C'est LA viE

Had been researching for the South Island trip today, was such a headache to plan a well-organized and perfect last trip for me in NZ.

At least I had chosen the must-visit places before i left this beautiful country, yet many details trip to need to be considered before i could draw out an itinerary...

Realized there are a few places that I may have to miss out in the country, i guess that's life, u cant always hold everything and everyone with you

time flies, but memories remain, that's why we must live in every moment, enjoy life the MAX!

Sergey once again reminded me today to enjoy the remain months i have in NZ, yea, I had been wondering around, and left my brain a bit 'blank' these days...

I should have take the advise and emphasized the 'live meaningfully everyday' principal!!

Really grateful that I am having the remaining days and all the entire past 5 yrs in NZ, thanks to the destiny, and my parents who sent me here, thank god.

-love being alive, and enjoy life every single moment-

哈哈，这篇文章绝对不是搞笑的，我也无法开出这种玩笑

一直都知道自己有很多不足，很多需要改进的地方，但此刻的我对自己超犹豫不决，优柔寡断的性子感到羞愧

为什么那么把持不足？为什么那么轻易的就被动摇？是否因为意志不够坚定？抑或是自己还没真的做好决定？

于是，命运才安排一个又一个的考验让我坚定自己的信念对吧？

哥哥那天问了之后，在复活节前，新老板竟然对我的去留也有兴趣了。。。

他并没开出什么条件，也没有答允什么机会，而且还有好多的‘不能担保’

现在回想起来，觉得自己真的好可笑，还犹豫个什么呢？！

哈哈，对啊，我再次确认自己的去向了，我还是坚持原本的初衷--回到原点，马来西亚，我的家

再次挣扎了很久，也问了家人还有一些朋友的意见，到头来，我选择聆听我内心的声音。。。回家

离开不一定是伤感的，离开不一定代表不再重逢，离开不一定是一件坏事

其实根本没什么好与坏，也没有所谓的对与错。。。感觉离开或留下对我而言都有一个未知的未来

拒绝了眼前的所谓‘良机’是否代表我就失去了其他机会？接受了眼前的‘良机’又是否象征着我有一个更光明的未来？

原来，一切是在于我如何衡量。。。

每一个决定都是两性的，有好的环境就要付出在外独自一人的代价；有家人挚爱陪伴，或许也有不好的工作环境，不高的薪金

但是每件事物的价值都是自己决定的，标签的所谓数目，好坏并非绝对。。。

可能我真的很害怕去面对大马比纽西兰相对较差的环境，我可能会不知所措，可能会感到一丝的后悔

但是我深深的知道如果我选择了留下其实是在逃避，呈一时的安稳，事后我可能会再次感叹为什么不拿出勇气去面对？

在这的朋友告诉我，一年前她听了我的犹豫，一年后我也还是为了同样的问题烦恼。。。

所以我已经转了一圈，有点觉得自己继续下去真的是在浪费时间

因为我已经预见了留下来后的一年会是如何的结果，不敢说绝对，但是至少此刻的我已经有这种心态

那我还要考虑什么？

这犹豫不决的性子，你给我听着。。。不管前方的路多么战战兢兢，多么让你焦虑不安，还是那句话：‘不能怕’！！

这个套用五月天的名言，要陪伴着我走接下来的路，要给予我勇气和能量！

加油拉，朋友。。。

Well, is time to say goodbye again, while wann zhen and others continued their journey back to New Plymouth from Wellington today, I am going back Palmy instead.

Is just no point for me to follow them to New Plymouth and come down to Palmy again next day.

And again, I wasted another bus ticket from Welly to Palmy as they offered me a ride to Palmy.

Anyways, I still had fun in Wellington today with them, gone for yumcha and also weta cave for my second time.

Then we also stop for the beautiful Kapiti coast for a short while....

They enjoyed dinner with me at Chada Thai back in Palmy just now, anyways, the dinner also marked the end of my trip.

See u guys again~

It was a long day today, it was very struggling to wake up early during holidays, but looking upon our exciting schedule, i guess is worthy to just sacrified some sleep =P

Well the morning began with a big brunch at Gusto, see what we having!!

I must said the scallops shiuan ordered was so huge and juicy! I never seen such a huge scallop in my whole life, and they were so fresh.

