Small gal with heaps of dreams and things to do...

2006-09-16T04:59:00.000-12:00

Things to do this weekend...
1. Finish my Technical competition report - Checked
Feel so satisfied that i am done with it... and i think it's pretty pro too..
2. Do my part of the design project - CHECKED 80% Yohooooo

2006-09-15T05:54:00.000-12:00

Things to do this weekend...

1. Finish my Technical competition report - Checked

Feel so satisfied that i am done with it... and i think it's pretty pro too..

2. Do my part of the design project - Untouched!

but will do it when i head to school to accompany my poor sum sum for his make up lecture...

that's pretty much... if the latter gets done... i will be really pleased with myself...

hmmm... what can i say... hmmmm... hmmmm...

spending time with you is really awesome!!!

2006-09-10T05:54:00.000-12:00

Happy Birthday my love!!!

Just spent a lovely evening with my love...all i wanna say is i really love you and thank you for making feel like i am the most fortunate gal in the world...

I really wanna grow old with u...

2006-09-02T04:04:00.000-12:00

A new relax mode to my boring old blog...

it should be little surprises to people that I LOVE STITCH! hee i think i've watched a dozen times...and i dun mind watching it again and again!

anyway...decided to blog coz i wanna jot down the happy moments in my life...(+ + + lotsa busy times as well)

2 more weeks to the end of design project, another 9-10 weeks to the end of the sem, another 10 months to graduation... and work thereafter... neither looking forward nor trying to shun it... but actually looking forward to doing my master! yeah master! i know it sounds crazy but i am serious abt doing masters! in something else which i shall not disclose yet... hehehe but those who are closer to me will prob know...

school has been really busy, but the short brief lunch i shared with you in school had been really sweet... brief meetings over lunch really perk up my day... it's nice seeing you in school, sharing my lunch with you, complainning to you about the projects, the lecturers...

hee.. anyway... fancy having something else other than pop corns over movie?? try eclairs... hehe

this week has been really great... did some work - felt a sense of achievement completing Slope-w (my CE stuffs almost on my own), caught a real nice movie - The Devil Wears Prada with Sum... Studied at his place, had eclairs... it has been a great week!!!

oh oh oh... i got my birks already! heee nice white one with flowers...

anyway i had lotsa pictures but my laptop crashed! everything's gone except the lovely memory of going chalet with u, hanging out with my friends...

2006-08-18T03:52:00.000-12:00

Heee.. i am back....

pretty long since i blogged...

what can i say? i have been savouring all the tinsy winsy bits of life...

since back, i told myself, end of self denial, time to be serious... gotto think of what i want out of live...

yeah.. and i found out what i really want...

1. Sum,
one thing i can't live without now... there to guide and support me...
there to tolerate my tempers and short coming, never minded my ridiculous and absurb demands...

2. not marriage... yes i WANTED to get married by 24... that was in the past.. now i know i want a career...

3. i have some big plans ahead.... still in the making... but... keep a look out..
once i am free i will go full swing into working on it

4. wanna ace my FYP! it is a topic that i desire... so i ought to do well ey!

well.. school's reopen for me... pretty hard to adapt... hot weather, abit amazed by the new stuffs ard school, seeing pple tt makes me really happy, friends whom i have not seen for so long, and acquitances whom doesn't matter make a diff to my life, but nonetheless are ard me...

hee... other than school.. i have been trying to do more exercises, run more, play more, hang out more...

oh... now i am a free lance designer... so when u see me dazing, prob i am not stoning or distracted, but working on something big... i need inspirations to design something of value ey! and and... the exciting part.. i am gonna learn how to play a DRUM soon!!! and hopefully be good enuf to play for the band that is gonna teach me for free... hhhahha..

and and and.. still contemplating if i shud go for base camp and allow myself to be exposed to the "brainwashing camp" not really that though... think it will be fun...
but will i have the courage to say - no i dun wanna be an insurance agent after that? after all the managers are really nice to me.... i will feel real guilty... hhahah.. tt's abt all to say for now...

another fun weekend ahead!

2006-06-06T10:51:00.000-12:00

Blog Closed due to mugger blocking the road...

kidding... internet crisis... no posting till resolved!

Stay tuned folks for pictures of dunedin, otago and MT COOK (LOTR site)!

2006-05-19T19:36:00.000-12:00

ERROR - Can't upload the pics...

stay tuned again or chk it out at my photo album - fynntay.shutterfly.com

Thanks again to Janine, my fabulous Kiwi friend, the best kiwi yet...

Janine invited me over for a roast with her housemates (I don’t know they at all) for a roast, coz she said she's making... being very "ke-qi" i said i will make my famous cheese cake.. I made it so many times...

so I began making it like at 8pm (went shopping for groceries at 6, and din return till 8, that Rachel was wondering if I am fine) and woooow it took me ages... haha it was only really to be served at midnight.. And Rachel n Kate said it was nice... but guiltily to admit.... i think i added the wrong cream...it wasn't supposed to be sour cream but whipped cream i think... so the cheese was really soft... but i think they look pretty! haha all of they said it's pretty... but it's a pity tat I forgot to take pics of it... never mind, I am sure I will make it again :)
so I made my way to Janine’s place (I been there before) so could easily find my way, but it was raining the whole day and even snowed an hour in the evening.. So it was blistering cold... and raining and I was carrying my cheese cake... cold and shivering and all...

but...

the warmth of the fire in the house was really amazing.... its the fire place n the cosiness of the house i guess... this is the first time i saw a real fire in a house, they can't belive i have never seen it before... for those who never see a fire place before this is it then food was served shortly... then they switched off the tv, put on some classical music... then wine was serve...

janine "Catherine, Fynn, Sheryn, madeline (in her slow and really clear articulation, and raised the wine bottle) any wine for u?" so funny to see her so formal, guess it must be coz of her rich up-bringing... check out the housemates n janine (a house of nice pple)

they were thanking me for bringing them together to have a meal at the table, they said it's the first time they sat down together to have a dinner... heee ... and it's my first kiwi roast, I am so honored! Heee

so we had, roast meat, roast potato, kumara (sweet potato), pumpkin (oh ya Janine cut her finger while peeling the pumpkin... heee ), cauliflower, peas.... it was a really really really nice dinner...

After that dessert was served - my cheesecake n New Zealand flavor ice cream - hokey pokey..! Heee, vanilla ice cream with honeycomb bits...

Haha we chatted abt everything from being young to silly stuffs... so nice...

Haha and watched a scary, sci-fi, time travel show (I forgot wat title) but it's nice... (I think it must be the company, I am rarely a fan of sci-fi)

2006-05-16T20:01:00.000-12:00

The Five Love Languages

My primary love language is probably

Physical Touch

with a secondary love language being

Quality Time

Complete set of results

Physical Touch: 10
Quality Time: 9
Words of Affirmation:5
Acts of Service:3
Receiving Gifts:3

Information

Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don't understand our partner's requirements, or even our own. We all have a "love tank" that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others.

Take the quiz

2006-05-16T19:13:00.000-12:00

ILAM VILLAGE CULTURAL EXTRAVAGANZA

for those who are wondering wat's ilam village, well it's the village that i am staying.. the village is really small and occasionally they have such stuffs gg on to bring up the cohesioness of the village...some of the pple from the village still walk ard in grass skirts... so glad that i stayed there coz, if not will never be able to experience the lovliness of staying in a small village...

introducing the typical Canterbury guys (haha not tt i dun wanna introduce cute kiwi guys to my friends.. but, look at this mess... i won't!) p.s. i am really not trying to be self-fish!!!! total turn-off ey?

