Happy Ramadan to all!

The results of the moon sighting is out. The sighting of the new Ramadan moon has been confirmed, so the Brisbanian muslims will be starting their fast tomorrow. I just learned that Brunei will be starting their fast on Tuesday, so it seems that we in Brisbane will be starting our fast a day early, which is opposite to what happened last year, hehehe.. So, don't forget to "berniat" preferably for a month in advance just to be safe tonight. So to every Muslims out there:

SELAMAT MENYAMBUT BULAN RAMADAN

Happy Birthday Bulan!

Lone Pine, 2007

Mun

Karaoke at the Mall, 2008 :p

30/08/2008: A very special birthday greeting to my dear "little" sister, Mun! (Moon/Bulan/M****). Happy Birthday, my dear! Semoga dipanjangkan umur, murah rezeki, dirahmati Allah selalu. Walaupun jauh, but I still remember you and the family everyday. I miss you very much and will see you soon in two months time!. I am the eldest and only have one sibling, c Mun whom I am very close to. All the best in your studies dear sister, next year A levels! :) As the M**** part, haha, I actually had a name that I sometimes call her to tease her, kalau ku gtau sini, malu ia karang, haha.. That's just between the two of us, hehehe.. :p

Spring is coming!

Spring 2006

Hello all! It's getting warmer and warmer these days, don't you think? This will be the last weekend in winter and you know what that means, don't you? Spring is coming! :) This marks the transition from winter to summer time and what else? Yes, the blossoming of beautiful flowers everywhere, giving a beautiful and calming effect and a feast to the eyes. The most common sight you would see when walking along the street here in Brisbane would be the blooming of the Jacaranda, into its full purple glory. Simply gorgeous! :) Temperatures will be ranging from 26 to as low as 14 degrees at night, I presume as what is happening right now. Ideal weather indeed.. So pack your hoodies and thick coats now folks, hehe. Spring also means the coming out of flies and other household pests as the weather is getting warmer, reaching their ultimate high during the summer time. I guess that's one of the downside of spring, as they hibernate most of the time during winter. Well, I am no pests expert but this is what I have observed for the past 2 springs here in brissy land.. hehe..

So what has been happening in my little world here in brisbane? Well, on Friday, Yunyun and I went to Chinatown again to restock our chicken and beef. I met Yunyun at city at 12:45pm after her CC and from there, we rode on the 117 bus to Chinatown. As usual, we bought our 4 kgs of chicken and some beef from Ismail's butchery. We bought some broccoli as we learned that the price has gone done from $7 to $4 a kilo! Back to its normal price, hehe..

My parents on their visit, Dec 2007

From Chinatown, we boarded on the train to Toowong and went to Coles to buy rice and some grocery items. Went home at 2:30pm. We were lucky that day since the bus and train were always on time and we did not have to wait long for their arrivals. Spent the rest of the day at home, cooked dinner and did our own things. At night, I watched Australian Idol, followed by American Dreamz, which is a movie which I have not seen before. It starred Mandy Moore and Hugh Grant, about a show called American Dreamz (similar concept to Idol, I suppose), where the contestants compete by singing and gathering votes from the public. Ok lah the movie, though I do not really really like how the movie ended, haha. I'd rate the movie, 6.5/10.

American Dreamz

On Saturday, we had a tutorial with Hsn in one of the PBL room. We discussed week 26's case on thalassemia. The tutorial started at 9am and ended at close to 11am. Yunyun, Syimsyim, Nabnab and I were there. After the 2-hour tute, I went to the Biological Science library to do some revision. At some point, there were some conversing and chit chat by a couple of people next to me, so annoying eh. If skajap, then it's ok lah, but ani ada jua 20 minit kali tu, and they were not being discrete at all. I was on the fourth floor, which is supposedly the quietest floor. If they were conversing about studies then ok lah, tapi pasal lain tah pulang, ish ish ish.. distracting! I'm sure the person on my other side was annoyed as well, since she left her seat with a grumping sound, haha.. Kalau kan bercerita batah-batah pun, they could do it at the lower levels, ish ish ish.. Thankfully, they did not stay long and I could continue on with my revision. I stayed in the library until 3pm, then went on a detour to my favourite supermarket, Coles at Hawken Drive, hehe.

