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Sunday, November 14, 2004

AUSSIE TRIP - DAY 1

The day started off pretty well , didnt get much slp the night before cause was kinda excited bout the trip and stuff , hahaz , anw , woke up at bout 7.30 in the morning , bathed and dressed up and got ready the bags for the trip , did some last minute checks whether i forgot aniting , at bou 8.30am , the taxi came and we headed to changi to catch our 10am flight to brisbane australia. Reached changi, checked in our luggages and got our flight tickets. After that , we went into the terminal , me and my dad went to grab some food at some liunge thing , super cool la the lunge , free evrything , coke! best drink ever! hahaz , and many other stuffs , anw , after that , we met up with my bro and mom and made our way to the our boarding gate. Well , felt quite excited but on the other hand , i felt quite dissapointed cause like its 7 days! and no "u" for 7 days was super hard , yeah , anw , so we went through the metal detector thing , cause its kinda cool , i i purposely like put coins in my poket so can make the dididi sound , hahaz , anw , the police officer started at my bag through the x-ray for quite some time cause she couldnt tell what the smiley face was , cause it was metal , hahaz , anw , boarded the plane , sent my last sms , and swicthed off my phone ,anw , sitting planes are cool , esp when the take off and stuff but i dunnno la , tink i am paranoud or smth , but i feel uneasy sitting planes , hahaz , anw , the flight was a 6hour plus flight to brisbane , spent most of the time watching movies and listening to songs , btw , SIA rocks la , their movies super nice and songs are all mostly updated with the whole album of the artist and their songs , and the games there are like kinda gay la , but nvm , still cna play , anw , watched terminal twice , some brazillian soccer show and watched around the world in 80 days once on the small screen infront of me . OH YA! airplane food rocks man , i dunno why , but i like it , got free ice cream too , ok , mayb most of it are nice , hahaz , anw , the air stewardess super friendly oso la , got to knw erm 2 of them , hahaz , cause i kept asking them for stuff , so like ya. hahaz , anw , was about 4 plus sg time when we reached brisbane , weather was super nice! cooling and the level of humidity was super low compared to sigapore. Anw , after collecting our luggages , got onto a cabby which brought us to our hotel , checked in to the marriot , was quite a nice hotel , yeah , anw , after that , it was about 7 plus there when we settled down , cause aussies 2 hours ahead of us , anw , so we took a walk down this river , like clark quay , but much much quieter and a better view , kinda wished singapore had such places , anw , found a restaurant , so juz had a easy dinner cause al of us were quite tired by then , had steak , super nice! and was super huge! and they gave alot of fries and drinks were free flow , rocks , anw , after dinner , took some pics and stuff , and headed back to the hotel , slept at bout 11 plus aussie time and prepared for the next day.




