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一场大选，却让我了解原来自己是如此的渺小

或许我们都太天真了，也可能因为我们抱了太大的希望

我唯一的遗憾是自己无法投票因为过往对政治，这个决定国家未来可恶的东西，一直都不闻不问，所以即使知道自己已经符合投票人士的资格却因为在海外的关系并没太过在意

如此的我，其实和很多前天的‘首投族’一样，因为2008年的意外惊喜（反对党以2/3 席从先进在野党夺下了4个州属）才燃起熊熊烈火的希望

因为这股澎湃和热血，我们赢了民心，但也可能因为这一味的澎湃让我们忽略了理性的分析能力和情绪管理

没错，我们会如此是在所难免，因为我们都很爱马来西亚，我们都期待我们有个美好的未来

没有办法把自己的激动和感情完全抽离不是我们的失策，而是因为我们终究是人

残酷的是对手利用我们的希望狠狠的将我们打入黑洞，我们除了熄灯之外却手足无措

我只能感叹，革命是一条长远的路，更何况我们的革命其实只不过是一个开始

如果没有2008年的成功，我们今时今日会如此热衷吗？这答案我不懂，但是被同一个党统治了半个世纪的人们已经回答了这个问题

可能是因为时机一直不对，我们也可以继续谴责是因为对手耍流氓手段，但我们是不是应该也反省自己的不足？

选区划分是奈它每何，但是只要我们的票数超过70%有有胜算，天真的是我们以为所有人都和我们一样认为对手是可恶的，肮脏的

我们不能埋怨为何他们不够清醒，为何不和我们一样投相同的票，因为我们何尝知道他们的生活，我们不能理解会不会是因为我们从来没去理解过

我们凭什么要求他们和我们一样，当然我没说只有我们自己不足，但是很多时候我们必须从自身坐起才能要求别人改变

感激的是，现在大家渐渐平复了心情，开始思考，开始领悟那可怕的政治背后其实隐藏这什么更大的阴谋和危机

我们都不是圣人，我们都需要从错误中学习，而且必须，也只能继续前进了

因为地球并没有因为我们的不满而停止转动，赢了的对手也更不会因为我们的沮丧同情我们而让位

我们前进不是代表我们忘记这一切，放弃了希望，而是带这这个不满，积极的再下一城~

请记得我们必须积极，我们必须客观，因为政治太黑暗了，我们必须光明的，冷静的面对他

我不得承认对手的选区划分相当精明，因为同样的手段赢了56年我们依然束手无策

如果你运用在对我们国家的管理上那该多好啊。。。

所以套用我这里朋友的话，我们要明白我们要赢不能只靠一个热诚的心，在那之上，智慧也很重要

不要气馁，也不要觉得我们失败了，我们其实真的赢了好多。。。

遗憾自己无法和在大马的同志们一起感同身受，也可能是因为如此，即使看到成绩后失望，生气的程度不及在大马的朋友那么激动

感觉自己在独自沮丧，因为在这个天堂般的新西兰并没有人能明白我的愤怒

我中国的同事冷冷的说他连投票的权利都没有，我俄罗斯的上司说政治都是如此肮脏的

我试着辩解那是因为你们都是共产，但是我上司继续问道那马来西亚和非洲比较算什么？那些阿拉伯的人民又如何？

的确人比人气死人，还是那句话，我不是强调我们要知足接受现在的结果，而是应该往积极的一面去想

可能我没有资格说什么，我只是很单纯的希望我们都能振作起来，不要放弃之余，还是要积极的面对人生

允许自己沉淀两三天，甚至到更久的时间，但是日子还是必须积极的过

很感谢大家的努力和心意，请继续维持下去，我知道很难，但是我们不能绝望，否则那些在一开始就帮我们捍卫奋斗一个美好未来的伟人所做的牺牲就白白浪费了

像我爸，当然他不是什么伟人（我自己认为他是就好了），但我记忆以来他就一直都投给反对党，但是56年来都没成功过

他没有放弃，他只是感叹这次很可惜，但是他说他不会离开马来西亚的，他只是感慨未来的路会更难走，但是他说华人是在什么艰难的环境下都能生存的

所以如果你疑问我还回不回家，我想你知道了答案，其实知道票选结果后失望后，我还是肯定自己回家的明确决定了

最后想说的是，所有事情都是2面性的

网络的进步的确是好事，但是对于散播谣言的渲染力也相当可怕

呼吁大家不要盲目的传播流言，还有真的冷静的客观分析流言~

 Ohwooh, finally gone to the Te Apiti windmill farm at Palmerston North suburb with yen today,

she is a good driver.....tho she lost direction on our way =P

It was around an hour away from the city centre, yen kept on saying weather really honoured me as she experienced bad weather everytime she gone to windmill farm

well, i guess i was lucky, the weather today was just brilliant.

Surpisingly, it was not that cold even tho it is already May now...

here comes my Asian self-potrait =D

the windmill farm is impressive, good location and good view

I could feel the magnificient landscape of manawatu (Palmy state) while standing on the top (the windmill farm is located at top of the hill).

