C'est LA viE

Went for a day trip today with Kylie, well those Uni students are having sem-break now, lucky them

so we planned for a day trip to welly to visit the zoo!!!

woohoo, such a long time since last time I was in the zoo...erm, probably when I was in high school??

Well, I am not claiming myself as an animal lover, but still very excited to go to the zoo!!haha

Actually not just Kylie, Shirley, Yen, Xin and another new fren, Anges joined us too! More ppl, more fun!!

So Kylie and I bought an earlier bus ticket, 5.30am!!!! Because both of us are not going to stay for overnight, the remain of them will stay overnight at Lower hutt

Therefore, we bought the earliest ticket in order to get the most time in Welly.

This was the 3rd time Kylie visited Welly, compared to her, I was not that excited in terms of getting various Asian food. She was so high that she wanna eat everything...hahaha, we were talking on food most of the time!

Chyi mei was very nice, she just moved up to Welly probably a month ago, and she came to meet me at 7 when I arrived

I really felt sorry if she dint get enough of sleep!! And she brought us to so many places for sight-seeing via her recent-repaired car. Yeah, she just had a car accident few days ago, thank god she was not injured. But now we knew that Welly drivers were more dangerous...

We went to Petone morning market and we got this!!!

This pan-fried roti is always my favourite, had been eating it everytime I visited Welly. This time I got a butter chicken one, yum~

Kylie was so excited!!!

Then I finally visited the queen east gate mall! and they have so many cool design here~

and the lotto is promoting their paris trip....omg, my eiffel tower!!

It was a bit rainy in the morning, I was so afraid the bad weather will continue...Luckily it was just cloudy. We headed back to the city after 10, and done a bit of shopping around. I dint get anything as I ald got myself an ankle boot last week.

Plus, I am spending so much money recently, gosh really have to be careful ==

this restaurant is creative!!

Lunch time, we went to Little Penang as what Kylie wanted. She was so craving for Malaysian food, however, it was a big dissapointment. The famous mee siam was just so so, I could cook the same dish. What really annoyed me was the worst customer service. The Penang owner was very rude! As we had lunch quite late, and we were rushed as we need to meet the others at train station soon. We just asked if the special dish of the day, hokkien cha mee will take times to be served and told him we were rushed, he said: 'if u rushed, dont come!", what a dick!! (excuse me for inpolite languague, sorry, but it was the thought I had)

U could politely explained and told us it takes time, but not "dont come!'. I know u have such a great business, but hopefully u really last long. Not mention that, he did not return my EFTPOS card politely, but rather kinda 'throw' back to me, and I had to pick up on the floor. DICK!!!

I swear I am not coming back again, and sorry I will not even recommend to others.

Thanks to chyimei, we able to meet the others on time. Then we took the bus to zoo!! Such a long time I dint meet xin, it was great that she is doing well, and now we shared one common interest....BIGBANG!! ahahaha

We arrived zoo around 2pm, then animal time!!

We first visit the sun-bear, I have no idea they are south east asian animal....why i never see them before??

They are so cute~~

she even pose for us!! haha, actually not, she was just being inpatient while waiting for her favourite food.....

then she finally got it....coconut!!

haha, actually the zoo was under construction while we visit, so actually we missed a lot of animals, half of the zoo was closed. Therefore, we had time to visit all the animals as we actually only have like 3 hrs for visit.

here come the leopard, they were so fierce and fast when the raw chicken was provided.

chimpanzee....xin was so excited, i just knew that she love monkeys so much!!!

this monkey is so cute!!!

and other animals....

and this monkey is so tiny and cute, it jumped super fast, it so hard for me to capture this photo.

we also got a lot of good photos...

even the playground!! hahaha I am pretending myself as spider 'woman'!!

 I am a kid =P

time passed so fast, we managed to catch the bus left at 10 to 5pm, and get back to Welly city. However, not managed to spend more time with yen, shirley and xin, they gone to lower hutt for their remain trip.

The remain of us....dinner time!

We even bought take away char siu and roasted pork!!

yeah....we couldnt even finish our dinner, so have lots of takeaway, I bought a piece of taro cake too!! haha, I am always asian....

That's the end of our trip, had a great chat with kylie on the return bus trip. I just found out Kylie is such a brave and tough girl. Compared with her, I am so lucky, I am also so grateful now for I have and really pleased and appreciated with what I am having now. Thanks...

Be grateful, love and peace!!

三天三夜的短暂悉尼行今天就正式结束了，今早一起床就带走行李在backpacker外等候去机场的shuttle

等待时还瞧见这个！

鹦鹉，而且应该不是人饲养的。。。

没多久，我们就再往3天前到达的机场去~

check-in后，午餐时间到

我买了这个这几天一直都看到的pie face， 应该是澳洲的pie连锁店

我买了一个chicken mushroom pie，还不错，鸡肉挺多的。。。

也买了一个chocolate cherry pie，感觉应该是拿错了给我，不是我想要的，太甜了~

然后去了附近的duty free店逛逛，终于买到了nougat!以前榕华在dunedin给我吃过几个，就让我难以忘怀~

这次顺便带点手信回去纽西兰~

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本来以为马上可以顺利登机，没想到我最不想发生的事终究还是发生了

jetstar真的是令我火大，竟然延机，虽说理由充分，但是看到其他air nz, quantas都顺利起航到奥克兰，整个是火上加油!

最过分的是那个jetstar柜台服务员竟然反过来说我的内陆飞机买的太紧密了！

我也不想啊，谁叫最后一班从奥克兰去北帕（我住的地方）的飞机只有6点半那班！

本来顺利登机应该11。40起飞，然后奥克兰时间4。45分抵达(因为时差的关系），时间本来也相当足够

谁知道！！！

结果我们12。25分才登机，12。45分才起飞。。。。飞机师不停的在广播道歉，我整个已经无奈了，做好了最坏打算

曼祯则叫我抵达时不要管她就直接冲。。。但我倒觉得冲都没用，因为12。45起飞，3个小时半的行程，就是说4。15分澳洲时间到，再加2个小时时差，6点15分才到，我怎样冲都没办法了

没想到，飞机师竟然说我们可以在2个小时多的时间抵达，会在5点15分奥克兰时间抵达机场！！！！

这个真的是喜出望外，不过，这个算不算超速？！

整个行程我都超紧张，虽说是可以比想像中早到，但是还是要过海关，行李还是要被查检。。。

所以我就整个在想要怎么冲出去~

5。15分，果真顺利抵达~

但是。。。即使我多想冲，我们的坐位在很后面，到了5点半我的前面的人龙才有动静。。。。

然后，冲啊！！！！我脚一直不停的在赶，第一次觉得奥克兰机场原来也不小。。。==

没想到那个海关海外护照的人龙竟然那么长！！！而且，只有一个柜台开放，其他柜台都关闭了！！

太过分了！我也想像曼祯提议的那样问前面的人能不能让我插队，但是前面的人看起来也很不耐烦啊！

时间已经是5。45分，看着隔壁另一个为残障或特别人士打开的柜台，我决定不管了，豁出去，鼓起勇气去问那里推着轮椅的jetstar空姐

我整个都不理到底自己有没有特意楚楚可怜，就不断的哀求能不能让我从这个柜台过关

毕竟那里是人龙，这里却只有小猫2，3只

空姐说是答应，不如说是无奈答允。。。然后我在暗喜谢天谢地时，一位凶神扼杀的女海关员过来告诉我这样对其他乘客不公平

我当然知道啦，在想着算了回去原本的人龙时，那位女海关却说这次让我这样做。。。。谢谢你！！！！

这时，另一位女士也马上跑来我后面排队，他也一样被训了一顿。。。不过他的飞机其实比我更早！

原以为这样应该顺利了，行李查检也想但迅速，但是出到机场大厅才发现我的班机不能在international terminal登记

于是我又拔腿就跑，本想说做transfer bus 去domestic terminal, 结果巴士刚刚走，而且下一辆巴士在20分钟后，所以还是跑吧~

原本路程应该是15分钟，不错我用8分钟一边推行李，一边又走又跑的到domestic terminal

这一路一直赶，一直跑，都不知道吸引了多少人的目光==

超丢脸的！！

我6点08分终于触碰到那个check in touch screen，才刚把那个boarding pass印出来就被告知要登机了

上个厕所的时间都没有！！又急冲冲上机了~

还真的是在飞机上坐下来后才有喘气的机会~真的是无语。。。隔壁的夫妇也不知怎么一直看着我，有喘得那么明显吗？

唉，1小时后终于抵达北帕了，还遇到朋友顺利搭到顺风车。。。8点多终于回到家了。。。。==

p/s: 其实这次可以顺利回到北帕，真的很幸运，因为其实这晚white island发生火山爆发，而且是百年以来爆发，很多班机都取消了。。。唉，地球你是不是生气了呢？

结束了昨晚的演唱会，心情依然处于亢奋状态，哈哈哈

不过今天可以肆无忌惮的去疯，去玩了！昨天见了我的表姐后，今天就见曼祯的堂姐，曼丰了

虽然本来原计划应该是睡得更迟些，不过最终那可恶的鸟叫声还是把我们从被窝中叫醒！唉~

但是这样也好，我们有更多的时间去走走看看了~

我们去了我们住的地区，也就是所谓的红灯区走马看花，昨晚其实从演唱会回来时，我们的后街的club超热闹的 。。。

但是也证实了，我们的backpacker所在的位置算是挺安全，起码我们从车站可以狂奔回房。。。

不过看这个！

  我们到悉尼的前一周，一名澳洲青年在没做任何事情的情况下，在我们backpacker所在的这条街的这个位置，被人袭击了，不治生亡，安息吧。。。

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接着，本来是打算漫无目的的在king cross附近乱逛，但是曼祯提议可以去喝喝咖啡

