The general admission that allows seeing penguin from a not-too-near distance cost AUD20 per adult. Of course, you could pay more to sit nearer to the penguins. For your information, the general admission seats are really not-too-near. The wind at seaside made me felt colder, not to say when temperature went lower after sunset. I guess it was about 2/3°C. I wore 4 layers of clothes in total for my upper waist.

Penguin’s house.

Waiting to see penguins. The sky was actually quite dark, it’s the camera setting that makes the photo look bright.

Around 7pm, the sky had totally gone dark. Penguins started to turn up in groups at the shore. For me, it was like a sudden “pop” and the penguins appeared. They line up at the shore waiting for the rest of the group members. Sometimes the waiting could take a little while as the wave kept bringing their group members back into ocean. Sometimes the queue had formed but when one of the members fall back into the ocean, the whole group would jump back into the sea and start landing again.

When all the members had successfully landed, the queue would start to march towards the bushes. They actually march for the first 10 meters, the remaining 10 meters they were like “RUN!”. After we watched two or three batches penguins at the seaside, we started walking back along the wood walkway and watched the penguins marching home in the bushes with their slightly-opened arms and butt swinging left and right.

Photo taking is prohibited. I secretly took a video clip but ended up the guard noticed and “advised” me to turn my camera off. I guess they really observe each and every visitor.

In the souvenir shop. I don’t have the habit to buy things from souvenir shops.

Rainy would wonder why her cap became bigger size.

We left Penguin Parade at around 8.30pm. After we had our dinner at a local restaurant (steak, chicken chop, pasta), we stay in the apartment to watch DVD. The guys started to flip through fishing guides and telling their fishing story. Tomorrow, Wednesday, we would go fishing at Lake Entrance. (Yes, we went Australia for fishing. Don’t laugh at me, as I somehow fished some whole-new experiences, so stay tuned for the story).

(No photo for this entry… Sorry I didn’t take much photos in Philip Island.)

We left Murabbin at 11am++. We didn’t have much time for breakfast. To make it quick, convenient, and with reasonable price, the best choice is McDonald drive thru. Oh yea, there is no such thing as McChicken Goreng, so I had burger. The pill taken yesterday had successfully blocked the illness but to be safer, I took another pill in the morning. The consequent was: hibernate again for the one hour plus journey to Philip Island until we almost arrived.

I remember that on the way we stopped by a small chocolate factory. KM they all bought banana coated with chocolate but I wasn’t in the mood for chocolate, instead, I contributed some water to the factory’s toilet. Oh yea, the toilets, be it public or any shop’s toilet, are very clean and toilet paper provided (but the tissues are very thin). However, going toilet was always a fear for me because of the cold feeling at the moment I sat on the toilet seat.

We arrived at about 2pm. The apartment was nice, but only the master bedroom has air-conditioner. I took the small room, so could only pray that the blanket is thick enough to warm me in the night. By the way, there’s another air-cond in the living room, so I spent all my time in the living room except shower and sleeping time.

There is a very small and peaceful town on Philip Island. We took a walk to the Cowes Jetty located by the end of the only main road in the town. I didn’t see much people in the town. Most of the shops are closed, or opened but no visitors. Perhaps winter is low season. The temperature at Philip Island was lower than Melbourne. Around 10°C during daytime and could be as low as 3°C at night. Luckily by that time, I had more or less adapted to the cold air.

(When I told a friend about air-cond in the apartment, the fella asked me: ee? So cold still need air-cond meh? I answered: those air-cond can blow out warm air one la!)

(By the way, all the temperature I mentioned are just estimated one and I have no idea at all how accurate is my estimation. I didn’t bring along thermometer while traveling.)

There’s nothing much about the town. After having our lunch at a small Japanese restaurant, BT, Rainy and Zona went back to apartment, while Bin, KM and I took off to Penguin Parade. The penguins at Philip Island are the smallest species. They leave their home in groups to hunt for food in ocean and would be away from home for weeks. After a period of hunting, they go home in groups and would land at the shore after sunset.

To be continued…

(More photos will be uploaded. Stay tuned and please come back to check for updates)

After another two hours of hibernating, we arrived at Melbourne Tullamarine airport at 8.30am. The temperature was lower, like 6°C I guess. BT sprained his foot and hardly walked, so Rainy fetched us from the airport. Another 1 hour journey to arrive at their house in Moorabbin. I have only a vague memory left in my brain about the highway, the big ferris wheel, a warehouse, and traffic jam. The rest of the time of the 1 hour journey, I hibernated again (advise for travelers: gain enough sleep before departure day, so that you have enough energy to open your eyes big big to see the sceneries).

