anyway...
the bunch of us roadtripped up north last weekend to the bay of islands, stayed at a backpackers and went horse riding, atv-ing, bussed up to the northern most point of new zealand and down the 90-mile beach (which is really about 60 miles but it was because cattle would travel along that beach and some sort of random calculation was done based to the the time the cows took to get from a to b) and then went on a super long cruise ride that took about 6hrs and half of us got sea-sick (including stephanie and it was also her birthday that day too. the poor thing)...
better pictures than words =)
Posing with the bus and cruise tickets... you will notice i have this blue cloth under my arm. this cloth i call my 'magic travelling cloth'. it doubles up as alot of things. i will demonstrate soon.
One of the coffee shops in Paihia as their trading hours sign
This is Zhi Yuen advertising for horse-riding
The people who went ATV-ing... i was too late for the photo =P
The people who went horse-riding with zhi yuen taking the photo
This is Khang Hee very pumped after the ATV ride with ATVs in the background and Zheng Taur and David trying to pretend they're not there
Again, notice the smug look
Me =) pretending to be a GT girl... haha! 
In the Kauri tree forest walk. too bad it's kinda blur
Sui Ling displaying the cute kindergarten raincoat look
Me and a Kauri tree =)
Zhi Yuen handiwork. he's the resident surroundings photo taker 
Wet as hell but we're still happy!
The one good thing on the bus ride was this rainbow. the bus driver stopped to let us down to let us get some photos and then kept on driving in circles. otherwise the bus would've sunk in the sand and then we'd all be stranded and the bus would've been totaled. 
BBQ at the backpackers. I stood around and took pictures while everyone else cooked. =P
The random girl in the bottom right of this pic is dorothy from hong kong. she stays in grafton hall so came along with wei yen and zhi yuen
This is Kari-Ann (nursing student from norway on exchange program who came with us) and these are the other random people from the backpackers we drank with. Jon, Andy, Steve and Shirley. They were in Paihia for the weekend for some sort of marathon. i thought that was funny.
Me and Kari-Ann
Wei Yen drank until tertidur on someone else's bed
And he finally woke up and joined us outside. (the outside seating area was supposed to be 'closed' at 11.30pm. the other people made so much noise that the owner came out at 4am and chased us to bed. i wasn't making much noise but i kena instead. stupid) and when we went to bed i woke up the whole room (we shared a dorm room thing with 8 people in one room, 3 of which were drinking and making noise coming back into bed. haha. jen xin wasn't very happy at all. =P)
Group photo on the cruise trip. 6hrs worth of bobbing up and down on open waters. 2 people got quite seasick and another 2 were quesy.
Wei Yen went to swim with the dolphins. khang hee and dorothy went too but they got shooed out of the water because they didn't look like strong swimmers. the crappiest bit was that they didn't get a refund. so remember, don't jump into open waters to swim with dolphin and pay for it when you know you can't swim very well. haha.
I took this photo. I'm particularly proud of it because i caught zhi yuen adjusting his hair. ehehe
Khang hee got quite sick. for most of the trip he had his head down a barf bag.
Wei yen, me, Kari-Ann and dorothy in front of the 'Hole in the Rock'... don't know why it's so fascinating also. it's just a hole, in a rock. =P
Stephanie got quite sick. and it was also her birthday. poor thing.
Here I am demonstrating my 'magic travelling cloth' can be a head scarf
Zhi Yuen's very postcard like photo of the island we stopped at
Here I am demonstrating my 'magic travelling cloth' can be a skirt
Group photo! =) It's so pretty there.
Here i am demonstrating that my 'magic travelling cloth' can also be a posing prop
uf, that was a lot. enough . it was a good trip =) a wee bit too short though.
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