Great dinner

Today I have enjoyed a greatest dinner since I am being here. U know? Eating out in NZ is very expensive, so normally I will take the meal in my hostel since it is catered. We have a floor dinner today, which means all the residents in my second floor go out for a dinner together, the aim is to know each other better wo... First of all, we have to walk about 30 minute to the Italian restaurant!!! U know people here are just crazy and love walking. When being there, I almost exhausted already!!! Then, we have some Italian food, like pizza, pasta and all those things for dinner. At that moment, I just know all my "floor-mate" background roughly.

Let me try to introduce them although not remember all even their names, haha...
1. Emily from California, ?? from Korea, then 2 Indian girls and I from Malaysia, a few girls from Korea also, Mila from HK, Nic from China, Toby from Taiwan, Amanda from UK, and some of the others from New Zealand. I still remember their names, haha... Then, Mila, Toby, Nic and I are closest friend since we are speaking same language= Chinese. Then the Korean girl, Euna just asks us:" Are you from a same country? Why 4 of u are so close?" When we say we all are from different countries, she just gets shocked, haha..

Then, we went to a MANA gallery, it is a chocolate cafe with all the chocolate products, like cake and drinks. The decoration there is very nice, classic, and elegant. We have some drinks and chatting around. The atmosphere is just so great when all the people who are from all over the world, with different color of skin, sit together around a round table and have a nice chat about each other cultures. All my friends here, even Asians they normally have been staying in NZ for quite a few years, or even born here, so can speak English very well, just the background very geng la... U know? All the people there are so interested with me because I was speaking a same language to the Hong Konger, then speak another language to the Taiwanese. So, I have to explain them the history of Chinese coming to Malaysia. Then they will say, u are so geng, can speak four languages, or even say that they hope to be in Malaysia. But how they understand my difficulty when listening their English. But I think I can get used to it and so far so good. Some more, my friend Amanda from UK doing English Literature here, say that I can speak quite well and encourage me to speak more to her. All the people here will also slow down their speed. I know I am quite worse, but Malaysian ma... However, I am really touched since they did so for me.

After that, when going to the hostel, all of us crazy to wanna get the limited bathrooms, only 4 are here. Then, we chat when taking a bath. I need to mention here is guys and girls are sharing the bathroom, which means all the guys and girls are chatting while taking a bath, very funny right? haha... Today is quite a happy day and I really know more with my friends here, thanks to them. Almost step in to the autumn, below 20C the whole day, quite cold and good luck to u guys. But unfortunately, no picture has been taken here, if I got it from my friends will post it here.

First lecture day

The first few lectures in my university, of course the lecturers didn't teach much, but now I feel that the university life is so much advanced, and we need to be updated all the time. As i say before, the university will never tell you much and you do need to find out all the latest information by yourself. First of all, we are given an account, we need to update our profile, check our schedule, change the program, or add/drop subjects here. Besides that, we are given an webmail, or a university email address, the lecturers or the university will always send all the informations to that email. The third one, is the most geng one, there is a website in the university for us to study our subjects. Example, I take four subjects now, that four subjects will appear in my account, and I can know the things like announcements, informations, subjects resource, activities, marks, and even can discuss about the subject with other student and chat here. Can you imagine that? For me, this is so much advanced and I just get shocked with it. But of course, it is so much convenience for us. I have already been going to 4 lectures and so far so good. But just need to pay more concentration on them. U know? We are Malaysians and their proper English is so much different and listening them for me will also be a difficulty.

At night, my Hong Kong friends, Jason has boiled soup and ask us to drink it. U know? I just love it so much because I really miss the food and soup in Malaysia so much. We have really a nice chat and planning to boil another soup on the following days. haha... they just say I am already a Hong Konger, just kidding la.. haha... But just happy with them and they are so kind. That's all. Good night

Picnic Day

I should post it last night, but just exhausted for going out the whole day. First and foremost, we went to Long Bay Beach in don't know which part of Auckland. We took about 45 minutes to get over there. The view is so nice when crossing the bridge to another island, you can see the Auckland city and the beach with a lot of sails, but unfortunately we could not take a picture, try to get it next time. It is so windy there and very nice. We just played volleyball and some of the others and have some BBQ for lunch. But one thing you have to know here, BBQ for western people is not like we think, not have some chicken wings, sausages yourself and roast it yourself. It is just a meal that they have well-prepared for us and give to at that moment, I really let them za dou!!! Then of course playing water in the sea. It is so damn nice, because it was the first time I in the water at about17C, so cold u know? I am just keep shaking when got up from the water. Allow me to introduce my new friends here, all of them are from Hong Kong, from second left is Josephine, Amos, Cherry, Jackie, and I.

