finale

one week since i got back from perth so i decided i might as well finish all the posts about the trip.

i didn't really do much after cottlesloe beach coz my fat kid had exams so i was pretty much confined to having
a) nothing to do
b) going out on my own.

sunday, i picked option A in which after fat kid cooked me my pineapple fried rice, i spent the day (and a vast majority of the night) watching terminator: the sarah connor chronicles.

which of course, included the time he went to work leaving me with 5 hours of having no one to talk to hence which i went to the park near his house for a bit till it got dark.
its scary to walk around his place alone at night. really.

monday saw me off to carousel after i got his lunch (option B). its actually quite funny (and endearing i might add) to see how worried he was that i might get lost or accidentally end up on the other side of perth. fyi, i made it there and back just fine (;

got myself a new book, couple pairs of stockings, tops and a skirt (partly funded courtesy of my darling, teehee)
whee, i *heart* shopping

tuesday was my 'zomg, he's got exam and then class and then work(!) day' so basically, after seeing him off to class at 12 i didn't see him again till 10 pm -_-"
went to carousel (again) with yina for a couple of hours before we headed home (carousel's basically 80% of ONE level of chaddy, lol)
that night, yina offered me a lifeline of dinner where we headed to conca's, perth's famous chilli muscles.
famous though it is, it's not as great as they put it to be.

nice looking chilli muscles and garlic bread which according to cheryl doesn't taste like garlic bread O_o

yina and i mostly finished this particular bottle.. apparently the rest don't like drinking and we're not gonna waste it, are we? LOL

transport courtesy of cheryl (pink) and her friend xiao ling (?)

yina and her darling, irwin.

which of course, i was so happy eating i kinda forgot to go home to unlock the door for him.
oops.
actually not me, everyone was happily eating! lol, not totally my fault. in any case, he somehow got in so didn't quite make a difference what time i got back, hmm.

wednesday, yay, i had him all to myself for the day =)
down point was i was kinda sad about having to leave perth that night. meh, perth seeped into my bones!
anyway, we went to freo to walk around a bit (actually i wanted to go to the freo prison but we never made it there, lol, nvm, save for my nxt trip, teehee)
ate at kaili's (coz cicerello's was FULL), perth's (apparently) no. 1 voted seafood place.

one cool thing is after you order your food, they give you a food buzzer. it lights up and vibrates when your food is ready and you can go back to the counter collect your food. woo~

my bbq mediterannean seafood dish

we then walked around a bit and ended up at the maritime shipwreck museum (generally coz it's kinda beside kaili's)

giant shipwrecked ship!

it was kinda boring though *cough*
went for some dessert at angel cafe,

angel cafe's special crepe with homemade-angel caramel (;
taste sooper good

and what's a trip out (in my opinion anyway) without icecream? =D

after that (the crowning part of my trip out that day, we went to the maritime museum


and we went for the submarine tour! yay, thanks sweetie (;

the sub, Ovens (apparently all subs, maybe of this model or something, all start with the letter O)

we were the last two to get the submarine pass for the last tour of the day =D
as you can see, i'm very proud of my pass. LOL

i am ON the sub! =D
some random facts about the sub: it costs 64 mil to be built (sometime in the 1970s or 1980s), is a model used in the WWII and when refurbished in 1991, cost a farther 100 mil. it was decommissioned in 1995, counting in inflation, this sub cost in the billions!
ahhaa, ok, so i don't really know what it cost in today's value, but saying in the billions makes it sound ALL THAT MUCH MORE impressive ! =D

different models of torpedos.

layout of Ovens

torpedo-loading bay

our tourguide with the super claustrophobic-inducing sailor bunks behind him

and.. even if there isn't space on board, there is a space for this minibar that houses, guess what?
yea, you guessed it. BEER.

super small kitchen!

me at one of the portholes (there are MANY portholes to clamber through, pity those old people we were touring with.. even without the effort of climbing to the top of the sub, the whole clambering up and down ladders must have been tiring..)

looking like he owns the hold.

control cockpit

one of the two giant periscopes. this one is for sighting safe areas for surfacing. the other is for launching torpedoes.

there are many many dials on the ship. makes you so tempted to touch..

last porthole to clamber through!

we both in the engine compartment.

the engine compartment is one of the biggest compartments in the sub. when the engine's running, the temperature in the compartment apparently goes up to 50degrees.
eek, i'll so melt if i ever lived in a sub, hmm.

entrance/exit

our tour came to an end =(

on the sub

saw this statue

which makes me look extremely tall! =D

some of the displays at the museum

and the periscope that allows you to see around freo

went home to spend some quality time with him, the last few hours for a long while to go, before going out for dinner with kenny, ken and shao li at sara thai. then, off to the airport.
bai bai perth.

hallo stress of melbourne life =(

wokay, break time is officially over. assignments, assignments! midterms, gaa.

may the force be with the stressed out smurf,
cheers~