Day 3 - Surfers Paradise

Oh ya, I forgot to mention I met a new roommate when I was back to hotel the 2nd night, a French, he was on internship at Perth for half a year, then he flew to Sydney and Cairns, then to Gold Coast, but he only stayed in Gold Coast for just a night, he flew to KL the next day, will be in KL for 14 hours before he flew to HK for 1 week, then back to France.

English isn't his mother tongue, he only learnt it when he was in Perth, so he can't speak that fast, but it was good considered that he just learnt it for such a short time, anyway, the way he spoke was quite funny, he had lots of actions while talking, so it was actually quite nice to chat with him, haha..

I booked my accommodation for my 3rd and 4th day at surfers paradise at a hotel called Islander Hotel, it wasn't that good, room is hot compare to my first hotel where I had air-con. =)

Anyway, I planned to spend my 3rd day at Surfers Paradise, so before I left Coolangatta, I went to a look out point, it is somehow on top of a small hill, with all my luggages with me, I was wondering whether I should go up, but I still went up at last considering that could be the last time I came here. It was actually quite nice, I can see the beaches and the famous Kirra beach.

Although this beach is quieter than Surfers Paradise Beach, but there are still a lots of surfers on the beach, it was actually quite nice and enjoyable, in the morning, those backpackers just wear a beach pants, and carry their surf board and go to the beach to surf, how cool is that? You can see lots of people are just enjoying their life like that, it's pretty awesome actually.

While I was taking pictures on the look out point, somebody talked to me, it was the French roommate, he checked out earlier than me, but his flight to KL was at night, so I invited him to go to Surfers Paradise together since he didn't get to travel much as he only stayed in Gold Coast for 1 night (what a waste.. hhmm..) Anyway, we went to Surfers Paradise by bus, about an hour trip.

After I checked in to my new hotel, we decided to went to a place called Qdeck, or Q1, it is 322.5 metres tall, it offers 360 degrees view anywhere in Gold Coast, or even Brisbane! It's the only one beach side observation deck in Australia, the lifts inside Qdeck are crazy, bloody fast, it is the world fastest elevator I think, it sent us went up to 77 floors in just 43 seconds, I did record down how fast the numbers of the floors changing in the lift, haha..

322.5 metres tall doesn't sound not that great isn't it? Compare to our Twin Tower, this might be nothing, but it seems that it's the highest residential building in the world, it ranks 25th in world's tallest building. In Qdeck, it keep saying that it's taller than the Eiffel Towel in France, I wonder what my French friend was thinking, haha..

Well, enough of the fact of Qdeck, so what if it is the world tallest building? It's the view up there matters! It was really really good, what was in front of my eyes was just like what I saw in the postcard of Gold Coast! I took a lots of photos, but because of the reflection on the windows, it might not look good though.

It's water everywhere, check out the island in the middle of the picture, it's in heart shape!

And this is my French friend, his name is Archambaud Millet, French name is just so hard to pronounce, so he asked me to call him Archy instead.. haha..

And thanks to him, there's somebody travelled with me, so I can ask him to take photo for me! I looked so small compare with him, kns..

After Qdeck, we went to Hard Rock Cafe!

Not a big fans of that, but at least I been there! haha, this is outside of the Hard Rock Cafe..

There are 2 storey in the cafe, lower floor is a shop, selling all those Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt, jackets, and all the accessory, then walk upstairs, it's the cafe, there was a band singing and playing music there, and it's quite full at that time we went, the food isn't cheap as well, hhmm..

And this was taken at night, I stayed very near to Hard Rock Cafe actually..

After that we went to the BEACH! The beach of Surfers Paradise! But I have my camera and all, so I didn't go into water, just walk around the beach and take photos, the weather was quite hot at that time, lots of people playing at the beach..

the wave there was big, which was good for surfing, those people who didn't surf, were still playing with the wave, let the wave hit them, looked fun!

Some of them just lying at the beach for suntanning. =)

Check out the wave, it's quite big, it's fun!

After the beach, we walked around Surfers Paradise town area, have a lunch..

It was quite normal for guy to just walk around without shirt, girls with their bikini, it's at the beach! What do u expect? haha..

