March 2010

This is Day 2 of our trip. Day 1 here: Tales of Four Virgins – Expedition to Sydney (Day 1).

Being fully rest from yesterday’s sleep. We drove to Canberra, the Capital of Australia.

No, Sydney is NOT the capital Australia.

Did you know? Canberra derived from the word “Kanbarra” which means “meeting place” from indigenous people.

According to my housemate, Chuan, “Canberra is only 1 hour driving distance from Sydney, very near one..” and we drove there by referring to Google map only. Chris’s GPS not reliable. Hence the laptop on my lap.

This is only the 2nd day of our travel. 100% excitement and anticipation.

“30 minutes later we will arrive lo”

“Ui lin si, I don’t think so lo… Google map estimate 3 hours drive leh…”

“…shit”

Obviously, Chuan gave us wrong information. “Not 1 hour only meh? Hehehehee, I don’t know oh, last time the taxi driver told me one..” Chuan confessed on phone. It’s too late to turn back.

3 hours later. We reached Canberra.

“Kevin Rudd here we comeeeeeeeeee” we can’t wait to meet the Prime Minister of Australia.

We wouldn’t be that excited if the PM is still John Howard. Kevin Rudd speaks fluent Chinese, and he makes the rest of Malaysian Chinese embarrassed. Seriously. Youtube here: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Speaking Mandarin

We stopped at Canberra Information Center, Chris almost cry because he wanted to go to toilet so bad.

(Toilet photos removed, too obscene) :D

Inside Information Center, we were looking for more places to visit besides the Parliament. The staffs are friendly and helpful, and most importantly they are all blonde.

Australian Government done an excellent job here. Nice :D

We couldn’t find any restaurants and we were informed that Canberra Shopping Mall is the place where you can find food.

90% people suit up smartly here, I guess most of them work for government (hence, spies everywhere).

I wonder where do they hang out every weekend cause Canberra is such a boring place.

I keep farting inside the car when we drove here. I was so determined to “bomb” the Malaysia Embassy.

“Bomb” means the process of excretion ok, not the KABOOOM those kind of bomb. ISA don’t tangkap me please.

Why I wanted to bomb Malaysia Embassy, not others? Well, no specific reason. I just feel like doing it. I can boast about it to my future generations “Papa bomb Malaysia Embassy before!”

Another reason for being there is, according to Chuan again, “They sell the best nasi lemak!” at a price of RM15 each. Kaya-raya oh them. “If you go Canberra, you MUST eat”

What he didn’t tell us was… we need to get permission to enter the Embassy. You can easily enter the premisses if you are applying for Permanent Residency (PR). Four of us come because we want to kacau only.

What should I tell them? “Hello boss, sia mau pinjam tandas sikijap, nak bomb o… hehehe”

None of us has the ball to do that :(

I had no choice but to pick another location – The Australia Parliament Toilet. This is the last resort.

Yes, I had the best time of my life there. Life can be so wonderful and colorful after you released a shitload of pressures and weigh.

I felt so light.

…and I danced inside Parliament.

…also the largest hall in Parliament.

This Is It.

Throughout the whole 10 days journey, I think this is the best moment. Keeping your shit at the “door” for 3 hours is not a good experience. That’s how determined I was to bomb Malaysia Embassy.

Parliament of Australia is open for public. Cameras are not allowed in certain areas, such as the chamber. For the rest of the Parliament, take as many photos as you wish.

This is how The Chamber looks like, cameras are not allowed, this photo taken from Google image.

Outside the Chamber, where cameras are allowed…

This is an oil-painted picture, where cameras were allowed inside the Chamber during that period (unfortunately cameras were not invented yet :( ).

While we were busy taking pictures, one serious looking security approached us and says “there’s a secret elevator to reach the top of Parliament, you guys can take nice photos there”

He pointed at a small sign beside an old elevator “Access to top ->”

=___=

I had bruises on my ass after a few break dance moves. I am too heavy for that ^^; I wanna show you my bruised ass, but scare you won’t return to my blog anymore.

It’s too disturbing.

Some last photos in front of Australia Parliament, before we head to War Memorial Museum.

Expedition to Canberra (Day 2 Part TWO) coming up!

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据载,“晴天霹雳/青天霹雳”语出陆放翁诗句“放翁病过秋,忽起作醉墨。正如久蛰龙,青天飞霹雳。”

显然,由自然界的“青天飞霹雳”,成语“晴天霹雳”后引申为“突然发生的意外、噩耗”。

我厲害嗎?回來的。

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Edit: Illusion elusion Lounge

I don’t know where to hang out every Saturday night. But I know now…

I go LAM FOH!! hahahaha. Left is Irene, right is Shoey. Both are high school friends. I know Irene for 12 years already. Damn…

12 years already.

