~~Aquarium~~colourful**

Hello, da4 jia1!! Me and Xueting went to the Aquarium today...hee=P...we can finally get around without maps...and yuppie, here's a picture of Darling Harbour (below)...the yellow boat you see is a river taxi...=).....finally brought my camera....haha+

This is a snake head gudgeon.....the females can lay 200,000 eggs at a time....=P

This is an eel....What does it resemble?...guess....something slippery....? Well, everyone, please welcome the banana peel eel...=P

This is a long-neck turtle...there's 2 images becoz of the waters reflection..haha+....

There are two Green Moray eels....you can see the head of one and the tail of the other...=)...well they look brown to you right? Absolutely, becoz in deep water they appear brown and only look green due to the algae on their skin...=P


This is a threebar porcupine fish staring at us... with big blue eyes...yogi says she looks like she's smiling...hee+


The same porcupine fish swimming...hee+...eyes realli big and round...mata kuching....=P

This is a very small and interesting star....it's called the Biscuit Sea Star...nice name right?

These are the moon jellyfish..they look luminous...and well just like jelly, they are nua2 nua3...

And....here come's Nemo's friend, Dory who is a Blue Tang...if I didn't get her name wrong..=P..pls correct me, if you guys know....

This is a realli beautiful Semicircular Angelfish...Apologies for my lousy photographic skills....the aquarium lights were in the wrong direction...=p

Ornate wobbegong....his name sounds strange....he is a type of shark and is nocturnal....=)

Hee+...a group of penguins having a meeting cum breaktime amongst the tall bushes....**

Isn't the sunset beautiful?...this is Cockle Bay at 5.15pm....and you can see the wharves they built for the upcoming boat show....=p

Rambling....=P

Long wanted to put up these pics but didn't have a theme, so today these pics are under RAMBLES...haha+

Yogi with her first dish in Sydney....brocolli and carrots....*claps*

Our dinner the other day, with eggs and sausages and grilled chicken (from one of the stalls on the way home)..was late dinner that day at 9+pm.....hmm.....

Yogi's friends, Yuwei, Wei Xiang and Benson left us their 2500W fan heater...Thanks a million guys!!.....Now this heater is doing its job realli well in the living room, allowing comfort TV time......=)

Furniture assembly day!!

Yesterday and today was furniture day!...5 of us managed to put together a metal bunk bed, 4 cupboard-drawers and a book shelf finally after getting the 12 AUD toolbox from Ikea. Now, we have more space for our stuff, smiles Xueting (below)...=P


Now, I can have more space on my table too.....great!!....and mines white...goes with the table right?

Yiling's our drawer lady today!!!....All the drawers were fixed by her....yeah!!

Zhijing's and Yogi's bunk bed.....is ready too!

Now a more cozy home and a bookshelf and two shoeracks to go with it too!

University of Sydney Main Campus!!

Dear everyone, me, xueting and yiling made a trip down to University of Sydney (UOS) main campus in Camperdown.

I bought a card that shows The Nicholson Museum, supposed to be slightly whimsical, with a boy in graduation suit, being asked by a gargoyle, 'Would you adopt me?'. This was told to me by the lady who opened the sovenior shop. Liked the card alot and decided to find the actual building and we found the actual Museum!!

(* for info: a gargoyle is a grotesquely carved human or animal figure found on an architectural structure, their original function is to serve as a spout to throw rainwater clear of the building. The word gargoyle comes from an old french word 'Gargouille', which means gurgle to represent the sound produced when water passes thru the throat. They are usually found on upper levels of the building and serves to keep the evil spirits away)...just some research done on gargoyles on the internet, who were believed to be disliked by humans despite that they helped stood and guarded the building...dats why perhaps the card shows a gargoyle asking a human to adopt him...this is just my understanding of the card combined with my limited understanding of these mythical creatures which are so amazing....hope it's not too booring...=)


Top: drawn picture of The Nicholson Museum in UOS, notice the boy in the graduation suit looking at the gargoyle in the basket(*a bit blur* paiseh paiseh)
Bottom: the actual Nicholson Museum (if you're pretty sharp, there should be a difference spotted amongst the windows haha+)

Top: gargoyle at the stairs, me stroking him Bottom: another gargoyle at the top of the stairs








We also went to the quadrangle (Do you see the four squares below?) Noticed that the lion in the building is the retired lion that had left the roof of the towel, the new one guards the quadrangle now..=)




Quadrangle: The lion(below) guards this quandrangle






























The "ancestor" of the current lion who guards the quadrangle(above) has retired after 140 years (located within Anderson Stuart Building

Darling Harbour and Sydney Opera House

Hey, everyone....had a great weekend...!.....Yogi's friends came down from Canberra and some of us travelled in a car....less walking and more eating haha+....Thanks, guys (Yuwei, Benson and WeiXiang).....we had fun....Darling Harbour is realli fun.....but it's realli cold near the waters...we managed to catch the last winter concert at the harbour and there was fireworks during the finale...the fireworks seemed like it is juz above us....so COoooOlllLL right?.....but tell all of u hor...I very blur blur, didn't bring my camera with me....so terrible...and my camera has a fireworks mode.....hai~~

Us opposite Sydney Harbour Bridge: Yiling, Yogi, Xueting, Zhijing, and Me

(freezing cold: Brrr...huddle together~~)

Me opposite Sydney Harbour Bridge, facing the Sydney Cove Warrane



Me at Sydney Opera House..nice rite? (picture courtesy of Wei Xiang)

Sydney Opera House....a bit blur...shutter speed a bit slow mah...haha+

Sydney Harbour Bridge...(**the building lights reflecting on the waters**)

Day 4 in Sydney!!

Dear everyone, it's our fourth day in Sydney....sorry for the delay in posting my blog, was kinda of lazy to switch on my computer yesterday...we visited University of Sydney, Cumberland Campus today.....the campus pretty nice and has great scenery....


Hairy fruit on one of the trees on the campus....and tree on the campus...

"School of Physiotherapy" in UOS

Zhijing and Yogi at the small bridge leading to our school

Zhijing and Yogi cycled to school....Look at Yogi, her helmet's too big....hee+!

Today, we also cooked our first proper dinner at home, fried egg with silverfish, capsicum with chicken and black bean sauce, kailan and dried prawn (xueting fried this!! *claps*)

Our house (Our house number made courtesy of Zhijing and Yogi) and the dark sky shows the weather at 5pm in the evening...=P

Day 3 in Sydney!

Dear everyone...it's our 3rd day in Sydney and it's pretty warm today...we finally got to move into our rooms and we got to show you the pics of Xueting's and my room...haha+...


(Left)--> This is my door: the string of clovers and flowers from my sisters....Thanks, Yan and Yao!! makes our day very happie when we open our door to see this in the morning....=)

(Right)--> This is our cupboard where we hang out stuff...=)

(Left)--> Xueting took so long to pack, everyone has finished except her...haha+... so she say she has"no face to see everyone" (a.k.a: mei2 lian3 jian4 ren2)

(Right)--> The right side of our cupboard...quite neat rite?

(Left)--> Zhijing cleaning the kitchen"Eeks so dirty!", our kitchen manager haha+

(Right)--> Me and MudCake and my green leafy door...=P






















(Left)--> Xueting's desk with the pink chair and my desk with the green chair...

(Right)--> Me and Xueting at our door.......=)