West Gate Bridge

Today, during lunch time, i need to become a courier boy after i find out that it cost about 200 something just to send a file to Geelong. Anyway, its not too bad, not that far actually, or may be i am used to the distance i guess. okie, on my way back, i took the West Gate Bridge, which is the highest bridge in Melbourne,58m above the water! Very impressive structure and of course it eventually become one of the important landmark in melbourne.

the speed limit is set at 80km/hour, but then, just last month the police announce that due to high amount of inacurate speed photoshoot, they decided to shut down the speed camera on the bridge. so, in the end, as expected, people are obviously travelling more than 80KM/hr.
this is the view of port Melbourne from the bridge. its not very clear i know, and the actual view is much more spectacular than this. Thats why you always have to travel yourself to a place to experience everything yourself, dont just rely on books and pictures... Notice on the right you can see the amazing Spirit of Tamania, the Fastest Ferry in the world. Never been up there before, i guess i must try it one day...
The city view from the bridge
and one thing interesting about this petrol station just as you get off the bridge. Differ from normal petrol station, this petrol station is built with tent-like canvass or what we call sails. So basically just a big piece of canvas, a few support column, a few tie rod, then thats it. Very special and interesting design. when i was in Uni i studied about the design of these sail before, trust me, to design it and calculate is not as easy as it looks...
and just outside my office, there is a huge ship parking at the port there, looks cool as if the ship is park on the road...
another bridge on city link...

Eastlink

For the past few days i was working at my company's pakenham office together with a project manager. Actually this office is very different with the one in Port Melbourne, first of all, this one is smaller. much much smaller, and in the construction office, there are only 2 people in the office. But then, the office building itself is big. So, that makes it look very quiet, and because there are less people there, so basically you got more freedom to do stuff you want. The building still got the Old logo and name of the company, probably thats because its not a major office and noone bother to spend money on it.
On my way home i took the Princes Freeway, its about 48km drive from my home, but luckily most of them are freeway so in the end it only took about 40 minutes.
then i joined into the East link. So, the big difference between a Freeway and a Tollway is that Tollway you need to pay something call Toll (sorry a bit bullshit here, bear with me). So, to collect the toll, the company install these machines alone the tollway. So what you do is to install a device in your car, then when the car past the station the device will beep and then, money will deducted from your account. Note the station actually got two columns one after another, so the first column is fitted with this scanning devices. But if you do not have this device, and you drive past through a station, then there are cameras installed on the second column to take photo of your car and you got 3 days to ring up and pay. Very simple, straight forward, you dont even have to slow your car or anything, just keep driving....Now, just for comparison sake, (thanks Google image)in Malaysia, specially KL, we got this so called Toll also ooo. But then, the difference is, the toll stations are much much bigger, not just two columns, and then, when you are there, you have slow...slow... until you completely stop, then pay your toll, or scan your Touch and go, then keep accelerate again and drive. Now question is, its a highway! why do we have to slow down on a highway while there are a better way to collect toll? Malaysia called herself so called technological country with the world largest MSC, but then? Cant even beat the system in famously technological out dated Australia. Anyway, doesnt matter, i am not living in Malaysia anyway.
Back to East link, along there way there is this art sculture. One thing i like about Australia is that there are a lot of so called art sculture everywhere, which i know alot of people call these art "rubbish". Anyway, just learn to be Australian and learn to appreciate...

Another shot on the toll gate...And on Eastlink, they got these colourful panels installed, which serve as the sound barrier walls, which is a bit interesting, coz normally they just use plain concrete wall for these... And the greatest thing in East link, the tunnel. it should be the longest one in Victoria, not sure about Australia. as you approach the tunnel from Ringwood direction, you got this monument-alike thing standing right in front of the tunnels, with all the flowers pattern. The Actual figure look much impressive than it does in the photo i must say...

the tunnel towards city, is called Melba. i forgot the name for the other direction. So remember to quote the right name in case of emergency.
inside the tunnel... my phone camera start to show its weakness in dark...
Tunnel exit...my phone camera start showing weakness under bright sun as well...
Anyway, East link is the latest major infrastructure developement in Victoria. Well, the toll will not operate until this Sunday, so grab the chance, grab a car and experience the facility yourself. afterall, we paying tax also, for 4 weeks of toll free Highway....

