Monday, December 11, 2006 @12:42 AM
Hey people!
I'm back from new Zealand!yay! didn't you guys miss me:D! uh-oh. I think I got more ego after spending so much time with fang :D kidding lah.
Anyway I had a really awesome trip and I've got so much to say. I actually got back on Sunday night, like at 8, but the time difference between new Zealand and Singapore is 5 hours so it was actually 1 o clock in new Zealand. We were all so tired we just ate a light snack and went to bed. so the next day I had so much to do I even wrote out a whole list :D I had to transfer the photos from the cam to the com, check my email, blog, charge my ipod, transfer songs from my ipod, sync the pictures to my ipod, get the photos from fang and uncle tek khoan, get the photos from my bro...there was like so much to do on the computer lah. And then, just my luck, THE COMPUTER BROKE DOWN. I was like ARGH! So I had to wait for my dad to call the repair man and all that. So finally I get to blog and do all my stuff. Yay!hurhur:D
I went with my mum's side cousins. Fang lin, zong lin, jun hua, jun rong, Kevin, Justin :D Justin is totally AHHH-DORABLE!he is so darn cute. And sweeeeet. He said I was his best friend and his favourite cousin! awwwww. hurhur:D on the plane there I sat with fang and zong. We got like, the front seat rows so we had really big leg space.yay!i watched click on the way there. Personally, I thought it was kinda boring. Heh. We took the night flight so I slept like,half the journey. Fang and zong watched I think like...4 movies or smth.:D hurhur.
So we arrived in Christ church airport. Then we had to take another flight to queenstown. That flight was really bumpy and everyone was feeling kind of sick after we got there but after breathing in the FRESH AIR it was okay:D hurhur. We took a car to our hotel- the outrigger. Oh wait I haven't told you guys about the overall of new Zealand yet.
Well firstly new Zealand is really really HUGE! It takes like 5-6 hours to drive to one town to another. I think we must have spent almost one whole day altogether driving around. But it is SO SO beautiful. Really. The scenery is so…nice! Okay it seems like I have limited vocab or something :D the view is really breath taking. The flowers by the stream, the lake, the mountains. I'm like WOAHH.
Okay back to the story. So we unpacked and all. I can't possibly say every single detail or this would be like, a ten page long essay. so I'll just highlight the main points :D
Jun hua, fang, sean and I formed the PENGUINS! We started this lame penguin thing but it was actually kinda fun :D we had a penguin handshake, a penguin signal and we had this PENGUIN HUG! thing where we all come together in a nice big hug!hurhur:D it was pretty cool.
We sat on the shotover jet!it was AWESOME!you guys have to sit on it if you go to queenstown. It was so fun! The four penguins sat right at the back and we got absolutely drenched!:D darn cool. Really.
We went luging too. THANKS STEF! For the recommendation. you were totally right. It is so fun!my cousins and I got this package thing so each of us went 4 times :D our hands hurt like crazy after that but what the heck!:D jun hua and I were like,pretending to be really competitive and we were like, I got here first!you cut queue that sort of lame stuff :D hurhur. All in all it was really great, with the chair lifts and all :D
We went to see some scenery too, the places where the lotr sites were shot and all. It was pretty nice:D
Then we went to wanaka. It is really nice! We all agreed that it was the best after the trip. We stayed in a homestead so we got our own sorta house. Wanaka was really cosy. Its smaller than queenstown but its really nice still :D there was cable tv, and internet connection too. That's where jun hua and I found out about…fang and ahem,SMITH:D!hurhur! And fang and I also found out about jun hua and ahem,Chinese car and(A)I need to WEEE!:D ha. I am such a double agent. I help both of them.hurhur:D and they'll act so childish and go"I thought you were my FRIEND"and"hey don't harass my FRIEND".lol. Really funny :D
We went to puzzling world in wanaka. It was really cool. There was this huge maze. So all the cousins paired up to see who could complete it first. Basically you gotta find 4 towers in any order and then head back to the start. I teamed up with fang, jh teamed up with sean, and jr teamed up with zong. Fang and I got a real big head start and we got all four towers then we tried to head back to the start but we got really lost!zong and jr caught up with us and we were both like trying to find our way back to the start. And the 4 of us kept meeting up so we ended up walking together and zong would go "why do you keep following us?" and fang would be like " err. We're in front of you!"and we would crack :D so finally even jh and sean caught up with us and everyone made their way back to the start except me and fang. We were wondering around aimlessly in circles :D and fang kept going"can we do it?" and I was supposed to go "YEAH!"with lots of conviction. :D hurhur. So finally,FINALLY, we did it. Yeah!:D hurhur.after like,30 minutes baking in the hot sun, we deserve it don't cha think?:D
We also went on a mountain hike. We all nearly died. We were so tired and hungry and thirsty after trekking for 5 hours. Everyone couldn't wait to get home. We also played with jess and mops, the two dogs the owner kept. They are sooo cute!:D my brother was terrified of them though. But I have no idea why because they're the sweetest dogs ever. really. even Justin was playing with them.
Next we went to te anau. Its not as nice as wanaka or queestown. We traveled 9 hours altogether by car just to see milford sound but boy. It was really darn nice man! With all the cool waterfalls and all :D whoots.
Then we went to mount cook. It was really nice. With all those huge towering mountains. The apartment wasn't so nice...but it was okay:D we spent the whole time looking at mountains and all. Quite nice.
Then we traveled to Christ church. It was okay I guess. We did some shopping there :D and fang and I wanted to get a manicure but our mums said no. waaaahs. :D hurhur. We also went to visit the art gallery. It was really cool. We even started colouring some weird waka huia thing there. Hahhaha. :D
Then we headed home. On the flight I sat with fang and zong again. I watched 3.5 movies. I watched stormbreaker first. I read the book before so it wasn't very excitng. For me at least.Then I watched step up. I never thought I'd say this, but step up is really good show :D seriously. very inspirational. Hurhur. THANKS FANG!for recommending it to me. hurhur:D then I watched American beauty. Err. It was plain WEIRD. I didn't really get it. Then I watched half of lotr-rotk. I've already watched it before but just felt like rewatching it:D I interrogated zong about his girlfriend on the way home when she doesn't even exist:D hurhur. And fang and I started talking ego too. I think I've gotten her ego-ness. Hurhur!
Well that's my trip! Just like to say THANKS to everyone who was on the trip; thanks for making it a really enjoyable trip for meee!:D thanks for putting up with all my constant chattering and nonsense. Special thanks to all the PENGUINS! Jun hua and fang! YOU GUYS ROCK!:D so complimentary right. HURHUR. I know you guys lah, jh would probably go thankyouthankyou in a very modest manner. And my DEARR SOCIAL-EGO-SIMILAR god sister (so called) fang lin would be going, of course I rock!duhhh.did it take you THAT long to figure it out? Hurhur:D I know you guys TOO well. Kidding lah kidding!:D
Well that's about it. If you've made it this far,congrats! You deserve... A HUG! next time you see me, you can claim a hug from me. hurhur:D
Seeyou guys!
<3 SOPH:D
