Melbourne 墨尔本

While I was resting on the bench along the Yarra River in a lazy afternoon, this Greece man from Athens approached me. He said he was doing a survey and asked whether I could answer some questions. I agreed to his request.

He started by talking about Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad and I told him I have read that book. After talking for a while, I realized that he was trying to persuade me to get into some sort of pyramids investment. I have read about this type of investment in Singapore before. It goes something like this – when a person invested $1,000 and he will get 5% interest provided that he introduces another 10 people to invest $1,000 each. These 10 people will have to further each get another 10 people to invest.

Sydney 悉尼

Sydney is the last stop for my backpacking trip as I have to leave the best for the last. Unfortunately it was raining for 3 days (on and off) during my 5 days of stay. Despite the bad weather, I continued to walk to the Darling Habour, Maritime Museum, Chinatown and the famous Sydney Opera Theatre. I even took the ferry (I think it is less than A$5) and had a tour of the magnificent habour.

It was during the Chinese New Year season when I was in Sydney but I did not feel the festival mood. People still go to work and the shops were still open as usual. I could only see a small performance in Chinatown.

I passed by the Universities, the Daring Harbour, get a closer look at the Maritime Museum and reached the Domain.

Perth 珀斯

I flew with the Singapore Airlines and arrived in Perth for the first stop of the travel.

I approached the Police officer and asked for the direction to the beach.

I walked the whole day till the sunset

I was lucky to watch the celebration of the Australia Day in Perth in the late afternoon.

Fireworks to end the celebration