Went home then cooked dinner with Yunyun. I was fasting yesterday to bayar the last day of my qada puasa. Sungkai at 5:34pm. We had ikan goreng and buttermilk chicken for dinner. At night, the River festival fireworks (Riverfire) could be heard from our home. We did not go to watch the fireworks at the city this year, so we settled in front of the tv to watch the live event. The fireworks were awesome! What makes the fireworks here amazing, is that they were synchronized to follow the music of some popular songs blasting from loud speakers, that you feel captured by the beautiful displays. After watching the fireworks, Yunyun and I decided to head to Syimsyim and Nabnab's place at 8:30pm. We watched a movie, Harold and Kumar 2: Escape from Guentanamo Bay that we got from Rahmat. I have to say that the movie is certainly for a mature audience. Funny and "selahau" hahaha.. like Syimsyim said, "baik jua balum bulan puasa.." haha.. I'm not going to give out much here, spoil tia karang, hahaha.. I'd rate the movie, 7.5/10.

Harold and Kumar 2

After watching the movie, we watched several episodes of Scrubs, which is hilarious as well. We stayed there till midnight before walking home.

Woke up quite late today.. manjakan mata, haha.. Had bread, eggs, chips and baked beans for brekkie and I did my laundry today. According to Rahmat there will be the sighting for the new Ramadhan moon today, which is probably going to be held at Mount Cootha. Kinda excited to start fasting during Ramadhan though the daily activity here will be pretty much the same. I was having a conversation with Pei yesterday about Ramadhan fasting and the difference in Brunei and Brisbane which eventually led to all the delicious food that can be found at the "gerai" Ramadhan in Brunei, leading us to a good visual place.. hahaha.. we were talking about how much I crave the colourful and delicious drinks like ABC and cendol while Pei was craving "sate" which we forgot the name of, haha, maybe "sate kura" kali the name after I asked Syimsyim namanya. My favourite sate would be sate ayam though. Nah, tais plang liurku nah, aishh, haha.. campur lagi kuah kacang nya and ketupat, waseh! (*drooling*) hehehehe.. Eh, I'm working myself up pasal all the delicious food di brunei tah nah, sia-sia pun.. :p inda apa, 2 months to go before I'm back in brunei, hehehe..

Bah, I'll be back later with the news of the Ramadhan sighting. Till then! :p

What a day!

Had a full day today. Woke up at 8am today and decided to attend the 9am lecture, on geriatrics medicine, which is a branch of medicine that focuses on the health of the elderly. This coincides with our case of the week which is on osteoporosis. The lecture was ok but what I enjoyed most was the video shown which was pretty funny, involving a plane landing inappropriately on a highway hitting a car driven by a funny looking guy. The guy (still stuck with the plane on top of his car) saw an incoming car driven very very slowly by an old lady heading his way and tried to avoid a collision. As the plane and the car approaches, the grandma was able to expertly maneuver her car from hitting the plane and car. The guy was relieved of that and then managed to stop the plane from moving further. From one side of the road, the grandma drove past him again, giving him the "finger", hahaha.. It was funny visually, but kinda hard to describe its funniness in words, hehehe. Guess you'll just have to be there to watch it :p

So after the lecture, I have a 2-hour break. I went to the printing shop to print my FQ, then headed to the library to do some reading. At 20 minutes to 12, I went to the PBL building for my noon PBL session. On the way, I stopped by the Chinese vendor to get some cold watermelons. As usual, the PBL on thursday involves presentations of FQs and reading the remaining triggers of the case. After the 2-hour PBL, we stayed back in the room since we'll be having our CSS (communication skills) tutorial session at 2:30pm.

We moved to a larger room which has a large projector one level below for our CSS. During the session, we reviewed the videos that we had previously recorded, each presented with a variety of cases. Since these things are usually time consuming, we only managed to get through about 6 videos today. I didnt get to show mine this session, so the remaining videos will be shown during the next session next week. So, spare my embarrassment of seeing myself doing history taking this week, haha.. In a way, I was actually hoping to just review my video this week, just to get it over and done with but due to time constraints, what can one do, hehe.. We finished the session by 4:45pm. I was really tired by the end of it and hungry too since I have not eaten a proper meal since lunch. I headed home and arrived at 5pm. I was just going to rest my eyes for a bit but ended up falling asleep on my bed for an hour, haha..