Alright, i am bullshitting, for goodness ... i wun stay in a village, ilam village is actually the name for my on campus accomodation....

anyway so we were supposed to bring food... so rachel, kate n myself, being greedy for the food, decided tt we will go in a collaboration of effort - we gonna make parvola together... ahhah so we cracked 8 eggs ... and all was gone to waste... thankfully, it was unsucccessful ... if not pple will have food poisonnining.. trust kate to use her "spoilt" eggs..

anyway so i came up w a contingency plan - i made baked potatoes w rosemary herbs.. pretty good, at least it was finished! hwahahah din know it will be so popular! so so so.. yup... free drinks, food, performance & beer!

anyway there were amazing tribal dances from the polynesians.. really nice.. too bad i can't figure how to upload movies! heeee but wow they can really shake their hips... but i reckon maybe it's the effect of the grass skirts.. heee (jealous me)

take a peek at the guy on the righ, really good body.. i swear gals were drooling!

2006-05-09T14:59:00.000-12:00

Careers... who determines for us???

i guess it's ourselves...

there come a point in life where u have to wake up and tell urself, time to write a decent resume, time to send out coverletters, time to see what the future has installed for us...

haha haven't seen so many of my friends working before... many have graduated (only us, the poor engineering nuts are still struggling with the texts and books) anyway, here's the point, i felt that i ought to start getting serious with myself... no more fooling around...

so i started my resume with many people contributing theirs to me.. ahha i dun really have a clue how to write a professional one...

attended my school's career fair.. i am really glad i went for both days... despite the fact that one day's was for Arts and the other for engine... ahha reallly glad to talk to the guy from ANZ (dunno wat is this, well i dun really know what kinda bank it is until i got here, so dun worry, it's actually Bank of Australia & New Zealand) anyway, the good news is i am a singaporean... so i hope they will contact me soon of course... pretty cool guy... anyway... wow! was the only word i have to say of the engineering fair! they have MUCH MUCH more job opportunities for Civil Engineers here! so i sent out a couple of papers (or at least i intend to do so, just hope that i will get doen to doing it! hhwhahha i will, my future lies within myself... )

hmmm.. recently been really busy, so many stuffs due from 19 - 29! abt 9 papers! gonna have a-hell-lot-a fun working thru them... so nothing much till then...

oh i will be gg over janine's place on sunday for a roast ! and i will be bring cheese cake or parvola (my flat tried making it for the hall's cultural extravaganza, but failed and wasted 8 eggs, hmmm.. i will post the pics of the cultural extravagana soon)... till then, stay tune ey!

2006-05-06T22:52:00.000-12:00

This is the one important man in my life... wanted to do this proclaimation last night but din have the time...

this is to appease him.. heee.. din know he actually reads my blog n friendster!

W S is

1. nice,
2. sweet,
3. hunky (that's wat i love abt him),
4. my frogman,
5. my friend for the past 5 yrs...have been very much in love with him since then
6. someone really special to me since 5 yrs ago
7. it's really fate that bought me to aj (despite my reluctance)
8. that we are in the same orientation
9. that we exchange numbers the day u decided to go poly
10. mine! heee

the one man in my life (other than my dad)! thanks for being that special someone ey!

i miss u so much...

2006-05-04T18:25:00.000-12:00

Finally presenting my 8 days north island trip... (in ARROW)

heee... this is where i travelled to...

well well... it ain as nice as South Island i guess...maybe i am just biased coz i am from South Island... but really it ain that interesting, maybe more greenary... less browns, more maori pple... heeee.... but the good thing is there are more chinese oso! oh man.. i sounded so "chi-na" ey.. heee

think the new zealand accent is catching up with me again.. i thot i lost it ey, but when i started speaking, i think it came back. hahaha

sweet s.. heeeee...

it ain a bad thing i think! anyway... "AMERICANS SUCK!" to qoute the weekly student life magazine... whhaaha guess wat? i can't agree more.. i reckon that 50% of the americans i know are bad and so idiosyncrasies (hope it's the right word)! let me go through the list of americans i know in my head... (censored)

anyway...hmm.. i shall stop my list here before its gets too offendisive! anyway i ain the only one who think so, my friend, a NZ-lander feel that way too.. hey, come'on u are in NZ, stop thinking u are back home ey!

hahah anyway abit side tracking over here... back to my north island trip...

we stayed in back packers for most day, but stayed over at a stranger's place for one night and my friend's place for another! god she has a huge house! thaht must be the biggest guest room i ever slept in! hhwhahha i feel so uncomfortable staying in a huge room when i am a guest...anyway her dad is the distributer of honda! i thot they live on farm when she told me, "oh yeah, u can stay over, we have plenty of rooms" but when i saw the huge car she picked me up with, i knew she has to be really rich! haahha and she made me dinner, and we baked cake in the middle of the night, caught a dvd - The Castle! it's amazing she watched for 8 times, its even more amazing that she memorised the dialouges! whhaha and she's so proud that she memorised it! whahaha

another nice NZ-lander for U!! Janine O'dea!

anyway, this other family we stayed with were actually strangers, we decided to seek shelter w a church, and the pastor went on to say "we have visitors from christchurch, anyone who wanna adopt these orphans for tonight?" so the kind family of Shane adopted us! whhahha they are the typical middle class people... so different from Janine's... anywya this is the place where i held my first RIFLE!!!! GUN!!! and shot toys! man i am accurate! hehhee.. the boys that taught me were only 13 & 15 and they have their own rifle! so cool! anyway, this led me to think if i will rather be like janine who's parents are usually not at home,either in the holiday home in the north or maybe south, maybe on working trips, and this is the kinda conversation they had with janine

"hey janine dear, how is your day", "oh mum, i bought thermals, then i went to facial, they say...." "oh how much would u need for the products, u need to get anything else? is this enuf" then "ok darling, we got to go, when will we see you again..."

vs

a family all sitting and catching a show together in the small living room?

ok... i would love the money of the O'dea's family and the cosiness of the Shane's Family...

oh, of course i went to Wellington, heee.. i guess it's pretty nice, thou not as fantastic and beautiful as Melbourne, nonetheless its nice... with skyscrapers, habour right in the city (nice and unique), a happenning night scene...

not too far from what i have expected, i am glad i din choose to go Auckland...coz charmaine went there and decided "why do i even wanan visit auckland when it's so much like singapore" whhaha

okko and the rest of the trip was pretty much of

1. sight-seeing and touring ard....
2.visited craters (hot smoke gushing out from the ground), did the volcanoe crossing (which i am so glad tt i am still alive, see previous posts)
3. cycled New Plymounth while my friend went mountain climbing again... yeah i cycled along the beaches and up to SURF highway, no kidding,there's a highway call the SURF highway where there are lotsa surfing spots... but too bad, it was too cold and we can't surf...
4. visited Janine
5. attended a bible study (for free accomdation)
6. did some shooting
7. visited the zoo w janine
8. baking cake & cooking at janine's place, did i mention she has a spa as well at home
9. saw magnificant waterfalls! (nothing like the singapore Bird Park!)

oh yeah another reason why i so love NZ is because the people here are really nice...

while i was cycling ALONE for a day, yes i cycled around new Plymounth on my own, coz too traumatised to climb again... and my bike chain got derailed, and i stopped in the middle of the road to fix it.. and cars that past me stopped to ask if i need help... but because i was in a park, all the drivers are old pple who were gg to the park to stroll... anyway "darling, do u need help, i have a cell phone, or do u want me to call the office", "darling, are u alright? are u hurt? do u want a lift" i thank them all ... and managed to fix my chain after 15 minutes! so nice hor.. i bet if this happened in singapore, no one will borther w me! heee

anyway, its very much an eye-openning experience for me.
so many first time - experiences

1. Scaling a 2000m Volcanoe (which took 1 life a day later)
2. cycled along world's renown SURF highway
3. first time walking in a crater
4. first home stay in NZ
5. first time expereince the darling-ness of NZ-landers
6. first time holding a rifle and shooting it
7. first time experiencin the capital of NZ - Wellington!!!
8. first time seeing so many cows and sheeps, now i can attest to the reliability of the commercial claiming tt NZ has the same population as Singapore!
9. first time staying in a back-packer's and holiday park

first time on a rugged backpacking trip...Cheerios!
This is the ferry we took from Picton to Wellington...

