White Water Rafting!

Right there's something to talk about today! I did white water rafting! The experience itself was mindblowing! Out of this world! We had to wake up for 6am in the morning and on the coach ride down they start telling you about safety stuff! That scared me, by now the adrenalin was pumping all around the body and I was almost worried that I would be wetting myself! It's quite funny actually because when I 1st went on it, i thought oh this is just a tourist thing, nothing big, however as you get higher and higher into the mountains/rainforest, you realise there's no tourists around! Infact there's nobody around! It was quite scary as they said we may encounter crocidiles, dangerous spiders and venemous snakes! However once we got kitted up with helmets, and lifejackets, the fear subsided and turned into excitement! Me and Jeetan were paired up with 3 guys and 1 woman and 2 instructors. Once we got into the rafts, I realised just how beautiful everything was around here! It was like what you see in the movies! Think, Last of the Mohicans or Rambo or even Tropic Thunder! We were surronded by mountains and going down a high current river! There were many waterfalls around and lots of vegetation! Also lots of rock! The Tully, which was the river we were on is a grade 4 river. Rafting works in grades, 1 being easy and 6 being damn near impossible! We were on a grade 4 and had never rafter before! Once we got going though it was such a rush and we just bounced down the rapids, nearly capsized and paddled alot with the paddles! If you like the rapids at alton towers then multiply that by 1 billion and add the lil attribute that it's not entirely as safe as that. Believe me, there's plenty of room for injury especially on the rocks. Lots of cuts etc. Jeetan has some massive bruises! I came out unscathed luckily! However we didn't just get to raft we got the swim down the river with the current! Oh my word it was amazing! If you like lazy rivers at wet n wild, then multiply that also by 1 billion and thats what you have! The water was so clean as well! You have to be a strong swimmer though! Jeetan struggled heeavily and often got caught by the current!He almost fell out of the raft as well! Another thing we got to do was go under a waterfall! Last of the Mohicans style! I didn't jump off it like daniel day lewis don't worry! But it was beautiful underneath is and the power of the water is crazy! Put it this way, I would rather get a few slaps around the head from Grandad than go under it voluntarily and get caught by the water! The final thing I did has to be a personal highlight for me. I jumped off a really high rock/cliff into the water from really high up! Like you see in the films or in the james blunt music video for "your beautiful" (but with nicer water). It was crazy! I got to the end of the rock and though no way! I'm not doing this, but then my muscles took over before my mind could think and I just jumped! Tomorrow is the great barrier reef so rock on! Until then bye!

My second Video Blogcast!

Hello and greetings from Aus! This is a mega quick blog for you guys to check out. This is a video of my 2nd blogcast from the top of Cape Byron. Its not brilliant and very long but people were staring at me like I was a weirdo and I ran out of things to say! I really wanted to upload pics, however I have forgot the email addy for my flicker account! So what I may do is just upload them onto my facebook profile as most of you have that. I haven't had time to do that yet though. We have booked our flight to Cairns, and I have just spoken with a family member here that went there recently. Supposedly the climate there is Tropical! Compared to mid tropical as it is here in brissy. Also the sea is supposed to be so clear you can see to the bottom of the reefs! I am slightly apprehensive though! He said that when you dive into the reef, sharks sometimes are there, but are supposedly harmless! Also there's supposed to be these massive things called "goobers" that swim up next to you and have massive teeth, but supposedly don't harm humans. I am starting to think this is going to be quite scary! Having fish swim at you from all directions in the reef will be weird and quite creepy! However it's supposed to be beautiful there and part of me can't wait to go and check it out! Also the seafood there is supposed to be unreal so yum yum in my ever growing tum it seems!The weather here is crazy and somedays us "Pommies" can't even take the heat, it is abit of a killer. What's scarier is that in Cairns its even hotter! So i'm around just over half way through the holiday now and already dreading the killer flight back to England! Currently this is like a mini break before the second half of the trip in the tropical part of Aus. So I have another day left tommorow in which I will visit some family as I did today, then it's back on the gypsy path of travelling again. Anyway there's really not much to write about today as it's just been a chilling one at home, however I did play with the dog here, play badminton and teach the kids some football moves. So until then enjoy the video and speak to you soon.

I wrote a blog, I wrote a blog for you, and all the things you do and it was called...

