Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Day 3 - Katoomba

整晚彻眠难安的我,小感冒已变成了“中感冒”。 喉咙发炎、伤风带点儿烧意的我, 味觉与嗅觉已退化到极点! 但要我放弃眼下大自然的美,留在宿舍休息未免太浪费了。
今天我们去trekking,步行到echo point, 3 sisters, 然后到了Railway House乘搭'scenic railway', 然后再搭scenic skyway.
we went to the wholesale market beside our hostel and bought veggies for lunch... and pretending it to be a bouquet of flowers, we posed outside the hostel. ha ha

this looks like the classic "holding a wedding bouquet of flowers and looking like... 60 degrees backwards, then very happy gotten married that kind" waha ha ha. my friend wants to get married. you can apply to be the bridegroom. just email me.

church. whilst walking to echo point to find "3 sisters"

another church. nothing special.just like the camera angle and the clouds..
new method of drying your shoes!!

echo point!

去哪里也要跳一下!







afternoon nap?

continue trekking....

一枝独秀!





3 sisters

ET is all freaked out! its not as scary as it seems!

SCREEEAMMMMMMM!!!!



scenic railway. steepest in world?

scenic cable car

views from the cable car



see thru glass







闲情瑕意的我俩,走进了blue mountains chocolate factory. 用上一杯午茶。



freshly made chocolates



this is... "girth control"



等到咖啡厅大洋了,我们迅速走到 woolsworth's 买了感冒药……

在这里的药,除了有感冒药,也有提神的药!上面写到“可以让你精神倍增的药” - 赢了咯!


走到大街,我们寻找猎物 - 晚餐!(想到哪里去!!!???)
一间朴素的餐馆 caught my eye...
就这样,我们走进rene's, 然后等了好久!





食物才终于捧出来……饿到老娘差点晕过去。幸得老娘修行高。要不然……

我在这里吃到我吃过最好吃的pasta!!! *sedap*


Monday, May 11, 2009

Australia Day 2 - Katoomba, Jenolan, Caving

沉睡的夜晚,睡不着的双眼,我开始我的旅程。

Day 2 ( 12th May 2009) - Katoomba - Caving experience

A quick breakfast of toast and tea, Ross, the nice owner of flyingfox backpackers drove us to the Main station to sign up for our first caving experience! *excited*

We got on to the bus, and off we go to Jenolan Caves!
Hm.... most of the people going on this trip are... mostly asians! (haha i think we don't have a car tts why we gotta sign package tour!!)



A journey on the bus of approximately 1 hr later, we were at Jenolan Caves.
A short briefing was given, and off we went for a short (but arduous) hike (TOO MANY STAIRS TO CLIMB!!!), before we embark on t.h.e. plughole caving!










*sians - didn't bring our camera to the plughole cos we thought we couldn't bring them along! bummer!*
But we got a group picture of the our cave guides! (yes, we were the same coveralls as they did!)
nice cave guides we got! the pretty lady beside me is only... 22 yrs old!


When we returned to Katoomba, it was about dark...

心血来潮, we decided to cook dinner!

let Chef Seow show you what's cooking!

is mai hiam buai pai one ok!

Dinner!!!


After thoughts -
下午, 我们坐在亭子用餐。不一会儿, 一只可爱的小红鹦鹉飞到我们的椅子上。智敏喂了它一些面包啃, 它却越大胆,跃上桌子上!附近的大、丑陋的黑鸟也朝我们的桌位走来。。。
我第一个念头是, “好丑!把它赶走!”
人生也不是如此吗?
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这也印证了人类(我)的虚荣心。
美丽的事物,有谁不爱?但丑陋的东西,即使他再善良,我们的第一印象已大打折扣。。。悲哀,我知道,但我们又奈何?

Sunday, May 10, 2009

pre Day 1, and Day 1.

So I've been back for almost 2 weeks already.

The crazy me went to work the day I touched down, with barely 1 hour of sleep.
Such is me, I am crazy at times.

But most of the other times, I am sedated.
Sedated from feelings, especially happy ones, when I am in Sg. Don't ask me why, perhaps its a curse.

So... I am just wondering if I should clear my 2 weeks backlog in OZ. I mean, who the hell reads my travelblog nowadays? And I am seriously too busy to write in. Just that the notion of "writing to 交待”doesn't impress me much.
But well, everytime I re-read my US adventures, my taiwan adventures, I thank myself for not being lazy. Memories.

Henceforth, thou has decided.... I will try my very best to pen this trip down.....

Day 1
It was Sunday, 10th May 09. Trying to be independent and "kay kiang", I took the public transport to Changi airport, with 3 pcs of barangs barangs, no less! The packing has made my nose runny - and I am having a slight cough, bother!
By the time I boarded the plane, my nose was running the 'sundown marathon'. I couldn't keep track how many packets of tissue paper I used, just that I was annoyed about having to wipe my snoot every other minute $&#^$*(@&#(@#@#! (Thankfully I wasn't taken off the flight to be quarantined, ha ha ha!)
Btw, T1 has got this isqueeze thing. Haha. Shioks.


3+am, we reached Darwin Airport to catch a connecting flight to Sydney. I guess the sneezes exhausted all my energy, and I was hungry. Bought my first meal in OZ -tada! Sushi (er, sucks)...
Sunrise @ Darwin

Sushi that is not delectable at all!
6+am, we were on the plane to Sydney! Wheee!
By Noon we reached Sydney! Took the train to Town Hall from Airport. The first impression I have of the trains in Sydney was... "wah!!! looks like the trains of Gotham City". Think Batman.
Gotham City?


Being the 'crazier twin', I begun posing pole-dancing round the poles of the train.

Caught the Harbour Bridge from inside the train...and we reached Town Hall soon after.

Queen Victoria Building
First stop was to woolsworth to get our supplies as we ascend to...KATOOMBA! Bought some food,chocs and orange juice. Had lunch at the deli.......... and made our way to the train station to catch a train to KATOOMBA!




Shagged after one whole day of travelling!


The skies get dark at 5pm. When we reached KATOOMBA at 8++, it was like dark, dark.......
KATOOMBA,on first sight/feel. BRRRR!!! COLD!! I'm glad I brought that coat Mom strongly encouraged me to bring. ("Moms know best!!") Heng I never "ai swee mai miah" and insisted to bring my DKNY jacket cos it was, plainly, DKNY (but will not keep me warm under this weather!)
Thank God for this jacket!!

Thursday, April 30, 2009