Monday, December 17, 2007
HELLO MATES! I'm back from Australia.
I'm just gonna tell you briefly what I did there (Whoever's bored enough to read), if I told you in detail it would be way too long. Anw, I'll post some photos at the end of the post. Oh and I'll divide it into two posts, one for melbourne and one for gold coast.
1st DECEMBER- FLIGHT DAY
Our flight was at 11pm so we reached the airport at around 9+. I was chionging smses to like Hannah and Shaun, lol. Sorry for not smsing the rest. I was sure I smsed whoever smses me that I was leaving, and some other ppl ofcourse. Anw, the flight was like 7hours. So I watched like 3movies as I mentioned earlier. We, my whole family, watched no reservations first. It's really nice, and the actress for zoe is Abigail sth :D Then Me and my bro watched I now pronouce you Chuck and Larry., Its pretty okay, I gave up on it 3/4s of the way though. And watched transformers again, I fell asleep watching it though, and like slept for an hour. When I woke up it was 4.15am singapore time, lol. Then I watched house. Fortunately I didnt watch that episode before,. But it was slightly freaky,. :D OH AND the plane food is actually really nice.
DAY ONE- Sun
Before I go on, I have to say one thing about Melbourne. It is FLOODED with FLIES. Its seriously irritating. And the seem to bother asians more. Jonathan (Cousin) says theyre attracted to black so I guess thats why. Dorcus (Cousin) and her husband came to fetch us. And we went straight to Esther's (Dorcus's sister) house. Which was where we were staying. They got a new house BIG ONE. Anw, after we dropped off our luggage we went to some dimsum restaurant. After that we went to see Dorcus's and My Aunt's plot of land. Its completely empty right now, they havent started building their houses yet apparently, and theyre one house apart. Then we went to some office with all the house plans and all that stuff then we went home. Nth much a day1, we ate at home.
DAY TWO- Mon
We went to Dorcus's cafe for lunch, and then Esther brought us to the crumpler shop. Dorcus is a dietition actually, but she and her husband own a cafe too, called the meeting place. Her husband is an excellent cook, and she's pretty good herself. We had to take a bus and a train there. For theyre bus youve got to buy like this card that lasts for 2hours for a certain zone. Yeah, pretty cool but I still prefer ez-link cards. More fangbian. Then for the train, you use that same card, and you have to like pull open the doors yourself, LOL. But it closes itself though. :D The crumpler shop is quite small but its got loads of colours. I got myself a grey one like I said. My brother got a brown crumpler bagpack and my mum a light brown crumpler handbag (We're sharing this one). My brother sorta paid for his own bagpack, though my aunt and my parents paid for most of it. I told you Esther and her husband David paid for ours, so they got my brother the limited edition one, which is all red. But they only had the display one left and it was a bit dirty so we reserved one in the crumpler shop in the city. After that we had dinner at this italian restaurant. The servings there are like HUGE. really HUGE. A small is like a large, and a large is like 3 times that. Crazy huh. So we all like shared, but were still super full after that. Then we still ordered gelati which is a bit like ice cream and a bit like icekacang. Weird but pretty nice. And it was like a eight scoop icecream in this one scoop ice cream glass so it was highly unstable and there were like 2 spoons stuck into it at the top which we believe is to like keep it stable. Didnt help much, it was really fun eating it though, it kept sort of falling and I literally dug a hole through it :D I only liked the chocolate flavoured parts mah. At night David and my bro were playing xbox and like halfway I went to watch. Its seriously fascinating to watch them play cause they are both equally sacarstic and ego. And you see boy's sacarsm and ego are usually the retarded and funny types so its really funny. They were playing racing btw.
DAY THREE- Tues