And myself had a seafood spagetti, the spagetti itself was very usual, but the sauce and seafood was very fresh and authentic!

We had fulfilled our desire for both satisfaction and tummy, we went for a walk along the New Plymouth coastal walk.

Oh, not to mention we purposely discovered the Big Wave Territory!

This icon just resembled all the famous view point at Taranaki, just stood right beside the country's famous coastline for surffing.

It was so big and colorful~

Then we approached the Te rewa rewa bridge - the famous whale bone bridge at the coastal walk.

We actually walked about 30mins to arrive the bridge, which is far away from the 15min easy walk as told by the I-site lady.

Anyways, is a well-conducted architecture! Too bad weather was not great, or else we would be able to spot the mount Taranaki too!

We spent quite sometimes along the coastal walk, and also discovered many camping sites.

I guess New Plymouth residents might have 2 places of stay, one is their proper comfy hse and another one is just a well-maintained camp beside the coast!

We left New Plymouth and started our road trip around 4pm, before that we also gone to the Truck show event hold specially for the day.

Road trip was very smooth and fun, tired tho. Thanks for the driver- Nan, we arrived Wellington safely around 8pm, and have dinner at a vietnamese cuisine around 9pm!

haha, i guess that's the problem for road trip, irregular timing for meal =)

oops, what wrong with me today, i forgot we actually dropped by Foxton before our arrival at Wellington

Never knew Foxton has a windmill, a traditional Holland windmill!! It just at the Art centre, i even imitated MonaLisa~

I also found an old-fashioned but malfunctional tram, old style but good feel...

so is this time of the year again...is Easter holiday!! =D

I think i will definitely miss this next year, as i wont get public holidays and long weekend for Easter in Malaysia...=(

Oh well, i guess that's life. Having 6 Easter holidays was a fortune for me especially that I am not even celebrating it. XD

So this is the 3rd time of Easter outing for me since I entered career life.

This time, it is a road trip together with wann zhen and her family, oh Yvonne joined us too~

First of all, i actually travelled via bus by myself to Strafford to meet them, and saw this special clock tower...

It plays Romeo and Juliet musical at certain time, i was pretty lucky that i witnessed this as for the one hour i spent at Strafford

Basically Romeo and Juliet (the dolls) just opened some doors on the clock tower, and spoke their scripts with Romeo and Juliet musical background

and eventually they come out together from the largest door at the bottom of the clock tower.

I dint really hear what were they saying as the whole musical seems very old and the track neither clear nor high quality

well that's nothing really special about that, but quite impressed there are something like this at this small rural town.

then, all of us gathered about 4pm, and we gone to Taranaki national park!

Well we were not planning to climb the mountain, we actually just spent like an hour for a loop walk.

Found the water-fall!!

It was actually an easy relaxing walk, but the coincidence was everyone of us was starving as we didnt have proper lunch.

Although my bus did a rest-stop at Whanganui, i dint get to lunch as most of the restaurant/cafe closed due to Easter (again, this is only NZ will do that!), and i was struggling to find a pie/sandwitch etc.

So we just refused to do any trampling and we were craving for fine dinner after the loop walk.

Here we go, our dinner!!

Gutted we missed the famous Strafford house restaurant due to highly demand over Easter, we couldnt get any table, end-up we gone to Garlic Press at New Plymouth city.

The garlic press has a very comfortable environment, is like a joint of bar and restaurant. We were saying the kitchen (with red circle) is so small and all 3 chefs were working at this small space....XD

Meal was pretty up standard, the only dissapointment was most of the meals were very salty....

we ordered 2 entrees of the day to share, a mussels provencal and a possin confit. The mussels were very fresh, i assumed the chef caught them just right at New Plymouth coast? haha.  Well for the poussin confit, it was very tender, but actually seems a bit unethical and cruel to eat that.

I think this was also my first time eating poussin, okay fyi, poussin is a 28 day old chicken. So i actually still feel very guilty now =S

and this was the main I ordered, is a scotch fillet, it was tender but i think the mushroom sauce was too salty, just as what i said most of their food is very salty.

But it was a pleasant meal, i think food taste the best when u are really hungry. We were complaining the meal was too salty, but we still finished everything.

Anyways, it was a pleasant night, and i got a lot of fun from the new monopoly card game, wow, it was so much fun compared to the old board version. Please try them out if u find them =D