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imagine taking a cool breezy fifteen minutes walk from where you stay.. u walk through a beautiful garden, past flaming red maple trees, old oak trees of a hundred years, ancient churches, fountains and statues, with nice plains of soft grass all around.. at the end of the walk u come round a bend, and the spectacular opera house looms right in front of u, and the huge sydney harbour bridge spreads out just behind the opera house.

that was where i was staying in sydney!

throughout australia what i love is all those nice greeneries, nature and quaint buildings around. i have no qualms about lying on the grass.. so lush and soft.. not to mention without all those mud and mosquitoes that our homeland offers. hee.

and the weather's so cooling! natural air-con sia. i haven't sweat for days. hehe. a tad cold in some areas though.. that's when we had to pull out all the warm thermals and thick coats.

i'd so far been to gold coast, brisbane and sydney. i love brisbane city and the river that runs through it. each day we take the river ferry, which is just one of their public transports, to get to places round the city.. cool sia. like taking bus except it's much better and more beautiful sights along the river.

sydney is beaauutifuuul. will always miss the sights of the opera house and the harbour bridge during evening time when the sun sets. sydney's pretty much a harbour city. there are like harbours and ports all around.. the yachts, ships and boats are all soo pretty. and yeah, the water's blue.

the past few days in sydney had been quite a blast for us. we rented a car, and in our hyundai sonata we drove up to the blue mountains where we stayed a night, and then to hunter valley the next day. the boys were just raring to go.. crazy guys.. thong drove like up to 140km/h on the freeway??! i was just yelling at him on the way to slow down, watch the limit!! hehe. think the whole idea of it just sounds totally freeee.. yeaa it's actually pretty nice to drive along at our own time and space, minus the danger aspect. anyway so interesting.. we had to watch out for wildlife crossing the roads at certain areas.. lest a kangaroo suddenly hops out or something.. heh.. and yeaa.. that night a cute lil wombat and a fox crossed our path.

hmm the place we stayed at the blue mountains was pretty nice. in the lil town of Katoomba. it wasn't actually cold up in the mountains but it was cold in katoomba! and coldest in hunter valley i think.. brrr. but anyway hunter valley is a nice place with a hundred over wineyards and we visiteda couple of wineries, bought many bottles of wine and now we're wondering how to bring back those loots to s'pore.

yesterday we went to port stephens to watch dolphins on a cruiser. there were like dozens of dolphins following in front of us! super cute and friendly animals.. kept leaping out of the water and everyone goes whoaaa each time they did that. nice to see them so up close sia.. like 1 metre right in front of us? but we all got sunburnt on the cruiser.. though it's pretty cold, wind slapping on the face and all that, the sun was still shining through and mr australia sun is pretty fierce indeed.

oh and i finally got to see and cuddle a koala!!! i tell u, they're super cute sia!!! they just hug the tree branch to sleep all day! apparently they sleep bout 20 hours a day cos they need all that rest to digest the eucalyptus leaves.. cute animal.. and when u cuddle them, they're so tame like a lil baby and just cling on to u and let u stroke them and stuff.. i love!!! *muacks*

now i'm in the dead town of canberra, which explains why i'm able to blog such a long post. absolutely nothing to do here at night sia.. luckily it's just a stopover on the way to melbourne. oh anyway i'm supposed to pay like 1Aud for 7mins of internet in this hostel which is freakin expensive. but know what? after we paid 2 bucks and the 14 mins were up, we realised the internet wasn't cut off so we just continued using till now.. hmm like one hour already.

hmm okie it's gettin late (and cold) here and i gotta be up early tmr. canberra's blardy cold! need like 4 layers to keep me warm now. plus gloves.

alrighty shall update again soon.. hopefully i can use this "free" terminal again tmr night.. hee... ciaos!