Nonsensical Nothings: February 2015

Monday, February 09, 2015

melbourne trip

two weeks ago, we went to melbourne for the wedding of my neighbour/childhood friend

chik kia flew from singapore and i flew from kuching and we met up at klia2. we arrived several hours early before our connecting flight to melbourne and spent the time browsing the klia2 mall. we went into the terminal half an hour before the flight and saw that the status was boarding. while i was taking off my contacts in the toilet, chik kia started rushing me coz the flight status changed to 'closed'. so we panicked and started running. damn far i tell you this klia2 international terminal. so empty and so unnecessarily big. we were so scared we missed the flight. when we finally reached the gate, it was still 10 minutes before departure time. then the flight was delayed for 1 hour because they were looking for the bags of some passengers who couldn't make the flight. -_-"

slept badly in the flight and reached melbourne the next morning. the immigration queue was so long. after we got our luggage, we had to queue again to go out. and because we declared we brought some medicines, we went into the line which gets sniffed by drug dogs. we were late for lunch with some of my old schoolmates. tried green eggs and ham. i think it was just some green coloring in hollandaise sauce over poached eggs.

took a nap after lunch, then met up again for italian dinner at lygon street.

went to the great ocean road the next day. rented a car for two days with two friends

it was super freezing cold even though the sun was shining. the wind was so chilly. we stopped at several beaches along the way.

this kid was pushing the sand with his head, which we found pretty odd and funny

the twelve apostles

panoramic view. but some of the apostles are behind the cliff

the london bridge

here we are looking at the foamy ocean. sometimes it's so foamy that the foam actually floats up in the air

day 3. went to philip island and got the 3-park pass. we went to the churchill island heritage farm where we saw demonstrations of cow-milking, sheep-shearing, whip-cracking, and sheep-herding.

then we went to the koala conservation center where we saw koalas, an echidna, and wallabies

went to watch the penguin parade in the evening. the tiny fairy penguins come home at sunset and we're not allowed to take photos so these were found online. they come in groups from the sea, then run up the beach to their little burrows

the next 3 days were spent at the australian open coz tennis is chik kia's passion, apart from me. *ahem* he bought 3-day ground passes. we spent the first 2 days at the show courts under the hot sun.

but on the third day we realised that the ground pass allows us to go to the hisense arena. so we queued for 2 hours to get into arena just in time to watch the last 15minutes of andy murray defeating joao sousa.

and at night we watched sharapova and nadal at the rod laver arena

day 7 was the day of the big event. we squeezed in a trip to victoria market in the morning, then went for wun hwui's wedding in the afternoon. the reception was first, followed by cocktails, then the dinner

lovely bride

candid picture

the bride and groom danced in their lodge school uniform because they were classmates in kindergarten, then lost touch coz they went to different classes, then met again in melbourne and fell in love

early the next morning, we rushed to the airport and our flight was delayed again. so had to rush for my connecting flight too. sigh. but it was a good trip. may need another trip there to explore more of melbourne.