♡ pretty sydney. pretty memory.
Sunday, December 26, 2010, 7:43 PM
To all dear blovvers. Sorry for the major lack of updates.
Had been trying to post but the system has not been cooperating any well. Ohwell, here's to the few who've been asking for my Sydney Trip updates. The pictures will be hecka lot. Well, just you know that this new here, do not have a freaking facebook account. Yes, I do not want to create one. Okayyyy, just the dang fact that facebook would prolly take a huge part of my time, I decided to skip the experience. Ah, some noob said it's being anti-social. Well, better than a crazy freak who sticks in front of the computer screen glaring at OTHER PEOPLE UPDATES righttttt. K, no offense to all you facebook-er. But people seriously. Trust me, at least you've done it once in your lifetime before. The glaring part, I meant. Okay okay enough digressing. Lets tune back to our focus. Where were we? Oh yes. Sydney trip. Here you go.
1 Dec Head out by 1745. Reached airport at 1830. :( Flight was delayed and carried 2 hours forward. God knows howww disappointed all of us were. I mean come on, we were all so anxious to get to the plane and reach Sydney ASAP, yet the stupid flight was delayed!!!
Ahwell, met Tante Noi and Kak Nurin and the rest and checked in our luggages first. Then, had drink at the basement's cafeteria. BLAH BLAH BLAH, the folks started talking and talking and talking while my head went spinning and spinning and spinning. I swear, it must be my bad omen that I perfectly gotten sick and fever the next day, just in lieu of my vacation. Tell me how not frustrated can you, I mean anyone get. But shut up. Don't blame it on my unlucky immune system. Hey, I've been pretty much on good health condition year throughout. No doubt I suddenly fall sick all at the end of this year. I swear mama was panicking at the very last minute, my goshhhhhhh. AHHHH, RUNNNING NOSE, DAMN IRRITATING. Checked in at 2230. 95% blonde headed detected. Haha. We're the only asians, I guess. Had a little fight in the holding room. Mama-Im-jealous-but-im-sorry-i-didnt-mean-to-hit-her fight. Some australian kidd. MY GOD! CANNOT SHUT UP. Okayy. So we took British Airways. Heck! I sat beside a damn hot angmoh guy. HEHE. EXCITED EXCITED. But dangggg, nahh, tattoos. Eurgh. At 1215, supper was prepared. Rice, stewed with green gravy fish, long beans, cold chicken, butter bread, apple punch. Haha, does that even sound like supper??? HAH. More like dinner. I got caught up in some movie in the plane. HEHEH, Shrekkkk.
God. I bought like stacks and stacks of lozenges and kept popping it to my mouth every second I cough. Ate medicine and finally dozed off at 0100.
2 Dec
Woke up at 0400(SG time) / 0700(AUS time). Damn still have running nose. But fortunately my throat seem to be better than yesterday's after taking panadol. The medicine must have cause me to keep tearing out :'( At 0529(SG time) / 0829(AUS time) breakfast was prepared. Menu - orange juice, strawb yoghurt, raisin roll and a nice tea. I only have the cup of tea for breakfast. Uhuh.
At 0915(AUS time) we arrive in ★S Y D N E Y★ .
Mama and Tante Noi did all the necessary admin stuff while I went roaming around the airport. Finally talked to Kak Nurin. I swear, all this time me and Selena just shut up and keep ourselves away from her. I mean come on la Kak Nurin, you never even smile...make it seem as if you're so unapproachable :( I finally initiated the talking first. She just finish her A levels the day before ohmeegod. Eemahgene the stress. She took 3 years in JC so that explains a little of old age for a JC citizen. Haha, speaking to a cousin whom I barely talk to for all these years who is 4 years older than me, kinda grew awkward at the start, we clicked off pretty well through the trip :)
There were some hiccups along the way about the car rental thingy and stuff so we kinda took a few hours in the airport. I swear I was really hungry cause whatnot, I only had a freaking tea for breakfast! So we settle for McD. But Tante says the chicken might not be halal so I had to have the most dreadful fish fillet :( :( :( :( :( The mothers finally settled for Budget car rental service .
Picked our car and head to our apartment. Camry's our choice.
Reached Oaks Hyde Park Plaza at 1100 and checked in.
