Australia's South West
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Monday 25 Feb 2008
Down South Trip with Family
This is my second visit to Busso and Margaret River. I always like it in Busso. The beach. The sea breeze. It is simply magnificient.
Me and Kian were abit unfortunate this time. We both got stung by stingers!
I couldn’t tell where those stingers coming from. All I knew is, the moment, I had swollen
patches along my arm.
Several signs and symptoms: pain(!!!!), sharp pointing pain(!!!!!), itchy, burning sensation,
and still, very very pain!!!
These are the helpful tips:
1. get yourself a bottle of vinegar, and pour onto the sting. [quite a painful experience]
2. cold pack! any cold pack to reduce the swalleness, inflammation.
3. do NOT panic.
if you experience any other alarming symptoms such as shortness of breath, increasing
redness/swallonness, chronic pain… use your common sense, seek medical help ASAP lah!!
We both didn’t get into the severe stage. But, it was quite an experience, I must say.
See! Because I was ‘in pain’.. I had the priority to do eat everything, and do everything I
wanted to.I got to eat first, use the spa first, watch my favorite telly program first.. etc.
Oh well, thou I wasn’t in pain, I still get to do everything
I want, really. I am daddy’s little girl after all, remember? 
My favorite places of Down South still go to Margaret River Nuts and Cereal. Uh!
The muesli biscuits are fabulous!
Cape Lavender Farm! The whole farm smells so beautiful.
Another ‘best’ of the best(est) during my parents stay in Town was… Nan’s cooking!!!!!
It was superb! We all just couldn’t get enough.
I, on the other hand, did some ang moh (western) cooking for my Nan and parents.
Nan likes my cooking!
Very impressive. Very proud.
Till then for my trip to Down South.
p/s:
I sent my parents and Nan to airport yesterday. It was depressing, I felt that I have to be by own, officially. This IS it. No more extra pocket money. So yeah, graduation is not fun at all. Another journey of my life just started… Reality has just slapped my face, really hard. I am so scared.
Kian told me he asked my dad some ‘questions’. I was very excited, yet very nervous. Does this mean that my dad is ready to let me go as well? Do I, really, have to be a grown-up? I wundah…
Thursday 13 Dec 2007
South West Road Trip: Mammoth Cave and Lake Cave
One of the best things for the road trip is: driving.
I never enjoy driving so much in my life. Driving along Bussel Highway was fantastic. I can’t imagine how does it feel driving on world best driving road.. I am not a true petrol head. But still! Oh!
First night, we settled into a small nice B&B cottage. It is very ‘Victorian’ style. In fact, the owners were so friendly that they freaked me out a little. How freaky? Did you watch Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan? Remember there was a scence where Borat travelled to L.A with his agent friend;, they settled into a Jewish homestay. The Jewish couple offered them some supper. They thought it was poisonous. They ended up escape through the window. 
My experiece was abit like that. But I didn’t run away at the end like Borat. I convinced myself:Hey you, you watch too much Borat and Ali G. Plus, we paid through our blood-sweat-tear money. But much the ‘we’, mainly Kian. Ha!
Our adventure on the first morning at South West was visiting the caves – Mammoth Cave and Lake Cave. Jewel Cake is slightly further down the road, so we decided to give that a miss.
The vast majority of the population from this road trip: Kian, and Tze (Kian’s sister) sorta reluctant to visit the caves. This is pretty much explainable: the Sarawakian. I, Perakian, on the other hand is never sick of playing tourist, visiting famous caves. So, the Sarawakians think they have World longest cave, heck! Ipoh also got have coutless Caves [inserting Singaporean-kiasu-ism] We have Perak Cave, San Bao Cave and .. I can’t remember.
My point is simple: do the local thing. 
The first stop: Mammoth cave.
This is a self-guide tour. You pay 17bucks (or something), they give you a headphone, you walk, and listen to few strangers talking to you.
Fabulous! What a waste of money.
If you thinking of spending your money just like that, I have a better idea for you: Give me your money. (Thanks in adavance, Cheers)
Do you? really? Need people to tell you? These are calciumcified deposistion? All the scentific facts, how they formed etc etc. Fact, I personally think the information is too superficial. Or, naturally, there isn’t much thing they can tell you about. So, my advice to make the visit more interesting and memorable: when you go down to the cave, whenever you look up or look down, keep saying: WHOAH!! WOW!! WHOOOOOAAAH!! 
The cave itself is plain. Someone gotta do “something” crazy to keep ourselves entertained 
And that someone, obviously is me.
