Hey guys! Sorry was away all this while. Just got back from my aussie trip. Well, it was an awesome trip i have to say. It's not the kind u go for fabulous theme rides and all. This one was pretty different. It was more of a relaxing trip. We gotta know more abt aussie culture which i prefer! Yea wish singaporeans were like aussies too. I hate the way singaporeans are a bit anti social when talkin to ppl. U even have ur own frens avoiding u at times. But in perth, any random fellow will take the trouble to ask u on how have u been! Tts the difference between our culture and theirs.

Last tue we guys, murali, suraen, suresh and myself, made it to the budget terminal! Anu, kurseth and pasu came to send us off. The seating in the plane wasnt as bad afterall on our way there. And the only thing was that it could get pretty boring if u dun have someone who u know beside ya! Suresh was with me while travelling there so was not bad! We talked for most of the journey. It was a 4 hr 40min journey. When we landed and went out of the airport, we were electrified by the weather there. It was colder than the airport. The airport was a much much warmer place! Its the direct opp of singapore. Krish came and picked us up. We went looking for food. The entire perth was closing shop for tt nite. It was like 10-11pm then. In the end we managed to get Domino pizza which was still operating, thankfully. All of us were dead hungry. We didnt eat since 2pm. So yea. We ordered one whole pizza for each of us. And we shared 2slices with one another so we tasted like 4 diff pizzas. Was fantastic. Next we got to our backpackers. It was the billabong backpackers. Well, it was quite a nice place. The room was compact yet nice. Enuff for the four of us. But somehow all of us were feeling very cold. We got our heater changed too and tt was super efficent too. They changed it immediately for us.

Next day we started out our trip properly. We had breakfast, which was provided free by the backpackers, and then headed to Swan Valley. The scenery there is awesome. Fresh air and good scent. And also the plantations were fabulous. Afterwhich we all paid 2.50 and tasted like over 10 wines. We gulped down each wine once it was poured. Got a bit high. Haha. After tt we took a lot of nice photos in that area before we headed to the margaret river chocolate factory. The chocolate drinks and free tasting chocolates were jus so nice tt i kept taking them. Hahaha! We skipped lunch and went straight to wildlife park. Was quite nice i have to say. We took pictures with a lot of animals, i milked the cow haha, touched giant lizards and we saw the sheeps being sheared. Yea was awesome. We headed to some little shopping mall to get beers for the coming days after the wildlife park. We bought a 24 pack of Calton Dry beers which was really nice. Krish paid for all that. We had a quota to drink at least 1 1/2 beer each day before we end off each nite. So yea we did follow tt. haha. We ate kebab at some turkish restaurant for dinner. Afterwhich we returned to our place. We changed to go to the casino. it was super ex again and tt refrained us from playing. We managed to play a one dollar jackpot machine though which also took away our money haha. Since we couldnt play much or didnt choose to play, we headed back to the backpackers again. Cooked our maggie noodles. Ended the day with beer.

Thur the plan was to go carousel and garden city and do some shopping or more like window shopping. And to look for things tt we would wanna buy. Before tt we actually went to some local football shop. Suresh was the only one who bought something there. Cos the stuffs were pretty ex. Yea. We proceeded on to the carousel and garden city. Spent real cheap for lunch. Jus got like burger and we shared fries and the drink, all from chicken treat restaurant. Bought a glow in the dark t shirt at carousel. At garden city, i decided to leave the guys for like a couple of hrs to meet Faye who studies there. So yea. She took me to some koraen restaurant and the food there was nice too. We talked a lot of stuff tt has been happening in our recent lifes. Was great la the dinner. After tt she drove me to the kings' park. It was like a hill and from the top u can get a great view of perth! Perth city area is more like the CBD of Singapore. Not just tt there were certain places tt had a lot of resemblence to our places down here. There was this awesome wall at the kings park where u whisper to the wall and the person on the other end of the wall could hear it clearly! We took a number of photos and spent ard an hr there before she sent me back to the guys. Went to look at krish's hostel awhile before we headed back to the backpackers to end that day off.

