Melbourne - The Last Day

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Played until half dead the day before, so this day I woke up quite late I think.. Spent sometime online in the morning and had fried rice as lunch....

Andy cooked..

First should mix the rice with eggs so that it is evenly spreaded:


After some time, with my aid, here is the result:
Tadaa~~

At night, we went to some chinese restaurant to eat:

Monkey using spoon...

After that we went to College Square again, this time we brought Mango mousse cake, shared with the rest of ANU-ian... It is super nice with strawberry toppings ^^ and glad that ChinYee loves it too.

This is the bday girl on the left, from her face you can see that the cake is good.. Good choice KarWai /gg

Didn't sleep that night, haha.. seriously..

Melbourne - Great Ocean Road

Monday, June 30, 2008

In the morning had to wake up very early, went for McD 1st before heading to City:


Be there by 7 plus and we were sent to the faraway place of Bells Beach, there will be more photos to words because Great Ocean Road is mainly there because of its scenic paradise...


There was a rainbow because it was raining that time.. I was praying hard not to rain because it will ruin the whole thing I think.. But not in that day's case.. lucky enough..


Had lunch in a food-court-alike place:
Apparently most of us consumed fish n chips...

12 Apostles:







Razorback canyon:


London bridge:





More photos on http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=128803&l=84e5f&id=701020569


Played until quite late and had dinner in city, I ate vegetarian pizza, because I didn't want to eat meat that night to thank GuanYinMa as it didn't rain heavily.. hehe



Then went to play cards (UNO) in JiaYi's sis place and I lost.. lol.. What happened? you can find out in my facebook.. LoL!!

and 1 more day left...

Melbourne - Philips Island

Sunday, June 29, 2008

and here comes one of the tiring day...

Had lunch in Nelayan, an Indonesian Cuisine Restaurant, food is like in Malaysian but it's less spicy...

me and Hsiao
Andy
These are excellent tasty! with gula melaka inside, I remember last time during primary school my BM teacher used to make for my class to eat ^^ Yum

We then passed by these street performers:


While waiting for time we walked around and did some window shopping + inside shopping (but din't buy stuff)

Later...
With 14 ppl including me, we took a bus prebooked by us to Philips Island!

our 1st stop was some animals park, named Fauna bla bla something....

This is my 1st time seeing KANGAROOs! even though I've been in Australia for so many months already...

Woohooo Kangaroo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get to feed them somemore!!
Actually kangaroos have 6 fingers..
Koala bear sleeping on a tree ^^
and there's a chicken run...


These are Dingos, coyote-alike animals..
Do Not put your hand in!

I think they are called emu..
Duckies...
Little kangaroo.. so cute~~
Some garden for ducks I think...

That time it started to drizzle and got heavier and heavier fast so we didn't spend too much time enjoying the scenery there... but we managed to:


Actually the ground is full of poos so we have to be careful not to step on them!!

With JiaYi...

After that the driver cum tour guide brought us to the coast..
Beautiful place...

The wind is strong and chilly.. but quite nice actually..
with SeeMuN, Joyce and YeanTat...

that day we were lucky, managed to find some penguins under the bridge so we took photos! because we are not allowed to use Camera when penguins are coming up from the sea.. it will blind their eyes according to the tour guide...


These are statues:


Lastly, souvenirs shop... Penguins are so so cute actually, these penguins are only 35cm tall when they reach adultery, when climb up from the sea to their home they have to feel worried for any dangers on the land somemore.. poor thing.. Apparently, it's illegal to kill penguin..


me with penguin dolls ^^ But the quality isn't that good so I didn't buy any of them :(


Andy, HsiaoLeng, Joyce and KarWai...

Tataz.. went back to have Japanese food before heading home to sleep.. Tried to sleep early that night because we had to wake up super early the next day for another trip, wait for my next post ^^

Melbourne - Shopping

Saturday, June 28, 2008

After a tired day 2, I proceeded the next day waking up a little bit late. JiaYi's group went to the jail (to visit) and SeeMun's group went Victoria Market? Not very sure though..