Ok i'm back for another quick blogfest! I am back in Brisbane tomorrow and that will be for the last time as we fly off to Cairns after that and we are on the road until we return to the UK. What have I done in the last 24 hours? Let me think. Well i did it! I climbed cape Byron yesterday! Took a while actually but boy oh boy what a view from the top! We were very high up and saw the pacific ocean and dolphins and whales! It was awesome. It was a hard climb up actually and contrary to what you think Jaskiran I didn't sip milk and watch other people do it! I was up there climbing it myself! As a special treat for anyone that reads this blog, I filmed a second video blogcast from the top of the Mountain! I will upload it when I get back to brissy tommorow! So you too will be able to see what we saw back in the UK! It was a bit weird filming it, because everyone kept looking at me thinking I was come kind of reporter or something! I even had to do 2 takes! (that sounds cool doesn't it?) Anyway after that we went on a night out but this was the best so far. We basically had a flatparty! True backpacker style! We had our flatmates, there and some French girls there and we met some Aussie guys who were real cool (cos they liked football! they were big fans) and we put some songs on someguys ipod speakers and rocked out there for a while, whilst drinking! We have a balcony as well, so there were quite a few people there as well so it was all going off in our place oh yeah lol! I also have a few communication points to make! Love is not a universal language! They say it is! I don't know who "they" are but they are wrong! Football is a universal language! I'm not joking, its the best conversation ice breaker with girls or guys! Since I have been here there's been so much footie banter its been wikkid, and some of the aussies here know their football and love the premier league. Whilst on that topic, what a goal by ronaldo the other day hey? Wow! Oh and Benitez is out of order with his gestures to big Sam! (that one's for you dad!) My second communication point, my French isn't that bad! We had French speaking flat mates that spoke real good English, so we always spoke in English. However after a few drinks, The frenchman in me came out. It's not that bad actually and I think my French has improved since living with them! I could actually speak and understand them in French (School did teach me something then!). So that's that so far. Its out last night in Byron today and I will be sad to leave this place. We chilled on the beach today and played a little beach rugby and went in the sea. Now i'm deliberated staying up to watch the Man united v Everton match, its on at 2am here and will finish at 4am, and i have to be up for 8am to catch the coach out of here, so i'm not sure yet. Unfortunately I can't reply to all your comments in the blog so sorry but , I do read them all and love hearing from you all. To the person who is asking me to guess who there are, i'm guessing....Sukhi cha cha! I'm 150% sure it you. In response to your comment about mine and Jeetans' friendship being the same as dad and K's. Well I disagree, firstly me and Jeetan are the same age as each other, and though he may be a bit dopey he has his own mind which unfortunately K doesn't! Dad controls him like a robot! Until next time, bye for now and look out for pics and videos to be uploaded either tommorow or the day after. bye!

A quick hello from the Bay!

Ok I have to keep this post brief as I am paying for the net and money doesn't grow on trees! Plus i'm just about to climb a mountain! This is a response to all the ugly rumors written about me in the comments section! I can confirm it is true! I am getting married to a girl from india who has moved to Australia here, here name is "Manjula" and hopefully we will have a very happy life together. Keerat, I will get you a snow globe as soon as I see one, I haven't seen any yet because there's not many snowglobe shops where I am right now. Manolo! Your an idiot! Tell PP, once she actually starts messaging me herself, instead of making cookies and milk for paren then maybe I will message her back! Tell her friendship is a 2 way street! Ok and before I continue, I just want to say, I miss everyone back at home dearly, though you think i'm having a great time and that I probably don't think of you, I do, each and everyone of you. I miss being home quite a bit actually! I will also take this time to specially say Jaskiran, I miss you too ok! So you can start commenting on my blog again now moody!
There's so much to tell you about my stay here so far that I feel I would be short changing you if I rushed it, I would rather write about it at the weekend when I have some time. In short though, we have drank with Australia lads, the way Australian lads do, danced on tables all night long, danced on bars, been on the beach and played rugby, and now about to climb a mountain! Life is so chilled out in the place and it's beautiful, I will upload some pics when I can at the weekend. Manolo, I may do a video blogcast again but not with Jeetan in it! Unfortunately that boy has voiced his concern about having himself on the internet and doesn't want him in any of the blogs. I think it's stupid mentality personally, but then that is surely his mentailty no? It's quite bad though as I have many funny stories about him! Oh and I'm so over the moon Man U are through! Yeaaaahhh boy! So I now hope you all get ready to meet and greet my wife, she is very special to me and I hope you are all preparing for the wedding now! Navraj! Get ready to be my Schvallah! (Thats spelt so badly wrong)

Everybodys going surfing!!! surfin with the....COPS!

