hello ppl!!! i'm in sydney rite now. 'tis a beautiful place! lots of old buildings & castle-like architecture. will post pix soon. Phuket pix, as well. was last here abt 8-9 yrs ago, so i have no recollection of anything. i'm staying with my mom's fren's family. since they've all got work, i've been left to my own devices. been wandering around the city, hopping on public transport whenever i dun feel like walking anymore, & taking loads of random photos. just took the ferry to darling harbour, but i dint pay anything to visit the usual tourist attractions like the Aquarium/wildlife place cos they're v ex. everything is v ex here. i have no idea wat this (using the internet at some huge internet cafe) is costing me, but it'll definitely not be the 60baht/hour rate i got in phuket... next stop: Hobart. tmr 8.35am flight. terribly early! tt will make it my 3rd flight in 5 days. total of 1.5+8+1.5 = 11 hrs spent in the air, many more in airports. speaking of which, the singapore airport is indeed better than some. better than the phuket & sydney ones, at least. larger, spacier, cleaner, brighter. but i still prefer the hk one. & there're heaps of cantonese here. mostly from hk, i think. i've met more cantonese speakers in my 2 days here than i have in singapore, seriously. u can hear ppl speaking in cantonese (most hk-ers are v loud, so they're not hard to 'spot') practically everywhere, not just in chinatown. the weatehr here is gr8. sunny but not hot cos there's a wind & the temp's not as high as in sgp. at least, it feels cooler. the flight to sydney was interesting. it was like a tour, with the captain occasionally pointing stuff out to us. i saw: an active volcano spouting black smoke (cld spot it from the air - a grey patch amidst the snow-white clouds); ayers rock; a huge expanse of desert in central australia; the sunset. the plane was full of arabs, cos i was flying gulf air & the flight originated from bahrain. the arab children are v beautiful... but there seems to be considerably fewer beautiful ADULT arabs, wonder why? the little children i saw on board the plane (& there were many) had enormous, dark eyes, long lashes & thick curly hair, such tt even the boys looked like girls. mebbe their beauty diminishes with age, at least for most of them. haha dinner was served at 12pm singapore time, and breakfast at 4pm sg time. prob cos it was to fit wif the bahrain time zone, or sth. and i'm finally a DIVEMASTER!!! 67 dives now. 33 to a hundred. i hope to get to 100 by the end of this yr. i shall make tt my RESOLUTION for this yr.who wants to sponsor me? i plan to travel up the coast of australia during the hols so i can dive the GBR to my heart's content, and accumulate enough nitrogen to last me...abt a wk, tops. despite all the diving i did in phuket (onli one dry day in those 2 wks), i'm alr suffering from nitrogen-withdrawal. & my last dive was onli on saturday. tt's 4 days ago. 4 days too long! can't believe i'm so near the GBR (relatively speaking) & yet so far!!! my dive gear's gonna be restored to me in abt 7 wks time, if nothing happens to it... it's been singpost-ed to tasmania cos excess baggage costs &43.25 per kg at changi!!! so i singpost-ed some of my stuff (by ship) to save costs. if i'd paid excess baggage for all my stuff, i'd have had to spend enuff for another ticket to australia! fortunately, jetstar charges $10 per kg, not 40 plus. |
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