After we walked around the town, it's about time for Archy to go to airport for his flight to KL, he planned to go Twin Towers within the 14 hours, he said Euro is big compare to RM, so he is gonna take taxi from airport to twin towers, kns. I asked him to go to Low Yat Plaza as well, as he said he wanted to get a digital camera at Malaysia. I asked him how was Malaysia that day through facebook that day, and that was what I got:

"eheh :P Twin's tower was good, but KL is very durty :/ (around low yat). Anyway, thx you and come on in Paris when you want :)"

Durty = Dirty, what a shame right? Tourist remember nothing, but dirty..

Anyway, after sent off Archy, I went back to hotel, drop all my camera stuffs, walked to the beach barefooted, hang my clothes on a tree, and jump in the water, it's Pacific Ocean! The wave was quite strong, it's just so fun to play around with the wave, there were Rescue Team there to look after us, so it wasn't that dangerous! When I went that time, it was quite late already, so it's getting colder, didn't get to play in the water for too long as I really cant stand the coldness, haha.. Then I lied on the beach to just relax myself...

It'll be really really fun to go with a group of people, I am looking forward to go if you all if you are interested!

One day... we will!

-To be continued.

Day 1 & 2 - Coolangatta, Gold Coast + MovieWorld

I was saying I arrived at the airport...

Because I did some research about the accommodation before the trip (before I fell asleep actually), so I know there is one backpacker hotel not far from airport, and they offer free pick up service from airport, so I called them, and they came!

The town itself called Coolangatta, and I stayed in a backpacker's hotel called Coolangatta Sand Hotel, in a 8-bed dorm, but there were 4 empty beds at that time.

My first night at Gold Coast was terrible, it was so boring, Coolangatta is a small town, nothing much happening, not much of people playing at the beach, I walked along the beach for 3, 4 times, just to kill my time, having dinner alone, walked around the town as slow as possible so that I don't go back to the room so early with nothing to do, but the town was pretty quiet as well, only left the restaurants were still open.

At that time, I can feel what I felt when I was in Curtin last time, it was really lonely to be alone in a place like Gold Coast, where everyone else was having fun, I seriously didn't know what is so fun about a backpacker travels alone. That night, I went back to hotel, lying on the bed, read through those travel guide about Gold Coast, and hoped to plan something for tomorrow, I was on msn with my sister that time as well, so she suggested me to go here and there around Gold Coast as she has been there last time.

Next day, I went to MovieWorld, it was where the fun began! =)

Inside MovieWorld, there are lots of nice rides, which really spice up my day! Too bad, one of the ride called Batwing spaceshot was closed that day.

It is the same sort of ride in Genting, but it is higher in here, and you will experience 4.5 times of gravity force, which means, VERY fast, we were all science students after all, count it!

I went into a show called "Hollywood Stunt Driver" to start off my day in MovieWorld, they showed all the scenes that you see in Hollywood, and they make it a bit funny as well, it was good and amazing.

I was on the screen, can you see me?

Right in front of your eyes!

I was satisfied with that, I did record down some parts of the show, if you all want, I can post it up. =)

Then there was this ride called "Superman Escape",

It is like roller coaster kind of ride, and because it's movie world, so there was a story behind the ride, the story behind the rides was we were in a METROPOLIS subway loading dock. As we travel through the subway, a terrifying earthquake happened. To escape, SUPERMAN rescues us by propelling our carriage out then vertically upwards at 100km per hour! We travelled from 0 to 100km/h in just 2 seconds! You can feel the skin on your face is moving slower than your body, it's really fun although the story was quite lame, haha!

Lethal Weapon, this 1 was quite fun as well, 5 complete upside down experiences, 85km/h, 4G gravity force, and it was 765metres long, so you will have enough time to feel everything!

There was this 1 called Road runner roller coaster, it was in the kids' zone, well, it didn't look so childish, so I went to have a ride too, and there were only kids ride that, so ya, I was quite paishe at the time.. haha..

It doesn't look that dumb to ride on this right? =P

And some of those really kids' things.. (Obviously I didn't go and try.. hehe..)

It was good to see how those kids react when they were on the ride, some were so excited before the rides started, and when it started, you can hear them screaming, haha..

There were lots of shows in MovieWorld too, Scooby-doo live show, 4D show... and lots of shop as well, mostly about souvenirs..