2006-05-03T18:24:00.000-12:00

EARTHQUAKE & TSUNAMI SCARE IN NEW ZEALAND!

Tonga struck by strong earthquake

A strong earthquake measuring 8.0 has rocked the Pacific island nation of Tonga, but initial fears that it might trigger a tsunami have receded.

The US Geological Survey said the quake was centred some 16km (10 miles) below the ocean floor about 160km (100 miles) north-east of the capital, Nuku'alofa.
It struck at 0426 local time (1526 GMT), the USGS said. There were no reports of damage or injuries.

Tsunami alerts were issued across the region but were cancelled within hours.

The earthquake was rated as the strongest of 2006.

Brief alert

Experts at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, based in Hawaii, revised initial estimates that a destructive wave could hit Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand, Samoa or Hawaii.
When I got up I felt the building swaying back and forth and it was for at least a minute that it went on like that

Ron VeaTonga RadioSea level readings suggested that a small tsunami was generated, and authorities near the epicentre were warned to be on guard for rough seas.
But warnings of more serious waves were cancelled less than two hours after the quake struck.
Early estimates had suggested that Fiji could bear the brunt of any large tsunami.
Areas along New Zealand's coastline were also placed on high alert, although concerns eased as warnings were scaled down.

2006-04-29T15:57:00.000-12:00

Melbourne Trip...

This has got to be its best...

Melbourne is so beautiful, maybe it is not for some people, for me, the city-withdrawal pumkin, it is really beautiful, really lotsa food and more importanatly, lotsa chinese food... yummmy, my friends and cousin were so afraid that i can't get those chinese food and really made a point to make sure that i have all the bestest Singapore Chinese food... i gained 2 kg over the 10 days... amazing eh??

hee... the highlight of this trip gotto be the visit to the philips island and learning about the lives of the world's smallest penguin... for those who know me... i really really love penguins... they are so small and gotto work so hard, they will swim out to the ocean in the wee hours of the days and go back to the shore in the late evening, that's when i caught the penguin parade, -- the little penguins will return to their barrows in the sand on philips island... i really pity them, they are so small and yet have to swim so much everyday... for those who watch March of the penguins, i guess u will empatthise w me.... they are so cute lovely animals... too bad we can't take their pictures, nonethless, we took pictures with fake penguins! heeee

the next bestest place i went was soverign hill.. again those who know me well will know that i love victorian times clothes and buildings... so knowinig that i will be going soverign hill that day, i wore skirt to hopefully blend in with the buildings and the costumed workers....
heeee and being really greedy, i panned for gold too, but i can't find any so i gave up.... so much for dreaming of finding a huge gold bar and sell it for millions.. :(

the bulk of the pictures i took in melb were with food, so i shan put here coz it will be too much...

but but but! i met with gaga! friend of 12 yrs! can u believe it! we were friends for 12 yrs... even though we haven't seen each other for years and only corresponded in mail or slow mail, we hit it off anytime anywhere... :) gaga n her mr rich treated me to peking duck! nice nice nice! whahaha then we went casino, i lost 50 bucks and gaga lost 200 but richard won abt 300 i think! heeee

i really love melbourne... with its bright lights yet lack the complexity of new york city and the with hints of victorians, it is amazing...

2006-04-28T23:26:00.000-12:00

Highlight # 1 of my North Island Expedition

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Badly equipped US tramper dies 28 April 2006

By MIKE WATSON

The challenging Tongariro Crossing has again caught out an ill-prepared walker, a 70-year-old Californian who has died of hypothermia.

Raydene Shepard died about 6pm on Wednesday after bad weather forced her and partner Dennis McDougall, 64, to shelter behind a rock bivvy above Red Crater, halfway along the popular 16-kilometre route on Mt Tongariro, in the central North Island.

The pair were dropped off at Mangetepopo carpark at 8am to walk the track, but made slow progress and became disoriented in low cloud above the Red Crater late in the afternoon and tried to turn back. Both were wearing light jackets and street shoes and had been noticed by other trampers to be struggling with fitness and the weather conditions, Detective Constable Kevan Verry said. They had limited food and were carrying only a bottle of water. The weather was windy and cold with 20 metres of visibility.

Conservation Department staff regularly see people walking the route in inadequate clothing, such as sandals, jeans and light jackets. Ms Shepard's death is the second on the track this summer/autumn period, though a 72-year-old Hamilton man who died of a heart attack in December was an experienced and well-equipped tramper.

The alarm was raised about the Californians on Wednesday after they failed to appear at the pick-up point at Ketetahi car park at 4pm. Turangi search and rescue volunteers found them at 2am yesterday and stayed with them tilltill the cloud layer lifted to allow the Lion Foundation rescue helicopter to land at 8am.

Mr McDougall, a retired Californian lawyer, was treated for mild hypothermia and flown to Turangi. Ms Shepard's body was flown to a Taupo funeral home.
Conservation Department Ruapehu area manager Nicola Patrick said the Tongariro Crossing was a challenging tramp and people needed to go well prepared. "It is known as one of the Great Walks but the word `walk' is misleading – it is a challenging trek which takes six to eight hours to complete." The route attracts thousands of day trippers each year.

The department could not prevent anyone walking the track, regardless of the conditions, she said.

Adventure Lodge owner Lorraine Sivell said it was raining on Wednesday morning and she had advised people wanting to walk the route to change their plans. "I'm shocked anyone would want to go up there that day and not be warned of the dangers."

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i could have been them... i went to do the Tongariro Crossing (about 2000m) just a day before them, DARINGLY, when i never climbed anything greater than the Grand Bukit Timah Hill (300 odd metres), what was i thinking? I was really scare myself, the climb up was tiring and the summit was crazy with wind blowing at >60km/hr, i was really scare, as it was a volcanoes, there were no plants to hold the rocks together, so the rocks were loose and the wind was strong when we did the descend, i was really afraid that i would be blow off or rolled down the cliff... i really prayed and calmed myself down... i really thank god for bringing me home safely... never again will i do something like this unless i become professional or a seasoned climber...

2006-04-09T17:16:00.000-12:00

Management camp!!!

This is one thing that i have been looking forward to since i knew i was coming to UC! i actually took this module because of the camp! how cool is it to go for a camp as part of the course! and i have to say it's pretty fun!

it's been like 2 years since i went to a camp and abt 3 years since i was part of the camp (non organising)... it's really really different from camps back home! the pple here are FUCKing pissed and tough! they call the lecture "tough D" in his face! i thot the lecturer was really good! it must have taken him long hours to plan for it! come'on guys! give him some credit and get ur ass moving! he's a really nice lecturer i think, catered beers for the guys in case of (withdrawal symptons) and bought us pizza out of his own pocket! half a pizza for everyone! there is like 140 people!

really had enough of the my kiwi leader! he sucks! he was totally destroying his own group with his fucking attitude (that was wat someone wrote of him)! i guess the right leader is really important to lead a team! anyway i was totally irritated with him! alright, we copied our final team report from the NUS lecture notes i had on IVLE! and he's so ego that we finished so fast that he went ard "boasting" to people that we were fast because we copied from somewhere! wat's his fucking problem! come on smart ass... why are u so proud! not as if u DID ANYTHING! not even copying! all u did was wracking our team! all these "fucking and ass" are really non vulgar! it's just part of the kiwi language! really i am still pretty polite!

anyway we were to build a raft and earn money with the raft by tranpsorting sand from one harbour to the next. we were first in the first lap... but the next lap saw strong current which our small raft can't take and we capsized!!! i was on it! and when we capsize all of us were going like "Fuck it, we're screwed" and yup! we are, we lose all our client's sand... and we can't transport anymore sand, hence no more income! and very unfortunately, i was one of the crew when it capsized! and i was swimming and trapping water in the freezing cold water! damn! then i tried retriving our paddles, and started swimming back... damn, should have waited for the speed boat to come and pick us up! but the swim was fun! it was icey, now i know how pple have felt when the titanic collapse!

