{ a morning trip to Palmerston North }

A lecturer from Malaysia was being so kind to bring 12 of us to Palmerston North morning market. With all fresh fruits and vegetables at quite cheap price. We had to get us out of Wanganui at 8am sharp in the morning, so that we could be able to catch the morning market about 74km away. We had bought 4 dollars for 25 apples, and many more.

The part that i enjoyed most wasn't at the shopping in market. I did the must thing that everyone should do in New Zealand. We saw cows and sheeps, all the way along the roadsides to Palmy.



They were so cute and nice, because they knew we are taking photos of them, and they were willing to come abit forward and line up nicely and look into the camera!
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afterall, it was a tired day
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{ my first quake experience }

In the early 9th day in Wanganui, we were having a chit chat session around 1am morning. QUAKE happened. I did not know that was a quake until it took 5 seconds to end and my mates said it was a minor quake. We were stoned at that moment, I was hesitating whether should I scream or run or what, but I did not dare to make a move.

Nothing was being moved either from the wall or anywhere, we were just shocked, and it was our first time experience in life. Quite surprised and abit scared, but after all we cracked that into jokes again, because all of our face expression were funny.
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was that a funny quake, mate ?
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{ valentine's after shock}

We thought we just want a simple dinner after school. SO, we cooked, and it turned out like a 3 person valentine's special set dinner. Aren't they look sweet?
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we always didn't realize that we can do it until we made it.

{ this valentine's day }

There is no valentine's day mood for us here, but still, we are not neglecting this commercialized event.

We had a drinking session to celebrate our valentine's day at sharp 12am in our student flats, it was quite fun. We drank + joke + had a cadbury "THREE WISHES" chocolate + craps. Well, that's all and we have class at 8am in the morning :)
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happy sweet valentine's day, not just for lovers, but friends, treasure of life.

{ first "dinner", proper one }

It was our first proper dinner in Wanganui. Most of us were in fact didn't eat well and sleep well, and today we finally have the urge of making ourselve feel home.

We had mashed potatoes, mix vegetable, fried cheese and chicken sausages, chicken and potatoes. We had some problems with the chicken and potatoes earlier, we didn't understand how could it be tasted awfully bitter, then we were trying out ways to solve it. Yeah, of course, I don't really know how to cook, I didn't have the talent to solve it, there were some other mates. In the end, it turned out good though. There were 11 of us preparing this dinner and we had fun. It is all about team work and fun, you see.

It was not an expensive dinner, but the joyous of flat attack war in the kitchen and friendship that made this happened was priceless.
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don't worry, look, we take good care of ourselves.

{ it's tiffany in Wanganui, New Zealand }

Its summer turning into autumn in NZ, 6am in the morning, the sun will be getting up from his bed, we could only see moon at 9pm, everyday is a long long day.

My student flat is 10 minutes walking distance away from the computer graphics design campus, fresh air & very little cars on roads.Those cars in Wanganui is not like cars in malaysia, malaysia's cars are like cows, but cars here always give way to us.

My flat has 6 of us, 3 guys 3 girls, so Yin & Yang balanced, with good feng shui. My room, is facing to a green green grass small field, with only 1 cute tree in the middle of the field, guys play football in the field last night. Every morning, when i look out from the windows, I see green & blue.

Here is a small place, a really gooooood place for studies, no clubs, 1 kareaoke, 4 supermarkets ( i think, yet to explore more ), 1 cinema, 1 KFC, 1 McD, 1 Pizza Hut, 2 Subways, what can i do here? But I am liking it.
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I like this life
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{ where the journey begins }

It has been 9 years, since previous travel. I could hardly remember how was it like. The last time I’ve traveled was last week. There were too much of delights and disasters.

I was heading to a town in New Zealand, Wanganui. It would be a year to leave my motherland, Malaysia, my home to pursue my dream.

I have struggled for 3 weeks on packing up my luggage, my room was a disaster, clothes were all over the floor, belonging of mine were too many, and caused me headache to bring them all. Finally, I was prepared to leave. On the day that I have to leave, my mother was too worried about me and she could not stop crying. It was painful for me to see my family and friends shedding a tear for me.

By going through all customs clearance hassle, I got on the airplane finally. I was quite panic, when the plane was taking off. I felt insecure, somehow like a disaster in my heart. I held my mate’s hand tightly until the plane fly swiftly in the air.

On the flight, I was in the economy class. It was impossible to have a good rest in the airplane. Dinner plate was served, I had to struggle again with those well-packed dinner in the limited space on the tray, about 2 compouter keyboards size. It was a little disaster for me again.

I thought I was in heaven, when the plane was crossing over the Australia sky. We saw the horizon of the earth. I never knew that is so wonderful and I felt I am such a small small small creature, disturbing this beautiful nature. I don't know how to explain it in words when I saw it, it is really peaceful to my heart. It is like sometimes we don't need to tell something, or explain, just let the time be and enjoy the very moment.


9 hours and 30 minutes flight. Arriving was truly delightful. The destination was Auckland, in transit to Wanganui. It was a sunny Auckland, with uncountable lumps of clouds, placing nicely over the very blue sky. It was a warm welcome for us. I felt the hope of starting a new life in a new land. I was pleased and delighted to keep myself moving forward on my way.


On my way to Wanganui, in a mini airplane that only fits around 15 of us. cute.

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hello new zealand
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