Monday, December 15, 2008
Hi all.
I am rather happy today cos my main comp has finally stopped lagging long enough for me to post a coherent entry. So i shall talk about the bioRA australia trip.
The plane trip there left at 1am in the morning. And it was delayed by more than half an hour. So we pretty much arrived in australia half asleep and ready to start the day.
BioRA dudes went to King's Park botanic gardens to look around at plants and dress up in funny plant and animal costumes. Whee. Not much to talk about here, apart from the fact that their food at the snack shop tastes so bland and dry we used it to feed the pigeons instead, clearly ignoring the "Do not feed the birds" signs.
A cute little magpie which so kindly allowed me to take a picture of it.
Then was lunch at the university cafeteria which completely scammed us of our money. Did you know that in australia water is more expensive than coke?
After that was a trip to some wierd place in the botanic gardens where they deep-freeze seeds of rare plant species so they can be respawned if the species goes extinct. I almost fell asleep there, partly because it wasn't very entertaining and partly because i didnt sleep on the flight.
We went to climb a clock tower in the evening with the geogra and historyRa people in the evening. The top of the tower was encrusted in bird poop. But the view is really good from up there.
I can't remember much, but after that we returned to the university hostel (where we would be staying for the remainder of the trip), played pool for 2 hours (thrashing shek, adil, and dom in pool is fun) then played bridge in shawn tan's room before going to sleep at midnight. Whee.
Next day was fun. We went sandboarding in a moving sand dune. t looks a lot like a desert, so you'd expect it to be really hot and dry, but the weather was really cold and the sand was surprising cold and wet. We went on some bus/assault truck vehicle thing which took us up, across, over and through some of the smaller dunes. Wicked fun. Sandboarding is very fun too, except when you fall off and tumble down the dune getting sand in your pants and underwear. I have a video of shek tumbling down the dune which i shall post at a later date.
Geez. I'm really bored and lazy. I shall finish the australia trip post some other time.
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11:56 AM
