Sydney 2012 Day 1 Part 2

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After eating lunch, we headed off to Wildlife Sydney... It was just located at the other end of darling harbour... we just need to cross a bridge... here are some beautiful scenery pictures taken while crossing the bridge...

Wildlife Sydney, Sydney Aquarium and the recently opened Madame Tussauds is just located next to each other... making it convenient if you purchase the multiple combo pass...

Multiple combo passes can be found on myfun.com.au... it includes attractions like Wildlife Sydney, Sydney Aquarium, Madame Tussauds, Sydney Tower Eye and Oceanworld Manly at discounted prices... definitely worth it if you are going to more than one attraction...

We bought the 3 attraction combo pass at the price of AUD58.50 and choose to go to Wildlife Sydney, Sydney Aquarium and Sydney Tower Eye...

Wildlife Sydney is a mini version of a zoo which is divided into sections such as butterfly tropics, wallaby cliffs, gumtree valley, daintree rainforest, night fall and so on... the animals are located according to where you can find them in the wild... its like a small exhibit which can be completed around 3 hours or so... 

The first section that we have to walk through is called the butterfly tropics... there are tanks of snakes and frogs and butterflies flying freely around you... As im not a big fan of anything under the bug category, I was trying my best to view it as fast as possible which explains the super random photos... haha...

A very cute bird spotted...

Another bird spotted in the enclosure... but this is a very noisy bird... 

Photo taken with a fake frog... haha

The next section is the gumtree valley where you will find all the koalas... But apparently all of them back face the windows... so smart right -.- 

Some interesting facts of a koala... haha

A wallaby... A kangaroo look alike but much cuter... lol

Shan, me and a fake wombat... 

The real wombat... Sleeping i guess... 

At daintree rainforest, there are all kinds of tropical birds... and most importantly the super cute emu... he is so curious at everything...

On the way to the outback section, there were some huge ants and lizards on display...

Finally here comes the kangaroo!!!

Caught one of them peeing while eating... O_o

I got my head in the crocodile's mouth!!!

Super cute rodents (dont really know what it is called) at the night fall section... 

Extremely beautiful sunset when we exit Wildlife Sydney...

Next up Sydney 2012 Day 1 Part 3... Sydney Aquarium... haha wonder how many parts can i do for 1 day... there are too many photos!!! HOMG... 

Sydney 2012 Day 1 Part 1

3 days after my finals is the start of my 8 days graduation trip to Sydney and Melbourne... After a crazy night of house moving... my friend, Shan and I headed to the Brisbane domestic airport at 3am... 

Nothing is open and there is no one at the airport... 

Got so bored I took a picture of our luggages... the smaller one is mine =D 

A picture of Shan and me!

A blur picture of the airplane we are going to take...

While waiting for the plane...

This is the first time I took virgin airline... Was really pleased with the service, although its a budget airline, there were screens on the back of the seats where we can enjoy foxtel channels. Watched Shaun the sheep the whole 2 hours flight...

And best of all, I get to watch the sunrise from an airplane!!! Pretty max!

Another picture of the airplane we took... Taken after reaching Sydney...

It was around 7am when we reached Sydney... we had to wait another 4 hours for another friend who is flying in from Singapore to join us... so we took the airport link train to the international terminal...

Breakfast at the international terminal... red rooster... half a roast chicken...

The roasted vegetable tasted kind of weird and I hate peas!!! It somehow reminds me of airplane food haha...

After my friend arrived, we took the taxi to our hotel, Travelodge Wynyard Hotel... It is located very near to the Wynyard Station... though the rooms were abit old, it was still quite worth it for the price we paid...

After checking in, we took a cab down to darling harbour to this place called hurricane grill for pork ribs... highly recommended!!!

Baked butter mushrooms...

The damn nice pork ribs!!! 3 of us shared one whole rack of pork ribs which is filling enough for us...

The crowd at the restaurant... even though it was past lunch time...

We were seated outdoor and therefore had a great view of darling harbour... 

Here are the details for the restaurant:

Phone: 02 9211 2210 (must make reservations as its always full)

Harbourside Shopping Centre

Shops 433-436, Level 2 Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia

Open 7 days 12pm till 3pm for lunch, 5.30pm till late for dinner

Be prepared to pay at least AUD 20 per pax.... its worth it as the food is delicious!!!

Thats all for this post folks...

Coming up... Sydney 2012 Day 1 Part 2... Sydney Wildlife and Sydney Aquarium...

