♥颖颖的日记♥

Adelaide Zoo

2010-04-04T02:46:00.017+10:30

Speaking of Adelaide Zoo, I would not go if it is not for the sake of the panda. Having been studying in Adelaide for 2 years plus, I had never thought of visiting Adelaide Zoo although it is situated just behind the lab where we had our practical sessions during our first year. (sounds cool har to have the zoo behind the lab, haha, because Adelaide city is so small that everything just clusters together) Why? Because I had visited so many wildlife parks either in Adelaide or while travelling in Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast and Perth (I think wildlife park is a must-visit while travelling around Australia har?) and the animals are almost the same over the whole Australia- emu, koala, kangaroo, seal, lion, tiger, tortoise, tasmanian devil bla bla bla. See them until sien enough zzzz. Plus, the ticket is so expensive, AU$20 for students wey compared to RM5 for adults and RM1 for children in Malaysia (I supposed?) And instead of getting to see hundreds of seals lying along the coast at Kangaroo Island and waddles of penguins coming back from the ocean at Phillip Island, there are only 2 seals and about 10 penguins in Adelaide Zoo, hmm..

The VIP of the day. I could hear applause from the crowd when it finally appeared. Duak liak betul. And you only get to view it once which means once you leave the panda house, you can't enter it again. (It is not like other animals which u can view them as many times as you wish)

So cute ♥ It is worth it to stand under the scorching sun just to have a look at it. (can't believe these words actually come out from the mouth of mine. I am a puteri lilin hahahaha. I am the only one who held an umbrella in the zoo that day.)

I think my face is smaller than the face of the panda right although it seems not to be here :(

Clumsy yet cute.

Trying to push the stone har?

Panda: Huh??

Wondering what it saw.

The bamboo were placed at every corner on purpose so that the panda would move around the area to look for the food.

Nah, the VIP got their own room and a big garden outside.

Eating the bamboo.

Te Ying and I taken at the panda souvenir shop.

8 of us

Andy was not in the picture.

****Other animals****

I may look old but I am actually 34 years old only.

The red panda- also an endangered species.

Hippopotamus opened its mouth biggggggggg

Little otters

Flamingo.

Only left 2 because one of them was hit by the visitor and was cedera parah now @.@

I supposed it is from Malaysia or Indonesia. How can it survive the winter here?

Feeding the penguins

LOVE the windows =D

Life Studying Abroad

2010-04-01T17:00:00.001+10:30

Is it a routine to change the friends around you every year when you are studying abroad?

In Adelaide, no one cares to even make a call to me.

In Adelaide, nobody really remembers to tell me when they want to go out.

In Adelaide, I "know" many friends yet I actually got no friends.

In Adelaide, friendship is so unreliable.

In Adelaide, being away from family and friends.

In Adelaide, I am always alone.

In Adelaide, I can't find the place where I belong to, except the daily mundane life.

那么近，却又是那么远

2010-04-01T04:09:00.002+10:30

哑子吃黄莲，有苦自己知。悬在半空中，孰不知，那其实也是一种伤害。

Finally decided

2010-03-21T21:11:00.000+10:30

So I had finally decided to take iPhone. Like really finally, haha. Still remember 2 days before taking iPhone, I even called babe to ask her about e71 because it is quite similar to her phone which is e72 and what I preferred at that time was really e71, really fickle-minded har? hmm.. And how come I changed my mind to iPhone? Because of its music la which is really useful for me to kill boredom at times.

So here it is

My phone + ipod

Really like it with the pink casing ♥

And it is now the time for

MAMAK NIGHT!!!

Spot someone that looks like Tan Jay Sern.

Nasi lemak-mamak food?

Library

2010-03-11T20:44:00.000+10:30

I was studying in the library just now. Believe it or not? =p

Back in Adelaide

2010-03-07T23:21:00.000+10:30

Back to the place where kangaroo meat is being sold at the market. Uni had started and according to my senoirs, there were quite a lot of students who failed their exam during the third year. Omg! I think now is the time for me to start studying for this tough year ahead and back to the normal student life instead of watching drama all the time and only study for exam at the very last last minute. Ya, I will do it! Wish me luck.

