HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY TO MY DEAR AHMA - JAEY!!
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
Playing in the kitchen!
Yea i made my first pies/puffs. I forgot to take pictures of the fillings. Anyway, I just stir fried potatoes, garlic, onions, minced meat and prawns in butter. Added salt, basil leaves and pepper for the extra taste. Was wondering whether i should put more salt.
This is the 3rd batch of puffs. The colour looks nicer than the first batch shown above yea? haha =D
Just an extra mention, I baked cookies again 2 days ago. HY! start drooling over your birthday present again. this time, i didn't bother to make heart shapes yea. Lazy!
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Yunho oppa~
Dear bloggie,I've a confession to make. It's obvious isn't it? My latest eye-candy - Yunho looks so handsome!!
IQ 148, can sing, can dance, looks good... sheesh! No wonder I can remain loyal for more than 2 months ever since I first started listening to DBSK songs. lol! Took me sooo long. XD
Monday, July 20, 2009
KimBum
I thought he was KimHyunJoong - the HanazawaRui in Boys over Flowers. lalala~~ luckily he isn't. KimHyunJoong's cute but i think KimBum's cuter. It's just like the Jap version HanaYoriDango, I didn't think that Oguri Shun (who was HanazawaRui) was the most good looking. I prefer the guy portraying Soujirou. lalala~
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Shining inheritance
Dear bloggie,Yes it's Shining inheritance! Ranked no.1 drama in mysoju.com. It's such an exciting show, i took any free time i had to chiong the episodes. After i reached the latest episode, i just felt an emptiness and i didn't want to watch any other dramas other than Shining inheritance.
This is the first time I felt so pekchek watching a show. Seeing how Eunsungie (Hanhyojoo) gets tortured by her evil stepmother, I really pity her and I really feel like going into the show to help Eunsung-ie retaliate. She has such a poor fate. First tortured by the evil scheming stepmum, then her evil stepsis joined in the scheme. Luckily, the handsome guys in the show supported Eunsung. Hwan-oppa!! and Jun-se oppa! I really liked Junse oppa, but as the show progresses (like any other korean show), i grew to support Hwan oppa. Now the drama is at its climax. I hope Junse-oppa wun support his evil dad (who seems in love with Eunsung's evil widowed stepmum). And the drama has no preview. WHY!!!
Anyway, i love Lee Seung Gi's (Hwan oppa) smile and voice. Hehhh... He's LeeSunHee's darling disciple when it comes to singing. I love it when he sings ballads. I first noticed him when he sang "Dear J" with LeeSunHee. I found the video in youtube. His voice was beautiful... And i love his chubby face and smile. ahhh... i like it when Hwan oppa blushes.
i love it when he sings...
Most of the videos I watched are from Viikii. The cool thing about Viikii is, there are commentaries from users who watched the drama. When we reach a climax and there's a surge of similar comments against the evil stepmum and stepsis. It's so interesting to see the hypotheses that people have towards the drama. It's even more interesting to see all the people scolding the evil stepmum and step-sis. Oh well, it's just a drama u noe? If we can all go in and get rid of the stepmum and stepsis, then there'll be no drama, no excitement.
Watch it when u have time!!
Shall I watch Boys over flowers? or Atashinchi no danshi? Mukai Osamu or Goo Jun Pyo?
Mid-term break
Dear bloggie,
I'm blogging quite a bit aren't i?
After I came back from NZ, I went around Melb having food tours. Also, Jiali's bf came to visit her so Sueling and I toured around with the 2 of them.
10/7/09
Went out with Sueling for dinner in the city. Two of us have nothing to do >.<
The Shepherd's pie i had. It looks small but it's actually quite filling. The salad dressing was light but alright. The filling (meat and pasta sauce) was a bit watery but still alright.
The creme brulee that i've been craving for ever since I had Cadbury's Dessert Chocolate Creme Brulee. Wow I love creme brulee! It's like an egg custard in a cup with the top caramelized with a flame. The layout looks simple and it tastes wonderful =P
The tiramisu which Cafe Giraffe is famous for. The scotch fingers go really well with the cup of coffee that is provided. The tiramisu (cake layer) didn't have a flavour that was too strong and it wasn't too watery either. I love it! I'll order this the next time i go Cafe Giraffe.