Toilet story

I hope this will not affect your appetite for the next few hour. This is what i will come across every morning in my toilet, a favourite trandmark of my housemate. Well, i am not a very particular person, and i think i am a very flexible person, but then, early in the morning the first thing you go to a toilet and see this yellowish chrysantemun tea in there, that really make me sick. why on earth people doesnt flush after toilet? if you staying together in a house, cant you be considerate a bit?

i ponder this question for a while, and then i come to these conclusion why people doesnt flush their toilet:

1. They are extreme environmentalist who think flushing is not a environmental friendly thing, which doesnt apply here.
2. they are from Ulu Kampung from somewhere and never see a toilet seat before and thus doesnt know the toilet got a flush function. which could be possible here...
3. they got this short term memory lost that they forgot to flush, which, is possible also
   
4. they did it on purpose to show their attitude, which is possible also
5. they are dog, piss and go, dog never flush, which, is possible also
6. last but not least, i call this, "chicken chop kid", which is 100% applicable here!

good nite

Flinders Station

Today, let me share with you what i will see almost everyday on my way home, the Flinders station. This is the train station that i used to come across almost everyday when i was catching the train to work, and now, even i am driving, still i get the chance to see her every day.

To me, Flinders station is a very old and very unique building. Some people said she looks similar to the dunno forgot what Sultan something building just across the merdeka square. Anyway, that show something, both Australia and Malaysia still got the footprints from the British years ago...
Have you ever think of one question when you are looking at building like this? with the so called advance technology, with the so called smarter brain, how come the builder nowadays doesnt build something like this anymore?Probably that explains the saying that people in old time really eat full and nothing to do...
Just some distance behind the old old station, stands the tallest building in Melbourne, the Eureka Tower. Eureka Tower, at the time of its construction, is the World tallest Residential Building. and of course now the record is broken by dunno which kiasu country.
upfront, you can actually see that this Eureka Tower got a funny look. She is very "thin" and very "tall" compare to other skyscraper. the problem with this kind of shape is that, you tends to fall very easily, and thus, the foundation become a very important aspect in this skyscraper. someone told me (forgot who liao and yet to be confirmed if its true) that they did piling up to 100metres during the construction... if it is true, 100m piling in a solid hard ground like melbourne, impressive...

and also, a very beautiful old church just somewhere near swanston street in front of the station. i must say Melbourne is a big city, very modern, very busy, and very fast paced. But then, unlike other big city, she still got plenty of these old old building around, which doesnt match the status at all. But anyway, glad to have these old old building, because people nowadays are not patient enough to build something like this again...and last, the famous Melbourne tram. Melbourne got the biggest tram network in Australia. Well, Question, do you like tram? i dont, to be honest. To me, tram actually make city road so small and crowded, and often, i think tram doesnt get around the places faster than a bus. so, why bother tram while you got a cheaper option on bus? Last time i heard Penang in Malaysia is haunted with traffic jam, and then someone propose to them to build tram in city. I was thinking, with aparently a better attitude in driving in Melbourne, tram already cause that much chaos, well,sometimes, so with the superb skill of driving of fellow Malaysian, in which aparently i guess noone will give way to any tram and keep blocking tram way, i dont think tram can get around any faster also....
sorry for the blurry picture, i was using my phone, again....

Jelly Fishy

Its just another working day at the beach, the forecast says it will be 17 degree today, Sunny, consider beautiful judging that you are in the middle of Winter! So, beautiful sunrise, not so windy, not so cold, beautiful sea, feel like on a vacation. The only thing is that I need to wake up early and start driving all the way down here…
and the sun rises....
As I were doing some work near the water, I spot something cool! A jelly fish! How cute is that! So lucky they are not in China, if not they probably will be ended up in someone’s stomach….

And not just one, but couples more....
and more..........

and more! Looks spectacular! is it the season now or something? imagining you were swimming in the beach here....

even plenty of them on shore....
So, these jelly fish ended up to be my headline in my blog today. Wish you all a good day today today. Be happy....cheers

East Link to Frankston

So, it is Saturday again. Today i slept till midday, consider this a luxury to me as since i start going Geelong, i had to start getting out at 6am in order to reach down there by 7.30am. Anyway, it is good for being able to hide myself in my warm sleeping bed in this cold winter...

Today i decided to travel on East link from the very start to the very end. well it tool me about 30 mins to get to the Frankston beach, which used to be more and one hour drive if i go by the old route. So, you probably will save half of your travel time there, but then East link is a toll way, and return will cost you about 9 dollars something. is it worth it? do your own calculations...

its windy, its cold, its high tide. Just remember that i was at beach everyday this week, and now saturday i am still at the beach... Melbourne is really boring, sometimes...

Geelong in the morning

This morning it was so freezing. Anyway, as usual i need to travel all the way to Geelong again. Well, nothing special, but then somehow i find the morning sun to be lovely, and beautiful. Whats even better, the sun start giving you a feeling of warm, probably psychologically, as i didnt actually go and measure the temperature to confirm this.

Again, i must say the design of this promenade is cool... this is the last one that still exist in Victoria... this one even got a shark proof rail underneath the promenade.

wish you all a good day today....