Oh well, I have a valid excuse! A very cliche one too! I've been super busy and depressed with the status of my stay in Australia. So please forgive me if I have abandoned my blog once again. Now that everything is kind of settled (fingers crossed) for now, I started thinking about my poor blog and visited it just then, which I realised I haven't updated my day 2 Sydney trip! Oh yaya~~~
Anyways, I'm pretty sure I still remember what I did that day and also, a gazillian photos later, the memory will come. That's why there's a saying of "A picture could represent a thousand words". Not in my case anyways, how long can I write? God, people may be bored by my words.
Moving on,
we got up in the morning, met up with my highschool alumni friend and started walking to China town to get some brekkie. We decided a bowl of good old congee would sate our cravings. Hence, my friend brought us to this yummy Chinese restaurant in China town and we had some century egg congee with Chinese doughnuts and another bowl of fish congee to share. Honestly the fish congee wasn't great but the century egg congee was ah-mazing! Well, I know a lot of people aren't quite used to the idea of some CENTURIES old eggs but guys, trust me, it's not that bad! It certainly doesn't taste like rotten eggs at all! It certainly doesn't mean it's been preserved for "CENTURIES". It's just a name and how much can a name hurt you? Just close your eyes and swallow it in. It's not like the Philippine's embryo eggs. THAT, I wouldn't try in a million years.
Voila! Yummy congee with Chinese doughnuts at the back. Dining there is really cheap too! Very affordable and I am talking about students' price.
A photo of China town in Sydney.
My travel partner who shares the same birthday with me and also one of my best friends :)
Next, we were taking a walk down to the entertainment centre near darling harbour. I remember on that day, there was a Thai festival going on and my friend who has been living in Sydney since high school told me that every week, there's always a cultural festival around the area and this week happens to be a Thai festival.
There's a small tent set up where you have the option to dress up in traditional Thai costume for free and I couldn't be bothered to try because it was freaking hot and I was sweating (gross).
After refreshing myself with some fresh coconut water (it was a hard work to scrape the coconut meat out in case anyone hasn't tried, but all the hard work paid off because it tasted so yummy!).
We continued down to darling harbour as we planned to visit Madame Tussauds' exhibition in Darling Harbour. The location is literally next to Sydney Aquarium and wild life. My friend works there and apparently he had free entries for us as he had been gathering some points for free entry vouchers and he happened to have 3 of them, PERFECT! Otherwise, it was pretty expensive to get in :(
That's me excitingly smiling when I arrived to the beautiful darling harbour.
FYI, Madame Tussauds exhibition displays life-sized celebrity waxes. They are made as real as possible and the heights are according to the real celebrities' heights. They are not perfect of course, but as far as I concern, they looked pretty real to me. Below will be the celebrities waxes whom I was interested to take pictures with. There are heaps others, but I didn't want to take every single one. My camera would probably run out of battery and memory if I did,
Hmm, I actually have no idea who this is and I have no idea what I was trying to do either. I guess when my friends came up with interesting poses, I went blank and I was trying to create the look of "My Lord, we need to abandon this ship, quick!" I believe I failed miserably.
and here I failed again, tried to create a dictator look.
I suppose I don't need to explain who this is, it's Mahatma Gandhi along with Dalai Lama and Barack Obama at the back. This section represents world leaders.
Now, THE Queen Elizabeth II of England. Well, she looks younger in the wax version.
How gorgeous Kylie Minogue is!! I love the shell she's sitting on. Looks so gracious.
Pardon me but I forgot who they are, I just thought this would be a cool picture lol
and how can we not have the legendary MJ! The hat is part of the props by the way, there's also a white jacket people could put on to take a photo and there's also a professional photographer to take a photo for you and you can buy them at the counter once you exit the exhibition.
Next we have... Keith Urban
That was me with Albert Einstein. Since I am not as smart as him, I have to think trice harder to figure out what's in his head. Let alone to solve the formula behind me on the board.
Well, I personally reckon this is the least resemblance of Oprah Winfrey. I was abit disappointed frankly speaking.
and we've got the legendary beauty Marilyn Monroe. Some perverts were trying to take a photo posing underneath her skirt. Such an act of disgrace.