Farewell 49A

As my lease is ending soon, I will need to move out of my apartment by the end of this week. Spent half a year in this small apartment... Kind of sad that I need to move out soon... Shall post some photos of my room before I start packing =)

The journey started with 2 big luggages (the big black one and the big red one).... the mini black one joined the family of luggages a few months ago when i spotted it and fell in love with it on the first sight ^^ (kate hill ribbon luggage)... and not forgetting my mom's brown bag that she left with me because she is too lazy to bring it back to sg -.-"'...

The set of keys to my apartments with alot of other random stuff... 

And of course the most important thing of all, my study table and my bed...

The bed is so big (double sized bed) and because there is only tiny me sleeping in the bed, so I usually only use up 3/4 of the bed and leave 1/4 to put my folded clothes that I washed... I love to fill my bed up with soft toys and pillows so that I will feel less insecure when sleeping... look rilakkuma is posing for the picture!!! =D

My study table is as messy as ever...Its the place where I spend most of my time rushing reports, listening to lecture recording and procrastinating haha... so I had to stick an extremely big planner on the wall so I could keep track of my assignment deadlines... 

My digital tv which I rarely on... 

My vain corner where I put all my vain stuff... my sun block, moisturizers, makeup bag, ear studs, hair bands and rubber bands...

My stack of notes and textbooks and my labcoats and lab goggles.... See how much notes I have... Im hardworking ^^V hehe

Lastly is my pink fluffy room slippers which keeps my feet warm through cold times...

Dear unit 49A, thank you for being my apartment... will miss you and rmb you always... >.<
ok... now time to pack up...

Exams ended!!!

Exams finally ended!!! Im happy and sad at the same time.... happy because I get to play and rest finally, sad because if I pass everything it marks the end of my study life and the start of my working life... 

It feels like yesterday that I just arrive in Brisbane... Its just too short and im reluctant to return to Singapore... I have to get used to a different lifestyle again...
Anyway Sydney and Melbourne trip in 7 days time!!!! =D excited!!!

Dyed my hair finally... hows the new colour? =)

Disappointed with myself...

Have been feeling really down these few days... have been questioning myself if im smart enough for uni? am i turning dumb? i have reached a stage where no matter how much effort i put in i wont get any results... i totally dont understand anything the lecturer teach nor anything my friend is saying... i will read the textbook until i get so frustrated i started crying, in fact i have nvr pass one day without crying... what am i to do?

A v emo jia

29 July 2010 - Sanrio Puroland

HAHA I realize i have this super old draft... look at the date!!! Anyway shall just post since i took the effort to upload the photos.... let the photos do the blogging since I already forgot what happened ^^

Dedicating this post to the most important person of my life

WARNING: This post will be full of words and no pictures. Every bit of this post is purely what I feel and from the bottom of my heart. If you have no interest in reading endless words, please do not bother to read the whole post. Thank you!

The most important person in my life... if you think its some guy that im madly in love with, then you are wrong. This person have sacrificed her whole life for me and had nvr once expect anything back from me. She loves me more than anyone else and im her aim in life. That person is none other than my mom.

Being brought up in a standard asian family, I was never taught to show love or appreciation. But somehow after being thrown into a foreign land, I see the importance to treasure every second and enjoy every minute you have with your loved ones. I took my mom for granted in the past, everything she had done for me is seen as a responsibility as a mother. However when im here all alone I start to realise how important she is to me.

My mom is very strict with me when I was young. Being a teacher in the same school, she had high expectation for my grades. I had tution from 9am all the way to 7pm on saturdays and im only allowed to play after I finish my homework and some other schools' exam paper. It was a total nightmare to me and I was very afraid of her. I felt like I was being forced to do things her way and it was all because of her reputation. I was wrong... everything she forced me through is for my own good. Now that there is no one here to push me to work hard, I always study at the very last minute before exams and the results were usually not very pleasing. She has been trying to teach me a valuable lesson since young.

I used to be a very sickly child... constantly having asthma attacks, going in and out of the hospital. Worried of me, my mom slept with me in the same room... I slept on the bed and she slept on the floor. She will wake up every hour to make sure that im ok... and like that she took care of me till I entered secondary school.

When I grew older, my mom stopped scolding me and instead she would sit down and start a conversation with me. "You are old enough to think", she will usually tell me. We will discuss our problems together... she will tell me how stress her work is and I will tell her how much I hate writing lab reports.

After I graduated from poly, I went to SIM to study business because I dislike wearing long pants and covered shoes for the rest of my life (andbecauseIcannotentersciencestreaminalocalunihaha). But after studying for 1 year, I decided that I have no interest in business at all... I went to quit school myself without consulting anyone... I went home that day feeling worried and scared... quiting school is a big thing for me cuz i have never done anything like this in my whole life... and when i cracked the news to my mom i expected her to blow up... but she did not. She replied me in a very calm voice, asking me what plans I have for my future. This scene have be playing in my mind repeatedly and I always wondered why she wasnt angry with me, afterall she is the first person who wanted to see me graduate from a uni... Then finally I understood. She believed in me and never once doubted my decisions, from the time I choose to study poly instead of JC... she have always been supporting me.

