Hello everyone,
I have safely arrived in Sydney last Saturday for an Asia Pasific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) conference where I am representing UITM & UM when 2 of my educational posters was accepted for the congress. I was here in Sydney about 2 years ago, approximately the same time of the year but the company was totally different. The first time I was here, I came with my other half and a few hundreds of fellow Malaysians, fully sponsored by Hai-O. The ironic thing is I can still remember it was raining as well when we arrived the last time, and this time around we were welcomed by rain as well! I was not expecting that since we had plenty of those in our country. I was planning to go for a dip on the ocean at Manly beach or Bondi beach..but with the "mini-hurricane" on the way, I guess that itinerary would have to wait.
We are staying at the Great Southern Hotel near Paddy's market where it is famous for souvenir shopping at a very reasonable price. But I guess the best part of this trip is that I am meeting a long-time friend from Ireland, named Elaine who was my collegemate back in Ireland. She had migrated to the land down under 5 years ago & married an Afghani who's a Australian citizen. She is just the best company and I cant stop laughing at her jokes, that people around us thought I was heavily drunk (or on ecstasy) at 5pm whenever I walked around the city
We arrived at the hotel around noon, went for lunch at the nearest halal Kebab place & went to the Paddy's Market to warm up our shopping mood. I bought almost everything for everyone & yet I only spent AUD$180 only! yeay!
Sunday morning was wet yet again but luckily the sun decided to give us a treat & shone at around noon. We went to the Marketcity Shopping centre where I got my children some nice Fila running shoes that only costed AUD$30 each, then we went out to the famous Opera House & The Harbour Bridge. The look on my dear friends faces were priceless, and I suppose that was how my face looked like 2 years ago when I saw the Opera House for the first time of my life.
There were seagulls around us & the weather was just perfect.
We ended the beautiful day with more shopping at the DFS Galleria near the Rock , just at the foot of Harbour Bridge where we got some branded goods at tax & duty free prices, so I got my first ever Ferragammo!! Wee hoo!!
On the way home, we stopped over at the Queen Victoria Building on George's Street where my cousin Ina got her long dreamed Longchamp.
we'll continue our journey tomorrow at the conference
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