anyway we believe the reason why our raft was capsized was because it was the name of the raft - WAHINE... apparently this is a ship that capsized in wellington some years back and believe it anot, it capsized on the right side, as in flipped over from the right, same as ours! i guess sometimes you really have to pay respect to these warriors... dun play around with the names!

enough of the bad stuffs... good things about the camp i know many more people from the course, in particular my only female group member - Jannie - she's really really really really nice! the nicest kiwi gal! (beyond words) she ain pretty but because of her nice character, i find her really appealing, alluring and respectable! i seldom have so much respect for a gal that's younger then me! as in wow! i really admire her and her awsome character! anywya, if i am going back packing with john, i hope i can visit her back in New Plymounth! oh ya! she's gonna race in the same marathon as linya on queen's birthday!yup yup... camp is still the best times to meet and know more friends :)

2006-04-02T11:05:00.000-12:00

A wild wildlife weekend!!!!

went kaikoura over the weekend with the international student support of canterbury! haha we left with a heavy heart coz we gonna risk not finsihing our assignments due next week... but nonetheless it was really worth it, doesn't matter if we gonna burn mid night oil to finish our stuffs.... haha just skipped a lecture coz i forgot to set my alarm clock... nevermind.. ahahhah it's environmental and it's stuffs that i learnt before.. so wahahah...

anyway... we were staying at the research centre of Canterbury Uni in Kaikoura.... it's pretty nice... we each have a bed... its so much like army bunks i think! heeee... anyway... we arrived at kaikoura at ard 12 noon... then we have the whole day off! so we decided we'll do something with the rest of the day, there are so many things that we can do over there....

so here's our priority...

1. Quad biking (4WD over the terrains)
2. Pilot a plane (yes navigate a real small private jet)
3. swim w the dolphins
4. safari hunting (going into a safari and shoot real animals, wowo i feel powerful when i mentioned real animals)
5. horse treking
6. fishing...

and with the worst luck ever, quad biking is fully booked, pilot plane is not open on weekends, we missed the time for swimming with dolphins,, safari hunting is closed coz there's a big competition on sun...

so in the end we did fishing! i thot it'll be boring! after my boring kelong trip... ahah kelly told me there's puna (abalones) here, and that her husband always drive to kaikoura to get abalones.. so... we were hoping to get abalones for lunch so that we can boast to our friends...

so we went looking for cafes with abalones... and we could only find a shop with puna pattied... so we just got it! heee... and we ate lobster! whahaha it was really good! lobster (which they call cray fish) in this shop is much cheaper than the others... some shops' lobster was going for 90 for one and 48 for half! ahhaha

anyways so we went fishing! and we caught lobsters!!!! and many many fishes.. once we throw the bait down, we basically have to wind the strings up coz the fishes are almost automatically attracted to it... and it was really tiring to wind in the fishes.... we were each given a lobster and some fishes! heee made our trip worthwhile !

and so the process repeats with us catching fishes after fishes! heee.... we saw some seals on our way to the place we fish! and we saw really small penguins too (heard it's the world's smallest penguins, it was too fast, small and far for my camera) then we saw a dead seal... it's so sad... he's floating with one fin up, it's like he's saying the last good bye.... (we saw him the next day as well, on our whale watching trip...)

haha after that we have a taxi waiting for us at the jetty picking us up for horse riding! heee.. i feel rich! yeah so on we go for horse riding!!!!

it was a farm and our trainer is jossie! she's really cool....

so i rode on amber, charmiane on sam and jossie on her own horse... i chose amber because she seem to be able to connect with me... i remember walking into the farm and said hello!!! then she was walking towards me as if she wanna say hello to me too... so i patted her and decided that i will ride on her! it seems like a good choice coz she always wanna walk in front, jossie said she like to lead and like to boss other horses ard! sounds like me?!?!? i think so! whahaha so we rode into the beaches and into the sunset... that is the time i decided i really love riding and i really love amber... it's lovely to ride into the sunset on the beach... it's beautiful, peaceful and feels absoultely gorgeous....

then jossie sent us all the way back to our place... so nice of her.. heeee... then charmaine and i decided that we'll have the meal of the month since it's 1 April! heee.... so we went to this lovely place, which i dun remember the name, have our dinner and desert! there was a band playing as well... funnily, the female singer sang the songs huiying sang, and a couple of more songs, she was singing torn and she will be loved! issit not a coincidence? heee...

2006-03-27T20:45:00.000-12:00

This is the picture i took of her about 4 hours before i leave singapore.. my last picture of her...and this is the chair she always lie under...

hmmm...was toking to my sister about my neighbour kid(ah xin, age 1.5 yrs old) who always run over to my house and stay over...

this is wat she told me :::

he will come into the house, walk over to the chair fei fei always lie under, bend down and look for fei fei... sometimes ah xin will go "woof woof".... he so smart, he remembers he always play with fei fei... he remember where she always lie on... he remembers she bark at him.. he remember he'll share his food with fei fei... such a smart boy...

if a boy this age can remember so many moments abt fei fei... i bet every single thing at home just reflects on fei fei... i think though it's been a month or so, no one actually moved on... everysingle bit of stuffs reminds us of her....

hai.. feeling down now... hai... i can't no longer hear her bark when i return in july....

:'(

hai.. i shudden't be thinking abt sad things...

hmm... this week will be busy, coz going over for a whale watching trip this weekend so gotto finish my labs, reports, tut that's due next week by fri....

anyway yeah! next fri will be holiday! 3 weeks of holiday.... unknowingly, i am half way through my time in NZ! camp next week! can't wait for the management camp! heee....

then off to melbourne! till this week's whale watching... here's to the week.. press on gal!

2006-03-25T21:01:00.000-12:00

I went tramping right here! Taylor's Mistake! slipped twice on the rocks but otherswise it was really cool! Think i am really having a healthy life here, touch rugby on monday, ultimate on wed, surfing on fri, tramping on sunday, table tennis every night! wohhooooo never had it healthier....

it was really tiring!!!! and pretty scary...i was so afraid.... wat if i slipped and fall off... will i roll all the way down into the ocean? heee... it's a really tiring walk... upslopes and down slopes....tracks and mud trails.... in case u are wondering wat's tramping! it's basically hiking! we were supposed to be tramping at Mt Thomas... but damn the planner -- NATE DAILY, stupid nate! anyway the trip was delayed and changed, in the end we had like an hour befor ethe bus came so grad a double shot choco and espresso - Chocofee!

in the end, we went to Taylors Mistake! on our way there we saw lotsa caves, explore a couple, had lunch in a dark cave (heee.. i bought baked potatoa and struddle!!!!!! it's amazing how simple things could taste so heavenly when we are hungry)....

finally we went to do some bouldering! it's really scary i swear, when i looked down i can only see water beneath me and myself danling off the cliff this is the cave we bouldered! thankfully we were safe... but next time when i boulder, i shall not bring my bag... i am so afraid if i fall into the water, my stuffs will be gone.. i am not so worried abt myself but my cameras and stuffs... heeee din know the tuesday's chalk days in school actually pay off here! maybe i will get a real bouldering shoes the next time i go bouldering! it sure pays to have better grip when u look down and see nothing but waves and waters....

anyway, on the way to Taylor's Mistake, this is wat i saw, a sign saying "Public Toilets" pointing into the bushes... wahhaha cool ain it! heee its for u to interpret!
heeee

heeee Meeeeee .... heee.. before heading for a nice place to chill, a jazz bar! like my boots?? i really like it coz it feel sexy yet its comfortable and yet it's sporty!

COW boys styled!!!! heeee....

This is my version of evolution of the homosapiens! ain it cool??!?!?! i gonna win an award for this picture! :)

2006-03-22T21:42:00.000-12:00

Another attempt at muffin!

