Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Final Week of School!

Here are all the pics of sandboarding abt 1 wk plus ago. It was fun! haha.

















Okie, guess i wun be updating for some time le, exam coming soon. haha. I know ntu pple getting back results in 2 days. haha gd luck to everyone! =)

Thursday, May 22, 2008

8 more weeks here!

haha, haven been writing for the past 3 weeks. have been busy with sch lah, assignments, tests, reports etc. suddenly so many things sia haha. actually noting much happen these few wks also, plus of course im lazy to update lah haha.

anway, time flies... left 8 more wks in sydney le. hmm actually its oso abt time lah, i abit homesick liao oready haha.

went to canberra on 9th may and stayed there for 1 night. in case all of u duno, canberra is the capital of australia, not sydney or melbourne, as often mistaken by many pple haha. hmm canberra is really a small place, nothing much, the city is jux like hmm the size of toa payoh maybe? haha. n the main thing there is the parliament house and museum. omg, cant believe i actually went to these 2 places. i nv go to spore's museum before lah i think (or maybe got go with sch before lah but i dun remember at all haha). but the lake there, lake burley, was not bad, nice scenery. probably the best thing in canberra haha. it was damn boring at night also, in the end we went to watch a movie there at night hahaha. made of honour. not a bad movie.


lake burley. nice.






museum. boring haha.


evening view of the lake. i think its really nice




parliament house. hmm on the day we went, it was jux nice the 20th anniversary of this new parliament house, so get to tour inside, got to see the prime minister's office oso. but still, really, nothing fantastic or interesting haha. the view frm outside is not bad though.



never really go anywhere after canberra, cept mayb to the city a couple of times. hav been watching a few movies here though, like iron man, made of honour as mentioned, and 21.


harbour bridge at night


opera house at night. i wish my camera was better. haha cant really take nice pictures of the night view of the bridge and opera house.

hmm that's abt it le haha. exams coming in 3 wks, so wun really do much (though theres still a whale watching and sand boarding event coming on sat, and an end of semester party on 30th may) and wun really post much. i noe i only nd to pass lah, but now really hav problems passing, so erm nd to start a bit. haha and also coz nd to do well for survival models lah.

exams ending on 20th june. hope the day come asap. haha. anyway, every1 shld finish exam le rite, cept for SIM pple haha. for those having holiday, enjoy ur holiday! for those in attachment, enjoy ur work! for those doing projects, enjoy ur projects! and for those still having exams, gd luck! =)

Sunday, May 4, 2008

2 Weeks Break! (final part)

Ok, finally at the last part of the trip.

Went to Hobart, Tasmania for the final few days of the holiday, and i tot it was the best part of the whole trip. Probably fraser island will be as good as this if it hadn't rain so much haha.

I arrived there around mid day on tue, then spend the whole day relaxing, walking around the city and planning for the next day coz joe only reaching at night. so in the end we decided to go huon valley the next day, to do some bushwalking and see scenery. and we decided not to book any tour coz it was quite ex and we tot we can walk ourselves. we were so wrong. huon is such a small town that transport around the area is almost impossible without a car. there is only a bus frm hobart to huon at limited times of the day, and frm there, it is impossible to get to those places of attractions like the caves, mountains etc without a car or following a tour.