Ok I will have to keep this post brief, which will probably mean it being on 20 pages long this time! I'm off out tonight so have to get ready and start drinking etc so apologies for the hurried post. I will give you as always a quick update of my adventures. We ended up in surfers paradise! Its basically like Miami! Commercialized with palm trees and beaches. We spent some time on the beach, larked about however out main aim was to hit the town hard that night. You see surfers' is Australia's main part town will streets full of clubs and bars. I think we hit about 5 clubs that night! All in the space of a a few hours! Its free entry into alot of the clubs if you talk to the right people so we were sorted in that sense. We had a good night everything was going well, jeetan was tipsy and lets just say in Jeetan mode. Things were going well. So what happend next? Well we walked into a club paid the entry fee to get in which was about 2 or 3 pounds and as me and Jeetan both have bad bladders (yeah thats right, were the bladder boys) we both headed straight for the toilet when we got in. Next thing we know a bouncer follows us in. He starts questioning us about a missing envelope and wanted to search us. I knew we had nothing to hide so i let him. He found nothing and went. We carried on washing our hands and next thing we know 5 police officers surrond us in the toilets and ask us to leave the building as they wanted "a chat with us outside." About the same missing envelope. Apparently when we had paid the money to the lady at the kiosk an envelope full of money had gone missing and as we were the last people in, they thought it was us. I wasn't a happy bunny to say the least, everyone was staring at us in the club. However as i knew a thing or two about law, i know if your innocent the best thing to do is co-operate. If your guilty on the other hand don't say a word and call your lawyer (a lil tip for you all just incase).So they take us outside and search us again. I let them, they looked through our wallets etc and found nothing obviously! What really pissed me off was when they searched me again!!!! So now it was time to put my degree to use! I said to them in a politely agressive voice (if there is such a thing), "officer is there a problem here? you have searched us 3 times and found nothing, i'm a lawyer and i know all about the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and your powers to stop and search, i am fully aware you have acted ultra vires out of them powers and I have only co operated so you can see we are innocent! Now may you please release us as i have noted all your names down (i actually had, and i was drunk!) and am thinking about reporting you to your precinct"
Thats all it took! They suddenly had a changed look on their faces, apologised and started being all friendly with me asking me how long I had practised law (i said 2 years, blatant lie as we all know i'm currently a bum)then the manager gave us a free drink and everything. We left it there! So that was our adventure from last night.

This morning we arrived in Byron bay and place which i can only explain as heaven. It's beautiful in every sense of the word. It had beautful beaches , its set us up in the aussie mountains so when you are on the beach you can see them in the background , the weather has almost become too hot for us! however when you walk along the beach you get that cool sea breeze. Tommorow I am climbing Mount Byron and suppposeldy from the top you can see whales and Dolphins in the Pacific Ocean. I love it here, its my favourtie place so far. Hostel is brand new and very nice! I would actually have to say i'm in la la land right now! Ok before i leave you, i always try and leave you with something remotley funny. Today i will discuss shared toilets and showers! This is the 1st hostel I have stayed in where the boys and girls share the toilets and showers. Now guys you probably think this is cool right? NO! I went into the toilet today andwent for a number 1, as you do! In the next cubicle someone was having the biggest pooh of their life. I came out of my cubicle as they did theirs...it was a girl! That kind fo stuff really screws with your mind! I don't know if it's just me and I know girls are human just like men, however having to be in a cubicle listening to someone taking a dirty pooh and finding it was a girl really screwed me up! I haven't had any shared shower experiences yet lads, before you ask! So that, that for the time being, I will update the blog with pics at the weekend and am toying with the idea of recording a small short video blogcast from here, but i am not sure if i will, I'm having too much fun! Oh and before I go, this one is for the guys, I have shared rooms with Norwegian, Italian, French and Swedish girls so far! Jealous?

My 1st Video Blogcast!

Ok so before I embark on my Journey to Surfers and Byron, I thought I would try something different! Probably a big mistake! This is my first video blogcast I like to call it! By the way I made that name up so I want it copyrighted! I look rough as hell in it as usual big beard et al. However I can assure you i'm just about to go shave! Let me know what you think of it anyway! Oh my I have just watched the vid one last time before it airs and boy oh boy do i look scruffy, rough and sound like a woman but oh well! Oh and be sure to check out the post below its all part of the same day I have just done this in 2 different posts. There's pics in the post below!

