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Dang Dang Dang
Thursday, December 22, 2005 Before I start.. I apologize for the gap between this and the last entry, main reason being my very own laziness and also a lil bit of ma tight schedule.. :P So, as many of you who read my previous post would know that, my parents came over to Adelaide on the 10th of Dec with the purpose of touring around as well as attending my graduation (hehe). As expected, I went to the airport, guided them back to the city, picked up the car we rented, go home and sleep (that's the first day). Adelaide, is indeed a lower key destination as compared to many other places, however, if you are like my parents who enjoyed peacefulness and serenity with the mother nature, yeah, then this is the perfect place. We spent like 5-6 days traveled around Adelaide (with my house as the station, as i loaned a room from my landlord for my parents to stay on). To cut the story short, we went to almost every tourist spots and interesting destination that Adelaide offered, specifically, barossa valley, Cleland Wild life park, Adelaide Hill, Harbour Town, Hahndorf, Marion, etc.  My mom in the city, accompanied by the fountain of vic square under 42'c's temperature  Mom & Dad and the whispering wall  random scenery, too bad i had to rescale it..  Mom & Dad posing for Chateau Barossa (one of the bigger wineries in B Valley) Additonal note: for those who never heard of Barossa Valley, this is one wonderful location in Adelaide where all wine drinkers must pay a visit to. It's a farmish small village that consists of 56 different wineries! The best part is.. you get to test all of their wines (cept for the limited ones) for FREE and if you are lucky some of the wineries even offer you free cookies, breads and Cheese! A must go for tourist.  Since both my parents dont really drink that frequently, my mom spent most of the time taking pics, :D  Best scenery you get here in B valley, Bethany Hill, and my mom Tips and recommendation: 1) when you get into the winery, act cool, and don't show them that you know jackshit bout wine, pretend that you are at least a standard wine drinker, so that they will kept feeding you with the best wines they could offer in order to impress you. 2) if you doesnt like the wine they pour for you, tip it or pour it away, every wineries should have a bucket or something for you to do so, do not feel embarassed or having that kind of feeling that god will punished you for wasting such quality drink, no, just tip it, it's the way it suppose to be. 3) if you see cookies, breads, or cheese lying on the counter, take only. You can ask them for water, if you want to cleanse your throat 4)Do not go to Jacob's Creek, it's famous yes i know, it's big yes i know, but since you could buy their wine even in places like Malaysia, Cambodia, or maybe Timbaktu, why bother visit their winery? 5)For scenery wise, try Bethany wines, Barasossa wines, their wines arent that bad, but the sceneries outside are better. 6)For sweet white wines, try Rockford, Langmeil, and maybe Pennfold. 7)For not so sweet white wines like Riesling, Langmeil have some good ones, but also try Peter Lehmann and this one Chateau that i could not remember the name 8)For sweet red wines, Kies, that's the only place you can get real sweet and fruitful red wine, try either deer stalker or the other one.. 9)For quality dry red, Charles Chimicky, Turkey Flat, Rockford, and Pennfold.. Charles chimicky offered some really wicked Shiraz 10)For entertainment purposes, find Maggie's beer, they have some pheasants over there and a few peacocks.  Cleland Wildlife park, with mom n dad  This lil bugger here, is a real glutton, never miss a single chance on clinging to you and beg for food  So much so that i could actually kidnapped him and have him my latest pet  Do you wanna follow kor kor home? "do you have good sunflower seeds?" .... After touring around for bout 5-6 days, finally, the moment has arrived~~~~ mua graduation ceremony! We reached the Adelaide festival centre at about 11.45, where the ceremony is suppose to start at bout 2.45, yet still it was already packed full with ppl like me. ((before the ceremony))  parents & myself  Alicia, Eric, Hendrik, myself, and Bernice  everyone's ready, cept for sher mayne being "pinned" down by aaron's mom.. lol And during the ceremony,  My 3 yrs worth of hardworks just for this moment and that piece of pride paper  After the ceremony, we were suppose to comb the "hair" thing to the right (aaron & lenn got it wrong)  YAY!! (cwise from behind: Justin, Aaron Ho, Me, Sher, Bernice, Alicia, Eric & Liew) It was fun, tho i was suprisingly too calm, not a slightiest bit more excited than the moment i sip a cup of bella rouge.. Just before walking up to the stage, Bernice dared me to do some stuffs up there.. hmm.. and i did something, not too crazy yet not ordinary.. In this kinda occasion, anything other than right after you received your cert and walk away swiftly is considered as unusual and worth an applause for.. so i just kissed the cert i received and walked a way "proudly" haha in a depth bit arrogant manner.. lol.. so not like me.. I am indeed happy that i finally graduated, without any problems, however i do not agree with the long winded ceremony that could bore me to death several times.. please in the future, could you provide some entertainment services for the graduants? like attached PS-2 to the seat and a headphone? I would seriously appreciate that if that's gonna implement soon So now, i am once again a free man, not for long, as i am still hoping to get into Monash for post grad course.. tho they are seriously taking their own sweet time, and sent me a mail that saying that "we are going to holiday as much as we can, and only reply our consideration to you at the 1st-2nd week of Jan" #&@)(^&$... After sending my parenst to the airport for their return trip back to malaysia, yeah, i am now alone and bored again... just met up with Jaime who happened to trap herself here in Adelaide for a supposed "vacation" hahaha.. i pity man Jaime.. a vacation that could allowed you the time to finish 5 books in a week is really something... Meanwhile, I still have a long way for my packing, still not too sure on how to start on with.. hehe.. lol.. i m bored.. n today's #*(&%# HOT....!!! i want my ice kacang... leaving skool f-r3d at 12:18 PM 2 pokies {WTFPWNKTHXBYE} |
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