If I can hang out with girls every weekend… 爽到爆. And I found exactly a great place for this.

This is exactly the place I am looking for…

The Illusion elusion Lounge. I love the lights and ambience. Large and comfortable sofa, huge projector screen and …. eh I don’t remember if there’s any music or not. Definitely no live bands la. IF got, whoa even CHUN!!

Illusion elusion lounge has two parts, indoor and outdoor. Outdoor has a good view of jungle. Which means, you can’t see shit at night hahahaha.

It’s really hot here in KK, and bush fires are everywhere. Not exactly to a great outdoor to hang out, unless you smoke.

I prefer to stay indoor. Got comfortable sofa wo.

See them… so 舒服. The price is reasonable too. RM26 for a jug of beer. RM15 for Western foods, RM5 for finger foods. RM15 for cocktails and mocktails.

Buy a glass of Iced milo and sit there talk shit whole night. You don’t even feel that comfortable at home.

Another thing worth mentioning. The table got lights one!! Wow… CHANGE COLOR SOME MORE!! (excited like I’m from ulu-ulu kampung). Looks like rainbow :)

Perfect for taking photos. Don’t you think? ;)

The whole ambience is just too perfect. Come here if you want to practice with your camera :)

One of my friends says I look like scary when I laugh because the light was green.. Hehehe.

The Illusion elusion Lounge is at 1Borneo, KK. Above Courtyard Hotel Lobby.

I am definitely going there again. If you see me, wave your hand like mad. I’ll wave back at you ;)

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Alert: This is a long post – get yourself a coffee and make yourself comfortable before reading

I went to Sydney few months ago with a few buddies. One of the best trip of my life. I took 26gb worth of photos and videos in 10 days time.

Within 10 days time, we visited 3 places

  1. Sydney
  2. Canberra
  3. Cairns

Initially I want to make the whole trip into a video documentary – I have a draft video but the process takes up too much time and effort. I’ll make one large video in the end if time permits..

With 26gb of photos and videos, I can write up to 20 blog posts if I wanted to, but these posts has been delayed for toooooooo long. I have to clear the old posts or else have trouble catching with current events.

So here is it:

Sydney – Day 1


Our flight to Sydney is 5am. We tried to sleep at 11pm but we failed miserably.

It’s difficult to sleep when you’re too excited.

Rented a Toyota Corolla. The customer-service shucks during wee hours… the lady is very grumpy.

We found brothel (妓院) beside our backpacker..

THE WILD ORCHID.

Wahhh lau!! the word “wild” turns me on. I like things rough :)

Wanted to check out the brothel but all of us don’t have balls.

“Ain’t this suppose to be an adventure trip? Why so scare ohh?”

Haih! We are damn pathetic bunch of virgins.

In the middle of nowhere, there is a Santa Clause parade. Every participants wear a Santa costume and run marathon! Very interesting sight :)

Plus that day I wear red T-shirt.. got a “福” imprinted on my shirt some more. I feel like 財神 hahaha.

財神 vs. Santa Clause. Haha.

That event get a lot of media attention, but I still have no idea what’s that event. Anyone knows?

We had our first meal at Sydney’s famous dim sum restaurant - Zilver. Best dim sum I ever had in my life. Seriously.

I may looked cool in the photos, but after my first 燒賣 bite.. I jump around like a little kid.

Harbour Bridge. We thought there was a mild sandstorm when we take the photos. The whole city looks hazy. Few days later only we realised there are bush fires around the state.

In front of Opera House. Finally…. after 25 years.. I witness this great building with my own eyes, right in front of me!!

Opera House is also a very old architecture. The interior looks like my primary school multipurpose hall ^^;

Took a lot of photos – and this is only like 1/10000 of the complete photos.

Chris trying to catch some sleep.

If we were Ultraman, the red “danger” signal on our chest have been beeping whole morning.

Our mood fluctuates through out the day. It raises after we had great food, and drops after we walk 50 meter away from restaurant.

And continue drop until find a place to rest.

Jerry found a tree that looks like chocolate starfish (asshole) while we were trying to catch some rest in a cafe.

What happens when our mood dropped til the lowest point? We seek food.

This time, we head to Sydney’s fish market. Had been getting lots of positive reviews from my peers. All of them say similar things:

“if you never visit Sydney Fish Market, you never arrived Sydney”

I totally agree.