BT and baby Travis welcomed us at their house. After unloaded our luggage, showered and settled down, we left the house to Melbourne city. BT rented a Naza MPV so that it could fit 6 adults and an infant. No, baby cannot be carried in arms when the car is moving. They must be placed in the baby car-seat.

Had our brunch at China Town. After that we walk along streets in Melbourne city. I didn’t take much photos here. By that time, I felt like going to fall sick. Sore throat and running nose.

Flinders Street Station. The photographer thought he is taking a group photo. Sorry KM, I should admit you’re right, it is “Flinders”, not “Funders”.

Tram

Town hall? Sorry I don’t know what some of the buildings are, because my tour guide didn’t tell me what is this and what is that.

Melbourne Central, a shopping complex. I took this photo from interior. It is a cone-shape glassy roof.

After having some hot beverages at a café, we walked to China Town to buy some Chinese food for our up coming steamboat, and then packed some roast duck and roast pork as our dinner. 5pm in Melbourne city, the traffic started becoming heavy as most of the Australian left the offices. Went home after that. BT ordered pizzas and Rainy cooked rice to accompany the roast food. After dinner, I took pill and went to bed early. Tomorrow, Tuesday, we would be going to Philip Island.

Penguins here I come!

(I am yet to collect other photos from Ah Bin. More photos will be uploaded. Stay tuned and please come back to check for updates)

24 hours before arrival: attending my sister’s wedding dinner in hometown.

20 hours before arrival: left hometown, heading to KL.

18 hours before arrival: back in KL, put down my things at home, shower, and then went to KM’s house.

17 hours before arrival: going to yum cha with friends.

14 hours before arrival: finally went home to sleep.

12 hours before arrival: woke up.

11 hours before arrival: picked up Bin & Zona and took bus to LCCT.

11 hours before arrival: hibernating in bus.

10 hours before arrival: checked-in at LCCT and had our breakfast.

8 hours before arrival: plane left Malaysia at 10.30am

7 hours before arrival: hibernating in plane.

Unknown hours before arrival: woke up to have some fried rice Zona brought on to plane.

4 hours before arrival: hibernating in plane.

1 hour before arrival: hibernating in plane.

I officially stood on the land of Australia at about 8.30pm local time, which is 2 hours ahead of Malaysia’s time. The temperature at Gold Coast was around 12°C. The very first thought came into my mind was: oh my god, I need to live under such temperature, and even colder in Melbourne, for the next 11 days. It was kinda heart pain when we claimed our baggage and saw scratches and dirt on it. Samsonite luggage cost more than RM1k you know, some more it is borrowed from KM’s sister.

Our next flight would be at 6.30am, there’s no point to spend for accommodation. We loaded all our luggage into the Toyota Altis (they name it Corolla Ascent) rented at AUD71 AUD51, and then started heading towards Surfer Paradise for our dinner. It took around 30mins to arrive at Surfer Paradise, which is a centralized commercial area by the seaside, with lots of fashion outlets, café, restaurants, pubs, souvenir shops, etc.

We walked around Surfer Paradise and eaten some pizzas. There were a lot of middle-east tourists flocking there, potong-stim. Most of the shops were about to close as it was nearly 10pm already. But never mind, we would be coming back to Gold Coast a week later and stay near Surfer Paradise area.

We had our dinner at McD. The first time I had a burger with bacon: McAustralian and the first time I had my meal with shuddering body in the cooling air (12°C is considered very cold for me ok). And as usual, I managed to finish the content and threw away ¼ of the bun. There was people feeding seagulls with fries, I should have try to feed them with bun also to avoid wastage.

Since there was nothing else to do at Surfer Paradise and I couldn’t take the cold air anymore, we decided to go Jupiter’s Casino. No, we didn’t gamble at all. We just walked around in the casino until about 3.30am and then went back to airport.

I was very tired because I didn’t gain comfortable sleep in the plane. But it was quite difficult to sleep in the car when the lights around airport were bright and the air was so cold. Luckily after a while, the airport opened at 5am and we could return the rented car and check in for our flight to Melbourne.

OK, start taking attendance now.

Jacket & wind breaker - “here!”
Long sleeves & T-shirts - “here!”
Socks - “here!”
(I think I missed out something here… Hm… What could I’ve missed out?)

Sneaker - “here!”
Heels - “here!”
Slipper - No need

Sanitary - “here!”
Body lotion - “here!”
Makeup - “here!”
Sunglasses - “here!”
Spectacle - “here!”

No Monkichi, you’ll stay here. And… give me back my scarf! No wonder I felt like missing out something.

