sydney trip

update time! just got back from sydney trip with my good friend marco.

first of all, sydney airport/tiger airways conspired together to delay us aaaaall the way through our trip. We had like 3 delays all up. First departure, was delayed like half an hour to board, and then was held up in the air in holding pattern for another half an hour before we landed. We were almost late to the concert!


Anyhow, the concert was awesome! In terms of content and variety, it was way better than the years before. They had a few games and anime I've never heard of, and some of them I sorta zoned out on, but there were some that were impressive. Some new arrangements of old favourites (ala laputa, shadow of colossus, metal gear solid encore) were simply AWESOME and renewed those songs in my mind. Gonna go dig some of them up asap.

Three things that disappointed me/us. The Sydney Entertainment Center was quite large inside, so I think they had to electronically amplify the orchestra...and it didn't sound as great as I wanted it to be. Sometimes it didn't sound live at all. Second, bloody camera men kept walking in and out. GO AWAY. And third, we only got three signatures per poster at the signings after cause they were running late =[ I usually get everyone's at every concert.. ><


This was our 'cell' that we lived in that night. The fat bald man at the reception said only three things. 'Paper', 'Room 105', 'Checking out?'. No hello, how are you, nothing. That's what you get from a backpacker's hotel. Apparently we had some noisy drunk girls next door too, but I'm a heavy sleeper :D

Sunday morning was a really nice sunny day, albeit windy. We visited Hyde Park and Royal Botanical Gardens on the way to the bridge and opera house. We looked around the city after that and I've come to this conclusion: sydney city is just like melbourne's except it's dirter, rougher and the people are less friendlier. Even McDonalds, the staff sucked, no greetings or anything, bathroom was filthy, smelt like vomit...bah. Not a fan of sydney to be honest now.
Anyway, that'll do for now. The pictures will make this post slightly long. Thanks for coming along marco, it was a good experience! I sense an exciting new update coming soon =]

teoh,