Dear friends,

My annual leave was a bliss in waiting after a hectic non-break year in 2005. My four days in Sydney was half scenic and half negotiation. Reason for so being is my travel companion was my brother and he was mr negative most the time, as he hates the idea of being a tourist (but we are). We ended up only seeing major tourist spots from a far or worst from the map and no more. To make it worst he was indecisive about many things. However, i was persistent and ended up visiting: China town, Queen Victoria Building, Circular Quay, Darling Habour, Habour Side shopping centre, Haymarket + Paddy's market, The Rocks, Sydney Opera House, Hyde Park, Centrepoint, NSW state library, go on monorail, Kingsgrove, Hurstville, Orbit bar, Museum of contemporary art (saw Kienholz's "not my fault" photography that was on display), and Cremone point.

The weather for the first two days was pretty bad as it rained non stop on Wednesday 18th January and half of Thursday 19th. Friday 20th and Saturday 21st was balmy warm. I also met up with my NSW relatives and my friend, Arnold. We all had a splendid time hanging out. Indeed Sydney is bigger than Melbourne but the insides of their buildings is smaller than Melbourne and not very grand looking either. Streets of Melbourne offer more seating and trash cans. My leg got cramps by Friday afternoon. We walked more than we took local transport. The habour reminds me of Hong Kong's Kowloon port looking over to Hong Kong Island.

I miss Melbourne, Highpoint City Shopping centre, Collingwood, and Prahran very much. Home sweet home.

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Look @ this cute avatar from yahoo. Better yet it is mine. Well any1 can make 1 too really, to d same look as well. sigh. But hey it was fun in designing 1. oh yes! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERY1.