我们停留在这个喷水池前的cafe, 本来是说喝饮料就好，结果变成吃早餐~==

哈哈，因为我们都饿了。。。。

我点了这个waffle，自从在chocolate lounge （在纽西兰）吃过那个超诱人的chocolate waffle后好像就上瘾了

这个waffle 还不赖，配对的水果也超新鲜！酸酸甜甜的。。。不过吃多了还真的会腻。。。雪糕可能因为天气过热，融化极快！

曼祯点的这个spinach omelette也很惊喜，咋看之下以为是披萨。。。不过真的好好吃哦！！我也其实有点遗憾为什么没点一个咸的，大清早吃甜的还真的吃不消~

不过我不后悔所选，满足中~

我们还真的一直看到这个鸟~

过后我们去了就在旁边的market逛逛，曼祯还买了几个二手的唱片给他姐夫。。。

我还意外发现这个二手唱片档还卖了好几张日本歌手像宇多田的唱片。。。！

不久眼尖的曼祯表姐，曼丰就发现了我们~

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我们搭火车去了circular quay坐船去watson bay。。。。曼丰真的是非常尽责的导游，知道的旅游景点和一般的导游可以媲美

连那个悉尼歌剧院是在哪一年建立都知道！我连那个吉隆坡塔是几时完工都不懂。。。

这个渡轮的费用也全部都是曼丰给了，真的是很不好意思。。。。渡轮的行程不错哦，看到很多东西

我还看到了海豚从海中跳跃!!!!整个就是超意外，超兴奋！可是跳跃的好快，来不及拍照，不过就在我眼前，好清楚！

只是就我很幸运，因为曼祯都错过了那一刹那！=P

接着我们到了watson bay~

可惜我们吃了那个大早餐，否则也可以吃这里出名的fish and chips..不过没关系啦，因为纽西兰也大把。。。哈哈

我们就一路走到了悬崖那里去看海咯~

据说这个地点是出名的跳海自杀的热地！所以附近都有设置那个紧急电话亭。。。

不过这里是真的好漂亮~ 如果继续往上走就是悉尼国家公园哦

接着我们就搭车到悉尼最出名的Bondi beach!!!一下车走到海边一望，我的妈，猛男！！

热辣辣的西方海滩，和纽西兰的差远了！奇怪的是竟然没有很多bikini辣妹~所以感觉这里就是没有辣妹，纽西兰是没有猛男。。。能不能结合下列？

这个天气真的是不是单纯的热，真的快中暑了~在沙滩上穿靴子真的是unbelievable~这个悉尼压根儿没有冬天的感觉

我热的快受不了了，去买这里有名的gelato!!

这个开心果口味和青苹果sorbet超好吃的！

我们也买了这个在纽西兰没看过的（至少我还没发现）Huricane's express pork ribs!!!很好吃！

这个比lone star那个pork ribs 好吃多了！！现在不想去Lone star吃那个了（虽然其实没吃过==），有没有觉得我现在整个是澳洲月亮比较圆？

没有啦，只是发现找到这些这么好吃的东西，真的受不了，太好吃了！

在海边吃猪排勒骨，好有风味啊~

接着我们就去出名的bondi beach继续走走，这个旁边长年被海风砂石侵蚀的悬崖和new plymouth的海滩好像~不过上次在new plymouth并没有走完整个海滩

所以不能比较~

这个是不知道被哪个小孩遗留的。。。。

基本上我们在整个海边一路走马看花这样就呆到4点多，过后才坐巴士回市中心。。。

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在市中心主要去那些我们还没看过的地方，像martin place那里一些比较历史性的建筑。。。

然后去了这个lindt cafe看看，这个巧克力就买过，但是它的店面还是第一次见。。。

还看到这个Macaron!! 不过这里他们称为Delice~

我也没买啦，因为就太饱了。。。。

然后还去了医院前摸了这个传说中会带来好运的猪~哈哈，希望好运来哦！

然后我们还发现了这条小巷！叫做the forgotten song，那些空的鸟笼就悬挂在小巷上空，然后小巷里播放着那些被遗忘，已经不存在（既绝种了）的鸟类的歌声

真的很有艺术风味，然后曼丰告诉我原来悉尼到处都有这种非常特色的小巷，我之前在唐人街有发现另一条（可是没拍照）！！

遗憾的是我们时间不足，不然可以去其他这些特色小巷看看，然后曼丰还说在墨尔本有更多这种特色小巷，现在我开始动心要去墨尔本了~

然后晚餐要和我的表姐共餐，这样一来我们可是大家和表堂姐们齐聚了！

不过表姐晚到了，所以在晚餐前去了happy lab!

这个店很特别，里面卖的糖果都是以实验室的器皿构思做包装~

曼祯买了这个，很酷吧！

我只买了4个，全部都是送人的，感觉这个happy lab的idea很好，这样的设计，就好像是特别发明的糖果一样，因为都装在试管内，然后店名叫happy lab，就像寓意这个糖果能带给别人的快乐一样，不知道他们是不是这种构思，但至少我是这么想的，所以才觉得应该送人~=）

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晚餐时间到了，曼丰是个很有意思的女孩，还保养的真好！

他选择带我们去的地方，餐馆都很有特色，我们去了这间希腊餐馆xanthi

餐馆很漂亮，我还是第一次吃希腊菜~

 这个就是我那位漂亮的表姐啦！

我们点了好多菜，就本来没那么多，后来因为我表姐的男友也加入我们，所以点了更多

这个是feta cheese，我第一次吃，好吃啊！

这个是hot smoked eggplant dip，和pita bread 配对吃，不错

这个大力推荐，叫pork belly baklava, 就是土耳其的baklava甜品的构思，但是savoury版本，超好吃！

LAMB SKARAS， 好吃！

这个忘了叫什么，外面是辣椒包裹这，都忘了里面是什么。。。。==

这个是炸鱼肉之类的，还好。。。

普通的炸番薯。。。

SEAFOOD KAKAVIA， 好吃！

这个也很不错，也忘了叫什么，因为他们都太特别了。。。。

但是这餐，我和曼祯终于顺利给到钱了，一整天下来曼丰都不知出了多少，加上昨天我表姐也请吃了，所以这餐我们是死守啊，哈哈

幸好曼祯先发制人，趁上厕所时给钱，不然~

临走前，餐馆经理还介绍了我们厨房，还有他们的食物食材准备呢！我们也太幸运了吧~

虽然刚刚避开晚餐不被曼丰给钱，却避不了下一餐

我们去了australian square上喝鸡尾酒去~

鸡尾酒还不赖，但是没我在惠灵顿the library那个好喝，哈哈

曼丰还点了这个creme brulee,上面一团棉花糖，不过没那么好吃

但这个夜景超赞！

其实这里是个旋转餐厅，但是和奥克兰sky city比，这间餐厅未免转的太快了吧？！

曼祯和我表姐都迷路了2次！哈哈哈，因为它是外面的那一圈转，而里面包括厕所和柜台都没转，所以去厕所回来后餐厅位置旋转过了，会找不到座位，哈哈

本来其实还想去另一间甜品店，去吃那个回转法式甜品！看这里: http://adrianozumbo.com/

我还是第一次听到这种和回转寿司如出一策的甜品主题店，可惜它今天没开！

整个就是失望！！！！！！唉~

为什么！！！！

唯有，唯有下次再来了。。。。唉~

不过，这么说来，我们在悉尼的最后一夜就这样结束了。。。。好不舍得啊~

好的，今天，今晚就是了！！！

昨晚其实睡的不是很好，七早八早就被那个不知什么鸟吵醒。。。不过算了。。因为反正我昨晚失眠的其中原因也是我兴奋于今晚的演唱会，哈哈

今早早起也为我们的行程铺路，我们今天要向悉尼地标-歌剧院出发！

我们决定不坐火车，发挥我们的11号巴士功力，向前走~曼祯说他好久没走路了，这就是住奥克兰的后遗症啦，嘻嘻

不过曼祯还是很厉害啦~也没有气喘吁吁，哈哈。。。我就真的没问题，因为在北帕天天都在走路，^^

我们首先绕道从那个royal botanical garden走走，我也买了一张明信片寄回家，其实应该带其他朋友地址在身上，这样就能寄给其他朋友。。。==

这个花园其实也没什么，就和纽西兰的都没什么分别。。。。

不过重点马上来了！！

tada!!!我们其实去这个公园的目的就是来这个闻名的地点（Yurong precinct) 拍照！哈哈，这个就是可以拍到歌剧院和悉尼的harbour bridge 最佳地点！

可惜还是那句，我的照片在曼祯那里！！！这个也是他放在脸书上，只是我的照片就真的不知几时才能拿到。。。。==

其实我们在这个地方还呆了挺久的，就一直在拍照，做模特儿，哈哈

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是时候向歌剧院前进，越接近就越觉得不可思议，想不到这个鼎鼎大名的悉尼歌剧院就在我眼前！

歌剧院果然真的名副其实，非常壮观，我们一直不断的看着这个闻名的建筑物，我也深深的佩服设计师和建筑师的才华和能力，也为自己能亲临这个地方感到欣慰！

这里也是拍harbour bridge最佳地点！

还可以看到对岸的luna park,

接着我们也在歌剧院的土产店逛了逛，其实现在回想，真的花太多时间在那里。。。我买了钥匙扣，而曼祯则买了一个歌剧院的模型送给他姐夫

然后慢慢的，我们走向circular quay, 这个海港就比奥克兰的half moon bay繁华多了，船只好多，而且高大7个wharf，不止去附近的旅游景点，也是当地人的必备交通工具之一！

附近就连接火车，monorail，还有巴士站，非常方便。。。

我也在那里和我的表姐相聚，在等待的过程我们看到了一个画家在画世界上最长的一幅蜡笔画~

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终于，我的表姐到了，真的是好久不见！

还是那么高挑，那么漂亮！哈哈，真是不明白为什么他还是在那里吵着减肥。。。。==

她真的变道地人了，带了我们去the rock出名的法国甜品店！不过我们先去吃午餐，就在这！

pancake on the rocks!

