GOLD COAST - Day 1

Okay I'm back to posting. Right now I'm actually very lazy to continue blogging but I really want to write down everything about this trip so that in the future I would be able to read back again and reminisce everything man hahaha. Would be doing a vlog as well but the vlog would be more visualize while all these blog posts is more of my own personal thoughts and stuff so yeah. I HOPE I GOT THE MOTIVATION TO COMPLETE EVERYDAY HAHAHA I'M ONLY AT DAY 1.

Okay so here it goes....

*disclaimer - Australia Gold Coast timing is 2 hours ahead of Singapore and the timing mention in this post would all be according to Australia timing. *

It was around 11am going 12pm when we reached Brisbane Airport and when we were ready to board the bus and head off for lunch, it was already 12.30 and we're behind schedule by 30 mins.

Once we loaded our luggages up onto the bus, we went to Jakarta Indonesian Restaurant which serves authentic Indonesian cuisine (as stated on it signboard) for lunch.

The food wasn't really nice okay no the food there sucks LOL.

Okay firstly probably because we are late and they are punctual as fuck, the lunch is supposed to be at 12 and we reach the restaurant at around 12.30 and the food is already on the table. So the food probably been there ever since 12 till 12.30 and yeah the food was cold af LOL. Especially the soup.

And secondly,  their chicken is salty as fuck you can totally see the salt on it like wtf LOL

See? It's damn fucking salty LOL I really didn't eat much out of this lunch man.

The seating arrangement was quite chaotic also since its our first meal. Everybody just got seated quickly with their cliques and it just left us boys not knowing where to seat LOL. We ended up sitting with them Malay girls and yeah we tried to strike a few conversations LOL.

Some said that the Chicken Skewers was nice but to me it was ermmm okayyyyy like it'll be a lot nicer if its hot but when its cold, its just okay uh most eatable out of all the dishes. And also the keropok. LOL

They also had this idk curry like dish it taste okay to me as well just needs to be hot and it'll taste better. And yeah the soup was a disaster.

I usually don't waste any food and would probably finish ALL the food like literally even those that my friends left over since it'll be a waste to just throw and there is tons of people in the world that is starving so I have this promise to myself that I'll try my best not to waste food and waste money since you need to pay money to get those food LOL.

But at that moment I really told myself that I couldn't do it lol. I ate a few spoonful of rice only like normally I eat quite a lot of rice but I really give up on this meal LOL.

First meal in Australia and I'm crying about it LMAO all to a great start.

After finishing our lunch, we wanted to take a group photo outside the restaurant with our banner but some of them was like why do we have to keep taking a group photo and why with the banner its so ugly.

wait wow holdup bij you aint put any efforts in designing the banner you aint having the rights to insult it you mofo so just stfu. #respectthedesigner And its just the freaking third group photo wat u angst about mofo.

So yeah we had a group photo outside the restaurant before we head off to our next destination.

Went onto the bus and we started to tour around Brisbane City.

We went to visit King George Square, City Hall, Chinatown, Treasury Building, Southbank Parkland and Kangaroo Point.

Actually we didn't really went to all of those places LOL. When we went up the bus, our guide started using the microphone in the bus and was explaining to us all the scenery we see out of the bus. He was very detailed when explaining like when we pass by this road he would say when it was build why did they built this building where did this train came from and etc.

To be honest he was a very cool and nice guide man but I guess its because of his accent most of hard couldn't really understand him so nobody really "react" to his explanations. It was just basically him talking and I'm not sure if anybody was really listening but I did tried to react and reply to him but maybe I was seated all the way at the back of the bus and he probably couldn't hear me too so yeah I gave up halfway LOL.

At first we didn't really know what was going on too like he drove us through a park and started to explain about the surroundings and we thought like so that was just the tour??? like we just stay in the bus and he drive us around and stuff but ended up no he just did it since we were near the park and he just drove around the park and show us around LOL while we're all in the bus.

The first spot where we alighted the bus was at Russell Street where we went to see the Wheel Of Brisbane. Its a definitely shorter than Singapore Flyer but it turns faster than it like our Singapore Flyer takes 30 mins for it to turn one whole round I think Wheel of Brisbane takes about 15mins? for it to turn one whole full round man. yeah. Tried to take a few pictures here and there and also video footage for my vlog.

Wheel Of Brisbane

Continued walking and we walked till a Temple? LOL IDK. It looks like a temple but I didn't really went it cause I was outside trying to take videos here and there and then they left already before I even went it so I had to catch up with them LOL.

