Friday, September 30, 2005
Sashiburi ne~
I am FINALLY getting my butt off my freaking stats notes to finally blog about Canberra.
Estimated amount of time from Brisbane to Canberra and back was about 66 hours (thanks to Wayne)
Left Brisbane at 6pm from Eagle Street Pier. Spent the time on the bus sleeping, reading, playing cards, listening to music and chatting away.
Made a few pit stops along the way. Really tired. Wanted a hot chocolate but it was so freaking expensive... Guess because it was a tourist spot. Bleah~
Mazlan got everyone on the bus to play a secret buddy game. Where everyone had to draw someone's name out of a bag. Whoever you got, you had to write little notes, give gifts or something like that to make them feel loved. I got Vanessa. Lysha got Jamie. >.<
She offered to trade, but I said it was ok. ^^ She wrote Good Morning in Japanese on the first note to him, (courtesy of me of course) wanting to throw him off. Which it did... But that's later on.
Stopped at MacDonalds for breakfast, Uncle Martin bought me a hot chocolate because I said I loved it at the other pit stop. ^^ He's so nice~ That's why I love him. Haha~
We passed through Sydney!! The Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House looked magnificent!!! Didn't get a good picture of the Opera House though... *pout*
Checked into the hotel with Rhonda and Vanessa. Stupid electronic key card wasn't working. Got stuck out of the bloody room for so long. Haha~ Watched Racing Stripes on tv before heading for lunch. Then we went down to Floriade, the flower festival. The flowers looked pretty, and there were buskers! Really really cool!!
And then our guide even had games organised for us!! Looping a key through a string through our belt loops, egg on a spoon race and dragon tail. All girls vs boys. The girls won the first two. But the dragon tail one, the boys totally had us beat!! Unfair... Cos they're so violent.
I won a prize for being the leader of the first two games. A little monkey with a bobbing head. Haha!! ^^
Went back to shower, got ready for the Singapore High Commission thingy. Had a Dikir Barat (choral clapping) practice before hand in our room for the whole bus.
Met three sisters at the High Comm, migrated from Singapore about 3 years back with their family. And they really love it here.
Got back and played a couple of games with the committee.
Next morning, got ready and headed back to the High Comm again for an encore for the Dikir Barat and lucky draws. Our Brisbane group won more then half the prizes!! Hahaha~ There was this really stuck up ch**b** bitch there though. KNNBCCB~ points the third finger and other gestures (what more are there really? haha) LOL~ I know ma, very vulgar, but the b*tch deserves it. *devil horns sprout out*
Went through Sydney again that night, it looked great!! But it was too dark to get a clear picture. Darn!
Had the revealing of the secret buddy. Jamie's sister Kimmie was my buddy! I love her to bits! She gave me rice crackers, chocolate, lollies and a hug from Jamie!! *squee*
Remember how I said Lysha wanted to throw Jamie off?? She did... Jamie thought I was his secret buddy because the note contained "Ohayo Gozaimasu". And since I knew Japanese, he thought it was me...
When he asked, I yelled "NO! Sorry~" from the back of the bus, only to have the rest of the committee echo, "She wouldn't give you just notes~!!" "She'll give you EVEN MORE!!" "Much more!!". It was so embarrassing. So now everyone knew I liked Jamie.
And because Jamie had called me pretending to be my secret buddy in a really fake high pitched voice saying "kjnksjdhgkldsjbglk (i couldn't make that out) kdsjnfkjsd i'd like to meet you in the bathroom again..." Everyone was teasing me, saying "oohhhH~ what were you and jamie doing there ah?" So much so that even Doris-san (Jamie's mum) gave me the green light. XD
Sigh~ Canberra was really fun... And really memorable. ^^ Loved the trip... Totally!
I'll upload the pictures later, trying to get more pics of the sights. ^^
Posted by chibified kitsunes at 17:25