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Day 5 - Day 8 Day 5
It’s Hunter Valley day! We’re up bright and early but we did
get a little confused cause the daylight settings changed on this day so
we got 1 extra hour since Sydney is now GMT + 10 instead. I’m still
hobbling pretty badly but….perseverance! Nothing will stop us from
getting our asses to Hunter Valley! We’re all alcoholics mah! Boarded
the bus from the pick-up point which took us to Star City where the bus
bays are. Ours was on bay 7 (gotta make sure you board the right bus) and
did I mentioned that the buses there are powerful and luxurious? They run
on auto gear too, aint as bumpy a ride as those you get here on some SBS
buses…Our first stop was at Wyndham. It’s 2 hours north of Sydney
and it serves the best steak around I tell ya. All over 300g of it, with
potatoes, and Shiraz. I don’t like Shiraz but it goes well with beef.
Oh did I mention Shiraz is a red wine? We had wine tasting before that and
I ended up buying more then a few bottles back. I went for the limited Semillon
1997 as well as a vintage brut, which is a sparkling wine. Excellent stuff.
Did I also mention we were getting a little high already? 2 more wineries
to go.. the next being McGuigan. Colin was really in a bad shape by the
time we reached and we had to hang around for a while before he was able
to proceed. This is also the place where I bought the ‘horny wine’
which is really a Botrytis Semillon, a desert wine. The story behind it
goes, supposedly any woman who drinks it, would get horny. It is really
sweet, and the bartender agreed, adding “either you lick it off an
ice cream, or off her.” Okay so you get the picture, and no I am not
opening that so quickly! Mt Pleasant was our final stop before we made our
way back to Sydney. Didn’t’ try the wines here already. The
mouth’s too confused for more, not to mention even alcoholics like
us were already sorta puking our guts out. We settled for a cuppa instead
(check picture) before heading back to the coach and back to Sydney. We
were set to visit the casino at Star city. But we had so many bottles of
wine. How?? You got it right, go back to the hotel we stayed at dumped the
wine there! The reception girl was really sweet and obliging and I feel
kinda bad that we actually did that when we had already checked out the
day before. Dinner was next at the darling harbour, and if you ever go there
and think you can finish an Australian hotdog yourself, DON’T!.. Ice-cream
followed that and it’s Star City time! It was an experience caused
I haven’t really stepped into a Casino before (I’m a goodie-2-shoes
kinda guy..?) . The best thing I saw was this black jack game where this
girl had 2 As, and she wanted to split! Guess what? She had 2 pictures!
2 black jacks again…wow! I wouldn’t have split man..she’s
either soooo damm lucky or she’s a human calculator. And there is
this game I call wheel of fortune. There are 5 slots with different odds
for you to place your bets. The lowest being 1:1 (most number of occurrence)
and a 1:47 payout. You place your tokens on whichever slot you think will
appear next, and the wheel is spun. If it does land on your slot you win
whatever said odds. I was quite lucky actually! I didn’t bet literally,
only mentally, I won quite a lot and no.. I won’t place $$ on the
line cause I always have bad luck with it. Maybe the stress affects my gut
feel…*L* We left Star City after an hour and went for a walk around
Darling Harbour. We noticed something we didn’t spot earlier.. ie
tones of jellyfish floating around the ‘banks’ of the harbour,
all around. I picked one up.. was really slimy and eeeky actually if you
asked but for the fun of it decided to anyway…tried real hard not
to kill any though. Time to go home..
It’s the big Coogee - Bondi walk! (check map) It’s one of the
famous walks which lasts about 10km on the footpath. Lots of people run
up and down the footpath (has excellent coastal view). The bus took us to
Coogee terminal where we got off right next to the beach. The air, view
(Read topless women) was simply breath-taking! We spotted 3 teenage guys
off the shore in a little corner where they were dancing to this tune they
were singing aloud (n sync juniors in the making). Here’s how it went
“Fuck your mother upside down..doo da doo da…stick a dildo up
her ass doo a doo dah deh!”… sorry I forgot the rest of the
lyrics but it was so hilarious, especially when Kristi redid the whole thing
and commented “It’s so wrong!”. Hey you don’t get
these in Singapore ya know. Guys if you were the ones singing that little
tune and you are reading this drop me a mail please!! The walk lasted some
one and a half hours, the route took us past a couple beaches and bays(check
them out on the map!), a huge graveyard, and the asian group of people who
wanted to take some water-crest home…we finally reached Bondi, had
some lunch (a 2 for 1 pizza deal), picked some sand for my friends, took
a few photos, challenged the waves which somehow got us wet instead….but
not before we had more ice cream!! Yes that’s what was next….and
then it was a little trip down to FOX studios. Nothing much there actually
the amusement park had closed down, the movies were crappy, the clothing
were so ‘gay’ as Colin found out…so we left after a while.