Friday went to eat fish and chips at some famous place near the freemantle area. It was a pretty long ride. We bought chocolates from margaret river before tt. The thing abt australia is tt they charge for chillie there. And most of the meals dun include drinks. So yea. We had to pay for the chillie at the fish and chips place. They charged us two dollars. But the chillie was super sweet and not nice at all. Tasted more like vinegar. We headed to the freemantle market, the bugis of perth hahaha. We thought that was the worst place we went to in perth for our entire trip cos we didnt find anything good down there. Next we headed to the perth beach. Well it is the indian ocean actually. Super big, endless man! The wind was so strong tt it felt like it was gonna blow us away. In the evening, we made our way to the Prison. This was the best part of our trip. The prison tour was superb and it was very informational. They scared us a few times during the tour. Felt a bit eerie and weird ard some places. Guess i'll not touch abt it here haha. Headed to nando's to eat after tt and the food was nice but not filling enough. So decided to eat noodles again after getting back. So got back home to backpackers.

Till this day we realised we were actually saving lots and lots of money. Hardly spending at all. So we decided to spend everything we had in the next couple of days. Sat went to the queensway of perth which was the harbour town. I bought like five shirts there, one belt and some souveniers for my frens. Ate lucnh there, some turkish version of murtabak! Then went to carousel again to buy bbq items for sunday. I bought nougats for my family there and some other chocolates. After doing so, we headed to krish's place. I had to check my marketing module result. I got an A for it. Yay! Was freakin happy but didnt really felt like celebrating. I reacted pretty normally. After tt headed to some indian restaurant called Mela's where we ate chicken briyani worh 12.50. Was quite nice laaa. And after tt ended of the day at king's park with my guys this time, where we took many photos!

The last day was sunday. We were sad to pack our stuff because tt symbolizes the start of the end of the perth trip. We never wanted to leave the place. Haiz. After packing, we ate breakfast at macs. More like lunch laa. Then bought some beer and went to krish's place for bbq. We watched michael jackson concert videos for like two hrs to pay tribute to him in our own way. That man is a legend and no one can beat him in the world of dance. We were full of praises for him while watching it. Felt very sad abt him passing away. I was expecting for his world tour actually. Nice ppl dun tend to stay for very long it seems. Haiz. Anyway bbq was good and we had beers and wines on top of tt. Ard 6 plus we started heading to the airport. We gave krish a goodbye card and thanked him for everything. The flight back was terrible. Was super boring. The seat was such tt no matter wat position u try, u wun be able to sleep. So yea. Hmmm.

Landed in Singapore at ard 3am. Had breakfast at macs before returnong home at ard 6am. Singapre was so fucking warm once i got out of the airport and i perspired for the first time after tt six days away. Dammit. Anyway, throughout the trip i was quite sad abt one thing that kept coming back to my mind. I promised to my mum to take her to overseas cos my father was such tt he never wnated to bring the family on an overseas trip. My mum was a kind tt she hardly even explored singapore. She is a real baby who has to be brought ard. The most innocent soul i have ever met. Hmmmm. She was so happy when i used to tell her how overseas was after my army trips before. And i promised if i go the next time, i will bring her. But sadly, i can never do tt. And tt really pains me to the core. I feel i didnt fulfil my promise to her and tts bad enuff. There was so many things tt she wanted in her life and i couldnt give her all tt. I imagined a lot of times of having her ard me during the trip itself. She confirmed would have loved perth. Hmmmmz. The trip was so like wat she would love to have. Sorry mummy for not being able to fulfill that dream of urs. Sighsssssssssssssss!

Well in this whole trip, if u were to ask me if i missed anyone, well first it would be my mum followed by my dad. Afterwhich, i missed one person surprisingly. I dunno why but yea i did! Hmmmm. Anyway i decided to make a very important decision abt my family back there then which i wanted to deal with after returning to singapore. But from recent observations like watever i am hearing and watever i have come across with and all, Guess i should not have made such a decision. Things tell me tt it would backfire. So ryte now, i dunno if i should stick with wat i decided, or to just go against the decision and live a simple life!!! Hmmmm anyway, bottomline, enjoyed the trip very much and wish to have more of such awesome trips with the guys. All the pics have been uploaded on facebook in a seven part album. Took lots of trouble uploading it so please go take a look. Will be back with more post cos i have the urge to blog abt a lot of stuff now! so yea see ya ppl. Adiyos. And yea, my blog is no longer private.
Ganeshan | 12:24 AM