25th mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
on our way back to DUD, pit stop! Cookies Time factory! and also where e world's biggest cookies was produced.
e cookies are just yummy yummy!
e place so colourful too.

25th mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
lunch time at a asian resturant. its a asian weekend. of course! with 5 singaporean.
i been having craving for wanton noodles, so i got it! yea! quite nice though.
so posing with our food!

25th mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
early in e morning, ok not too early, off to the Sunday Market.
its like a flee market. lots of interesting n cool stuff. cheap too.
if only dunedin have more of this. on such a scale.

24th mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
after a tiring day, headed to veron's and hongkai's house. nice!
so our 2 chef at work!
we had satay sauce chicken, ba ku tea, chickren rice rice. and oyster sauce veggies. yummy!

24th mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
University of Canterbury Campus
hmmm compared to University of Otago, i'm glad i'm from Otago. =)

24th mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
our cable car suddenly stopped, or rather all other cable car stopped too.
just now, looking down guess who was there? all my precious! we're e one lucky cable car to be stopped at that particular spot!
aint they cute? =)

24th mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
amazing view from the top.
unable to take much photos due to the sun shinning in.
i can just stand ard enjoying the place for a long long long time, but e thot that 2 guys are waiting at the bottom. haizzz *hehe...
take a peep at how steep the cable car ride was.
but was thrilling, esp when the cable car going steeply down, e playful me was standing up! hehe. quick scarey though initially

24th mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
Christchurch Gondolo.
its a cable car ride, up up up to a mountain top. getting a birds eye view. 360degrees.
able to see CHC city, pacific ocean, mountain range etc

24th mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
lunch time! we headed to this Asian Food Court.
guess what i found? a stall with a Singapore food. so that stall it was!
i spoke to the boss. she's a singaporean, came to NZ 4 years ago.
so i had fried kway tua. theres chicken rice and economical noodles. yummy! feel so much like home! *hehe

24th mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
we're heading towards city area. but not yet!
see e tram approaching! i almost got killed taking e photo. *opps!
e white guy there is apparently the 1st NZ man to accomplish something, cant recall what it is now *hehe
and there, church. the candle stand, we're suppose to light a candle and "make a blessing". so my blessing goes to U. =)

24th mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
more scenic!
that guy in e black hat, he was doing some performance by the street. he was trying to be "funny", but not funny at all. as in the things he say, how he try to make pple laugh, but yet get cold silent instead. its not that his 'jokes' aint funny, but he deserve e cold silence. *hehe

24th mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
off-city area.
the buildings are so pretty huh?
there was like a "bazaar" going on.
one whole line of yummy food stall.
i just couldnt decided what i wanted, so i got nth in e end. *hehe

24th mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
caterbury museums!
lots of things inside.
these are the few that attracted me the most
firstly, not much word, secondly, its maori!

24th mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
still in the botanic gardens! yea the place is big!
i remember being at this exact place 2.5years ago. cool huh!

24th mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
flowers at Botanic Gardens.
there's just lots n lots of flowers, of all species, colours etc etc.
these are just a few of the many

24th mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
its autume! its autume! its autume time!
leaves a slowly turning yellow n red... slowly slowly falling to e ground. such an amazing sight.
my 1st experience of beginning of autume!

24th mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
Christchurch Botanic Gardens!

23rd mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
beautiful flowers outside of my self-container

23rd mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
by e time we reached CHC then to our accomodation and settled down was 9plus10.
we were do hungry, so headed to COUNTDOWN, 24hrs!
wow! its fun to be shopping in e supermarket late at night when there's no one. we were taking photos n exploring the food real slowly.
look at all the different types of Hot Cross Bun!

23rd mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
my accomodation! its good n cheap! nice huh?
its a self-container for 6pax, but seems like its still just e 3 of us!

23rd mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
while still on e road.
sunset! its amazing!
just siting in e car, observing how the sky slowly changes colour.

23rd mar
*Trip to Christchurch*
right after my horse riding course, i hopped onto e car and off we go! to CHC!
yea! take a close look at the pic of the car meter. woohoo!

18th mar
*exploration of Dunedin City*
1st pic: knox church, e church i attended in e morning. i love this church. =)
e other pics aint knox church, its the St Paul Church

18th mar
*exploration of Dunedin City*
then to Art Gallery. no camera allowed in there.
e art pieces are so abstract till i'm don't know what they are. e weird part is, there's no writeup, commentary to e art displays.
last pic: exterior of e cinama

18th mar
*exploration of Dunedin City*
cinema theathe. ticket prices are ex!
there! movie i want to watch: "Black Sheep" (see e well animated display), Shrek3, TNMT, Spiderman3... all coming out soon!

18th mar
*exploration of Dunedin City*
e church isnt open, so unable to enter. maybe i will attend this church on one of e sunday's morning service.

18th mar
*exploration of Dunedin City*
opposite e train station is the High Court!
quite a distance away is 'iSite' aka Vistor Information Center
notice the long bus. apparently it seems like there are beds in there. seems like e owner converted e bus into a mobile house.

18th mar
*exploration of Dunedin City*
we're along the railway track- at Dunedin Station!
there was e train "parked" there, so we "illegally" hopped on the train. *opps!

18th mar
*exploration of Dunedin City*
interior of e train station.
it took us a while to notice the stain glass was a pic of a train *hehe

18th mar
*exploration of Dunedin City*
walking around city, guess what i passed by again? in the far distance! cadbury factory!!!