For dinner, we cooked on our own, so I had chicken burger and wedges while watching Make Me a Supermodel on tv. Australian Idol was playing at the same time, arghh! Both are my favourites so I have to switch the channel back and forth, but I spent most of the time watching the Supermodel programme. I didnt really get to watch a lot of idol since the adverts were playing almost at the same time as well! Ish ish ish.. hehehe.. The Make Me a Supermodel Australia is a new programme on tv and is being hosted by Jennifer Hawkins (former Miss World) and Tyson Beckford, one of the hottest male model in America. I enjoyed the show a lot, and it's quite different from America's Next Top Model, since the contestants are a mix of guys and girls and that the public get to cast their votes on who they would want to stay in the show. From the show, you can see that many of them are already displaying model like qualities and managed to get great pictures of themselves taken.

Jennifer Hawkins

Tyson Beckford

We'll see how the show progresses.. :) Alrightey then, I guess that's all for tonight!

Gd night! :)

Short jokes to tickle your funny bone

Blonde swimmer

A brunette, a redhead and a blonde are in a breast stroke race. The starter's gun goes off and the three girls dive into the pool. The brunette and the redhead shoot across the pool and get out; 20 minutes later the blonde reaches the end and gets out. The judge says, "The gold medal goes to the brunette, the silver medal goes to the redhead, and the bronze goes to the blonde". The blonde says, "I don't want to be a sore loser, but I think the other girls were using their arms."

Blonde getting a haircut

A blond was rollerblading with her headphones on. She stopped in the hair salon and asked for a hair cut. She instructed that the hair stylist could not take off the headphones.

The stylist replied "no" so the blond left. She went to a different hair salon and said the same thing. The stylist replied "ok".

After a while, the blond fell asleep in the chair. The stylist took off the headphones and the blonde died on the spot. Confused at what happened, the stylist put on the headphones. They were saying, "breath in, breath out"

Smart blonde

The local sheriff was looking for a deputy, so a blonde went in to try out for the job. "Okay," the sheriff drawled, "what is 1 and 1?"

"Eleven," she replied.

The sheriff thought to himself, "That's not what I meant, but she's right."

"What two days of the week start with the letter 'T'?"

"Today and tomorrow."

He was again surprised that the blonde supplied a correct answer that he had never thought of himself.

"Now, listen carefully: Who killed Abraham Lincoln?"

The blonde looked a little surprised herself, then thought really hard for a minute and finally admitted, "I don't know."

"Well, why don't you go home and work on that one for a while?"

So, the blonde wandered over to the beauty parlor, where her pals were waiting to hear the results of the interview. The blonde was exultant. "It went great! First day on the job and I'm already working on a murder case!"

Lipstick

According to a news report, a certain private school in Victoria, BC recently was faced with a unique problem.

A number of grade 12 girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.

Every night, the maintenance man would remove them and the next day, the girls would put them back.

Finally the principal decided that something had to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night.

To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required.

He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the mirror with it.

Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.

From: mightyjokes.com

For the love of baked beans

Once upon a time there lived a woman who had a maddening passion for baked beans. She loved them but unfortunately they had always had a very embarrassing and somewhat lively reaction to her. Then one day she met a guy and fell in love. When it became apparent that they would marry she thought to herself, " He is such a sweet and gentle man, he would never go for this carrying on." So she made the supreme sacrifice and gave up beans.

Some months later her car broke down on the way home from work. Since she lived in the country she called her husband and told him that she would be late because she had to walk home. On her way she passed a small diner and the odor of the baked beans was more than she could stand. Since she still had miles to walk, she figured that she would walk off any ill effects by the time she reached home. So, she stopped at the diner and before she knew it, she had consumed three large orders of baked beans. All the way home she putt-putted. And upon arriving home she felt reasonably sure she could control it.

