long overdue brisbane entry.

hokays the very long awaited brisbane entry.

so basically on 22nd jan, we went up to brisbane with clarence. we visited his home, and he made dinner for us. there was like some fried pork and curry chicken with chicken wings and dumplings and of cos.... CHICKEN FEET. somehow in aust, wherever i go, chicken feet comes and haunts me. so yeah. i had to like make myself eat one again. but this time i could see all the little circles on the skin of the feet and i was like omg omg omg i can't eat this omg.

and clarence's 4 year old sun is one hell of a mischievous kid. he is quite a handful. lol like father like son i bet clarence was like that when he was 4. we brought his son, kai xiong, to the playground, where he played for a while, and when it got dark we went home. after that we all drove up to brisbane.

we got to this place called somewheretostay, which was somewheretostay for us for the next 2 nights, it's a cosy little backpacker hostel on a steep slope. haha. and they have 2 resident cats, both of which were not very friendly and one even chomped on my hand when i tried to pet it under the chin. that night, we visited the southbank lifestyle market, which was quite interesting to look, but to look only. everything there is like ex. even a pair of earrings are AT LEAST $8 AUD.

all in all, over that night and the next few days, we visited southbank, which is really cool because it has a man made beach in the middle of the city, complete with sand and all, queen's street mall, which is basically just like a shopping ctr..ANZAC square, city hall, post office square, chinatown (which was SERIOUSLY nothing much cos it was under construction), botanical gardens, queensland university of technology, conrad treasury casino, which looks like all other casinos. lol. brisbane city reminds me of singapore's cbd area which overlooks the singapore river, because there's this big river too (we sat on the city cat boat which goes along the river =] ) and the CBD overlooks the river. and the bridges spanning across the river are all very beautifully constructed, nicer than singapore's.

on sat night, which was also zhujun's bday, we met up with nicole, and her best friend monique. they brought us to have a nice dinner, and that was the first time in aust we had steak!!! which was yummy, and rather affordable. so ironic eh, go to aust, the land of steaks, and only get to eat steak 25 days later. honestly i miss eating it. amelia needs more steak in her stomachhhhh! RAWR. they were both dressed up very glammy because they were both gonna club later. and the strangest thing is in singapore, people eat before drinking so that they don't get drunk, over here, they want to purposely NOT eat so that they can get drunk. they wanted to bring us to the casino after that, but the guards didn't let us in cos we were wearing thongs (the aussie term for beach sandals and flip flops).pfft. so they brought us to an irish pub instead, where the music was SO LOUD YOU HAD TO SHOUT LIKE THIS TO BARELY BE HEARD and zj and i shared a frozen margarita which was yummy and we watched 40-50 + year old women that looked old and yet still going to these places to club and dance. and they were wearing like blinking lights over their necks. and nicole was going like that's one tragic woman. and i agree. it's quite sad. shouldn't these people be over partying by now and acting their age? like doing more constructive things like spending time with their families or sth. =/

yeps so more or less that's it about brisbane. brisbane can probably be better summarized by fotos. haha. facebook will have fotos soon!!

ok watch this space soon for australia day entry! haha.