Happy New Year

I haven't really been keeping this very up to date.. It's been awhile since i've updated this blog. I haven't really had much time and opportunity to update this blog.. infact none at all with my trip and everything. Didn't have access to internet nor computer during my trip to GC and Syd. I just got back from my trip 2 nights ago and haven't had much time to post a new entry with all those emails in my inbox.
For those of you who were wondering how my trip has gone, it has been alright. Gold Coast was fun but Sydney was pretty boring. I'll tell you about it but i won't get too detailed bout it considering the fact that I already have to spend a quite bit of time infront of this computer to reply those emails without having to write this long post about my trip.

K.. lets start at GC since that's the frist place that I went during the trip. Had an early flight and we almost missed it but the check-in person called the passangers travelling on the plane to jump the queue so that we wouldn't miss the flight. We played a card game, 'Cho Tai Ti' (I'm not sure if I spelled it right), all the way. And so we arrived in the afternoon. My bro's friend picked us up so we spend the day together. Firstly we went to a Jap restaurant and then went to some place (I didn't know the name). It's more like a combination of places that I've been to either in Melb or Indo. A part of it looks like SOGO and PIM (malls in Indo), while the outdoor part looks like Dufan (a theme park in Indo), and some part looked like Chadstone. We went to other places as well like the market and stuff, but I can't really remember much of it, like where we ate for dinner and stuff.

We went to WB Movie World on the second day. I think this is my favourite theme park of all the 4 in GC, in which I will write about in just a moment. Here, I rode my first roller coaster ever, I mean the REAL roller coaster, not the ones that's not too high and were designed for kids coz I've been on those ones of course. If you know me well enough, you'll know that I never could face my fears riding those kind of thrilling rides, but this time I thought: Why not? I'll have to do it anyway coz then what's the point of going to GC and pay more than $50 to enter the theme parks if I'm only going to play Carousel and Dodgem Cars? - So there I was, on 'Lethal Weapon', the most exciting and thrilling roller coaster in Movie World and I think the most thrilling amongst other roller coasters. I'll tell you what I mean.. If you've been on a roller coaster before and is still feeling terrified and unsecured sitting on those cars (or whatever they call it that will take you throughout the whole ride), with your feet on bottom part of the car and supported by it, how would you feel if during the ride your body is only supported by you sitting on a chair and a seat belt BUT your feet can't touch anything, wasn't supported by anything, and was hanging freely in the air while you were being turned upside down 180 degrees? TERRIFIED! I was pretty lucky having LW as my first roller coaster ride coz then I realized that other roller coaster weren't as terrifying as LW, so from then I've pretty much conquered my fear to riding roller coasters. K .. enough bout the roller coasters.. I won't tell bout the other rides that I've been on coz it'll take a long time to finish writing about it. On a part of the day we watched the parade, it was really nice. And by the way I took photos with Austin Power (the fake one of course - just someone who looks like him who dressed up just like him)

Moving on to the third day.. We went to Sea World. Watched various shows about the animals like the seals, dolphins, etc. They were really smart and cute. Watched the ski competition as well (it was part of the SW show) and took photos with the competitors.

Spend the whole fourth day in Wet 'n Wild Water World. Can't say much about it but it was a really nice place to have fun! And the fifth day was Christmas day! We went to brisbane in the morning but didn't spend a lot of time there (obviously.. coz it was x'mas and everything was closed), we only took a couple of pictures and then went back to GC and just hang around in surfer's paradise. And believe it or not, we stood in the middle of a big road in the city (in Brisbane) and took a couple of photos there. For those of you at home, DO NOT attempt to try this at home as this can only be done by the experts and those with experiences (hahaha.. I really sound like the people in TV huh!?) Na.. just don't try this at home as this can only be done during Christmas day when every thing is closed and there's no car around. And by the way, I stayed in an apartment in Surfer's Paradise.. it's like main street (or main spot) in GC where there's a lot of restaurants and shops and it's closed to the beach. So if we wanted to have breakie of dinner, we'll just go down and look for restaurants, there's heaps there! And we'll just spend the night walking along the streets of surfer's paradise..

If I'm not mistaken.. we went to Dream World on the fifth day. Rode a lot of rides there and went to Big Brother house. OMG! Big brother house looked SO MUCH bigger in tv than in the real life. It was so damn small! It must be those camera angles that made it look so big on tv.. O yeah .. and I'm going to tell you about the Tower Of Terror ride. First, I didn't want to go on it so my bro and sis went alone, but then they forced me to go on it with them and so I went on it. We rode at 160 km/h on the whole trip, and I mean the whole trip right from the start! In most roller coasters, when it starts, you'll probably travel in slow speed for about 10 seconds when the railway is inclines, before they drop you from the highest point. But this.. it starts at 160 km/hr even when we're going up, inclining to 90 degrees - absolutely vertical before they drop you again. It looked like a capital 'L' shape. It's really hard to explain.. maybe if you've been on it before or see it with your own eyes, you'll know what I mean.

That was our last day on GC coz we had an early flight to Sydney on the sixth day. And I couldn't tell much about Sydney coz it we pretty much spend the first few days sight seeing at Fox Studios, Harbour Bridge, Opera House, Pyrmont Bridge and around the city. The only thing that made us go to Sydney at the first place is to taste all the indo foods, there were heaps of indo restaurants there. And we went to this famous doughnut place called 'Krispy Kreme' and amazingly we were dumb enough to travel 45 minutes by car just to taste that doughnut, but it was pretty good though. And we have absolutely no idea of where to go for the last few days so we watched the new LOTR just to kill 3 hours.
We watched the fireworks at Harbour Bridge from St Macquarie's Chair. We couldn't get any place that has the best view of the fireworks, so we didn't get much out of the 9 pm's fireworks. But afterwards, me and my sis decided to just wait up at the front for 3 hours rather than having to miss out on the new year's fireworks. My bro and dad joined us not long after that. So we stood there for 3 hours and played Cho Tai Ti for more than 2 hours while waiting for the fireworks. The long wait was worth it though...

K .. I'm really tired now .. maybe I'll stop here.. Happy New Year everyone! (although it's a bit too late)