They have the parade for all the cartoon characters as well, but I missed out the front part, only saw bunny, Marilyn Monroe,

Tweety bird, Sylvester,

Scooby-Doo,

Sherk,

CatWomen,

Batman,

Batman one was quite good, the car you saw in the pictures, it moves! Omg, haha.. It looks pretty cool, and it think that is the same car that appeared in the latest batman movie! The batman was just standing beside the car, NICE! Haha..

Although I went on all the rides alone, but it was still fun and enjoyable! That day after MovieWorld, I went to a place called "Surfers Paradise" to look for my accommodation for the next 2 days as I really didn't want to stay at Coolangatta, it was too quiet.

Compare to Coolangatta, Surfers Paradise was so much better, it was sort of heart of Gold Coast, so it's more happenning and beautiful, I spent my 3rd day at Surfers Paradise too!

- to be continued..

Be a backpacker is FUN!

Hey my dear LOUZAI bros and everyone here, how are you guys doing? Not much of update from here, so didn't really know how is everyone~ This place has been really quite over the year, we only have 30 overs new posts in this bloody 2009, that is actually quite sad to see loushi is kinda slowing down. =(

Anyway, I am here to share something with you all. =)

I just came back from Gold Coast and Sydney on Friday, and the trip was good, not to mention I actually travelled alone, haha.

The whole story was quite long, so I think it's better to post it up part by part..

The initial plan was I and my girlfriend will travel together, from Melbourne to Gold Coast, then to Sydney, then back to Melbourne, we booked our ticket in August, while there was a promotion, but somewhere in October, my girlfriend found out that she will have something on during the travelling period, and there is no way to avoid that, so after a struggling period, we decided to not to go for the trip, since she can't go and the air ticket is not transferable.

Everything went normally until the night before my flight, I was talking to my house mate about his planning of travelling, and out of nowhere, I recalled that I actually have the air ticket to Gold Coast and Sydney, which was on the next day morning, few hours later from that time.

So I went and checked the ticket, and yes, it was at 11.30am 11th Dec. Then I started to wonder, if we should go, so I go and tempt my girlfriend to go for it, but I failed, she can't go, she asked me to go by myself instead, actually when she found out that she can't go for the trip, she asked me to go for it, but I keep saying no since it's kinda weird to travel alone.

I was in dilemma at that time, for the whole night actually, I do not want to leave my girlfriend at home, I do not want to waste the air ticket and the chance of travelling before I need to go back to Malaysia, that was a very tough decision to make seriously, and it took me a bloody long night to decide. I went to search for the backpacker hotel to see if there was still any dorm available, and yes, they were available, so I decided to go for it, and they was already like 5am on the travelling day, so I started packing, took out underwear, socks.. and I fell asleep.. Zzzz...

And when I woke up, I saw the bright sky, I was like "SHIT!", I thought I must have miss the flight so I don't bother to check the time, and continue my sleep, I woke up at about 9 in the morning when my another house mate woke me up as we were planning to go somewhere, so I told him about my flight, and he asked me to go for it, and it was still possible to make it as the check in counter closes 45 minutes before the flight time, which was 10.45am for my case, then I struggled again, as I haven't pack anything yet except my underwear and socks, so I think again, again and again, at the time I REALLY decided to go was like 9.25am already, it wasn't possible to reach airport by public transport on time, so I called a taxi, and asked if it was possible to reach airport by 10.45am, he said he can't promise, but he will try, and he will come at 9.45am, so I still have about 20 minutes to pack my stuffs!

He came, I hopped on, rushed to airport, ganjiong-ing all the time on the way to airport, and at last I made it! But the taxi cost me a bomb, kns..

Anyway, that was the story BEFORE the trip, sorry for all the long story.

Journey began, I landed on Gold Coast Airport, alone, didn't book accommodation, didn't know anyone, didn't know where to go, how to go...


- to be continued...