However I didn't join them, reached city in the afternoon and had lunch there:
Assorted rice/ Mixed rice..
Seriously nice and cheap, and filling too ^^ btw the place is called China Express and it's near Melbourne Central.

We then met up with JiaYi's group to a travel agency named ExtraGreen to plan some daily trips for Philips Island and Great Ocean Road.. Finally we decided to book a bus as it's slightly cheaper and more convenience. It cost $70 for Philips and $62 for Great Ocean, but this doesn't include a hidden charge of $4 per trip, means $8 in total, felt that we got conned so we didnt pay for the 1st one.. But forced to pay the second one... So next time when you travel, ask if there's any hidden charges.. (Especially chinese shop(Not trying to be racist here))

We then travelled to Smith Street by Tram to shop, tram is a kind of transportation that runs on a track, something like bus but it can only moves along the track. Stuff there is cheap!! So here I spent some on...
a bag from Nike shop, had 30% discount on $50 which makes it $35. Seriously cheap and since I need it so I just bought it. (That time I went to Melbourne without check-in luggage, cool leh)

Then wanna go back but instead brought the rest of us to Glen Waverley by train...

welcome to railway

Walked around there for a while then stopped by a vietnamese (I think) restaurant for dinner. So we ordered something like:
My fried rice..
Geoffrey's food which looks nice...
Free tau-geh...

The rest ordered some noodle thingy. The fried rice is good btw, like what I ate in Malaysia.. and the toilet is kinda cool, you have to walk out of the restaurant and use a key they gave you to open the door.. LoL..

hehe this post got less photos.. but be prepared for the next one ^^

Melbourne - Changes

Friday, June 27, 2008

Now it was day 2, when I had quite sufficient amount of sleep as I woke up around 9 in the morning. Well I was in my friend's house so I didn't join the rest until at night..

Andy aka HengKeat, HsiaoLeng and I went to a saloon called "Good Morning" to cut hair, while Andy was waiting for us (HL and I).

The before and after session:

Cut by this fellow named Han...

and here went my fringes.. :(

Closer look:



We then move to a Taiwanese restaurant named "the booth"


Posed there while waiting for food:


and food came.. RAW!!
The food is really nice!

Gangster look...


DFO in the suburb, very far...

Shopped there, I bought a jacket which cost only $50, very cheap and it's warmer than my previous one. Bought a postcard as well but haven't sent yet.. It pictured the Casino in Melbourne City.

Went back for dinner, this time Andy cooked:
Look at the thing in the wok.. Woohoo Indo-mee goreng!!

and Prawn fry (虾煎)

then we 'lou sang' （捞生）


After the meal we took a train to city to meet up with JiaYi's group..

Passed by Botanic Garden's clock:


Eureka Tower and Ferris Wheel:
with cool camera effect ^^

In the ferris wheel, which cost about $6.50 per ride, after YeanTat negotiated with the lady there...


Group photo.. haha this is the only "box/cabin" that has girls ^^


Merry-go-round


Weird statue


Some dragon shape thingy...


These are in the Crown Casino:
Bought 4 pieces of cake, which cost about $7.50 each, expensive leh....

These are the fire "breathed" by the pillars of casino, due to the high income they earned from gamblers.. lol
You will feel quite hot when standing near it...

Okay tired d... Time to sleep zzzzzz

Melbourne - Arrival

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Took Tiger Airways to Melbourne, about the flight, read my previous post...

In Tullamarine Airport, we took a cab for 9 of us to College Square. The people include: SeeMuN, Geoffrey, YeanTat, ChinYee, JiaYi, Miles, Vincent, KarWai and HsiaoLeng, which is in accordance to the sequence in below photo:



We were actually under something:



Woohoo, we were at so called China street that time, after we had our lunch in Claypot King. Surprisely I forgot/or any excuse to take the photo of the food..

Then we visited Melbourne Central(/Centre?) before heading back to Lygon street (where College Square erected).

Melbourne Central

On our way back we definitely passed by this:
But I'm not sure if it's the National Library or Museum...