寂寞，好了。

2010-01-26T04:06:00.000+10:30

孤单伴随着我。
在国外，每每跟在别人的脚步后，
别人去哪，我就要去哪，
我别无选择，只能到处去当个大电灯泡，
又或者，我能选择的，就是一个人外出，一个人回家，
外国的生活，没有一个真正的朋友，是孤单的。

寂寞伴随着我。
回国，在新山没有朋友，
每天在家煲戏，枯燥乏味，
每天老妈都会乱发脾气，
我似乎感受不到人间温情。

我喜欢和朋友一起逛街，可是每次都是自己一个人逛，
我喜欢和朋友唱K，可是已经很久没唱了，
我被迫当宅女，因为没有朋友约我出去。

面对这样的生活，我是无奈还是悲观？

2009-11-19T00:30:00.000+10:30

yeewww!!!!

Counting down the days left before going back to my home ♥ sweet ♥ home :D

A lot of plans is awaiting me in msia..

My Sabah trip with my "Low's family", KL trip with my babe, Korea trip with my cousins, Taiwan trip with my frens in Australia, and of course Bali trip with my beloved papa and mama..

Such a busy holiday, I am wondering that would I feel damn tired halfway of the journey..

And of course, my 21st birthday in msia!!

Yes, the 21st year in my life!! I have promised myself to have a birthday celebration with a bunch of friends for this year instead of celebrating it alone at home XD

Last but not least, hope that I can really enjoy my every single moment in msia..

p/s: going to uni tmr to meet the lecturer for giving me the wrong info in a 35% test but no compensation at all!! wish me luck!

p/p/s: And later, may have my lunch alone and enjoy the peace of mind and tranquility to be alone for a short moment before the next exam paper.

A Vietnamese Dinner

2009-10-28T10:43:00.000+10:30

We went to have dinner at a Vietnamese Restaurant in one of the suburbs. According to Kenny, it is quite a well-known restaurant in Adelaide. He booked for a table at 7.30pm but it was fully booked (nah, you can see how hot this restaurant is), so we had our dinner at 8pm. This was actually the first time for me to try Vietnamese cuisine. I ever tried Vietnamese food before but it was just a cold roll not a proper meal like this.

The must-order : Make your cold roll yourself here.

The rice paper used to make cold roll. It is hard and dry at first.

Soak it in warm water.

Tada.. It then becomes soft and edible. Open it up on your plate.

You can also add some mint leaves if you wish.

Add lettuce, meat and sauce.

My cold roll.

Although it is made up of simple ingredients, it has its simple way of tastiness.

Soft-shell crab.

Hot pot king prawn and pork.

Quails aka 乳鸽. A whole one for each of us.

The food there was really nice and could be considered as one of my most enjoyable dinner in Adelaide. However, despite the awesomeness of the food there, the bill was unexpectedly high. It was $108.50 for four of us. They even charged plain water for $6.90 per bottle. OMG!!! (plain water is normally provided for free in most restaurants in Adelaide)

Crabbing

2009-10-28T10:05:00.000+10:30

The first time we went crabbing was at one of the midnight at the end of September. It was still pretty cold at that time and even colder at the beach with strong wind blowing constantly. This forced us to wear like "bears". Before we reached the beach, Kenny had already planned how to cook the crab the day after: chilli, pepper bla bla bla.. hahaha..

The crab net, pails and baits.

Semaphore Beach

Settling the net

Sleeping while waiting for the crab. We got nothing to do while waiting for the crab because we forgot to bring any cards or titbits ( how stupid we were!!)

We got 3 small crabs in the end. As it is illegal to catch crabs of too small size in Australia, we threw them back into the sea and ended up nothing to bring back home =.=" OH, OUR CHILLI CRAB!!!

Then we went crabbing again a few weeks later at Henley Beach. This time, the main aim was not to get the crab, it was to celebrate Gabriel's birthday.. Wahaha!!

A surprise for him. The birthday boy insisted to wrap himself in the blanket and slept on the floor despite the dirty floor of the jetty.

Happy Birthday, Gabriel!!

This time, we still ended up nothing home. And we had our 3rd attempt last week, still, we got nothing although it was getting warmer recently. Perhaps it was not the right season for crabbing.. hmm.....