After a quick dinner, we went to Auckland Domain which is very near with my hostel, there will be a night concert called as Starlight Symphony. It is a charity show which is organized by Skycity(A company here). It is very meaningful, because the show is so nice!!! The singers are so talented and all the people in Auckland just could gather together, having picnic while enjoying the show with family and friends, it is so warm and fun!! People there are even Europeans, When there is a dancing performance, all the couple, or even friends, just dance together, the scene is really warm and you can feel it. After that, was the fireworks performance, I swear here, this is the best fireworks I have ever seen in my life. Auckland is just a very nice place, the Kiwis are so friendly. Their lives are enjoying all the time, they have no pressure, not working long, will go for picnic in the weekend, love environment, they are just great and proud to be Kiwis, I have really felt the Auckland people life today...

Moving out

Today has nothing much, but just over slept here and get the wrong information make me miss my course orientation. But my friend just said nothing much about that. However, I am really busy here to settle all my stuffs here. Then, just going back to my hostel. My new friend here who is from Hong Kong said:" hou hak zai ar... mm zhi bin tiu puk kai zhong lan ngo geh bumper, gek dou ngo dan ha dan ha"(so unlucky, don't know which fucker crashed my bumper, i am so angry till jumping). Then they just observed which car had been crashed and I just gave some ideas then back to my room. For me, I think that driving here is of course convenient, but the car here is expensive, petrol is expensive , just all are expensive, so not that well-woth to get a car here. But my friends and I are planning to get a car here end of the semester to visit the whole NZ. However, having a tour is expensive, exp, have a bungee jumping or jumping from the sky tower is about NZD80. Haiz.. just in NZ nothing is cheap, have a normal meal also gotta be at least NZD10, about RM25, so damn expensive!!!

At night, I have ever done 1 of the most meaningful stuff since in NZ. I help 1 of my German friend, Kerstin here to move out to a new room. Even she herself also feel that the accommodation fee here is expensive, so need to move out and I just helped her to take some of her luggages. Anyway, that's for today and really nothing much. Good night.

Earthquake in New Zealand!!!!!!

First of all, I wanna tell u guys 1 thing, New Zealand was having earthquake last night!!!! Not that serious, but you can feel it!!! Actually I don't really realize about it and when my friend told me, I said :"Are you crazy or joking?" However, when going to the university today, heard a lot of people talking about it. Anyway, no serious earthquake in New Zealand, just 3 something(I forgot the unit for earthquake).
Then, I went to the bank to day to save my money and finally get my Eftpos!!! What's eftpos? In New Zealand, people here seldom carrying cash going out, normally they will carry a card, which is also called as debit card, once you buy something, you can use the card to do the payment. But it is not a credit card, it will withdraw the money from your bank account itself, so it will never make you owe the bank anything. It seems great and is quite advanced, I really never see this in Malaysia.
At night, is the funniest part. Our orientation program at ngiht has an activity, is going to the 'Globe Bar', a pub here and which is free for us tonight. Can you believe that they arrange a pub night for us as orientation program? However, it is really fun and I know a lot of people there, just drink and dance together, really gets fun a lot and I am very happy with that. I just know a lot of people there, like Japanese, Israel, Canadian, American, etc. U know? A japanese girl is raba-raba me when dancing... Haiyo... Since so fun tonight, just let her continue la... haha..... bye

What a tiring day?