这里的食物一极棒！我们点了3道食物一起共食，果真是明智，因为那些食物超大份的！

这个pizza还不赖，但不是很特出

这个crepe就真的经典，我也是第一次吃不甜的savoury crepe，里面的内涵超丰富的，就主要是薯泥和鸡肉。。。

最后来一个甜品，就是出名的pancake!!吃了这个，我决定不再回去dunedin 的capers，这个，这个才叫pancake!!超松软！那些樱桃也非常新鲜！即使现在不是樱桃的季节~

这午餐吃的超满足的，不过我这个表姐竟然给完所有钱，唉~

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接着我们就去the rocks market逛逛，the rocks其实是悉尼最早的起源地，所以这里的建筑都是非常有特色，一来到这里就有闻到独特的澳洲气味，毕竟昨天几乎都停留在唐人街一带

今早也在旅游景点呆，所以现在总算感觉自己真的接触到澳洲的地道味了~

我们在the rocks market呆了好久！！！就其实完全在一个档，这个档口卖的首饰很独特，因为全部都是用废弃的钟表的零件手工制造

那些项链，戒指都很漂亮，手工也相当精巧。。。可是价格真的不是普通的贵！

我最后都还是抵挡不了诱惑，买了这个

曼祯买了更多，其实主要都是他在选，因为每个饰品都非常独特，他也眼花缭乱，犹豫不决。。。她在选的时候我去了附近逛逛，没想到其实这个market就正在harbour bridge 底下！

其实好想上桥，也想到对岸，但是就是没有时间，相比昨天，今天时间过的很快，也可能是因为我们真的花太多时间在买东西了

我还买了这个独特的澳洲木制袋鼠玩具。。。超可爱的

然后也买了2个特别石头制作成的手链送给妈妈和朋友~

还有还有一个羊皮制的手提袋~大出血！！！

我们从2点多逛到近5点。。。。==

回程中，还看到这只巨型狗！

然后我也超担心的因为我很怕误点，毕竟今晚演唱会！！我们也临时决定回backpacker先放下东西，可见我们是买了多少东西啊！

不过在这之前我没忘记那间出名的法国甜点店 La Renaissance

更多讯息： http://www.larenaissance.com.au/macaron.html

这个macarons真的很好吃哦~

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我们接着就迅速去搭巴士，市中心有免费巴士但是真的超多人！然后我们在中央车站下车回去backpacker置物，然后又迅速火车回唐人街

这次晚餐去我表姐推荐的日本拉面店 menya noodle bar

这间店算是那种连锁式的拉面馆。。。不过里面坐位非常少，而且是十几个人共用同一张长桌~这样会不会有更市井味道列？哈哈

我们这次的旅程非常幸运，遇到的人友善之余，等那些饭桌都相当快。。。

所以，哈哈我终于吃到正宗日式的soba了！以前都是自己做的，而且是冷的。。今晚总算！

好吃！看这：http://www.menya.com.au/chinatown/

好了，我饱了，看演唱会去，记得看下篇哦！

是的，我终于来到澳洲！

今天凌晨4点半真的超难醒，昨晚其实睡的不太好。。。可能过渡兴奋，哈哈。。。不过我不是盖的，还是快乐的起床了！

最不好意思的是对楠哥（曼祯的姐夫）要跟着七早八早起床载我们这俩个疯妞去机场，哈哈哈

jitco（曼祯的日本狐狸犬）昨晚因为我们迟睡，今早我们起床时它也双眼溜溜的看着我们。。。可怜的你。。。

所以真的给大家添麻烦了，不好意思，还有谢谢~

今早去机场时楠哥还差点迷路，不过有顺利抵达机场，还有check-in也非常顺利，我也是今天才懂原来即使没有行李寄仓，也可以带100毫升以上的物品（牙膏，沐浴露之类）。。

就只要装进那个特别的袋子里。。。。不过还是这次是我们侥幸？哈哈，不会那么绝吧？

好的，今早的早餐，好久没吃的麦当劳！

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jetstar的飞机原来也不是很好坐，就之前听毓善说比亚航好坐，不过我觉得都没差。。。

不过3个小时很快过，我们抵达悉尼了！因为时差，赚了2个小时，所以9点半早上抵达~

我们找到了那个免费的shuttle载我们去我们king cross的backpacker，

然后这就是我们的房间

其实房间还不错，就只是贵咯，这样一晚一间房要澳币47块多，不是贵而是素质的问题，因为同等的价格在纽西兰可以找到更好的，只能说谁叫我们在悉尼！

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好的争取时间，我们二话不说，去离我们backpacker最近的火车站准备去领票！

车站还不错，火车竟然有2层！！而且很准时，也相当频密。。。来回车票如果在10公里以内是4块多。。。也不算便宜。。。其实可以选择坐巴士，但是巴士站比较远，而且不及火车方便

火车的车厢也挺舒服的，不过我们也不必坐很久，2站就到了。。只用5分钟的时间~但是其实步行40分钟左右也能抵达拉，不过我们真的赶时间~

还好在backpacker那里问了路，我们下车出站后真的是眼花缭乱，悉尼车真的好多，也可以敏锐的感觉空气不比纽西兰清新。。。

最终我们依然迷路了，我抄写演唱会主办单位萧氏机构的地址是370号，可是不管我们怎么找，就是卡在369和371之间，中间前面对面后面都没有370。。。。一栋大楼照例应该非常明显，但是怎么看都是2层楼的建筑物~

无奈，无助，饥饿的情况下，我们打算先去吃饭，没想到我们遇到人叫我们募捐，适逢8月3号是jeans for genes day，看这里：http://www.jeansforgenes.org.au/aboutus

这个在纽西兰也没有，很特别~我们被‘威胁’如果募捐可以帮我们找萧氏机构，哈哈，不过不仅是募捐，其实算是买他们募捐的产品，我和曼祯都捐了15块然后拿了这个特别的牛仔布料做成的包包~很漂亮吧？

然后那个好心的印度筹款者用他的iphone gps找到原来我们要找的萧氏机构所在的大厦就在正对面，这有点难说明，简单来说，就是他们大厦的地址其实被市政府搞错了

绝对不是我找错哦！哈哈

我们进到萧氏机构时他们也认同他们的地址有点错误，还说其实我们可以明天到会场领票，这我懂，但我也是紧张心急嘛！还好至少确认了五月天终于在没上2个班机的情况下，昨晚终于上了飞机！

吓死人了！

不过总算可以安心的去吃饭啦！！

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好了，可以安心的当游客了，先去唐人街转转。。其实唐人街真的好短，也不是有那么大的惊喜

但是肯定还是非常多中文字面，也到处都是亚洲面孔。。。

我们看到了mamak，饥肠辘辘下，决定不看看其他餐厅，直接杀进去！

不过我们真的很幸运啦，我们才刚坐下，外面就大排长龙等着空坐位。。

我们点了mee goreng还有lamb mutabak

真的好好吃！！我们还有额外点了teh tarik 和ice limau，不过不是很好喝~

吃完后，外面还是大排长龙，在观赏厨师们丢饼（roti canai)

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我们接着就徒步到附近的darling harbour，还顺便绕道到演唱会地点确认，然后这个哈哈

既来之，则拍之~

darling harbour和奥克兰的viaduct harbour挺像的，不过不同的是发展的好的多了

中间有一个非常大的公园叫tumbalong park，非常休闲舒适，有泳池，游乐场，还有纳凉的设施，就非常适合家庭休闲的地方，邻近的darling quarter除了是购物天堂，晚上还会有特色灯光。。。

虽然说是周五，但1，2点就那么闲？！这太阳真的猛烈，我都快变烧猪了，这真的是冬天？！

乒乓桌！还是外国人在打！

还有火车！可是这个要另外给钱。。。

接着，我们就沿路一直走到海湾那里

然后我们刚好碰到国际游艇日，基本上游艇一大堆，都没有机会看到那个海湾。。。==

不过海湾两岸有超多富有特色的酒吧和咖啡厅，也是一大堆购物天堂。。。

我们登上了cockle bay whaft的2楼，这楼梯也很有特色对把？

通过这里，我们连接到那个可以去对岸的桥，桥上还可以走monorail!其实darling harbour绝对是一流的旅游景点

除了刚刚介绍的外，其实还有水族馆，wild life park等。。。但是我们对那些都不感兴趣，所以决定还是晚上在去过桥去对岸看对面城市的夜景。。。

于是，我们变争取时间，往市中心出发！其实真的很靠近，然后也终于看到悉尼市中心的样子了！

到处都是高楼大厦，而且并排整齐，颜色都非常接近，富有古代英氏特色的大楼即使并排在先进摩登的大楼中也不会显得格格不入，反而多了与众不同的美感。。。就觉得这样的悉尼和惠灵顿很像，只不过是放大了几倍的版本~

然后眼尖的我，哈哈很快就发现了这个我一直要去的queen victoria building!