Professional Oyster Peeler – I didn’t know such occupation exists.

EEEEkkkkk!! fresh salmon sashimi for only $19.90 per kilo!

One plate of salmon belly sushi costs $19.90 in Gold Coast Japanese Restaurant. One plate = 2 slice of sashimi.

Half kilo of salmon belly for only $10.00…. this. is. heaven.

I shall emphasize again,

THIS. IS. HEAVEN.

We stayed at backpackers, for only $30 per head for one night.

We don’t mind staying in a small room. 4 lanjiao sleep together won’t have any “spicy” thing happen. If there’s a girl with us, maybe got little problem la..

Oh, the only problem is – when nature calls. 4 of us will fight for toilet.

“我的大便要出來了啊啊啊啊啊~”

Night scene in Sydney

I met Kristy, my high school friend! The world is not that small afterall ;)

Kristy looks so gorgeous. The last time I met her was 3 years ago. We celebrated New Year Eve together.

(DAMN!! should have chase after her at high school, when she’s still chubby..)

Largest Chupa-Chups I ever seen! Each weigh at least 2kg.. lol. I use the huge Chupa-Chups to hit Chris’s head and he almost cried.

I think I saw his tears in split second.. hahaha.


Amazing landmark in the middle of city.

These were the little interesting things that happened through out the day..

  • My swiss knife was confiscated at airport. A birthday gift from my ex
  • A drunkard asked “what is wing nut?”
  • Chris said he want to move to Sydney – it’s one of the “100 to do things before I die”
  • The prostitutes at Kingscross are OLD. Who would see them naked?
  • Is Lee Street a gay street? I see many gay couples there holding hands
  • Sydney University looks like buildings in Harry Potter
  • The compound of University of New South Wales is fucking huge
  • Westend Backpackers is smelly
  • First impression of Sydney - Huge, dirty, unorganized, busy, haze, different from Melbourne and Brisbane
  • You can never drive more than 60km/h in Sydney…

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It’s great to meet up with old classmates again. When old classmates sits together around a table, the bond between us creates some kind of strange “belongings”.

I am trying to be smart but I don’t know the scientific term for it. We usually call it..

“38″ (臭三八)

When we sit together. The topic starts to flow, never a quiet moment. I love how this feels. It’s awesome :)

And you know what? We can repeat the same topic every year without feeling annoyed.

  • “That guy tried to molest a little girl and got caught.. Now he is famous”
  • “She tried to swim in toilet”
  • “He touched her boobs”
  • “OMG those weird couples are still together?!”
  • … and more.

Most of the highlights of my life happened during high school, especially the great ones. Still remember during the old days, we love to organize trips to resorts and stay overnight. We bring alcohol and cigarettes to feel the “adulthood”.

  • What’s it like smoke whole night?
  • What’s it like to drink and lost control?
  • What’s it like to have sex?

Ops…! I should never mention anything here.

We usually wake up in a huge-mess. And always pay for the excess cleaning fees. (Not because of the sex.. it’s the VOMIT)

When I was young (am still young).. I had so many fantasies (still does). I have an advice for you. If you are still studying in high school… go ahead and chase the girl you like!!

What will happen then? … most likely you will end up feeling like shit. Like me ^^; But it was fun nonetheless. No regrets mah.. at least I tried. Sometimes get lucky tuuu….

These kind of memories are hard to come by. Trust me. You will have a lot of funny stories to share few years later :)

If you are already in the workforce – sorry lah, you have to work another 30-40 years. No more sweet memories for you anymore. It’s all nightmares, baby. ALL NIGHTMARES.

Enjoy the journey to your death.

Anyway, another thing I want to mention. Do you have any lucky encounters? Like.. both of you are attracted to each other for some time. Your heartbeat goes “buk buk buk buk buk” when she approaches. I do.

I miss the moment when we hold hands – and kissed under the bed of stars.

You know who you are¹ :)

Geoseph poking at my roti tisu…. =__=”

Do you have any lucky encounters during your high school trip?

Share your story.

¹“You are” includes – Charlene, Wivinia, Delonia, Natalie, Amber, Minny, Jessica, Audrey, Joanna, Apple, Grace, Joyce, Chole, Kim, Amanda, Sharon and Alice and etc. Once again, you know who you are. If I missed you out, send me an email and I shall add your name into the list.

HAHAHAHAHA. (don’t take the name list seriously – it’s a joke. get it? I don’t wan to be in front page of high school alumni magazine)

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