Upon reaching, all of us had a couple hours of rest before heading out for our first sydney-seeing.
Woke up around 1500 and headed to Hay Market / Market City they call it. Pretty city I must tell. Well, nothing really to whoa about actually. Sydney's pretty much like in Singapore. Just that it is the town Singapore. Very little suburban areas. Haha. They sure do have little double deckers suburbans houses a very nice garden to rectify everything. AHH, JUST SO PRETTY. Thing is, Sydney's just way too noisy. Day in day out, hours after couple of hours, sirens of ambulance and police and firetrucks kept the city alive. Kinda no peace at times. Haha. We, have train tracks build ahead of roads and expressways, they have trains ON the road itself. Well must say they have a couple types of trains. The one on the road, one above the road, and another one beside the road :) Hah.
They don't have slums on the road nor beggars. Instead that have pretty much weird and kinda enticing public performers. The guy down there could pretty much slim down after hulla-hooping for at least a month. His rate of resilience is superb till the point when after we've came out shopping from the Market City, he's still there. Haha. Something to be respected for.
The Sydney Police Court. One of the amazing public artist I've ever seen. Great artwork leashed. Sydney bus. Well if you think this is a police car, well, it's not. It's a cab. For freaking sake, a cab look so much alike like a freaking cops car. HAH. And here, the don't say it Burger Kings. They say it Hungry Jacks. We lived in 38 College Street, near to these streets. Liverpool Street, George St, Elizabeth St. Hah, surprise surprise. They too have Chinatown here. Trust me, maybe Little India cause they had particularly all indians in Woolworths. SHOP SHOP SHOP. Shop a little souvenirs from Hay Market then head to Paddy's Market to shop for some groceries for the night's dinner.
Then went up since the basement shops are strictly closed by 5pm. I swear. They even had securities deployed at the entrance to shoo people away. They had this rule for the shop vendors that whoever that caught sold to customers after 5pm will be given a first warning of AUSD200. So obey it or pay it. We visit the place pretty late already so many of the things we could not buy all together that day just yet :(I bought a freaking boots yay!!! HAHA. The last pairrrrrrr. AHHHHH, I LOVE IT. So pretty. For the pictures that you might see a pale brown boots, well that's it. Had trunch(Tante Noi taught me. Tea time + Lunch = Trunch). Doner's Tasty Kebab and Tom Yam Instant Noodle for that.
Head back to The Plaza(haha, so Princess Diaries like.. haha.) and damn it's 1930 and it doesn't even look as dark as back in Singapore. Reach back at 2000. Tired tired tired :( Slept as early as 1930 cause my medicine took me off.
3 Dec
Woke up at 0915 and had breakfast. We had asam pedas, omelette, fried veggie and sambal bla for breakfast! I swear the mamas( Tante and Mama) must have been so excited la.
Got ready at 0945 and head out at 1100 haha, why so long? UHMM, well lets see, we have 5 ladies. So that explains why we got ready so long hehe. Okayla, vainports la.
Head to ★ TARONGA ZOO ★ that day. A one-hour ride there.
Harbor Bridge. After that we head to ★ OPERA HOUSE ★ and ★HARBOR BRDGE ★
Head back to The Plaza afterwards.
4 Dec Woke up at 0900 and had breakfast. Homemade pancakes, fish fingers, fries, rice, fried veggie and a couple of hot dish.
Tante packed fried maggie and rice and some tuna sandwiches for picnic later.
Head to ★BLUE MOUNTAIN ★Well there's many parts to the Blue Mountain. So we decided to go for the Scenic World. Whoa, the weather doesn't seem to be on our side. Damn. Should have listen to Tante Noi. We're going to a mountain for the love of god. What were we thinking! HAHA. So, we end up struggling up there. Super cold. More like mini Genting Highland. Hah.
