Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Nov 19-24
AUSTRALIA
Brisbane and Sydney

flew out to Brisbane on the 19th 2330.. flight was re-schedule from the original 2130hr..
totally nua over 2 hrs in the airport.
flight was 7hrs and 45mins.
touch down and clear Brisbane international airport at nearly 10am. 20th
where joanna was waiting for me. went for brunch near Mt cootha.went up Mt cootha for a view of Brisbane city nice place you could see all most the entire city from up there.
pop by UQ when jo needs to renew her student id. after a tour of the campus we went up to her place to drop my stuffs and change.nice placejust like your normal apartment. with her was simon and meiqi(dunno how to spell). Took city cat ( a river taxi service that run from city to UQ )
into the city which was supposed to be the faster way into city.
the entire river was muddy due to the recent thunderstorm in bris which i suppose was quite a bad one if the entire length of the river is mud colour. which reminds me of Brunei.. walk around bris city which was easily covered as it's quite small by measure..went to get a bubble tea...
the price was.. AUS$4!! sharks.. that could buy 3 bubble tea with extra bubbles in sg.
head to South bank for dinner. and caught james bond there..which was.. erm.. no really nice ahha
there's one thing about the cinema it's free seating!! so you just walk in and choose you own seat.. but being full hse.. everyone was told to move to e center and not to leave a space. it's so pack till some had to seat on the steps.
had turkey-styled dinner which was slurps gd. ha
it's poured again when we were halfway through the meal.
Lydia was kind enough to send us back home =) thanks Lydia!

21th
slept in jo's hse till 9. all of them went off early for morten island camp that morning.
after which walk over to carol's friend hse which was 2 streets away.
they stayed in a town hse which was abit older but alot more spacious.
there's lots of people there haha.. carol came over bris with 3 other friend namely : Ryan. Kenny. Andrew. where they bunk in with.. shenwee, June, Lydia,Lydia's bf, another couple visiting from sg on recee and one more fellow who got kick out from campus cuz he finished his deg. so total there was 11 people in the hse! partyyy ahha
well went down to surfer's paradise for that sunny day!!
surfing was.. terribly SHIOK! ohoh actually i didn't intent to touch water that day as i neber bring any thing there apart from my cams.. but what the heck since i'm in Gold Coast surfer's Paradise why not do what the local do! SURF.
woohoo neber regret it super shiok. manage to surfed a little after countless knocks tumbles and roll.
Had dinner at Norman's hotel. the food there was woohoo good!

22th

went down to New farm farmer's market to walk ard. it's a place where all e farmer's would bring their stuffs there for sale. quite a interesting place. there was this soft candy which you would find in candy stores. that thin strips of candy which comes in different colours, coated with sugar and taste abit sour.. it's selling there too... in XXXXXL size. one strip is about the length of your arm and prob 1 cm across. sheesh.
took a flight at bris domestic airport to Sydney with carol and gang.
the moment i step out of the airport.. whoosh. a gush of strong wind hit me straight was jolted wide awake.. ani't it suppose to be summer?! what crap.. i was in t-shirt and shorts..
temp was 13 deg with strong wind. brr..gabe claimed that i bought the thunderstorm down to syd.. bleahz. the rest of them was like "yesh so good to be back, cooling"
return to carol's hse to put our stuffs before heading out for dinner. their hse faces sunset.. had a big spacious bacony where you can sit and enjoy the sunset.
went up to the rocks for dinner where we had a view of Sydney opera hse and the bridge. nice!
Had gourmet pizza for dinner. kangaroo/seafood and roast duck. all of us agree that roast duck was the best. went for chocolate dessert next at max brener.. it's good.. i tell you.. thick rich chocolate slurps!

23th

woke up early to attend service at hillsong church with carol which was a short bus ride away.service was great but abit short boo..
had lunch in chinatown and walk ard the weekend market nearby where we met up with ryan
after which we went to darling harbour and walk around thier cbd area for awhile. bought darrll lee's chocolate which was good and ex.. went back to collect my stuffs and met up with gabe who live 10 mins away from carol's hse. went shopping ard at their supermarket for stuffs.
return back to gabe's hse to paly guitar hero! he got the entire set.. from drum set.. 2x guitar and even a mic! omg so fun haha play till darn tired kept missing the beats snorts. maybe i'm just not good with music stuffs ahah.

24th
went out early to fish market for breakfast.. really have to walk for the food.. it's about 15mins walk from city. but the seafood there was superb. seafood booze slacking at the jetty side. sigh.. good life. went bondi beach after that it's a cresent shaped beach and good waves for surfing.
flight back landed sg 2230. 3hrs younger. haha!

5days 2 cities 2 beaches 4 stayover places
and lots of new friends.
many thanks for you guys whom made this trip possible.
if not i'll be sleeping in the streets everynight.!