All in 1 Day 1 to Day 7

Ok beware. SUPER LONG ENTRY. I wanted to seperate the entries but I thought it was quite dumb because well, I’m blogging everything in a day anyway. Ha.

Day 1: (28 June)
I told Fu Bao and Xiao Qi and everyone else NOT to cry when sending me off… and I told myself not to, but I cried. Really embarrassing because it’s like… my flight got delayed (by 2 hours), therefore I had more time with them at that moment and it’s harder to leave. My third aunt was there to send me off too.

Anyway, I went in and waited to board the plane. All I see was Caucasians and not a single Asian. Got a little depressed coz I thought I could at least meet one or two Asian students going Brisbane for studies.

So I board the plane, and I sat beside this Pakistani which I managed to start a conversation with later on. He’s really quite big sized and I was quite squashed up, and I had no place to put my luggage. So I slept all the way through the journey. I took a few pictures before I slept and before reaching though…

I think we were flying pass Indonesia.

Love seeing the clouds beneath me.

Wing of the Airbus A330-300.

The new controls.

More controls.

Then came my lunch.

I had chicken and rice. The rice was too wet, didn’t really like it.

Above Australia.

Near nightfall. I love to snap pictures of dusk. Love the hues.

I’ve been staring at this since I woke up.

Slightly darker.

Had a chat with the Pakistani. He’s a Pakistani born Australian going back to Australia for summer holidays. He’s currently teaching in Pakistan. He talked to me and gave me quite some advise about living in Brisbane, eg where to go and where not to (Do not go out alone in the night!). He did say that Sunnybanks is a nice place to go… which is my next stop once I reach Brisbane.

Reached Brisbane at 9.30pm, KS fetched me to his house, which I will be staying for 4 days.

Day 2: (29 June)
Day 2 was a long day. First time moving around Brisbane. I woke up at 8am and had breakfast at Hungry Jacks (which is Burger King). Love the bacon and egg, tastes just like Egg McMuffin. Speaking of which, I haven’t had Macdonald in Brisbane yet. Haha.

After breakfast, bought pillows at K Mart, then KS brought me down to QUT to get my student card. The photo that they took of me really suck. They made me look damn fat in the photo =(. After that, we walked to city from QUT to open up my bank account. I opened mine in Commonwealth Bank.

Saw phones, I will be getting an iPhone soon I guess. If they allow me to get my iPhone with my Visa (they had this policy that you can’t sign plan with a one year visa), I’m definitely getting one!

Dinner was at Little Singapore in Sunnybanks. Food was not too bad. Expensive but big portion. It cost me about AUD$10 for that meal. No picture because camara battery was low.

Day 3: (30 June)
Woke up and had a chat with KS’s china house mate, Jo. She speaks Teo Chew (my dialect) and she’s a really funny person. We heard from her that she’ll be going to this winery called Sirromet, so we decided to tag along too.

We got lost and went to the wrong exit twice. Haha… ultimate sway. When we reached, Emily (KS’s other house mate and lease owner) and Jo had already reached with their family.

Some photos courtesy of KS (and his DSLR). I only had a camara phone with me at that time.

On the road.

Highway.

On the way up to Sirromet.

The main building at Sirromet.

The wineyard is bald coz it’s winter.

Barrels of wine.

Machines.

Closer look at the barrels of wine. The characteristics of wine take after the barrel/wood.

Yeast. Why is it red color? I forgot to ask.

Wine tasting. I had the wine cup as souvenir. We had 1 sparkling, 2 red, 2 white and 2 other… I think it’s red too.

The tour ended and we were free to roam around. Took a few pictures of that area… that place have a really nice view.

That’s me in the photo.

The sky was beautiful so I got KS to snap a picture for me.

Ok this picture is taken using my camara phone.

We spotted kangaroo. That is KS trying to take pictures of the kangaroo.

Baby kangaroos!!!

Taken in the car using my camara phone. Can’t really see the kangaroo.

Lunch was at Toowong, sushi for $2, bought 3. Yummy. After lunch we went St Lucia to inspect the house Wen Minn found.

Had noodles for dinner, not too bad. One thing about food in Australia, it can’t go bad. Food is generally good, I can even say that it’s better than in Singapore. Haha.

Day 4 (01 July) = rotting at home.

Day 5: (02 July)
Before leaving the house to UniLodge, had an hour long talk with Jo. Left for Unilodge at about 12.30pm, and then realised that I can only check in at 2pm. =_= So in the end I waited for one and a half hour.

By the time I got my key, moved up to my room (which is at lvl 19), unpack everything, it was already dark. Took a peek out of my window, not too bad.

My room.

Bathroom. Really clean.

Television in the room, which is pretty redundant.

The night view.

Dinner was at Toowong.

Day 6: (03 July)
Hmm, basically I spent this day exploring the city (but forgot to bring my camara out). After having lunch, KS called me and I went to his house to get his internet cable and the photos he took at Sirromet. While waiting for him to transfer the photos into my hard disk, I went to have a chat with Jo again (really nice chat buddy!). After talking about everything, we headed out together for dinner.

Jo came one day before me, so she doesn’t really have an idea how Brisbane is like, so we brought her to Toowong for dinner. Hmm, we wanted to go to three monkeys after that, but three monkeys was pretty full, so we settled at this place KS called Little Eiffel tower, which I THINK is at Milton. Well, any place is fine as long as we can sit down and talk. And so we sat down and talked… till 12.30am before we head back home. Haha. It was freaking cold and windy and I was practically shivering. Lol.

Day 7: (04 July)
Went to explore city again, this time with a camara.

First, I went down to Coles to get my daily necessities. After buying my stuff, I start to take out my camara and then snap pictures of the city while walking back to UniLodge. Brisbane City is much more smaller than Orchard, pretty boring if I’ve really got to comment. However the street performers were really cool!

Her singing is not too bad.

“Live Performances Today at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm”

Visitor Information Centre.

HMV!

I love this one.

More buildings.

Nice touch in their buildings.

Hungry Jacks!

This picture was taken because of that extreme hairstyle guy. He walked too fast.

Walkway covering.

Another street performer. Seen him performing three times already.

On the way back…

This way straight down to Margaret Street (where I’m staying now)

The casino. I didn’t realise that it was a casino.

Dustbins.

Australia Flag!

Margaret Street, this way down to UniLodge.

Bus stop.

Home!

Had a chat with a Singaporean staying in UniLodge, she’d already stayed in UniLodge for one and a half years. She gave me quite a few advise which I thought was quite helpful, including how to choose your project mates! Haha.

I’m going to buy pots and pans tomorrow and then start cooking already!

And I’m out.