Kia Ora anyone, this is the first Maori word I know, it means welcome. It was the second day in Auckland, early morning after the breakfast, I went to the university for the first time. It is really far away from my hostel, need about 20 minutes walking time. In the university, I verify for my account. U have to know that all the stuffs here all are done by online. I need to search my subjects, then choose the time and the class, confirm them and just go for it after that, no anyone u need to meet with or u need to fill in any form. It sounds interesting but I really meet some problem here because of my stupid account. I think gotta update it tomorrow. I also open a bank account here. U know? There is a bank free 40 bucks for us who open the bank account. Can you believe it? I just fast fast go for it, mm oi zap shu ar... haha.. But here has just so many things are going on, a lot of students ask us to join a lot of things, and get a lot of free stuffs, I have got 1 tin tuna, 1 pepsi, chocolate, hot dog and don't remember.. It is hard to get free things here u know? hehe... And the students here are so friendly, just much more than enough. When we just passed by there, they said to us:"Hey guys! how's the first week in the university? Can you find the building? Do you enjoy yourself here? You can see me anytime for anything!" Their friendly is just a bit over and I think I need some time to get used to it.

In the evening, 5 of us, the friends here who are from Malaysia and Singapore, Emmie, Kevin, Marilee, Hannah and I going to the city to get daily necessities. going by the free bus here, not the school bus, is a city bus for everyone but free. The city here is called Queenstreet, just like the Bukit Bintang in Malaysia. We went to Warehouse and Foodtown where are famous because of their price here. I went to buy many things, include the food, tell u 1 thing here which is very funny. The milk here is even cheaper than water!!! 1 litre water is about 2.50 NZD, but for the milk is only 1.70 NZD, so funny u know? Besides that, I observe that people working here are consist of many different people, example, I saw Indians, Chinese, Black people, Maori(race who only in NZ who have a much bigger size than Asians, darker than Latin Americans), etc. I mean NZ is a country which totally consist by many races, you can see many Asians are here. Not only the shops here, even in customs. Anyway, after that we walked back from there to my hostel, it is so long way, took about 45 minutes. I was so tired after the whole journey. However, when I told the others in my Hall, they said is quite common. Ya.. I think walking here is really common, even such long time, I really need to get used to it.

At night, I just went to my Hong Kong friend's room with my bread as dinner, so I do not need to be alone and just chat with her. Even in the dinning room to have some chocolates, I just have nice chatting with her, and a German girl. I need to say here that the people here, are just so friendly, no matter they know you or not, will just say Hi to you and talk a lot with you. When I was on the university street today, a guy came over and said:"How are you here? How's your first week in Uni? How's everything? You can just come to see me for anything." Just over friendly till I get shocked.

That's about today and gotta sleep early. Ya... For people who wants to contact me, this is my address= 40, Seafield View Road, Grafton, Auckland, 1023, New Zealand. For my cell phone number, 6402102486055. You can just contact me directly with this number. However, please don't call me because calling here is charged for both sides, so better for sms, ok? It's late cold late night here, only about 17C. Bye guys.

