Sydney! =)

WARNING: Photo-filled post! Like seriously. There are more than 50 pictures. And it's a super-long post! So sorry! -_-

I'm sorry I've not blogged, but my lappie decided to mengada with me in Australia, so even when I uploaded pictures on Facebook, I had to use Ine's laptop. Went to the HP centre and found out that the motherboard rosak. -_- And after that was sorted out, suddenly the Streamyx went bonkers. And I got a small case of writer's block/laziness going on.

Anyways, my trip to Sydney was awesome!!!!!!!! =D

It was hot there, (like some days it was even 35 degrees!), but sometimes it can drop to like 20 degrees too. And it is soooo different from Malaysia. It was fun cause I've never been out of the country alone. The fact is, I've NEVER BEEN ANYWHERE ALONE. Huh. Talk about not being independent. Blargh.

So anyways, my flights are both direct flights and what was really cool about the flights was that the flight to and from Sydney were both not full (I think the flight back was only like 50% occupied?), so basically we could choose where we wanted to sit and I ended up having one row of seats to myself both times! Mwahahahahahaha. More comfortable than being stuck with other people, but still not very comfortable for sleeping in. I still had the armrest poking into my back. Bloody annoying. -___-

In Sydney i went to to all the places that you're supposed to go when you're there. The first time Ine took me around Sydney city, we went to see the Opera House and the Botanic Garden. Loved it! =)

Waiting for the bus! =)

One of the really nice buildings there. I want buildings like this in KL, too!

At the Botanic Garden.

The Opera House. =)

I think this is the Rocks. Not sure. LOL.

The strangest thing happened when I was at the Opera House. Ine and I were sitting down, waiting for the sunset, when suddenly Ine looked behind me and she kinda grinned. A split second later, this guy tapped me on my shoulders, put his arm around me, and said, "Smile for the camera!" I was so shocked cause I didn't see the guy since he came from behind me. Obviously I didn't smile. And after he took the picture, the dude went off and said, "Hey, you didn't smile!" I was just sitting there thinking, "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?????" while Ine just sat in front of me and laughed her butt off. Apparently the locals do that a lot, going up to strangers and taking their pictures. Funny people.

And no surprise, I did loads of shopping there for my family, until I got excess baggage on the flight back!!!! -__-'

During one of my many shopping excursions. Note the number of bags that I have.

With my two lovely hostesses, Ine and Farizah! =)

During our many days going into the city, we went to places like the beach, which surprisingly did not have as many hot guys as I would like (I sound like a hormonal teenager, don't I? LOL). Wait, actually, when we were on our way to the beach, they were a few guys that were hot in the bus that we were in, but Ine and I were so disappointed to find out that they're gay. Boo. We also went up the Sydney Tower, and went around to the Wildlife Park. =)

The view of Sydney from the Sydney tower! =)

Bondi Beach! Looks beautiful, doesn't it?

Wildlife Park! =)

We also managed to squeeze in a trip to the Sydney Olympic Park to watch the Malaysian junior hockey team play against Australia in the Youth Olympics cause it just so happened that the team was staying where we were staying. They needed people to cheer them on, and it was a free ride for us & we've never been there, so it was basically like a win-win situation la! LOL.

Pre-match. OH, the Aussie players were HOT!!!! Young, but hottttttt!

The senior team was also there to cheer on the juniors. Some of them were hot, too. Hehehehehe.

The supporters-cum-freeloaders. Hahahaha.

I don't like my face in this particular picture, but there is something in this picture that I do like. I'm not telling what that is, though. Hehehe.

One of my favourite places that we went to was the Chinese Garden cause we got to try on the traditional Chinese costumes. And the place is pretty, too! =)

The pre-costume pictures. My mum called me a bumblebee in this black-and-pink top. -_-

These are the pictures of me & Ine in full costumes. She's the Empress, but I'm the Emperor's favourite concubine. LOL.

Attempting to look mobster-ish. Emphasise on the "attempt". -_-

The headdress is actually quite heavy. We didn't feel it much when we were wearing it, but when the uncle took the thing off, we were like, "Whoa, my head feels so much lighter!"

We also went outside of Sydney to the Blue Mountains, (where the view was breathtaking!) and to the Featherdale Wildlife Park.

Blue Mountains:

While waiting for the bus to Blue Mountains

Scenes from a small, quaint town called Leura up in Blue Mountains

And the Blue Mountains =)

Featherdale Park:

Another strange thing happened when we were going around Sydney city for the last time. We've decided to walk along the Harbour Bridge and go to the aquarium after the walk cause we already have tickets for the aquarium. So what happened was, after we've walked along the bridge, we ended up at this place called the Nurses Walk, while we were on our way to the aquarium. We were busy acting like tourists, looking around and taking pictures when suddenly this guy asked us whether we wanted to have a free makeover caused he was training one of his workers. So since Ine was like all excited and stuff, we decided to go for it.