Her husband seemed excited to see her and exclaimed delightedly, "Darling, I have a surprise for dinner tonight." He then blindfolded her and led her to her chair at the table. She seated herself and just as he was about to remove the blindfold from his wife, the telephone rang. He made her promise not to touch the blindfold until he returned. He then went to answer the phone. The baked beans she had consumed were still affecting her and the pressure was becoming almost unbearable, so while her husband was out of the room she seized the opportunity, shifted her weight to one leg and let it go. It was not only loud, but it smelled like a fertilizer truck running over a skunk in front of pulpwood mill. She took her napkin and fanned the air around her vigorously. Then, she shifted to the other cheek and ripped three more, which reminded her of cabbage cooking.

Keeping her ears tuned to the conversation in the other room, she went on like this for another ten minutes. When the phone farewells signaled the end of her freedom, she fanned the air a few more times with her napkin, placed it on her lap and folded her hands upon it, smiling contentedly to herself. She was the picture of innocence when her husband returned, Apologizing for taking so long, he asked her if she peeked, and she assured him that she had not. At this point, he removed the blindfold, and she was surprised!!! There were twelve dinner guests seated around the table to wish her a Happy Birthday!!!

From: jokesunlimited.com

Things we know because of tv

# If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises wearing their most revealing underwear.

# If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in a passing St Patrick's Day parade - at any time of the year.

# All beds have special L-shaped top sheets that reach up to armpit level on a woman but only waist level on the man lying beside her.

# All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread.

# It's easy for anyone to land a plane, providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.

# Once applied, lipstick will never rub off - even while scuba diving.

# The ventilation system of any building is a perfect hiding place. No one will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building without difficulty.

# You're likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of you sweetheart back home.

# Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German accent will do.

# The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window of any building in Paris.

# People of TV never finish their drinks.

# A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.

# The chief of police is always black.

# When paying for a taxi, never look at your wallet as you take out a note - just grab one at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare.

# If you lose a hand, it will cause the stump of your arm to grow by 15cm.

# Kitchens don't have light switches. When entering a kitchen at night, you should open the fridge door and use that light instead.

# During all police investigations, it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.

# Mothers routinely cook eggs, bacon and waffles for their family every morning, even though the husband and children never have time to eat them.

# Cars and trucks that crash will almost always burst into flames.

# Wearing a singlet or stripping to the waist can make a man invulnerable to bullets.

# A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of a football stadium.

# If a killer is lurking in your house, it's easy to find him. Just relax and run a bath - even if it's the middle of the afternoon.

# Medieval peasants had perfect teeth.

# Although in the 20th century it is possible to fire weapons at an object out of visual range, people of the 23rd century will have lost this technology.

# All single women have a cat.

# Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant.

# Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.

# One man shooting at 20 men has a better chance of killing them all than 20 men firing at one.

# Creepy music coming from a graveyard should always be closely investigated.

# If a phone line is broken, communication can be restored by frantically beating the cradle and saying, "Hello?, Hello?"

# Most people keep a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings - especially if any of their family or friends has died in a strange boating accident.

# It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involved martial arts - your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessor.

# During a very emotional confrontation, instead of facing the person you are speaking to, it is customary to stand behind them and talk to their back.

# When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your room will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.

# Dogs always know who's bad and will naturally bark at them.

# Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.

# When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.

# Action heroes never face charges for manslaughter or criminal damage despite laying entire cities to waste.

# No matter how badly a spaceship is attacked, its internal gravity system is never damaged.

# If there is a deranged killer on the loose, this will coincide with a thunderstorm that has brought down all the power and phone lines in the vicinity.

# You can always find a chain saw whenever you're likely to need one.

# Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their arch-enemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gases, lasers and man eating sharks that will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.