The Ancient Temple??? LOL IDK LMAO

 After that we continued walking to a public playground where there is a lot of kids playing. Their public playground is really different from Singapore man. Like theirs includes tower that allows you to climb here and there and there was this huge hamster wheel where people get to run in it like how a hamster does LOL. Ms Teh and some of the students tried it. It was quite funny seeing them running and falling after that LOL.

The Hamster Wheel LOL

Saw a local kid and I asked Wan Ling to help me take a photo with him.

Obviously he must be thinking who the fuck this asian stranger is trying to take a photo with him LOL 

And eventually he did LOL. 

Then Joe & Wan Ling joined and we took a photo again LOL. He must be tired of us stupid asians taking photos everytime.

And guess what, beside the playground was just a public swimming pool. Like legit public swimming pool with no enclosure and anybody could just get into the water and swim man. Thats what you call a public swimming pool Singapore. You don't call a public swimming pool and then enclose it up like a private property and still charges admission fee.

Then we continued walking down the stretch of Brisbane River which is similar to Singapore's Marina Bay area where the Singapore River flows and all the different building and landmarks is at. Their skyscraper looks as beautiful as Singapore's man. Sad when we went it was around the noon. Bet the view would be even spectacular at night.

After this, we went back to the bus and head to Kangaroo Point which is another tourist observation point of the Brisbane River.

When we went, another bus taking China tourist was getting there as well hence the whole place was filled with tourist LOL. And you can hear all those China taking their photos screaming "1..2..3.." in Chinese LMAO.

Basically kind of the same view just from another angle LOL. 

You can see the amount of tourist behind man and LOL @ Jiaying's face idek what she doing

After that a wild random cock like animal appeared and everybody started snapchatting it LOL.

What is this? Is this even a Chicken or a bird or whatever idek LOL

After that took a few group photos here and there.

With Losers & Fam

With Losers & Fam along Brisbane River

with them clique that has been talking about going overseas for years :') 

with xiaoqlong & 99 

Team 5 - The Kookaburras

After that we went back on bus and our bus guide was asking us if we wanna go on to our next and final destination which is "***"(idk what he was saying LOL) and its actually another observation point but just from the opposite angle which means we should be seeing roughly the same things LOL or do we wanna get down to Gold Coast and head to our hotel.

To be honest I was feeling kind of tired and sticky man who knew Gold Coast weather would be as hot as Singapore man. Who told me that Gold Coast would be sweater weather LOL bullshit I sweated so much just on Day 1 and I totally didn't know what to do for the next few days because all I brought was long sleeve shirts & sweaters ;')

I'm fine with either of the choice like since we already paid for everything I don't mind just heading and seeing the opposite view but most of them wanted to get back to the hotel already cause we took the red eye flight and started the day straight after so most of them did not really had a good rest on the plane and was really tired.

So we decided to get down to Gold Coast. It was roughly a 1-2 hours ride down Gold Coast and on the way our bus guide continued to explain all the sceneries and buildings but we're all too tired so we kinda fell asleep and he stopped halfway because almost everybody was literally asleep already LOL.

Oh and I caught him saying while on the way that we went passed Jackie Chan's house in Brisbane with a private ferry next to it like wow Jackie Chan owning houses all around the world man.

Soon enough most of us woke up while we're in Gold Coast already and we kept guessing which building is our hotel LOL. We're like omg is it this? oh no. Is it that? okay nope LOL We're just so excited to see our hotel man.

Finally we reached Novotel Surfers Paradise Hotel and our bus guide helped us unload our luggages and we're all waiting at the lobby while Mr Zachary check in for us.

Wanted to film the process but guess what my camera's battery officially went flat LOL. So back at home I check it still has 76% battery life and I was like thinking it should be enough since my camera is power battery saving and I never had like problems with the battery before so I thought it should be fine. So I was just using it this whole while trying to film everything and then when I was halfway in the plane guess what,,, I realized my camera only left 16% battery life. LOL IKR. Right in the plane man like before I even touch down and even had Day 1 my camera only left with 16% LOL.

So it was all like trying to film within a few seconds then faster off my camera to save the battery LOL. And when I reached the hotel trying to film it officially went dead so I wasn't able to film the part where we just got into the hotels and our rooms :')

Anyway Mr Zachary finally check it and passed us our room cards. Will be sharing the room together with Joe and Bruce. Was praying hard that our room would be big enough for all three of us and the beds would be big too like since theres three of us, if theres gonna be three bed the bed should be small so that it'll be able to fit into the room so was kinda sad for that but guess what

Our room was huge as fuck. LOL. Most of our rooms were located at the 8th storey which actually was the lowest floor that has all the guest rooms. Only two or three of the room were located at the 12th floor. Yeah their room plans is so weird like their level intervals are weird lol.

