[#4] 11/12/2000-17/12/2000 Ah Qing was 14 years old.
Eh..got 5 "1st-times" happened. First, 1st time went to Australia. 2nd, 1st time went overseas without family ( i went with chinese orchestra). 3rd, 1st time i went overseas twice in a yr ( went to china in june). 4th, 1st time travelled in a night flight.5th, ate kangaroo meat.
Ok..went to a "remote" part of Aus..Western Aus...perth lah! haha! why say remote leh..coz it was out of the place mah..most Aus cities were at the eastern or south-eastern part of the continent..perth was in the west..
well, impression of perth..BORING! haha! dunno why leh...no tv entertainment ( the tv @ the hotel was spoiled! ) eh...the ppl there tends to slp early..haah ( we were too noisy in the hotel so kenna complaint many times by other ppl..they slpt damn early like 9 something at night..WTH?!) shopping was kinda boring too..( shops closed early on weekdays, weekends at the most opened till 9.30pm..which was considered quite early too. Things were not cheap too..haha! though the swatch watches there were cheaper than sg de..but that was in yr 2000 lah..now i dun think so)
went there in summer mah..pretty hot..the sky there quite cloudless lah..so cld feel the sunlight "hitting" on ur skin directly...sianz..weather dry too...alamak!
Perth's airport was located @ somewhere rural ba..got a dist from perth city..the airport quite old and small too..compared to asian airports..haiz! i think it was worst than china's domestic airports i had been.
lucky perth was not so far frm sg..4 hrs flight..quite fun lah! the food was considered great..if i wanna compared it with SIA's china flight..they got gave us chocolate ice-creams wor?! haha!
anyway, reached perth in the early mornings...couldnt slp (4am liao) haha!
Went to Forest Place to shop around..the post office there was quite grand lah..nice building! we actually had an outdoor performance there..but the place was kinda small so we kenna squeezed together..quite hard to play lah..had my mcdonald meal there..quite big size wor? nice! haha! the packaging was a little better than sg.
went to a high school to perform ( forgot the sch name) eh..their concert band also performed for us..like an exchange performance ya? got quite a no. of asians in that sch wor? haha! got interaction with them and had a meal there..gotta forced myself to eat hotdog bun..alamak! terrible! eh..after that we visited Yan Chep National Park! saw koala bears!!! so cute!!! Also, went to Crystal Cave..ah..saw what i learnt in geography..stalagmites, helictites, columns and shawls. amazing leh! some stalagmites were like statues..cool!
Tumbulgum farm was my 1st visit to a farm lah..all sorts of animals u can imagine..saw how they shaved the sheep's skin..quite can ren..haha! also saw emu and kangaroos there..had my lunch..eh..in bbq style..got emu & kangaroo meat lah..i dun dare to eat emu meat..lolz! kangaroo meat was ok..like beef lah..butta given a chance again i wont eat lah..sicko leh!
Caversham wildlife park was something like the safari zoo in daytime..saw some animals that we wont get to see in sg lah. had camel ride..which was my 1st time too..haha! err..the ride wasnt very comfortable to me..haha!
next, went to a small city near perth called Fremantle. nice sunny place by the beach!!! haha!
australian beach was just so diff from our east coast ah! the sea was so clear man! and of coz got tons of babes and hunks there lah..lolz! went to visit fremantle monument,fremantle prison and had lunch @ a fish & chip restaurant by the sea...wah seh! their fish & chip super large! can be shared by 2 persons lah..haha! ( dunno how i finished it?) Other places i had visited included Lake Monger, King's Park state war memorial ( near my hotel)..can see the skyline view of perth...like our shenton way!
Eh..basically the roads were quite empty at night lah ( 8pm onwards) not safe for young ppl to walk alone or two lah..got bad guys out there..haha! only those pubs wld opened late lah..so siam those places also..got lots of drunkards! eh...the flies there were larger than our sg flies too..haha! they dun fly off ur hands or whatever so easily de wor?! lolz!
Perth...in my opinion..is a nice place to tour lah..overall. though i wondered why so many ppl said it was so nice to live in..diaoz...boring place man!
