Weekend blues

Mixed feelings about last weekend. Actually all went well until the stupid speeding ticket I got. The NSW police was quite unhappy that I drove at 154km/h n slapped me with an almost AUD600 fine! Wonder if i should just not pay n hide in singapore.. As it is, I'm already quite upset that I missed the WCG that weekend n haven't gotten over it. I'm oso missing SITEX during the next weekend! :(

Blue Mountains was nice, except that there's no snow. We took all the rides they had (cable car, train, skyway). Could have done it cheaper since the lady thought peiqi was a kid (under 13 yrs old) n we could hv gotten the family package instead! But peiqi had to declare with pride that she was 23.

After some dare-devil acts like climbing the fence to lean over the cliff (that was really high) for picture-taking n eating rabbits for dinner, we went to canberra. That place was seriously INFESTED with flies! Met a bigger version of kokok there too. Wanted to go strawberry picking but the hordes of flies denied us entry. Can u believe it??

We decided to take shelter in the car n drove around canberra for a couple of hours. Not that there's a lot to do there in the evening, but the roads were just going in circles n so were we. Fortunately, we found a place for dinner as we were absolutely famished n could just settle for hungry jacks. Ate viet food then headed back to the farm in the dark. For graphical representations of the weekend, you can refer to qixsaliva.blogspot.com n check out the pix.

Finally went back to sydney from canberra. It was a tiring 3-hour drive with My Humps by black eyed peas playing every 5 minutes. Russ was simply obsessed with the song and he got us addicted too. Finally back to sheraton on the park where there're no flies in the room. Had korean food for dinner then went back for a good nite sleep.

Started work again yesterday morning. Most people in the office were still in holiday mood. By after lunch, there was literally no one in the office so we decided to head back to the hotel too. Russ went to the gym, while i brought peiqi to The Rocks. Heard people screaming from the opera house across the river since it was the finals of australian idol. Of cos, there was no ticket left in the entire country for the event so we couldn't go watch. Went Nicks seafood for dinner in the evening n had seafood platter for 2. Missed the fireworks (for the idol) by a few seconds... :(

JC's coming tonight. Hope he doesn't get too uptight by the huge amount we spent on food here. We do need a break after working so hard right??