11/7/09
Went out with Faezah, py, toto n xy to Toorak, then Camberwell Sofia's for lunch, then Kew, then Ikea before heading off for Korean bbq at night with Joanna and Sueling. Toorak doe
The chocolate cake we ordered was sufficient for 5 people. Seriously! The mint was thick and yea, we had quite a few mint lovers at the table (eg. xy, faezah n toto)
Yea we ordered Pasta Misto/Mista. Can't remember how it was spelt. We get 3 choices of pasta. So we ordered our all-time favourites - Avocado Fettucine and Chicken and mushroom risotto. I love Sofia's Risotto! We also got Veg Lasagne. The Avocado Fettucine wasn't as nice as the one in Bell St. I don't know, their standards fluctuate between days, servings, and branches. Chicken and Mushroom Risotto was really good though. I love it =D
Yea at night Sueling, Joanna and I met up to go to Oriental Spoon, a Korean restaurant in the city. It was supposedly good. We ordered BBQ pork belly and baby octopus. It wasn't as nice as we thought it to be. In fact, "White tomato" (another korean bbq restaurant) serves better BBQ stuff. We felt like we were over-paying for that kind of food we got. In addition, if we re-fill our side dishes for the third time, there are additional charges. There's no such thing in "white tomato"!
Beef Bulgogi which we ordered in addition to BBQ (cos seriously the portions are too small). The beef bulgogi was in fact oishii! Geee~ Maybe oriental spoon was known mroe for the hot plates rather than the BBQ options. Then again, i prefer the idea of grilling on top of charcoal. The charred taste of the meat just makes it more delicious.
St Kilda beach
Had this cup of Mocha chocolate at KokoBlack along Lygon Street. So cold and a bit bitter. Stupid me forgot to add sugar to make it sweeter. For the first time, I didn't like mocha. I should've ordered hot chocolate. At least, after this kokoblack experience, i shall have hot chocolate for my next choco experience.
We decided that we were hungry and we went to another pasta restaurant along Lygon Street near Koko Black. Yea, this restaurant had many posters of Ferrari's, F1 Formula stuff and Michael Schumacher.
We ordered cream Gnocchi. It's the first time I think that Gnocchi is nice! I think i prefer creamy pasta to tomato/Bolognaise recently. change of taste yea.
The chicken wings still had feathers on it! So we didn't eat the wings in the end. And there was a hamburger with a sunny-side up on it! AHHhhh... MY dream meal! but of cos, we had to share. There were bacon and steaks too. SEriously HUGE portions. I finally had bacon after i left Glenn. I loved the Bacon i had in Glenn but obviously, it was fattening.
Ms Chicken Parma! They had generous amounts of cheese over the chicken schnitzel. Yummy! It tastes like the one I had at Mosskito. Maybe we should go Mosskito and have a meal and compare.
The seafood platter that will always appear at a huge meal. The mussels weren't that fresh, maybe that's why they were deep fried for the seafood platter. There were calamari too. Ok la, quite a normal plate of seafood platter.
There were fries hidden beneath every single plate of food that we ordered. There were so much fries leftover that we could fill the huge plate with just fries. We couldn't even takeaway! Mean~ We ended up playing Zhong Ji Mi Ma to finish the fries. LOL!
There's always space for desserts! According to toto (or someone else), we humans actually have 2 stomachs. One for dessert, and one for entree. He has 3 apparently, one for ice-cream (which is not classified as dessert). So we ordered pancakes! That's apple and cinnamon pancake. I liked this better than the other one. We were so full but we managed to finish both pancakes. I feel that it's nicer than the one at pancake parlour. Maybe i'm just biased. I probably just love the icecream on the pancake and the maple syrup.
Banana and Walnut pancake. Yum!
After we left the restaurant, we waited for the tram for sometime only to realise that tram service has stopped (it was only 9pm plus then!) we got a shock and didn't know what to do. We walked a bit and attempted to go back to the restaurant to ask for directions when some passers-by directed us to take the last bus in the area back to footscray station. whew...
13/7/09 (Mon)
As usual, I went for CO practice only to discover tons more people at the practice! yay! I prefer bigbig orchestras.
15/7/09
Went to Brighton beach with Sueling and Jiali couple. haha, i've been visiting a lot of beaches recently. I didn't have much photos cos my camera ran out of batt =( Brighton beach area has quite a lot of pretty houses. If only i was half as rich enough to stay in that kind of house. Anyway, along the coast of the beach, there's this row of houses. It's supposed to be for private renting or something but apparently, nothing has happened. The seawater at Brighton beach is also much clearer than the one at St Kilda. Love Brighton beach =D
The pretty beach with Melbourne city in the background
The colourful houses which we took quite a lot of photos with.
I'm blogging quite a bit aren't i?
After I came back from NZ, I went around Melb having food tours. Also, Jiali's bf came to visit her so Sueling and I toured around with the 2 of them.
10/7/09
Went out with Sueling for dinner in the city. Two of us have nothing to do >.<
The Shepherd's pie i had. It looks small but it's actually quite filling. The salad dressing was light but alright. The filling (meat and pasta sauce) was a bit watery but still alright.