这个建筑物真的超赞！能够将一个那么经典，那么有特色的欧氏风格的建筑物利用变成一个到处是名牌的购物商场，Queen Victoria building 比Pavillion好多了！

这个电梯也是超有特色，可惜人来人往，熙熙攘攘。。。不然这张照片多复古啊！

这个英女皇雕朔真眼熟，当然啦，纽西兰也到处可见。。。

只可惜我当时的相机快没电了，加上晚上准备省电拍夜景。。所以就没那么多照片，还有大部分的照片现在都还在曼祯那里

更厉害的其实是这个queen victoria building竟然可以通向westfield sydney!我们走着走着，就奇怪怎么左右的店面从高档货变成平民货，然后建筑室内的格调渐渐现代化，然后westfield的牌面就映入眼敛！神奇~

只能说这个去年才完工的westfield sydney 除了连接sydney tower外，里面的店面和纽西兰的westfield 差天和地，店也比较多，还有很多在纽西兰看不到的店。。。不过，我们是没多余的钱购物拉，顶多做window shopping，然后今天也不知为何，虽说赚了2个小时，但时间也未免过的有点慢，我们走了那么就竟然才3点多。。。。

于是。。。。还是歇歇会儿吧。。。这个果汁好好喝哦！

不过其实本来蛮想去附近high tea，我们所在的这个food court超大的，就占了整层楼，然后食物选择也非常多样化，和繁华，悉尼的人真幸福啊，恩，也相当多金

我的果汁是从这买的，水果都超新鲜的，贵是贵了点，但非常新鲜，而且很多选项。。。

然后基本上坐了差不多40分钟，我们决定再次动脚，到hyde park 去咯！

这个是Archibald fountain，就在hyde park入口！这里也可以拍到sydney tower哦！不过我还是觉得奥克兰的sky tower比较漂亮。。

然后这个教堂真的是富丽堂皇！可惜我的相机都没电拍我和它的独照，照片还是在曼祯那里=(

不过这个教堂里面不能照相，也应该的，因为真的保存到非常好，很庄严，很辉煌，很神圣。。。

里面好多基督相关的画，全部都非常漂亮。。。整座教堂真的是很豪华，很壮观！

然后差不多又是晚餐时间了！我们又回到唐人街去找吃啦！

找了好久，终于找到了我梦寐以求的拉面！！这个拉面档是出名的，虽然等挺久的，但是值得！

终于可以吃到一个正宗日本师傅用心制作的拉面，我点了叉烧豚骨拉面，还加蛋！

地址：Gumshara Ramen, Eating world, Dixon Street

真的很好吃！！就那个汤汁非常浓郁，很香。。。虽然我没添加肉，但是他给的叉烧超多的！

还可以免费添加那个姜丝，其他辣椒，等浆汁。。。基本上照片是从别人的部落格‘偷来’，因为我和我的拉面独照在曼祯小妹那里。。。==

顺便介绍这个部落客的部落格：http://grabyourfork.blogspot.co.nz/2009/07/gumshara-ramen-eating-world-haymarket.html

老实说，我们两都吃的超辛苦，因为真的很大碗，加上汤汁过分浓郁，哈哈，没有拉，听说厨师即使没开店也会每早定时去熬汤，难怪那么香浓啦！我们吃的都快撑爆了，但是不吃有觉得可惜，因为真的很好吃，现在还是回味无穷！

最后，我还是没吃完。。。==对不起了，komene!!

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好了，往夜景前进！

漂亮吧！这个还要求什么啊！

不过我们不是情侣党，所以还是。。。。劈！

哈哈，临走前还看到这个！哇，超艺术！

那些小孩，甚至是家长也不顾那些水流，去玩吧。。。。

我和曼祯再次感叹西方家长和东方家长管教小孩的不同。。。你说如果一个黄皮肤小孩走去玩时，家长不在那里大声呼叫才怪！

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我们再次回到唐人街！因为有夜市，还有人拉二胡！唐人街的小吃超多的，可惜我们太饱了！==

可恶，加上那个鲜芋轩真的让我欲罢不能！所以我还是毅然选择芋圆！

我人生第一碗芋圆冰！有芋圆，莲子，红豆和珍珠！

吃完后，我们决定还是回backpacker,毕竟我们昨晚也没睡好，今天也走了一整天。。。

临走前经过那个下午很多人排队的皇冠，所以决定买回家当明天早上的小点，

里面有custard~热腾腾的。。好吃！

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其实回家路上还战战兢兢的，毕竟红灯区诶！下火车时还出错车站。。。。==

幸好我们backpacker街道其实很寂静，也没有很多夜店。。

好了，明天就是演唱会了，今晚我会兴奋的睡不着~

明天！明天就是了！！

现在人已在奥克兰，心情极度兴奋！！

刚刚4点钟我就溜了（所以今天8点就到公司上班，还没去上午茶和在工作岗位上吃午饭），所以谢天谢地我老板没有抱怨，还问我是否要去哪里

当悉尼从我嘴说出来时，我那2个老板都吓倒了，哈哈，还说我应该去久一点。。。恩，其实我也猜到他会这么说。。。不过我会内疚，哇哈哈，没有啦因为我觉得这次的计划已经是个bonus了，所以要知足！哈哈

现在好期待，万分期待，也真的衷心祈祷，希望五月天能顺利抵达澳洲，因为现在台湾刮台风而且已经导致很多航班取消，阿信还在脸书写怎么去澳洲因为天气的情况。。。

我现在只能祈祷，再祈祷。。。。还有也希望曼祯的爸爸没事，因为前些天她爸爸被检测血管出问题所以紧急开刀，曼宣还特地飞回马，所以也挺担心的。。。曼祯还因此内疚在这种时候还去澳洲

所以现在期望一切顺顺利利了。。。。

明天还要早起，4点半要起床，因为我们是7点半早上的班机，也就是5点半必须到机场。。。。加油~==

Yea, finally not a staying-home-weekend! I had been staying home for all weekends since the weekend I went to Auckland in May (did not count in the Wellington day trip during Queen’s birthday long weekend, cause I just went out on one day, still stayed at home for 2 days).

I went to a brewery tour today with Ping and her boy friend, and her flat mate. The last brewery tour I gone was in 2009? It was at Speight brewery in Dunedin, and actually I had been to that brewery for 3 times! So, I claimed myself understanding the beer processing a lot, moreover, I wrote a report on that!

This time, I visited Tui brewery! Tui is a NZ branded beer which produced from the Tui Brewery at Mangatainoka, nearly an hour from Palmerston North. To find out more:

Tui was famous with their hot advertising beautiful chicks working on to produce their famous beer, and they also used many humour and sarcastic slogan for their advertisement board. For example, this one:

Different from Ping, who looking forward for the beautiful chicks producing beer, I am more expecting some random and very interesting ideas in their brewery. Moreover, I could tell, there won’t be any chicks around.

Here comes our tour! I nearly thrown-up on the mountain road to the brewery, luckily it did not take too long to reach the destination.

We got this special passport to join the tour (aka NZD20 for this), and it includes vouchers for free beer and discount for Tui’s products. However silly me, I lost this passport, I couldn’t remember whether I left it somewhere, or I just accidentally lost it.

And I don’t understand, why do we need to put on this ‘traffic police’ vest??

As I expected, there weren’t any pretty chicks around, well, there’s photo….and I can be one of them, lol.

At least our tour guide is a lady too, because another tour group has a male tour guide.

Basically, I didn’t really listen to what our tour guide said, she has a strong accent and well, I actually not really understand what she was talking.

Anyways, here come photos….

As I said, there weren’t pretty girls around, but there are many pretty girls’ photos. I guess these photos maybe motivating some male workers aye?

Yeah, I basically caught the idea of their beer processing, as I already have background for this. The tour just took us around 35mins, is a very short tour~ The Speight brewery tour I had been to at Dunedin was more detailed, took longer time and cheaper (if the price still NZD15).

Then, we headed back to their café for free beer on tap and grabbed our lunch.

I tried this special released beer, but had no idea what type of beer it is. However, tastes good! =D I know that many girls actually dislike beers, but I do like beers! Well, I tasted my first entire bottle of beer at Dunedin, forced by my ex, since then, I started drinking beer occasionally. =P For wine, I only tried it properly (a glass) in 2009, but still prefers beer.

Ping ordered a very sweet and fruity Henry Wagstaff, this was the first sweetest beer I had tried. It is like shandy, very easily to be consumed, and many females will like it.

Then, here comes our lunch. I ordered this Brewers’ recommendation: Wagstaff’s Paua fritter. It comes with 3 pieces of paua fritter with 2 slices of white bread. (White bread? Are u kidding me?)

Paua is a Maori name for NZ abalone, and this was also my first time tasting it. However, I would like to taste the entire Paua rather than making it as fritter. I ordered this simply because it was recommended by the brewers. The taste was alright, not too fancy or great. Well, there were not many options.

Ping and I also shared a little dessert, because the meal wasn’t big enough. Caramel slices with vanilla ice-cream, it was ok.

An interesting board at the café:

Besides, they also used the wasted (faulty) kegs for making it into usable product! A sink and bin! It also become the toilet bowl in the male toilet, but of cause I dint go there!

So, that’s the end of our tour, and I also ‘stole’ the glass from Tui. LOL

Is long weekend this week, it is Queen’s Birthday on Monday, (aka: Public Holiday!!)

However, I am not going anywhere this time, as is June now, which mean, it’s the transition phase now. Well, for u who not understand what I mean, FYI, my current contract is expired soon in July and I am still struggling to get a new contract. In order to play safe, as my pre-planning personality, I decided to save money and not going anywhere. Moreover, I am really worried about my further step, and I do not have a good mood to travel atm.

