Monday, October 02, 2006
Back to the grind
It's time to grit my teeth and just try to do well for the last two weeks of class, and one month of uni. Think I can do it? I sure hope so.
Now that I'm newly energised after having a few days off, I think I can handle a little more hard work!
So here's how Sydney went:
Day 1:
We arrived in the afternoon, after an uneventful flight, and immediately embarked to find food... and boy did we! Vegetarian Yum Cha! Yum! I wish I'd taken pictures of that, because it'd be worth going back to Sydney just for the delicious lunch we had that day...
After that, did a little bit of shopping... got myself a hot new pair of boots (they were on sale :):) and... some other stuff :P
Daeshy had to see his uncle in the evening, so I had to entertain myself for the evening (wouldn't you like to know how?)
We didn't go out anywhere that night, but had a bit of a champagne free-flow :)
It's hard to find places in Sydney that are still open after midnight, though, which is kind of surprising!
Day 2: Beach day!!
Before we got to the beach, though... bwa ha ha! We had decided that we would take a train back to Melbourne on Thursday morning so as to enjoy the countryside for the day... booked out. No trains back to Melbourne on Thursday at all. Flight? Nope, no flights... What did we do? We got seats on a bus... Thursday 4:30 p.m.! (Shit)... next time should plan trips better!
Anyhow, back to the beach... (after that slight panic at the thought of being stranded in Sydney!)
Too shy to post the bikini pictures, I think :o
Home, spa, nap, and a couple tequilashots later, we were ready to head off for a big night out...
I'm not telling where we went after Darling harbour... let it suffice to say that I probably shouldn't have worn the boots... and that we were out until 4 a.m....
Final day, Thursday: A not too late wake-up... a walk-around in chinatown... I managed to impress myself and Daeshy by remembering exactly where this vegetarian place called "Purple Lotus" was ... but then some main pipe had bust and the restaurant was closed due to lack of water anyhow. Oh, well... they did have take-away, though, and we had that in Hyde Park...
... and that brings us to the boring journey back to Melbourne... which I mostly slept through (thank god! it took 14 hours!)
Luckily, I did wake up at 6 a.m. and watched the sun rise over the bush... It was gorgeous!
The pictures I took out of the bus window just can't convey it...
Right before sunrise, there was a moment where all you could see were shadows, and mist rolling over shadows of the land like great silver snakes undulating over hills. It looked like if anyone were to walk in, they would never come out again. But that was short-lived, and by the time I pulled my mobile out, the mists were gone, giving way to a sleepy sunrise.
It felt so strange being back in Melbourne, back to work on Friday night and the rest of the weekend... Back to study on Saturday and Sunday... Today, back to Uni...
Well, like I said in the beginning of this post... back to the grind.
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