I just revealed that Te Apiti windmill farm was the first windmill farm to supply electricy to the national grid in NZ!

There arent many of them on the farm i went, but apparently they covered the whole mountain.....where there is another farm for them too, but just we dunno hw to access there.

Dont look down on them, they are actually massive!

We spent quite a sufficient time on the top, and thanks to yen, i enjoyed being her model of her lens...

A successful JUMP, but too bad photo was blurry...

and i did realize i can jump even higher since i lost weight =)

finally got a lady to take a picture of us ^^

apparently there are many cows around, not dairy cows, but beef cattle, they seems like those i saw at South island which famous for their angus meat

yen was kidding that of cz they raised to be high quality beef, as they are living in such good place...=)

So have a quite good weekend at the windmill....so how about yrs?

It is healthy and wellness day today at my company, actually I felt grateful that my company always helding many 'creative' events for workers like us, who enjoyed these events as an excuse to be 'lazy' at work =P

Well, we still working today, it just due to wellness day, the company actually transformed the cafeteria (where we have our lunch) into an exhibition hall

many stalls from outside the company, such as spec save, palmy i-site etc was placed to promote coming events and function, or selling their 'healthy' products or membership...

I dint enjoy the exhibition that much, but did find the re-orienteering challenge very fun.

This is a suppose 1-hr day activity hold by the company social comitee in order to cheer up employees on a struggling Wednesday and also experience the simple tracking route around Massey University

(FYI, Massey Uni is located just right opposite my company, and it was quite outskirts and good to be explored)

I joined the challenge together with Halie and Ping, my closest colleagues at work. We started the challenge around half pass ten in the morning which was actually an hour earlier than others

So the reorienteering challenge is about an hr orientation (to be simple, tracking) at part of the Turitea track, where we need to answer the question sheet which those answer were hanging around trees along the track.

here, we found the answer sheet for one of the question, hanging on the tree.

It was supposed to be a simple and easy challenge....

However, we had an over-imagination that the highlighted map given was a route, but the highlighted part was just stating the area where the hints would be located...

we were smart enough to think that the red color route was the challenge, but the challenge actually ended at half way of the track...

the reason we ego to continue walking was because we struggled to find the answer sheet along the way, the truth was they were hanging at somewhere outside the route...it was because the map stated the anwser will covered in the highlighted area but not only on the track.

Well, sorry if i got u confused.

So we end-up 'lost' at the nearly end track, and realized we had to return our original way back to work desk

Then we met other ppl on our way back and finally understand the entire challenge....and how stupid we were, lol

anyways, i had good time today....see what we experienced:

Halie and I jumping on the top!

me just admiring Halie, that's look fun! haha

never knew there is a small falls behind Massey Uni.....this really explained how stupid is humanity, we always missed the most beautiful things around us.

a good lesson to learn.....open yr eyes!

we found a playground during our challenge, of cz at somewhere nt covered under the map, we dint even realize we were lost when we having fun at this no-one playground...

I must said NZ kids are real lucky, as they always have amazing playground with those facilities which i firstly ever seen in my life.

Playground back in my home country were always wrecked by despicable ppl and with boring facilities

Thus, NZ is safe and beautiful, children here can happily spend their time at these well-maintained playground

i was having great fun with the flying fox, for the first time, i think i did change a lot

i dont use to do this, as i always scared of doing something that i never have done, or just inconfident to do something that i never tried at all

i actually done very well today, i tried the flying fox, successfully for a few times (the photo dint show the outcome as ping missed my shot!)...well it was not a big thing to show off, but sincerely, i am very happy with my unleash mind today...

cant believe i was doing this while there were ppl working very hard at my company, lol....what to complain about life?

(FYI, i am legal to go for the reorienteering challenge during worktime, as it is part of the working event today, in case u thought i was being lazy)

I am YOUNG!! haha

also spotted a huge poisonous mushroom, just like one of those from super-mario game.

thought this photo would win the best photo prize for the challenge, but life is not always what we expected. Hmmm....what a challenge I learnt today.

Yep, I had a warm nite over Paya's place, and we hanged out at Fidels again for brunch!

Well, is first time for Paya, she picked Fidels as she thought the price was cheaper according their website

But actually they were not, i guess the owner forgot to update the cost...

Have a 'chili chocolate' drink for the start. It is a unique hot chocolate compared to those usual one =)

I wont say the meal was great, as normal breakfast, is just usual but I like their generous portobello mushroom quantities~

This is a vegan breakfast tho, well, I think I had too much fatty food yesterday, is better to vegan for sometimes =P

Thumbs up for their homemade hash brown too =D

So here some photos around Fidels, actually this place is really artistic and cool to chill out

I could see its popularity as the narrow cafe just boosted up with different ppl after 11am..

We were lucky that we came earlier and got a good spot!

I was supposed to have a lunch with Chyi Mei at 12pm, but end up I missed her as she was 'trapped' at Kapiti with her hsemate.