The creme brulee that i've been craving for ever since I had Cadbury's Dessert Chocolate Creme Brulee. Wow I love creme brulee! It's like an egg custard in a cup with the top caramelized with a flame. The layout looks simple and it tastes wonderful =P
The tiramisu which Cafe Giraffe is famous for. The scotch fingers go really well with the cup of coffee that is provided. The tiramisu (cake layer) didn't have a flavour that was too strong and it wasn't too watery either. I love it! I'll order this the next time i go Cafe Giraffe.11/7/09
Went out with Faezah, py, toto n xy to Toorak, then Camberwell Sofia's for lunch, then Kew, then Ikea before heading off for Korean bbq at night with Joanna and Sueling. Toorak doe
The chocolate cake we ordered was sufficient for 5 people. Seriously! The mint was thick and yea, we had quite a few mint lovers at the table (eg. xy, faezah n toto)
Yea we ordered Pasta Misto/Mista. Can't remember how it was spelt. We get 3 choices of pasta. So we ordered our all-time favourites - Avocado Fettucine and Chicken and mushroom risotto. I love Sofia's Risotto! We also got Veg Lasagne. The Avocado Fettucine wasn't as nice as the one in Bell St. I don't know, their standards fluctuate between days, servings, and branches. Chicken and Mushroom Risotto was really good though. I love it =DYea at night Sueling, Joanna and I met up to go to Oriental Spoon, a Korean restaurant in the city. It was supposedly good. We ordered BBQ pork belly and baby octopus. It wasn't as nice as we thought it to be. In fact, "White tomato" (another korean bbq restaurant) serves better BBQ stuff. We felt like we were over-paying for that kind of food we got. In addition, if we re-fill our side dishes for the third time, there are additional charges. There's no such thing in "white tomato"!
Beef Bulgogi which we ordered in addition to BBQ (cos seriously the portions are too small). The beef bulgogi was in fact oishii! Geee~ Maybe oriental spoon was known mroe for the hot plates rather than the BBQ options. Then again, i prefer the idea of grilling on top of charcoal. The charred taste of the meat just makes it more delicious.12/7/09
I went out with Sueling (again =.=) and Jiali couple. We went to St Kilda in the morning to the Sunday market. I was quite disappointed. I thought the beach is much nicer than I thought =.= or maybe, we were at the wrong place.
I went out with Sueling (again =.=) and Jiali couple. We went to St Kilda in the morning to the Sunday market. I was quite disappointed. I thought the beach is much nicer than I thought =.= or maybe, we were at the wrong place.
St Kilda beach
Had this cup of Mocha chocolate at KokoBlack along Lygon Street. So cold and a bit bitter. Stupid me forgot to add sugar to make it sweeter. For the first time, I didn't like mocha. I should've ordered hot chocolate. At least, after this kokoblack experience, i shall have hot chocolate for my next choco experience.
We decided that we were hungry and we went to another pasta restaurant along Lygon Street near Koko Black. Yea, this restaurant had many posters of Ferrari's, F1 Formula stuff and Michael Schumacher.
We ordered cream Gnocchi. It's the first time I think that Gnocchi is nice! I think i prefer creamy pasta to tomato/Bolognaise recently. change of taste yea.We went to Melb museum after this and met Joanna there. Well, it's my second time there so i knew most of the stuff. However, i still found the Mind and body section interesting. I can't take photos so i can't show >.<>
The chicken wings still had feathers on it! So we didn't eat the wings in the end. And there was a hamburger with a sunny-side up on it! AHHhhh... MY dream meal! but of cos, we had to share. There were bacon and steaks too. SEriously HUGE portions. I finally had bacon after i left Glenn. I loved the Bacon i had in Glenn but obviously, it was fattening.
Ms Chicken Parma! They had generous amounts of cheese over the chicken schnitzel. Yummy! It tastes like the one I had at Mosskito. Maybe we should go Mosskito and have a meal and compare.
The seafood platter that will always appear at a huge meal. The mussels weren't that fresh, maybe that's why they were deep fried for the seafood platter. There were calamari too. Ok la, quite a normal plate of seafood platter.
There were fries hidden beneath every single plate of food that we ordered. There were so much fries leftover that we could fill the huge plate with just fries. We couldn't even takeaway! Mean~ We ended up playing Zhong Ji Mi Ma to finish the fries. LOL!
