Railway Square
YHA & their train carriage room..
Google Maps: Railway
Square YHA Sydney
Hint: Store your luggage in YHA lockers, its 3x
cheaper than outside ones & you don't have to be a member/staying there to
use them...
Burger King for dinner, they call it Hungry Jacks there for some reason,
guess its a trademark issue...
Pigeons flying & pooping everywhere, those crazy football fans made the
Friday night worse...
FREE travelpass giveaway!
I wonder who took it in the end...
Finally we are back @ Melbourne!!!
Google Maps: GPO Melbourne
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Took tram all the way to the edge of Zone 1, the max our travelpass allows...
Everybody drives here, except 2 idiots who WALKED here...
Google Maps: Essendon DFO
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No good deals @ all, everything is identical to the DFO in the city... sucks~
Headed back to the city to meet Bao, again...
Had dinner in the same Ferrari decorated Italian restaurant @ Lygon St
Excellent pasta @ a reasonable price...
10 July 2008
Australia Trip - Part15
08 July 2008
Australia Trip - Part14
Cooking breakfast @ the hostel's kitchen.
Kinda surprised to find everything from salt to bbq sauce to curry powder to cooking oil spray..
My flattened breakfast
Laksa for A$12.50 (S$17.50)!! Same goes for wanton mee...
Queen Victoria Building
Google Maps: Queen Victoria Building
Later I finally managed to find the code & registered for CeBit Sydney 2008
You received this bar code thru email upon registration,
then shoot it with your (camera) phone
Open the image you taken earlier on,
scan the phone's LCD screen on this machine...
Poof! There's your entry pass!
Almost every visitor wear suits, except me...
Panasonic's 103-inch professional class full HD plasma
Cross-Fire themed casing...
Thermaltake & their LCS...
$7,000 Sony Blu-Ray laptop...
LN2 overclocking never fails to draw crowds, especially when the assistant wearing AMD lanyard is refilling LN2 for the Intel rig. =D
3DMark06 running on a single GTX...
Thanks blogger zone for the free usage of their notebooks...
Perfect gift for Bao, who gets lost even equipped with a GPS!
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
