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07 July 2008

Australia Trip - Part13



A$2 breakfast wrap from Mac, the most budget breakfast so far







Yet another ferry day...







Some luxurious housing at the suburb of Sydney




The original & the photo-shopped:






Oops, I turned the bridge blue =X







Local retirement village...







Seafood platter feeds 2...







Customs House @ Circular Quay







A scaled model of the city beneath our feet...







"free internet access" on the Dell system with a 27" LCD...






Took another ferry to the very far Birkenhead for some DFO shopping..






It ended in disappointment...






Only bought a pair of Ripcurl leather slippers,






@ A$7 instead of the usual $39.95,

82% discount anyone?







I walked through the entire Glebe Point

Road
looking for food...







While I was enjoying the delicious Glebe Beef Burger (A$5), disaster strikes.







Somehow steam from the boiler set off the fire alarm, the entire hostel had to be evacuated & the fire engine came...


Where's The Beef?

04 July 2008

Australia Trip - Part12



Chinese Garden @ Sydney

Need pay entrance fee, so no thanks...








Birds everywhere...








& they sh!t everywhere too!!








Measuring noise pollution @ every corner of the city...







We have 1-week unlimited bus+train+ferry ticket







A good shot of Sydney Harbour Bridge & you-know-what-it-is on a fast moving ferry

Google Maps: Sydney Harbour Bridge





Visited some bank's museum...










Lunch time:



Very local calamari ring + fries combo for approx S$9







6,300km away from home...







Another round of ferry...







The slower & older type of ferry...







Nothing except some crazy half-naked ang moh drinking beer & fishing at the jetty in this cold weather...







Yet another beautiful purple sunset...







It's complete darkness @ 5, 6pm here in Sydney...







Subway + some leftover lunch for dinner...








Over S$3 for 45min internet usage @ hostel, msn-ing, blogging & checking out the POSB exchange rate

The interesting thing about using debit card is that you have 2 options upon payment:

1) merchant's bank exchange rate which will be disclosed (eg. A$1 = S$1.4)

2) my bank's exchange rate (POSB) which they/you won't know unless you check it out online


I tried both options in 2 separate payments & it turned out to be less than $0.40 different for a A$70 transaction each.






Doing laundry while having some tea...







In-room steam bath...



Who did it??










That's S$13.30 for a "cheap" ticket

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