Result: Successful (with ice cream, whipped cream & irish cream!!)
heeeee then with half an egg left, i made ya kum famous french toast which taste nothing like the originals!
no wonder pple pay so much for ya kum bread! coz its not easy at all making french toast i think! whahah
another shot at my muffin making...

damn. i really should be studying esp with test next week, test on 7 april, My management paper, infra paper, env lab due on 7 april... it really is time i start working on them.... i am really already doing some work... but sometimes i can't help feeling so cooped up... ya ya ya i do my work on my bed stilll since young....

so i try to keep myself busy by... cooking, surfing the web, coming up with my mel trip itinary, and the list goes on with "non academic stuffs"

been influenced by my flat mates to watch sitcoms... the shows here are really good, they show good movies, lost, grey anatomy, american next top model, so u think u can dance?, joey, Gilmore girls, short land street, desperate housewives, redemption hill, the biggest losers!... and many many more... but our favourites have got to be friends, gilmore girls, shortland street...wa hahhahha we'll watch it over dinner everynight! whahhaha

oh ya... a guy from my management course committed sucide, apparently over the stresses, maybe the merit comptition and the management paper due... but it's pretty sad... there is a councillor who came to talk to us... anyway... heard from rachel that NZ has got the highest sucide rate.... guess it's pretty normal to do it when u can't take it over here....

anyway...

okok... i really shud go study now.. heeee.... gotto run over to rachel and ask her abt surfing tmrw! yes yes we're going surfing again in the pacific ocean! anyway i can really hear rachel bitching about her new found american sister (she said her dad was an asshole and had another daughter) and finally she's coming over to visit them... oh she just mentioned that her "new found sister" is from harvard! holy hell! another smart ass... ewhahahha okok i really shudden be evesdropping! wahahah but she's loud!

2006-03-21T14:00:00.000-12:00

went for the staff cut protest today ... it's the student protest against staff cut...it's my feeble attempt to get onto the NZ national TV again!

wonder wat's w roy and sharp! apparently the guy who meted out the regulation is called ROY SHARP! waha

whahaha being the "rebel fynn" who has been let loose from the 'cooped up & tamed' society n singapore, i have decided to take part in the protest... ahha but i guess it was peaceful... rather disappointed that is a peaceful one! i thot we'll walk the streets... nathan (my american flat mate) and myself were still saying how i may be sent back to singapore and receive a heroic welcome and escorted by police at changi airport! keep dreaming! wahhaah...

signed the petition too... !!! my first petition!

heee.. been doing much more studying than i have expected... it feels really bad not having senior lab reports to copy.... it's been years since i started a lab report from nothing! spent the past 2 days working on my traffic lab report... complaint to my fellow course mate! and all of us agree we are working the shit out of ourselves for just 5 %! some of them gonna just hand in a sloppy one... well i think mine's pretty ok ... just a couple of finishing touches to it and Wala!!! ahahha it's my second lab report! the first i did was for environmental! i spent my whole saturday afternoon working in the lab! so nerdy i know! and dammit, half way through, there was a power failure and there goes my work... but nonetheless got it done too! 3% !

anyway... hmmm... i received a parcel from MY mr sum sum today! or so it reads: books, pants & soft toy!!!

hmmm... i was really thinking.... hmmm he got me a soft toy... that was the last thing i can think of... i can't really imagine him buying a soft toy of the rack! heee.. must be so cute! SUM SUM!!! thanks..... guess what's the soft toy??? Its STITCH!!!!! LILO & STITCH!!! the blue purple creature... for those who know me... it's my favourite cartoon character... i never thot he will get me that... touched beyond words! hahaha thanks sum sum!

played my first game of touch on monday! ahhah finally can join the folks to play... coz i have no lab! it's really fun and hillarious! its good to play leisurely, but the ball was size 5.. so not used to it... and so... i kinda injured my middle finger.. heee.. it's swollen but recovering well! heee.. but it's not going to deter me from playing more touch!

oh tuesday's baking day... very conincidentally, rachel and i decided to bake... so i baked my muffins and she baked her cookies... have only half an egg, so i can only make 5 small tiny phweny muffins.. and hell no! rachel's cookies are bigger than my muffin! but my muffin was good! i cut pieces of dark choco into it.. and after baking, the choco was like flowing out from the muffin! delicious! heee

oh ya... i tried cooking something new again! spicy macroni, the singapore-malay style! it is really pretty good, instead of sambal prawn, i added v spicy chilli and salmon! it really is tasty! yummy!

2006-03-16T09:20:00.000-12:00

Shucks... so tired....
can't sleep last night...
had antarctic studies this morning at 8! damn....
shud really be sleeping now, but i am busying monitoring the exchange rate so that i can seize the lowest rate then rush down to the office to pay my hall bills....trying so hard to save that 70 odd dollars of difference... NZD rate dropped from 1.121 - 1.036 sinec the day i came...i would be able to save abt 170 if i pay 2000 now...!! that's alot!almost like my one way tix to mel...
for those who dun know, i m gonna fly over to mel to visit some friends and relative during my easter week,,, and be back a week before school starts to study! ya... school's work pretty tough now...
so many due dates.. that me & charmaine have decided that we'll not go out these 2 weekends...

anyway wines are dirt cheap! bought some irish cream and wine! my flat had a little irish cream on choco ice cream! and it was really nice! hahah it's not a culture to do that here though! the folks here have been living their lives in waste! whahaha mean mean me! so i have been drinking a small glass of wine daily! heee

bought a packet of plain flour too... guess wat i did with it? i made "ban mian" and "mee hoon kuay" check it out, yes it taste as good as it looks!

denise from NUS IRO came down, and being poor kids, we made her gave us a treat at this nice cafe which we had always wanted to go too!!! heee.. we secertly led the way to this cafe and created a "chance upon" kinda scenerio! wahahha she's really nice, till now we still dunno if the treat came out from her own pocket or the school's complementry? heeee.. nonetheless, the food was good, but way too much... issit not lovely? yummy...

oh ya... i borrowed my first book... and guess wat i was told at the counter, "oh you look young to be a research student!" i was shocked!!! i was only asking her how many books can i borrow... apparently the engin department has decided i am a research student and i can borrow 50 books!!!!! for 2 months each... ahhaha that's so many!!! but wowwoowow I AM A RESEARCH student! how cool! :) heee

was watching the common wealth games... and this is wat rachel said... "we have a gold medal (NZ) yes, yes, from swimming (she's a really good swimmer herself), but the guy is not good looking though... but... heee.. i bet he has good stamina**** ahhaha cheeky, i wonder if he will come back and party... then i can go check him out!!!! whaahha" she's really cheeky, it's pretty amazing the conversations we have, we actually tok abt guys withgood bodies... and she was lotsa pics of such stuffs... ahahah there are autographed pron stars posters in her room... will sneak in to take a pic someday, when she is not noticing, in case she think i'm like her! whahwhhha

2006-03-13T12:23:00.000-12:00

Wild Food Festival - bypassing the Auther's Pass & the grand ALPS!

Read about the paper's review on Wild Food....

It has only the best!

The best tasting beer i ever had!

The biggest country styled party i've ever been to...

To end with a bang - here's to ALPS & wild food festival...

(i took all these pictures myself! ain them great and nice?)

2006-03-13T11:52:00.000-12:00

Wild food festival - There's lotsa space for GOD's creation

(in between breads)

The most screwed up dress competition!

Man as NUNS! wat an insult right?

Rachel & myself with a delicious Ostrich Sandwich

can u believe this hot chick is 19?

I am as tall as an Ostrich

Thats the animated one and the one below is the real thing...

Gross...

Mike with his Mountain Oysters

(which are really just Sheep BALLS!)

Us with the best tasting Waffles i ever had!

Better than Galare! really with home made

whipped cream & chocolat...

2006-03-11T22:47:00.000-12:00

Tired Tired Tired... never have i had such a tired weekend...