Therefore, I just went to Welly for a day trip with Nicole. If I have received plans earlier, my long weekend would have been more fantastic. I received invitations from Carmen and Yen at last minute, Carmen was inviting me to Rotoroa for spa (where I really want to go since long time ago!), and yen asked me to join her to Welly for overnight, and listen to a talk on the next day which I also very interested. But I ald promised Nicole to join her for the short trip.

Anyways, it was a fun trip today.

My big breakfasts! I love they include spinach, and the whole mushroom in it. But, in terms of potatoes, I preferred hash brown. =P.

The café has a good dining atmosphere, I love the interior design so much.

And we also met this super adorable kid, is just a random child from the next table of us. Unlike other kids who afraid of strangers, he could be considered super-friendly and always smile! He approached us, and gave us rose petals! =D

U can tell he loves the camera!

Then, we continued our trip to Wellington and arrived in 2 hrs later.

Our first stop is at the Asian bakery, then followed by the Korean shop. I bought a big bucket of kimchi, u can tell how desperate I was. Shortly, Nicole’s junior come to join us and we basically just walked around and chit-chat a bit.

Actually the main purpose for this trip is to EAT! Lol. So, is dinner time, we do skip the entire lunch as the breakfast really stayed.

This is my dinner: Malaysian nasi lemak, is at a restaurant called Little Penang. Well, is the best nasi lemak so far I tried in NZ, but not very great. I just very picky when it comes to hometown food~, especially u paying triple the price, PLUS NZ CURRENCY! Nicole ordered Penang Asam laksa, and she said it was better than the one she tasted at Penang. Well, I guest is depends on the preference. As I tried their Penang Cha Kuey Tew last time, it was awful, but seems like Nicole quite enjoying it.

We dint eat much this time (but actually still a lot), because we still have next eating plan! Yakitori house (actually also can be considered a Izakaya!!!!

Yes finally! I have been waiting this for so long!! I am now calling myself a die-hard Japan fan. I found this Yakitori restaurant at Wellington called Kazu last month on the food blog, and was so craving for their taiyaki dessert and willing to pay a visit just for a meal here!

I nearly got disappointed at first, cause we dint book a table, and it was so full when we first arrived. Then we decided to come back again later, thanks Nicole, u really knew what I want.

We hanged out at the Deluxe theatre while waiting until 8pm. Apparently there was a movie premier, and so many people dressed up and two guys (I can tell they were drunk) approached us and talked to us. Yes, this is very common in NZ, and in Welly. Drunken people just become friendly and talkative. Well, but not everyone, some could be very aggressive and exposed their racisms. Yea, I really think that they (not all) have this dislike-feeling towards us (Asian) although they pretending welcoming us.

Ok, back to Kazu Yakitori bar around 8pm, and we were very lucky, we got seats by the bar! We ordered so much food, and honestly, the food was very costly. I paid around NZD50 for food and sake…..TT

Back to the food I paid tonight:

The first food I ordered was this Takowasabi, which is actually raw squid seasoning in wasabi. Well, I actually just able to pick up raw meat after I come NZ, but this was the first time I tried raw squid. If u asked me if it was good or not, I will answer: depends…. Well, I don’t like it very much, but still able to eat it. It was quite fishy, or squidy? LOL. Anyways, I was grateful that at least the raw squid did not move….FYI, there’s a dish in Korea named san ojingeo, the feature of this dish is, the fresh raw squid tentacles continue moves when it served, and they still moving in your mouth when u consume them! I am never going to try that! So I guess this takowasabi was my first as well as last one I ordered by myself.

Then here comes my yakitori sticks: Omakase which is the most popular combo. It contains chicken thighs with yakitori sauce, beef scotch fillet with original blend pepper, tuna with wasabi sauce, prawn with seared garlic soy mayo and egg plant. I love the tuna stick the most, never tried tuna skewer before, it was so yummy!

Nicole’s spicy soft shell crabs. It was alright, not very brilliant.

Then I was struggling to get a tamagoyaki dish but eventually decided to order a chicken karaage. I had been craving for chicken karaage for quite some time because there were no nice chicken karaage (so far as I knew) in Palmy.

However, this chicken karaage actually was not very ‘satisfying’, is just normal. I missed the chicken karaage I tried in Dunedin Japanese restaurant which was cooked by Korean. WTH? It is just because I never tried the ordinary chicken karaage? I don’t think so. I think is just the texture problem, more likely is due to the chicken itself.

Anyways, lastly, this was the main "dish" for us: Taiyaki with green-tea ice-cream!

OMG, the taiyaki is so good!! It was crunchy and hot, and the anko (red bean) paste is just perfect, not too sweet~ Damn yummy!!

I am so happy, and up in the sky! And here are some photos of the bar atmosphere:

Anyways, I expected. U can tell I am those kinds of people who don’t care about the price when it’s come to food. Some personal values inherited from my dad, I am willing to pay for food other than anything else! This perception of the food value became even higher as soon as I started working and earning money by myself. An important part of my life is enjoying the food I like because I am a foodie ^^However, I must strongly emphasized that I am not people who simply wasting money, I do save money, and save a lot. I appreciated what I gained and also treasured the efforts my parents brought me to this stage.

We also ordered sake, this is a MUST. I actually was also interested with the plum wine, beer, and Japanese cocktail, but I will try it next time if I can come again. Well, is weird to come here by myself, and is even harder to get people to join me because the food is not cheap.

So, this magnificent yakitori bar experience ended my wellington day trip, we headed back Palmy around 10pm. Thanks to Nicole, being a food company, as well as drive bravely in the night!

Today is the day! So looking forward, and also is about the plan to come up Auckland for.

I met Sze Ying today finally, after 1 years and 4 months! She came to Auckland with her parents for her graduation trip. All of us (8 of us) had dim sum at the Harbour restaurant. Well, the lunch was very rushing, as is Mother’s day today as well, we only allowed to have the table for an hour, this is Auckland~

Well, food was good actually, price is reasonable as well, probably because we dint order much. I dint able to take photos, as most of us spending time chit-chatting and eating. However, glad to meet everyone, including Jamie and Tina who had settled down at Auckland.

just able to catch a photo with sze and her mum.

I just spent time on walking around Auckland city with ZhuoShi after the lunch. It was so nice to have her for company, we walked around high st, which is the street that I apparently not noticing when I was at Auckland for 3 months last year. High street is more like a fashionable street, many special designer’s unique shops, and selling expensive goods.

We were very lucky to find this bakery shop: La Couranne Bakery boutique

Zhuoshi ordered this dessert which is very good and huge! Is like a mochi wrapping cream and a huge strawberry inside.

They sell awesome cakes, bread and pastries =D

Finally fly up to Auckland! Well I used to hop on the bus, but for sure not this time, or the next time in the future, unless I really broke….

my boarding pass, and my brand new nail color....

Taking a flight is definitely much better than bus-ing up. Save time, and save the effort fighting for sleepless period and also the cold…Well, spent more but is still worth.

I woke up at 4.15am today, can u imagine. I dunno why super-shuttle (the shuttle that sends me to airport) demanded to be outside my house at 5.30am, and I am slow, so I woke up 1 hr in advance.

Anyways, I made it, and arrived airport around 5.40am. My flight was 6.50am, and the driver was like, “oh u are early, why are u going so early? Do u know the airport check-in desk is not open til 6?” ….== hell do I know? U are the one who told me to be there at 5.30am…oh probably not u, I mean yr company…

Luckily the airport itself was opened, just not the check-in counter. I got my boarding pass from the self-check-in machine, but still have to wait the counter to be opened at 6am, as in Palmy airport, we have to pay extra 5 dollars for the airport development fees while taking plane departed from Palmy (but not charging on plane arriving Palmy).

Meanwhile waiting for boarding, I whatsapp with Bean using free wireless at the airport. First time accessing the wireless in this small city, it was actually quite fast. =D.

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I arrived Auckland around 8am, and zhuo shi come to fetch me. She nearly lost while finding the route to airport, really appreciated that she picked me up from the airport all the way from Northshore (took her probably 40 minutes) and she is not familiar with the road.  And she also brought me some breakies…so lovely of her.

I had long time dint see her, nearly one year I guess! Glad to see her doing fine, and actually zhuo shi is the only of us that got into dietician. Thumbs up!

Actually this time, this trip to Auckland is for the gathering with Sze Ying on tomorrow morning. She was having her graduation trip with her parents since last week. She asked me to meet her at Auckland instead of heading down to the south (Dunedin) to attend her grad ceremony which is a good option. So basically I just left myself open to any plans, and today zhuoshi had discussed with wann zhen, and we went to her house straight away after I arrived.

There’s a new family member in Wann Zhen house now, a puppy! Is a Japanese spitz, it is superb cute!

I played with him for a while, and he seems like me tho =P.

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Wann Zhen brought me to brunch at a Chinese restaurant near her house. We ordered so many dishes, and they were delicious! I think as we have long time dint hang out together, this made the meal even better!

Then, I also bought some asian snacks and bakeries as there are heaps of these kind of shop beside that restaurant. Oh my, I am really excited while seeing these food that couldn’t be found at Palmy, even Welly….^^ Auckland really the best!

