MAP (very accurate indeed), and a little postcard saying 'Keep Calm and Call Sherlock! Unfortunately, Stan Lee wasn't around after the 2 and a half hour wait in the ticket queue, and neither were any other celebrities, but oh well. I am DEFINITELY going next year, in FULL costume (haven't decided what of yet) and DEFINITELY seeing awesome people!

I won't be posting for a while because I'm going away (without my computer! I will die!), but you might receive an early morning post on the Pottermore results before my flight!

Pottermore: SO EXCITING!

I'm in Slytherin house and I'm really excited at the moment, as the Pottermore house cup is going to be revealed on Thursday, the 5th of July. I have been brewing and dueling nonstop! The house points have been covered up until the big day, but some people are getting glitches where they see the house points when the page is loading. You can visit housecup.info to keep tabs on the scores, but they aren't always accurate, and apparently it's only updated every eight hours.

I have heard that there are spies in some houses, and are reporting peoples comments. This is quite annoying for everyone on the receiving end of all this.
                   



Well, I think that's all I've got to say for now. The photo you see is the best spell potency I have ever gotten! YAY! Got it just today!

P.S. The Chamber of Secrets is rumoured to open after the house cup is announced! EEEEEK!

First Post

Hey guys! This blog is (hopefully) going to be me posting stuff on topics like Pottermore, Doctor Who, movies, TV shows and my life (don't worry, it's not that boring, *I hope*).  See you soon!