We pretty much landed ourselves at Oxford (the infamous homosexual’s
heaven) where we had dinner. The three of us had a pasta each and in came
in a bowl with enough pasta in it to feed an army! But the servers there
were really nice and friendly…asked where we came from and this waitress
who has been to Singapore commented it was a really nice place, she was
from some country in Europe. We desperately had to take a walk afterwards
and we ended up in a ‘naughty’ shop cause I thought I might
find some nice presents there. While there I realized I must have asked
for too much and decided to leave…heh heh.. we went back to the city
area, walked through Hyde park for a while when 2 officers came up and advised
us not to hang around for too long. It was a little dangerous so late at
night, especially since someone just got stabbed the night before. The news
came as a shock to us cause Colin was there alone the night before. What
a close encounter! We decided to catch the last bus home anyway and that
pretty much wrapped up the day. Well no actually we were home watching TV
and this program came on. It was Ricki (www.ricki.com)with her talk show
and I thought it was fabulous. They have different themes per show and that
night’s one was, “Watch your eyes! These are really girls frontin’
as guys!” The first couple was about the husband complaining about
his wife dressing up like a guy for far too long. When she finally appeared,
we all gasped! I tell ya….she’ll give the boybands a run for
their money. She looked so…guy! I mean you look at her there is no
way you could have guessed she’s a she. Colin was just coming out
of the shower and I asked him if he found her handsome. Colin didn’t
think so but when I told him he’s actually a she, Colin just couldn’t
believe it. It was sooo funny. The next few folks were more of like sisters
and friends who wanted one of their friends/sisters to be a ‘woman’
for just one day. Most of the girls were lesbians though and were completely
happy with how they looked. The last set of people was this ‘friend’
who really wanted to see his friend (who’s a guy) change from the
drag appearance he’s been keeping and look more like a guy for once.
It seems quite clear they were gay partners though..at least for me. He
(she’s) absolutely gorgeous and she could walk, talk (minus the deep
voice) and sashays around better then an average woman could! Next, they
were given a transformation, put the guys into what they should be and the
girls into what they should be. The first one walked out pretty good! The
next two girls walked out like they were gonna bash someone in the audience,
they didn’t even walked like guys even gawd you could tell they REALLY
hated the transformation. The last one was no different. He looked really
good in the business shirt and tie but he really hated what he was wearing,
it was all over his body language, but the host commented he ought to teach
the other ladies how they should walk…*L* okay folks it’s late
time to sleep…it’s the final day of the trip..details up next.
oh no..just one day away from the end of our trip. Colin’s already
grumbling that he doesn’t want to go back (actually he has been grumbling
since we arrived !) and that if it weren’t for the Alegria (performed
by Cirque du Soleil) thing he would certainly extend his visit. We decided
to travel around Broadway, walked into this shop that sells aromatherapy
oils and scents. Colin and I irritated the hell out of Kristi, it was just
a prank actually but I won’t go into details hahaa if someday you
do hang out with Colin and myself ask for it and we’ll do our thing!
Following that was some lunch at this Lebanese café. The meat balls
were quite good actually and we were basically the only people in and around
the café and street despite being 1pm there(try finding a place in
Singapore during that hour that’s empty). A little more walking, bought
a Sheridans from a liquor store, checked out the DFS in the city and got
an XO for my granny (was a real bad buy, SG’s DFS is so much cheaper).
Was around 5pm already and the sky’s beginning to get dark and we
remembered we haven’t taken a day shot of the Harbour Bridge yet!
It’s back to Circular Quay..get a cuppa first (still early lah..),
before looking for wrapping papers to help mask our loot (bottles of wine
to ‘smuggle’ back) before sitting down by Sydney Harbour (photos..it’s
there) finishing our last shots, enjoying looking up into the sky, the bridge,
people walking by…the hotel rooms (hang on what’s the naked
man doing walking around the window hmm..) talking about getting some cigars
to try out…oops! Time to meet Wendy!! At oxford! Again! Wendy my sweetie
so kindly agreed to meet up for dinner despite feeling really tried from
a camping trip over the weekend. It’s a little more walking afterwards
and a last chance and dose of passion flower’s wonderful ice-cream.
Wendy was too tired to join us for some Karaoke so she left us just about
there and Kristi, Colin and I went to a ktv in Chinatown. Rates were around
30 odd per hour with a not-too-impressive list of songs but nonetheless
we had a blast anyway. Why not..it was our last night indeed. We managed
to catch the last bus, got back, packed the wine, developed the best plot
on earth on the smuggling, showered and finished all the little gritty bits
and it’s ZZZZzz…by then it was close to 4am. Shouldn’t
be a problem cause we can ZZZZz on the plane right? We’ll see….
Rnnnnnngg!!! As we packed our last couple things and waited for the taxi,
till the time we landed in Changi Airport…this whole song kept playing..
And that’s it folks. Reality has set in that I have my sorry ass back
in this land again in one piece I might add…till next time keep looking
on and as always, there’s something for everyone in this little land
in this little space on the big big web, I call sillypore. Laterz…and
peace bros! (and sis!) |
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