Christine's Wondrous World: I ish back.

Note: all my brother's photos have a dk next to them.

...from the land of kangaroos and cheese making geniusry!
(Yes, that is a word! IN IDIOT LANGUAGE. :D)

AND AND AND....

HOT CAUCASIAN GUYS!!!!
It's summer and all the schoolies are out on the streets shirtless and having fun! :D

And to save you all the trouble of skimming through 9GB of photos from me & my brother, I won't be posting all photos(like duh... who does that??) and I won't be marking them either.
I'm lazy, so there!

Anyway, for those of you who didn't know, I spend an entire 10 DAYS at Queensland, Australia. Among the places I stayed at were Brisbane, Gold Coast and Lillydale(a farmstay)...

AND IT WAS NOT 40 DEGREES, CHERYL.
It was a comfy 33 at the highest.
THE STUPID SUN IS SO RETARDED.
AUSTRALIA SO UNPOLLUTED ALSO CAN GET SO BIG A HOLE IN THE OZONE.

So yes, Queensland(when your in the Sun) is hotter than Malaysia!
When you step in the shade, it's cool though. :D
Ah well, at least there's awesome wind to keep me cool at the awesome beaches!!!
Actually, it's still alot cooler than Malaysia when you're in the shade 'cause the weather is not so humid but is instead ferociously windy. :D

ANYWAY.

My trip:

PART 1: BRISBANE

After an 8 hour flight, we arrive at...

Gold Coast...?

Well, Air Asia flies a lot more to Gold Coast then the retarded Brisbane, you see.
So anyway, after collecting our rented car...

dk/my cam

MINE MINE.

...we drive on down to Brisbane.
Well, my dad drives. Christine sleeps. :D

WAIT BUT BEFORE THAT...

Our hungry tummies need some breakfast!
And what better place to eat in Australia than...

SUBWAYS! :D

Sauce choices until wanna die leh...

Sub sub sub...

dk

*heavenly music plays*

:DDDD

Munch munch.

and later we head on to the adjoined supermarket and grab ourselves some Aussie MILK!

AAAHH!!!!!!!! CHRISTINE MISSES THE MILK THERE.
SO MUCH BETTER THAN STUPID MALAYSIAN ONE....
T.T

AND ROAST CHICKEN.

You know what they say about ugly food tasting awesome...

and LASAGNA!!!!!!!!!!!

Now back to the drivin' to Brisbane...

So we eventually reach our motel.

dk

That's our unit.
quite nice, actually.

my room...

Oo! Oo! And there are MIRRORS. :)

Munchie munchie munch on our awesome dining table.

dk

AND THEN EVERYONE SLEEPS.

Except me, of course.
I played with my mother's phone's wi-fi. xD

So later on, we decide to pay a visit to Chinatown for some obscure reason...

In ~~die~~day light.

At NIGHT. ;)

dk

it looks retarded.

It really was, I mean, who goes to australia to see chinatown????!!

somemore under construction like that...

dk

the moon never sleeps in aussie land.

Seriously, 12 o' clock in the afternoon also can see it... =.=

Anyway, we eat in Chinatown...
boohoo....

Who the hell charges this much for Chow Kwai Tew?
Whatever that is.

P.s. 1 Australian dollar is pie Malaysian Ringgit.
Pie as in 3.142blablablablabla....

According to my brother. :D

Foodses.

The sun is down and it's only 6 o' clock.
WHAT THE SHIT....

Nevermind!
Let's go explore the beachy lands of Brisbane!

Ooooo....
what's this? O.o

oh well, tak picktoores.

p.s. super windy sea right next to this place! :DDDDD

And the next day, it's Sunday!
Like good Christians, we go to church...

The church choir is sooooo awesome!
There's this old man who sings like andrea bocelli and they have a flute and a tuba player!
So it sounds so magical and lord of the rings like! HAHA.

Outside.

So then we decide to explore the city...
First stop, the botanical gardens!

Ohmigosh it looks exactly like Kukup in Malaysia but it's HOTTER.

And who said Australian water is very clean?

CHECK THAT OUT.
Of course, it's at the marshes, you can't blame them.

And the Sun creeps higher into the sky as we trudge through this tropical forest...

And suddenly!

"I'm hungry."
says Christine.

