Saturday, December 22, 2007

I think its pretty

Oh New Zealand just had an earthquake. -_-

Its pretty funny how when i go on holidays something bad will happen after we leave the place.

Bali, got bom-ed at our hotel road. Eypgt, got bom-ed near our hotel. New Zealand, earthquake where we were.

Ooohh noo.

anyways, Day 5,6 &7

Well, now we were making our way across country to Queenstown, but its way to far to complete in one day, so we stopped by another lake, Lake Dunsen. We had a little picnic by the lake and then my sister and i went for a dipp in the COLD COLD COLD lake while brother and father went to play golf. (phfft)


Lake Dunsen!
For some reason they were selling super alot of fruits! Its either there was a farm nearby of they are just super healthy people... which i doubt.


could the sign be any BIGGER?
the sister and i taking a dip... COLD SHITTSSSS, seriously.

picnic!


Day 6
Then we continued driving driving.. alot of driving! And we stopped along the way if something looked pretty..



Well then guess what, we reached another lake! Haha. I know many many lakes. But thats where all the action is at. We went to Lake Te Anau (god knows how to spell it). We took this boat to some cave to see glow wormmsss.



Haha i told my sister that the glow worms will drop on her head.

But it was actually pretty cool, the worms will actually glow to attract things to it so it can eat it. So the brighter it is, the hungrier it is.. And then they showed us this video, they way it ate the insects... sooo ganas! Spooky.

Day 7

Arrived at Queenstown! My favourite place. Its a tiny (well not that tiny) town by the lakeside. We took this tour that took us on a 4WD in to the mountains, to show us where they shot the Lord of The Rings stuff, and also followed by this jet boat ride on the river to one place called paradise.




where LOTR was shot.
Our guide was 100% pure maori and he said he was one of the only few left!
We were supposed to take this jet boat for an one and ahalf hour ride.

But what happened to it?



we all CRASHED in to a TREE
Yeah! beleive it or not, when we all got on, suddenly the engine failed and we hanyut sungai and crashed in to this HUGEEE treee.
1 dude was hurt, and he didnt speak english. Hevooocccc.
But i was kindda excited, taking pictures all the way, cause it was like an adventure! and we had to do some mc gyver shizz to get out.
Then we had to track through the forest to get to another side for the rescue boat to get us. I was sooo excited.



So eventually, we got another boat and took that litle ride through paradise valley. It was worth the drama, the view was A+++.




So after a very dramatic morning, my dad and i decided we wanted to be thrilled even more. So we went for this shotover jet thing. Its like this super jet that spins and spins 360 in between the canyons. Shizz crazzy especially when your about to hit the rocks.. then you dont.





Well that sums up pretty much what we did there. Hanged around the town abit, cycled in the park and through the streets, did a bit of shopping, errr well a bit to me but according to my mum it was alot, so whatever. haha.

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Friday, December 21, 2007

"blue like mcdreamy's eyes.. wait is it even blue?"

Youhuuu, i'm back again. More updates.
Day4

On the 4th day we left Christchurch. Now this is where the road adventure beginss.. dum dum..


We hired a caravan and drove it across the country! whoot!




There should really be a reality show called 'the caravan'. I mean imagine living 5 people in a surface area less than that of your usual public toilet size. But nevertheless it was good fun! Like its a moving house, fuyooo.



Inside basically looks like this











errrr god knows why my sister is in both pictures.



Thats how it looks by day, and at night it transforms in to 3 beds! 2 double beds and 1 single!

So we left the city with our massive caravan. Quite the jakun we were :) tehee.


We drove all the way to Lake Tekapo.



Lake Tekapo was one of my most favourite-ist-ist lakes. It was blue like bright blue! You know why? because its formed from melted ice!





When we arrived we took this air safari thing where they flew us up to the snowy mountains for a better look. It was amaazzinnggggggg...





Our little plane we took.






My dad hoping he'll get to drive the plane. Haha.



The scenery from the air


After we landed we headed back to the lake to eat and just hand around. The water was ice cold and the breeze was soo fresh, felt so so.. wonderful.




Well then we left lake Tekapo and drive on. It was getting late so my dad was like " Oh im just going to stop in the midddle of nowhere and we're going to camp there okay kids"

All of us were like " Whaaaaat?! "

But in the end it was soo worth it when in-the-middle-of-nowhere looks like this ;




It was another, smaller lake infront of some ice topped mountais. So we cooked and camped there for the night. When the sun setted (at like 10pm!) the starrrsss lighted up the sky! incredible! But it was reallllyyy collldddddd tooo.. Burrrrr...




Yeah well that anout sums up the 4th day.

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Thursday, December 20, 2007

" that lord of the ring place minus the graphics"








Okay i so totally must blog about new zealand!





Bye Bye Kl






Hello New Zeland!





Day 1,2 &3

Spent the first 3 days around ChristChurch area, which is in the South Island. Christchurch is (I think) the maju-est “city” in the South Island. On the second day, we rented a car and took it to the city.




One thing about the city, THERE ARE SO MANY FOREIGN WORKERS. Like seriously, Koreans, eyptians, Indians, Iranians, Chinese… Everyother shop you walk in to and.. poof! You see a non-new Zealander. In the city we went to the Christchurch, Botanical Gardens and this lake thing. It was soooo prettttyyyyyyy…. How I wish our KL parks were more like this.











Okay you see that duck there? yeah. Its got to be the duck with the LOWEST IQ everrrrrr. (if ducks even have an IQ, but thats besides the point). See i'm guessing people come and feed the ducks alot, despite a HUGE sign saying " dont feed ducks", anyhow i was sitting there playing with pebbles. You know, small rocks.. you get my drift. Anyhow this duck, as you can see in the picture comes to me and eats my hand! OUCHHHH. Painfulllll.... he thought i was giving him foood!but noooooo, im holding a pebble!! What ever happened to animals scences?


The next day, we drove through the Alpine Triangle. Its basically a very scenic route which allows you to see PLENTY of sheeps and cows . haha. The view was breathtaking! Its like their grass on the hills are so tidy and green and very medow-ey like. There is like sooo much free tanah there, like land after land after land after land.




We stopped by this log lodge place to eat followed by a stop at this small river. But you know i was telling my dad


M : You know their rivers are not really rivers, its like flowing water only.

D: Marsh, what is a river? Isnt a river water that flows?

M: No no.. like in malaysia the water like has depth in to the ground, but here the water does not go in to the ground its on top of the ground.

D: huh?... errr okayy...


I dont really know how to explain it, but their rivers really is like water flowing!



















Okay then we had our lil sister cam whore experiment thing. -_-
Okay enough for now, days 4,5&6 comming up soon :)
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