Camera with extra memory cards & charger - “here!”
Handphone with international roaming activated, charger- “here!”
Socket converter - “here!”
(Monkichi still trying his luck)

Most important:
Passport with visa - “here!”
Itinerary - “here!”
$$ - Not with me
Magic card a.k.a credit card - In the wallet

All ready? Let’s go!
Erm… Monkichii, get down from the luggage! I said you are not going with me.

OK, as informed in the Announcement page earlier, I went to Australia for two weeks and didn’t update my blog during the travel period. I’ve came back in Malaysia on 7 August, regret to say, todate I still haven’t start writing anything about my Aussie trip.

I think most of you had watched the Beijing 2008 Olympic opening on 080808 08:08 until the end. For me, I missed the morning session as well as noon session. I only managed to watch the event from TV at around 8pm.

OK, I will start writing about my trip from today onwards. So stay tuned ya

(By the way, please do not expect a lot of sight-seeing photos. My Aussie trip is really a “free & easy” trip)

7月24日(星期四) ，飞往澳洲前三天
L’Oreal由今天开始在Dataran Hamodal举行清货销售。地点离我的公司不远，我十点半跑去看看有什么便宜货可以捡。本来以为一个小时后可以走人，哪里知道找停车位就用去了半个小时。在那里着停车位根本是在做恶梦。然后又用了一个小时来扫货。

24 July (Thursday), 3 days before departing to Australia
L’Oreal Warehouse Stock Clearance has started today at Dataran Hamodal, Petaling Jaya which is not too far from my office. I went there to have a look at around 10.30am. Actually I planned to spend about 1 hour there and leave at 11.30am. Who knows the first half an hour had spent to look for a parking. The parking at that area is a NIGHTMARE, I guess partly because of this warehouse sale. After that, another 1 hour was spent to browse and sweep the products I want.

我的战利品。原本主要目的是要买个遮瑕膏而已，搞到最后用了RM145来买这堆东西。女人的钱真容易赚。

My captures. Actually my main purpose is to get a concealer only, but ended up spent RM145 in total for:
L’Oreal True Match Mineral Foundation
L’Oreal Hydrafresh Facial Foam
L’Oreal White Perfect Night Cream
L’Oreal White Perfect Facial Mask
L’Oreal UV Perfect SPF30 Sun Block
L’Oreal Double Extension Mascara
Elseve Daily Instant Treatment Non-Rinse Essence
Maybelline Express Makeup 3-in-1

See how easy to earn women’s money.

提醒：
在”清货销售” 时买东西记得注意产品生产日期和过期。

Tips for purchasing in warehouse sales:
Always look out for the product’s expiry date or manufacturing date.

之前写过关于坏人，今天来写关于好人。

如果有一个人，总是让别人觉得他/她是一个很好很好的人，这是不是一件很好的事？

他从不拒绝别人的要求。他总是尽量帮助人、不为难人、迁就人、站在别人的立场去理解人家的感受。不得罪人，就算拒绝人家也要用最婉转的语气，尽量不让人觉得难堪。他好像从来没有对什么人事物发表过不满的情绪。99%认识他的人给他的评语都是：他很好人，很善良。

也许对其他受益的人是一件好事。对他本身就可能就非常不好了。我们好像从小就被灌输一种思想：能帮就帮，不能帮也要尽量帮，凡是能忍则忍，不要得罪别人，凡是好聚好散。

这样的教育也许不是调教出一群好人，而是出品一堆火山，哪天他们再也忍受不了就会爆发。(怪不得最近我的脾气暴躁得很，一直想骂人打人)

除非他是神仙，下凡来专门打救一群任何要求都想得出的人类；或除非他的胸怀是真的真的大海无量，可以包容任何要求，不然哪一天有人再向他要求帮助时，他也许会说：”吊，关我什么事？”

I’ve written about bad fella previously. Today I want to write something about good person.

Is it a good thing if everyone always feels that a particular person is a tremendously good person?

He never refuses anyone. He always try his best to help people, never harass anyone, tolerate, always think from other’s point, be very understanding. He never offends anyone; always use the most tactful words to refuse people so that people do not feel embarrassed. He seems like never show unsatisfied emotion to anyone or anything. The common comment from 99% of people he knows is: He is so good, he is very kind.

Perhaps this is a good thing only for those who benefit from his help. But it is too bad for this particularly good person. Since young, we are educated to be a good person: To help if you could, to help even if you couldn’t. To endure everything. Do not offend anyone. To maintain a good relationship with everyone.

