The Perth That Killed the KL

Been back from perth for abt 1/2 week now.
been too lazy to blog abt it.
but since i've got time in the office now w nothing to do, tot i'll juz do a quick update.

this trip is prolly one of the most incident/drama-filled trips ever.
got the confirmation email from customer on thur, 8 oct.
so tried to book tickets to perth but our travel agent said flights were full till tue nite which means i'll only arrive on wed morning to start work. so checked the internet for seats and they had seats available. tried to select the flight but the SQ website was busy and in the end the flight was full again. had to refresh for like ther next 30mins b4 i could get a ticket to fly to perth on fri nite.

met up w julien, a long lost church fren who's now a PR in perth. dinner on sunday nite at the little creatures brewery for pizza.
good food there i tell u. the nachos were power as well. 3 ppl, 3 pizzas, 1 nachos, all gone. well... almost all.

work was a lil hairy for the first 3 days coz i had not found the necessary info to implement the new switch i was supposed to install and got quite frustrated.
but thankfully a phonecall to the boss gave me a new direction to work in.
and dat pretty much solved all my problems.
the new switch was installed, ready to go on wed and needed the engines to be running to do a complete test.
engines were not ready until fri nite/ sat morning.

sooo... i have thur n half of fri to walk ard perth!
went to the casino on wed nite. won abt aud300 but after deducting cab money, i had won ard aud240.
met up w joe, an old colleague from the airforce days, for lunch.
walked ard and shopped abit. bought 2 starwars tees and a fedora from roger david, another 3 more tees from jayjays.
walked ard the city some more, visited the swan bells tower (din go up).
joe bought me a whole apple strudel from corica to finish. it was really good stuff. but it was too much for 1 person to finish.
so had apple strudel n beer for dinner dat nite.

met up w joe again on fri morning to go to harbourtown for factory outlet shopping.
bought a hoodie and a pair of shorts. went back into the city and got myself a rashguard to use when i dive.
macs was having an angus beef burger promo so tried it. decently good but the real thing din look like the peekture :(
but it was good stuff.

thankfully the weather was good on thur n fri - nice n warm. unlike the other days from sat to wed when it was kinda windy n cold.

sat was time to go home :(
wad i dun like abt perth is it takes amazingly long for a taxi to show up after u've called for one.
waited for abt 50mins for the cab to take us to the airport lor.
but dat was all over and i'm juz glad i managed to deliver the goods for the customer coz it'll definitely look bad if we had to charge them for no work done.

but coz i had to fly back on sat, i had to miss the long-awaited KL trip w some of the JDYC peeps :(
at least i could claim the money back from the office. so no loss there, except for the fun and the adventure. DANG!
"perks" of the job dat i have to live w i guess.