There's always space for desserts! According to toto (or someone else), we humans actually have 2 stomachs. One for dessert, and one for entree. He has 3 apparently, one for ice-cream (which is not classified as dessert). So we ordered pancakes! That's apple and cinnamon pancake. I liked this better than the other one. We were so full but we managed to finish both pancakes. I feel that it's nicer than the one at pancake parlour. Maybe i'm just biased. I probably just love the icecream on the pancake and the maple syrup.
Banana and Walnut pancake. Yum!After we left the restaurant, we waited for the tram for sometime only to realise that tram service has stopped (it was only 9pm plus then!) we got a shock and didn't know what to do. We walked a bit and attempted to go back to the restaurant to ask for directions when some passers-by directed us to take the last bus in the area back to footscray station. whew...
13/7/09 (Mon)
As usual, I went for CO practice only to discover tons more people at the practice! yay! I prefer bigbig orchestras.
15/7/09
Went to Brighton beach with Sueling and Jiali couple. haha, i've been visiting a lot of beaches recently. I didn't have much photos cos my camera ran out of batt =( Brighton beach area has quite a lot of pretty houses. If only i was half as rich enough to stay in that kind of house. Anyway, along the coast of the beach, there's this row of houses. It's supposed to be for private renting or something but apparently, nothing has happened. The seawater at Brighton beach is also much clearer than the one at St Kilda. Love Brighton beach =D
The pretty beach with Melbourne city in the background
The colourful houses which we took quite a lot of photos with.16/7/09 (Thurs)
Spent my afternoon making desserts with Faezah. We made oreo non-bake cheesecake. We also attempted avocado juice + milk + gula melaka. Taste good! I made my sago dessert too. We had a movie night watching a Swedish movie. I can't remember the title, but it's about this guy called Arun who's the Knight of the Templar. It's related to the history of Sweden. Then we watched a Bollywood movie starring ShahRukhKhan. LOL! I fell asleep on toto's bed after about 45minutes. Songs were nice but seriously, the story went too slow. We didn't have my sago dessert in the end cos I completely forgot about it after the Hindi movie.
17/7/09 (Friday)
Taught Hafizah how to play mahjong in the day. haha! I also went over to Susan's place to bunk at night. Her apartment is quite posh but well, it's expensive too. By the time I went, the rest (mel, joanna, susan and susan's fren) were preparing to sleep already. haha! I ended up playing mahjong with Mel before we went to bed. I guess I started to feel tired relatively early ever since the NZ trip. zzz... Jo, Mel and I shared 2 single beds pushed together. As we slept, the single beds kept separating. Got a shoulderache from sleeping on my side for too long >.< It was also quite cold.
18/7/09 (Saturday)
Finished till the latest episode of Shining inheritance!
19/7/09 (Sunday)
Went over to Thomas' place to practise for our erhu qizou. His place is seriously far from mine. He stays in Boxhill >.< Took a long walk to his home from Boxhill central. RAarrrrrr~~ Travelling to the city was bad enough =( Though only 5 of us were present, it was still quite fun. I really like group practices. Just enjoy playing together and the company. Was invited to a bball game after practice but i had a date with jaey n eshan to the pompeii exhibition. Ahhhh, i wanted to go bball =P anyway, i finally got to talk to the others slightly more than before. Normally, i don't really talk much with them during orchestral practice since i sit at a corner.
Pompeii exhibition was good! Learnt more about how pompeii disappeared and how Mt Vesivius is so deadly. I would love to witness a volcanic eruption. Then again, thinking about the implications of a volcanic eruption, I'd rather not have any occurring. It was worth my 14bucks! I'd prefer it cheaper yea. The most saddening part was the body casts exhibits. Imagining how those people suffered during the volcanic eruptions, trying to run away, trying to protect themselves from the ashes and pumice, and getting trapped in these volcanic material... ahhhh... Just felt sad for them. Hope that they didn't suffer too much. enough of my ramblings for the day! thanks for listening =D
Spent my afternoon making desserts with Faezah. We made oreo non-bake cheesecake. We also attempted avocado juice + milk + gula melaka. Taste good! I made my sago dessert too. We had a movie night watching a Swedish movie. I can't remember the title, but it's about this guy called Arun who's the Knight of the Templar. It's related to the history of Sweden. Then we watched a Bollywood movie starring ShahRukhKhan. LOL! I fell asleep on toto's bed after about 45minutes. Songs were nice but seriously, the story went too slow. We didn't have my sago dessert in the end cos I completely forgot about it after the Hindi movie.
17/7/09 (Friday)
Taught Hafizah how to play mahjong in the day. haha! I also went over to Susan's place to bunk at night. Her apartment is quite posh but well, it's expensive too. By the time I went, the rest (mel, joanna, susan and susan's fren) were preparing to sleep already. haha! I ended up playing mahjong with Mel before we went to bed. I guess I started to feel tired relatively early ever since the NZ trip. zzz... Jo, Mel and I shared 2 single beds pushed together. As we slept, the single beds kept separating. Got a shoulderache from sleeping on my side for too long >.< It was also quite cold.