# Having a job of any kind will make all fathers forget their son's eighth birthday.

# Many musical instruments - especially wind instruments and accordions - can be played without moving the fingers.

# All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.

# It is always possible to park directly outside the building you are visiting.

# Guns are like disposable razors - if you run out of bullets, just throw the gun away. You can always buy a new one.

# Make-up can safely be worn to bed without smudging.

# A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.

# If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps.

From: jokesunlimited.com

These past 3 days

I was pretty tired or apa ni nya orang putih, "knackered" after the weekend trip. As usual, I have to wake up very early on Monday for my early morning PBL session at 8am. Nyaman rasanya udah bekumpal arah katil atu, but paksa tah bangun awal jua, haha. What a way to start the week! :p I walked to uni at 10 minutes to 8am (I know ahir udah!) hehe. When I arrived in the PBL room, masih ramai yang balum datang, well, it's Monday kan. Even our tutor was late that morning. As usual, we had a review of the case summary and mechanism summary of the week before. The new thing we are trying right now is to exclude the reviewing of quiz questions but to start doing some exam questions instead which is relevant to the case we were doing. We also started a new case this week, which is on Osteoporosis in the elderly. As usual, focus questions (FQs) were alocated at the end of the session. My FQ of the week is on the Causes of Falls in the elderly. It's quite a short FQ, sukaku, hehehe..

We finished PBL 20 minutes early, so Cass and I decided to head to the physio refectory to get something to eat before our next class. I decided to make an egg and cheese sandwich at the make-your-own-sandwich station. The cost of the sandwich depends on how much your sandwich weigh. So go crazy with whatever stuff you want to put in your sandwich.. haha.. It was Sa'dy who introduced the MYO sandwich station. Ndaku realise rupanya ada egg jua disana atu, hehehe. I think it's cheaper to make the sandwich on your own rather than just buying the ready-made ones that are also available. While looking for a place to sit, we spotted Azim with Dibah and Pei, so we decided to join their table. At close to 11am, Cass and I went to the 4th level of the PBL building for our Surface Anatomy tutorial. The room was quite jammed packed and there weren't really any good space to practice, so my PBL group decided to find another room where we could practice. Most of the PBL rooms and CC rooms were occupied, so kami ke kitchen/tea room saja to do the practical. Kami atu nda plang besemangat sorang2 kan membuat the tutorial, so we just go through laju2 the stuff in the notes provided. The Surface Anatomy prac/tutorial was on the lower limbs, so kirakan kami groping our own legs lah saja to try to figure out where the different types of bones, muscles and tendons are, hehehe.. Our tutor ada jua melawat2 our progress in the kitchen atu. Eh awu, that day, someone sponsored a cake in the kitchen, it was huge with lots of cherries on it, nyaman usulnya but Cass said that it contained alcohol, so nda tah ku makan. Durang ganya nyaman makannya, hahaha.. Oh well..

So after the SA session, we headed back home. I spent the afternoon doing my FQ, then feeling tired, I decided to take a nap, which eventually took more than 2 hours! hehehe, puas ku membayar tidur atu. So malam nya, ahir plang ku tidur nah. On tuesday, spent the day at home. Ndaku datang anat practical that afternoon, nada ku bemood, ku dgr ramai jua my PBL mates nda datang jua. Kadang-kadang, ada jua masanya boring bah practicalnya atu.. Instead, I edited my FQ and did some revision for my CC summative exam the next day. At night, I watched the new season of Australian Idol, which is one of my favourite tv programme. Baru start masa Sunday main nya. It is still on the audition stages in the different states, so siuk lah meliat ulah2 orang menyanyi atu. What I sometimes find hilarious, is the confidence of some of the people who auditioned on how good they sound, when in reality sebenarnya nda, hehehe.. And sometimes, nda ku faham, is why they would come in some ridiculous outfits atu, haha, like in the show last night, this guy was wearing an outfit that reminds me so much of the movie "Cicakman" though this guy punya outfit ani lagi cawiee lah, especially when he put on some black and white makeup as well like some of those rock bands around, haha.. Cali cali.. and ada jua sampai marah-marah, unable to take the rejection, believing that the judges are wrong lah, hahaha.. siuk eh, ada-ada kan ku ketawakan, hehehe..

Today, woke up quite early. I revised my CC handbook this morning. At 1:20pm, I caught the bus from St Lucia to Toowong to catch the train to Auchenflower for my summative exam on the Musculoskeletal examination at the Wesley Hospital. My CC was actually at 2:30pm, but sengaja ku jalan awal, just in case the bus panuh since it was peak hours. Fortunately, banyak space in the bus tadi atu. I arrived at the hospital at 1:45pm. Semangat, haha, I still have 45 minutes to kill before the exam. Ndaku kemana-mana, I just went straight to the waiting room and revise2 sikit lagi. While I was on my way ke sana tadi atu, mendung saja hari atu. When my PBL mate came in, he said it was raining outside. Baik jua nda ku behujan datang awal atu, hehe. I think the exam went on smoothly for everyone. It helps jua that the tutor was kinda lenient. Lucky for us, hehehe. :p

