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My holiday trip to melborune and sydney officially ended as at 07-07-2007 1700hrs. It was a much anticipated trip as i did things i haven done before like ski-ing and playing with snow. After the phase one of the holiday to sunshine and goldcoast and byron which was a shivering experience i embarkd on phase two on 28th of June 07. Thanks to my friend eric who sent me to the airport so i could save on the public transport and the waiting time. There is soo much to do and see and there's just too little time to finish evryting.

 

In melbourne where the journey commence at 1am when i reached avalon. it's like over 50kilometres from melbourne man... took me near to a hour of driving to reach king street backpackers. The tiolet was made up badly and the double decker beds simply stinks.

AFter catching some sleep the journey continued.

 

29/06/07 Day 1:

We set off for the 12 apostles which is along the great ocean road. Damn bloody long drive with corners similar to mount akina the ride was bumpy and my poor passengers had to suck it up as IM THE BOSS because i'm at the wheel. Nearly killed a koala when IT jumped on the road out of nowhere at one of the sharp bend. IT survived greatly due to my quick responses to the braking system with ABS equied toyota corrolla rented from hertz. Had a fright of my life and from then on i was driving at moderate speed without speeding along the tracks. Victoria's a nice place for you to test your cars. I reach heights which i never thought would be able to reach by dragging the poor corrolla which peaked out at 195km/h. All rgiht soo much for the trying out the cars. We reached a place where it was eagle rock still quite a long drive before reaching the 12huge rocks. And it started drizzling dumpening the spirit of the trip. However setting foot at the gallery where there was a path way to link you to the apostles the weather cleared. Wind was howling the shore like nobody's business man it was cold. But i was well prepareed so it  didn't turn out that bad for me. :D

After spending some time at the highlight of the day where we viewed the rocks we made our way back to melbourne. Was a couple of hours drive back. I would say much of the day was spent it on driving. had dinner at chinatown was worn out after the day of hard driving wiht utmost attention to the road with fear of another koala trying to do another spectacular move. So much so for the first day.

 

30/06/07 Day 2:

Embark on the journey to philip island to see the penguims coming back to shore to lay eggs and mate. Which the island pretty early but the penguim parade only starts at 1700hrs. Had to roam the place went to the vietnamese war museum interestigly at philip island. Learnt some facts about it and nearly dozed off during the video presentation of events which happened in the past. THen to the penguim parade. Cost me 17bucks to watch the penguim come to shore and the tempreature was freezing as the wind was howling once again bringing the temperature lower. the penguims were cute and small sized like tiny babies not like those u've seen in HAPPY FEET so huge. They walk in groups and they seem pretty clumpsy. People out there if you are going to philip island pls do not hesistate to purchase the 20bucks ticket which gives you a more excellent view of the penguim. The 17bucks ticket was a total crap and you need to have a binoculars in order for you to see them clearly and it was dark at the 17bucks arena. That sums up day 2.

 

Would update it when asap alot of things to cover. Hang on yea. :P

Its 5 days since the exams had ended and it has being an eventful 5days with none stop excitement joy events. Let's start from the day after i finished my last paper studying at jirat's place overnite with james. Thanks to them the exam was pretty much simple.

 

Day 1:

 After the exams i went out to the city to shop for thermal wear to get geared up for the upcoming melbourne trip on the 28th which is a 2days from now and i won't be updating the blog unless i find a computer which i can access to update. After shopping i went to collect my rented car from BUDGET car rentals its a stupid rental company which is located at a deserted area and it took james 30mins to roam the city to no avail and i had to get my ass off the car to find the exact location of the damn SHOP! soo pissed well but its over.... That night we sent many ppl off as they finished their last paper and some are returning to singapore n some are going on holidays. Made me go to the airport twice but its worth it as they are my valued friends.. and had dinner at cybercity at chinatown when someone has a HKSA(HongKong Student Asscoiation) card and didn't flash it for us to get the 10% discount. sobsob..

 

Day 2:

Official fun day begins! With the rental car we travelled thousands of kilometres without. I've embarked the journey with a crew of 3 conisiting Lawerence, Kieth and James too bad jirat's not around but anyway we shall add him in when we go on the next road trip. We went sunnybanks for lunch after picking lawerence up form his final paper on the 22th Of June. We went sunnybanks for lunch and after that we went harbourtown to do some shopping which was an empty-handed trip again as i juz can't find anything interesting to buy there and still prefer to shop in SG as there's more variety and nicer clothings. After harbourtown we went to the coast to take bump around. The coast HAS changed soo much since i last visited it 3yrs ago. Everything changed soo much!.. There was a night market and many shops but the weather was chiilling that night as they were placed juz before the beach. Many interesting stuffs were seen and the busker's at surfer's was soo much better as comapred ot the streets of brisbane.

 

Day 3: Afters mugging at the coast to 3am the next day we set of our journey to byron bay the easternest part of australia where you would be able to see the sun earliest in the whole australia. BUT THAT NEVER HAPPENED! It was soo cold up there and we had to cardle together ot keep warmth. and met a couple of singpaoreans there who was as insane as us going to byron bay during winter with the coldness and wetness where it was raining. After coming down from the lighthouse the highest point in byron bay we went 2 several other observation spots which were crap. Btw byron bay is located in New South Wales its about 200+ km from brisbane. Long drive...

