Update from All the Way Down in Dunedin

Hey to all-you-who-read-my-blog,

Well, I'm down in Dunedin right now and will be starting lectures tomorrow. Woohoo!!! I'm so excited... not :( lol... But lectures starting tmr should be pretty neat... Especially since I've been doing nothing all week except for lazing on couches, playing ping-pong and pool *must say I'm getting pretty good at it* and eating my heart out... Anyway, life at Studholme college is spectacular... Must say I really like it here... The environment is great, the people are super friendly and life is good... God has been taking real good care of me and I love him for that...

This year has started out really great... First off, I found a long lost arch enemy*ahem friend* who is Sarah Lim!!! Wooo... Nice to talk to her again and catch up... Though only through emails :) But its all good... Uni has started off nicely, everything is sorting itself out and lectures are about to begin... Oh oh, and I found a girlfriend.................................. Hahahahaha.... Gotcha, nah, i didn't find one... Do I look like the kind of guy that would have a girlfriend? Sheesh...

Anyway, don't expect many updates from me this year *ahem Heidy* as I can't or don't want to get onto the internet often while I'm here... *having too much fun down in the common room* and yeah, might be busy with studies and all that...

So that's all from me folks, have a good day and God Bless...

To Tabs...

Well, there you are Tabs, you wanted an updated, you got an update... Anyway, you're going off to Wellington real soon and most of us are going down to Otago, while some of us like Chrislynn and Denny and Jonas are staying in Christchurch... Know that all of us will miss u heaps and that we all hope you do well so you can be our lawyer... Hehehehe... I believe I really started getting to know you through online MSN and it just sort of took off from there... All the time we spent laughing about goodness knows what, talking about a certain somebody, and making decisions... Lol... Great fun last week when we were suppose to go ice skating but didn't and ended up playing pool instead... Go Malaysians!!! Hahahaha... Pretty hard to forget those good times... Anyway, your farewell party like thingy was great :) Pretty sure everyone had tons of fun just fooling around, seeing people after they've come back from their holidays like Haysam and Hamish... Seeing some people for the last time... It can become pretty emotional :) But then, memories do last for a while and hopefully they'll last for eternity... So, we wish u all the best and God bless... Take good care of urself and hopefully hv another reunion soon :) Cheers Tabs



Best picture I could find really :)

Lantern Festival

Ok, just an update from what I did a few days back... Went to the Lantern Festival on Sunday with Calvin, his sister, and Kiran down at Victoria Square in town... Went down at 7.30 pm when it was still nice and bright (it's summer here, so long days) and it was absolutely packed with people... It was hard trying to find a parking spot and when we did, it was another 10 minutes walk to the Square... Anyway, it was rather fun wondering around, sniffing the aroma of food as we walked past various food stalls, listening to people karaoking and just winding your way through the many people in the square... There were actually some pretty nice lanterns there, dragon shaped, turtle shaped, ostrich shaped... Practically any animal under the sun has a lantern in their name... Though the setup n idea was great... Overall, it was pretty disappointing... There wasn't really anything that you can do there and yeah, it was quite sad... Hahahaha... Anyway, am still trying to upload some photos from my phone... But my phone refuses to be picked up by my com... So if in fact I manage to upload them, then I'll post them up in this post :)

Finally...

Well, I thought I might 'feel' like updating since I'm already back in NZ...

Its been a crazy day so to speak... It's already midnight here and I've officially spent 24 hours in NZ... It's been fun... Left at 9.40 pm Malaysian time, flew on Airasia to Gold Coast, Australia... An 8 hour flight in which 5 of them were spent sleeping on the plane... Reached Gold Coast 7.45 am Brisbane time and boy, was customs hectic... So many people were trying to retrieve their luggage and adding pain to injury, the bagage claim area was so small...And as there were like heaps of people there, it was hard to manuevre the trolley around the place... Terrible I tell you... Terrible...

So there I was, sitting at Coolangatta airport waiting to check in for my flight to NZ... My flight wasn't until 5.20 pm that day which was almost 10 hours of transit... Thw wifi at the airport was not working so it kinda sucked... Couldn't come online to let anyone know I was alright... Anyway, sat in the airport, bored to death, occasionally listening to music, dozing off, keeping an eye on my luggage and checking out the hot girls.... Wooooo... Hahaha...Nah, just kidding.... But there were lots of surfer dudes and dudettes passing through... Surf city!!! Hahaha... One day I really should learn how to surf... Looks real cool.... Anyway, after 7 hours wait, I got to check in for my flight to Christchurch and after another 3 hours wait, I finally got to board the plane to Christchurch... Was another 3 hours flight... Slept for 2 of it... And finally landed in Christchurch...

Got there and oh God, customs was frustrating... It took ages to get through and when I did... An hour had already past... My uncle picked me up so that was all good...

So yes, that was my flight plan, just sleeping and waiting... Hehehehe... Travelled for almost 24 hours and now I'm safe and sound... So for those who were worried... I'm safe! Hahahaha...