Oh well, a bit shame of that but I do think I would probably have very little dessert if the lunch was on as I was super-full!

Thanks Paya did not 'dump' me after realized I had no plan since Chyi couldnt make it.

We gone to the Korean shop and get an ice-cream hehe =D

Then we have a little break at the water-front, didnt buy any food as I was still full and just couldnt border to line up for the food with my backpack (which is my clothes, towel for staying overnight)

Still I had some food to prevent getting hungry later on the bus, so I finally visited the French crepe stall!

The last time I had French crepe (exclude the crepe that made by my ex-French colleagues) was in Dunedin....

I totally forgot the name of the crepe i ordered, but it contains pears, nutella and almonds within, it was quite ordinary French style...

The crepe is soft and chewy, and all the ingredients just matched very well!

And the delicious crepe just marked the end of my trip in Welly for this time

wow, finally a weekend with fun and packed schedule, lol

I had been relaxing for a few weekends since I back from Malaysia, but I think is time to activate my travel mode again =P

So I have gone to Wellington today after grabbed some sushi from the sushi shop at town, not the one that dissapointed me tho. =)

I was supposed to arrive around 1.20pm, but for the ever first time, bus was broken down at Parapaumu - where still one hour due to destination.

Although is was not a pleasant experience, but still grateful that we was just about 1 hr behind of travel and luckily all of us were safe.

I guess that's not a surprise with Naked bus...but well it couldnt set as an excuse regardless of its slighly lower price.

Too bad I just had to be nailed down with it as I am not millionaire =(

Anyways, I still managed to have my longtime dreaming high tea experience!

Hugely Thanks to Paya for spending her precious time with me at Martha's pantry, as she is really busy at this stage for her Phd thesis

Martha's Pantry have a good and cute environment, it is very relaxing to hang around at this nice place.

Back to the high tea,

Tho it was not what I expected, it was still very good experience...

I think the high tea at Martha's pantry is an English style, felt like myself turned into one of those polite lady with British accent found in one of those romantic novel

Regret that I only found those high society's fancy hats when we left the cafe.

We started with their in house famous tea, Paya was saying our teapots are not as beautiful as those sitting at the next table.LOL

But the tea turned out quite good, well I am not a good person to comment as I am not a tea person. However, to be honest, I would prefer the tea with more fragrance which I once having at Stephan...

We dint wait for too long, here's come our high tea.

We were told to eat them from bottom to top, from savoury to sweet. There were sandwitch and tiny pizzas at the bottom, quiche and scones at the middle, and sweets such as macarons, truffles, cupcakes and cream puffs sitting at the top deck.

I actually think those little tiny food was just alright, the whole concept was just about the fancy of how the tiny cute food are presented with luxury-like and fancy teapots and vintage cutlery.

I think I am sort of completed a 'mission', haha, perhaps will consider if I still going for another high tea. Well, high tea is not cheap, thus not really satisfying to me. I rather have a great dessert in those normal cafe. However, this was a good experience for dining in a lazy relaxing afternoon at a dreamy environment..

Later on, I gone to meet Janis for dinner at Fidels, one of the best cafe in the capital.

We had missed each other for closely a year, somehow we just lost the contact and finally this time we caught each other.

I was very happy that she found herself a likeable job, and still living happily and healthily. I am praying for her happiness as she is one of a fren who i really like and appreciate in my life. Too bad we had such a long and deep conversation that we forgot to snatch a photo together =S

Pizza at Fidels was alright for me, but thumbs up for the cheap cost and generous portion size!

We only paid NZD38 for a large pizza, 2 Asahi beer and a tempura with chips entree!

The night was quite long, as we had so many things to talk, Janis brought me to this cool lounge at Tory street.

We spent almost an hour at this Hawthorn Lounge, with great unique cocktail, comfy environment and frenly bartenders

I ordered a cocktail named 'Tory Street' which represent the lounge's famous in house cocktail. Taste was very unique which I was not able to recall I had this similar taste from other cocktails. Well, fair enough as they designed their own cocktails, and they updated their cocktails list according to season.

I failed to find any common cocktails like margarita, or japanese slinder on their menu.

Thanks to Janis, I sat by the bar for the first time, it reminds me of the Japanese drama 'Bartender' cz the feel was exactly the same!

The bartenders were very frenly, they kinda greet and talked to every customer once they enter the lounge

they were making all sort of different cocktails as ordered by the customers right in front of us, and we were so curious about what cocktails they were, the bartender dint get annoyed but patiently explained to us the details of the cocktail and how they were so unique =)

This was just one of the time I captured some photos, well who will miss this!

A fire going while making a cocktail, another bartender was like teasing him saying he was showing off =P I guess he was...

The night was so great!

Not forget that Janis also ordered a very special cocktail named goldren rum if i am not mistaken.

It contain a raw egg in it!!! Other than that, there were gin, orange chocolate chips ice-cream, orange zest etc...I sipped and honestly, I couldnt tell there was a raw egg inside!

Too bad the night was too short to hang out, i really miss Janis....Until we meet then, take care my fren!