Tasmania trip - Day 2

Alright! so we start with the 2nd day... which is Port Arthur day!

spend the whole day at Port Arhur which is about 1.5 hours away from Hobart.

Port Arthur is a historic site, and it used to be a penitentiary so there are a lot of old buildings there. There are a lot of explanation on what is happening in the past, and we also took a guided tour so the whole afternoon was a history lesson :3

We also planned to have a ghost tour, which obviously have to be done in the night.. so after a cruise tour we went to Tasmanian Devil conservation park... and we arrive just in time to see the feeding.. man they are ferocious.. but the tour guide said that they are actually shy animals.. kinda hard to believe with those sharp teeth they have. The park also have some animals and we watch a bird show which was pretty good.

So the clocks ticking and we are approaching the ghost tour time! (we had dinner beforehand, so we won't faint if we see one). We arrived early, so i decided to go around the site ALONE. yes i am weird.. it's like i'm the only human in the whole area... and its approaching night.. but it was a good spiritual walk... i realise how small we are and how big the universe is... and you cant help but feel watched around... i saw a rabbit or two (cant be sure if the other one is rabbit or possum) but that's about it.

well the ghost tour starts at 8.30... we go around the site with a lantern (it's pitch dark out there)... at each site, the guide will tell a horror story to build up the suspense... and sometimes she will startle us with some action. not bad. but i really curious if we can see one, so i took a lot of pictures. kinda reminds me of fatal frame.

and we end up with.... zip/nada/nothing. well i now have a lot of pictures of the places, but that's it, no sighting at all... but in all, it was a good experience...

we then drove back to the hotel, and i was driving.. one thing to note, there are a lot of roadkills in tassie.. at least i saw 10+. and i almost make another one... I was driving at 80k when there's this possum just chilaxing out in the middle of the road. WTH!

lucky it passed straight under our car... if not, it probably will ruin my holiday... although if it did die, it wasn't my fault haha

so yeah the 2nd day is over... back to the hotel to prepare for the 3rd day!

Tasmania Trip - Day 1

Just come back from Tassie, and I'm going to write down my experiences there so i will remember it in the future.. It's still less than a week so hopefully my memory still fresh...

Day 1 - Wednesday 13/10/10

Arrived at the airport with the help from a good friend, Anthony who has kindly drove us to the airport. Us = me, herman, and jenny. Our plane was delayed by an hour so the traffic jam worry proves to be nothing.

After landed safely on the airport (the flight was really fast.. probably about an hour or so) we go straight to the car rental and got ourself a stunning red hyundai i20... it's quite new, so all good.

Quick lunch at a thai restaurant (food here are expensive!) and we decided to go to botanical garden. the sanctuary was really nice but all else look similar to Melb.

After we went there, we decided to go to Mt Nelson, where we can see the view of Tassie from up high... but we got lost. partly because the GPS is not really helpful, and Tassie's road are so confusing. when we managed to end up on Mt Nelson, it's already to dark, plus it's raining so there's nothing to be seen. we even ended up on someone else's house!

since there's nothing we can do, and it's late, we then move to our next target... DINNER. Fish frenzy is the destination and the dinner is fish and chips. Voted the best fish and chips in tasmania, i think the comment is exaggerated as i don't really taste the difference. :P

day 1 is over and we went back to the motel, which is amazingly nice. grab a shower and off to bed!

House 7.01

Awesome.. totally.

One thing that struck me the most... is when House was told that he's afraid when he's happy, cause he know it won't last...

And how Cuddy then just tell her that, no matter how messed up House is, she always think of him as an incredible guy.

I hope someday, someone will tell me that as well :D

words of wisdom

Happiness comes from how much you try to be happy not because you are just blessed with it.

The effort to overcome your suffering and the effort to become happy... those are the keys to make yourself truly happy.

nostalgic

i was browsing through my old hard disk today, when i found the old pictures folder from when i was still a student.

and i really feel nostalgic about it... why the past always seem to be better than the present? i used to laugh with frens, hang out with them, and now we are all to busy with our daily life... and some of them are not even in Melb anymore.

But life goes on... and now i can only believe that God has a better plan in the end..

someday..

we will look back and realise and laugh at how foolish we were. How things that seem to be important are in fact trivial.

complaining is an addiction

and i was an addict. i realise i complain easily. and i don't do it quietly, i tried to let other ppl now that i'm not happy.

and lately i realise, everyone probably know me as a complainer.. which isn't exactly a good way to be recognised isn't it. While some might actually put their shoes in mine and sympathize, most of the times, it's just plain annoying. Even i don't like a complainer if i see one.

So why i keep doing it? simple, i'm addicted to it. it's like smoking, first you are not used to it, but when you keep at it, it's become a natural thing. it serves as a stress relieve. and though i feel satisfaction from it, it's just not good for my mental health.

so i decided to stop this habit. and the only way to do it is just to stop completely. when i want to complain, just STOP. it's hard, but it's worth it.

I'm really looking forward to see me as a free man... not sure if i can really do it. but when there's a will, there's a way.