surfers paradise...real paradise?

managed to finish checking in by 11a.m. so we decided to walk all the way to the famous surfers paradise. it took us about 20 mins from our apartment. leng yee would only arrive later that night at 9pm.

there was not much to see actually but the beach was breathtaking. babes in bikini and surfer dudes? well, you get so many of them that none stood out. har har. the sand was really soft. the whole foot would sink when you stepped on it. so fine.

encountered first discrimination here. not that i did not expect this kind of treatment to asian but just not so soon. we decided to have lunch at a pizza place. so took a seat at one of the tables outside the shop. the waiter did not give us a glance at all while serving the table next to ours. only when i asked for the menu did he come. then he just left us there. he brought food to the next table and still did not want to ask us what we wanted to order. it was too much for me, so we left.

call them ignorant. it made me feel better. they just do not know how to deal with us, coloured people because they do not see many of us.

this is obviously for the throng of japanese in gold coast. there were many of them. some have taken permanent residentship and the rest were all tourists. i did not see many malaysians like us wandering around. there were many kiwis and australians (there was an ironperson competition at main beach.)
aquaduck transport. A$32 an hour!!! will bring you around and go onto the sea and waterways.

you see holiday apartments everywhere you go in gold coast. this was taken from the bus stop outside our apartment. straight ahead would be surfers.