Day 3: Rise and sleep again

My finger throbbed with pain the whole of today. I spent ages inspecting it to see if it had any cuts or bruises or something that caused its pain, but found nothing.

Then I remembered. I burnt it against the frying pan this morning while frying an egg for my bacon and egg sandwich breakfast.

Anyway! On to Day 3, perhaps one of the more interesting days, but oh-so-tiring.

From Brisbane AMTA conference 2011

Decided, who needs more than 3 hours of sleep, and got up at the insane hour of 4am. No, scratch that, make it 3:30am.

Day 2: Brisbane

Day 2 started with breakfast~! Checked out of apartment and left luggage behind. Walked around nearby and found a rather populated cafe, decided it's safe to try, and it turned out to be really good.

From Brisbane AMTA conference 2011

Really liked how they used naan bread rather than toasts, and I absolutely loved the olive oil salsa.

Day 1: Sunshine Coast!

So last year I had a couple of posts dedicated to Melbourne because that was where the previous AMTA conference was held. This year, it was in Brisbane, so I headed up there. Unfortunately, next year I won't have anywhere new to go to- it's in Sydney!

From Brisbane AMTA conference 2011

The wonderful thing about Queensland is their transport. Definitely not as primitive as Sydney and its paper tickets. They use a "Go card", which works the same way the Octopus card in HK and in Singapore. Tap in when you get on the bus, tap out when you get off. I find myself fumbling for my card when I'm getting off because I forget about tapping off. How noob.

Just Chillin'

So it's been a week since I came back and things have been getting back to normal pretty quickly. Sure helps that I had a presentation to do the next day after touching down, it was a great way to sink right backinto reality.

From Brisbane AMTA conference 2011

Though I did get a couple of days to just chill out in the sun and splash around in waters.

=D going to do long entries next time when I have time....

Where sun rises at 5:20am

Was hit with a sudden wave of incredible tiredness, and proceeded to climb into bed for a sleep. 2 hours went by. All I dreamt about was playing the violin in a music therapy session with orchestral members playing cello and violins with me...

Woke up feeling like I just worked my arms off, yet it was such a good "dream" session that I wish I had it recorded so I can just use whatever I played as my composition and hand it in as is.

It's times like these when I wish I can keep a record of dreams in avi so I can rewatch them anytime.

On another note, I have returned from Brisbane's 37th Annual AMTA conference! :D

From Brisbane AMTA conference 2011

And have lots of pictures to blog about, but I really need to do some work for now.

Will be back!