The Synapse Connections of a lifetime

It's my second week back at IH, and everything is settled now. Class has started as usual, early wake-ups to travel two hours to hospital in the morning are also happening as usual.. The only thing out of the ordinary is that the IH kitchen is closed.. -_-

So.. we have to cook our own meals..

There's only one small problem le.. I dunno how to cook!

So on our first grocery shopping, we bought ingredients to cook the easiest thing after instant noodles! --> french instant noodle --> pasta!

Its so easy noobs like me can cook it.. lol! I'm proud of my product though.. haha!

After cooking pasta for three days straight we realised that we can't do this forever.. haha! So next we experimented with fried rice.. which IMHO was really great.. haha! I like my fried rice, even though there's nothing in it but rice, soy sauce, pepper (LOTS of it), mushrooms and ginger and onion (nearly cried cutting those, lol).

Gotta think of the next thing to cook.. else it's maccas for the rest of the month.. gulp!
Anyway, one of the events that we could catch coming back so early is Australia Day on the 26th of January. Australia day is such a huge thing that i've never seen so many people congested on the streets, the Hyde park and the Darling harbour.. it's like.. ants!! We went at night to darling harbour to catch the fireworks. The huge number of people is kinda annoying.. coz there's no place for me to set up the tripod to take pretty pictures.. So in the end all my shots end up crap.. sigh..

There's insane amount of people here
Tons of people there
Watching a huge television on a floating stage in the middle of the harbor. (it's showing some nationalistic materials)

There's a ferris wheel ride here resembling the 'eye on malaysia' ride in taman titiwangsa too, although somehow it looked like a smaller version.

We went up to a overhead bridge so that we could see everything better. Come night, the array of lights and boats entertained the crowds.

It was really nicely orchestrated, with cool sound effects and lighting and things..

Then the fireworks came into action :P
It was the first time I've seen a lense flare in my camera. Our location was crap though, we pretty much got a side view of the fireworks.. sighs..

This one looked like tracers of anti-aircraft guns.. lol


By five minutes the whole place is totally covered with smoke. All my shots that night were crap.. sigh..

By the end of the fireworks, the boats are nicely tucked at the side, still with their colourful lights on.

Australians are very nationalistic, they sang their national song with pride and decorated themselves with lots of Australian flags.

I'm surprised with the turnout of the day.. really surprised.. :P
Happy Australia Day!