18/7/09 (Saturday)
Finished till the latest episode of Shining inheritance!
19/7/09 (Sunday)
Went over to Thomas' place to practise for our erhu qizou. His place is seriously far from mine. He stays in Boxhill >.< Took a long walk to his home from Boxhill central. RAarrrrrr~~ Travelling to the city was bad enough =( Though only 5 of us were present, it was still quite fun. I really like group practices. Just enjoy playing together and the company. Was invited to a bball game after practice but i had a date with jaey n eshan to the pompeii exhibition. Ahhhh, i wanted to go bball =P anyway, i finally got to talk to the others slightly more than before. Normally, i don't really talk much with them during orchestral practice since i sit at a corner.
Pompeii exhibition was good! Learnt more about how pompeii disappeared and how Mt Vesivius is so deadly. I would love to witness a volcanic eruption. Then again, thinking about the implications of a volcanic eruption, I'd rather not have any occurring. It was worth my 14bucks! I'd prefer it cheaper yea. The most saddening part was the body casts exhibits. Imagining how those people suffered during the volcanic eruptions, trying to run away, trying to protect themselves from the ashes and pumice, and getting trapped in these volcanic material... ahhhh... Just felt sad for them. Hope that they didn't suffer too much. enough of my ramblings for the day! thanks for listening =D
NZ trip food =D
Dear bloggie,
Just a quick post of the stuff we ate there. haha! Just something extra.
Bibimbap i had in the Korean Restaurant at Auckland. Very delicious! Just that I got a bit Jelat after too much gochujang and rice.
BBQ pork from the same shop in Auckland. Love it manz! I had it again on the last night in Auckland. I love the seasoning of the pork. It wasn't too spicy. Just that, it was slightly too oily. Didn't like too many carrots either. Overall, OISHII!
Fish and chips we had at Body Fuel in Taupo. Amazing cafe that sells amazing food. Curly fries reminds u of A&W. I love curly fries. The toast was crispy and i love crispy toasts. The salad was well seasoned. I love the combi of the seasoning with pickles. Makes it taste so much nicer.
I had this at Body Fuel too. I was craving for this for some time. It's a potato Fritata. Tasted good! Went well with the Sweet chilli sauce.
Hot chocolate I had along with the sandwich below for lunch after the Hobbiton tour. It was nicely done and marshmallows were provided too! I'm starting to like hot chocolate more than cold chocolate drinks.
Satay chicken sandwich. Nice when hot. Obviously the satay sauce wasn't as nice as the ones in SG. It was alright though. I'd prefer it spicy.
Are you hungry already bloggie? haha! awwww~
The other days we just cooked stuff for ourselves eg. pasta.
Just a quick post of the stuff we ate there. haha! Just something extra.
Bibimbap i had in the Korean Restaurant at Auckland. Very delicious! Just that I got a bit Jelat after too much gochujang and rice.
BBQ pork from the same shop in Auckland. Love it manz! I had it again on the last night in Auckland. I love the seasoning of the pork. It wasn't too spicy. Just that, it was slightly too oily. Didn't like too many carrots either. Overall, OISHII!
Fish and chips we had at Body Fuel in Taupo. Amazing cafe that sells amazing food. Curly fries reminds u of A&W. I love curly fries. The toast was crispy and i love crispy toasts. The salad was well seasoned. I love the combi of the seasoning with pickles. Makes it taste so much nicer.
I had this at Body Fuel too. I was craving for this for some time. It's a potato Fritata. Tasted good! Went well with the Sweet chilli sauce.
Hot chocolate I had along with the sandwich below for lunch after the Hobbiton tour. It was nicely done and marshmallows were provided too! I'm starting to like hot chocolate more than cold chocolate drinks.
Satay chicken sandwich. Nice when hot. Obviously the satay sauce wasn't as nice as the ones in SG. It was alright though. I'd prefer it spicy.Are you hungry already bloggie? haha! awwww~
The other days we just cooked stuff for ourselves eg. pasta.
NZ trip
Dear bloggie,
I decided to copy hy and start posting pictures in my blog. Suddenly, I don't find the harm to do so.
Anyway, i mixed up my daes in NZ. Apparently, my day 2 which i've written about was supposed to be day 3. Oh well!
