Friday, 16 Feb 07. Went to surfers night market. Heaps of art crafts and funny stuffs overthere. Worth a walk. After a short walk we took our dinner at nearby chinese stall. The price was okie but the taste was so so. I would say the taste like what we have in PGP air con canteen asian cuisine, so much MSG and oil in it!
Stuff that I captured in surfers...
Saturday, 17 Feb 07. This was the date that we planned to go to Currumbin wildlife Sanctury Park. Hmmm...It had been delayed for weeks. At last we went there but It's quite scary at first cos it's drizzling at our place and yet we still heading to our destination which took us 90 mins of bus-train-bus journey to reach. It was such a good weather over there, luckily. phew...
That is a Wildlife park whereby animals e.g kangaroo, koala, birds, wildlife...can be found. Got the chance to touch kangaroo and others, it was quite a great experience. Most importantly was we spent half of the entrance fee to get in the park as we got the coupon from Lucky. Two at the price of one damn good. We always wait for this type of lobang so that we can save more and go to more places. We spent the whole day there and took bus back at 4pm.
We rushed back from the park as we'd appointment with Wayne to go to the drive in theatre. It's another eye opening experience again. Drive in theatre is theatre where you drive in you car to an open space and they show the movie in a massive white screen in front and we tuned on the radio frequency to receive the sound surround for the movie. Sound great isn't it? However the air was too cold that night, I could not stand and hide into the car while everyone still enjoying their movie outside. But I still could catch the movie in the car just that the sound surround was so loud in the car. Can you imagine how loud is it?They switched it on to the almost max volume so that they could listen clearly outside the car. We watched two movies, Ghost Rider and Casino Royale, at the price of $13. It quite cheap though. However, due to the exhausting during the day time, I could not really stay awake for the latter and may be because of the story line as well. Too complicated for me to think at that condition.
Back at home it's already 1230am and It was CNY reunion night and I believe over there would be very lively. I didn't make an effort to call back home as I was so tired and hit my pillow straight away.
Sunday, 18 Feb 07. Today was the first day of CNY and I spent it in Gold Coast without family. We spent our day at my boss's. All the chinese staffs in my company attended the luncheon, cooked by the lady boss. It's got heaps of food to eat just like buffet but lots of them, those deep fried food, had already turned soggy. What a waste. What I enjoyed the most was the chilli crab and black pepper crab. It's the best among all. However, compare with what we've in Tambun, It's still way to reach the standard. It's the freshness issue. Slightly disappointed on that particular issue cuz I perceived crabs from Aus should be in good grade. You know 'tai zap hai' le I wish to try so much. Still they said the crab was still alive before cooked. I was in doubt.
Another big concern of CNY is getting ang pao where we can increase the digit in our acc. Haha...I got 5 ang pao from them. Not bad!! Better than I get 10 in hometown. After lunch, they played poker card. Sg style of black Jack, In between and 3 pokers...so strange to see all the management people to play cards and yet they played with money. It's a little casino there. Overall, Singaporean celebrating their CNY not much difference from us. At least for those 3 main things that mz be present, food, ang pao and gambling.
Tomorrow is wednesday. Time flies, half of the week has gone. It's already my 7th week in Gold Coast. Tomorrow morning I need to drive wayne's ford to the mechanics and he drives his wagon along to fetch us to work.