Hsiao and I actually walked back to Melbourne Central because we were staying in our friends' house, saving the accomodation (Hotel etc) fees ^^

Met up with my secondary school friend named Andy aka HengKeat there and we waited about an hour for Hsiao's friend Olivia because she had work to do..

Meet Andy, if you wasn't sure which 1 is Andy, probably that you have stumbled upon a wrong blog =p

We then went to a weird place to eat pizza, it's really a weird place.. We had 4 dollars pizza each person but the place was too crowded.. Guess where is the place? See:
It's actually a pub... Sweat, pub which sells pizza o.O

But we didn't drink there...

Then Andy and I went to the Casino for a look, its called Crown, which sounds so grand. There, I get the membership card for free:


Casino is cool, but its not a good thing for gamblers, because it guarantees those who gamble to lose, in average of course... So don't gamble..

After that we went to a "mamak" named Chilli Padi, well the food there is good, but the bad thing is that they served us in plastic cup and plate..

Actually didn't notice that behind me there are all wine!! (just found out less than a minute ago)

I ordered this, black pepper chicken rice? Seriously forgot the name.. haha.. It's cheap and nice (compared to Canberra)! and there's teh halia beside.. ^^

Reached back home in Boxhill around 3am that time then we faster went to sleep because there's more stuff to do the next day.. This ends the 1st day in Melbourne..

Back from Melbourne..

I was there for roughly a week and I didn't have much time to blog even though I brought my laptop with me there.

Anyway, now I'm back to Canberra, a place where it's significantly colder but less windy, which make me nothing much different from Melbourne..

Took Tiger Airways back, the plane is small, shaky, and puking invoking (wonder if there's such words)... However, it's cheap, that's the only reason why people are taking this flight, not recommend for elder people though, because it's worse than playing a roller-coaster, get what I mean now?

Felt quite dizzy and tired when we got back to Bruce Hall, actually we practically didn't sleep yesterday, serious, not even a 30 minutes nap... Haha

Seriously, I have to sleep soon.. But gonna try to blog about my Melbourne trip 1st.. Hehe, enjoy! (Start from next post)

I'm alright~~

I'm already fine, at least in my own opinion...

Was actually very sad yesterday, never felt like this for a very long time d, but surprisingly I wasn't not that bad today ^^

About why I'm sad, save your breath in asking...

Actually had a bad dream before yesterday night, and realised there's tear in my eyes.. Haha

Downloaded a song named "Why I have been fallen in love with you?", a japanese song sang by DBSK, a korean group singers. It's a new song...

Spontaneously, it just happened that the song suited my feeling well, maybe it is destined to be so...

Found the lyric and its translation on http://farahshar.multiply.com/journal/item/198.


Doushite kimi wo suki ni natte shimattan darou
Donna ni toki ga nagarete mo kimi wa zutto
Koko ni iru to omotteta noni
Demo kimi ga eranda no wa chigau michi

Doushite kimi ni nani mo tsutaerarenakattan darou
Mainichi maiban tsunotteku omoi
Afuredasu kotoba
Wakatteta noni
Mou todokanai

Hajimete deatta sono hi kara
Kimi wo shitteita ki ga shittanda
Amari ni shizen ni tokekonde shimatta futari

Doko ni iku nori mo isshou de kimi ga iru koto ga touzen de
Bokura wa futari de otonaninatte kita
Demo kimi ga eranda no wa chigau michi

Doushite kimi wo suki ni natte shimattan darou
Donna ni toki ga nagarete mo kimi wa zutto
Koko ni iru to omotteta noni
Mou kawanai

Tokubetsuna imi wo motsu kyou wo
Shiawase kao de tatsu kyou wo
Kireina sugata de kami sama ni negatteru kimi wo

Boku janai hito no tonari de
Shukufukusareteru sugata wo
Boku wa douyatte mioreba ii no darou

Doushite kimi ga suki ni natte shimattan darou
Ano koro no bokura no koto
Mou kawanai (kangaeta kangaeta)