Day 2:
We set off from Auckland for Rotorua. We actually went to Waitomo Caves before reaching Rotorua. We went blackwater rafting! Jaey posted some really nice pictures on facebook but i shall get the originals from her. Blackwater rafting... it was a cool experience. It wasn't like whitewater rafting at all. All we carried with us was one black tube and we walked through the caves with a torch on our head. Occasionally, we get to sit on our tubes and flow with the water, or jump backwards from a high point down into the water (or rather, to sit proper into our tubes). I flipped twice during all these activities and i drank a hell lot of water =.= We also saw glow-worms (aka maggot's shyt). It was nice looking at the glowing stuff in the dark caves. Enjoyed it a lot! We had nice facilitators too who teased us occasionally. It was tiring, cold and full of challenges but i enjoyed it =D
Day 3:
Geothermal + Zorbing + Luge
I don't have the photos for these. I wrote about the geothermal thing at Wai-O-Tapu. Then we went for Zorbing, u noe, rolling down the hill in a huge plastic ball. There's a hydrozorb and dry zorb. I went for the dry zorb cos i can't be bothered to change. Also, the dry zorb involves 360deg turns =.= The hydro one just makes u get wet while u slide around in the ball. I went down the hill and omg, i was dizzy and i felt like my stomach was churning badly. lol! Then again, it was a cool experience! I thought i couldn't tolerate it.
Luge was $29 bucks for 5 rounds. Sentosa ripped us off. In addition, there are 3 different courses! so it was much more interesting and i loved speeding. I didn't dare to speed much initially but later on i just sped.
Geothermal area
Day 4
Went to Whakarewarewa Village which showcases the Maori Culture. We got to see the Maori people, experience their song and dance and have their traditional meal. They cook their meals in natural steamers - Hangi Meal. I love their songs! I guess it's because i like the sound of harmonizing.
Traditional Hangi Meal
Song and Dance
Day 5
We went Aratiatia dams and skydiving. We went to see the dams open and release water from the catchme
nt area. I expected it to be a grand view but actually, it opens like a slit of about 1m and water just gushes out from there. But beyond the dam is actually a river, so seeing water gushing down that river is quite beautiful.
The downstream after the dams opened.
The Aratiatia Dams
Then we went for skydiving! We decided on 12000 feet initially but then changed our minds later. Since it's our first time, 3000 feet more doesn't make a difference so we took on the 15000feet challenge. Plus we get a free shirt with 15000 feet =P Obviously it's mroe expensive yea. anyway, 15000 feet is the highest legal height for tandem skydiving. I got this guy called Jonathan. He's a really funny instructor, but at the same time, serious and helpful =) Love him! I enjoyed my whole experience because of him. Anyway, we were on the plane. In no time, we were pushed to the door of the plane, took an exit photo shot, and then swung off the plane. I didn't even have time to be scared! haha! then i had the time of my life freefalling~~~my face was like a chimpanzee and my ears hurt like hell. HAHA! Then when the parachute came, it was like bungy jumping already. Jonathan allowed me to manipulate the parachute - like turn it towards the left or right. He pulled so hard on them that we practically swung horizontal to flat ground. it was scary but exciting =D Ok that's about it.
Da
y 6
Went to Tongariro Nature park for the Tongariro walk. We went to visit Mount Doom (according to Lord of the Rings). It was supposed to be a 2hour walk but we took about 4hours instead. We walked to a waterfall before turning back. It was cold >.<
Mt Doom in the distance
The snowkid i made with melting snow
Day 7
We simply visited the bungy place and watched people jump. Then we went to Huka falls to yea, see the waterfalls. Nothing exciting to elaborate about. Oh yea, then we went to see some boiling mud pools. How nice if i can do my facial there.
They even had a jump menu!
Huka falls
The bubbling mud pools. Looks like diluted horlicks!
The rainbow i found after shopping for groceries. i love rainbows =)
Day 8
Went for the Hobbiton tour at Matamata. We went to visit the filming site for Lord of the rings. Yea, Froddo's village/Hobbit's village/The Shire. It looks different from the movie because those houses are enforced for tourism purposes. After viewing the filming site, I realised how deceiving the movie is. AHhhhh! maybe i'm too naive but i seriously thought the whole place was constructed just for the movie, including the interior of Bilbo Baggin's house. Obviously it wasn't. haha. Only the exterior was used. It was even constructed within a private sheep FARM. lol!! I can't type much here else i'll be lengthy. Then we headed back to Auckland. We went to visit Mt Eden, which is an inactive volcano. Yea, there was a crater and I really wanted to walk all the way down to the centre of the crater. Of course, there was sign telling us not to. Then we walked around Mt Eden. We got a panoramic view of the Auckland city and the skytower. Just beautiful... Lastly, we stayed long enough for sunset. ahhh...watching sunset at Mt Eden on the second last day in NZ kinda summarises my whole trip.
