Hi Friends

Hi friends…. (Well, nice to know that I have friends) nice to meet you again!
Wow, what a jammed pack weeks of holidays! What a magnificent days of doing nothing, a regime of an excessive sleep routines, a shopping madness during winter sales, and a sudden visit from friends which forced me to go out and experience Sydney (again) in winter. Fiewh…. I thought I have rejuvenate my self full enough to face this upcoming semester.

And sorry for not updating this ugly blog for soooo long. I guess you are all aware that after having tones of assignments in the previous semester, an activity which involved typing more than 50 words suddenly become an unpleasant reminder of those days in fiasco. Hahaahaha. (I even avoided typing SMS; I wanted to give a rest for my mind and soul (and especially for my carpal-tunnel-syndrome fingers)).

Well, its time for me now to do a little warm up, exercising my “mengarang indah” skill, a very important skill which you would need badly if you are enrolled in a Planning field. ;)

Hmm… so, for this first edition, I will tell you a story about “visiting Sydney Tower”. An experience which I would like to compare it later with “visiting Menara Persatuan” or maybe “Monas” in the near future (Or maybe “Petronas Tower”? Hmm…). F.y.i right now in my hometown, Kendari, which is the capital city of Southeast Sulawesi, there is a “mega (useless) project” of constructing a “Menara Persatuan” tower (which I guess has a much resemblance of that “Shang-hai TV Tower”, apart form it’s dimensions).

Back to Sydney Tower, I am not going to tell you all the nitty bitty about it and the tour packet availabe, coz if you visit this website it will provide you all the information you need. I just want to tell you that the aerial night view of Sydney City is awesome! These are photos which I managed to take from the observation deck.

You can notice Hyde Park in the lower left corner

View to Darling Harbour, taken with 1″ shutter speed, this is the natural view (more or less)

The same view, taken with 3″ shutter speed

It was quite difficult to capture these images; coz the observation deck was not dark enough. The neon lights from the lobby were causing too much glare on the window glass. As a result, most of my pics are contained the view of panels behind me. You don’t need to worry if you forget to bring your tripod, coz you can use the observation binocular, it gave me a quite stable platform for my camera.

That night we took the cheapest ticket (observation deck + OzTrek), about AUD$18. OzTrek was quite interesting, but it can be more exciting if they can make the movement of the hydraulic-chair smoother.

Ok, that’s all for today, see you soon.

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