NYE 2010 - Countdown to 2011

Hi y'all,

How was your NYE? Wonder how I celebrated NYE down under in particular Melbourne?

The day begins with....

Firstly, I just have to comment about how ridiculous Melbourne weather is... As you guys know, it is summer here but some how the weather was pretty chilly for summer. It was chilly for a couple of weeks already but somehow summer decided to hit Melbourne with its wrath...LOL..The temperature on nye was top of 42 degrees Celsius (NO JOKE ><) & the sun was super duper intense. I think you can actually cook an egg on the road...How did this affect me??..wait I will get there..

As usual, my brother decided & planned everything for the day but didn't inform anyone...Woke up at 8am by my bro & had to rush to get ready...

My bro, mum & I drove to his gf's place at Glen near the Syndal Train Station...so all of us (inc his gf) walked & took the train to the city.

Arrived around 10am & we went to Melb Aquarium >< ...saw the cute penguins & dangerous sharks..

After that, we went to Crown (nope..we didn't to go into the casino =0), we had lunch at Number 8....guess what we went after that??

We went to Crown's Arcade (LOL)...It was fun..We spent about $60 on games..imagine how long we were in there..Won like about 1500 tokens =p

This pretty amusing: we played laser tag too (imagine my mum carrying a laser gun trying to shoot youngsters...)...guess who is no.1???

Me..muahaha..got like about 7000 points (no joke)..I even beat my bro who is supposing to be like damn good with shooting games =)..that made my day...

At 5.00pm, we were at Yara Park to pick and reserve a place...Now, here is where I fill you in..Melb council organised a few free nye countdown celebrations around the city & all are outdoors. When we got there, the sun (the humidity) was sooooooooo intense, we felt like dying...I had to put sun block 4x (and I was using spf 50..no help at all)....

To make things worse, the weather-temp didn't change at all for about 3/4 of the time we were there. Look at our faces:

 My bro & his gf:

 My mum & I: look at our faces =p

Yara Park was organised for families (aka kid friendly)...LOL..most of the performances was for kids, got my inner childhood out for a few hours...

BUT the best performance was........GUY SEBASTIAN!!! omg...he was soooooo GOOD..I <3 him...so worth the wait & sweat...

The celebration wasn't that bad, the fireworks was like jaw dropping awesomely good..funny thing was, the fireworks was at 9.20pm...

After the fireworks, we quickly rushed to another park (can't remember the name..but it was quieter & fewer ppl)..here is the view from that park:

The fireworks at 12am was.....woah!!! Non-stop...I think it lasted for more than 10 mins (no joke..maybe even longer..didn't bother to check..lol) 

Sorry I don't have any fireworks pictures/videos. I was enjoying it too much =)

After the fireworks, we rushed as fast we could to the train st...arrived home...& we were all dead tired..

My body was aching & got sun-burned =p...

So this was my first NYE celebration in Melbourne...Conclusion: I enjoyed it, as I could celebrate with my family...it was peaceful but I still was thinking about my friends back in M'sia (I was nostalgic..missed them so much) but I told myself, we will celebrate together again in the future... I can't wait for the next nye celebration!! 

HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!! God Bless!! <3