This day was all visting relatives. We had breakfast and Dorcus's cafe again. She makes the nicest ever scones Ive ever tasted. Seriously, its totally wicked. After that My dad's cousin came we fetch us and we went for dinner at some dimsum restaurant again, but due to the big breakfast we had we didnt eat much. After that my dad's cousin's wife brought us to WORD, which is a christian bookroom. The one she brought us to was really big and we spent like an hour there. After that she brought us back to Dorcus's cafe, on the way she picked up two of her kids who are our distant cousins. I know the girl who is the youngest is called samantha but I cant rmb the guy's name. lol. After that My Uncle (Dad's bro) came to fetch us to his house and we had dinner there. I use theyre computer there, went online and posted. :D sadly cause its 3hours ahead there, there was hardly anyone online. Even though its supposed to be summer, melbourne is really cold. Especially at night I was like shivering like mad on the way back home.
DAY FOUR- Wednesday
SHOPPING! Esther brought us to DFO, Direct Factory Outlet. It is really big, its around vivo's size or maybe bigger or smaller. But its just one level I think. Didnt buy much, but I got like two tanktops and a Hoody from the giordano there. My brother bought way more. I cant really rmb what we did after that, spent most of our time shopping in DFO mah. But anw, I went to see the doctor cause I had like sorethroat. Which is seriously irritating. And just seeing the doctor is like 90DOLLARS, like WTH!?!??! blimey. And that doesnt include the medicine, plus you have to go to a pharmacy to buy it yourself. Seriously sucks. At least we didnt buy travelling insurance for nth? After that we went to pick up the car they rented.
DAY FIVE- Thursday
We went travelling for sightseeing. Reason why we rented the car. So it was My Aunt and Uncle and my family. Esther didnt come, she took 1week leave so she could show us around but she didnt follow us cause David wasnt going, he still has to work. Ran out of leave apparently. The drive was pretty long, so I sorta slept but I woke up halfway and my throat started feeling wayway better. We stopped for a few toilet breaks and ate at subways. Our first official stop was TREETOPWALK. Its a bit expensive and my Aunt and Uncle went before so only my family went in. Ive never been on a treetopwalk, Our Church has quite a few but I always miss it :D Its really nice, and my dad says its way longer than singapores. It was really fun though it was really hot AND we didnt get to see birds cause it was too hot. Melbourne's temp is really weird, it gets really hot and then suddenly it drops all the way or sth. The next official stop would have been our cabin. Which is really nice btw. After that we went to the town nearby to have dinner. then we walked abit, went to the beach for a while. Its really beautiful. Then we went back. Watched tv. Australia's tv TOTALLY ROCKS. Two channels actually 7 and TEN HD. Its got all the nice shows. Bones grey's anatomy friends 30 rock that 70's show moonlight. Some of which you see on AXN but still. AWESOME SHOWS.
DAY SIX- Friday
We went to see the twelve apostles. It was super windy, so I had to tie my hair. SO windy you can actually lean on the wind its super cool. We went to another beach too. Awesome scenery. We wrote our names on the sand and my uncle took a picture. My name got washed away twice! super irritating. Cause my uncle had to change his batteries so it took some time. We had red rooster this time for lunch and it was back home.
DAY SEVEN- Saturday
FLIGHT DAY. We didnt do much except pack to get ready for our flight at night to goldcoast. I shant say much bout the flight cause thats for the goldcoast post. But anw, had brunch at dorcus's cafe again. Had her scones for the last time.
Thats about all for MELBOURNE. I'll post about gold coast later, cause Right now I'm gonna watch BRING IT ON, the latest one. Just went to video exy earlier mah. WE got the whole BONES SEASON 1. WOOHOO! BONES totally rocks, you shld watch it someday Even my MUM likes it :D She likes Grey's anatomy too. HAHA.
Here are some photos. Not all the photos are uploaded yet so i'll just post some of the nicer ones on the com right now.

My bro, Me, Esther, David

Dorcus's plot of land

Lunch at the meeting place.

I believe theyre leprechauns.
Well my dad does.

Sitting on the grass.
I'll post more photos next time, it seriously takes way too long.
@ 2:17 PM