A Trip Back Home (25th March - 10th April): The Flight, The Meetings & The Walk

As you all know I’ve taken a 1.5 week long trip to Myanmar and also visited Sydney for a few days. It was such a great experience for me because I never been to Sydney before and it’s been 5 yrs since I last visited Myanmar. I was looking forward for this trip and finally it happened.

My friends and I have planned this since last year that we could meet in Sydney for holiday and started saving $$. I was so glad we could accomplish the plan and finally met. I profoundly thank dear sis Phwe for coming down to Sydney from Melbourne to meet all of us and dearest Majain for being such a splendid hostess and also thank KoSein for taking time to meet us all plus for McChicken ;)

I’ve decided to write a little journal on my trip and here are some of the remembrances actions from my trip.

I left Suva on 24th Mar 05 (good Fri) evening and spent a night in Nadi, MelanesianHotel before taking 8:30am flight to Sydney the next morning. Just before I left hotel I text to Jain and Sein to warn about my coming so that they could beware of their worst nightmare. Strangely enough our flight number is FJ911 and Sein must have done some cursing on it that we got big problem when we landed to Sydney. The plane got hydraulic leakage and had to remain on the run way for almost 2 hrs before the passengers were picked up by bus to the airport terminal. We then had to wait for another 2 hrs for our luggage to be brought in to the airport. We met one Indian man from fj and using his mb I sent a txt to MaJain letting her know of the situation. She was so kind and patient enough to wait such a long time for us.

After we got out of the custom and I was finally able to meet the one and only dearest MaJain for the first time. She was so welcoming and gave me a big hug. She was much cuter than in her photos. My mom was relieved to find her waiting for us since she didn’t trust my online friends who I never met before to do the pick up.

We had our late lunch in the airport and waiting for Phwe’s flight in the evening. During 2 hrs of waiting, mom and MaJain chat about stuffs, mainly gossip about me and I was so disappointed to hear no good things of me coming out of the conversation. I’m sure MaJain have known about my whole lifeand habits in that 2 hrs time.

Yah gossip about me!
Mom & Jain in action non-stop gossip for 2 hrs.

About 6 o’clock we took a train to domestic terminal and wait for Phwe. She didn’t recognize me, she looked at me then turned away. Only when I blocked her and took a big shot of her then she realized that’s me and say big hello.

Oops what the! Heyy!
Phwe first impression when I took a shot at her.

It was so good to see her and she looked different from her photos, I think she look more mature and act mature also. For some minutes she didn’t talk much only yes no stuffs, I guess she just not use to us yet, then she did speed up and we joked and laughed all the way to MaJain house. Jain was so much ashamed to show us her place saying it’s a mess but it wasn’t and really good to visit her place. Her brothers were nice and helpful. The elder one dropped us to Wake Up apartment where we be staying for the next few days.

This is where we stayed for a week, Wakeup apartment, 509 Pitt St, Syd.

After we checked in at the apartment, we left our luggage and then left to meet KoSein. Was a bit looking forward to check him out since I heard that guy is very “pae myar” Well… as expected he walkout very very “pae myar” walking with hands in pant and the way he walk!...those gangster style! (myat si htal mhar, dount ma kyo).

I shall remember that Sein Sote never said hello nor welcome us to syd. The
only thing he said was “I’m starving!”

Different walking styles of my 3 friends. (L-R: Jain, Sein, Phwe)
Interesting aren't they? :P

They took us to China town for dinner and I was amazed by the noises, the crowd and the ringing of bells. It was a good dinner though I couldn’t finish it, I enjoyed drinking up all soups. Dear old August called us and said he’s swimming in the middle of the night in that freezing cold weather. We thought he must be crazy but then he always do such strange things that we were used to with his silly ways. LOL

We all had really full stomach and decided to talk a walk to opera house. Oh yah the great gambler Sein tried to take us to Casino on the way, but we couldn’t enter there since Phwe is under age and didn’t bring her ID. I’ve noticed Sein’ve done a good job on Jain that she also becoming a gambler and I heard Sein calling her the master mind now. LOL.

We finally got to Opera house and the night view is ah… dark! :P I tried to take photos of Opera house as well as the Harbor bridge but it was too dark that I couldn’t get any good photos of those. So sad, I was so much planning to get hold of that two place photos. ?

Since my mom got sore kneels, she decided not to climb the stairs of Opera house. Jain and Sein accompanied her down below and only Phwe and I went up. It was very later around 11pm and the place is deserted with a few security guards. The atmosphere up there is really good hence we decided to sit in the middle of big floor just for a few minute and stared at the clear Sydney sky and feel the gentle cool breeze. Dear phwe was thinking of how wonderful the feeling and the inspirations there to write her famous poems about her someone*:P:P

It was such a long walk and we didn’t notice how much we walked sincewe were all talking and laughing at each other. I think we walked for over three hours. We only noticed the worst pain in our feet on our walk back and got the whole body aching, especially the feet, when we sleep.

The very first day of my trip ends here.
Phwweeeeeewwwwww!! What a day!