After that, before meeting up another friend, Louise, we went to the Chinese Pagoda nearby. Well, actually I am not considered a Buddhist, as I dint pray, but I do claim myself a Buddhist on my identity card in Malaysia. Moreover, I do pray if I need to. However, I found out that I rather admitted myself as a free thinker or neutral since I went abroad. This is because I actually is a free-thinker…. I have no clues about Buddhist, well, I have an idea, like a general one, but I do like Buddhists, and the Chinese Pagoda we went to actually made me felt peaceful. =)

  the budha are so cute....XD

Eventually we met Louise at Botany Down, and she was with her BF! What a shock! Wann Zhen was so surprised and told us she never tells! Lol, so Louise is not having many friends, she just has a boy friend. No more effort on helping her to bind up with people at work, she is good enough to get herself one. =) I guess Auckland still have more chances for love aye? Especially for people like me seeking for Asian guys….yes I am looking for someone. =) (LOL sounds so desperate..)

We spent sometimes at Robert Harris café then, and I realized the frappucino there was not pleasant.

the frappe is phewww...not nice, zhuoshi isenjoying her coffee....

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We headed back to Northshore, Zhuoshi’s home stay around 4pm. Norman and Daisy (Zhuoshi’s home dad and mum) were very welcoming me to stay for a night, and cooked me a nice thai chicken stir fry meal.

Had such a long time dint dine in this family atmosphere, since I was in Malaysia this year in February. Norman is a kind and humour person, really hope his health condition will recover. I haven’t eaten so large portion size of dinner since I started my diet, oh man, now I need work harder.

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I can’t wait until 7pm, is movie time! Finally I able to watch Tim Burton’s latest film, Dark Shadow, starring my favourite Jonny Depp.

Check out my next post for the movie review.

It was a great night, but my Saturday night did not end with a movie, well, not club either. Guess what, it was ended with sleepy eyes, after proof-reading and modifying Zhuoshi’s Master literature review until 3am in the morning following the movie. This recalled me the memory in 2009 when I was taking HUNT314 (nutrition and communication), and zhuoshi was my team member as well. Both of us working on the remains report from 11pm until 6am early morning, then rushed to our whole team meeting at 8am. That was a crazy project, (well not that crazy as FOSC311, which is food product development), because everyone was so deeply bound themselves to the project. The other 3 team members of mine weren’t joining us for rushing the report over-night due to some “reasons”.

Well, it had already passed, and our team was generally good, as all of us were equally kind and co-operative. At least, we scored very well done grade for that particular project.

I just missing those days in Uni, but seriously not willing to going back for study, assignments and exams anymore. I eventually also realized that I really cant sleep late anymore, my eyes were half closed when the clock pointed to 12…

Anyways, I am still impressed by what’s zhuoshi wrote, and can feel how stressed she is to trying writing this literature review.

Good night world.

Yeah, finally able to go to the Wellington Sunday market again, I really missed the “teppanyaki” cheese roti (this is how I called it) from the Indian stall since last time I ate it during last year October.

I guess freshness is the most important food ingredients, not meaning the freshness of the food, or I should say the feeling having the new food for the first time. I still felt that the same cheese roti I had last time in October was better. =P It  this the monotony effect?? Haha, but I still like it tho, and Paya immediately bought it after tasting mine. See!

Then, we went to the City Market nearby, and Macaroons again~ Well, surprised to see that Nikki actually made the mini macaroons as tasting samples, and I couldn’t deny that the mini ones tasted better. I do admit that her macaroons actually losing her standard, well guess it was really not easy to make them constantly good as I also made them before just not by myself only. I bought 4 macaroons and so did Paya, but still happy that Nikki made a new flavour – coffee cream.

I realized another symptom of mine signing I am ‘aging’, (=S), I am disliking sweet dessert now! Not that I am not taking dessert anymore, definitely I will still taking them cause I always a big fan of dessert. Just I am more emphasized on the natural sweetness, and original flavours. For an example: I will demand for a green tea flavoured dessert come with the strong green tea aroma and taste, even with a bit of bitterness, rather adding too much artificial sweetness in it which ruining the original green tea flavour, get me??

I am complicated right?? Well, that’s me. =P

Other food sold at the city market:

I also bought seafood paella! It comes with a tiny cute takeaway box (NZ 7 each), but it’s actually a lot! I am going to bring it for lunch tomorrowI actually had a tight schedule today as I am leaving at 3pm back to Palmy, so we went to Scopa to get the hot chocolate highly recommended by Paya.

It is a chocolate shot to me, so viscous! To be honest, I am not a fan of hot chocolate, or I should say, I just dislike hot beverage. But, chocolate fans definitely will like it.

We also ordered a pizza, is huge! Lucky I got to share it with Paya, love this pizza. This pizza named Gorgonzola Funghi, contains spinach, mushroom and gorgonzola which is a veined Italian blue cheese. Although I really hate the original blue cheese, but I agreed that Blue cheese always taste good after cooking/baking.

I had so much of this type of floury foods these 2 days in Welly, roti canai yesterday, cheese roti this morning and also a pizza for lunch…Wow….my diet….TT (and my poor knee still pain…=(…)

Okies, time flies, I said bye bye to Paya around 3pm, we actually sat at the harbour for a while before we walked to the bus stop. It was a sunny day, how lucky I am.. =)

Til the next time we met, take care Paya!! 

Wooah, it had been a long time since my last visit to Wellington, really happy!

The happiest thing was I able to stay overnight at Paya’s place, and got more time to spend with her and in Welly.

I took naked bus this morning around 11am, and shocked that yen also coming with me in the same bus, she was going for her event. Then, without my expectation, I got a chit-chat company on the bus (was planning to sleep before). The seats on the bus were not comfortable, it was not adjustable, my back was not feeling well. Moreover, I chose the wrong seat, according to yen, we were sitting right on top of the tyres, which felt the vibration of the movement of the bus a lot. Hmmm....><

Anyways, we had great conversation, and I am considering attending those events recommended by yen. I reached welly around 1pm, and had starbucks!

Coffee jelly frappucino! I remembered having this in Malaysia, and now the jelly is back! Glad that I dint feel dizzy having coffee this afternoon.

Then Yen left us for her event which Paya will also going later at night. So actually I will stay at Paya’s place alone at night, but she promised to bring me to an interesting lounge bar tonight, cant wait! I kinda have a lunch + dinner meal around 4pm after dropping my belongings over paya’s place. We dined at a Malaysian vegetarian restaurant, and I ordered roti canai again. I know, recently I am so addicted to roti.....evil carbs....

The meal was so full! Gosh, then Paya’s left me her keys and went to her event. I just hanging around the town, and went to the Korean mart nearby to get me some kimchi. However, eventually I only got a pack of pork dumplings as the kimchi was too expensive. Then, I guess I am pretty lucky, there’s a new asian store opened along the way back Paya’s place. The food there were quite cheap as well, and finally got my kimchi! =D

From around 5.30pm to 10pm, this was how I killed the time:

-online

-watching movie: 夏日乐悠悠 (which was not a good one…==)

-chatting with Paya’s flatmate. She was abit weird to me, well at least I was not the only one thinks that. Paya said she was having depression due to the stress of her school work as well as pressure from the flat.

I felt myself lucky as my flat mates were not as worst as paya’s flat mates, yet. I sincerely hope all of us can stay peacefully and don’t get into this kind of situation. Really felt sorry for Paya, she must be pissed off and stressed everyday due to her immature and irresponsible flat mate.

Besides, also a big hug to Paya, bringing me to this cool place: the library lounge!

U must be very tired, but still bringing me to this awesome and relaxing place. We have awesome dessert tasting plate. Well, I think the desserts were alright, not like a “wow”, but this tasting plate is very worthy. NZ 30 for a tasting plate contains 5 types of small and fancy desserts (different varieties every time) which were shared for 2 people, so NZ15 each person, great place, great deal. <3

Our dessert plate! Contains mousse cake, passion fruit sorbet, donuts stuffed with corn, brownies sticks, and a small bowl of dessert like a jam (which I was confused as well).

I also ordered cocktail! This is called Gambatte (meaning all the best in Japanese), contained Japanese Kubota sake, and plum wine! They put a huge doris plum in it!

At first I thought the big long stick was a spoon or straw, it is a chopstick! Creative man!

I like this so much, the taste is not too strong, can taste the sweetness of plum wine and freshness of sake, and the doris plum was so soft and juicy~

We hanged out at the “library” until 12.30am, and finally I shared my ugly ex-relationship stories with Paya. Well, I guess the environment and alcohol did trigger my emotion a bit that I decided to talk about this guy that I wouldn’t like to mention again. But I guess I have recovered as I was alright to talk about him, and really happy that he is out of my life now and no longer can step into my life ever again. Thanks Paya for knowing this ugly past that made me become a stronger women. =D

The next long weekend will be on June, which means at least another 2 months! Yuckks~

Really felt unfair why Malaysians got so many weird Public holidays, but I guess I should think out of the box. Our working environment is not the same….hmmm...

However, after hanging out with Alpha Lab employees these few days, I learnt that not the entire NZ workers shared the same good labour rights, at least not in Alpha. While after the no reply from Alpha regarding my last face-to-face interview in 2010, I still feel lucky I dint get the job =)

So, I had a not too bad sleep last night on wann zhen’s bed. Her guest room was occupied by shiuan’s friends. That’s why I felt even bad to stay over her house again this time. I already asked Zhuo Shi if I able to stay over her place in May (Sze ying coming up Auckland with her family for graduation trip) and luckily I am able to. Well, at least I felt better with this, and I can catch up with Zhuo Shi too.

I had dim sum for brunch this morning with Wann Zhen and Carmen, we had a good chit-chat. I really feel happy to meet Carmen, she’s really nice. The dim sum was alright, I still feel that Golden Harvest in Dunedin served the best dim sum, at least the best I had so far. Probably there are more good dim sum in Auckland.

