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Setelah sekian lama menangguh, akhirnya akan membuat catatan mengenai lessons i learnt from Australia
Setelah sekian lama menangguh, akhirnya akan membuat catatan mengenai lessons i learnt from Australia
Hari Pertama
Kami bertolak dari Malaysia pada pukul 11.50 am. Penerbangan akan mengambil masa kira-kira 7-8 jam (sama macam naik bas balik Kuantan-Kelantan je!). Dalam flight tu menghabiskan battery Tab akak dengan tengok2 movie dan novel The Black Company..hehe
Kami sampai di Sydney International Airport pada pukul 9 PM. Waktu di sana lebih 2 jam dari Malaysia. Sesampai di situ terus disambut oleh Uncle Greg kawan lama ayah saya. Sekeluarnya dari airport tu, benda pertama buat terus usha-usha kereta yang ada kat situ. Xde pun kereta macam Kancil ke, Viva ke (Ni bukan nak kutuk Perodua..not yet), banyak Toyota/ Honda. Orang Australia nampak macam suka camper van, maybe nature diorang yang suka traveling kot.
Bila naik jip Uncle Greg benda pertama dia bagitahu semua wajib pakai seat belt, walaupun orang yang duduk kat belakang. Kat Australia kalau x kena saman. Sekali kena saman terus revoke license! Power power. Hasratnya sebelum sampai rumah tu nak singgah-singgah restoran dulu makan, tapi kebanyakan kedai kat Australia 10 PM dah tutup dah. Jadi kitorang singgah di & Eleven je..haha.
Sampai kat rumah Uncle Greg ada light dinner sikit, ada makan nasi campur dengan buah cranberry, ok la best jugak rasanya. Tak lama tu kitorang terus berehat untuk solat, dan tidur.
Kami sampai di Sydney International Airport pada pukul 9 PM. Waktu di sana lebih 2 jam dari Malaysia. Sesampai di situ terus disambut oleh Uncle Greg kawan lama ayah saya. Sekeluarnya dari airport tu, benda pertama buat terus usha-usha kereta yang ada kat situ. Xde pun kereta macam Kancil ke, Viva ke (Ni bukan nak kutuk Perodua..not yet), banyak Toyota/ Honda. Orang Australia nampak macam suka camper van, maybe nature diorang yang suka traveling kot.
Bila naik jip Uncle Greg benda pertama dia bagitahu semua wajib pakai seat belt, walaupun orang yang duduk kat belakang. Kat Australia kalau x kena saman. Sekali kena saman terus revoke license! Power power. Hasratnya sebelum sampai rumah tu nak singgah-singgah restoran dulu makan, tapi kebanyakan kedai kat Australia 10 PM dah tutup dah. Jadi kitorang singgah di & Eleven je..haha.
Sampai kat rumah Uncle Greg ada light dinner sikit, ada makan nasi campur dengan buah cranberry, ok la best jugak rasanya. Tak lama tu kitorang terus berehat untuk solat, dan tidur.
Hari Kedua
The time for Fajr prayer there is around 5.30 am. So after praying we just sort of do whatever we want. At 8 am we have breakfast consisting of donut / choc-filled bread (2 of my favourite thing!) and lots, really lots of fruits! (there's mango, lychee, watermelon, green apple).
After breakfast we get ready to go jalan-jalan.We goes on Uncle Greg's jeep to Beverly Hills Train Station and by there we took the train to go to Circular Quay. To my amazement, the train there is a double decker train.
On the way Uncle Greg told us about the history of Australia. Its sort of like this:
So, enough of that (since we arrived) so we go out have a walk around. Circular Quay is sort of like a large garden built around a harbor (at Kuantan like Taman Tasik Bandar, at Kota Bharu like Taman Tengku Anis). It is close to the Opera House and Botany Garden. From here you can see the Harbour Bridge (As can be seen from the pic above). Also, there's like a lot of people that is jogging around (its 12 PM and doesn't even feel hot) or just sitting there relaxing (macam kat TC). It makes me wonder whether or not they are working or what because it is on Thursday. After walking around and seeing some souvenir shop we had a lunch of fish and chip, veggie burger, pasta, pizza with garlic and cheese (since we cannot eat meat/chicken, but it seems at Australia with you can add many stuff with pizza, at Malaysia you must have meat/fish/chicken on top haha).
After that we return by train to Beverly Hills Station. On the way to home we stop at a local grocery store to buy some food. I'm not sure whether Thursday is no plastic day or what there but they don't serve plastic at all so you either bring/buy a paper bag, or they have some unused box and you can use the box. After that we return to home for a dinner and rest.
After breakfast we get ready to go jalan-jalan.We goes on Uncle Greg's jeep to Beverly Hills Train Station and by there we took the train to go to Circular Quay. To my amazement, the train there is a double decker train.
On the way Uncle Greg told us about the history of Australia. Its sort of like this:
Australia was founded by a British explorer Captain James Cook. (Of course founded is rather a funny term, since there are already aborigines living there, I guess the situation is same with us Malaysian where we make war with the Orang Asal and we claimed Tanah Melayu while they fled to the forest..). Australia, being a harsh place the British used it as a place to dump their prisoners. So in sort Australia 'began' as a natural prison for convict. It was really hard to live, there's not much water, there's not really that much irrigate-able land and so forth. So Uncle Greg said that one of the thing that came from this is that, when your ancestors are convict, you tend to (1) not respect your elder and (2) you believe that everyone are equal in Australia. This is prevalent since Australia has a lot of other races living together in harmony.
After that we return by train to Beverly Hills Station. On the way to home we stop at a local grocery store to buy some food. I'm not sure whether Thursday is no plastic day or what there but they don't serve plastic at all so you either bring/buy a paper bag, or they have some unused box and you can use the box. After that we return to home for a dinner and rest.
- this is my new way of blogging. instead of waiting for the post to be perfect
I'll just post it straight away and edit when
I want again.
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