after walking more than 5 km encircling the heart of melbourne cbd, we finally met the first landmark of the city, st. paul’s cathedral. built in 1885 and inspired by gothic revival architecture, the cathedral brought back our hearts and minds to the previous cathedral that we discovered a few days earlier back in christchurch and acted as a swan song for our whole journey. pic of the north face and spire was taken from swanston street in june 2010.
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day 15 was the day that we didn’t do anything. that morning, together with diman, i sent companion #4 back to avis, it was a pleasure being intimate with her even it was only for a day. initially, the plan was to rent the car for 3 days, visiting mt. taranaki and spending the night at new plymouth, some 250 km southwest of hamilton but i had to cancel it as the itineraries were too jam packed and decided to occupy the last remaining days in new zealand only at hamilton. it also saved us a few dollars.
when i got back to carrington ave. with diman around 9:00 am, most of them were still deep in their sleep and i just resorted to watch some tv programmes with some channels in maori, updates on the current world cup results and watching music videos. i had my breakfast, couldn’t remember what i ate, except that it was delicious. although it was not a memorable day per se, but one thing that struck me was that i was introduced by diman to a pretty interesting music video by an australian band, the temper trap, which i continued to appreciate their music even to this day. here’s the video:
other than that, i slept again during noon and only woke when lunch was ready. i only went out of the house once more in the evening, with elias and alif, walking about 50m south to the nearest grocery store at masters ave., to buy some chocolate bars, dr. pepper and a gummy ball for alif and luckily got a plastic diecast doc hudson of pixar’s cars fame inside it. i also went to the backyard quite a lot, befriending the neighbour’s cat, smoking and getting impressed with kak maz’s self nurtured broccolis and strawberries. that night after dinner, most of us were quite sad as that night was our last night in new zealand. we cherished the night by sitting on the sofa and the floor, remisniscing about our short time when we were there. all of us went to bed early as we would be having a long and tiring day on the following day.
▼ somewhat blurry image of a new feline friend
▼ the backyard
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a semi submerged frame of a fishing boat, left abandoned to ruin near pantai leka, parit jawa. pic was taken in november 2009.
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a pair of eager giraffes extended their long necks with coordinated pose during a feeding session at the national zoo of malaysia in february 2010.
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an effortless 1st attempt at capturing a photo of a long-legged grey crowned crane proved to be an easy task as the winged vertebrate sparsely moved at all and totally oblivious to my presence. though less challenging, the beauty of its golden feathered crown managed to hypnotize my left eye through the viewfinder for countless exposures. taken at the aviary park, taman mini indonesia indah in january 2011.
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an 8km bicycle trip on an asphalt covered track through a pocket of rainforest that is bukit cerakah agricultural park, 3km north of shah alam city centre tested our endurance limit. the ride, comprised of 17 of my colleagues, who together took a day off yesterday, became part of our pleasure hunt as an escapism from any work related agenda, saved for some who had the courage (or shame) to discuss matters concerning the tax gap and data correlation with the mainframe’s capacity and users’ abundance requests. taken while tackling a downhill slope near taman budaya, as soon as we reached the top from an uphill task by pushing the bikes. obviously we spent half of the trip riding and the other half pushing. july 2011.
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after putting up an engaging show, little rock and the south pacific at the mare’s leg cove near cathedral cove ended the day with gentle waves helped by a breezy afternoon and a clear blue sky. the packed audience reacted by giving a sitting ovation and demanded an encore. june 2010.
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a second visit to alton towers in staffordshire in the summer of 1995 was more of an indulgence of mine to become a guide to first timer friends on our bus trip all the way from coventry. pic was taken of the lake (that has since became a waterpark :() surrounded by the alton gardens using a minolta dynax 500si slr.
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a determined white egret retracted its neck and took a mid air flight from perching on a pole to swoop and capitalize on an unaware prey near the new waterfront, kota kinabalu. june 2011.
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an amazing pyrotechnic display from the australian team lit up the skies above putrajaya during the 1st malaysian international fireworks competition in august 2007. the event which took place for several nights near the putrajaya international convention centre was drawing more than 3 million attendees and the beginning of a few more shows the following years. pic was taken facing southeast 2 km away from persiaran tasik in the neighbouring cyberjaya.
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