... Done! All Done! ...

Yes!~ I have completed my last paper here on SEP. I'm all done!~ So I'll be enjoying the last 12 days in NZ really well from tmr. And for a start, it's to Mount Hutt for some skiing actions. Then to Queenstown/Milford Sounds/Lake Wanaka from 2 - 8 July.

And I'll be back in Singapore on 11 July. Everything's ending. It's so fast, it just doesn't feel as if 1 semester passed by. And yet it did.... Ha...

... West Coast Trip 2 - [10 Jun 07] ...

We woke up to an early morning to get ready for our Franz Josef Glacier walk. It was a half-day walk, but it was quite tiring too, cos the steps they made to make our walk easier are quite high too. So, it was abit tiring. But the walk was good, and the glacier ice was beautiful...

Talonz on!~ All ready to climb some ice!~

Walking through the glacier

Inside a glacier hole...

The rest of the group

At the end of the walk.
See the the hollow part of the glacier just above Moses's right shoulder?
The guide said it didn't look like this when we started the climb.
A portion probably collapsed while we were walking on the glaciers. Ha.

We hit the roads again after our Franz Josef experience to get to Hokitika where we saw the sunset and took quite a number of shots of the sunset. Keke.. Lots of stupid photos, some I better not post.. Haha...

Sunset by the beach

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Brothers watching sunset? Wahahaha...

Oh, and did I tell you people, we stayed in the same backpackers with my flatmate. We were travelling separately, but it was so coincidental that we met each other at the accommodation. A pleasant surprise. And we had a game of "spoon". It is something like heart attack, but with spoons to grab. Ha, fun, but can get rather violent though. Anybody wanna play?

My flatmate, Risa (lady in blue shirt and pants) snatching for spoon

Oops, no spoon left for you, Risa!~

... West Coast Trip 1 - [9 Jun 07] ...

Argh!!!! My head is now exploding with all the content from my Materials course. Exams is a 50 MCQ paper on Monday, and I hope I can pass, cos there is really no way I could possibly remember that much for the exams. Just enough to pass will be good. Ha.

Anyhow, sorry for being late with the West Coast Tour. Ha. Moses, Veron and I set out in the early morning of 9 Jun 07 to catch the TranzAlpine through the Southern Alps to Greymouth. The train ride is a bit disappointing although I saw quite a number of snow-capped mountains. It would probably have been nicer it the tracks and ground is covered with white snow.. Keke...

<-- Me and Moses beside the train...

Choo!~ Choo!~

Snow Capped Mountain

Stopover at Arthurs Pass.
Not much sunlight there cos it's in the middle of valleys.

Moses & I on the viewing cabin.
It was freaking cold out there, with the train's speed. Burr...

Nice Pic with the white mountains behind us..

Inside the Carriage..

It was a drive from Greymouth to Fox Glacier where we went to take a look at the terminal face of the glacier. Luckily we got there in time before the sun set to take some photos. Anyhow, we'd be trekking through the Franz Josef Glacier the next day too!~

In front of Fox Glacier's Terminal Face

And then it was off for an Indian dinner at the township of Franz Josef. Not too bad I'd say. Ha, and here comes the cock story of the trip. Just as we finished and I was to open the car door to get back, I had great difficulties trying to push the "car key" into the door. I tried and tried but couldn't get it in. And it was after Veron jokingly said "Don't try to open the car door with your dorm key!", then I realised damn, I was really trying to open the car door with the YHA dorm key. And I didn't realiize that all that time, just trying to open the door with brute force!~ Ha!~

What the hell.. Too cold, cannot think ah... Haha... Next, Franz Josef Glacier walk...

... Exams Exams Exams ...

Exams start on Monday and I seem kindaf stressed now. Ha, stressful in SEP. Last thing to expect? Wth..

Anyway, we were at the West Coast last weekends, and yes, we took many many photos, and there were stories to tell, like some cock story about how blur I was. But I'm not in the mood to post them up on blog or multiply these couple of days (Sorry to bin who tagged me with that game thing. Guess I won't be onto it anytime soon.). Will try to get them up after Wed, when I'm done with the 2 fluids modules. It's really 先苦后甜 this time round for me. The papers in the week after next would be less stressful.

The end is near... Endure...

12 Days to end of exams
25 Days to Flight back
The End is near

... End of Lectures ...

Yea people, finally it's here. My lectures for this semester has finally ended today. It's the last day. The 3 NUS-SEP students went photo taking around the school this morning and yea, had some fun and crap stuff, like we always do. Ha. Then, we went to International Antarctic Centre to have a look in the afternoon, but I'm not writing on that today. Some other day perhaps, tired and lazy. Ha, hopefully I'll get it up soon.

Anyway, we'll be off to take the TranzAlpine Railway Ride tomorrow to Greymouth, and taking a hike on the glaciers at Franz Josef on Sunday. I seriously hope the weather will be good, and let us enjoy ourselves before the EXAMS come...

Yea, the exams are coming, and my first paper is the level 4 module, Applied Fluid Mechanics. Hai...

I'll be back with photos to share... Wahahaha....

... It's Winter ...

Woke up later than usual on this lazy Saturday. The whole street was foggy and cold. I went back to school to print some stuff at 10am, and you can still see vapour coming out of you as you exhale. It's a sign, winter is here.

@ 9am

@ 10am

It's now 11pm, and it feels like 2 deg out there, cos I just came back from a friends 21st birthday party. It's cold, and they were saying it might snow tonight. Ha, but I think probably in the mountains only la. Ha. Anyway, they said it is Kiwi culture to down 3 litres of beer to celebrate your adulthood, but my friend was let off with just half the amount. But still, it was alot. Ha, just look at his face after he bottomed... Boh Da boh XXX... Ha...

See his 'I wanna puke face'?

Bday boy on the extreme Right

... Why am I not driving a STi? ...

I was walking around Westfield Riccarton this afternoon looking out for a gift to a friend who has invited me over to his 21st birthday celebration tomorrow night, then I saw a Legacy on display, with the price list of all the Subarus on its dashboard...

And it's really dirt cheap owning a car in NZ. For the price u pay to get an Altis in Singapore, you can get a freaking STi here, with excess money to zhng your car... Damn... $59,999 for a STi...