The冰雪榴莲(durian cream pastry dessert) was massive, but it was disgusting. They filled in some irrelevant fruits inside. Palmy has better 冰雪榴莲…=S

Anyways, I am still very happy that I able to have dim-sum with friends in Auckland.

I dint do much thing at noon, while accompany shiuan to check-out a car which she planned to buy. Then, wann zhen brought me to the bakery store – Rio bakery, and we hang out a bit at Momo tea before she fetched me to the airport.

The bakeries I bought from Rio this time~

So, till the next time we catch up in May, take care beauty zhen! =D (and see u real soon, Auckland)

the Easter egg I bought from Mcd 2 days ago before our trip for fund-raising purpose~

  Omg, I really had a great time!

the subaru legacy we rented for our trip, looked hw the beautiful weather reflected on the car~

view from outside our motel....  

The sky is blue, and the weather seems treating us very well once I opened my eye this morning. Had a good sleep, after the discomfort bed in my room at Palmy, I am able to sleep on any bed. Lol. But, the motel bed is really very comfortable.

just some other general photos about our motel I captured this morning, wann zhen was texting in the living room, while Carmen and Aunty May was preparing breakfast in the small but very functional kitchen. =P

We had wonderful healthy breakfast. Good to know Carmen, I totally granted her as a dietitian, she knows a lot! U will be my diet advisor~ haha

Although there were rain drops along the road, we still got sunshine at cape reinga. Not to mention we got good spot for our car parking.      

I was amazed by the power of natural!

There were many people around, but we totally just enjoyed ourselves and got excited photos!

from left: me, carmen and adeline~ photo granted to the camera gal - May sis.

and a L.O.V.E jump, carmen is super cool!

I am super proud of myself to be able to fit into those jumper photos (usually I failed), and of cz, credit goes to the camera sis Mary!

walking down to cape reinga, we were closed to the light tower~

and this random guy, the last guy, just joined us in our photo without our notice, this is super funny!

Cape reinga is really beautiful, and I felt so impressed and lucky to see the meeting point between pacific ocean and tasman sea.

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Is time to move on, we went to the huge giant sand dunes nearby.

people were slowly climbing up to the huge sand dune~ likes a row of ants....=P

we hired 2 sand boards which costed us 30 bucks, the sand guy really knows how to make money @@

 I was reluctant to play on the sand, as I am a chicken. I scared of falling, and got messy, and I also afraid of the height, and speed. I was volunteering to be the camera gal, but ends up, I did go for some sand boarding~ (very low standard one, haha, those not that steep, and in half way). I refused to do the sand boarding in proper way, I just be a fair lady, sitting on the board. Lol. I had good balance anyways, dint fall….=P

It was super fun!

Carmen, Adeline and Wann Zhen also enjoyed very much. Poor sis Mary couldn’t join us but she seems having a good time watching us, these young kids, playing around.

We spent good time at the dune, and left around 3, but we still have the next destination!

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The 90 mile beach! But first, we had to have lunch, and our car need some petrol as well.

Luckily we found a fish and chips store on the way to the beach. Another infortune for us was we were not able to drive along the 90km beach due to the limitation of the car, but we still able to get to 90mile beach with a longer way.

The meal was alright, was good we had this on easter Sunday.

Then, we actually couldn’t find petrol station around, the closest station was closed unfortunately. Looking the left quarter of petrol tank on board, we decided to take risk to the beach. Based on GPS, Adeline assumed we still have chance to get to the petrol station before we have to push our car and ask for help at middle of nowhere. Anyways, we passed the rocky gavel path and dark jungle, we arrived 90mile beach!

I am curious about the formation of this beach, it is a heaven to me! Cant really see the end!

Too bad we couldn’t stay for longer time, as we still need to head back Auckland tonight. Bye bye northland, really wonderful been here!

Note: a big hug and thumb to carmen and Adeline, and wann zhen, all of u have done a good job on driving us back to Auckland. The thai restaurant dinner at Whangarei was awesome!

the sunset on our way back home.....

It was a long ride after the sleepless night, actually I was smart to pick a front seat, cause last time experienced sitting right beside the door, omg, was freezing cold when the bus stopped for refreshments.

I learnt to be smart and alert this time, I picked the only seat at the front, which is actually in the middle row (kind of) in the bus. I still chosen the lower deck of the bus as I know how “swing” I could be on the upper deck. Well, the condition just improved slightly. I guess probably was because the whole season is turning cold, I still could feel the cold air on my skin, regardless I have worn a thermal wear underneath. And if this happened again (I will try not to be), I will bring along my blanket I guess. (A burden!)

Anyways, it passed. Although wann zhen picked me up a bit late this morning, it was still all good, Mr. Sun treated us very well, we have rains along the way, but got bright and warm sunshine after we arrived Russell~

First, a big clap and compliment to the 3 beautiful drivers – Carmen, Adeline and Wann Zhen.  U guys done a great job! It was a long drive. We picked up our rental car around 9 and have breakfast at Mcd. Then, we drove all the way up to the North.

The plan today was to stop at Russell for a short sight seeing, and then continue driving to Kaitaia for one night accomodation.

The plan was perfect, we were very relaxing, no rush, I really enjoyed the way we travelled. There was a long time we spending on the road, but we had good time, and I slept most of the time, lol. Well, I have good excuse, dint have a good sleep on previous bussing night.

The surprise was I met the first toll in NZ, and I think it was the only toll. The difference was they dint have toll station set up, and no people around collecting toll fees. (In the end of trip, we only realized we have to pay online, otherwise the camera caught us will ask for more…=S, luckily we did find out we have to pay)

We encountered a short traffic jam, probably due to the travelling trend over easter. But the jam was not long, we arrived Russell around 2.30pm. Be specific, is Opua, we have to catch the ferry to travel to Russell on the opposite.

The ferry actually was the same as Interislander, but just not that fancy, is more like a moveable car park, and we stayed in our car (yes, the ferry carry us together with our vehicle) most of the time.

 we snacking while waiting on the ferry to travel to Russel

 taking this from outside the vehicle, adeline and may, yea, i can come out and stay on the ferry if i wished to.

Russell was big enough, and must be gone with at least a bike. It was actually the first permanent European settlement and sea port in NZ.

We walked along the beach, and stopped for a late lunch as all of us were starving.

The food were alright, I preferred the mussel I had with Michaella last time more, but the pancake was good. Pasta was soso, I could make a better one. ^^

The weather was cloudy when we started our meal, but then rain poured~  

Then, we just walked around the jetty, and saw this amazing scene. I used to watch this recently in Arashi show, as Leader Ohno was a big fishing fan. The snapper was huge! (the fish which the guy was cutting) Can I have some sashimi please??

After that, we went to the oldest church in NZ, Christ church (notice that is Christ church, not Christchurch XD).

A lovely couple just finished their wedding there, in the little church. Although I am not a Christian, I really enjoyed going different churches to see the unique and religious building design.

Due to time constrainst, we continued our journey to Kaitaia, and we arrived around 6. We were worried if we able to get food in the small town, but turned out we were overthought. There are a number of choices around, so we checked in to our motel first.

Thanks to Carmen, the motel we moved in is luxurious and comfortable, with a reasonable price. Again, I felt we were so fortune this trip, we got good weather, and we have the last available motel unit.

Well, guess everything come with a balance. We went to a crabby Chinese restaurant, long wait for dinner, and unpleasant taste of meals, with a very pricy cost. We were like criticized the restaurant will be closed if it opened in Auckland, lol. Oh, but we shud be grateful that we were able to have dinner at least.

Then, we went to Pak n Save for breakfast tomorrow. Carmen also suggesting buying some beers for the night. A good recommendation, Carmen. We indeed had a good time, we played poker cards along with chips and beer!

And I can feel that I am getting closer with Adeline and Carmen, as well as Mary sis, although I just met them today! They were outgoing, and very friendly. I felt so lucky to be able to meet them, and have this awesome trip with them, credit to Wann Zhen, our common friend. ^^

Tomorrow will be awesome at cape reinga, sand dunes and 90mile beach!

Yeah, finally is time for holiday trip! I was thinking I am going to have a relaxing holidays in Auckland this time like what I did in new year holidays, but end up…I am going to NORTHLAND!

COOL!

I received msg from wann zhen few days ago, inviting me to Northland with her and her colleagues, omg, for sure I said YES!

I am departing to Auckland tonight, by bus again, but soon I will terminate the overnight bus service myself, haha. (ald bought flight tickets to auckland on my next trip in May)

So today, mainly just enjoy the possibly relaxing day, I stayed at home the whole day, and packed my stuffs to Auckland/Northland. Sincerely pray the weather will be awesome, so I brought my shorts and hat as well~

I was just browsing the webpages, and also watching my favourite Arashi shows throughout the day~

Then, is time to go! After my good dinner, here I am North!

Today is a wonderful sunny day after the long cloudy and cold week, and is weekend!

Initially i thought i only will go to the vege market this morning and stay home for the rest of the day, what a waste?!

So thank god Nicole was texting me, and I decided to go to himatangi beach with her.

Never been to that beach yet, and it was so long since the last time i was at the beach. It was actually not that long, was during xmas at Picton and Nelson.

But hold on, do they even consider beach? As they have no white sands, they are rocky and full of decoration statues around. LOL

So this time, i finally get myself into the sea, well, not swimming, I cant swim anyways. The last time i did this was at Otago peninsula in 2010? Most likely....hmmm....

Anyways, I am so happy today, especially with my hat!

