Sunday, October 23, 2005

Down By The Yarra

Last weekend, Terese and I decided to go for a walk down by the Yarra river. This part of the city is called Southbank and on the weekends it is usually full of people.
There's a craft market under the Arts Centre.
Street performers every few yards apart. This guy thinks he's Houdini.
Children taking advantage of the warm day to get wet on the water display.
This is the Eureka Tower, right in the heart of Southbank. It is still under construction and will be the tallest residential building in the southern hemisphere or something like that.
Across the river on the other side is the Melbourne Aquarium. I've been there twice but I don't think it's worth the money you have to pay to get in unless you can get a special deal on group booking or some promotional deal that they come out every now and then.
And who can walk past the Crown Casino on Southbank, let's go check it out.
A bit quiet today, maybe it's still early. This place is usually packed full of chinese patrons, we all know how much the chinese like to gamble. Some are so hooked on it that they would sell their family homes just to feed their insatiable habits.

Well at least the State Government is happily racking in millions of dollars from this money making beast from the taxes it collects at the expense of the poor pathetic losers we all are!

10 comments:

Unknown said...

Those place are nice... Don't make me go to Aus la... :~(

Wuching said...

wong-come lor!

Alex Allied said...

yeah haha. and we can go out and get crazy.

nice shots wuching!

Wuching said...

alex allied-thankz man, i like ur photos on chingvale too! :)

narrowband said...

Nice photos.. man! U can take pictures in the casino?

Wuching said...

narrowband-well they didn't come & catch me!

Jeremy C said...

oh man...trip down memory lane. i used to take a walk along the yarra everyweekend after yum cha with my friends...god, suddenly miss melbourne now...

Wuching said...

jeremy-ur always saying u miss melbourne, when r u gonna come down, i'll chia u dinner when u come!

Anonymous said...

yeahlar.. why u can take photos? my first visit to crown, (just to look onli), i wasn't even carrying a camera. it was my phone. i snapped one outside the casino, and a baldy came over and said "sorry mate, no cameras in casino area"

Wuching said...

alex-maybe u look like terrorist lah!