Fear not, child!
Daddy has packed you LASAGNA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:OOOO

And that is how we can go to Australia without dying of poorness.
Get stuff from the supermarkets!
(note our Coles bag)

Anyway...

Stupid annoying plants at the botanical gardens:

Haha. NOT a papaya. :)

Look exactly like Malaysia, right?

And then we walk over to town hall for a history lesson.

BLABLABLA SLEEP.

LOOK A BALL.

Yau would like this ball probably as much as she'd like all the people here who are also round and rotund. :D

shineeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Stupid town hall is dangerous for little kids like me... :(

dk

I almost splatted!

did you know in the olden days, a guys toilet was called a larder?

(zoom in to see)

And women peed in vegetable rooms. :D

NOW THAT'S NOT CONFUSING AT ALL.

Nope, and neither is this.

Now I wonder how I'm going to park...
(zoom in if you don't get it and if after that, you still don't get it, YOU'RE RETARDED. ahhahahhahahha)

The next day, yours truly became the navigator!!

Okay so what if I used a GPS?

it takes a certain skill to press all the correct buttons!!!

anywhooo...

we headed to sunshine coast, home of SUNSHINE CASTLE.

dk

habadahabada....

My dad has some fun with the free hats they let us try on...

Viking.

dk

Thingie.

and of course, moi is the princess. :)

dk

and this is my castle.

a long time ago, I stole the throne from this dead dude on top of me...

dk

Now all the kingdom is mine!

MWAHAHAHHAHAHA!

So I dine in the great hall at the highest place.

dk

complete with free entertainment. :D

in the end though, I get my just desserts...

dk

Mmm.... desserts!

XD

anyway, all of this magical-ness reminds me of my favourite show of all time...

LORD OF THE RINGS!

Among the many things that remind me of lord of the rings...

LOTR memorabilia swords

LOTR picture

Gandalf fighting off the troops of Mordor

AND AND AND....

LEGO! Las...

hhahahahahhahaha...
See? a lego archer? xD

NOW THAT IM IN THE LOTR MOOD...

OFF TO THE HIGHEST TOWER!

While playing the LOTR soundtrack song in which i played aragorn with in my head!

TO PLAY THE MOST AWESOME ELF OF ALL TIME,
LEGOLAS.

dk

Wahahahhaha!

Don't we look alike? :)

Other than that awesome-ness, this place is filled with dolls of all varieties...

Alice in wonderland.

They even have Malaysian! :O

Wizard of Oz.

and a real toy to be reckoned with...

A DISCO STICK.

See, it's a stick that looks like a disco ball that you take with you to the discos!
I wasn't lying cheryl, it's true! :)

hahahahhaahahahaha.

after that we head on down to the beach for some good old seagull feeding...

and if you're brave enough...

try putting food on your head.

IT DOESN'T WORK.
:D

PART 2: LILLYDALE

Lillydale is actually a real out of reach place near Mt. Barney(as in the dinosaur! XD) where there happens to be a 4 1/2 star farmstay in which I stayed at.

Our cabin room...

is absolutely gorgeous...

SUPER ECO-TOILET!

The sink on top of it automatically turns on after you use the toilet for you to wash your hands.
Here's the cool part though...
That same water is gonna flush the toilet the next round!
Neat huh?

We have a nice view of the mountains...

Coupled with a nice view of the cows...

xD

and then at night...

you might think I didn't take that picture because only a dslr can take night shots like that, but i borrowed my brothers while he was asleep. xD

ANYWAY...

STARS! :D

The next day, we put on our fly-protection outfits...

Which are absolutely useless...

and head on to play with the farm animals...
:D

Horses.

Feed the sheep!

dk

Wallabys!

dk

Look how midgety they are!!!!

dk

Later on, as we're driving around....

we see wild ones!

and they stop and stare at us as we snap a bazillion pictures! :DDDDD

Pollination at work!

dk

And then there are wild owls too!

so beautiful... xD

WARNING: CHERYL, CLOSE YOUR EYES.

See, i'm so kind to cheryl.

Now i'm gonna show you chickens!

Daddy teaching us how to make the chickens really dizzy...

dk

They're all so fat and ploppy and cute!!

and they follow all the humans like that because they think we all have food!

Well, that's true in farmer Doug's case up there...

and while they're too busy eating to notice...

