Getting fresh with Brisbane
17 Feb 05 (Thursday)
Upon arrival at the arrival hall, Cindy & I headed to the duty-free department store to purchase cigars (Villiger 7) for the lodge owner, Toni. It cost AUD$56.50 for 50 sticks. We were informed by an email a couple of weeks ago to help Toni buy some cigars at the arrival hall. Toni must be a happy man coz he’s able to enjoy cigars at such a cheap rate whole year long… =)
After collection of our luggage & declaration of food products (which the custom officers did not check in the end), we soon met up with the representatives from UQ. Before long, we were soon whizzed off in a little van which is fitted with a trailer (to contain our luggage) at the back. The driver was a friendly man; he gave us a brief introduction of Brisbane before highlighting some of the key characteristics of the Australians in Brisbane. He said that there are a lot of things in Brisbane end with ‘ky’; for instance, “breakfast” will be “Brekky”. Interesting!!!
We were the fourth group of students to be dropped off at our destination. Want to express my gratitude to the driver coz he help me unload my gigantic black lugguage case. After he did that, he turned around and asked me “What have you got in there?”… Hahaz… As I live on the second level, Hong Ee was the honoured one who assisted me in delivering the luggage to the second floor. Thank you, Hong Ee!
Before long, we headed to the Indooroopilly shopping mall which is about a 8-minute walk away. It was a gigantic shopping mall with 4 hypermarts in it, namely Kmart, O’ Target, Woolworth and Myer. It is akin to having 4 Carrefour in one shopping mall! It is amazing. Apart from the hypermarts, the shopping mall is also week equipped with cafes, art galleries, food court and fitness centre etc…
We headed for University of Queensland thereafter to open our bank account and also to have our student card processed. Any Singaporean will be amazed by the time taken for a student card to be made. The process went like this: a portrait photo will be taken with a digital video camera and in about 1 minute, the student card will be ready!!!
Due to the really dry weather here, my lips started becoming dry and uncomfortable. Henceforth, I bought a lip balm to lubricate my lip from O’ Target. Realise that that vitamins in Australia is really cheap. I bought my multi-vitamins (Centrum) from NUH for $33.60 that is, after a 10% discount with Liling, a medical student who showed her matriculation card at the time of purchase. Here, they sell the vitamins at just AUD$21!!!
Upon arrival at the arrival hall, Cindy & I headed to the duty-free department store to purchase cigars (Villiger 7) for the lodge owner, Toni. It cost AUD$56.50 for 50 sticks. We were informed by an email a couple of weeks ago to help Toni buy some cigars at the arrival hall. Toni must be a happy man coz he’s able to enjoy cigars at such a cheap rate whole year long… =)
After collection of our luggage & declaration of food products (which the custom officers did not check in the end), we soon met up with the representatives from UQ. Before long, we were soon whizzed off in a little van which is fitted with a trailer (to contain our luggage) at the back. The driver was a friendly man; he gave us a brief introduction of Brisbane before highlighting some of the key characteristics of the Australians in Brisbane. He said that there are a lot of things in Brisbane end with ‘ky’; for instance, “breakfast” will be “Brekky”. Interesting!!!
We were the fourth group of students to be dropped off at our destination. Want to express my gratitude to the driver coz he help me unload my gigantic black lugguage case. After he did that, he turned around and asked me “What have you got in there?”… Hahaz… As I live on the second level, Hong Ee was the honoured one who assisted me in delivering the luggage to the second floor. Thank you, Hong Ee!
Before long, we headed to the Indooroopilly shopping mall which is about a 8-minute walk away. It was a gigantic shopping mall with 4 hypermarts in it, namely Kmart, O’ Target, Woolworth and Myer. It is akin to having 4 Carrefour in one shopping mall! It is amazing. Apart from the hypermarts, the shopping mall is also week equipped with cafes, art galleries, food court and fitness centre etc…
We headed for University of Queensland thereafter to open our bank account and also to have our student card processed. Any Singaporean will be amazed by the time taken for a student card to be made. The process went like this: a portrait photo will be taken with a digital video camera and in about 1 minute, the student card will be ready!!!
Due to the really dry weather here, my lips started becoming dry and uncomfortable. Henceforth, I bought a lip balm to lubricate my lip from O’ Target. Realise that that vitamins in Australia is really cheap. I bought my multi-vitamins (Centrum) from NUH for $33.60 that is, after a 10% discount with Liling, a medical student who showed her matriculation card at the time of purchase. Here, they sell the vitamins at just AUD$21!!!
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