C'est LA viE

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.