We (me, charmain, Nate (my American Flatmate), Racheal (my Kiwi Flatmate), Mike (our US friend) went on a weekend getaway to the west coast, across the Alps to the Wild Fod Festival at Hotakita. The coach ride was supposed to be 5 hours, but our very experience driver Rachel got us there in like 3.5 hr..and even more amazing, the journey back only took us 3 hours...and mind u...she drove all 3, 3.5 hours herself coz tt's her car! and god, she's a really good driver...just like initial d i think... the drive there was fantastic, there's a pass called the Auther's pass which is windy and very steep with lotsa curves and dips! She's only 19 but has gotton her license for 4 years, tt explains it all! she's good! hahah.. it's so funny the things she bought along the trip, (which none of us brought except her), a huge make-up bag, Vodka x 2, pillow and blanket...whereas the rest of us bought just water and sleeping bag! (coz we gonna party after the festival) but she's the driver...so oh well no one complains abt her barangs!

Anyway, we saw the great Alps and snow capped mountains! just the cape of the mountain though! heee.. but that's a sign of winter! hahha wat was amusing was wat rachel said when she saw the dried grey lava on the mountain - Wow so much dirty ice! hahah so funny...anyways, ice cap Alps for you.

Then comes the real thing - The WILD FOOD FESTIVAL! apparently it's one of the biggest events in NZ!

ahha it was wild... there were so many food to choose from, beer, cider and kwouloa (their version of baileys)...

as for food... things that i tried - there're
1. hairy mussels (the mussels are huge and it's really inside the meat,pretty gross but delicious),

2. Venison sandwich, this has gotto be one of the best food we ate that day... yummy...

3. Emu Kebah, dun really remember if it's good but i think it's pretty ok, slightly tough

4. Spice beer (my fave, i never likde beer, buti actually bought it after tasting my friend's)

5. Ostrich sandwich -great too expecially with the tomato and plum sauce

6. White bait (something like sliverfish) fried with egg...yummy, it's really good!

7. waffles, we actually joined in the line for abt 40 min to get this fave waffle!

8 Huhu gur - worms.. dun ask me how it taste coz just swollened it

9. Mountain Oysters!!! Actually it's SHEEP BALLS! damn.. testis! Peter for telling me it's nice and refuse to tell me if wat exactly it is! imagine the amount of sheep sperms we would have eaten ignorantly, luckily we asked, but we did try and it's GROSS! maybe it's just the thought...but nonetheless its gross... that mike with the sheep balls!

oh ya there's a "dress totally wrong" competition going on and i found man in nuns uniform really cool so here's a pic! heeee..

of course there are wilder stuffs like :
-possum pies (possum are a sorta wolves, bats like stuffs... the stall's deco is so cruel and gross... check it out...

- but the bad thing is that we missed the famous snails! damn.. all the stalls that sell snails are sold out! so sad...

anyway... yeah that's pretty much we ate...

hmmm well we went to the festive party after that, it has gotto be the biggest country party i ever attended... we were doing cowboys kinda dance for most part of the time, but it was great fun and more romantic when you see old couples dancing together... SWEET!

anyway, me charmaine and nate stayed at the girl guides place in the town... it was chaotic! noisy... there were so many slping bags... it's packed with sleeping bags, and it was so noisy that we could only sleep from 4 plus to 7 am.. haha all of us were totally knocked out when we reached back to our flats... its pretty amazing that my flat is so quiet on a sunday night... ahaha coz 3 of us were slping since 3-8 when we reached home...

Its a really great trip, with great scenic views and great rides! Wild food rules!

2006-03-05T19:23:00.000-12:00

Weekends are for anything but staying in hall and do nothing...
basically to put it simply, it's for fun! heee...

went to watch my first rugby match and went surfing in the pacific ocean over the weekend... so cool!

Well, well, have been cooking alot recently too coz i'm getting sick of cold, microwaved pizza and pasta... so i cooked some fish and chips! no frying involved! just put the chips and fish into a baking tray and leave it in the oven, remember to flip it! wah - laaa... a nice simple meal done!

well, today i attempted to cook twice! lunch and dinner! haaa.. my salad veggie was going to pass its "best before" date so i just added veggie into both meals!

(left) lunch: Pasta + veggie in instant sring onion soup (jus like noodle soup in singapore)

(Right) Dinner: of pork porridge, stir fried prok w veggie and orange shake! (v nice surprisingly! so proud of myself)

but the best meal i had thus far has to be the hainanese chicken rice we had before the rugby game! got it from the only asian food court in town, the owner is a singaporean too! and god, the rice was really good! will patronise that stall more often from now on!

anyway... SATURDAY! rugby... we asked a guy how to get to the stadium and he "cool-ly" replied, just follow the crowd at 7! it's still early! so we waited ard town.. true enough, groups of pple start parading to the stadium! the whole street is full of people it's amazing how Rugby is their religion here!

anyway...

we got one of the best seats! we were right infront and right at the place where the players run out before the game! i actually took a great clear video of the hunks! the game was good! initially, Crusaders "Team canterbury" lost to Aukland team... but it was quickly reversed in the second half! I really can't imagine this kinda scene during Singapore's Std Chartered 7 or S-league! and WOW! i am actually part of it!I am sure i was on TV too! coz they can't miss us! we're right infront! ! ! ! ! ! New Zealanders are really huge fans of rugby! even the kids! they were shouting "Screw Blues" ... so cute! Well... amazingly, Crusader's Horse Marscots came to live and were galloping around the stadium... this really leave me in awe...

"amazing" is all i've gotto say...

even charmaine who know nuts about rugby said it was good and that we must come again! anyway enuf of my first rugby experience and the start of an addiction!

Then come surfing on Sunday!

We surfed in the Pacific Ocean!

so you can imagine how huge the waves are... everything was fine... except that i'm sure i was trapped under the huge waves 3 times for more than 5 seconds each! and i lost a contact lens. it's really scary! the waves just covered me, i was so scare for the first time! then when i finally surface, ie the waves has moved on, then i felt relieved... the water depth is not high, if there is no waves, it reaches only to my waist or shoulders, but when the waves come and i wasn't able to jump up in time, i will be trapped underneath it till it passes me...traumatising at first, but hey, i managed to surf though wobbling! the guy from the shop said "hey gal, you had a nice ride though it was wobbly!" :)

Now - Monday, my whole body is aching from the surfing!

so much for fun on the weekends... weekdays are so hectic... lab sucks! heeee... we have to do it alone... i spent the past 3 hours in the civil lab to use a computer program call "pluto". we're supposed to come up with a transport network system solution... it's more like trial and error coz i was just inputing the variables and trying to see how it'll affect the city and of course the do nothing option! i'm pretty happy with my result coz after my series of trial and error, "my" city council's vote count at the election rose from 35% - 67% though the transport system has high casulties! nevermind, i will go and fine tune it! 5% only and i am slogging like hell for it! DAMN!

guess that's all for now... till i go eat the insects at the wild food festival or go tramping at the mountains, enjoy...

2006-03-04T21:49:00.000-12:00

Hey people...

thanks for caring...

i'm moving on better...

i guess it still hard to accept,

but i guess there's really nothing much

i can do otherthan wishing her all the best...

she'll be remember... in everyway...

when i see other dogs, i will remember her

when i see dog food in the supermarket, i will remember her too...

there's just so many things that i remember of her...

but these days i try to remember the happy times with her :)

2006-02-28T12:27:00.000-12:00

Lost... i am still at a lost...

waking up this morning hoping it was a cruel dream...

can't concentrate in school...
no mood to talked about anything this morning..
simple ate my breakfast in silence, while the rest of the chatted and laugh...
skipped tutorial coz i am really in a daze...

can't accept the truth,
can't grasp all that's happenning...
feeling really down...
thinking of her the whole time during lecture...
crying as i am typing down all the saddest moments in my life...

just staring into space, thinking ....
staring till the vision gets blur...

on my way to lesson, i can almost see her walking beside me...
i know i ought to move on...
but i can't...

everytime i close my eyes,
the horrible pic of her been knocked down came into my mind...
and i feel so lost...

i love u fei fei...
i really love u...

we were so worried tt you may leave us one day...
but we never talked about it...
now tt it really happened...
i am really really reall lost...

i am so far away...
i can't see u for one last time...

i miss u so much...
i m sorry ... so sorry... if i knew you will leave us while i am away...
i really wouldn''t go so far from home...

fei fei .....
why did u run away from home....
why
why
why did it all happened?

i hope all was a dream, a cruel joke...

devasted, sad, weeping, crying, trying hard to accept the reality...

but i hope all's a dream...

i love u fei fei... you are /were my dearest companion, sister, friend, and baby...
you will always be...