Food Food Food ♥

2009-10-27T19:12:00.000+10:30

Want to share with you all some food that i found "interesting" in Central Market, Adelaide.

Instant ramen

Even with seasoning pack inside

Canned pearl milk tea

hmm.. Have you tried this flavour before??

Fruits which you can find in Central Market: Strawberry, watermelon etc etc

And even durians!! But they are being kept in the fridge

And some other Malaysian food products too..

Want somemore??

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Food in Ikea:

Ikea meatballs - always my favourite ♥

Chocolate tart

Pasta in weird shape :p

My Gold Coast-Brisbane Trip Part 3

2009-10-27T16:22:00.000+10:30

The 7th Day

Hiang Qian suggested us to go to Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary-the oldest koala sanctuary in Australia. Honestly, I felt bored when I was told that it was actually something like wildlife park because I had visited the wildlife park in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and now Brisbane!! Aih.. i had met kangaroos, tasmanian devils, wombats and of course koalas for a thousand times!!! (Don't beat me because of this, I am not showing off!! I am seriously tired of seeing them..)

BUT, something interesting happened. I actually saw koalas hopping from one tree to another. I never saw koalas that were this active before!! (They were usually sleeping or staying still on the tree eating the leaves) Therefore, this was not a bad experience after all.

We were having our dinner at Three Monkey with Hiang Qian's housemates-Yen Ling and Chia Yee.

Three Monkeys-hear, see and speak no evil.

The 8th day

We rent an Estima to fit 7 of us for these 2 days. We were now heading for Sunshine Coast!!!

Sunshine Coast

Then we went to Noosa Head. On the halfway, we stopped for the Ginger Bread Factory but everything was closed since it was already 5pm :(

Never mind, we could still take a picture with ginger bread man.

Noosa Head in the evening.

Talking and eating ice-cream on the beach.

After dinner, we had a thrilling decision - we would not go back tonight, we would sleep in the car!! wohoo!!! But should we just park our car on the beach and sleep inside the car at Noosa Head? Or should we go somewhere else?? We then drove the car around Noosa Head for sightseeing and it was at this time that Yen Ling suggested that we may go to Byron Bay, the most easternly point in mainland Australia to watch sunrise. Such a spontaneous and romantic suggestion XD

The 9th Day

So we did. The car journey took about 4 hours and we reached there at about 2am. Thanks to Gabriel who proudly shared his "honourable" experience in highschool, so we were not bored at all during the long journey. We got down from the car at 4 something to walked to the point that was most suitable for us to enjoy the sunrise view. So what did we do from 2am to 4am??? We were actually not sleeping, we were "playing" in the car. Hahahahaha!!!

7 of us watching sunrise together, how romantic it was (despite the strong cold wind and we were all in shorts. We went to the beach the day before, remember?) Words can't really describe the beauty of nature.

After that, we went to Mount Tamborine. Energetic har?? We all were actually sleeping all the way up Mount Tamborine. Pity Gabriel who drove us there but later we were told that he was actually "memancing ikan" when he was driving. At first, we planned to visit "Skywalk aka walking among the tropical trees" on Mount Tamborine. However, the whole car of people were actually sleeping outside the entrance of Skywalk for 2 hours. Everyone was just too tired and reluctant to get down of the car. Wahahaha.. We didn't visit Skywalk in the end although we already reached its carpark (ridiculous??) So later we had a walk in one of the town on Mount Tanborine (can't really remember its name). We bought chocolate, ate ice-cream and visited cheese factory there.

And finally, we were going back to Brisbane!! (I was excited because we can have a shower finally!!) We also visited Queensland University which is x9999999999999 times bigger than UniSA on our way home.

The 10th Day

6am flight going back to Adelaide.

* Thanks to Hiang Qian, Yen Ling and Chia Yee!!! You all are damn nice people. I ♥ you!!

My Gold Coast-Brisbane Trip Part 2

2009-10-26T16:00:00.000+10:30

The 4th Day

I joined Matthew they all to QDeck, the world's tallest residential tower on the Gold Coast.

The spectacular view from QDeck.