18th mar
*daylight saving re-adjustment*
sunday morning, suppose to wake up for church. but yes i did. but becos of 'daylight saving' re-adjustment, i technically woke up an hr "earlier". so headed to yiling house 1st. breakfast! English muffins with egg & cheese, n orange juice.
after service, met Aika. i met Aika for e 1st time during our horse riding session. she's japanese, from kyoto. well, i had craving for japanese food, so japanese meal i had. yummy! somehow we got complimentary green tea ice cream served to us surprisingly. how nice!

16th mar
*i'm learning Horse Riding!!!*
its e journey back to city. *reluctant to leave.

16th mar
*i'm learning Horse Riding!!!*
a session of horse care. cleaning our horse. pampering our horse.
then it was hopping on time!
and up i am! riding my PJ. =)

16th mar
*i'm learning Horse Riding!!!*
we've reached! Dunedin Riding Center.
introducing my beloved horse. her name is PJ.
she's e smallest aka youngest aka playful or stubborn? (its ok! just like me! *hehe)
when i was walking into the place, there were 5 horses awaitng us. i set my eyes of that chestnut brown horse. she's lovely. and tada! PJ is THE chestnut brown horse! =)

16th mar
*i'm learning Horse Riding!!!*
journey from Unipol to Maori Hill where the horse riding is! =)

15th mar
*lots of food day*
today i ate a lot. it was extremely cold, so maybe that explain it
1st it was nice oriental fried rice with black pepper beef & bbq chicken,
then dinner at yiling's hall, it was like having a buffet.
then after my wine appreciation course (which i didnt get a chance to snap any pictures... i will next week), dropped by suhui house. suhui made chocolate cake & barley!

13th mar
*Paua Jewellery making*
signed up for another workshop.
my beautiful paua jewellery. yuppie! nice nice? =)

11th mar
*Continuing our journey back*
more pit stop, for dinner and toliet *hehe
this place has water sports activity!
after leaving here, it was a straight drive all the way back to dunedin city center.
a total of 12hrs, from e time we left campsite at 10am, we reached back home 10.30pm.

11th mar
*continuing our journey back*
pit stop to "rest" our bum and some fresh air

11th mar
*Franz Josef Glacier Walk*
waterfall! e water is freezing cold!

11th mar
*Franz Josef Glacier Walk*
i'm getting closer to the Glacier.
n its getting colder as well.
but its just so so beautiful, ever angle is different and pretty in its own way

11th mar
*Franz Josef Glacier Walk*
on our way back to DUD, we stopped by the Glacier, i wasnt prepared for this amazing stop, so i was in slippers! imagine wering slippers to walk in the uneven rocky ground, its a challenge.
e walk from highway into right in front of Glacier took approx 1.5hrs? i was practically trying to figure my way carefully as i step on each individual rock, there's no pathway, due to the ever-changing water coast.
but this place is amazing. it used to be a whole big Ice Age.
as years & years & years pass, e ice has been melting. the river flowing down are ice being melted concurrently deep within e mountains that is unseens by us. Imaging how huge it is! wow!
!

8-11th mar
*3rd Road Trip all the way up to West Coast, Hokitika for Wild Food Festival*
in e evening, when everything was more peaceful at city center.
and yea! bombfire again, along e beach, to keep us warm in e night. its cold!!!
it was my dear allison 21st bday too! so tada a tray of brownies for her. it was sandy. on e beach mah *hehe. =)

8-11th mar
*3rd Road Trip all the way up to West Coast, Hokitika for Wild Food Festival*
e event & e crowd. it was crowded.
heard that annual for this festival 20,000 people will travel here just for it.
its a big thing!

8-11th mar
*3rd Road Trip all the way up to West Coast, Hokitika for Wild Food Festival*
bonsenberry ice-cream (of course it was great, esp after all e oily food & sunny sun).
we took a rest, so sat on e grass and enjoyed the music band on stage. e guys thot of an interesting idea! so tada! promotion on! wow! pple actually do call in & text in! with offers, with dares, with request... e worst he had to do was the take off his pants. so he stood up, really took off his pants & made a turn (not knowing where e caller was located). *hehe.
after loads of fun with the "promotion", before we left, ard 4pm, last stop! lamb balls, yup! i ate that! yuck! (taste like small intestin)
yup! another of his stuns, he got a whole, frozen lamb balls, in his mouth... gross! so that was the picture of the day!
just just just before we left, i needed e taste of something descent, so last resort, deer meat (it was yummy!)

8-11th mar
*3rd Road Trip all the way up to West Coast, Hokitika for Wild Food Festival*
there's more!
horse meat (don't like e taste), ostrich meat (taste a bit like beef, yummy), karagroo (very fatty, or maybe e meat i got was where all e fat & veins were), crocidile (yummy, taste like... meat *hehe), Possum (taste like chicken, very soft & smooth texture)

8-11th mar
*3rd Road Trip all the way up to West Coast, Hokitika for Wild Food Festival*
e day has finally arrived! e day of Fear Factor- Try it if u dare! *hehe...
so there's live fat worms straight from e logs (ok, i didnt dare to try this!), crickets (taste like, actually no taste, but its like eating crackers), grasshoppers (same as previous), wild eels (taste like sashimi actually)

8-11th mar
*3rd Road Trip all the way up to West Coast, Hokitika for Wild Food Festival*
yup! thats us enjoying e beach n sunset!
L to R: me, rider, allison, jay, klaus... kerry, photographer. =)
that "figurine" is just some randomly stacked pebbles & rocks.

8-11th mar
*3rd Road Trip all the way up to West Coast, Hokitika for Wild Food Festival*
more! a few mins later.
wow!

8-11th mar
*3rd Road Trip all the way up to West Coast, Hokitika for Wild Food Festival*
sunset was soooo beautiful.
its such a pity e camera cant capture how it actually looked like.
but wow! seeing how e colour of e sky changes