Doushite kimi no te wo tsukami ubaenakattan darou
Donna ni toki ga nagarete mo kimi wa zutto
Boku no yoko ni iru hazu datta (sono mama ni)

Soredemo kimi ga boku no soba hanareteite mo
Eien ni kimi ga shiawase de iru koto
Tada negatteru
Tatoe sore ga donna ni sabishikute mo (sabishikute mo)


Translation:

Why did I end up falling for you?
No matter how much time has passed
I still thought you were right here
But you've already chosen a different path

Why couldn't I call out to you at all?
Every day and night growing emotions
And words overflow
But I realized that
They'd never reach you again

Since that day I first met you
I felt like I already knew you
You and I melded into each other so smoothly

It was natural for me to be where you were
The two of us grew up together
But you've already chosen a different path

Why did I end up falling for you?
No matter how much time has passed
I still thought you were right here
Now we can't turn back

The special meaning held by this day
Today you stood with a happy expression
You looked beautiful while praying to god

But I wasn't the one next to you
And the image of you receiving blessings
Of that how could I let go?

Why did I end up falling for you?
How we were before
We can't return to it anymore (I've thought it through, thought it through)

Why didn't I hold on to your hand?
No matter how much time has passed
You should've always been by my side (never changing)

But still, even if I'm nowhere near you anymore
I'm praying that you
May be happy for eternity
No matter how much that would make me lonely (no matter how lonely)



It's really a nice, but sad song...

The mountain

Do you know how it feel to fall down from a mountain?

It's actually quite painful...

I haven't fallen from the mountain, I think, but fell from a hill is actually pain enough... Yeap I did.

Actually did alot of stuff that I've never done before, seriously seriously alot, and to have so many first times, is actually hard.. and will screw up eventually, take my 1st job for example...

But everything start from first time...

At least I've started to climb the mountain, four days after my final exam... Despite my hardwork in searching, I couldn't find my four leaf clover. It is snowing... But I can stand it, definitely! I won't give up... Is it hiding from me? Afraid? I wanna say sorry if I did something wrong... Maybe the way I took was not so right, perhaps I should change my style...

Seriously, I will find you...

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(Forced smile :)

KarWai why are u slowing down??? Go KarWai Go!!!

Some updates.. feeling good..

Actually I'm feeling happy right now, the happiness is coming from the heart, it is just happy ^^

Okay my exam finished on Friday, it was kinda tough actually, but its still do-able luckily, just hope I will do fine.. That day, it was raining whole day, I don't know why? It's really special to rain because it's the last day of my exam...

Then on Saturday we had after-exam-party organised by people from Unilodge (Another uni-accomodation). It was massive, it's called potluck where everybody ought to bring some food and we combine them to become a splendid meal. However, the food there are good! Except the stuff I brought, fries and hash browns, which were cooked in friend's room.. I can't believe there were so little people ate it.. Fortunately, thanks to some friends who are nice enough to bring back some of the hash browns back, I seriously seriously appreciate it, THANKS!!!!! Words can't express my gratitude..

Photos of food might appear if I got it, I might get it soon enough...

Hehe, we then played a game called Mafia, quite nice though, it can be full of strategy or just pure random fun, depending on your choice. But I left after the first game because there's something on for me the next day, brought back some chocolate cake, which is super good ^^

Woke up early on Sunday, which is this morning, because I have an errand to run for. Had to run to Manuka Oval (which is far, by bus actually) and be a casual ticket seller for AFL football match. Well, I don't know anything about it though. The process was rather messy, but it turned out well, that's good, apparently I collected more cash than my sales, can't really explain it but it's a good thing i guess but not for customers.. I think my performance was really bad actually, especially my english speaking, its terrible.. I have to improve it.. Sigh... and I was so clumsy while selling the tickets, probably due to coldness, or perhaps being nervous??

I think I will get about $100 soon, after I've sent the form to TicketMaster...

Now I'm here blogging.. Tired... Think I will wake up mid afternoon tomorrow.. haha ^^

Finish

Finally exam finished.. but but but.......