it's such a nice view of the city welcome to melbourne so i just can't pin it down into one
word there's something about melbourne that lights me up unlike any other city i've ever been to
it's got a quaint bustle that beats to the rhythm of a pretty chill-out culture of connectivity
a spectrum of color and a network of diverse stories strategically located
at this corner of the earth my name is adam t i've lived in melbourne for almost a decade now
and today i just want to take you around into a day in my life here in melbourne
good morning guys welcome to today's vlog i actually got news today that victoria has about
10 active coronavirus cases and we're likely to go through a little bit more of a lockdown
with announcement happening tonight so sort of thankfully
um i've scheduled something happening today we're heading to the city to meet a friend she's also
a migrant here in melbourne i'll tell you a bit more about her later on as we head into the city
we're gonna explore a little bit of melbourne i'm gonna take you guys around show you the
sights the sounds the people if there is people but we'll probably need to wear master
because of the mandate and i've actually really explored the city of melbourne
for a while because we've technically been in lockdown for the last year so
i'm really looking forward to this i hope you are too but before we head out i'm just going to make
a little bit of breakfast here and then pack up and then get our way so i just need this thing
all right so it's winter now in melbourne which is why i have this really thick jacket on it's about
a half an hour ride with the trains into the city so once we get there we'll meet up with michelle
um and then we'll go for lunch we're gonna take it to this really special place that i love and after
that i'm just gonna explore the city and hopefully you enjoy melbourne as this beautiful place that
i get to share with you today oh man it's such a beautiful day
this is my friend michelle hi she's also malaysian living here in dublin for let me
guess four years now six years six years now okay she's a doctor but she's also a music producer
so today um the music you're hearing in this video that's all her yep that's echo lily
that's my uh well artist name i guess all right um let's check out let's just go up to fed square
for a little bit we'll hang out over there okay and then um we'll talk about plants as we go on
like a pink little thing there let's go let's go check it out
so today's video it was actually inspired by michelle's music um if you listen to the track
there's actually this little segment with um the ticking clocks i think the track is called under
the clocks um which actually um tells the story of like flinders street when i was listening to
it i'm not sure if that's sort of your inspiration absolutely as soon as i touched down in melbourne
i you know i immediately wanted to check out the busking scene in melbourne because melbourne is a
city of art city of music uh and very famous for you know street performances street arts and and
busking and so i thought to myself oh i must i must get myself a busking license and i did and
during my very brief busking stint at the start i was musking a lot at the finger stations and i met
a man who plays the trumpet so we became we became friends and he told me that you know in the past
people people say hey meet me under the clock it's actually afraid yes yes it's a meeting point
i said the same thing today i was like on instagram i was like hey let's meet under
the clocks yeah and that's so cool and i thought to myself oh what a romantic idea
and then fast forward a couple of years later during our first lockdown when i was walking
through the city and it was empty and the train station was was empty so if you listen really
close to the song you could you could hear the sounds that i intentionally made to echo
just like as if i was singing into a chamber it was to emulate that feeling of emptiness and
longing that we felt at the time collectively um even though under the clocks
is my little love letter to melvin i definitely wrote the song with a lot of
longing and loneliness and and missing in as you know as powerful theme because uh we are
in very unique positions where we are so you know closely tied to two places like you know melbourne
and back home yes and you know the complexity of being away from home but at the same time
you know feeling so much in love in your in your current city as well it's a very complex feeling
and i wanted to include all that complexities and you know some compilation of of love stories or
falling in love with love it really does yeah and so all that feeling sort of mixed into uh
into my thought process when i wrote the song and that's how under the box was born yeah love it
you know what we'll actually talk a bit more about this in detail later on in this video um
right now we actually haven't actually had much food to eat so what is your favorite malaysian
food my favorite malaysian food would be nasi lemak okay okay we're not getting that today
we're gonna get my favorite malaysian food and that's right now hello oh we'll have you
got ourselves a coffee and now we're heading to a park so we just hang
out for a bit enjoy the rest of the sun sunny afternoon so we're going up the hill
cool
such a nice view of the city welcome to melbourne
cheers coffee yes melbourne coffee's right that's like a thing here yeah i don't think i know the
extent of how important the coffee culture uh is to my burnings until i actually live here
and really um sort of quote unquote coffee snobs a little bit they are if you're from
melbourne watching this like let us know what is your favorite coffee place because i'm sure
the comment section will go nuts and i'm sure i've already been there
the whole purpose of this video is to actually show you a little bit about melbourne obviously
you saw us eating at um my favorite chicken rice store and honestly in my opinion the best chicken
rice store in melbourne but at the same time as well like part of being a migrant here in
australia or here in melbourne um comes with its challenges and comes with its difficulties of
like connecting to people connecting to home connecting to the food as a migrant yourself
michelle like have you ever found it difficult to sort of connect to melbourne um yeah look i
actually my brother is in sydney and brother's been in sydney for you know more than 10 years
and whenever he um he goes home for holidays and we would catch up and he would say oh you know
if you ever if you ever have the opportunity to go to australia one day just make sure that you
know the first thing you do is to um be friends with the locals and see how they live and how you
know to really understand the australian culture and not just mingle with um you know the malaysian
asian community yeah uh and we do have a such a big community here and because of what i do
as well and i was telling you earlier about how i easily meet 20 patients a day like easy
and to be able to communicate with my patients which is very very important thing to me um is to
you know to understand uh the the how australians live in in in general like to understand like the
afl the foodie culture like you know we didn't know anything about oh tell me about like food
yeah it's massive here like coffee and fully right and specifically here in victoria which is
a state here in australia wow like woody is the biggest yeah and and so i can have something to
talk about whenever i do see my patients it's like oh hey what do you think about the game
and then along the way you meet other malaysians and it's uh i don't know how to describe that
feeling when you were you're walking in a corridor like for example in my workplace
and you hear a malaysian accent and you're like wait there is a malaysian in the room i know
i know that is it's so distinct yeah it's so distinct like okay there's a malaysian
in the room i need to find where the voice is coming from you know and that is just so
so heartwarming i basically call melbourne my second home now and i have a lot of very cool
australian friends but you know they probably won't won't understand fully you know what where
what you and i adam we're going through like you know having to worry about our family back home
absolutely and at the same time trying to live our life here absolutely i put i put this out there in
a video i posted recently about like the untold truth about being an immigrant like there's a lot
of things you don't really get a chance to talk about as an as a migrant um because most people
just won't understand um it's it's so hard to communicate the the nuances of of balancing
family who's overseas balancing a new life and a pursuit for the future whether it's career whether
it's it's relationships whether it's just your passions like this these are things that people
can relate to but then about to balance that with everything of your past and not lose sight of that
as i was editing this i came to realize that the rest of our conversation took
quite a deep dive into our experiences as an immigrant
that would probably be better suited uploaded as a separate video so if that interests you i'll
link the video in the comments section when it's published or subscribe to be notified
all right that's it for today's day in melbourne and the sun's setting now a fun day out yeah that
was a really good day it's nice to actually get out see you okay it's so nice to meet you
i'm about to see my boyfriend okay so i was supposed to meet up with meso here today but
he's left he's left his office he's actually at the hungry jacks down the road so
i'm gonna make my way there and hopefully see him soon then we go out for date nights
um i think i'm gonna end the vlog see about here we had a big day
i thought juicy power was that way
be sure to subscribe and maybe i'll do another one of these series yeah until next time
you see it it's like pink over there is there more to it do you want to walk through it
please don't touch or jump on the knots i definitely want to touch it