After the exam, I went to the city skajap since alang2 jua aku ada tiket atu, hehe. I boarded the train from Auchenflower and arrived at the Brisbane Central station. By this time, it has stopped raining. So I went window shopping and bought some snacks before heading home using the 412 bus. I arrived home at 5:20pm. Ngalih ku kerasahan by this time, haha, so took a shower and rest. Kami masak sendiri2 saja tonight, so I had indo mee and talur mata lembu, as well as some nachos tadi while watching Oz Idol. Tonight's show showed the auditions in Adelaide and London (for Aussies in London only). Siuk lah jua, hahaha. Hmm, bah, ndaku tau apa kan di cakap kan lagi. That's all for now, hehehe.

Gd night! :)

Weekend roadtrip to Sunshine Coast

As I have mentioned in my previous post, I had a weekend getaway to the Sunshine Coast with 15 other friends. We started our road trip by gathering at our place at 6:30am onwards on a fresh and cold Saturday morning. We had rented 2 vans for the weekend road trip, with Rahmat and me driving, and Sa'dy, Krl, YJ and Shing being the navigators. This was our first time actually driving on the Australian roads and I have to say that it was very exciting, haha. We have lived here in Brisbane for over 2 years now, but we havent really done much exploration on our own, thus we decided to embark on the adventure which we made plans for, a month in advance. This was also my first time going to the Sunshine Coast and like my peers, we don't really know what to expect once we reached there. True that we have done our research early but you just never know, hehe..

One of the vans :)

So once the 2 vans have been loaded up with our backpacks and overnight bags, we were on our way at 7am. We stopped first at Acai's to buy some lollies and withdraw some money. Then we continue on our journey. I had to get used to drive the van, though I have to say that the van was very smooth running, hehe. Yunyun, Syimsyim, Nabnab, Sady, Hazzie, Fathmee, Farah and I were in the same van while Shing, Rahmat, YJ, Pei, Val, Krl, Fizah and Fitri in the other van. The drive was rather uneventful, we sang some songs on the way, went on the wrong road a few times (haha), but siuk lah jua. Rahmat was on the lead. We stayed mainly on the Bruce Highway to the coast, saw a few signs for wild kangaroo sightings on the side of the road, dry stretch of tall trees, bluish green rivers and passed a few towns/suburbs. Though we have to be careful since we saw a few signs indicating that speed cameras were in use in some areas. We eventually reached our first destination, which is in Eumundi at 9++ am. We parked at the designated parking area at the Eumundi Markets. As mentioned in the website, the Eumundi Markets is one of the famous tourist attractions in Queensland. There were about 600 stalls ranging from lifestyle to arts and crafts. Our first stop once we reached the Market was the toilets! More than 2 hours on the road does that on your bladder, haha. We have to be on the look out as well since we spotted a few dogs on the path between the stalls, haha, berijap kami ah, hehe. There were a lot of visitors at that time, and an elderly man was kind enough to offer to take a group photo of us in front of the Eumundi Market sign board.. Ketara kami macam tourist atu, haha.. :)

Group photo at the Eumundi Market

A small section of the market

We stayed there for an hour and a half before heading to the Strawberry Farm in Eumundi, which is not that far from the market itself. It was on a hillside area, so we have to drive up the dirt road to get to the main building. It looked like a country side barn or farm, with tractors outside, and stretched and rows and rows of strawberry and tomato fields around it. There were workers in the building and also around the fields. By this time, the weather was becoming hotter. We entered the building and was welcomed and briefed by a nice lady. We can pick our own strawberries in the farm and we have been looking forward to do that. She mentioned that the strawberries cost $12 a kilo. So it depends on how much the strawberries that we picked would weigh tah tu. So we made our way to the strawberry fields with our empty plastic containers that was provided. We are only allowed to pick the strawberries that are within the orange poles.

