Adelaide Part II

Elder Park

Carols by Candlelight

Christmas Celebration

Mom with all the elderly

Fireworks!

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The 2nd day of shopping

At Hilton Hotel

Oh shit, I forgot where is this place.. but again, this place is like so damn far away from the city.

Make way for the penguins


Stopped by another coffee house. Been drinking lots of coffee. Haih.

Orange Cake

Cheese Cake

For Christmas eve, we went to Janice's house to have dinner with the rest of her friends. It was totally awkward, to have so many Christians all a sudden. They're the type who will make the first move to talk to you and being extra helpful and friendly. We had dinner, her mom even made roast turkey! Wth. Then it went on with a game, where u had to take turns to draw on the board and then another team guess. That was the scariest part.

I thought it would be simple but wat the heck... I was the second person to have to draw because one of them called my name. So damn pai seh man!! Mine was "Everybody rushing to buy presents". Omg, God was really trying to make fun of me..

• During my dad's office family day, my name of all the staff and their family members had been called to join in this mummy game.
• For Chinese new year dinner, my number got called out for winning the lucky draw.
• During Mufy's Accounts class, my lecturer asked us each to write 5 things about ourselves and our dreams... she picked a few and one of them was mine. Luckily I forgot to write my name there.
• My office annual dinner where I had to shave balloon.
• My name got called out first in my team to draw.

SO EMBARRASSING. T___T


Next, came the sermonts. And lastly, having desserts and singing christmas songs. But I laughed a lot and I had a great time. We all did. =)

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Adam Street

Christmas celebration

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Toy Factory



2 bucks for climbing the horse

Bottom

Middle

Top

On the way up...

...met this boy

Huge Horse

Average Horse

Miniature Horse

Sound of Music =)

Wooden Doll House

Master Bedroom

Kids Room

Dining Room

Bathroom

Living Room

Bush Park

Stupid lazy kangaroos

Duckies

Baby kangaroo

Alpacas, according to Uncle Liew

Ugly sheep

Albino kangaroo

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Watched sunrise from the coach on the way back to Melbourne

Happy Ending

The last 5 days of our vacation was spent in Melbourne. Everything was packed till the last minute except for a stuff toy due to limited hands to carry.

Yup, it's this very pony from 'My Little Pony'.

The we started taking lots and lots of photos before disposing it.

Bye bye Little Pony

I made this okay! Damn pro right? =D

Showing off my handmade doggy

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Went to my future brother in-laws's relative house. These are their 2 daughters.

Us playing with the kids instead of talking with the aunts and uncles there.

She drew my bloody sis

Cute right????

Natalie, 5 yrs old. She already has this Aussie slang which made me kinda scared of her. Her english I think is better than mine! What fuck.

Emelie, 2 yrs old

So lucky to hug them

Took without her knowing it. See, here looks so much cuter than the rest. This proved that she's not photogenic after all

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Queen Victoria Market

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Lygon Street

Chicken Caesar Salad

Special House Pizza

Carbonara Fetucinne

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Docklands

Victoria Harbour

Mostly factory outlet stores. It's a must to come shopping here. =)

Outdoor shopping complex

See, there's even an elevator there. Malaysia where got?

Taking a photo with the observation wheel behind

Can fit about 20 ppl per cabin and it's worth AUD25 each.

One of the many coffee houses we went to.

Most of the drinks are around this price.

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9.15pm fireworks for the kids. We were seeing this from our hotel. The building on the most left is Telstra Dome, where they had a party with white dress code. The residents beside, above, and below our room of hotel were all wearing white. They were shouting and throwing water bottles to the people below, also in white who were walking to the stadium. It was... scary!

Night view

Went to Docklands instead of Federation Square for the new year countdown

Their fireworks are the second best I've seen so far.

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On the way back. I wasn't supposed to use any electrical equipment..but like lar I bother.

My sis's welcome home banner made by Mr Lee Weng Tseng


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Overall, the entire trip was great since I was able to go different states all in 3 weeks. It was much more fun this time than my previous Melbourne trip in 2007 and we took DAMN MANY PHOTOS.. One thing for sure, my dad's wallet was getting lighter each time my sister bring me go SHOPPING!. I learned quite a lot about Aussie after visiting their Museum in Adelaide. You must be thinking, "Har, go to museum? Eww, so boring". That was what I was thinking as well. But it turned out to be really fruitful. I love reading, well mostly seeing the displays about aborigines and all. Then, being able to know and drink different types of coffee. My dad's friend is a coffee freak and we spent quite a lot of time with him in Adelaide.

There were of course many downsides as well. For instance, both of my parents argued a lot over little things by giving each other their own statements. Not being able to pluck cherries in Adelaide due to the rain recently. The weather in Melbourne was erratic. It could be extremely cold in one day and the next day it could be warm and all. The worse thing was, our flight got delayed for 15 freaking hours! Imagine the hell I had been through, sitting in the airport with nothing but my novel and my phone. We were supposed to reach on the 1st of Jan but ended up on the 2nd. We reached the airport really early, say... bout 9.30 pm for our 12.30pm flight. The person in charged told us our flight would be delayed until 3am but complimentary vouchers of AUD10 each would be given. So much for a happy ending.