 

After that we went to twead heads which was the first settlements in australia but i thought its supposed to be in sydney? where the prison was built made popular by the name "The Rocks"? Something's not right gonna investigate when i find the time. for now gonna leave it as it is. After that we went up sunshine coast after having BIG BREAKFAST at twead heads. It was  a sumptous brekfast wiht alot of junk. :)

 

Went super bee to see the honey factory and purchased some honey and the ginger factory to see what stuffs is avaibale there and the highlight of the day was to went to the strawberry farm to pick STRAWBERRIES! it was fun and the strawberries tasted SWEET! Perhaps im good at choosing the best ones likes. After that we dropped by a placed to have some beef pies which was supposed to be the best beef pies in aussie but whatever it was so so.

 

After the tea break we headed back to brisbane where we chilled out at 3 monkeys a popular place at west end which is an isolated suburb. Had some chocolate milkshake which was crap thou. But a nice place to chill out in the middle of the night where everything's closed. So much for the day it ended on a high note and got back home and slpt like a pig for the next 3 hrs.

 

Day 4:

Had to return back the rented car and went to the city to do some shopping and went to catch a movie fantastic 4. It wasn't good pretty much didn't enjoyed it would rather watch ocean's thriteen which i reckon would be a much better movie as compared to that. that's all for the day and i went home and slpt like a pig.

 

Day 5:

Which was yesterday went to buy a long john to wear inside to combat the snow coldness in melbourne. had lunch at chinatown and cameback home dsicussed more details on the melbourne trip and went to klub kandy at night. Was a pretty good night spot could be compared with our MOS but a smaller scale. Was packed like zouk and the population was pretty much balanced.

 

All right after the long essay gonna upload some photos and end this. Jirat all the best for your wedding!

The 1st paper stinks!!! The paper was not THAT difficult thou but just that i didn't know what to write either sucks....

Yawns its such a boring weather its winter right now and the weather is always sooo cooling and cold. I hate the Radiator Fan... When i on it the room becomes too warm but when i off it the room becomes too cold how contradicting is that why doesn't it mantain the tempreature of the room instead.. Stupid radiator fan which is PROUDLY a PRODUCT of AUSTRALIA. How great is that man. Oh well... no point crying over spilt milk.... 3more papers to go one more week to endure... Before all hell breaks lose and i'll juz sit there and do nothing all day and grow fat. sounds lovely yea. Do not ENVY your time will come sounds familiar doesn't it? crap. cya guys god bless  

Hey folks exam season has began!! It's the last dash of the 07 Semester1 hang in it.... The light at the end of the tunnel is clear CHArGE!!

 

ooops... why am i updating my blog?? hahaha... All right i admit im trying to get away from the book cya folks.. God bless all the best in ya exams

Finally finally all the assignments are over and i'm still alive. Went to catch a movie at southbank today. The weather's turing chill and im mugging all this while since god knows when. :P Cooking is another issue running out of ideas of what to cook and with exams coming out soon on the 12th,19th,20th and the 21st of June all moods get dampen. THere's too many things to do in too little time. And now when it's all over i've got another battle ahead awaiting for me in the examination hall.

 

My school's got a funny system. Ever had an examination paper done in the cafeteria? I'm having 2 papers at the cafeteria so check that out i seriously think that its a bad idea. Some people might just throw their scripts into the rubbish bin? lol.... Well assignment marks has not being fantastically superb so gotta do well in the exams.

 

Finished watching the tv drama heros. but it's only "PART ONE" wth... means there's alot more to go for it. Grey's anatomy is cool too its being screening on sunday on yahoo 7 at 8.30pm soo it's a good timing after dinner can chill for awhile catch ugly betty at 7.30pm and progress to grey's and then to study. Sounds good? But i got to work on the final part which is the most difficult to implement.

 

Transformers is gonna be out soon. Just some brief idea to ppl who aren't no transformer freaks like me. They have being created in the late 80s to early 90s where the annimation of the transformers were done by using some computer programme which i can' t recall. They basically do out the graphics of the annimation with lines of different colours forming the whole image. Consider that LINES it takes ages to complete the series. There's DVD version available from some video stores if you guys are interested on it. But i seriously doubt anything good would come out from the movie on the 28JUNE 2007 where the movie would get released in australia. Soo much talking im definately gonna catch that movie wherever i am.. its soo damn cool. But kind of late for the sequel to continue after being forgotten by many.

 

I'm feeling muggy soo much for now. I bought prok but interestingly there's no more that foul smell comign from it i don't understand. Chocolate is good being living on them for quite some time... keeps you happy and going. But folks i've got a favour to ask for if you guys read this. PRAY FOR ME FOR MY EXAMS... if i score well I'm gonna treat you guys big time yea..

 

Mark my words.. "Save the cheer leader Save the world"