This kind of education would only produce a bunch of volcanoes but not good persons. They’ll burst one day when they cannot stand anymore. (No wonder recently I’ve become very hot-tempered, always felt wanted to scold or whack people)

Unless he is a goddess who is sent to rescue the human beings; or unless he is really a generous person who is willing to accept any kind of requests, otherwise one day when somebody request his help again, he would probably says, “Tiu, none of my business!”

真高兴我又可以回来这里写些关于我无聊的生活。星期二早上我经历了一些我宁愿这辈子都不要再发生的刺激经验。我开车上班途中，差点就把自己送到天堂/地狱或医院里去。

那天早上如常开车取道Kerinchi Link去上班。来到那个弯道时，阿金的速度是每小时60到70公里。前面的车子突然煞车，我看见有一辆Toyota Unser抛锚在左边车道，两条车道就挤成了一条。逻辑上来说，我的自然反应就是和前面车辆一样紧急煞车。

好了，试试看解答以下问题：凌晨的大雨造成湿透的路面+弯道+已经秃头的车轮+紧急煞车。结果会怎样？对了，没错，结果是，我的阿金像突然放开满是空气的汽球一样失去了控制。驾驶盘明明往右，他硬是滑向左边。我马上转左，企图要阿金悬崖勒马，可是他却不顾一切飞往他梦想中的右边，几乎撞上路边的”墙壁” 。当时的情况就像迷你的S字形漂移。

我当时想：”死了，这次真的要死了。” 我脑里只想着：如果我命大，撞车不死，也要被男朋友+家人+朋友骂死，而且阿金的保险NCD又要变零蛋了。如果我命大，阿金也命大，我马上就去替阿金换轮胎！

现在回想，真奇怪在当时紧急的情况下我竟然还有本事想那么多”如果” 。幸好天堂和地狱都还不愿意收留我。我总算也摆平了阿金。可是我的心跳到好像要从胸口爆炸出来，我完全从睡梦中清醒过来了。

那天下午，我立刻花RM600换掉阿金的四个轮胎。各位朋友，记得要保养你的车啊，记得要小心驾驶啊。

Hi everybody. I’m glad that I can come back to write about my boring life here again. Tuesday morning I experienced some excitement which I rather it won’t happen again in my whole life. I almost drove myself to heaven/hell or to hospital on the way going to work.

That morning as usual, I drove to work using Kerinchi Link. My Ah Kim’s speed was at about 60 to 70km/h when I approached a big curve. Suddenly the cars in front of me brake, and I saw the two lanes had squeezed into one with the reason of a Toyota Unser break down at the left lane. Well, like the cars in front of me, my logical reaction was to emergency brake as well.

Ok, here comes the following conditions: wet road due to the heavy rain this morning+ curve + my ‘botak’ tyres + jam brake. Yes you are right, the outcome is, my Ah Kim suddenly lost control like letting go a balloon filled with air. He slipped towards left while the steering wheel was turning to right. I tried to turn him back by turning the steering wheel to left, and this time he “flew” towards right, almost banged on the ‘wall’ at the roadside. The situation was just like a mini drifting in ‘S’ shape (’cacat’ version).

I was thinking “Oh, die! This time I’m going to die!”. Something like this running in my head:

If ‘banged’ then
   If ‘not die’ then
      Oh no, Ah Kim’s insurance NCD will gone AGAIN
      I will be scolded to death by my bf+family+friends
   Else
      What else? Die loh, as opposed to ‘not die’
Else if ‘not banged’
   I’m going to change Ah Kim’s tyres IMMEDIATELY

Thinking back now, I wonder why at that urgent moment I still able to think about this kind of ‘if then else’ thingy. Luckily the heaven and hell doesn’t want to accept me yet, and somehow I finally managed to turn Ah Kim back to where he supposed to be. But my heart was beating so fast like it was going to burst. I had TOTALLY awake.

The same day afternoon, I spent RM600 to change all the four tyres of my Ah Kim. Everybody, remember to send your car(s) for maintenance OK? Remember to drive safely OK?

每个月都出现在clients面前，送上invoices几张。
不知道有没有人会在我背后叫我”大姨妈” ？

送invoice的时候老板突然要我email一些文件给他。
Chloe：”我现在哪里有internet哦？”
老板：”去找Starbucks啦。”
(买饮料有没有得claim先？)

I’ll appear in front of the clients every month, to submit few invoices to them.
I wonder if there are some of them called me “Aunty Visit” behind me?

My boss suddenly called me to email him some documents when I was doing the despatch works.
Chloe: I where got internet now?
Boss: Go to Starbucks lah.
(Can I claim the beverage bill?)