Melbourne - 23June/15July 2016
Ok! Finally, time for this. Haven't gotten the chance to really sit down and go 'ok its time to write about tasmania/ melbourne' until 4 months later.
But this is basically to note down how the trip was like in every teeny weeny bit possible as far as I can remember.
So I flew off to Melbourne on 23 June 2016 to meet Bun again. It was this experience at the Tullamarine custom that turned me off sooooo much. I am not sure why I was targeted but maybe I was too blur at that moment to know about anything or recall what I should do at the airport clearing customs. Having to be sleeping almost the entire ride from Singapore to Melbourne, I woke up a little cranky as well.
So what went down that day was still fresh till this day in my head. There was a female custom officer who stopped me, and asked for my blue ticket and being clueless and lost, I just followed what she said before going to collect my luggage and of course answer her question as to why I am here in Melb. Then came the normal inspection for illegal items into the countries.
So the same officer who seems to have been waiting for me, took me to one of those metal counter and started questioning me. Not sure if its normal or if its overboard, but she asked me quite a fair bit of questions that I have never encountered in any other country. Such as,
1. why are you here visiting (again). and I have to clarify myself again
2. how did you meet your boyfriend
3. do you have a picture of you and him (I deleted everything in my phone to make space for new pictures as I have 16GB on my iphone only)
4. after speaking to me in proper english for more than 10 min, she asked me if I understand everything on the declaration form twice.
5. after asking me if I understand, she asked me more than twice if I know my address and I was reciting the address to her by then.
I was almost of the verge of calling over to bun and get him to explain to her. Was so stupid. She then ask if I bring any items that are prohibited which I declined and I was quite irritated that I wanted to open up my luggage without her saying. Not a good start yeah. tsk.
Then, cleared custom after all the plane and custom delays and went out to look for bun. Was unhappy the whole time until the car stopped right before a full rainbow. Then tada, my day was made. All good now.
Significant events in Melbourne (after I cleared my jet lag) -
Marysville, Lake mountain - We drove down for some snow as I haven't really experience snow since when I was in Harbin in 2012. The drive to Marysville was so amazing that I had to snap some pictures.
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