2006-02-27T21:38:00.000-12:00

can't sleep and i can't stop crying...

so much thoughts going through my mind...

Have been crying and am still crying, tried sleeping but all i saw was her, and

i started crying again...

trying to blog, but i'm still crying...

it's a lost, a huge lost, never felt a lost so deeply for years...
i'm at a lost... tried talking about it, all i did was crying and crying,

thinkin of calling home,
but i think it's worst back home...

thank you to my dearest best friend who called and all i did was crying

and mumbling...

thank you dear... for listenning to me cry...

it's really comforting... but it's hard for me to not be sad...

everytime i close my eyes, i just remember the times she brought and

spent with us...

the time she came into the room knowing i was down after i quarrelled with father...

only then did i really realised that she can feel how we feel...

that small gesture of hers will always be within me...

was it really intuitive?

i was just writing in my blog yesterday, ard the time she was missing from home,

that

i miss her and that we shouldn't take things for granted!

i was also thinking of calling home...

could it all be an omen for me to call home and ask?

i can't help but blame myself too...

if only i am back in singapore, then i can help my family to look for her,

perhaps we'll find her,

perhaps she won't be knocked down and left by the road side by a

bloody irresponsible driver...

if there's anything that i can do for her to be back again, i will gladly do so...

you are a lost which we hold so closely and dearly to...
you've been a bundle of joy, happiness and laughter...
a conversation we talked so proudly of...
you are there at the door no matter wat time we arrive home...
ocassionally sulky when we disturb your sleep...
sometimes moody...
many times sensitive...
always lovely...
always bullying the young kids and your toy elephant...

always...

always seekin freedom...

running away was not our option,
but yours...
it's this mischivious streak in you that led you to us...
it's this same characteristic of yours that brought you so far away...

you battered illness after illness...
so brave and strong...
i always call you my brave little girl ...
and i know you probably was fighting till the last moment...

it's fate that brought us together,
brought you back to us even when it seemed so far...

and its fate that i grew to love you and
it's up to me now to remember you always...

just like any of our family member will...

deeply in our hearts...
the hearts you've warmed...
the hearts you've open...

your lost is inmeasurable...
your time with us is short...
but the memories you brought are priceless...

we will always love you Fei Fei...

weeping and crying silently over at canterbury plains...

2006-02-26T21:04:00.000-12:00

Guess i will blog here afterall...
Seem like there's so much i wanna share with everyone...
from missing the singapore food, missing feifei, missing my dearestest,
missing my silly best friend, missing my family, missing the home cooked food...

i guess it's time like these that u realised how much you have been taking for granted!

hhahha i am complainning coz i'm pretty exhausted thinking of what should i be cooking.
haha after unsuccessful attempt at fried rice, i decided, i shall just go local, eat cold pasta,
pasta, chips, cook things that i can manage! ahhah

my fried rice look prefectly fine! but it was totallly tasteless! i thot fried rice is so easy to cook!
but hell no! haha guess coz i was using table spread as oil and honey as sugar! i thot they are
subsituable! ahaha i din buy oil or sugar and was too lazy to borrow! so i added table spread
and honey instead! blew! hahha

huimin!!! if u are reading, can u give me some receipe!?!?! whahahaha

anyway school's started for a week! and guess wat! i am already studying! damn that stupid lecturer who will call our names and ask questions! ahhaah today he actually asked if i wanna answer a question, he was like " Fynn, u look as if u have something to say do u wanna try??? (oh yes he remembers our name, coz the class is like 20 pple only)" and i said "nah..." and i was actually thinking of what to cook for dinner! oh damn always focusing on the wrong things.. hahah he was like alright fine, i will ask you again!

okok.. suit him! anyway hmm i drop my funky "hip hop culture" GEM to take antartic studies! i am really fascinated with antartic! cool cool and way too cool!

heeee....
oh ya... speaking of school... my flat mates are already doing their tutorial! oh my gosh! i can believe it! anyway i hope their good genes will rub on me! wahhaha

anyway it's fixed!?!?!?!? we are due to hit the waves on SUNDAY at brighton beach! can't wait!

surf surf surf!

oh yeah! went on a shopping trip last week too... bought 2 tops and a pair of jeans from urbanangels... some uk, us, au and nz company! pretty nice and cool.... its alittle like victoria secrets too! i bought my first Canterbury canterbury top! check it out! it's expensive.. its $69.99 NZD!!! but i think it's nice and femenine! so i got it! hee....

gonna watch my first live rugby match this sat too!!! The Crusaders are playing against the Blues! i know nuts abt both teams... but all i know is that the crusaders are like their god in canterbury (minus all the religious one) and the pple are telling me to just wear red and black and u won't go wrong! so i guess i will be in red and black then! the live rugby match tix are from $20-40... and i'm getting the medium range so guess it won't be that bad! heeee

Saw DOLPHINS swimming in the sea too! they are really really cute! hee.. the next must try thing would be to swim with dolphins!!!! i can't imagine being so close to then! it's so different from seeing them in the enclosure in the zoo! they seem really happy and free in the ocean! the dolphin wildlife cruise was crazy! we were drenched! the waves was so huge that it came on board! here's to a drenched me! after being splashed, i was just slurping hot drinks for the rest of the journey! too bad, only caught a video of the dolphins so can't show u all how small and cute the hector dolphins look!

anyways... hmmm going for horse treks this coming fri... (skipping lectures)!!! hope my family dun see it...anyway! heee can't wait!

actually enjoying doing groceries alot!!! everytime i go to a supermarket, i'll definately get something! damn! wat a waste of money! oh went to the beach the weekend before last, wanted to tan, but it was so cold! nonetheless we took some great pics! check it OUT! heeee.... okok time to publicise my photoalbum: www.fynntay.shutterfly.com

i am really grateful to the companies here! they are sponsoring us to international competitions and camps! heee... i will be having a management camp courtesy of a huge local company! haha heard that for the fri, sat, sun & monday (4-Days)camp, we gonna build a raft to transport coal! (its part of the infra management course!!!) and gonna take part in an international competition called MERIT too! managing this virtual company! so cool! heard it's 10k pounds if we win, but normally its renowned international construction companies that win! but that's a real big carrot dangling infront of us!!!! i love NEW ZEALAND and the generous companies!!!

my fave pic thus far!!! the portion of food was humongous, when it was the small portion already!!! it was like a huge lump
of fish pie! thankfully it tasted good! haha but i still din managed to finished it!

felt very much for singapore at the annual chinese lantern festival, thou i still can't believe that they are so cheapo to use the lantern's from 2005 "chu dao he pan" but for once i was actually looking forward to go! haha not for the country though but for the food!
singapore's food! yummmy! yup yup! saw a couple of singapore's food! pretty good!

hope they have more singapore's festival on exhibits here! and it's like the first time i ever stayed for the whole dragon dance performance! here's too singapore! :)

Linya, if you are reading,

here's my proposed plan:

places to visit and things to do:
1. antarctic centre
2. hanmer springs for the extreme sports
3. mt hutt for skiiing
4. the coolest gym ever! les mill
5. paragliding, kite boarding, white water rafting
6. swimming w dolphins and whale watching
7. lastly a NZ trip can;t be completed w/o some maori culture!

till i go for the rugby games and the horse riding and surfing this weekend! ENJOY!

2006-02-19T22:25:00.000-12:00

Finally I'm gonns sit down and really blog after slacking for so long!

heee... just had my first day of actual lesson!

Guess what!?!?! I'm taking 3 higher elective,

ie level 4000 or 5000 equivalent, 1 level 3000 and a gem!