Farmer Doug sends me on an errand...

dk

egg hunting!

and then we move on to see these black chickens....

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and their babies are sooooooo cute!!!! ^^

And once we got bored of the animals, there was still plenty to do here...

enjoy the breathtaking lakes...

this is actually a dam so my dad said "the water surely clean wan la..."...
later on though, he admitted, as soon as he stepped out of the water, he felt itchy all over his legs...

play on trampolines....

dk

i had a really freaking high toe touch pic but it looks obscene 'cause my pants are too short...

and then there are board games to play in the comfort of our room...

DAM.

That's it's name in Malay, seriously...
And obviously you know who'd be the white.... T.T

Scrabble!

And then the next day, we barge on over to the gold coast!

With plenty of stops along the way, of course...

dk

PART 3: GOLD COAST

When we arrive to the Gold Coast, the Sun is about to rest it's head...

and it's only about 6!

However, this does not deter us from visiting the beaches...

and once again, feeding the gulls! xD

Fire from the sky...

Our room here, though not as awesome as the one at Lillydale's, is satisfactory...

and and and....

got swimming pool which I actually swam in!
xD

Actually, all our other places of residence had swimming pools, including the farm but this one had a hot tub! xD

The next day, we decide to catch the sunrise!

we're too late though...

oh well, a nice stroll wouldn't hurt, would it?

and we come across a lot of these lizards...

lalallalala....

we, as weak ol' malaysians, can't stand the wind, and wrap ourselves tightly in sweaters...

However, the mat sallehs...

well, you can see the difference...

The waves are strong and awesome here...

I actually took like quite a few pictures of this guy cause I thought he was my dad...

Later, I even went up to him to sit with him and to my horror, he was a random stranger!

luckily Caucasians are so nice and friendly...

Other pretty things to note about this country...

Jellyfish that aren't ugly...

Though very washed up...

Dew drops!

And then and then....

I MET OBAMA.

dk

And i shook his hand!!!! :OOOOO

Ok maybe I didn't...

I did meet his wax counterpart though, at....

the wax museum!
Yayyyyy!

So the first part, which is some horror walk or something, they show you alot of torture stuff and people being tortured, etc, etc...
NO PICTURES ALLOWED... :(

and believe me...
it's SUPER FREAKY.

The methods they use for torture...
blehhhh...
but then again....
maybe im just faint hearted...
:p

anyway, the next part, the famous people is really fun and pictures ARE allowed! yay! :D
(That's how I got my obama. :) )

I also took picture with the king of rock and the king of pop!

dk

ELVIS AND MJ!

Other wax stuff & replicas...

crown jewels...

Princess Diana.

Queen Elizabeth II.

Napoleon Bonaparte.

Monsters.

Nosferatu.

Mahatma Gandhi!

Mao Zi Tong.

(sorry dunno how to spell... xD)

King Henry the.... em... the famous one...

William Shakespeare!

Neil Armstrong

Later on, we head just across the street to the Chevron Renaissance mall.

anyway, the reason we headed to this mall in the first place was because we had vouchers for Donut King from the wax museum!

My brother was thrilled, of course!

Why?
DK! Donut King!
hahhahahahhaa!

We also head on down to Infinity, located also in the Chevron Renaissance...

but it's really expensive, compared to Thailand's one...
xD

The next day, we decide to try and catch the sunrise again.
This time, we made it!

Something wrong with uploader and I'm too lazy to upload the sun pictures... xD

Today, we also go souvenir shopping...

Awesome hat...

And also to the carrara markets...

which is like Australian pasar malam in the day time and with less people and pricier things.

my mom bought a few items of clothing though...

I, on the other hand, just enjoyed the weird things...

Pretty birds!

we bought fish & chips for the 4th time this holiday...

this one was the least aweseome one though...

I also bought fudge!
:DDDDD

and and and....

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets!

Because I don't have it yet and I NEED IT.
And it was really cheap because it was second hand...

and then because it would be a waste not to at least see it, we visited Movie World...

...on the outside.

BOOOOO....

And Wet & Wild too...

Yet again...

Only on the outside...

OH WELL.

On our last day, Sunday, we went for mass at the church...

Brisbane's one was better... xD

Then we headed out to the beach to watch some surfers!

(P.s. From this point, me and my brother's photos all suck because the salt water dirtied our camera lenses.
as you can see...