Family Picture 2003

Melbourne Weekend

I love, love, love Melbourne!!! =) Kristine was right when she told me I'm going to love Melbourne. It looks very big (even if geographically, Sydney is bigger) because houses & buildings are quite far apart unlike the cramped Sydney look. If I were to give an analogy, Sydney is like Makati and Melbourne is like Ortigas -- see why I like Melbourne more? Hehehe. I super enjoyed my weekend and I vowed to my cousin I will come back to Melbourne on January. And if I didn't like Australia since I came here, now I'm ok with settling here if it's in Melbourne. Sydney is a beautiful city but Melbourne has that "home-y" touch.

My New Apartment

Waldorf Apartments - Eastwood, Sydney

From Here to There - Sydney Personal Pics

North Parramatta, Sydney

Parramatta is nice, very commercial. But need to move again this Sunday 'cos it takes me 1&1/2hours travel to work everyday. Found Parramatta not far from Manila, though. Rubbish here and there, vandalism from walls to bus stops, and people not really following pedestrian traffic lights. Don't know why they even put that here 'cos general rule of thumb is to just cross when there's no car. Unlike Singapore that even if pedestrian crossing is 200m away, people would still walk to there just to cross to the other side. A lot of people here see Singapore as too strict, too many rules. Maybe I'm a person who's more into rules. For me, more rules & discipline = less worry. More rules mean not having to wait in the bus stop at 6am with a drunk, beer-bellied, middle-aged man with no shirt on (at 14 degrees nonetheless, haha).

Macquarie Park, Sydney

okay, been here for only 5 days. haven't gone around yet. just walking around macquarie park. once i have settled in to my new apartment, think that would be the time i'll take a tour around sydney. so these all are mostly just roads views. hahaha. there's really not much to see in this suburb except offices. at least the apartment where i'll be moving is more commercial daw... and i cannot believe the number of flies flying around! argh! hate it! haven't seen a fly since i moved to singapore so these lot of flies are really driving me nuts!

1st Sydney pics

wala pa kong napipicture-an na scenery kasi nahihiya pa ko... mahirap kasi magpicture pag mag isa ka lang, turistang turista ang dating. hahaha.