Whoah… you better appreciate this post, I just paid $2 to post it for you!! And yes, the City with that Opera House that I’m refering to is Sydney. I don’t have time to recrop my photos on bloody MS Paint, away from the comforts of Adobe Photoshop so this may or may not be a purely text post (depending on how much free time I have left at the end after I’m done).

Anyways, me and Jay Jay flew out early yesterday morning (as in 12:50am early). So we were at the airport, checked in our baggage (Jay had a 3kg piece of luggage lol!!) and went through the metal detector things to wait for our flight. Once we had boarded, we were quite surprise to see two other people casually sitting on our seats. We were even more surprised to see our boarding passes duplicated but with different names…. As a public message to Virgin blue, please sack your IT programming dude.

All was well after that, we had our seats reallocated (and we got window seats too *yay ^_^… well not really, I got the window seat, and Jay Jay was stuck in the middle *grins*). Anyways, we didn’t get much sleep during the night, Jay Jay didn’t get any at all, and we walked off that plane like zombies (*… brains… brains…*).

[Monday, the 29th of September]

So once we touched down at Sydney’s Domestic Airport, and stumbled around like the living dead, we went off collect our luggage. Mine came in one after the other just fine, but Jay Jay’s 3kg piece of luggage seemed to be nowhere in sight… we later went to enquire about this and found out that Jay Jay’s 3kg luggage fell off the carousel (*HAHAHA*). We caught the train to the city, and walked over to our hotel. Checked in, and freshened up, just in time for our 9:30am appointment with Jay Jay’s friend (who shall be named here as Tall-Tall Guy :)). Yes people, after a night of almost no sleep, in an uncomfortable, unreclinable seat, and in a state quite similar to those sleep deprived terrorists in Guantanamo Bay… we began exploring Sydney.

We had breakfast with Tall-Tall Guy and his girlfriend and walked around the Darling Harbour for a bit, before taking a water taxi (like a colourful mini speedboat) over to the Opera House. We went on a tour inside and discovered many things that could’ve been read from Wikipedia anyways. And after the Opera House… the fun part begins.

Whilst I realized that I was falling asleep while walking/standing… and I have to use up nearly 90% of my thinking capacity to put one foot in front of the other, I allowed myself to be dragged by Tall-Tall Guy and Jay Jay to… climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge (which is a 3 and a half hour climb). Yes… I’m an idiot… and yes, it was THE Sydney Harbour Bridge. My biggest fear was not from whether I’ll be able to climb the bridge, but more of whether I’d be enjoying a free bungee jump as well with no bungee cord attached to my feet (waist?) after mistakenly walking over a railing in one of my half sleep deprived and confused state of mind.

Surprisingly, I survived! And came back in one piece, thanks to the numerous safety equipments hanging off my pelvis (no, it’s not what you’re thinking of … *glares*). We later walked around the city (btw, Sydney is a phucking huge city, we took 45 minutes to walk to our destination…. and this after climbing the bridge, with the state that my legs were in… I swear the surgeon would have recommended amputation in the emergency room, yes I’m exagerating, but you get my point!). Anyways while I was going to finish that sentence but had my line of thought briefly interrupted, we later walked around the city and headed for Chinatown to have dinner. Okay, Jay Jay says it’s not Chinatown. Bloody git is reading my screen while I’m typing this out. He claims it’s somewhere in the city, I reckon it’s Chinatown… And now I’m being accused of denying the facts. Food was okay-ish not too bad, not too great.

Anyways, we walked back to our hotel, sleepy and… well, just sleepy. Took a shower, and collapsed into bed, and I slept for a total of 11 hours ^_^. An interesting thing happenned while me and Jay Jay were sleeping (*haha, Jay Jay just called me a bastard*). Sometime after we fell asleep, a weird ringtone echoed through the room and woke me for a bit… before the offending mobile phone was answered… on loud speaker. Whilst most of the conversation was in Mandarin (and me being a banana and unable to speak in Mandarin) I could vaguely make out what I was hearing, but I figured that it was the offender’s parents enquiring about his wellbeing, only to be answered by a constant stream of “I’m sleeping… I’m sleeping… I’m sleeping”. The very next day, said offender thought this incident was a dream, only to be proven wrong by his call-list.

[Tuesday, the 30th of September]

I was woken up rather peculiarly by a Jay Jay trying to be stealthy and quiet. Jay Jay couldn’t sleep anymore and decided to go out and buy some breakie whilst I got to catch an extra hours worth of sleep! Jay Jay came back, and we had our breakie in the hotel room, freshened up and left for Macquarie University to meet up with some lecturers.

We had to head over to Central Station to catch a train to Eastwood, and a bus from there to Macquarie. The university itself was pretty run down and old, much like Murdoch University (ugly, old and boring… haha to any of you studying there… *CURTIN PAWNS YOU*). But anyways, we later found out they had not one, but two food courts on campus with many other cafes, and outdoor coffee stands!!! And all of them are believed to be run by private businesses, not a student guild. Food was awesome, and their toilets were clean… for any of you who have studied / are studying in Curtin… think of their most dirtiest toilets as being one level above building 300’s toilets.

We later left the university and headed back with a heavy decision on our heads… one that may have to be decided rather quickly. And many many many many coins will be flipped in the process. Jay Jay and I later took a stroll around the city, visited the Apple store (lol, they don’t sell iTouch 2G cases there wtf) and continued our stroll around the city.

We had a buffet dinner at a revolving restaurant on top of the Sydney Tower which was…. not too bad. Jay Jay had a hard time taking photos of the city view due to the revolving-ness (I can’t think of any other word from my rather miniscule vocabulary) of the restaurant and the lack of anti-shake features on Jay Jay’s camera. We ended up finding a way to get around the revolving-ness (lol, any suggestions for words other than this one?), but didn’t get good shots anyways. What did we think of the restaurant? In Jay Jay’s own words… good view, good food… and we don’t need to pay for breakfast tomorrow. Needless to say, we stumbled around holding our barfs in our tummies (the side effects of over-eating) and went into an internet cafe on the way back where I decided to spill out all this random crap for you to read.

Anyways, that’s all for now, I’ll be back again later, if I decide to :P. Until then, I shall leave you with a random photo of our adventure during the past two days

Jay Jay sneaks a photo of me while I'm eating...