Camera trouble. I realized I forgot to bring my battery charger. Camera batt running low, decided to switch to Sophie's cam for the trip.
. Couple days later, Sophie's memory card was full and there was no way we could delete the pics or transfer them to a different source.
. Decided to borrow Sophie's friend's camera, there was only half batt left. We were powerless, armed with 3 dying battery cameras, we ventured to the Opera House snapping as quick as we can, rationing our batteries.
. That was the only crop up we encountered in our trip.





Supersized. Everything is supersized, their Myers are gargantuous, double storey
Today we set off for more sightseeing.
We set off to the Art Gallery of NSW located along Art Gallery Road within The Domain.






We checked in St Mary's Cathedral first
















We continue to our Art Gallery.
Isn't the name Woolloomooloo extremely cute?






We were extremely lucky to strike good weather during our entire trip
Arrived.


Didn't take much pictures just a few lame ones of us posing. However I did venture into Sidney Nolan and Charles Blackman's paintings. I also rekindled recollections of the Australian artists I studied in Year 12.
Conclusion- I still prefer classical art, modern art is too abstract for an aesthetic simpleton like me.



Napoleon

cute school kids
Evariste Luminais (France, b.1822, d.1896) The sons of Clovis II
1880
This painting stopped me. I was fascinated with how Luminais captured the agonising expression of his figures.

This was my favourite from the gallery. It is especially beautiful upclose and personal.
I have a soft heart for mythology and drama.
Lord Frederic Leighton (England, b.1830, d.1896) Cymon and Iphigenia
1884
Cymon and Iphigenia: A Tale of Love
The story of Cymon and Iphigenia comes from Boccaccio's "The Decameron", a collection of 100 novellas written between 1349 and 1353.
The tale intended to demonstrate the power of love. As Iphigenia sleeps in a grove by the sea, a noble but coarse and unlettered Cypriot youth, Cymon, seeing Iphigenia's beauty, falls in love with her and, by the power of love, becomes an educated and polished courtier.
Despite beautiful weather, there were still extremely strong winds from everywhere!

We embarked to Sydney Uni after lunch.. Sophie's cousin joined us and we traversed to the uni which was located at a nearby suburb, a 45 mins walk.
I hate to admit but Syd uni is so much more beautiful than our Melb uni. It has all that English architecture and olden vibe which our Melb uni lacked, or otherwise scattered sporadicaly.
Sydney uni is extremely big, extremely beautiful and extremely English. One would actually fail to distinguish and mistook it as a Cambridge or an Oxford.




That's a unilodge in case you didn't know

















Somehow the place reminds me of Harry Potter. Hmmm

I have no idea where they came from




Charming and quaint place to study I reckon (:
It was a long day, and very cold.
We just headed back to our place after a long and dreary tiring walk.
At night, we were so stuffed from lunch we settled on snacks instead.
I went back to the Chinese bakery.

And we took an unexpected long night walk to Circular Quay and The Rocks. I swear I jumped when I saw the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge. It was absolutely mind blowing, my brains almost spilled!
I was fanatical about The Rocks, its such a charming european ( more specifically Irish ) little town.
They were all very beautiful and quiet at night even though its a Friday night, I simply couldn't wait for daybreak to visit the place again. It is going to be a very exciting day and I could barely sleep.
Oh there was a Guylian Chocolate cafe located in The Rocks too. In fact, there are a number of notable supermarket-brands-chocolate cafes in Sydney.



I was jumping like a jumping jack!


We were initially scouring for DFS which according to the map stated that it is located next to LV along George St. We searched up and down George St in the City for ages, went to the city's LV but still no sign of DFS.
Adamant and crazy enough to brave the winds, we braced our gut and was determined to look for DFS.
Combed the entire George St, over 600+ units until we reached the end of George St, on the fringe of The Rocks we dumbly realized there were 2 LVs, in fact 2 Guccis, 2 of every freaking thing!
LOL! How could we not realize, it is Sydney after all!
I pride myself with a victory Guylian hot choc in front of DFS! Hot choc was amazing btw