We went into this guy's shop, and Ine had her face done first. While she had her face done, I looked around the place and got the shock of my life cause the whole place was full of NUDE PICTURES. Plus, it didn't help that the name of the place is SEDUCTIVE ART GALLERY. -_- I started fidgeting and I was having all these paranoia thoughts like "what would happen if this dude suddenly ask us to pose nude?" and the fact that the makeover was free kinda heigtened my suspicions about the place.

But in the end, I've got to admit that I was just being paranoid cause nothing bad happened. LOL. So Ine and I, in full make-up, still went to the aquarium. LOL. I felt like a China doll in the aquarium because of my made-up face and hair. But it was all for fun. I mean, when else can I go into an aquarium looking like I'm ready to go for a photoshoot. Hahaha. Plus, the guy that offered to do our makeovers thought we were backpackers, which is just awesome! =D

Walking along the Harbour Bridge

Me in front of the gallery where we will eventually get our makeovers.


Nurses' Walk =)




During makeover and post-makeover






The aquarium =)

And these are the pictures of when we were lepaking at the Darling Harbour, where we finished off our last day going around the city =)

So, that basically wraps up my Sydney post. If anyone were to ask me whether I'd like to go there again, I would say "yes" in a heartbeat. And right now, I'm kinda sad that I'll never be able to experience life as a student in a country other than my own. But oh well, at least I was able to experience travelling alone, without my family. LOL.

Do I envy my friends who are overseas? There's no denying it. But they also envy me for being near my family. Plus, I think my dad kinda felt guilty that I wasn't able to study in Australia, thus the Aussie trip. LOL. I guess there is a silver lining to everything. =)

Sorry!

Will update the blog soon. I promise!

It's just I'm a bit tired and having sort of a writer's block for the Sydney post. Haih. -_-

10 questions

Can't remember where I got it from though since I did this offline when I didn't have an internet connection, hehe. Just found some of the questions very intriguing.

1. If you had the choice between being forever young and immortal or growing old and dying, which one would you choose?

Interesting question....I think I'd rather grow old and die. I actually find the thought of being 'forever young' as quite disturbing. Plus, for most people, the older they get, the better they become.


2. If you have $ 1 billion (legally), will you keep all of the money to yourself?

Nope. I'll keep some, I'll give some to my family and I'll definitely allocate some, like 10% to charities.


3. If you were asked to represent a cause, what cause will you choose?

Definitely something to do with children. I can't stand it when children are hurt. And I feel even more sad for those babies that are abandoned at birth.


4. How would you describe your ideal day?

I would describe my ideal day as a day when I can sleep in and wake up late and waking up to no worries at all. Oh, it will be good if I was near the beach, too. I can dream, can't I? :p


5. What song best describes you right now?

Ermmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.............I have no idea. Oh, I really like the song Gimme, Gimme, Gimme from the Mamma Mia movie. But I don't think I want a man after midnight right now. LOL.


6. Would you rather be with single, penniless, but happy or married, rich, but unhappy?

Hahahahahaha. I find this question hard. Maybe married. No. Maybe single. Oh crap. I DON'T KNOW!


7. Is there anything that you really want to do that you have not done before?

Bungee jumping! =D


8. If you could switch a body with a person for one day, who would you choose and why?

If I could switch bodies with someone......hmmmmm.....I dunno why, but the first person that pops into my mind is Barack Obama. LOL.


9. If you're straight, which celebrity would you go gay for? Or vice versa?

Ooohhh. Megan Fox? or Sophia Bush? Hahahaha. I'm not sure la. But now that I think about it, I'm not sure if there is a really hot guy celebrity right now.


10. When you're gone, what would you like to be remembered as?

I'd like to be remembered as a good person. That's it. Hehe.


Oh, by the way, I'm leaving for Sydney on Wednesday to see Ine. I'll be there for 17 days! I'm so happy right now! But the only thing I hate about going is doing the packing for the trip. Blargh.

Happy 2009!

HAPPY 2009!!!!

I'm sorry I haven't blogged lately!

It's just that my grandma decided to have my uncle's (I'm not sure if I should call him uncle, really) wedding on the 1st day of the year, AND at my house (which we had just moved into because of the landslide), so we've been so busy with the preparations for the wedding that I was actually planning on sleeping early on New Year's Eve. I didn't even go out to celebrate. Boo.

Oh well. There's always next year!

Plus, I'm jetting off to Australia next week for a vacation! I'm UBER-EXCITED! =D *bounce* *bounce*

Oh yeah, I made some resolutions for the year, but as most people, I might not follow these resolutions I made, but it's fun anyways to think that "Meh, at least I tried." LOL.

For 2009, I hope that I'll be able to:

1. Smile more, cause I'm not that generous with smiles. LOL.
   
2. Lose weight. Enough said.
3. Donate blood. God, is it so hard for me to actually donate blood?
4. Be more active.
5. Stop worrying about everything.
6. Be friendlier.
   

That's all the resolutions that I can make that I might be able to stick to. How sad. Oh well.

Here's to a great year ahead for everyone! =)

Updates. And Zaty's post! =)

Sorry I've not blogged! But I am currently in my dad's clinic, with my sister and my dad, using the internet connection cause we still don't have any connection at home. Pathetic. So, this is a short update of my post-Bukit-Antarabangsa-landslide post.

