Saturday, January 06, 2007

melbourne!

went for a 3 days tour to melbourne in between the aust trip.. according to my uncle melbourne is slowing down its growth since aust's biz activities are shifting elsewhere.. but everywhere in aust seems slow to me yea.. haha shops close at 6pm?! zzzz

but melbourne seem to have less pple than sydney.. chinatown there is like only one street long.. haha saw some singaporeans there buying souvenoir.. times when singlish sounds so out of place haha

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saw some big shot on the way.. the car was led by motorcycles and horses... and as usual horses make cake as they walk.. the whole road was full of poo and trams jus squash and compact the poo onto the road everytime they pass.. hah euw.

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horsie rides for tourist?? haha

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Warner Bros!

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Beep Beep**!

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city area

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the sky in aust is sooo nice... haha

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on the cruise!

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ultra expensive apartment by the waterfront.. comes with yacht lot too!

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will i ever get to buy such a house one day??? ponders** hahaha

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oh this one is the observation deck at melbourne.. yea din go to the sydney one i guess both places look the same from above.. haha

And here's my collection of Nature pics!

haha paiseh my first time in aust and i'm quite fascinated with.....

SEAGULLS!
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haha i find them like almost everywhere in sydney.. some in melbourne too when i went to philip islands to watch the penguins..

oh by the way the penguins were ssoOooo cuTe!!! haha only the size of a palm! too bad they didn't allow pics and video.. they're so fat and they walk so clumsily.. hhaha thats makes them cute anyway.. bought a postcard from the shop.. shall scan the pic up sometime later..

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haha me the suaku finally saw a horde of cows!!! haha saw alot of black ones and a few mixed coloured.. didn't plan to visit any farm animals in the trip coz mum is afraid of animals. wad nonsense. haha..

so i went to aust but i didn't see the kangeroo and koala bear.. haiz. only saw a kangeroo nx to the road for like split seconds coz the bus was travelling very fast. and forget about the sheeps. they look like dogs during summertime. naked. haha

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sunset while heading to philips island

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next day we travelled quite a few hours on the bus to see:
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and here it is:
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although there were only like a few pieces of rocks, the place looks quite majestic as a whole.

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the tour guide said that there were supposed to be 12 Apostles at first but due to weathering there are around 8 left only.. jus went to check, the foremost clump of rocks is one of the "apostles" but it collapsed. hmmm..

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Beyond the horizon...

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clear waters~~~

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jus feel like jumping off from there and start swimming~

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surfing there would be fun too!


Next Up: Goldmining!
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Humongous Gold Nugget at the museum.. i'll be rich if i stole this.. hahaha

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one of the workers there dressing like those during the old mining times.. wad period is that by the way...

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tourist searching for those tiny specks of gold!! haha i gave up halfway after my mum told me tt gold prices has gone up.. so they wouldn't top up the river so often for pple to find yea.. haha

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hmmm 12! 12! person suffering from heatstroke while taking this pic! haha kidding. the place was quite hot anyway...

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haha pharmacy during the olden times... lets take a look

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whee~~ looks like the shelves in dispensing lab ya.. banyak medicine over there.. all generic ones.. i wonder if they haf those quack medicine that cures everything..

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saw this at the bakery shop. wahhh so tempting.. haha

and yea the goldmine was the last stop and i took like 10 hours on the bus back to sydney from melbourne. i can only say: good job to the driver, he seem to be driving endlessly.


BACK TO SYDNEY!

My uncle is finally free to bring me around at night so i went to take some night pics which is extremely difficult with freezing hands and no tripod.. zzz

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opera house

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and harbour bridge. heard that there'll be fireworks from the bridge for Xmas and NYE. but i'm gg to miss both coz i'll be in hk le.. boooo

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city area. my uncle drove me around the gay street and the red light district but actually i tink there were hardly any *ahem around.. pple were like friends and having fun.. more like a clubbing street.

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and then i tink my uncle seem to drive endlessly too.. maybe becos sg is so small it takes like only half a hr to travel from my hse to school.. thats like about half of sg le.. in aust i sat in the car for 2 hrs and my uncle told me he jus reached another suburb. zzzzz -__-''

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supermarket in aust has really fresh fruits and vegetables.. and they pile them up like as if they're in for advertisement.. haha

after studying pharmacy for 1.5 years, i'm quite sensitive to the word "pharmacy" if i see them anywhere.. and in aust there are jus too many pharmacies!! or some pharmacies are named chemists.. anyway inside the chemist...

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found zinc cream APF! haha thats one of the thingie i'm familiar with.. the quality seems to be much better than the ones we made during dispensing.. haha

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and then i took so many pics of pharmacies while my uncle drove down only 2 lanes.. there were like at least one opposite each other along every single road.. mads.

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very lame sign. why don't they jus put them in words??

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the donut making process! there's this donut shop near the airport making and selling donuts and i tell you the donut there is the best i've tried.. but didn't get to buy any coz mum does not like sweet stuff. booo..

ok and thats the last place i went b4 heading off to the airport to hk.. yup.

nx part: HK pics!!