Well - it's been a few days now since I arrived back in Australia for work. The working life in Sydney is really not that much different compared to Melbourne.
The guys here have been treating me pretty good as well, which is great and I really appreciate their hospitality. I have realised that I have also forgotten how big the portions of food here are.
Not that I'm complaining.
Yummy fish and bean curd with rice from Chinatown. What will I do without Chinese food.
Anyways I brought some autumn wear along but the weather here really feels more like summer than anything else. My first weekend here arrived with a Friday of after work drinks that pretty much lasted until 10 pm with work colleagues at the Slip Inn (Australians know this place as the infamous bar that the Danish prince met his Aussie wife, now Princess Mary).
Nishan very kindly offered to take us to Sydney's Taronga zoo on Saturday (and his cousin Rosh came as well), so we met up with them at Cirqular Quay to take a ferry there.
Unfortunately I had also forgotten to bring my sunglasses along with me to Australia this time. I wasn't about to commit sight suicide going out on the ferry on such a sunny day to be blinded (not to mention dry out my contact lens) so I had to buy a pair before we jumped on the ferry. Yup, $10 pair from a souvenir store. Excellent, now I'm ready.
Apparently, according to my boss the best way to enjoy the zoo is to take a ferry, grab the cable car up to the top of the zoo and walk down from there.
Well I have to say he's right. Coming out of the cable car, I got to take this picture with this giant koala. Much better than the real thing.
I'll always remember Sydney zoo as a zoo full of spiders and also probably the zoo with the best view I have ever seen in my life. The spiders were literally everywhere! Their webs were everywhere and at times when you looked up you see a few of the webs right above your heads with them waiting there patiently for any silly insects.
Check out the view.
Taronga Zoo was pretty fun - and compared to the Melbourne Zoo, the animals you see are pretty similar. If you're ever in town and feel like checking out some wildlife - I would definitely recommend this place - and take one of the chartered ferries. That way you get a tour of the harbour area and its surrounding areas leading out towards the ocean as well.
One of the highlights was us passing one of the nudist beaches. I figured it probably wouldn't have been very polite to take any pictures of it so I didn't. We were practically less than 100m from the beach and we could definitely see the men and women who were practically letting everything errr "hang loose".
Here's Grace my colleague traveling with me from the KL office, and Rosh and Nishan while we were on the ferry heading back.
At night I managed to catch up with Rinesh over some Japanese food - and boy do I miss the Japanese food here.
This bento cost me $22, but goodness was I stuffed after.
Anyways check out my full Sydney album here.
I'll continually update that Flickr folder with the new pictures I take while I am here.
Syiok lo!
*envy envy* :p