Sydney - Day One.

Hellewww!!

I'm back at the office after a one week holiday break. What a bliss!

The next 5 entries will be about our first "over-the-sea" holiday as a family (Note : We have posted the Day 4 and Day 5 entries. Sorry for the late update. Been very busy with office work. We are short-handed here).

As much as we are worried of the 8-hour flight journey for the last 8 months, the journey turns out to be okay, except for a few hiccups. We departed at 10.10 pm from KLIA. It was a night flight so Aliff slept throughout the journey, and woke up quite a few times for night feeding. I think he must be a bit uncomfortable sleeping in the bassinet.

Ashraff, on the other hand, could not get a shut-eye because he was uncomfortable. He wanted his bed pretty bad. The thing is if you are seated at the front row, where there is the only place you can enjoy bassinet facility, the handle (or divider) between the seat could not be uplifted. So Ashraff could not lie down and had to settle for sleeping sitting upright. We had to resort using the cough syrup to make him doze off. So at about 12.30 am Malaysian time, he finally dozed off to lalaland. And was awaken by the breakfast calling 4 hours later. Only 4 hours of sleep?! As expected, Ashraff was very cranky due to lack of sleep. Aliff too, despite sleeping throughout the journey. Maybe he was not use to wake up at around 6.00 am Malaysian time (8.00 am Aussie time).

Thus, with two boys whinning, crying and shouting throughout the check-out and security procedures, few catastrophic events occured.

One, we left our beloved Canon camera in the taxi that took us to the apartment.

Two, we left our Avent Thermabag with two bottles in it at the airport trolley.

Three, our stroller's front handle (where you normally attach a toy to it) patah.

Bengang, sedih, rasa nak balik, semuanya ada. It's pretty hard to handle all the things (eventhough we packed lightly) when your main focus is only on the kids. I had to take care of Aliff who needs to be carried all the time (because he is tired)..and Hubby needs to focus on Ashraff and at the same time take care of the things...Ya Allah, memang challenging!

Anyway, we managed to fix things (of course with additional expenses). We bought a new smaller and handy camera, we carried the thermo flask and milk powder everywhere we go and we fix the stroller with a cellophone tape. One thing good is we lost our camera in the beginning so tak banyak photos yang hilang...What if we lost the camera in the middle of the jouney. I would have gone besserk!!

Now back to our "nicer" holiday story. We checked-in at a one bedroom apartment at Pacific International Suite at approximately 10.30 am (OZ time). It was a perfect accommodation with fully equipped kitchen (which kitaorang tak guna sebab nak kena samak semuanya), a microwave, washing machine and a dryer, a flat screen TV and a sofa bed. Thanks for the review I got from this travel forum.

This is the message that appears on the TV Screen as we switch it on for the 1st time. I'm impressed!!

We had our rest. The kids slept for like 3 hours straight, while me and hubby feed our famished tummy and I did the laundry after that.

The apartment was right in the heart of the city, so we did our first tour by foot at around 3 pm, when the both kids are well rested.

The weather was sunny with a temperature of about 23 degree celcius. Our first place to visit is Queen Victoria Building which is just two streets away from our apartment. It's actually a beautiful shopping complex, in contrast with modern buildings. I love the exterior as well as the interior design. Macam building lama-lama gitu. Even the elevator pun stail lama...nice...

Tidur lagi...He must be very tired...

The life size replica of Queen Victoria during her coronation.

Then from QVB, we walked to the main shopping street, which is the Pitt St. Tak singgah mana-mana coz by that time, the shops were mostly closing (they closed at 5pm). We just dropped by at Coles to shop for some food for tomorrow's breakfast...and of couse, not to be forgotten the fresh milk. If you are a milk lover, you have to try OZ's milk. Mmg fresh!

At night, we walked to the Darling Harbour which is just a short walking distance from our apartment.

The harbourside is superb with lots of yacht, sailboats and ferries. Too bad our new camera could not capture a good night vision of the harbour. We even witnessed the lunar eclipse that night. Lots of professional photographers were there to take the excellent view of the eclipse from the harbourside.

We went to bed at around 11 pm that night. Ingat nak lagi cepat, but the kids refused to sleep. Probably due to a minor time difference...