Bilbo Baggin's house
The tree where the village celebrated Bilbo's birthday
I'm taller than a hobbit =D
View from Mt Eden
The whole trip was really fun and thanks to Jaey and xy for planning. I felt guilty for not helping and I couldn't say it during dinner. Thanks guys! I really enjoyed this trip.
Oh yea just a quick mention: I keep hearing Jason Mraz's "I'm yours" everywhere I went in NZ =.=
I decided to copy hy and start posting pictures in my blog. Suddenly, I don't find the harm to do so.
Anyway, i mixed up my daes in NZ. Apparently, my day 2 which i've written about was supposed to be day 3. Oh well!
Day 2:
We set off from Auckland for Rotorua. We actually went to Waitomo Caves before reaching Rotorua. We went blackwater rafting! Jaey posted some really nice pictures on facebook but i shall get the originals from her. Blackwater rafting... it was a cool experience. It wasn't like whitewater rafting at all. All we carried with us was one black tube and we walked through the caves with a torch on our head. Occasionally, we get to sit on our tubes and flow with the water, or jump backwards from a high point down into the water (or rather, to sit proper into our tubes). I flipped twice during all these activities and i drank a hell lot of water =.= We also saw glow-worms (aka maggot's shyt). It was nice looking at the glowing stuff in the dark caves. Enjoyed it a lot! We had nice facilitators too who teased us occasionally. It was tiring, cold and full of challenges but i enjoyed it =D
Day 3:
Geothermal + Zorbing + Luge
I don't have the photos for these. I wrote about the geothermal thing at Wai-O-Tapu. Then we went for Zorbing, u noe, rolling down the hill in a huge plastic ball. There's a hydrozorb and dry zorb. I went for the dry zorb cos i can't be bothered to change. Also, the dry zorb involves 360deg turns =.= The hydro one just makes u get wet while u slide around in the ball. I went down the hill and omg, i was dizzy and i felt like my stomach was churning badly. lol! Then again, it was a cool experience! I thought i couldn't tolerate it.
Luge was $29 bucks for 5 rounds. Sentosa ripped us off. In addition, there are 3 different courses! so it was much more interesting and i loved speeding. I didn't dare to speed much initially but later on i just sped.
Geothermal areaDay 4
Went to Whakarewarewa Village which showcases the Maori Culture. We got to see the Maori people, experience their song and dance and have their traditional meal. They cook their meals in natural steamers - Hangi Meal. I love their songs! I guess it's because i like the sound of harmonizing.
Traditional Hangi Meal
Song and Dance
Day 5
We went Aratiatia dams and skydiving. We went to see the dams open and release water from the catchme
nt area. I expected it to be a grand view but actually, it opens like a slit of about 1m and water just gushes out from there. But beyond the dam is actually a river, so seeing water gushing down that river is quite beautiful.The downstream after the dams opened.
The Aratiatia Dams
Then we went for skydiving! We decided on 12000 feet initially but then changed our minds later. Since it's our first time, 3000 feet more doesn't make a difference so we took on the 15000feet challenge. Plus we get a free shirt with 15000 feet =P Obviously it's mroe expensive yea. anyway, 15000 feet is the highest legal height for tandem skydiving. I got this guy called Jonathan. He's a really funny instructor, but at the same time, serious and helpful =) Love him! I enjoyed my whole experience because of him. Anyway, we were on the plane. In no time, we were pushed to the door of the plane, took an exit photo shot, and then swung off the plane. I didn't even have time to be scared! haha! then i had the time of my life freefalling~~~my face was like a chimpanzee and my ears hurt like hell. HAHA! Then when the parachute came, it was like bungy jumping already. Jonathan allowed me to manipulate the parachute - like turn it towards the left or right. He pulled so hard on them that we practically swung horizontal to flat ground. it was scary but exciting =D Ok that's about it.
Da
y 6Went to Tongariro Nature park for the Tongariro walk. We went to visit Mount Doom (according to Lord of the Rings). It was supposed to be a 2hour walk but we took about 4hours instead. We walked to a waterfall before turning back. It was cold >.<
Mt Doom in the distance
The snowkid i made with melting snow
Day 7
We simply visited the bungy place and watched people jump. Then we went to Huka falls to yea, see the waterfalls. Nothing exciting to elaborate about. Oh yea, then we went to see some boiling mud pools. How nice if i can do my facial there.
They even had a jump menu!
Huka falls
The bubbling mud pools. Looks like diluted horlicks!
