Random Thought Bubbles

eating at the airport in auckland. mmm mcd breakfast =)

big snowcapped moutain from the airplane. looks like an enormous pimple to me

waiting at the airport for the rental car people to give us a ride to the depot to get the car

first rental car

we were so impressed with the telephone box we had to stop and take photos in it.

YHA christchurch. we stayed at YHAs throughout the whole trip

some people doing capoweira to other people playing music. they were doing it slow mo but it was still fun to watch. while we ate our slouvakis out in the sun =)

the bridge of remembrance.

we met up with ra nae and she brought us to the gardens. there are three versions of this picture. apparently this one was the best one. but it looks dated and i look old. ack.

according to this stick i'm about 165cm tall

my favourite flowers are wild daisies but this rose is pretty too =)

we went to disturb chow trying to study in the comp lab. he looked very stressed

that's us mucking around at the front entrance of otago medical school

then we decided to have a little roll around in the grass at the art school

i could stop laughing after this photo. jap girl with massive eyes. haha

we spent quite a long time just taking photos in the quad of the art school. it's very pretty in there.

otago university is way prettier than auckland =P

it was man keat's birthday so we went out to eat expecting at least some things to be open. but the streets were empty and quiet. we tried looking for an open place to eat at 11 at night. and almost nothing was open except for a 'sticky fingers'. which was good anyway because they had very yummy pizza =)

and then took turns being squashed in a red phone box.

and again

and again

veily silly ah

we went to see the cathedral. it's hard to miss since it's right smack in the middle of everything

i lit a candle, hoping we all pass our 5th year exams =P

super duper pipe organs

looking back at the doorway

that's the man who played the pipes. i'd feel very powerful.

big sperm in the church square. it's supposed to be art. can't quite remember what it's supposed to represent, aside from being a humungous sperm.

walking the 134 steps up the church tower

top of the tower

coming down the tower

we visited ra nae while we were in christchurch. she brought us to the copenhagen bakery. omg, best smoked salmon bagel i've ever had. *salivate* for most of the trip i've just been eating. it makes me happy =P and fat.

rental car number 2. none of us knew how to put snowchains on the tyres so i learnt something new that day.

the sign on a rental van

i thought having a car spray painted with the reservoir dogs is cool.

pak 'n' save christchurch has self check out terminals now. if you don't put your item into the bag the machine nags you to put it in and won't proceed to let you check out more. we stopped by to get supplies for the rest of the journey

the people who rented the reservoir dogs van were having a picnic in the pak 'n' save car park in front of their van. i found that quite strange.

this is my new favourite cheese. it smells like salted fish but doesn't taste like it. it's nutty like emmental (my previous most favourite cheese)

that's me eating my salted fish smelling cheese. it's good! i don't know why the boys don't like it as much as i do.

we got out to much around by this field filled with yellow flowers

getting bored in the car. this is my apple seller face. 'would like an apple?' haha

the best seat in the backseat is the middle seat

i like taking photos =) so do the boys

just driving into lake tekapo. it was a really small place... only one grocery store and barely anything else. but it did have a jap restaurant and a whole lot of jap tourists

this isn't quite in chronological order. zhi yuen on one of his morning photo taking walks by the lake.

Looking out onto lake tekapo. i'm standing behind thomas trying to make him look like a teapot =P

once we got a little more organized. i look like i'm ready to kick into a musical song with a cane, heels, lotsa kicking and tap dancing.

Church of the Good Shepard. it's a quaint little church facing the lake. killer view from the inside. it shares the same lion symbol thingy as that found on the bridge of remembrance. i found that interesting. felt a little da vinci co

this is the window at the back of the church facing the lake.

this be the view from the inside. amazing. i would stick around in church longer with a view like this. heehee

i made the boys lamb salad with hummus and mint jelly that night. made a little bit too much coucous though.


we went stargazing that night. apparently the town around lake tekapo has sodium street lamps and the residents have to face all their lights down so that there's minimal light pollution. i got to see venus, jupiter, the tarantula nebula, the moon and a bunch of other things through 3 telescopes. it was fun =) and now i know where capricorn is in the sky.

and then everyone was stuffed and happy. like this cat =) it got a lot of love from us 5 while we were there.

i was wiped out too. was trying to read the front bit of p.s. i love you but didn't get past knowing that the husband died and that he'd made a list of things for his wife to do after he died.

flowers by the lake just outside the hostel

more of zhi yuen's handy work

For a lot of people, zhi yuen is a serious and reserved fellow. the truth is, he is a poser.

and he's gotten it down to an art

because he takes his own pictures

while pretending to walk away into the beautiful scenery. haha =P

then it was off to mt cook to hopefully glacier kayak

I was kinda pooped from laughing so much in the car. everytime someone made a strange noise (and it'd almost always be me) someone else would continue with another silly noise and suddenly we're breaking out into the 'in the jungle' song, complete with the ah wim ba weh and tu du du du tu du du du du and in the jungle the mighty jungle in spontaneous unison. it was awesome. but really quite alot of work =P

Cloudy day views from the car

Long lonely highways

With silly people standing in the middle of them

This is our car ad for subaru. it's a nice car but it takes forever to pick up

a rainbow to welcome us to mt cook =)

Tramping at Hooker Valley... yeah, Hooker Valley =P

it snowed the next day we were at mt cook. so no glacier kayaking. first time i saw snowfall. i was so excited!

I was not really dressed for the weather but wasn't too frazzled. Didn't get too wet nonetheless =) That's a lake and those are some mountains with snow on them =P

That's them there again, without me spoiling the picture

Zhi Yuen on one of his lone walks =)