Day 4 in Sydney till Day 1 in Evatt House

Well, finally get to log into blogger, hope that the server is more stable now. Well, I still can't get use to Newcastle's sluggish network speed. Anyway, school started on monday and it has been a week since my last post. Hmm...Guess that this will be a very long post, one week worth of info, please bear with me. Let's continue with day 4 of my Sydney trip...


Day 4 in Sydney

Shijun went to Melbourne with his friends for a one week holiday and since I have no place to stay in Sydney, his dad let me stayed for few more days before I move to Newcastle. Today it's just another normal day, reluctantly wake up from the warm bed cause I planned to go to University of Newcastle to check up all my enrolments and miscellenous stuffs I need to settle. Shijun's dad fetched me to Pennant Hill's station early in the morning (about 7am i think) after he fetched Shijun to his friend's house. Bought a return ticket which cost A$30 (without concession of cause) to Warabrook. Well, after 2 years of MRT experience, I thought that the train service is somehow similar to what we have in Singapore (which is we can travel in the same train to the destination if the departure and the destination is in the same line, eg NEL, EWL etc) but I was wrong. Due to the big continent Australia has, in order to have efficient train service, trains are travelling in designated route and time (which I realised after I made a mistake of staying in a train which I thought will travel directly to Warabrook). Well, the designated route and time is a very good system cause with the timetable, people can arrange their travel route and time well in order to reduce the waiting time. Well, here are some photos taken during the trip.

No pictures of the school though cause was busy with the student ID, course enrolments, hostel stuffs and trying to not get lost. The campus has bigger area than NTU but the buildings are much more shorter, the maximum they have is 3 STOREYS!! (Australia has big continent, they have no worries bout land issues).

Day 5 in Sydney

Stayed at home and slacked the whole day, didn't have mood to blog so din post day 4's blog...lol..Shijun's dad discussed with me about the migration thingy. (which I have no idea why he started it) but no worries, he just gave me some information, I have no intention of migrating to Aussie cause I still love Malaysia and Singapore. Hehe...

Day 6 in Sydney

Went out to city area with Shijun's family (his dad, mum and brother, Shishan went for some animation appreciation thingy, didn't join us) cause Shijun's dad was looking for some building (I forgot the name) and wants to familiarize with the way to get there. Went to this jap restaurant for lunch, had Tori Karrage (Deep fried chicken, NTU's still the best, and cheaper, it costs A$7.90 here and it's the cheapest on the menu other than some seaweed Udons). The place is freaking small but it's right smack in the middle of one of Sydney's busiest crossroads. So, you have to queue in order to get into the place which only fits 12 customers at a time (I counted) and 5 staffs working in a super crammed environment (salute).

The signboard

The interior

After that, we went to this flea market like place which only opens on saturdays and sundays, something like our pasar malam (but it's much more expensive than the normal pasar malam in Malaysia) You can find foods, clothes, accessories, etc in here. Guess what, they even have live band performance.

Some African artworks

Some handmade accessories

Some paintings

Some handmade bags

Masks

And lots of people

Day 7 in Sydney and Day 1 in Evatt House

Woke up early today cause need to pack everything and move to Newcastle before 4pm for key collection of hostel (Remember the train timetable? In order to reach Newcastle on time, I need to leave Shijun's place at about 8am cause the train frequency is lower during the weekends and longer waiting time is needed for the train to arrive). Reached Uni at about 2pm and moved into D block of Evatt House. In Evatt house, male and female residents are mixed together in a five, six or ten bedroom units. D block is a ten bedroom unit and has a common living room and kitchen. Because most of my housemates are still having their school holidays, I only get to meet Aimee, Rheegan and Maree today, will talk about them and the activities I had in Evatt in the next blog. Till then... (To write a one week blog in one night is damn tiring, especially when the appearance of extra spaces to your entry when you upload a picture)

My room

My heater, I can't live without it..

To be continued...