I think everyone kinda knows now that I live in Bukit Antarabangsa, and quite near to the landslide area. So here’s kind of my story of what had happened during the landslide:

My maid woke me up that 6^th of December morning around 6, saying this (and I quote),”ADIK! BANGUN CEPAT! ADA MASALAH BESAR! POLISI DI ATAS SURUH KELUAR RUMAH SEKARANG!”

I seriously had no idea of what was happening. My first thought was “Oh crap! Did a burglar come into our house?”

It never crossed my mind that a landslide had occurred. And when I went outside to see what was happening (luckily I wore something decent to sleep the night before that! -_-), I saw that my dad’s Range Rover was missing and that both my parents were not at home! I asked my sister what’s happening and she said there was a landslide.

All my neighbours were out of their houses, all of them sleep in their eyes and puzzled expressions on their faces. We could see patrol cars at the beginning of my lane, helicopters flying above and we can hear the sirens of the ambulance. I panicked because I couldn’t find my parents and when I called my dad, I was so relieved cause I found out that my parents were only at the landslide site to see what had happened.

After around 15 minutes standing outside our houses, not seeing any signs of landslide anywhere near our street, we had a police patrol car coming around to say, “Semua penghuni diminta meninggalkan kawasan ini. Tanah dipercayai masih lagi bergerak”

Everyone ran into their houses, took as many things as they could and quickly got ready to leave. Around 6.40, people started to leave their houses. Luckily for us, my dad’s tenant at the house in Jalan Kent, which is near the Datuk Keramat area, was vacating the house to move back to Russia that particular day. We stayed over at my grandma’s house for a while because her house was beside my dad’s house, and we moved into the Jalan Kent house that Saturday night itself.

So no, I did not hear anything happening and it’s a bit embarrassing when people asked me, “What happened?” and I can’t describe anything cause I slept through it. LOL.

To go back now is a bit of a hassle cause they’ve actually sealed off the entrance of our lane and we have to show our ICs as proof that we actually live in the lane to avoid looters from coming.

But now they’ve issued passes to us so that we can go in and out of the lane with more ease. The houses in my lane are actually broken up into two blocks, with the houses in each block sort of joined to their neighbours.

For my “block”, we are issued with yellow passes now, which means that we are allowed to go in and out as we please, as long as we have the passes. Unfortunately, for the block of houses further up my lane, they’re issued with red passes because the slope close to the house at the end has started to crumble, and should anything happen to that house, it might affect the whole block of houses and they only have like 3 hours to pack their things from the moment they get their passes. Once the three hours are up, the Control Centre will call them to surrender the passes back. Scary, right?

So to cut the story short, my dad has decided not to take any chances, so we’ll be staying at the Jalan Kent house for the next few months, because if the houses further up our lane could crumble, who’s to know what effect that will have on our houses?

But the thing is, this house is just a house to me. It’s not home. I’ve lived in the Bukit Antarabangsa since December 1995, and it’s here that I met one of my closest friend, Nat, cause we both lived in Bukit Antarabangsa and we rode the same bus to school.

It’s funny that we were friends cause we had that one year gap between us, but I guess it was kinda cool afterwards when I skipped Standard 4 to go into standard 5 cause I already had a friend. LOL. But yeah, this house is not the same as the one in Bukit Antarabangsa.

What was really ironic to me is that the day the landslide happened, my whole family were supposed to go and scout around for furnitures and lightings cause my dad was supposed to have started some major renovations on the Bukit Antarabangsa house this week !!!

I guess we were lucky that no renovations had been done to the house yet cause had the landslide occurred when we were in the middle of renovating the house, it would have caused such a massive problem. But even now my dad is still considering renovating the Bukit Antarabangsa house. And since like 95% of our stuff are in this house, it would be easier to renovate the Bukit Antarabangsa house. Hehehe. I still want to go back there. This house kinda creeps me out. :(

But then again, I can't really complain because we're all safe and sound. Some people lost their lives, and some lost their life savings because of the landslide. The only thing I lost was my internet connection. Huh. I am selfish, aren't I? Whoops. Malunya.

Oh, I was reading one of Zaty's post, and she talks about what kind of guy she thinks I will end up with. LOL. And the thing is, I can imagine myself with the type of guy that she pictured me with. But she said that my guy (LOL, MY guy!) will have long hair, and I'm like, "NO! He'll be botak!" and I don't know why, but I'd like to see the man I end up with driving a manual car cause I think guys who drive manual cars are hot. I'm weird. I know. And yes, if possible, I want to end up with a guy who's like 4 years older than me. I think a 4 years difference is good!

And reading her post had made me realise how comfortable we are with ourselves now as compared to when we were back in school. And it reminded me of our conversation that day where we talked about what we did to get approval from others, to show how worthy we are, and I realise how sucky peer pressure is. Blargh.

OK, I've gotta go now. My dad's telling us he wants to go back. I'll promise I'll update more often if possible!