Saturday, December 04, 2004
Day 7 in Melbourne @ 10:22 PM
G'day mates! wat the toot! so fast... 1 wk has passed... b4 i can even experience enuff, i'm gonna embark on the plane back to hectic, humid, stressed up life in Singapore in 12hrs time. dammit... haiz... decided to try get the best of it all. morn went to queen vic's for the morn atmosphere. walked down the various shops selling various stuff. decided to get a Franck Muller lookalike watch for my dad. at 1 pt, saw a shop selling road signs tht u can paste to ur car. msgs like "No worries mate!" "dun follow me, i'm lost too" "sex instructor: first lesson free" and "i'm fat, u're ugly. but i can diet!" haha! i was tempted to buy everything there but i bought the "dun follow me" 1. den got a soft toy possum. veh soft and nice to touch! den i went to buy a carton on mangoes. shit... mebe i shdnt have. there was no cover for it so i spent the whole damn time trying to find a crate cover onli to have them put in plastic bags. wth... so much trouble. skipped lunch coz couldnt find anything to eat. mr soo kindly offered half his lunch for geoff and i to share. THANX! haha. on our way to the surprise stop (which was the melbourne museum), geoff and i started toking abt the bagpipe band. i juz dun wanna reveal the details of it coz it may not sound gd, but all i can say is that maybe Geoff will become a piper too! hope he does. (this is onli juz 1min of tok abt the 20min tok on the BBBB) anyway, the melbourne museum is kinda nice and out of the box presentation. saw the bones of a complete 18.6m blue whale stranded on some shore in aussie in 1990s. den 3d show on dinosaurs and aboriginal stuff. we missed the eel feeding session la... haha. den went to Richmond and the "chocolate factory". juz a video on how choc was made. bought some chocs lor. not bad. i'm eating a caramel choc now. haha. den we went to some factory outlet for adidas etc where there are supposedly sales. saw nothing of interest... shoes not nice and some were damn ex. couldnt find the poseur black model i wanted. so we spent our time going for lunch at a nearby cafe. geoffb bought a fried chicken sandwhich while i bought a ham sandwhich. DELICIOUS! it was damn big, even thought e bread was normal size. the seasoning rocked and it was fulfulling. yum yum! den walked back to the bus to go to Crown entertainment centre. casino and entertainment centre. Dalai, geoff and i went shopping by ourselves. i went to Sanity to buy dvd. saw american pie and bought it. i heard it was hilarious. onli after dalai's wide eyes and explanation did i realise i bought something with a lot of sexual stuff. but after watching it, which i juz did, i found out that it teaches us a lot on how relationships shd work, and how sex inter-relates to love in wat way girls want it to. yes, there were some intimate scenes, but i learnt a lot from this movie. a love education tok would take a damn long blog entry so i shall not bother.
anyway, went to experience the Yarra river quay again, after awing at the entertainment centre's this and thats. had a buffet (or smogasboard, in aussie terms, which i later found out) there. the chinese food sucked like dunno wat! but the western part was delicious! the ice cream was gd too. i had the ice cream, topped up wif choc fudge, den sprinkles, den nuts, den caramel fudge. yum yum yet again! my tummy's back... the way dalai mixed his ice cream, if he put it back at the display, ppl'd think it was cream of mushroom soup! anyway, went back to hotel enterprize. while ppl collected their luggage fr the concierge, i asked Wayne wat slip slop slap and smogasboard was. slip slop slap is a slang of the clothes and protection aussies get against the hot sun. and smogasboard u noe. bickies are short for biscuits. he then told of how aussies think australia sux till they go overseas. i agree. australia simply rox.
at the airport, bought nougats for $30. in queen vic it was $26, but i didnt see them. so bo bian lor. my flight seat was with Chris Zhao. geoff was quite behind. but this time, i was so tired i watched austin powers halfway and conked out. woken up at 3am by the stewardess for brekfast. den watched entrapment till the pilot switched it off for landing. the landing was not so smooth. cant blame the pilot. 777-300, a much bigger plane, sharing the same engine as the 777-200. gosh. haha.
now that i'm back in singapore, i'm still not used to the humid and hot climate coz i'm naturally damn hot. had damn lota sleep but miss aussie. their way of life, their climate, their ambience. i told mr soo, mrs ong and geoff when we went for the aussie city tour dat i want to go to aussie for my honeymoon, mebe even stay there when i retire. that's where i realli want to be. but Singapore's my homeland. i guess i'll juz buy a home there and whenever i want to, i'll juz go there. i wanna have my home at the Halls Gap motor inn and the wkends, go to stay at Le Meridian at Melbourne city. life there rox... singapore juz cant compare...
No worries, mates? nope... not for now... the ambience, the ppl, the city, the skyline, the tranquility, the emotions, the feeling...
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