Just came back from Hobart on Sunday and the trip did kinda lighten my spirits up a little. The first day was a little grumpy one because everyone did not have enough sleep and darling, trying to be a clever arse, had to go rent a manual car because he hadn't driven one for a long time. We didn't realised it was not a good idea until we figured out how hilly the roads were in Hobart. As expected, the manual car was exchanged for an Auto one the next day. On the left, you would find the Tasman bridge, which connects Hobart city to the rest of the other towns across the sea. The 2nd shot shows darling looking blur in the Richmond historic Gaol. Then the 3rd shot is taken with dalring in front of the Richmond bridge built in 1823, plus the 4th one with mum at the oldest existing catholic church ever built in Australia - The church of St. Pauls built in 1836. It even had an infant tomb stone next to it - 4 mths baby boy died in 1845. And to the other side of the church lies the cemetary, creepy eh?
And as usual, with all the squabbling we had in the car with the directions on how to get about, going to the casino was one thing that could cheer darling up. Being the oldest casino of Australia, the Wrest Point casino could be no way compared to Crown in Melbourne at all. The gaming room occupied a really small area with only 3 roulette tables. It probably was 1/8 the size of Crown. Next 2 photos were at the Cascase Brewery and the fruit gardens beside it. It was the first time I ever plucked fresh apples from trees and eat it there and then. Darling and I were really interested in going for the brewery tour, but mum wasn't, so we had to give it a miss. Next photo is at the Alpen Rail swiss model village and railway. As the name says it, it had a village and mountains with railways that filled the whole room. Trains were one of darling's favourite things, thus for the trip anyway. He took a shot with his Thomas the tank engine too.. You can see in the next shot below... haha
There was a small faerie gardens next to the model village and we went out for a short walk. Darling with his usual mischief, tricked me into counting the 7 dwarfs! Mum was fascinated by the thick and long haired cats and couldn't help strocking them, as you can see. Next visit was to the Cadbury chocolate factory. And we definitely took the tour for this, what with all the chocolate tasting and smelling as we went round the different sections, you could almost smell of chocolate after leaving the place. Apparently, they make 800 tons of chocolate per day just to cater to the whole of Australia's population! Ummm and freshly made chocolate really smells and tastes fantastic. But with the amount of chocolate we had that day, plus the ones we bought back as gifts for friends, I reckon we would be away from chocolate for some time...
The 3rd day was to the famous Salamanca Market which operates only on Sats, 8.30am to 3pm. They sold alot of arts and crafts, clothes, souvenirs, food, soft toys and anything you might wanna find.. Got a tazzymade bag there, finally something that isn't made in china. Next we visited the Penitentiary Chapel which was a chapel cum gaol in the 1800s and it underwent many changes. We went through the prisoner cells, their hanging chamber, the court rooms and half of what's left of the chapel. It was really cold and creepy inside, lucky we went in the afternoon. They even had Ghost Tours at night! The picture far right top was of mum at the St. Mary's catholic church where we went for Mass that night. We even brought the bread and wine together up to Father. And Father was really nice asking where we are from and how are we and stuff.
So, that was part of the photos from the 4 day Hobart trip. My pal called as well during the trip, telling me how he was going to spend his birthday. Happy Birthday to you again, S.S.K. Glad you like the presents. Will be going down to city again tommorrow with mum and staying with my uncle for 2 nights before my mum returns to Msia on Sat. The next week will be hell with having to finally force myself with my project I've been keeping of for a long time. And it's even harder without darling around for the week... *sob sob*
I half-heartedly thought of taking a look at my project when darling walked in complaining again. Yess, the noisy bunch are at it again and some of them just came back from a city trip and with the amount of groceries they bought, they were gonna invade the fridge and continue the stalk up for war. The poor freezer has never seen its empty days for a long time. *WTF* My bloody laptop froze again and it gets to the point where "ctrl-alt-del" does not help and I had just finished the post wanting to go out and cook dinner when it happened. Anyway to recap about what I wrote: While reading some blogs just now, I was surprised to find out that the so-call "botak" had broken up with his "sweet" msian GF. Only last year, Ph was going on about how close they were and how she was going to s'pore to join him and stuff, but still it didn't work out...(So it was the same, with the both of us anyway). It just made me wonder if it's the problem with us MY girls or is it just the guys who spent half of their life in that small island?
Currently playing: Prince of Qin. Not too sure which year it came out cause I'm not exactly a hard core fan of keeping up to date with PC games, but RPG games never fail to amuse me though. Read about some good reviews and bad reviews about the gamw while searching for the print screens, and all I know is that it's gonna take a long time to finish. It's different from 'Age of Empires' or 'War Craft' where you can select a random map, it;s just one while long story which you "die-die" have to continue if ya wanna finish the game. Considering the low level of patience I have, this is something contradicting or maybe it's just that I'm inquisitive (a better way to put it) and did I ever mention I like ancient and medieval stuff? Anything from chinese palaces to the england castles; Always imagined how life would be like in those times: NO COMPUTERS=NO PROGRAMMING=NO HEADACHES. Then again, all the entertainment we have today would make you ponder... But my mum told me something before, "What you don't have, you won't miss", and I feel that's pretty much true... If ya get what I mean...
2 weeks ago, when I was meeting my supervisor for the project, Tina the IT admin officer dropped by and asked me to look for her after the meeting for a photo shoot. Apparently they were taking photos for the new IT brochure next year and she thought it would be nice to get a few shots of me. That was very sweet of her although I was contemplating whether I should go home and put some makeup and then again I was too lazy. So I hope the photographer would do some touch up and hopefully remove the dark circles and eye bags. *eeeks*... Anyway my mum arrived last Sat and Darling and I went to the airport to pick her up from her 4.45am flight. We reached there just in time and no prizes for guessing that the first place we went thereafter was Crown. I was so exhausted that I was practically sleeping at the Roulette table. Guess it was not our day too because we didn't win again this time... Coincidentally Rak kee and I was doing the readings for Mass that night and so mum was there to see. We actually forgot to bow before and after the readings and lucky Helen said it was fine since the Tabulet wasn't there because the church was undergoing renovations and so Mass was temporary held at the primary school's hall. After that was dinner at iimis in Traralgon after the aloof treatment we go from Quba restaurant at Midvalley... 
I remember I used to wonder why the Orientation helpers during my time weren't really that friendly at all outside the orientation event. And now I realised why.. When you just had enough of repeating your experiences and telling about Gippy, it's really bored sometimes to entertain the new student's questions. Once or twice is fine, but this time Josh asked Longy and I to fill in the Orientation helper forms again for sem 2's orientation and I was like.. erm.. oh well.. we just put our time down for 3 days this time, unlike the usual week long dedication. Finally got my pal SK's bday gift yesterday when I was shopping with mum at Midvalley. Not gonna say what I got for him in case he drops by to read my blog. Hope he like the stuff I got for him though and one of them was the symbol of what I always call him, "Hippo shoon".. haha =) Oh yah and I had lunch with Stacey and Henrie at iimis too sometime last week and the Mango and Marble Cake was really yummy. But we couldn't finish them after our main course and so Henrie took them home.. Yet another of my Pooh gang graduating this sem... Tigger's gone, and now's Piglet's turn.. Lucky I got Eeyore with me at the end of the year! Don't forget to hurry go hand in your Graduation form huh.. *blondee* ;)