so we were like stuck at huon, go to the information centre oso not much use coz not much they can help haha. in the end we look for the nearest mountain frm there and took a cab there. hai, but then the taxi driver seem to drop us at the wrong place, and we ended up walking like 8km frm the place she drop us to the foot of the mountain lol. siong sia. the mountain is called mount misery, and its like a place for pple to go there relac lah, there are like campsites or houses built there for pple to rent for a few days. anyway, we climbed the mountain, and back down in like 2 hrs haha which is a bit shorter than the amt of time we walk there. nice.
the next day, we were back in hobart in the morning and went to a brewery tour in the afternoon. cascade brewery, the oldest brewery in australia haha. not a bad tour lah, then still got some free drinks. ohh and we ate lunch there too. joe ordered wallaby meat lol. actually it looked and taste like pork leg lah, hahaha we wun noe even if its not wallaby meat. so by the time it ended it was around 4 le, we just go n walk around the city and went back to hostel le. my day actually ended very early for the whole trip lah hahanothing much to do at night sia.
on fri, we went to mount wellington, its like a must go place if we are at hobart. tallest mountain in hobart. and we paid for transport up to the mountain. thank god we did that, coz as we walked down (took 2 hours), we are sure we would not be able to make it up if we had decided to walk up hahaha. the scnery was beautiful lah, but too bad its a little foggy. and its damn cold and windy!!!! luckily i prepared my jumper man haha.
finally, on sat, it was to salamanca market. this market only opens on sat, but its really like a bigger pasa malam, and it sells a bit better things than pasa malam haha. still, there are things to shop lah so not too bad.
and that marks the end of my holiday haha. came back to sydney early in the morning on sunday. its a long break, but after looking back i find that a lot of time has been spend waiting and also slping lol.

took this in the bus on the way to my hostel in hobart city

hobart is a small city, but i think its quite a nice place, though it can be really boring at night

2nd day at huon, this is where the taxi drop us haha, a long walk awaits...


basically we walk on this kind of road for 8km, many cars drove by lah, but we din dare to stop them to ask for a ride haha


on the way to the top of mount misery

at the top. the view shld be nice if not for the fog lah.




cascade brewery tour on the 2nd day. i find it stupid that they ask us to wear the yellow vest thruout the tour haha


this is where the beer is femented

the view inside


this is where they process the bottles before its ready for sale


the building, has a long history, but i din pay much attention when the guy is toking haha
wallaby meat~!

evening scene at hobart. nice.


at the top of mount wellington. again, it is foggy. sad man haha













salamancan market


caught this while i was walking at the market. the mountain at the background is wellington


took this for fun hahaha. very surprised to see a proton... in australia! omg

Friday, May 2, 2008

2 Weeks Break! (continued)

After going back to Hervey Bay from fraser island in the evening on friday, joe and i waited til like abt 1.30am to catch a bus to sufer's paradise, gold coast. Spent the next 3 days 2 nights there. Well, i would say it's not the best part of the trip there haha. On the 1st day, we went to harbour town, a place with many direct factory outlets, to shop. Bought a polo t for myself there.

Then on the 2nd day and 3rd day, i went to 2 theme parks while he went surfing, coz he was not interested to go to the theme parks haha. but to me gold coast is famous for their theme parks lah, so i really wanted to go take a look. there were quite a number to choose frm, i chose movie world and sea world, which is a super bad choice considering im going alone haha

Both places are like very family oriented, very suitable for kids, or for like couples. And the rides were.. erm.. not very gd too, most dun look exciting at all manz lol, onli like 1 or 2 good ones. so on the 1st day at movie world, i spent most of time time looking around, shopping for things, and watching some of the shows there.

The sea world was even worse than movie world, they have a whole sesame street themed area for kids. omg. the only thing i really enjoyed there was the dolphin show, which was really gd. there are like a water park there, with some slides, but think wild wild wet in spore has better ones lol. haha so for pple going to gold coast, if u are looking for nice and exciting rides, pls go to dream world, and probably wild and wet (not exactly sure abt the name, its just beside dream world i think). for those gonig with family, with kids, movie world and sea world will be the ones for u haha.







one of the shows i watched at movie world, police academy, not too bad, got quite a few stunts.




the ride i took at movie world. think its the best 1 there haha. but waited 45 mins just to take it manz



the dolphin show, nice. mayb coz i like dolphins, so i enjoyed it a lot, took a few videos of the show too.




the ride i took at sea world, not scary 1 haha


another show i saw at sea world. not too bad oso.

haha so that's abt it for the 2nd part of my trip le bah i guess. not the best part of my trip, but not too bad too lah, at least able to see how the theme parks are like there, watch some nice shows and get to shop for some souvenirs (erm.. for family de hahaha).