Saturday, February 11, 2006

The Best Moments of My Working & Travelling Days (My Good Old Days) - Australia (1984,1990,1995,2000-2004)


Those GOOD OLD DAYS when you worked for hours & hours without getting tired - we were the YOUNG ONES " 

" Enjoy yourself. These are the GOOD OLD DAYS you are going to miss them in the years ahead " 

" Sometimes you don't realize how good the GOOD OLD DAYS were until they're gone "


KM Cheng's Photo Gallery - My Good Old Working & Travelling Days in Australia (1984, 1990, 1995, 2000-2004)

"All works no play makes Jack a dull boy" - while on official visits to Australia, there were windows of opportunities for me to join some day tours during the weekends and visit a number of country towns in between the major capital cities of Australia. 

Due to the nature of my job, I had to make several working visits to Australia during the good old days and this gave me great opportunities to visit their agribusiness, building & construction, food processing industries and some of the most memorable places I visited were:

- Underground coal mine
- Paper & pulp mill
- Milk processing plants
- Cattle breeding farms
- Vineyards
- Fruit Orchards
- Hydroponic vegetable farms

The places I visited during my good old days (prior to retirement in May 2006) in major cities, country towns, iconic & touristy places in Australia were:

1) Canberra, Federal Territory - Parliament House, Australian War Memorial

2) Sydney, New South Wales - Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbor Bridge, Darling Harbor, The Rocks, Sydney Tower, Taronga Zoo, Chinese Garden, Bondi Beach, Manly Beach, Queen Victoria Building, The Quay, Blue Mountains, China Town, Sydney Sport Stadium, New Castle, Wollongong, Tamworth

3) Melbourne, Victoria - Queen Victoria Market, Yarra Valley, Puffing Billy Train Ride, Crown Casino, Phillip Island, Flinders Street Railway Station, St Kilda Beach, Parliament House, Ballarat Gold Mining Town

4) Adelaide, South Australia - Adelaide Festival Centre, Barossa Valley, Hahn Dorf, Murray River Boat Cruise

5) Brisbane, Queensland - Dreamworld, SeaWorld, Gold Coast, Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, Brisbane Pineapple Farm

6) Perth, Western Australia - King's Park, Swan River, London Court's Shopping Mall, Fremantle Harbor, Margaret River Vineyard, Albany, Denmark, Valley of the Giants-Tree Top Walk, Walpole Nornalup National Park

7) Darwin, Northern Territory - Darwin Downtown Centre, Darwin Yacht Club

8) Hobart, Tasmania - Burnie & Launceston


" The PAST cannot be changed, forgotten, edited or erased; it can only be accepted "

" The only time you should ever look back, is to see how far you've come " 

" Your PAST has given you the strength & wisdom you have today. So celebrate it. Don't let it haunt you " 

Sept 1984

1) Canberra


2) Brisbane, Queensland


3) Sydney, New South Wales


4) Melbourne, Victoria


5) Hobart, Tasmania


6) Perth, Western Australia


April 1990

1) Sydney, New South Wales


2) Melbourne, Victoria


August 2000

1) Sydney, New South Wales


Sept 2001

Sydney, New South Wales


Nov 2002

Western Australia


Sept 2003

1) Tamworth


2) Sydney, New South Wales


Nov 2003

1) Darwin, Northern Territory


2) Adelaide, South Australia


3) Melbourne, Victoria


Sept 2004

1) Melbourne, Victoria


2) Sydney, New South Wales

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