We ride the Katoomba Scenic Railway. It's the steepest incline passenger railway in the world! Haha, I swear the mamas were freaking out when they saw how the railway before us actually went. Pretty though I must admit. Cause it's like real steep. But the seats are designed in such a way that it's not parallel but perpendicular to the steepness. So it's not that bad. After reach the stop. We visit this historic mining attractions at the cliff base and strolled through an ancient rainforest on raised boardwalk via the Scenic Walkway. They had real amazing flora :)
Afterwards we took the Scenic Cableway. It's circa the size of the cable of the Singapore Flyers. They even had a transparent glass in the middle of the cable for picture-taking and such so. Beautiful. So we're back to Scenic Top Station. Then, decided to go to this waterfall, one of the blue mountain workers highly recommended us to take a visit. However, Tante suggested that we wait for a little while more since the mist is so thick, making it all pointless for the ride since we're unable There's the Three Sisters, Orphan Rock, Mt Solitary and Jamison Valley.
Upon reaching to the next stop, we had to walk a few metres before seeing this magnificent Wentworths Falls. God, I feel like dying. The scenery just too real to be true. HAHA. REALLLLLL NATURE-Y.
So took picture here la there la. HAHA, SO THE SINGAPOREAN I tell you. There and then, had a little heart to heart talk and all with Tante Noi with all the things going on and bla bla bla. Emotional moment on the going...so I really just keep myself quiet the entire time.
We took the last ride which was 1755 then and head back to the top station.
Afterwards intention was to head back to HPP but then decided to do a little survey at Bondi Beach cause we planned to head to the beach on Monday. Damn the beach is like gorgeous. Pretty water. Soft sands, cold breeze and not to mention oh *coughs coughs* hot guys (okay there's hot chicks too. uhm, uncensored, mygodsaveus.). Pretty much everything you could asked for for summer :D
Sorry for the low quality pictures.
5 DEC
Shopping DAY! HEH. We were pretty much jumping from one mall to another shopping for this and that. The mamas thought Monday was the best since a lot of shops are open then. Went to Market City - all the souvenirs there. Woolworths - the mamas were craving for chocolates. I swear, hella lots lots lots of all kind from dark to white chocolates, from regular to irregular shaped chocolates, from biscuits to candy bar to sweets. You name it. My mum pretty much spent near AUSD200 on just chocolates. CRAZY I SWEAR. Australia is best known also for their nougats. But rather costly. AUSD38 for 1 KG. But we bought anyway, knowing it's pretty rare in Singapore. Then we head to this Queen Victoria Building. Who actually seriously I mean like seriousssly buy a shoe that freaking cost near 1K??!! Tell me. Mama said artistes must have been to this place before. Well, kinda make sense. Mama decided to leave Tante and Kak Nurin for Lowes than QVB. You could barely afford to pee much less step foot to those shops and actually queue up to pay for a freaking bracelet which could cost you near up to 100 bucks. Not worth.
Went to those This Fashion kinda cheap shops where they display signboards like "3 for $5 / $10 megasale" instead of cheat-our-feelings "10%, 30% discount" where the original price is like AUSD129.90. Seriously la okay.
It was only till that day that I realized this tagline: Shop till you drop do really really really exist.
Got truly exhausted and head back to HPP and enjoyed a nice dinner -Thai Green Curry, fried fish, omelette and fried veggie.
Gosh. Okay I realize how long this post going to get if I actually continue blogging about every single day. IMMA JUST POST THE PICTURES OKAY. Besides I've been postponing this post for quite some time already.. OKEY.
Here's few pictures of Manly Beach.
At HPP, they had this recreational corner - jacuzzi, swimming pool, and sauna. HAHA. Duh, we went to all. HAHA. THE SAUNA ROCKS. We had this bet of who will be out of the cubicle last. Haha, Tante Noi said she could not withstand the heat. Tante, you're on the lower tier leh. We were pretty much absorbing the heat cause we're upstairs. HAHA, followed by Kak Nurin, Selena and Mama. HAHA, SO I WIN. After 10 minutes you're already unconsciously sweating like mad dog. I stayed for half an hour though cause I was planning to go the pool next. Actually, intention was jacuzzi, pool, sauna. But we, The Noobs, couldn't figure out how to turn on the jacuzzi. Figuring that a little too long, we head up for the pool however, there's a few people there so we head to the Sauna <3 Hhe.
At Featherdale wildlife/ Koala Park Sanctuary / Kangaroo Country.
Okey, this are all the pictures that I could find. Well, my stupid laptop is injured so a lot of lags here and there. I can't be patient to the loading and all. So let's just end all here.
Pardon for the real long post.
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