After coming down from QDeck, we were shocked that everything was now covered in dust and yellowish in colour. Then only we knew that Sydney, Gold Coast and Brisbane were being hit by dust storm. This was the first time and perhaps the only time i experienced dust storm in my lifetime.

We had our dinner at Hard Rock Cafe.

My dinner ♥

The 5th Day

Spent our day at Dream World.

Later at night, we went yumcha at Max Brenner Chocolate Bar after our dinner. The ambience there was really relaxing and just nice to yumcha.

Chocolate Fondue

Chocolate pizza

The 6th Day

I went for whale-watching tour in the morning. It was quite a nice experience as I think I had never seen a real whale before.

After the whale-watching tour, we had a relaxing afternoon lying down and napping on the beach.

Then, we went to Brisbane at night. The train journey took about an hour to reach Brisbane. Here, I met Hiang Qian who is my classmate in secondary school. We hadn't seen each other for 6 years and unexpectedly, we met each other again in Australia after so many years!

In front of casino.

Guys were sleeping.

While girls were busy talking :p

My Gold Coast-Brisbane Trip

2009-10-26T13:59:00.000+10:30

My Gold Coast-Brisbane trip happened on the 20th until 29th of September which was about 1 month ago but as I said before, there were just too many things to distract me from start blogging, that's why, hahaha..

The 1st Day

We reached Gold Coast in the evening and there was nothing much we could do on the first day. The only thing we did was went to Surfer Paradise aka the city centre at night to have some shopping.

The 2nd Day

We decided to go for an island tour that day. We waited for the bus to go to the place where we were supposed to gather. We waited for about half an hour but to no avail. Then only we knew that the bus we were waiting for would not go through that road as it normally did because of some construction work for the Grand Prix in October.*wtf*

So instead of island tour, we went to Harbour Town which was a place something like a factory outlet for shopping.

As I don't really like the fashion in Australia, I didnt manage to get anything from Harbour Town despite of its crazily cheap price *wtf* ( I am a sensible girl that would not buy something i would not wear just because of the cheap price k?? hahaha...) So how did i spend the time in Harbour Town?

Chiang Chiang Chiang Chiang **********

Banana juice + Chocolate

I spent hours drinking Boost (a well-known juice bar in Australia, I supposed) in Harbour Town. Sounded pathetic?? No, I was enjoying it :p

So what did we do at night?? Since there was usually no places to go at night in Australia, i suggested to pay a visit to the only 6-star hotel in Australia --------> Palazzo Versace, Gold Coast.

Waiting for the bus

Managed to cam-whore at the bus stop.

Unfortunately, due to the construction work for the Grand Prix (again!! WTF la..) we waited for 3 hours at the bus stop and 3 buses passed by but none of the bus stopped for us. It was about 1am already, so we walked back to the apartment without going anywhere although we had waited 3 hours for the bus. But we did go for a night stroll at the beach just opposite our apartment before going back n oo oo..

4 of us

The 3rd Day

We spent the whole day in Movie World.

At night, we still hadn't given up on our plan to Palazzo Versace. And WE MAKE IT this time!! Sze Mann and Kenny were also going with us (Jess, Hung Guan, Gabriel and me).

Palazzo Versace: The 6-star hotel that only uses Versace products in their rooms.

The First Chapter

2009-10-26T10:11:00.000+10:30

Finally, I am done with my blog. Perhaps, you would think that: " What is so hard to set up a blog la??" But it is really hard for me being a not-so-creative person to think of the http and the title of my blog (ridiculous, no?) And it is also hard for me to encourage or rather "force" myself to stop drama-ing n start to type out the post about the "interesting" part of my life in front of my lappy. hmm.. aih.. And I have been postponing the plan to blog because of test, laziness, tiredness etc etc. So many things can stop me from starting to blog *wtf, wtf*

SO, despite my rantings just now, what makes me start to blog? hmm, may be is because I want to have something to tell my anak cucu about my life when I become old someday, because i want to keep all the sweet, sour, bitter or salty?? memories of my life as words and picture so that i can recap it someday, because xin yue tell me that: " You shoud blog since you always got so many nice picture and stories to share", because... bla bla bla...