Hahhaah so hip! my gem is called hip hop culture! hope i can still

take it coz i have like 4 labs sections on thur which clash with

hip hop's lecture! :(

hmmm... school pretty cool! the lecturers wear berms!!!! so informal!

but i must say he's good!

heeee...

Met this guy call Peter from wellington! so nice of him to offer me help if i need! though he ain a hunk, I still talk to him coz he's really nice i think! heee...

Well it's been a week and a half now into my trip! I really miss singapore food,

not that i am sick of pasta already! but hey! nothing beats

singapore food i guess! :) should have appreciated it more!

anyway... i won't be posting much pictures here i guess coz

i've got an online album at :

fynntay.shutterfly.com

do drop by and have a look k! i swear that Christchurch is

a lovely city! see to believe for yourself ya!

heeee

well well... hmmm... i've been eatin pasta everyday! heee...

coz i've prepared pasta and left it in ziplock bags so that i only need to heat it up when i'm eating! so hassle free!

haha just grab a plate, pasta, the veggie n chicken pasta sauce and dump them into the microwave! wahhahha i learnt that from the cute american guy in the flat! heeeee...

haha now i buy prepared food and mircowave them for almost all meals! just had a microwaved pizza, a meat pie and a glass of orange juice for dinner... heeeee.... haahaha

well well let's see.. went for 2 flat party, a karaok party, 2 bbq and

probably potluck this week! so cool! there seems to be party in at

least one flat each day! and pple will drink booze and dance in the

same living room! so fun! it's like wat i see only in TV back home!

Complaints!!!! the textbooks here are crazily expensive! an

engineering text is usually $150 odd dollars! the books that

i brought over from singapore has all been replaced! damm the

lecturer! he should have updated his course website earlier...

luckily my sis gonna send me! the freight is still cheaper than the books!

wahhahah

there's so so so so many things i wanna do here..

gotto distribute among those who're coming to visit me so t

hat i won't visit places twice!

things to do with:

1. Linya (june)

2. Family (April)

3. Cousin (Mar)

... basically i wanna

1. Surf (yeah should be surfing next tue!)

2. watching whales (Yeah book it cheaply with school on april)

3. Willowbank

4. Rafting

5. Visit the antartica centre

6. SWIM with the dolphin!!!! ( I REALLY want to)

7. Kayak

8. Para-gliding

9. Horse riding (and play polo)

10. Ride the jets

11. Get on a hot air ballon!!!!

yeah yeah! i wanna do all these before i head home,

especially swimming with the dolphins!

tata it's late here already! i really should be sleeping for i have lessons tmrw!

till then!thanks for reading so patiently!

and finally i wanna tell my silly dear that "I LOVE U!"

and yup we'll surf when i'm back! i'll teach u! heeee

2006-02-16T16:09:00.000-12:00

Me trying to cycle, climb and pay for the parking ! It's hard! heeee
Museum! It wasn't part of our plan to visit one... but hey since it's free! we went! heeee... boring as usual! :(
heeee... being intellectual almost immediately when i arrived at Christchurch! Do you know that Harry Potter was filmed at this book store? nah... kidding! but it's like a replica! this book store contain collectors items that could date back 300 odds years! :)

Look at their botanic gardens! it's really lovely and sweet with all the pastures, fountains and little ducklings! But i still like the one in singapore... the company at least! :)

Look at these! these are the sights near school! how boring! check out the old cars! oh the weird thing here is that 90% of the cars are badly modified coz they are really old and probably won't move unless you change the parts! and most parts that people use to modify are actually cheaper than if people order new parts for their cars! so yup! modified cars are for the poor dicks! heeee...so dun! oh well.. self explanatory! School! Enginnering! but check out their cafes! It's sweet!

2006-02-16T11:15:00.000-12:00

Wondering why are all the posts coming in on the same day??

heee.. that's coz i just got my internet! heee...

anyway! ENJOY!

Day 2!

An eventful day!

I woke up in the morning eating cream of mushroom…. Lalalalla I guess nobody’s interested in the nitty gritty details!

Anyway! It was a marvelous day! Went touring around the school figuring out where are the various faculties so that we won’t get lost on the first day of school….

Heee… then we signed up for 2 trips! One to a safari and one to whale watching! Woooo how cool is that! Did I ever mention that there’ll be a 3 weeks break during Easter! Wowwoowowow 3 weeks! How cool! Now I’m contemplating about going either Melbourne or Auckland during the vacation! I hope my siblings will come then too so that I can tour around with them! Woooohhooooooooo

Heee… so far so perfect, except for being among the older generations here! Can u believe! Some of the kids here enter university when they are 18! I feel really old! Damn! Conversations here are:

Hey, I’m Zhen Lin, Fynn and you're?
Nice to meet you!
Where are you from?
Really? That’s a cool place!
I’m from Singapore!
So which subjects are you taking?
Oh I’m from civil!
Which flat do you stay?
Are you enjoying the party!
How’s everything been for you?

Visited the Botanic Gardens and the museum too! Totally awesome coz they are free! Heeeee… it's really beautiful! It’s really peaceful & tranquil! There were flowers everywhere; I guess its part of the celebration for the flower festivals!

Heeeee! Most people from the Ilam village are international! There were parties tonight! Thought of crashing both parties but, hey, I think I should start slow! I am no-longer the chiongster people knew me to be! How cool! The people are awesome! They simply bring alcohol into the house and blast the music! Haahahahah there were some jokers as well! It’s pretty cool for a first party at Christchurch!

Well RUMORS has it that exchange student grows fat! Heeee… to prevent such a misfortune to happen to me! I embarked on my first running trip here! Heee… ran though the fields and saw people playing touch rugby! Yeah! I miss it so much! 've brought my rugby boots here! Hope they will be handy! I want to play touch again! Can I? Heeee…..nonetheless I will continue running till the weather gets real chilly, coz I din bring any track pants! I was running in my shorts and tee! The day before when I was trying to run at around 8pm, the weather was so cold that I have to turn and head back to the flat in less than 5 minutes!

2006-02-16T11:06:00.000-12:00

Changi Airport! So much for winning so many international awards... it only left me speechless! Horrible service by the airport service crew,

obviously trying to give us a hard time.

Dare her to say that she din know we are students despite having saw our visa! I can’t believe her!

Anyway the flight was horrible! It was so crampy & the stupid boy from UK kept his lights on throughout the journey!

How can I sleep with a light shinning behind me!

That was that! I vomited too!

Guess it was coz insufficient sleep that caused me to get so heaty!

Heee… NZ! Here I am!
Heee… guess wat? we were driven to the accommodation in a huge car!

So posh! And we din have to pay a single cent – all paid for!

Anyway my room was huge! The apartment is great!

My apartment mates consist of 2 American – Kate & Nic, 1 Malaysian – Kelis then Me! 4 to a 6 man apartment!

Hope no one else is coming in! Whahaha

My room is big! Though undone, I still think it’s cozy!

Hahah and all of use agree that it’s really comfortable with the comforter and the think pillow!! Dammnnnnnnit how can I ever study in the room now?

Oh then we went to Woolworth – a really humongous supermarket!

The lanes were huge & so were most of the people!

Probably majority are like the ALL BLACKS team! I was so tempted for a glass of coke!

But guess wat! Their 500ml one cost NZD 2.38! It’s crazy, I know, so I did not drink it!

Oh yah for many of my friends who are concern! I have yet to see any cows or sheep! But guess what their population of sheep is 40 million and their people are 4 million! Imagine how scarcely populated they are!

2006-02-12T16:07:00.000-12:00

finally i am gonna post something here! here's to new zealand! wowoow was chauffered to hall by a real big car! wahhaha it was 35 degrees! who told me it's pretty cold! wahhaha

hate it! w/o internet , ity really cripples me! phew! ta ta...
internet is expensive..wait till i get my own internet access then i will post more!

cheerios!

2006-01-21T22:39:00.000-12:00

In construction to serve me better! bare with it! :p