Great Victorian Bike Ride

哈咯，这里应该还有人吧？
我们的陋室怎么了？大家都在忙些什么？

不管怎样，小弟我已经开始放长假咯，到明年二月才开学，
回去马来西亚的机票也已经定了，12月28号的飞机，29号到~
在这里该读的都读完了，是时候享受人生，到处走走了~

时间还真快，就要回去了，在这里也9个多月了~

前几天才从Perth回来，在那里呆了几天，
去那里探望YuehHwei的亲戚+旅行，
除了那个4个小时的飞机，一切都算不错，
不过还是比较喜欢Melbourne~

明天开始有一个叫做Great Victorian Bike Ride的event，
我跑去当volunteer，这是一个9（10）天的活动，
骑脚车的人会沿着Great Ocean Road一直骑，看沿路的风景，
一天骑60到100km, 有上山，不过没有下海~

我呢，没有去骑脚车，我只是去帮忙，我被分配到tent的组，
因为每一天我们都去在不同的地方过夜，所以我的工作就是，
在我们离开之前把所有的tent都收起来，再在下一个地点弄好所有的tent,
听起来工作是不难，但是真的有很多很多的tent，哈哈~

不管怎样，我觉得这是一个很难得的经验，可能下次就不会再遇到了，
虽然他们每年都会有这个活动，在不同的地方骑脚车，可是我或许就没有在这里了，
所以啊，真得还满期待的~

虽然每天都要工作好几个小时，但还是希望可以拍很多很多的照片~

感觉上如果部落格没有post照片，好像很乏味，
所以随便选了张之前去Tulip Festival拍的照片~



希望大家都过得很好，等我回去请再聚一聚!

Random videos that I like..

Share with you guys some of the videos that I think is pretty good, enjoy! =)

s5大聚会 之 2009

理五在每年都有一个大聚会，希望今年不会破例。近来发现其实大家都满期待见到对方。所以就希望办个小旅行大聚会之类的。

再看这篇贴当儿的你别忘了你也是理五一份子。尽一分力搞好聚会吧。

在此希望理五仔们踊跃提供以下资料：

1 你有空的时间

2 你的预算

3 你想去的地方

4 你能帮忙联络的理五仔（5人）

5 还有什么你想得到的问题 。 。 。

满心期待呢。

生日快乐

这个星期天（30/8）谁得空的？

我在家办BBQ.
小聚小聚.
顺便庆祝我生日.
我发现我从来没为自己办过生日.

晚上8点就可以到了。

能来的朋友请在拜五之前通知我。
好让我来得及准备。
谢谢

The Purpose of Life

祝福所有穆斯林的朋友：

A blessed Ramadhan and selamat berpuasa~

一直以来，我都是一个挂名的基督徒，可以说是个无神论。一直以来相信神这事，只有在需要到帮忙时，才会求神帮忙。而祂帮了我之后，我就会告诉我自己，“哎呀，碰巧罢了啦”，继续回到无神状态。直到18岁那年在我生命中发生一件事情，让我真的不得不相信，神，在我生命中一直都存在着。

在我继续打下去之前，首先要申明，我并不是在传教。以你们对我的了解，我并不是一个一直把我的信仰挂在嘴边的人。其实就和我平时把生活发生有意义的事情post上来和大家分享。这一篇也不例外。就只是分享我属灵的经验，比较偏向于我个人的信仰。 :)

今天又是快乐的一天~

一大早去Monash出席Personal Development Skills workshop，9点到2点半。之后回家休息一下4点多又出门去教会了…

先卖个关子。上星期校庆，对吧？我有回去。其实在那一个星期，我整个人真的很低落。超级辛苦，又觉得很寂寞。过每一天都超想死。一整天呆在房间听超级难过的歌。虽然越听越难过，可是没办法，听了开心的音乐，上youtube看搞笑的短片，结果还是一样。

每一次，在最难过或是最无助的时候，很自然而然的，又会想到我的神。

我其实能感受到神与我同在。只是，心很硬。我不愿意敞开我的心让神在我身上动工。我尝试看些自我激励的书本、看搞笑的影片、和室友哈啦…可是还是很空虚，最后还是一个人回到房里。其实，我很想念一个人。我难过到一种程度，我觉得，只要“他”的出现，我就会没事了。情况严重到渴望见到“他”的那种程度…

我没信心。虽一直有轻声呼唤我寻求神，可是我还是置之不理。

最后我终于见到了“他”。无可否认，真的很开心，很想念…可是，问题还是存在着。比较那几天，我发现，我并不快乐。

终于，有一个晚上我回应神。就在床上很难过的当儿，心里突然无助地想着，“神，帮帮我…”。之后就睡着了。

回到了新山，和大伙相聚快活、和小焕喝完茶后凌晨2、3点，神开始针对我的回应在我身上动工。姐的男朋友给了我本书：

《The Purpose Driven Life》

他告诉我说这是我要找的书。我想不通，我到底什么时候向他要这本书了咯。 =.= 可是一拿起这本书，虽当时超累，可是想看这本书的欲望超级大！我翻开Introduction看…

“The Bible is clear that God consider 40 days a spiritually significant time period. When God wanted to prepare someone for his purpose, he took 40 days.”

