Easter break..

It's been slightly over a week since my previous post but many things has happened. Let's talk about studies first. Got my 2nd assignment for Food Sensory back, got 9/10. Pretty pleased with it because it was worth my effort. But I felt jealous when i saw friends getting full marks. Because initially their answers weren't correct until we discussed answers. Now I know why kelvin don't like to share his answers to maths homework in secondary school. I can totally understand how it feels to work hard just to give answers away. But then, we cannot be selfish, isn't it?

The planned road trip for Easter to New South Wales was cancelled and was replaced with 2 day trips. But before the day trips start, we went for a singing session at SunnyBank & a trip down to Fortitude Valley a.k.a Brisbane Chinatown. The singing session was a tat too short 'coz we have 7 people and we only had 3 hours slot and during that time, dinner was provided as well. But it's good enough to be able to sing! Fortitude Valley was average, Singapore's Chinatown is much much better. There's only restaurants & pubs there. Anyway, it's popular for its clubbing lifestyle. After fortitude valley, we went to Mount Gravatt. The location of the mountain is good, as you can see a large area of Brisbane. But the lookout was partly blocked by the vegetations and it wasn't as good a lookout as Mount Coot-tha.

Here comes the day trips. First, on Sunday, we went to this lake which is about 30 mins drive from home. That place is really WOW! The water is clear. Surroundings are peaceful, a really nice place to chill. And then, we went to Red Cliffe. Yes, you didn't see wrongly. It is Red Cliffe. There's a beach over there, just like Surfers' Paradise. But once you're there, you'll know why Surfers' Paradise has the word 'paradise' and Red Cliffe have the word 'red'. Surfers' Paradise is really like a paradise as the scenery is great and the water is gorgeous. But Red Cliffe has slightly muddy water, carparks there aren't the best either. It's hard to move around.

Next, was the Monday trip to Byron Bay & Mount Tamborine. Byron Bay is located on the outskirt of New South Wales. So, by car, it took us 2 hours to get there from Brisbane. We left at 3am, in the hope of getting there for sunrise. So, there we set off with all 7 of us in our 'uniform', which is our personalised t-shirt. But things didn't go too well, as the engine oil for one of the cars was used up. And we took a bit of time at the petrol station before we head off. We were running out of time for sunrise as we can see the sky starting to turn bright as we cruise on the highway.

But nevertheless, we reached Byron Bay, and get to see part of the sunrise. The beach over there is heavenly. Perhaps there's other places where there's nice beaches. But this is definitely one of the best scenery attraction that I've ever been to. And as we scout around the whole bay, the view from the lighthouse is even better. Pictures should be up on Facebook soon. But after Byron Bay, things didn't go too well. H returned to his car, feeling emo. And some traffic hiccups happened on our way to Mount Tamborine, in Gold Coast. And in Mount Tamborine, H & jx had a quarrel. That made the trip not as wonderful but nevertheless, I was happy with my first road trip ever. Now that I've enjoyed myself, it's time to immerse into studies.