aussie pt 1 - melbourne

20/11/14

klia2

so. much. LAND!
*says one who comes from a peninsular, not a frickin continent*

extra form to fill up d/t ebola scare

picking up our home/car for the next week

i wonder what it feels like to live in a place where flowers are blooming just beside the streets

my cherry bombs

first time seeing a tram. well, it seems to run on some form of electricity.
*clue: captain america

pretty tram

they say australia has one of the best coffee
true that.

i would write up little tidbits about each city and our journey,

why 'tidbits'?

because i don't have the time to write long ramblings that no one reads --

so those, i will keep to myself.

touched down at melbourne airport,

the immigration line was longggg.

picked up our motorhome,

drove over to queen victoria market.

nice and cheap place to shop,

but closes early - at 2 pm.

we arrived late.

bought cherries at 8 dollars for 1 kg.

now, i'm not a cherry eater - never been a fan of them.

but i bought 500g of them and once i popped it into my mouth --

i was hooked.

the cherries were red, juicy, sweet; i couldn't get enough of them.

bought another half kilo of them, even that isn't enough.

we bought cherries elsewhere, too, but could never compare to the ones i bought here.

oh dear God.

i would die for those cherries.

we then walked around town, rode one of those free trams,

which are meant for tourists but jam-packed with everyone.

i slept on it.

melbourne was interesting,

but i was just too tired.

i hated myself for sleeping. sigh.

after 45 mins on tram, off we went to albury, where we will spend the night.

we stopped at a mosque for prayers,

and a nice sheikh lead us to a pizzeria for dinner (plus breakfast and lunch).

when the people who went to visit first-world countries say that the toilets are clean,

they're not joking.

i could sleep on the floor of their toilets.

and i'm not joking.

the drive was long, took us probably 6 hours.

we arrived near midnight.

but we got to stop somewhere in the middle of nowhere

(which means, i don't know)

and got ourselves a cuppa.

we spent less than half a day in melbourne.

that warrants a visit again, sometime in the future.

;)

compilation of selfies

20/11/14 - 26/11/14.

7 days,

over 1000 kilometers.

yes, i was in the land down under.

according to google, we covered 1931 km on land.

from arau, perlis to danga bay, jb, it is only 812 km.

1931km.

just how tiny semenanjung malaysia is.

i will cover the whole story in subsequent posts, but right now

let me take a selfie!

hahaha.

since that time i learned how to hold a dslr properly,

i am doomed to the fact that 

i will never have a pretty picture in front of any famous landmarks.

i rarely take selfies, i don't find that i look good that close to a camera lol.

but i guess this is an exception.

so that leaves me and my phone.

not even a monopod since i find them bulky.

just me and my good ol' hands, then.

enjoy.

at the moment when i realized that i'm never getting a good picture unless i selfie.
this is on the freeway to canberra.
stopped over to change drivers and snap pics.

house of parliament,
canberra.
quick quiz: what's the capital city of australia? :P

shellharbour.
where i jumped out of bed into the beach to take really awesome sunrise pics.

only picture i took with the motorhome.
a Britz 6-berth Frontier.

Sydney,
where we took a wrong turn to Bondi Beach
and end up on the most amazing coastal view.

(we ended up just passing by Bondi Beach,
because, well, it's just another beach with bikini-clad ladies.
other than the bikini-clad ladies, we have beaches in Malaysia.)

with a big motorhome comes parking problems.
we ended up parking far away,
but we also got this view of Sydney Opera House
with the Harbour Bridge in tow :)

(with every difficulty comes blessing, shown twice in a day)

Sydney Opera House
(that looks like a grimace, sorry lol)

Darling Harbour

Koala Hospital, Port Macquarie
yes koalas need hospital too

that is the famous Byron Bay, folks
it's cold up here

sea world is really more interesting than it seems.

black me with cute penguins

in which my excitement gets really embarrassing
but i'm too excited to feel an ounce of embarrassment

movie world

the ride that will be the cause of your death

the exact moment when batman charmed me
can't see it here, but he actually wrapped his arm around me
yeah, i wish i was joking

a convert.

yeay

we hunted for this sign.

that awesome moment when a baby lamb took a wefie with you

i wish to know how you made that sleeping position seems so comfy, mr koala

in which i got a kiss from a sheep.
thank God i am not squeamish

that time we went back into movie world on another day because i haven't taken enough pictures
and that's not a joke.
do notice i'm wearing a different tudung here, lol

that's it folks,

i promise that next posts will be less of me.

;)