这本书的设计是把我们生存在这世上五大的意义分成40天来解释。作者不鼓励我们一次过看完，每天看一天的分量就够了。当然我并不是因为可以看40天而有继续看下去的动力。它的intro当然也还有其他的东西。我看了，顿时明白，这就是神要我所看的（或许你会觉得很荒谬，这事除非你亲身经历，否则是无法理解的。就好像我在教会听到了千千万万个神迹，然而每一个神迹对我而言，坦白来说，只是另一个故事罢了）。

我盖起了这本书（因为很迟了，隔天早上得去教会，然后开车回KL）。回答我姐的男朋友，“咦？对咯！这就是我要的书！谢啦！”

回到KL，我还是一个人。可是我开始每天都跟据书本的安排看了一章。尽管presentation前一晚，我也看了一章。

（接下来的事可能你无法相信。这我了解，就像我之前说过的一样。我是过来人。不是马来人。好。冷~）礼拜天早上牧师所讲的道，好像完完全全都针对我说似的。坦白说，（对不起）一直以来我都觉得我的教会很显。偶尔就打瞌睡。那天，尽管前一晚超级累，当天的道我一字不漏地听进去了。当晚我开始阅读第一章…对，有说到对我有帮助的东西。可是就是读完后胸口突然算一下，有点想哭。我盖起书本睡觉，当晚，睡得特别的平安。

接下来每一天临睡前都有跟着读，都很开心…星期三当天我又发生了些事情。可是真的，我感觉得到平安。我仍然睡得很香，过得很开心。后来的事就记载在前一篇post了。

直到星期五，也是很开心，可是就是有少少的空虚。我又开始用我自己的方式来看待事情解决问题。到晚上一直不了解自己到底发生了什么事，整个人都很矛盾。直到星期六早上才了解到：昨晚竟然忘记读我应该读的那一章！

…

话说回来，到今天那个Personal Development Skills workshop回来后休息，有点懒惰。超级不愿意出门。星期六也，还要早期去学校，回家躺在床上，床都还没热就得起来去教会。。4点钟。小睡一会儿吧。睡前我调了闹钟4点25分起来（因为5点得到教会，然后我得去载一位中国朋友，所以要提早出门）。4点40分，自己跳了起来（这是非常神奇的。皓为以前和我住过，应该知道如果我很累，时间到闹钟响了后是不可能会起床的；我老妹更是了解，我累了的时候，睡觉就等于死掉）。赶紧通知我朋友准备好后匆匆就出发了。

到了教会，才发现，闹钟竟然调成隔一天下午2点25分。 =.= 是什么力量让我起来？

敬拜赞美唱的第一首歌，《Salvation Is Here》……

God above all the world in motion

God above all my hopes and fears

I don't care what the world throws at me now

It's gonna be alright

Hear the sound of the generations

Making loud our freedom song

All in all that the world would know Your name

It's gonna be alright

'Cause I know my God saved the day

And I know His word never fails

And I know my God made a way for me

Salvation is here

God above all the world in motion

God above all my hopes and fears

I don't care what the world throws at me now

It's gonna be alright

'Cause I know my God saved the day

And I know His word never fails

And I know my God made a way for me

Salvation is here

'Cause I know my God saved the day

And I know His word never fails

And I know my God made a way for me

Salvation is here

Salvation is here

Salvation is here and He lives in me

Salvation is here

Salvation in God means to set me free,

Salvation is here

Salvation is here and He lives in me

Salvation is here

Cause You are alive and You live in me

又去过教会的人应该有机会目睹到什么叫“圣灵感动”。没有看过的人应该也听说过。所谓圣灵感动的一些现象包括大哭大喊、大笑、发抖等身理上的一种动作。出生于基督家庭的我，看到这些情况，也只有一个字。

