Wednesday, March 19, 2008

A Week in Hawkes Bay (part 1)

It was really hard for me to get online in New Zealand!!! I've already arrived in NZ for more than a week but only now i can start update my blog. Um.. I'll start the story when we left from JB (Johor Bahru). I went to Changi Airport, Singapore to take the airflight. I took Qantas because it is the cheapest I can found. It is roughly SGD 1400. I've reached there quite early because I am scared that the JB's traffic is bad. I took a cab from Woodlands to Changi. It cost me roughly SGD$ 20++. I've snapped a few pictures in Changi while waiting for my sis from JB to send dinner over (to save $). Within half an hour, my sis called and said she is already in the airport's carpark. HOWEVER, at the same time, guess who I saw.....is JACKIE CHAN!!!
Mamamia....(hahhaha). He is quite short and guarded with a bodyguard (tall guy). Isn't he know some kung-fu? When Jackie rushed to the toilet and u know what... I ran towards him and follow him to the toilet. At the same time, my sis saw me running towards the toilet and she must be figuring why I was running towards there because she was calling at the back of me... (weirdo). Actually I intent to ask permission to have a photo with him (jackie) but he walked too fast. Is all hongkie walk the same speed as him????
After all the running, I've finally had my dinner (at the carpark, hehehe..). While waiting to onboard, I do nothing. I wanna online but couldn't (eventhought i have the password). My flight was at 10pm ++. My flight fly to Sdyney and transit in Adelaide. While in the plane, Carl was not felling well. He was drownsy. Hahahha... Pengsan....Kekeke..... Affter he ate the 'drowsy prevention pill' he feel all right but motionless... The rest of us felt so excited. This was the first time Winston taking plane out of Malaysia and Jaden is sitting alone with stranger because when we check-in, he checked-in separately (So sorry for you, Jaden)

I slept at around 12am but around 3.30am (Malaysia time +0800) i gotta woke up because it was already morning- 7.30am (2 and half hours different) in Adelaide and i gotta stop there. I waited for an hour in the airport waiting to fly to Sdyney. When I've arrived in Sdyney, my cousin, Yen Yen is already waiting for us (i mean at the city centre). I took a train to Sdyney city and the first thing I do is EAT!!!! Kinda surprised that the city is full of Asian. I walked around (city tour, hahaha - tour guide is Yen Yen) and of course snapped pictures (to fulfill my wish- 'tonned of pictures').

When we wanna went back to airport. Yen yen's purse was missing. I was so worried but she is not :( . She looks so calm. We walked to the eatery where we had lunch earlier and ask. Luck is not on our side, nothing was found. Again, I gotta board another plane (from Sydney) to Wellington at around 6pm (Aus. time). I've reached Wellington at around 12am (midnight).
All of us were little bit 'kan cheong' because we heard that the NZ-immigration officers have the authority to send us back to Malaysia if they suspect that we are up to no good. Shit, I was stucked in the checking area (only check Asian- BIAS) for an hour. They kept asking questions and questions. They ONLY Chinese asian for questioning. What a bad day and we forfeited 2 packs of 'POH CHAI YUN'. Um... if next time i have stomachache, I will haunting them. The pills is illegal because it contains some ingredients that is not permitted into NZ. Anyway, one of the immigration officer is good (the one that questioned ME). He let us sleep in the airport.
P/S- Wellington airport will stop operation after midnight and resume back at around 4am. Please do not assume that all airports operates 24/7!!!

I was told not to walk around because the whole aiport is full of CCTV and I slept on the sofa/ cushions (whatever u call it). I woke up at 4am becase people starting coming to the airport. I went out the airport and waiting for bus and it was very cold. What to do, I still need to wait for bus. I took a bus to Wellington town. It is a big city and the weather was cold and windy. After that, I've took Nakedbus (sounds chicky) to Napier, the place where I wanna find job.
to be continued...

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