DAY 2 - 15 / 11

Woke up at bout 8 plus aussie time , which is bout 6 am in sg la, not very used to the time change , so felt kinda funny , hahaz , quite sleepy , anw , washed up , left marriot at bout 8.30am , den went for breakfast at a nearby cafe , juz a few blocks away from our hotel , man! the bread there was like super huge la! eat alr can dun eat lunch , hahaz , anw , mine was huge so was super full , had hot choc! dman nice! anw , so we continued our walk down the street , the weather at brisbane in the day was quite ok , not hot , bout 24 deg , cooling , super nice , anw , so we walked about 5 blocks more , den we reached the heart of the city , where we walked arnd and stuff , went to city mall , but inside like the stuffs super boring la! anw , waited for my mom to get her handbag , in the mantime , me and my bro walked arnd , den went to this shop , super cool! all the weird stufff, hahaz , but like quite ex la , so we juz looked arnd , yeah , after tt , we went to this surf shop , boardshorts there , super alot alot! the selection there was like super huge! anw , but we juz looked at the designs , saw some really cool ones , but din buy , cause wanted to go to gold coast to buy cause theres a main surfing city , yeah , anw , so we carried on our exploring , goin into other shops there , oh ya! my bro bought this sushi thing there , juz to try , for like 1 bucks u can get like this whole roll of sushi , 5 inch i tink , super cheap! summore it tasted quite ok , anw , after all our lookin arnd , we soon arrived at hertz , while my dad settled the car stuff , i went lookin arnd at the cars at the garage , quite cool , they even had a posh to b rented , but i tink , the person who will rent such stuff muz b some rich dude la , hahaz , anw , after bout 15 mins , the car we rented was soon sent out , tink it was a toyota camry , always driving the same model when we're in aussie , but it was qute a spacious car , was a 2 litre plus one , so it had some horse on it , yeah , so was quite fast , anw , so we navigated the city , familiarised ourself with the streets , and soon arrived back at our hotel , cause it didnt have a proper parking space , so my dad stayed in the car while me , my bro and mum went up to the room to pack the stuff and checked out of the hotel , was about 12 plus then , after stopping for a drink , we made our way across the story bridge , was a long and steady structured bridge , somehting like the one in sydney , so took us about 10 mins acorss the bridge , hitting straight to the highway to gold coast , was about a good 75 km from brisbane to gold coast , took us about and hour plus to reach there , but i fell aslp half way , so when i woke up we wree at gold coast alr , but the thing is , we didnt book a hotel in advance , so we had to go look for hotels , first we got lost cause we didnt knw how to get to the city or the main attraction and shops wree located at , but we found it soon , and stopped by the hotels super close to the beach , not even 50 metres away from the beach there were hotels alr , facing the huge and massive pacific ocean , really nice , anw , so we went from hotel to hotel , but some of their rooms were like crap la , but at bout 3 plus aussie time , we found a hotel super close to the beach , with like apartment style rooms which we wanted , cause our whole family could stay together , anw , so we checked in beachcomber resort , oh ya! forgot to mention that the place we wree was called surfer's paradise , as in that part of the city , yupz , anw , after checking in , we went to the room , an man was it nice! as in , it was a decent room , 2 king sized bed , but the best of all was the view! man was it nice! straight at the sea , and was super windy at the balcony area , could feel the breeze of fresh air form the sea , realli nice , could see the waves building up and making their way to the shore , super nice! anw , after plcing our bags and stuff , we went for lunch , was about 4 plus then . so it was kinda like branch , found a decent cafe , and juz had a simple lunch , cause all of us wree super tired , esp my dad , anw , after eatin yet another full filled lunch , went for ice cream , man , super nice! the ice cream there came like in super big portions too , super thick and nice , anw , guess the ice cream did the job , all of us felt at least some excess life in ourselves , hahaz ,anw , so we tooked some pics and then headed back to our hotel to relax and juz chilled , at bout 7 plus aussie , we hopped onto the car and headed to some ollooo place to find this glow worm cave , but we stopped buy some supermarket to get water and stuff , and some fruits , strawberries there are super cheap! compared to sg , anw , after that , we left for the glow worm thing , we got like lost la , superdifficult to find the stupid cave , took us a good hour plus juz to find it when it should have took 30 mins , hahaz , anw but it was fun , half way through the dark roads , saw this huge praying mentis syuck onto my window , dman freaky! huge la! hahaz , anw , as we ate fruits , saw my bro throw the seeds of the peaches out of the window like notin , hahaz, damn funny , at bout 9 plus aussie , we finally found the crappy cave , was quite dark there , but we bought a torch light , so i was infront la , holding the torch , my family behind me following , found a cave , k la 1 word to describe it " PATHETIC" , it wa slike juz ,this small cave , den on top there were like glwoing stuff , actually quite a number of worms , but there wree liek stuck to the top , cause they said light would kill them , so i kept shining at 1 on them la , which was quite close to me , but din die , the guide try to smoke me , hahaz ,anw , after lookin at worms , we went back up the trail , super alot of japs and taiwanese there , damn noisy , cause all of them came in tour grps , not to mention they juz got conned! 79 bucks to come see worms , i mean they had food la , but dman lame , hahaz , anw , continue , so i tried acting like a tour guide la , speaking in broken chinese , saying glow worms as " den chong " means light worm , caus ei din knw , k la , i cant speak chinese can! hahaz, anw , but half way we found 1 on the floor , so i picked it up , u c! ppl pa money see worms , but we got to see it up close , wanted to take it back but my mom didn allow me too , cause the said later kanna caught or smth , haha ,so i threw if back in the bushes , lucky worm , hahaz , anw , after tt , my dad allowed my bro to drive , lolz , dman fun! he said the road was like initial d game , haha , den i kept asking him drive faster , den my mom keeep naggin , hahaz , cause my bro din bring his license , anw , den my bro went liek 120 plus , damn cool , reached surfer's paradise at bout 10 plus , pretty late , had a super late dinner , at some seafood restaurant , smth like fish n co. , but much nicer! ordered fish n chips , man the portion again! huggggeee! hahaz , but supeer nice , ordered seafood platter thing , so we all shared , den had oysters , greta dinner after seeing dumb worms , but i have to say , it was an experience indeed , gettin lost and stuff , was pretty fun , hahaz , anw , after dinner , we rushed back to the room , bathed and relaxed , at 12am aussie time , we celebrated my mom's bdae , aint tt sweet!? hahaz , with a slice of cake , as a family , felt good , haha , anw , all of them didint wanna eat so i ate the cake up , hahaz , anw , well , tt bout all , the day was a fruitful day , at least we explored the place and all , yupz , ciaozz , tmr goin MOVIE WORLD! WHOO HOOOO!