The rainbow i found after shopping for groceries. i love rainbows =)
Day 8
Went for the Hobbiton tour at Matamata. We went to visit the filming site for Lord of the rings. Yea, Froddo's village/Hobbit's village/The Shire. It looks different from the movie because those houses are enforced for tourism purposes. After viewing the filming site, I realised how deceiving the movie is. AHhhhh! maybe i'm too naive but i seriously thought the whole place was constructed just for the movie, including the interior of Bilbo Baggin's house. Obviously it wasn't. haha. Only the exterior was used. It was even constructed within a private sheep FARM. lol!! I can't type much here else i'll be lengthy. Then we headed back to Auckland. We went to visit Mt Eden, which is an inactive volcano. Yea, there was a crater and I really wanted to walk all the way down to the centre of the crater. Of course, there was sign telling us not to. Then we walked around Mt Eden. We got a panoramic view of the Auckland city and the skytower. Just beautiful... Lastly, we stayed long enough for sunset. ahhh...watching sunset at Mt Eden on the second last day in NZ kinda summarises my whole trip.
Bilbo Baggin's house
The tree where the village celebrated Bilbo's birthday
I'm taller than a hobbit =D
View from Mt EdenThe whole trip was really fun and thanks to Jaey and xy for planning. I felt guilty for not helping and I couldn't say it during dinner. Thanks guys! I really enjoyed this trip.
Oh yea just a quick mention: I keep hearing Jason Mraz's "I'm yours" everywhere I went in NZ =.=
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Im in nz now!
Dear bloggie,
I'm in nz now while i'm blogging. It's kinda interesting when you are overseas and travelling, yet you are doing those typical things u'd do when u lock urself up in the room like facebook, msn and blog. Well... =D I don't care!!
NZ has been really fun so far. We travelled mostly in the North Island - Auckland, Rotorua, Taupo. They are really interesting to tour around. We participated in all sorts of adventure stuff. If there weren't any money constraints, we would've played our fill.
Day 1 - arrived at Auckland. We went straight to our backpackers - Frienz. I didn't quite like it even though it's cheap and there's free internet there. I find the toilet really dodgy. Plus, Jo and I were sharing rooms with 2 other gals. It was really difficult for us to do anything that night like packing, taking stuff and even sleeping. We probably didn't sleep much that night. Oh yea, we went to have korean food in Auckland. It was delicious =D We also went up the skytower, the tallest building in the southern hemisphere. At the viewing area, there were glass panes that allowed you to walk on, and you can see the cars waaayyyy below you. For someone with height phobia like me, i was seriously freaking out.
Day 2 - set off for Rotorua. we went wai-o-tapu to see some thermal springs that probably originated from volcanic activity in the area. The whole area was steaming, and filled with sulphur smell/rotten egg smell. The sight was phenomenal budden the smell was unbearable. We took quite a long walk there. Oh! we also saw this geyser, Lady Knox, shoot water into the sky. I thought the geyser shoots naturally, but apparently, they dropped some surfactant into it to induce water spurts. It was cool anyway =)
Dear bloggie, the internet area attendant is being lazy todae and decides to close the area early. hate him... cya later
I'm in nz now while i'm blogging. It's kinda interesting when you are overseas and travelling, yet you are doing those typical things u'd do when u lock urself up in the room like facebook, msn and blog. Well... =D I don't care!!
NZ has been really fun so far. We travelled mostly in the North Island - Auckland, Rotorua, Taupo. They are really interesting to tour around. We participated in all sorts of adventure stuff. If there weren't any money constraints, we would've played our fill.
Day 1 - arrived at Auckland. We went straight to our backpackers - Frienz. I didn't quite like it even though it's cheap and there's free internet there. I find the toilet really dodgy. Plus, Jo and I were sharing rooms with 2 other gals. It was really difficult for us to do anything that night like packing, taking stuff and even sleeping. We probably didn't sleep much that night. Oh yea, we went to have korean food in Auckland. It was delicious =D We also went up the skytower, the tallest building in the southern hemisphere. At the viewing area, there were glass panes that allowed you to walk on, and you can see the cars waaayyyy below you. For someone with height phobia like me, i was seriously freaking out.
Day 2 - set off for Rotorua. we went wai-o-tapu to see some thermal springs that probably originated from volcanic activity in the area. The whole area was steaming, and filled with sulphur smell/rotten egg smell. The sight was phenomenal budden the smell was unbearable. We took quite a long walk there. Oh! we also saw this geyser, Lady Knox, shoot water into the sky. I thought the geyser shoots naturally, but apparently, they dropped some surfactant into it to induce water spurts. It was cool anyway =)
Dear bloggie, the internet area attendant is being lazy todae and decides to close the area early. hate him... cya later
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