There is this ancient animal jaw and teeth fossil display in Mammoth Cave. It makes me wonder, the whole part of animal is gone by now, oh well, that’s pretty obvious, isn’t? But the thing is, why only the jaw and teeth part? If this means that these particular parts are the least destructible, why? We human being still spend top money for insurance to pay for dental job? I, myself pretty obsessive-compulsive looking after my teeth. I brush my teeth after meals. I floss 2-3 times a day when required. I gargle with Listerine® to max out the cleaned sensation in my mouth. But, I haven’t pay big money for dental work. *touch wood* Remember, it was my family dentist who did my dental work. The extraction costs less than RM100. niiiice.
Some views from the Cave.
Apparently, this is pretty amazing (from the photo), when you actually get down there, again, you have to do the WHOAHH WHOAHH thing, pretending you drop your jaw — make the experiece even more fantastic!
The second stop was: Lake Cave. This is pretty amazing.
Just look at this Upside-Down Table. The water level has been dreasing from years to years, so this leads to this funny looking creature.
Cool eh? By the way, photos were all taken by Kian. And they look much more better than those tourist website. [of course lah ! It is my ney who took the photos, ok? 
)
We joined the tour and went into the cave. The space inside Lake Cave itself is not THAT big. The tour guide explained to us about bits and pieces. Personally, I think I can do better than him. And absolutely way entertainer ;P
There were an Asian family (2 adults, 2 children), a foreign couple and ourselves in the tour. They were all very “serious” about the tour. Serious, as in, they acted like a first-day junior school students. They all quite and listen.
I, on the other hand, nearly killed by the chilly silence.
We were brought to the end of the Cave. We sat down. The tour guide started switching the light on and off. These are 3 photos taken with different colours.
First:
Second:
Third:
Tell me, what do you see? Come one, Chinese! I know you can do it.
I, the kia-su inteligent Chinese student, was the first one who put my hand up and answered the question Just like back in high school.
When I was told I answered it 100% correctly. I was so impressed, and so proud Just like back in high school
*see-peh childish*
Hope you all enjoy the photos. p/s: I am working full time now, practicing drugs. All good. I love the people. I love the place.
Till then, see you in my next post for more about Margaret River.
xoxox
Saturday 08 Dec 2007
South West Road Trip: Bunbury
Hello people! Thanks for you compliment about my cleavage. It is jollied nice of you. I always tell my mates: show it to the world when you (still) have a nice one. Don’t show it to people when your boobs can’t stand the force of gravity.
The next 2-3 posts will document my trip to down South. I must say this again, the trip was so good. If you think Perth itself has nothing to offer, Perth is a dead town. NO! You are so wrong. W.A has so much to offer.
So, there you go, buddy – Welcome to Australia’s South West.
Our first stop was Bunbury.
Bunbury has changed so much since my last visit. More houses. And still more houses.
One of the landscape you won’t miss out is this significantly outstanding the black-and-white- penis like lighthouse. I personally think the design of lighthouse doesn’t match with the town. It loses the senses of authenticity of Bunbury. I am wondering: what kind of ART is that? Hang on a sec, the thing is, I don’t even know how to define the authenticity of Bunbury to begin with, anyway.
Bunbury has changed so much since my last visit. More houses. And still more houses.
One of the landscape you won’t miss out is this significantly outstanding the black-and-white- penis like lighthouse. I personally think the design of lighthouse doesn’t match with the town. It loses the senses of authenticity of Bunbury. I am wondering: what kind of ART is that? Hang on a sec, the thing is, I don’t even know how to define the authenticity of Bunbury to begin with, anyway.
Dolphin Discovery Centre (DDC) is tourist attraction.
Top tip of visiting DDC is: go early in the morning; we were advised to be there at 8am. Second tip is, bring some luck with you.
The first time we were there was quite late. As a result, we didn’t get to see any bloody single dolphins. *sigh* Therefore, we decided to re-visit on the way back. Just like any other Chinese with sense of kiasu-ism, we reached DDC at 8am. Turn out, the dolphins didn’t close by to the shore. We saw nothing but shadow of cloud, reflected on the surface of the ocean. Great.
MY tip to DDC: Don’t go DDC with high expectation. Go watch National Geography Dolphin Documentary before hand. In case you don’t get to see any dolphins, at least you still have that information running in your head. Pack some lunch boxes. Relax and sit under the sun. p/s: Don’t catch cancer. This is Australia.
We didn’t get to see the close shot of dolphins. Bugga. However, I still rate Bunbury 7/10 for the beautiful weather and gorgeous sunshine.
Till next post. Ciao.