But anyway cause we had 3 guys so ours is the "bigger" room  and there was like 3 queen size bed in the room. (wtf right like wow that how big the room is)

A snapchat of my room LOL. 

We had like one bed that is in like a "separated segment" of our room. The first thing we say when we saw we're like lets sleep together man LOL. Like its too scary to sleep alone since that part of the room have nothing except just directly facing the door LOL.

So we decided to take turns to sleep individually everyday and the other two would have to sleep together. yeah.

And we used that extra part of the room to put our luggages and stuffs. After we unpack our luggages, we went to bathe before meeting the rest of our cliques. We still have some time before dinner time and we were given the chance to go around and explore but we have to be in teams so we decided to go out as a clique and check out the beach.

We went to the girls room first to discuss about the blog that we'll be working on and we're kinda skeptical at first as the facilitators has already said it clear that the guys shouldn't be going to the girls room in the night or something so we aren't really sure are we allowed to go to the girls room and somemore the facilitators room is just next to Wan Ling & Phyllis's room. But we decided to go anyway since its still early and we're discussing work man.

Was discussing halfway till we realize the room getting a little bit hot and we're like is the air-con spoilt or something so we called Ms Teh and she told us to call the lobby or something so we did. End up it was us not closing the balcony door properly thats why the aircon wasn't working LMAO.

So after we settle some things and all for the blog, we head down to the lobby and asked the counter how to go to the beach and they told us to walk out turn left and turn left again and then walk straight up and we'll see the beach. The beach was just 3 mins away from our hotel. When we saw the beach all of us sort of "ran" towards it.

The view was amazing man omg. Like the waves and everything. No wonder its called Surfers Paradise cause the waves are really huge.

Went to took a few photos here and there and a group photo with the sign.

After that went down to the water with Joey to take some videos and pictures and damn the feeling was so shiok man when the water splash. Didn't really wanted to get into the water so was just standing at the area near the water. But the waves was so strong the swash hit my legs and I did not have time to react man but nonetheless the feelings was still good hahah.

Tried taking videos here and there and damn. The view was marvelous.

My photography skills sucks man totally not doing justice to the view but trust me it is really nice haha. Maybe I shall put some video footage for you guys to see better.

And yes we kind of witnessed the sun setting man like when we reached the beach the sky and clouds was still white but it turned blue then to black hahaha. Sad that we didn't went "into" the water to play haha.

After going to the beach, we went back to gather with the rest and proceed to our dinner place.

Our dinner place was like a 5mins walk away from our hotel. Had to cross roads here and there. The thing about the traffic light in Australia is that I've concluded Australians are descendants of "The Flash". LMAO Their traffic light is only like 5 secs? Like wtf I haven walk halfway the light turn red  already. So I concluded that Australians only need 5 secs to cross the road which explain why I think their the descendants of "The Flash" LOL.

Since there is such a big group of us, crossing the road is a hassle man. Like we have to separate into two group cause the light is only going for 5 secs and there are cars going around and if we were to go together the last person of the group probably still haven cross the road and it turned red already LOL.

For dinner we had Malaysian cuisine (LOL IKR go Australia have Indonesian Cuisine for lunch, Malaysian Cuisine for dinner LEL) However it was still a nice dinner man.

Chicken Vegetable Corn Soup. 

Seafood Curry 

Onion Omelette 

Fish

Vegetables

Minced Chicken Toufu

Fried Chicken Cubes

Fruits 

The dinner was sort of like Chinese zichar style where they slowly serve one dish by one dish. We sat in a table of 9? and our table was the quietest LOL. Like you can hear all the other tables talking screaming and laughing but our table is just quietly eating our meal LOL. tbh ideky too like I didn't really realize hahah All those that were usually the chatterbox didn't really talk much that moment.

After dinner we walked back again and were given the chance to go around grocery shopping just be sure to be at the hotel room before 10pm since 10pm is our lights out and the timing for room checks.

Went around to buy certain items and then we went to Woolworths which is a supermarket just next to our hotel and damn the items there was cray. Some items was so expensive (more expensive than Singapore) and some are unusually cheap. Didn't really buy anything during the first day cause I don't feel like eating anything and I'll probably do my shopping the next time.

