Sunday, June 08, 2008
i"M BACK! lol....
Anyway time to blog bout wonderful wonderful Perth!
[FYI : I'm going by the day~day thing haha]
[FYI(again) : pictures will be up like.....after holidays or something....cause BandRm is down till after CTs or something]
29th may'08
Reported to band room....rushed here and there....took pictures.....
Boarded bus, Took flight, sat next to one of the T-I-Cs, Fell asleep....Nothing much basically
Btw, T3 is somewhat way way bigger then expected haha.....
Also, Thanks to all those who came to see us off
30th may'08
Arrived at perth at 7, saying the weather was awesome is a heavy understatement, met our coach captain, great guy by the name of Paul, had a tour of some parts of WA...King's Park was gigantimo lol....then went to morish nuts, the owner was like a Santa Claus, as in seriously his laughter is damn powerful haha....then proceed for lunch at some cafe in king's park, The serving size is omg....lol......Eric had to force himself to finish the thing haha....
We then sightsee abit more and went down to check into the hotel, i'm stuck with Eric and John lol.......[Bryan was crashing with us throughout the whole trip too....refused to sleep in his room]
Ended the day with a band practice...
31st May'08
Breakfast was okay...i guess.... the mushrooms were nice....lol
had another band practice, went down to Fremantle, had the best fish chips i ever tried at the placed called "sweet lips"...i dare say it's a must try. shopping was canceled cause everyone was taking too much pictures haha.....spent too much time.....
Went for a museum tour...was okay-ly interesting,,,
Had just abit of shopping then headed down to perth concert hall for Western Australia Youth Orchestra...was ok i guess......the west side story was nice i guess haha...That ended the day......
1st June'08
today had our first performance in Aus, First up, we had a visit to a chocolate factory and a nougat( pronounced Nou~ga) Factory[ pictures] performance was not there yet...maybe cause everyone wasn;t sure what to do ahah...b ut nevertheless we survived......had a barbeque for lunch which i refused to eat lol,then had pictures with kangaroos at the caversham wildlife park, followed by a farm show, where a sheep was being sheared. then we had dinner went back to hotel.....the guys in my room decided to play T/D......i stepped out.......went back only round 1am to sleep when they were done...
2nd June'08
had breakfast [ getting sick of it].....had rehearsal, went down to an orchard and took some more pictures haha.....then went for abit of shopping.....bought a new hoodie.....quite nice lol...quite cheap for one too haha,,,,,$39 Aus
then had some chinese food for dinner,,,
3rd june'08
going down to Albany today...like the most anticipated part cause there's a cooking contest held there....5 1/2 Hr trip, had a few visits to a wonderful scenic stops before reaching Albany, 1st one was a cliff where everything was great...... a great spot for camwhoring haha.....and we did just that...[as said earlier pictures will be up some other time...]
next was a wind farm.....more pictures also haha...
Then had a bit of grocery shopping to prepare for the competition later this night lol.....arrived there and immediately started cooking....then spend the night going over to the girls' cabin to hide from the people who got drunk [ refuse to identify but you know who you are....I'm disgusted with you all]
Ended up sleeping over at Joel's cabin....[ refuse to continue on for what happen over here..]
4th June'08
woke up today....as expected, those people who got drunk are late to report, went down to Valley of the Giants.....had a tour, then went on for a performance at the Denmark Bandstand.... the thing was awesome! but the performance was......let's just say people were unable to perform because of something that happened the previous night...then we went on to Mt sandalwood, a factory of sorts that produces perfumes and what not... went down to Albany town centre for dinner.... some more chinese food....Then head back to the lodge to sleep....
5th June'08
Went back to Perth today, another 5 1/2 hr trip, had lunch at this restaurant which sold burgers lol....it was ok....went on with a MasterClass With Bruce herriman.....the thing was so-so i guess was quite boring....lol......then had SubWay for dinner..followed by a combined performance with SPS SAS and JSR[ the name of the college we went to for the masterclass]......thank god it went well....i lost my tie here! zzzzz now i needa buy a new one lol......
Went back to hotel after that
6th June'08
Early morning had a performance at Rockingham Senior High, the Audience definitely enjoyed our performance ahaha....
went to a macadamia nuts farm , followed by a honey farm, then abit of shopping.......after which had a Western Australian Symphony Orchestra concert, it was the awesome, the oboist's tone was........sweeter then the purest of sugar, the purest of honey and definitely sweeter then the sweetest things in the world!....then went back to the hotel to finalize all my packings cause we're flying back the next day haha...
7th June'08
The day of departure! ....T.T...
Stayed up all the night the day before......unfortunately failed.....fell asleep at 5.30am lol......had a final check, then shopping time at city mall, bought more stuff, eat at some Japanese side stall a few people lol.....went to the airport to check in, But took our final picture in Perth with Paul, went on the flight and came back to Singapore, reached home at 11pm lol......caught up with NARUTO...lol.....went asleep and spent the whole of today resting my tired body lol........well....
I would love to thank Mark, Yenna[ the sweet couple, ^.^ ] A few of the ladies for making this trip an enjoyable one, otherwise i have no idea how i would survive those treacherous things....
That's was all that happened in Perth, Btw for some of you people, i really hope you heed what i said, if not, you are bound for a world of regret and suffering...i know, i've been through it, but then again, it's your choice and your actions, like the chinese saying goes, 不听老人言, 吃亏在眼前.....
posted by Jackson @
6/08/2008 02:13:00 PM