Sydney...we came, we saw, we conquered!

Hello again! Firstly let me get something out the way, I have uploaded some pics! Only 7 I think! However you can check them out from my flickr account page its like a website where you can check out my pics! The links :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37333026@N04/?saved=1

Check em out and leave some comments letting me know how bad I look!

Right ok now back to the blog! So if i'm not mistaken, I left you last in Melbourne where we were about to get onto a 12 hour coach ride! I won't bore you with the details, but I will say this, It was horrible and I didn't have much sleep at all during it , it was all getting too much with the traveling and lack of sleep and I almost fell ill. I could feel my thorat, eyes and head hurt and could feel a cough coming on. Luckily I feel asleep just long enough to avoid it!

When we got to Sydney it was good Friday and we couldn't check into our hostel until 10am, and we were there at 7 am. So we spent 3 hours walking around a very quiet sydney! Its a very nice city, clean and beautiful! We walked up to the opera house and harbour bridge and it was a sight to behold! The sun had just come up it was reflecting off the water, Sydney itself was silent due to the lack of people there on good friday and in the horizon stood the opera house and the harbour bridge. I'm not usually one for this kind of the stuff, but the whole sight was beautiful. The view mixed with the silence really was something I won't forget for sometime, all you could hear was the water and the birds. I had to keep reminding myself that this was a capital city! The fact that i was thinking all this while still feeling hungover should give you an insight into how beautiful the sight really was!

We went back to our hostel checked in and went to the room. It seemed we were sharing it with some really messy girl her clothes seems to cover every corner in the bloody room! When we met her she was actually quite a nice girl and she was from Norway. We spent the 2nd half of the day in Sydney aquarium and once again i'm not one for all this animal stuff but we had a wikkid time in the shark tank and koala petting zoo thing and seein all this finding nemo clown fish! One thing that wrecked my whole evening without getting into too much detail was the amount of people crowdin round the tanks with cameras, in big families taking 5 million shots! It really started to piss me off why? because gues who it was? Chinese people! Millions of them all over the aquarium! That really hacked me off! They were all so rude as well pushing yout to get out of their shot without eveuing asking you politely! In the evening as the clubs etc were closed because it was good friday, we went for a nice meal by the harbour. Once again, i'm the type of person who loves my restaraunts and nice places and bars. This place was amaizng. It over looked the harbour at night. All the boats were all lit up in the harbour and it looked wikkid!

Anyway this blog has taken me 2 days to write due to computer problems so here's day 2 of Sydney. We woke up and went to manly beach. Basically we asked everyone there and the locals and they all said that Bondi beach was too commercialised and rubbish now and manly beach was cool and chilled out with more bars and food places on the beach. So we took a ferry down there. It was another beautiful sight. The ferry ride took about 30 mins to get to the beach and as we sailed out you could see the whole of sydney including the iconic opera house and harbour bridge, once again this was a sight to behold! When we came back we got to see the whole of Sydney lit up at night which was pretty cool aswell!

At night we went on a night out in Sydney. The club was cool and that, although it was pretty messed up. As in Sydney you get alot of people from India studying here. So then they come out on nights out after. It's messed up! They walk around like wannabe bollywood models and do some of the dodgiest dancing known to man. They try to copy dance moves like the worm and stuff and it just doesn't look right. Then they start body popping, don't get me started on that! Luckily they haven't attempted the robot yet. What makes it funnier is that they are REALLY dark and have dodgy Moustaches! Anyway the night out was ok, nothing special, we then went to sleep at 3am and had to get up at 5am to catch our plane back to Brissy. It's safe to say when we got back we looked like dead dogs, and thats complimenting us!

Anyway I will do a small bit on what happen when we got to brissy (which is the family house we were staying in before we left). We got back, showered, slept for 5 hours, woke up and ate! Then this is when stuff got messed up! Some random woman came over to our house that my family knew and heard me speak punjabi and was impressed or something. Next thing I know arrangements are being made for my supposed marriage! Thats right this woman tried attempting to set me up with some girl she knew. So I was polite with her, laughed it off and got the hell out of that room! That wasn't that last I heard of it, as my family then proceeded to take it further in a serious manner! I kind of deflected it now I think though (for the time being!). What's the best thing about coming back to brisbane though? The fact that I can drink milk again! Yay!