Finally in New Zealand

First of all, planning to blog on the final day in Malaysia, but finally...lazy. nothing much that time just only quite miss here suddenly and a lot of memories in Malaysia came across my mind. Anyway, let's talk about the day I went to airport. My flight was on 1.15pm to Bangkok and gotta be there earlier. Then my flight to Bangkok was quite smooth even though it was the first time I took the flight and transit by myself. When reaching in Bangkok, I just walking around. But u know? %hours transit was a very long time, so I called a drink then sat there for about 3 hours. The waitresses were also showing the bad face. But the drink was so expensive!! A pure mango juice in 200 Bath, was about RM20!!!!!! Can you believe it!! A juice in RM 20, even much more expensive than Malaysia. After that, just walking around in the air port, and it is in a shape of capital "L", so damn big!!! A Buddha
Then I took the flight at 7pm Bangkok time. On the flight, I could only see the Western people with gold hair and blue eyes, so few Asians there. My seat was beside an old Britain lady, she was going for traveling alone in Auckland, so geng!!! The flight was not bad with the crew services and the food. However, I just couldn't sleep at all in the whole journey. The total duration of the whole journey was about 11hours. But I could only sleep about 3 hours because the seat was so hard and I was not be able to lie down to have a good nap. I was just suffering in the whole journey. I would say here, I am not going to take a long flight if I have a better choice in the future.
After having breakfast on the flight, the crews announced that :"Good morning ladies and gentlemen, it is 1.15pm in Auckland".What??????? Saying good morning but with 1.15pm in Auckland. I just felt a bit not comfortable with the time zone here. Auckland is 5 hours earlier than Malaysia, so wanna chat with me, faham-faham la..
Airport pickup was quite well and I knew another Iran girl here. When stepping out from the airport, I just said:"This is summer? What about winter?" U know? Now is summer in New Zealand, the day time is very sunny, but so windy and you can feel cold with that, only about 20C and just like day time in Genting. On the way to my hostel, Grafton Hall, about 20 minutes is needed. I just could see all many nice special built houses here. Every house here has no fence, and they just can build in any style that they wish, as long as in the limited compound. Therefore, a nice view comes out.
Very soon, come to 5.30pm and all the people coming out from dinner. Oh! My god! How can the dinner be taken such early?But I just follow since I haven taken the lunch(due to time zone, I also don't know what's the meal called) I alone taking it there, and many people came over me and said Hi to me. I just greet them back and started chatting with some of them. Luckily I know many Malaysians here, as well as a China girl and a Hong Konger who I can speak cantonese with, really happy!!! Some more she is only staying beside of my room. However, the room I don't really like because it is so small and I have not enough place for me to put all my stuffs and my luggage. Besides that, can you believe that there has no fan in New Zealand room? Because they say New Zealand has an average temperature, from summer to winter, 22C -5C.
So, fan is not needed. This is the view outside my room. I don't really feel nice but it can see the whole Grafton Street.
After the dinner, I went to my Malaysian friend hostel, which is located about 15 minutes walk from my hostel, and I need to walk through a very long and huge bridge called as Grafton Bridge. I really felt lazy with that but on my way, I saw many people were walking around, even old people, office staffs, students, etc. It is because New Zealanders or Kiwis prefer walking then any other transportation, because it is safe, free of charge, healthy and no pollution, it seems meaningful and I think I have to get used to walking. Just staying in my friend room until 12am, just came back to my room and going to sleep very soon. At night here even much colder, all people are wearing jacket and scarf, doesn't seem in summer at all, so weird. It is about 17C at night, just like night at Genting or winter in Hong Kong.
So far, I still quite prefer this place because seems peaceful, but u know the shops are closed very early, all the shops and even shopping complexes will be closed sharp at 5pm. So I can't get my New Zealand phone card today. In conclusion, just great la.. But I have to get used to being here. Ok, gotta sleep for orientation tomorrow, bye

ATTENTION!!!!! TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND PEOPLE

Long time didnt post anything because I am sure you also know what I do at home, so what for posting it? And finally, I have settled all the stuffs, and can get ready to go NZ already, it is confirmed that my flight is on 19th February afternoon, will only reach there on the next day afternoon, needs about 24 hours include transit in Bangkok. U must be curios why transit in Bangkok since NZ is in South of M'sia but Bangkok is in the North, because of cheap and availability lo.... Almost RM1000 cheaper than the others le.. so gotta take it lo... Poor people is like that... gong hei dou siong sam, yat hok ngan lui.... Neway, I know it takes quite long for doing my stuffs, and even Szu-Mei will also leave earlier than me. All also faults of the stupid agent, never arrange the things for me well, and I have to take over it finally. U know? From contact with the university, arrange the accomadation, prepare for my visa, and even book for the flight all I make it, what she does only pass my things to NZ there... Damn her.... Neway, at least finally all are done, otherwise I will just kill her, kill her, and rekill her, then fry her.....

Anyway, I am just abit busy with packing my stuffs now, it is just a huge project, when I see my cloths, and other accessories, only 1 word come out from my mouth. For english, "Shit lo....", for cantonese, " Puk kai lo....". Finally, I will just leave it there and go for tv, so the room is so damn messy with my things on the floor... Haiya... still early right? Take it easy la...

Just like that lo... Anything new about me or what, I will inform u guys, k? Change another calender for February of TVB, hope u guys Chinese New Year la.. BB