Day Three in Sydney...

Went to Parramatta, suburb of western Sydney with Shijun, Shishan and Mr. Chan yesterday. Parramatta is consider as the second central business district of Sydney, for more information about that place, please feel free to wiki it.

Parramatta Town Hall

Went to Westfield Parramatta, currently the eighth largest shopping centre in Australia. Went there to have our lunch, KFC, my first fastfood in Australia...Suprisingly the fastfood here are actually cheaper than the normal food they selling. But it's still A$6++ for a set meal. The cost of living in Aussie is actually quite low if you are earning aussie dollars. Imagine a basic pay of an accountant in Msia is RM1000 and in Aussie is A$1000, the fella in Msia needs to pay about RM10 for a set meal whereas the fella in Aussie just need to pay A$6++ for the same meal. But that's only apply to fastfoods, the price of other foods are killer, I'm just using fastfood as an example to show the difference in cost of living. But Aussie have no worries about the expensive foods cause the normal salary for fresh graduate is very high, about A$4000 per month!!! Parttime wage in Aussie is very high too, minimum is about A$18 per hour and can get as high as A$25!!!

By the way, there's something special about Aussie's fastfood, you will not find Burger King in Aussie because they are known as Hungry Jack's here. (So there's no worry if you are a super Whooper lover) Cool har...Well, this is becaue someone trademarked Burger King before the real Burger King can set foot in Australia. Too late, Burger King...

After lunch, we bought some donuts from Krispy Kreme...
Well, the donuts are nice but I still feel that Donut Factory's Double Choc is the best...

At night, Shijun and I went to Kris's place for his friend's gathering, it was quite fun meeting some new friends. We played this game called "How to host a murder" while having dinner together, it's something like a dinner party murder mystery game. Each different mystery, called an episode, has eight suspects (4 male and 4 female) who are played by the guests of the party. We played episode 5: The Chicago Caper and this is the summary of the storyline:

"Set in 1928 in a speakeasy in Chicago. Notorious mobster Harold "Hal" Coppone has been released from prison and on his return to Chicago, a bomb was thrown into his car. When the smoke cleared, it was discovered that Coppone wasn't even in the car. The mobster had a fortune stored away in a safe below the Luxington Hotel. Only he, and his gang's treasurer Sunny, knew the safe's combination. When Sunny went to check on the fortune, he unlocked the safe and found Hal Coppone lying dead on the ground, his body riddled with bullets. Each of the eight guests had some motive for wishing Coppone out of the way, but which one actually got to him?"

The fun part of this game is everyone is encouraged to wear the suggested attire, my role was a district attorney and I was suppose to wear a sharkskin suit and carry a briefcase. But since it's a suggested attire, I modified a bit and become a district attorney who just finished his work and carrying a laptop case..lol...Well, it's a very interesting game but the rules are quite complicated and a bit confusing for the first-timer but as the story goes on, it was quite exciting, because all the guest must work together to solve the mystery and find who's the killer. (A far more better version of "Mafia" or "Polar Bear" in Singapore although it's limited to 8 people)

The dinner

The game

The food

The players

To be continued...