Drebar, haha :)

The building of the Strawberry Farm in Eumundi

Group photo! :)

The strawberry fields

Fresh, plump, juicy strawberries for picking

Rows and rows of strawberries

Yunyun, Syimsyim, Nabnab and me :)

It was a great experience. As usual, took lots of photos! I have to say it was hard to pick out which pictures I want to put here. Banyak banar, haha. After picking strawberries under the sun, we headed back to the building, to get our strawberries weighed. The strawberries that I picked costs $4.80 which is less than 500gm, haha. Juicy and sweet! After Strawberry picking, we then made our way to Noosa Heads, to find the place that we will be staying for the night. We managed to eventually find the Noosa Backpackers Resort at Noosa Heads. It was kinda like a hostel accomodation which is suitable for us students, hehe.

Checking in at the Noosa Backpackers Resort

While waiting for the keys

The rooms were dorm-like. Yunyun, Syimsyim, Nabnab and I shared a room. There were 2 bunk beds and a bathroom.

Yunyun and I shared a bunk bed :)

There was a common room, and pool room, shared kitchen, a swimming pool, internet and wireless access, and free bus rides to the beach as part of the facilities provided. After checking in, and resting for a while, we decided to head to Hastings Street and Noosa Beach, using the free bus ride provided by the hostel.

Hasting Street

Noosa Beach, beautiful clear, blue waters

Di bawah pohon bambuuu~~ hehe :p

We spent a few hours at the beach and the surrounding areas before some of us, heading back to the hostel to get some thing to eat and prayers, etc. Late afternoon, we headed back to the beach to pick up the others and then we drove to the nearby Noosa National Park, where we watched the beautiful sunset.

The beautiful sunset from the Noosa National Park

Group photo at Noosa National Park

After that, we decided to drive up to the Laguna Lookout point at 6:30pm. It was very very dark, with no street lights heading up to the look out point, so we have to be careful on our way to the top.

The view from Laguna Look out point, Noosa

From the look out point, we decided to drive around the area. Though banyak places are close by this time. It seems that not only Brisbane closes early at night. For dinner, we went to Dominos pizza to take away dinner, before heading back to the hostel to eat dinner at the common room.

Muka orang-orang ngalih dalam krita, haha :p Banar kah eksen eksen tu ah? :p

At the common room: Filling up tummies with pizza and hot chocolates

After dinner, we went back to our respective rooms to freshen up and get ready for bed. It has been a long day after all. The next day, we went down to the docks near the river not far from the hostel for breakfast of the leftover pizza the night before.

Breakfast time! :)

After breakfast, some of us walked to the beach while the rest stayed at the hostel to play pool. There was an unexpected event happening in Noosa that morning. A marathon was being held, so the roads around the hostel leading to the beach was closed, hence, the plans were delayed.

Playing pool at the hostel pool room

At 10am, we went to pick up the others at the beach, before heading to Bli Bli Castle. On the way we filled up the petrol tank. Here, filling the petrol is self service, so baik jua ada the guys to help out filling up the tank.

Sunshine Castle, Bli Bli

Entrance to the Castle

Alamak! :p

From the castle, we headed to the honey factory, but unfortunately, it was closed. It was already 1:30pm, so we decided to head back to Brisbane. There was an accident on the Bruce Highway as reported from the radio, so there was a bit of a traffic jam for a while in some parts, but other than that, not so eventful. We reached Brisbane at 3++pm, then sent everyone home. The guys then returned back the vans before 5pm. Overall, it was a relaxing weekend. Now, it's back to the hectic life in Brisbane. I will post up more pics on facebook soon.

Gd night! :)

Birthday dinner

I've had a busy weekend but a great one indeed. My friends and I went on a weekend road trip to the Sunshine Coast this past weekend. I'll talk about that more on the next post. The night before, which was a Friday night, I celebrated my 23rd birthday with a dinner at my place at 7pm. It was a great night. I am too tired to write more, so I'll just post up some pictures from the party, hehe.

Me and the white choc mud cake that Syimsyim and Nabnab made :)

Nabnab, Syimsyim, Fathmee, Sa'dy and Yunyun

Most of the girls from my batch :)

Hazzie, Rahmat, Pei, Yunyun, Fathmee

The food :)

Makan time! :)

Haha

I'll post up more pics on facebook soon. :)

Gd night! :)