Autumn/ Winter at New Zealand

here's a photolog of my NZ trip!
not gonna post ALL the scenery stuffs... its gonne bore the crap out of ppl.

its strange that when i first arrive there, the scenery is like WOW-OMG-this-cannot-be-real-i-wanna-roll-in-the-grass-beautiful. and then after a few days it becomes omg-grass-and-yawn-sheep-again!?! sianz.

we were supposed to backpack and tour both the southern and northern islands of NZ. but after the impossibly long 12 hour flight over there... we were too exhausted to take another 12hour train down. so we stayed in auckland, a city in northern NZ for a few days.

we arrived there 4am singapore time, 8am NZ time. gosh it was SO COLD. so i dug my luggage while on the road pavement and piled on 2 more layers even as a bra clad angmoh jogged past me. -_-"

so here are the picts we took in auckland :

it would have looked like a wedding portrait if my parents were in those clothes and if the stranger at the back buggered off... no?

my mum screamed at me in public while i took this picture. damn embarrassing. reason? she thinks my photography skills sucks. YUAN WANG AAAAHHHHHHHH........ well that explains the grumpy expressions they've got. its what jetlag does to ppl man.

later on, after a big fat lunch, we reconciled. hmmph.
see that sky scrapper in the background? thats the tallest building they've got there.
sky tower, thats what its called.

and then, we went out to sea.
beautiful scenery, but the photographs can only say that much.
the salty air, the blazing sun, the roaring wind, the jade coloured sea and azure sky...
gotta be there to feel it.

a moment of narcissism.

the next day...

we checked out the city... loads of shots of my parents and only one shot of me. =(

and more random shots in the city....

taken by me!! very nice hor?!?

oh yeah. while we were here we ran into MR MOO!!! as in MOO. as in ex AHS but now sports school principle. and my mum got so excited she blurted out WU SOON CHANG HELLO!!!! yeah so you guys figured where i got my bimbotic genes from. so anyways, he fu yan-ed and talked awhile with us before muttering about going to some mt roskill annual school exchange thingy and hurried off.

thats my folks getting into another argument. like kids, i tell you.

just when i mentioned they are totally like kids...

oooh stone icecream!

and then, we proceeded to go up the mountains.. the rural farmy area of northern islands. more scenery shots and of my kooky parents.

my mum molesting my dad and squealing "yao xin fu wor!!" aka korean dramas. -_-""""

anyway we are up at mount ngongotaha which overlooks the geothermally active lake rotorua.

watch out for my acidic breath!! it kills!!!

and the next day....
we went to agrodome, some rural farm between rotorua and and hamilton.

... and spotted some real weird animals....

went horseback riding and ended with a preettty painful groin area at the end of it.
*ouch*

apprehensive about getting near the horse cos it stinks!!! like ammonia!!!!

here's me riding the horse down the mt ngongotaha. amazing scenery while up the mountain the second time while on horse back... pity i didn't get my camera up!!! DAMN!!!!

my instructor with her stallion nicky, and me on greedy horse jessie which peed like a fountain.

after this, we went to the geothermally active lake rotorua which smells like disgusting rotting eggs.

it looks so tranquil....

but don't be fooled!!!
smell LIKE something died and festered in there!

yeah me too am getting bored... zzz
so thats all!

NZ - nice place to retire in. nice place to challenge nature and do extreme sports.
but unfortunately, was with parents who didn't want to do those sports stuff.
=(


aussie wins my vote!