Nemesis: Day 78 to Day 90

Just came back from a 4 days 3 nights trip in Canberra...It was fantastic, I'm glad that I didn't miss it...Will blog about it later, have heaps of photos to upload...Before that, let's continue...

Day 78 to Day 83 in Evatt (23 - 28 Sept)

Nothing much happened other than lab reports and research proposals. So I'll skip this week's event to blog about some major ones during the term break.

Day 84 in Evatt (29 Sept)

Slacked the whole day for the well deserved spring break, only realise that 10 weeks of school life have passed like the speed of bullet and I'm already here for almost 3 months...Time flies...Anyway, was planning a short trip down to sydney and blue mountains...And very randomly I found this...

My very first computer game and I still remember it was on Windows 3.0 platform, saved in a 1.44MB floppy disk and must be booted from DOS...Can't believe that I can play it on XP...Old school sia...

Day 85 in Evatt (30 Sept)

Played PoP without cheats..It was hard...Although the sound and graphic qualities suck but it was indeed entertaining...Went Raymond's place for my very first DotA before movie marathon with Raymond, Pak Soon, Nick and Zhen Jie @ Greater Union...Watched these 3 movies...

I now pronounce you Chuck & Larry

Evan Almighty

and Bourne Ultimatum

A$20 for 3 movies, it's quite worth it if compared to S'pore but not to M'sia...A treat for myself after the hellish 10 weeks...

Day 86 in Evatt (1 Oct)

Came out from the cinema around 6am...Went for breakfast at Hungry Jacks and slept the whole afternoon away...

Day 87 in Evatt (2 Oct)

Woke up around 5am to catch the train to Sydney around 6am, wanted to get the Sydney Bonus Pass which consists admission tickets for Sydney Aquarium, WildlifeWorld, Sydney tower+Oz Trek and Captain Cook's cruise for A$58.50 but the promotional period was over, got the Sydney Attraction Pass instead @ A$45 without the cruise.

Sydney Maritime Museum

Darling Harbour

The cruise that I missed...

Darling Harbour again...

First, it was Sydney Wildlife World...

Entrance...

What you'll get when u throw a butter...

Beetles...

Australian Red Bull Ant

Check out the size of those...

Larvae...

Can you spot the Phylliidae??

Fresh chocolate cake...

Ahh~~~Relief~~~

Perentie, largest lizard native to Australia

Wallaby...

Smallest compared to Kangaroo and Wallaroo...

Night Safari

Baby frill-necked...

Baby Perenties...

Frill-necked lizards...

Inland taipan...Most venomous...

Eastern brown snake...2nd most venomous...

Coastal taipan...3rd most venomous...

Cassowary...

Largest land creature in Australia...

World's most dangerous bird...

Self defense with dagger like claws...

Koala bears...

They sleep almost 20 hours per day!!!

After that, it was Sydney Aquarium...

Bruce from Finding Nemo...

Platypus...

They swim damn fast, very hard to capture decent pictures...

Crikey...Crocs...

Juniors = freshies, seniors = salties??

Octopus...

Seahorse...

Cuttlefish...

Eel...

Penguin...

Jellyfishes...

Seals...

The Great White...

Gigantic stingray...I miss ikan bakar...

This was given by wildlife world's staff, it's damn nice and cute...

It's amazing that you can enjoy so much fun in such limited spaces...

Planned to visit Sydney tower another day...Too tired...

Central station...

On my way back to Newcastle, some drunk fellas graffitied my seat's window and when I was checking it out, they smashed the window behind my seat...Luckily they didn't throw it at me and the passenger sitting on the seat didn't get hurt..

Day 88 in Evatt (3 Oct)

Slept the whole afternoon away again...Found out that Blue mountains have bush fires...Spoilt my plan...Decided to join in Canberra's trip but they had enough people, I was in the pending list...But I packed my luggages anyway...

Day 1 in Canberra (4 Oct)

Woke up early in the morning by Cindy's call n smses...One space left for me as Jason decided not to go...Last minute sia...Luckily I packed my stuffs and didn't switch off my phone, if not, I guess I won't be enjoying the fun with them...

Cindy and Hock Luck...

One of the two cars...Ford Fairmont...This is mine..Hehe...

Started our journey around 9.45am, went to Uni of Newcastle's Ourimbah's campus to pick up Yee Man...The hostel is smaller than Evatt for normal 10 shares but they have air-con for each room..How nice...

Kitchen...

Living room...

Reached Parramatta around 12am for lunch...Had my first BigMac meal in Australia...(The cheapest compared to other foods...)

In Parramatta's Westfield...(Something like Giant in M'sia n S'pore)

Smaller scale Sydney Harbour bridge...

Some pictures taken by Jesselyn, our GPS of the trip since I was driving...

This is a nice shot sia...

Those are sheeps...

I decided to make a quick stop as the view was really fantastic, Neither S'pore nor M'sia have this kind of view...

Some lavender like flowers along the expressway...

The two cars we rented...

With Hock Luck & Hazri...

Hazri, David, Brenda, Jesselyn, Yee Man, Cindy, Kimberly, Eric, Hock Luck and me...

Reached Canberra around 2pm, checked into this motel, had unpleasant experience with the receptionist. My mistake too as I got used to S'pore's chalet's system...