The logo actually looks like our Cold Storage LOL

Just walking around looking at all the items with them and damn sheetz they bought so farking much man LOL. Some of them was crazy like because theres this brand of Peanut Butter that is cheaper than the one sold in Singapore (? idk about this) and so some of them bought like 5 cans some bought 3 so in the end they have a basket just full of the peanut butter LOL. And then they also bought chips like cray cray man like LOL the chips ain't that cheap too like it cost $5/6 per packet and they still bought like 4/5 packet just on Day 1 itself LOLOL. It's crazy. But they really do have lots of variety of potato chips man like Wagyu beef with wasabi cream and then champagne vinaigrette with shallot.

After all that crazy grocery shopping we went back to our hotel room and had to start working on our blog posts. Was chilling outside the balcony first and damn. The vibe and atmosphere there was really good for just chilling and talking man. Took some chairs and tables from Wan Ling's balcony since they don't need it and we called Shark and Kenneth down to work together on the blogpost. But eventually it was just me typing everything. Not that they aren't putting effort ah they really tried and wanted to help but I just find it like it'll be easier for me to just faster type finish since I've been blogging last time so it'll be easier for me to do it and I don't mind just letting them chill there.

After that Bruce was like it'll be best if there is beers here man LOL he was like asking whether we wanna go and purchase it but its like late already and I'm too lazy to head down again so I'm telling him like nevermind la tomorrow or something but he eventually went to purchase it LOL. He bought Heineken back? I don't really remember LOL It's just green in colour. But the alcohol level in the beers is only like 3% or something LOL lousier than Singapore's.

Chilled outside the balcony drank abit and everything feels so good man. The weather was so chilly and the breeze was cooling. It was around 24/25 degrees that night? yeah love Gold Coast weather man.

While we're talking and all, Guan Qi from next door suddenly pop through her balcony with her Zebra mask on and asked us something LOL we all got shocked for a moment HAHA suddenly a zebra pop out of nowhere. It was kinda funny at that moment.

After completing the blog post, all it left to do was to put in the pictures but the internet was kinda slow so we just let it load and the clique was feeling hungry so we decided to head over to MacDonald's which is just in front of the beach.

Their MacDonald's is expensive too man and its mostly beef I guess. Nothing special about their MacDonald's. But I love their fries man they have like Truffle Fries with Mayo and also some Spice Sauce Fries or something. Bought it and tried and yum it was nice. They also had like $1 chocolate chips pancake it was nice too man. Bought that to eat for fun haha since I wasn't really hungry.

After eating we went back and it was already around 1+? (Which is actually just 11pm in SG LOL)
Was supposed to head to bed but I guess because it was a new environment so I couldn't really sleep even though I didn't sleep much on the plane before that. So Joe decided to chat with me and we had some really deep talk haha. And all these time Bruce was just sleeping soundly like idek he's just sleeping throughout the whole trip LMAO.

And oh ya. I've got this stupid story about Bruce to share. So once we came back from Grocery shopping Bruce said he wanted to dip in the bathtub so he on the water and let it filled up. Then he went outside the balcony and chilled with us for awhile. After that he decided to go and buy the beers and guess what YES. HE FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE BATH. LOL SO THE WATER WAS FILLING UP AND YES. IT FLOODED THE WHOLE TOILET LOLOL. Water was flowing out of toilet into the room already when Joe realized it and Bruce just came back from buying. It was damn stupid and I was damn pissed at that moment man LOLOL can't stop scolding him. After that he was just sitting down on the floor taking the hairdryer drying the carpeted floor LOL.

And okay so after a long talk with Joe, we were like hmm should we dip our legs in the bath? And we decided to do it LOL at like 3am in the morning? So after filling the water we sat for awhile and talk a little before Joe was like okay I really can't take it already LOLOL. I guess he is damn tired man. So he went to sleep. I wanted to sleep too but I realized my pants got wet while sitting in the bath tube so I went to the other "segment" of the room and took the hairdryer to dry my pants LOL.

After that I went back to the bed and tried to sleep. And yeap Day 1 ended this way. Slept at around 4am I think. Had to wake at like 6am the next day and it was a torture. hahah. Day 2 going Tangalooma Island Resort! Stay tune to my Day 2 post and hopefully it'll be up soon HAHAH. Day 1 blog post took like 6 days man omg LOL. Alright guys bye!

It's KimTaevin pressing the Publish button now. BYE :D