adelaide
hello i'm home (: first and foremost, click here for pictures. however there're alot more family photos which i'm not gonna put online but err, if you want you can always ask for them from me personally =)
adelaide was really fun, the people really friendly and hospitable (but ehh, really slow and omg their patience is admirable). so overall i had lots of fun (duh haha) but it made me put on alot of weight -.- my cousin who studies in uni there brought us around and we ate different cuisines every day. so tuesday we had vietnamese food <3, wednesday countryside (pate and terrines =D) and then italian food (which apparently won some best pizza in the world competition o.o), thursday southeast asian food (which is owned/operated by my cousin's classmate's family who are super nice people and keep on fighting with us over who should foot the bill), friday german food at a pub in hahndorf (the german village) and korean food at chinatown, saturday greek food (which is really exotic and tastes either too salty or too sour. but nice still =P), and finally sunday argentinian food (where i ate almost 1kg of steak and other yummie stuff). it sounds like an eating trip right -.-" but my entire family has huge appetites so we didn't stop xD we even snacked more in the bus, heh. now to lose weight (:
then the milk in australia is real good =D we went to this icecream parlour where there're like countless flavours and toppings and mixins, and then when you're done choose everything they'll mixup your icecream on this cold rock (which is also its name). my fave is the cookie dough which has mini m&ms stuck in it and tastes so so rich x) then there was this super great yoghurt stall at the market which had all the fruity flavours like berries and mangoes and the sweet flavours like chocolate flake or caramel crumble (<3!). not to forget all austrailan portions are quite the Big. finally we also visited a chocolate factory and i kept taking samples xD the chocolate coffee beans are cool. and i ate from the wonderful liquid chocolate machine thing until my throat was burning xD
the weather got really hot at times, once up to 40+ degrees, which made me fall sick for a while because i err, overheated o_O we drank like litres of water every day and i got quite tanned (YAY). actually, almost sunburnt o.o plus all the alcohol (i love love love the white wine and got half-drunk for the first time) made me feel even hotter (hoho). then we went cherrypicking and somehow got so engrossed we took back 10kg =O but since it was so cheap we (which is like, 14 people so it's not too bad) bought another 30kg to bring back to singapore xD
then shopping (: and sleeping (: the marvels of life haha. they had lots of discount outlets and sales so i bought some clothes at quite cheap prices. but anyway i think my favourite part of the whole trip was when we went to the park and the weather then was just perfect, and we just sat and basked in the breeze and greenery and it was just so serene. my cousins started playing with my uncle and my brother went strolling with my dad, and the rest of us just lay down on the grass, which is firm yet moist but not muddy. that's something i can't get in singapore but would really want. i really love parks in seasonal counties =(
well that's all for adelaide. now i need to exercise =/ two weeks left to enjoy my hols anyways. after christmas it's ugh -.-" i don't want to go for camp grahhh. i don't want to go back to school so fast grahhh. and i don't want to wear long pants grahhh. oh well -.-"
adelaide was really fun, the people really friendly and hospitable (but ehh, really slow and omg their patience is admirable). so overall i had lots of fun (duh haha) but it made me put on alot of weight -.- my cousin who studies in uni there brought us around and we ate different cuisines every day. so tuesday we had vietnamese food <3, wednesday countryside (pate and terrines =D) and then italian food (which apparently won some best pizza in the world competition o.o), thursday southeast asian food (which is owned/operated by my cousin's classmate's family who are super nice people and keep on fighting with us over who should foot the bill), friday german food at a pub in hahndorf (the german village) and korean food at chinatown, saturday greek food (which is really exotic and tastes either too salty or too sour. but nice still =P), and finally sunday argentinian food (where i ate almost 1kg of steak and other yummie stuff). it sounds like an eating trip right -.-" but my entire family has huge appetites so we didn't stop xD we even snacked more in the bus, heh. now to lose weight (:
then the milk in australia is real good =D we went to this icecream parlour where there're like countless flavours and toppings and mixins, and then when you're done choose everything they'll mixup your icecream on this cold rock (which is also its name). my fave is the cookie dough which has mini m&ms stuck in it and tastes so so rich x) then there was this super great yoghurt stall at the market which had all the fruity flavours like berries and mangoes and the sweet flavours like chocolate flake or caramel crumble (<3!). not to forget all austrailan portions are quite the Big. finally we also visited a chocolate factory and i kept taking samples xD the chocolate coffee beans are cool. and i ate from the wonderful liquid chocolate machine thing until my throat was burning xD
the weather got really hot at times, once up to 40+ degrees, which made me fall sick for a while because i err, overheated o_O we drank like litres of water every day and i got quite tanned (YAY). actually, almost sunburnt o.o plus all the alcohol (i love love love the white wine and got half-drunk for the first time) made me feel even hotter (hoho). then we went cherrypicking and somehow got so engrossed we took back 10kg =O but since it was so cheap we (which is like, 14 people so it's not too bad) bought another 30kg to bring back to singapore xD
then shopping (: and sleeping (: the marvels of life haha. they had lots of discount outlets and sales so i bought some clothes at quite cheap prices. but anyway i think my favourite part of the whole trip was when we went to the park and the weather then was just perfect, and we just sat and basked in the breeze and greenery and it was just so serene. my cousins started playing with my uncle and my brother went strolling with my dad, and the rest of us just lay down on the grass, which is firm yet moist but not muddy. that's something i can't get in singapore but would really want. i really love parks in seasonal counties =(
well that's all for adelaide. now i need to exercise =/ two weeks left to enjoy my hols anyways. after christmas it's ugh -.-" i don't want to go for camp grahhh. i don't want to go back to school so fast grahhh. and i don't want to wear long pants grahhh. oh well -.-"