瞎

再卖个关子。以前由于在教会长大的一种环境下，大家赞美显得很开心，我脸部表情自然也会很开心；大家赞美时难过想哭，我脸部表情自然变成难过。唱完时歌喉大家很开心，我也会很开心，然后说些“赞美神很开心”的话。到了上来KL念书以后，不知听过多少个牧师说“be genuine in front of the house of Lord, the God”之类的话，我开始在大家赞美时不管开心还是感动，都只有“一号表情”——没有表情。

好，话说回来。在唱着Salvation is here这首诗歌，我脸部仍然没有表情。可是我的泪水，已经涌到喉咙，我一直忍一直忍、眼泪一直就快飚出来那种感觉，超级辛哭。我真的很感动，很想放声大哭，在全部人赞美得很开心的时候，我竟然圣灵感动，差点大哭一场。

然而，上帝给了我们选择的权利。当我们选择把门关上，他会尊重我们的决定，自然就不会再烦我们。而他一直都在，只要我们愿意依靠祂、寻求他的面，他就会伸出援手。我忍着忍着，那种感动过了一段时间后就没了……

回家后开会那首歌听，也没感动了。

可是我有很强烈的感觉。总有一天，深一定会让我谦卑我自己、放下我自己，软化我的心，允许圣灵感动，享受圣灵充满。

因为其实我的内心一直在挣扎着。我不敢相信我竟然变成我之前觉得很“瞎”的那一群。然而，我需要神，我真的很需要。我需要被圣灵感动、充满。。

今天的讲员是来自美国的Troy Marshall。他是一个很powerful的speaker。我不是在传教，所以他传道的内容就不多说了。

Troy Marshall和他的妻儿

今天这堂比较特别。我告诉神，我没有什么朋友。祂安排了几位印尼华侨和我做朋友。其实在好几个月前我就拿到这位印尼华侨的电话号码了。他也一直很热忱，一直都msg我通知我近来教会有什么新的消息。可是我一直的反应都没有多过回复他的那么一封“thx for your info”。后来他就再也没联络我了。直到前几天才再sms我问我有没有去教会。奇妙的事，我今天也打算自己去教堂的。我不晓得为什么神会安排印尼华侨做我的朋友，可是我相信神自然有祂的原因。

奉献时间。我不小心瞄到我左边的左边那位（一直联络我的）印尼华侨，奉献了RM300！那是一种信心奉献。坦白说，我从出生到现在，真正从荷包掏出钱（父母给的不算），凭着信心奉献给神少过RM100。所以我可以看得到他对神的一种信心。

（如果看到这里的你会想：cheh，有钱捐多少都可以啦。要知道，那RM300并不是给一次就算了的，而是每个月的十一奉献的承诺。没人逼的。想想你的零用钱、薪水增加，或中彩票，你会想到要有每个月捐出你一部分钱的commitment吗？不简单吧。）

散会后，和那几位印尼华侨一起享用来自印尼的“smashed chicken rice”晚餐。

smashed chicken rice

他们都很开心、很好客、很真诚（真真假假，看得出的）。笑笑那位最颠的，在离开教会取出晚饭前突然叫我们那一组人围成一圈，手牵手为当晚的晚餐、为我们、为教会和为神的旨意作祝福的祷告后，就开车去吃晚餐。smashed chicken rice蛮特别的。还好在之前一开始就像他们申明我是个没记性的家伙，并不是无心。哈哈！因为他们的印尼名字真的太难记了！！说了超多次我还是一直忘记。他们当然没生气，而且竟然还请我和另一位中国朋友这顿饭呢。

他们其中一位去年底在Monash毕业了，我的学哥。和他聊了很多，知道了不少东西。阿风，你晓不晓得一进校转左（不知是building几忘了），Level 7，有超级多的兔子；然后同一座building，不晓得那一层，有一具真人尸体呢。以往他们必须到马大才有尸体。新校舍建好后我们自己也有真人尸体。够劲爆吧！

我终于了解到，神安排他们给我，因为他们能助我在属灵上的成长，更能够扶持我，给我关心…

好让我在未来的日子，能够有能力帮助别人在属灵上的成长、扶持别人、关心他人…

当然，今天又是快乐的一天~

晚安 ^^