Flying to Melbourne

I used to hug my baby koala bear bag around, it looked like a small koala bear crawling on my bag, when I was 5. Baby koala was one of my best imaginary friends in my childhood while I was playing teatime and 'masak-masak' (role play of cooking game). I always dreamed about going to see the real koala bear, baby kangaroos in their mother's pocket. I wonder how real penguins look like while I had a furry baby penguin as one of my toy collections.

My storybooks which were presents from my aunty who migrated to Australia never cease to surprise me. They were the books which I would flip through almost everyday after I came back from my school. My cinderella pop-out book was my most favourite book when I was a child.

I love fruits from OZ, I told my class teacher in amazement when I went school at 7,"The apple which my aunty brought back from Australia is as big as my face!" Being a good teacher and my mom's colleague, she told my mom about it and my grandparents still loved to talk about it from time to time while something reminded them about Australia or my aunty. Honestly, I can't remember what have happened then, it must be true somehow, though I can't remember a single bit of it.

So...All the fantasy about Australia. Everyone in my extended family would think about going there. But, ya, besides my grandparents, I think noone actually took an action. Until, I was forced to take leave for the whole Raya break, as my college is going to "close shop" for 1 whole week, and I was thinking..what to do? Well, since I finally have my stable income flowing in every month, why not?

In the beginning, I was thinking to put it aside, since my dear would be on duty and I'm going to go there alone if I really wanted to go. Yet, thank God that his colleague asked for a switch with him for some reasons. He's free to go. And..tadaa~ we're going tomorrow :) to OZ!!!

So... Kangaroos...


Penguins @Philip Island
and the Great Ocean Road

Here I come!!!