I remembered the time when my mom was going to fly back to sg and I sent her off at the airport. She held onto my hand tightly and was trying very hard not to shed a tear. Before entering the gates, she took off her jacket and gave it to me. It was winter then. And she said, "you need it more than me"... and she went in without any outerwear... I held on to that jacket and cried 3 days straight after she left...

My mom has loved me in anyway she can... making a point to skype with me daily although she is very exhausted after work... she is one of my biggest inspiration in life and if i ever have my own kids, I would want to be a mom like her...

Happy Birthday Mom! Its kind of sad that I cannot spend this important day with you, but i love you and miss you very badly... Thank you for what u have done for me, and I hope to do the same for you after I graduate...

Lots of love,
Jia

Harbour town trip!

Shall blog a v short post on my trip to harbour town as im suppose to be studying not blogging LOL... o well
Went harbour town to shop yesterday, did not buy much stuff cuz I did not rly find anything I like... spent $37 on a adidas jacket and a pair of flats. Yes, its all real and im proud of myself for saving haha...

It was a cold day and I was totally not prepared for it. By right gold coast should be colder than brisbane and I was only wearing a sleeveless dress with a thin cardigan, therefore I was gloomy the whole day... Furthermore it takes 3hours to get to harbour town and its making me sleepy...

Had lunch at a cafe at harbour town... Food was average...

My carbonara penne

The scenery at the train station... a station built among the trees

My gloomy face...

Well at least I had hello panda biscuits to snack on... and I was happy to find it here in brisbane =D

Thats all for my super short post!!! Time to study =( bye bye...

It is the mid-sem break!!!

The mid sem break is here once more... which means I only have half a sem left... which means my exam is nearing!!! =0 Have been going out to eat lately and burning a hole in my wallet... If u think eating out is no big deal, well the price here of food is rly quite high. For example a plate of chicken rice the most expensive u can ever get in singapore is SGD$6, a plate of fish and chips here the cheapest would have cost SGD $12. If you are wondering why am I not comparing the same type of food, simply because I cannot find anything similar here haha.... chicken rice here would have cost SGD$26.

On Sat, my friend brought me to this steamboat restaurant in Sunnybank... Its an ala carte restaurant which means u pay by the things u order, even things like sauces u will need to pay as well. BUT there is rly 1 thing I want to complain!!! I ordered a plate of corn which cost AUD$4, and I expected prob like 3 cobs of corn... afterall corn is not so expensive in aussie... look at the pathetic plate of corn

It is 4 chopped up pieces of corn each around 3cm in height, prob one cob of corn. Being a big fan of corn I felt so depressed and cheated. The corn tasted very normal, prob they gave the corn gold fertilizer or something haha... Anyways it was a pleasant experience eating there... the soup is tasty and the meat is fresh...
We paid around AUD$23 a person for the amount of food seen in the picture... haha 5 of us shared the food including me, it was quite filling (for my standard)

Shall end this steamboat part with a photo of me and my friend... paiseh I blocked my friend's face cause I nvr ask her for permission to post the photo.

And I was so bored I added blush to myself too haha!

The next eat out experience: I went to toowong's sizzler today. It is a restaurant which I will walk past everytime I go school or grocery shopping, so it ended up on my must-do list before I graduate...

I liked the salad and desert bar much more than the main course... afterall I found a piece of plastic in my chicken... so lucky I should go buy 4D haha... the price is abit high end for poor students like me =D, the price range is around AUD$27- 40... therefore this is prob the first time and the last time I will be eating sizzler...

I apologize cuz I forgot to take photo of the food... therefore there is no photo for Sizzler >.<

Thats all for today's post folks! Going harbour town tmr!!! SHOPPING!!! DX hopefully I will rmb to take more photos... so it wont be as boring as this post haha

Ending this post with a photo of myself HAHA! Goodnight!!!

New banner!!!

Hi there, its been a long time since I last blogged.

It took me some time to tidy my thoughts, my life and finally decided to start anew.

This is the first time I tried making my own banner with photoshop. Well I rly suck at it afterall im a science student not a design student =D It took me some time using trial and error to get this out...

Please give me some comments and ideas on how I can improve! Ps: Constructive not mean comments ._. or best give me free lesson HAHA rly keen in learning and hopefully next time i can come up with something pretty and less plain >.<

The next post will be a tour of my room in aussie... so ppl can stop asking me to show them my room. I will just copy n paste the link of my blog haha...

Have a happy April Fools Day!

Jia.