First we began our fun with Asian style – draw something, i cant imagine how popular was this apps recently regardless I have a hTC.

The names, as usual, luckily we dint write something like friends forever, that will be so ASSIANN~

Then, I moved on to the sea, and Nicole just followed me instantly.

Really enjoy the time while soaking my leg in the sea, enjoy the moment the waves beat on my skin, my toes could feel the softness of the sand.....nice....breeze~

I was impressed with Nicole’s photography skill, i was proud of my photography skill once, but sometimes I felt  so stressed to stay with these ppl, i mean with them who have good capturing skill + high photo demands......I would rather enjoy the moment rather adjusting the perfect angle and quality to take good photos.

I am not photographer anyways, and not interested....^^

But, who dislike themselves in good photos? U can upload them to fb or any of yr social network profile....., hmmm, so that’s the point? Possibly it is, so still thumbs up for Nicole for wonderful pictures!

and last, I saw this cute creature, it actually hide itself in the sand, but is easily to put it out, then it will bury itself inside the sand again! XD

So, is Sunday, but still have plans today, looking forward to meet up Jessie later

Wann zhen made yum and healthy breakfast for me, steam corn and kumara~

Really feel bad to wann zhen, knew that she will go to city, but still felt like using her somehow, although I didn’t....

And then Jessie changed venue in last min, to somewhere closer to nan’s house, luckily wann zhen didn’t mind, but i still felt very sorry for her when I off from her car, she just like my driver =(, sorry darling...really owe u heaps!

Was a long time since last time I met Jess, she had a longer hair now, but still the one I familiar with. We spent sometimes at the Palmers cafe with her friends, and then moved to a Korean BBQ at Dominion St. Before I started my meal, my sharp vision immediately spotted the French bakeries shop beside the Korean bbq!

I quickly sneaked into the shop with Jess, and bought a box of macaroons!!! Yum~

and jessie treated qing so well, she bought a bag of bakeries for him, and I can now call myself: transporter! ^^

The BBQ was awesome by the way, sorry I was busy eating, so no photos. We used 2 BBQ pots, and thanks to Halim, finally learnt the way for proper korean BBQ, no wonder I still missing the BBQ experience at Dai Cheong Kam in Malaysia with Nicky. I found the missing pickles that always should accompanied with the meat~

I am no longer sick with Korean bbq now, regardless of the bad experience at Takapuna with Huey yee last year (nearly choked in that smoky environment, and I was having bad diarrhea)

We BBQ so many types of meat, from bacon, to marinated pork, prawns, marinated chicken, onion rings, beef, kimchi! (that's very smart, so nice!), squids, mussels and fish! (both the first time!) The kimchi BBQ was just smart, Halim, our life will be bored without u! and the fish, omg, it was not fishy ever, tasted so fresh and chewy!

I shud have taken photos!!! ><!!

And not to mention, the cooked dishes were amazing. Ok, some explanation here, Korean BBQ (at least in Auckland) always come in buffet style, u can take as many raw ingredients as u want, and there are also cooked dishes such as those Korean entrees, fried rice, fish cakes, wontons, or sometimes they served yummy pork rib stew (I tried once at Pakuranga!)

We have full tummy after the lunch, and only paid NZD17! I was so satisfied! Totally can skip dinner tonight (and yes I did, just have my French bakery)

Then we moved on to a cafe named 'Circus Circus'. They did have a circus style outdoor~I ordered berry frappe~

We chatted for like an hour, and then, time to say goodbye. So glad that I get to know Halim and another guy (shit, forgot his name), and what's a coincidence, Halim's landlord is a friend of my cousin, Sze Sze. I figured out through his dog, called tofu~ haha

Guest NZ still tiny enough to meet people right?

I got a free ride to airport (thanks jess and dephany), but means I wasted NZD16 for the shuttle! I could have saved 49 dollars if I dint book the accommodation and transport, well, who knows. I guest sometimes I shouldn’t be that well organized aye?

Note: The flight was delayed for half an hour, thanks nicole for waiting me. Felt so loved with my life nw, I have good friends by my side! <3, appreciate and grateful!

Good morning Auckland, good to see u again, the big little city.

Last night was like a bi-impression for me, it was good as I did get some sleep, it was bad bcz it was so cold whenever the bus left the door opened widely when the driver was taking rest in a couple of stops....Poor me was sitting right beside the door, coldddddddd......

Is still summer tho, just is winter in the night. I am sorry....TT

Anyways, I am happy that I am in Auckland today!

Arrived at 7 ish in the morning, and finally back to the city centre. I dint have chance to back city centre during my last visit, so this time is like a long hello~

Never thought x base only allowed ppl to check in after 1pm, but glad that they allowed me to leave my luggage there.

I was wondering around before meeting up Michaella at half pass 10, with my empty stomach. I thought Auckland might have a busy morning, forgot the fact that Auckland is still in NZ. Sigh....

Finally, I went into Wendy’s for the first time, and tried their breakfast. Thumbs up for the varieties, but sorry for the tasteless hot chocolate. I would like to thumb down for the poor service as well, but I think Aucklanders act that way do they? That’s the difference, the missing of friendliness in "big" city.

Another great approach for me was I able to connect to wireless via my phone, just what’s app bean and kokchin. Surprise!

Too bad it was only 30mins, that’s another difference from NZ compared to other developed or even developing countries, their wireless coverage indeed lack of effectiveness......

I was counting down the time, and started seeing people walking around, shops opened on time, and traffic became busy. It’s 10.30pm, and I met Michaella near IMAX.

We went to Mission bay for a gourmet brunch!And have a good seat!michaella's egg benedictI ordered the waffle and cranberry juice.

We were so full after the breakfast, but we would nt like to miss the famous mussel here, after 20mins,Tada, we have a 1kg pot of steam mussels (come wit fries). Really loving the steamed mussels now, thanks Michaella!

Then we walked around mission bay, and saw this 2 naked kids playing around, cute!

We tried to walk around the bay, but we got bored quite instantly, lol, then we took the bus back to viaduct harbour and just wondering around the 2012 volvo ocean race events.  

Again, it was not a fun event, we were bored~ kakaka.

Then I back to main st to buy some Asian bakeries, is a MUST mission this time after disappointment last yr, got Nicole and Ping heaps of bakeries....and eventually realized myself were not into those bakeries, WTH? But I eventually bought some for myself too, is just like why not? as I am here....

(note: ppl were looking me weirdly when I bought so many bakeries....==)

Then, I checked in (arg, i shouldn’t do that, wait, I will explain why) and go into my assigned room. The bunk bed was so high, I tried my best to climb up, but I struggled to come down...== Why they had to design/include such a high bunk beds? Ohhh, do they think they only will serve Caucasians? Hmmm....

Anyways, I left problems/worries behind, shop with Michaella first. Yeah she went back to her temporary house at city for a while to pick up some gifts for me. That’s very sweet of her. =D

We met up and went to High st, which is a very popular, claimed to be fashionable st in Auckland. Hmmm, probably I don’t understand fashion, I would describe it as a normal, fancy and costly st. Not sure about the food, as we were full and ran out of time.

Lastly, we went to this Korean groceries shop opposite Michaella’s house, was not my intention to buy Korean stuffs, and I am more like a Japanese fans now. Anyways, things happened. After a big farewell with Michaella, not sure when is the next time to meet again, I moved on to Parnell.

The street, the atmosphere still very clear and memorable to me, how I missed Parnell so much! <3

  Wann Zhen was abit late, but not too late as I am the one who always earlier. (don’t like being late, that’s me...)

Finally went into moto sushi again, but I bet there must be other great and authentic Japanese restaurants in Parnell.The shrimp bento I ordered, yum!and wann zhen's unagi bento

Should we try them out next time? =)

Then we went into the chocolate boutique which was just few shops away and tried their well known chocolate.

I still preferred cold drinks, another own nature of me...white chocolate frappe

The shops were full of Easter chocolates, kind of reminding me it is time to plan for trip! Hmm, too bad wann zhen was lazy to plan trips for fox glacier, it could be a nice trip. I am thinking ending up my holidays in Auckland again. Is not a bad choice, just still wondering if there are other options.

I was supposed back to my extremely tall bunk bed after the long day, but wann zhen’s suggestion really made me hesitated to stay at the base tonight.

So at the end, I checked out, as expected without getting back my refund, here I wasted my 32 buckss....TT

Back to nan’s house again, and really felt very sorry for such an interruption, hate myself in this situation..such a trouble maker!

I know they are kind, but just somehow I really don’t like bringing troublesome to others especially to my friends, i just wonder why i felt that bad?

Anyways, thanks to wann zhen’s family, I had a good sleep tonight, good nite, Auckland

Travelling sometimes is tiring, I wish to stay at home sometimes, but then I will feel boring if i stay at home during weekend, and think over and over again: why I waste my weekend at home?

Human is complicated, and complex animal, and they don’t know how to be satisfied, don’t they?

Therefore, Vivian, u must learn, appreciate what u had and be grateful~

Yeah, so I kept my mouth shut, and took on the overnight bus to Auckland tonight. Another long nite, why Auckland, cz Michaella is here!

She’s friend from HK who I met at Otago in past few years, we were not that close, and not even now, but somehow we kept in touch via fb/msn since I last met her at Auckland when she left HK for good.

Well, the reason I travel, mainly to meet her, and part of it, bcz is at Auckland and I love Auckland, I do really thinking to move there.

But i really hate overnight bus. Hate bussing, hate the fact that this is the only choice if I do wanna save some money, TT accept it and don’t complain! TT

Good nite Palmy......