I frankly have no idea who this is... Maybe most people do know but I don't. Anyway, she is pretty and petite next to me. I feel like a giant. For once.
PPPPPPPoker face PPPoker face... May I present to you Lady Gaga!
"Isn't she lovely... This Hollywood girl.. And she says, she's so lucky, she's a star but she cries cries cries in her lonely nights~~" Britney Spears.
This is also the least resemblance of Rihanna but I didn't expect Rihanna to be this tall.
Our martial art guru after Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan
Nicole Kidman, posing in a different section away from her husband, Keith Urban and behind her is Bruce Willis.
The sexy Johnny Depp but looks like his jacket is a little oversize, don't you think?
This is a funny and awkward photo with people staring at us behind the camera. I suggested the scenario for us to seduce Brangelina couple with my friend trying to kiss Angelina Jolie and me stealing Brad Pitt away. In the end, Angelina Jolie is too tall for my friend to kiss and Brad Pitt wasn't looking at my direction. Epic fail! Oh well, we tried. I guess the brood is keeping them together.
Well, at least in the end, we found our "true love".
With me, who ended up with Andy Lau, Hong Kong singer and actor.
and my friend, with Dannii Minogue. Everyone went home happy lol
The love of my life, Leonardo DiCaprio. Although, he didn't look quite like himself in this wax version of him. At least, this is better than nothing. This is what they put at the front entrance so that the general public knows what Madame Tussauds is all about.
There's many more other celebrities in there but like I said, I couldn't take a photo of every single one because I can't be bothered editing all photos.
We also sneaked in to see the wildlife which is located just next to Madame Tussauds and Sydney Aquarium. Nothing extraordinary in there, just typical reptiles, insects and other kinds of animal which you'll normally see in a zoo.
We decided that we were alittle bit hungry, so we went to Pancake on the Rock to have some, well Pancakes, duh!
Yum yum yum! Looking at it now makes me feel hungry again. I just had my dinner!!! I can't remember the name of this pancake. Something to do with double chocolate. They were chocolate pancakes too. Not the original ones. Very yum and very fattening too! I was halfway through and I felt like the pancakes have reached my throat. Lucky enough we were sharing.
I believe there are 2 sites of Pancake on the Rocks in Sydney CBD. One in Darling Harbour and the other one in the Rock.
http://www.pancakesontherocks.com.au/
There you go, just visit their website for your research purposes if you plan to visit Sydney.
We then walked down to the star, Sydney's casino to visit the infamous celebrity patisserie's bakery called Adriano Zumbo. Apparently the macaroons are very popular so I bought a couple to try on and they were not that bad, however I wouldn't say they were extraordinarily delicious too. However, the macaroons have glitters on them! And yes, the glitters are edible I believe. I am a living proof.
After a few hours later with I believe some pancakes still left lingering in our stomach, we managed to work our way through to make some room for our biggest feast of the night, HURRICANE's GRILL!!
Click on it if you want to visit their website and find out their location too. They are most well known for their ribs. I can tell you now, they do live up to the name.
The window view from our table. The huge ship over there is a restaurant. I always wanted to try every single time I make a trip to Sydney and I never have a chance. Hmph!
I know I know, not the best photo I've taken till date but anyways, you know what it is. If I remember correctly, it is a 500 grams pork ribs served with mushroom sauce I think. Look, it's some 6-month ago already. I can't remember what sauce but I'm fairly sure it's mushroom cream sauce.
Believe it or not ladies and gentleman, I finished it gracefully with a pair of knife and fork lol without creating much mess at all! Yes, I deserve to receive a praise lol Well, honestly, it's best eaten with your bare hands rather than all those effort trying to scrape the meat from the rib cage.
All in all, I had another yet satisfying trip in Sydney. I never get sick of it. Not sure how many times I've been there now and I just never get sick of it. However, I would think for 100 times before I decide to move there permanently as Sydney is much of a bigger city than Melbourne. Life there is always on a fast lane although I believe slower than other developed Asian countries, like China, Japan, Korea and Hong Kong but I am starting to be afraid of changes and uncertainly that may lie ahead of me if I move there.
Well, I will leave it up to the long path that still lies ahead of me, where ever it's gonna lead me to. I will cross the bridge when I get there.
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