Hadn't update my blog for a very long time. Didn't have any interesting things past few weeks so I'm too lazy to write. Anyway, this is the last day I'm living in my current house. Been living here for more than two months but the landlady is going to close down this house so we had no choice. Four of us are moving to another house owned by the same landlady.
I've started my pruning job last Wednesday, it's really a tough job even though time flies when you are pruning. It's tougher when the weather is cold, and the arms are aching like hell when you goes fast. But I'm just working for 2 to 3 weeks so I'll just hang on, not gonna look for another job for the moment. The weather is real bad these few days, raining almost everyday so my working hours are so less I don't even know how much I can make per week, probably just half of the money I made when I worked in the packhouse. But as I said, whatever.
We went to Marahau to try a burger at The Fat Tui but unfortunately the store is closed at winter and only reopen at September. No luck. We turned back to Kaiteriteri and tried Gone Burger, love it, price is cheap but burgers are great, big and delicious. But we went home after that, it's been raining whole day and we had something to pack in order to move to the other house. For 3 continuous Sundays it had been raining so we couldn't go hiking at all. I wonder when I can actually hike up Mt. Arthur.
Saturday, 25 June 2016
Wednesday, 15 June 2016
Part Ways
12-06-2016
First long road trip with my car to Nelson city. I had been to this city around three months ago but I never actually went around the city because I arrived at night at departed from Nelson to Motueka at 7.30am that time. But I never went back to the church where I spent the night sleeping in the tent with my French friend, that's probably one of my two regrets, the another one is that I never went to the Centre of New Zealand in Nelson. I guess I'll find a day and go back there for these locations. I really want to see the church so much, I mean under the daylight haha.
The main reason we came to Nelson was to have a lunch with two of our friends from China, who are now working in the Sealord factory. They were a dear friends to me, we knew each other in Timaru when we were picking apples. We never talked much until we moved into the same house here in Motueka. We became very close friends then. They left this packhouse earlier as they had to go to Nelson for the Sealord job. We never really had a proper farewell meal. That's why we were there, for the farewell lunch.
One thing that I never got used to is parting ways with close friends. And I think I will never do. I guess I will only learn how to accept it, and move on. The only thing is the time taken to move on. Just like when I graduated from high school and Pre-U, I took quite some time. I guess this is my personality, that's why I think I should not try to change it, for me, it's not a bad thing after all. Parting ways with close friends sucks, but it's part of our life. And it definitely takes a lot of time learning to accept that. I'm still learning. But still, I believe there are eternal friendship.
After the job ends, I will have to part way with more people. My housemates, my colleagues. This is the reality I couldn't change. But only with that I will get to meet new people and make new friends. I believe there are still more to come. I'm looking forward to it. Who will I meet and what will I do when I go on the round-island road trip in July?
First long road trip with my car to Nelson city. I had been to this city around three months ago but I never actually went around the city because I arrived at night at departed from Nelson to Motueka at 7.30am that time. But I never went back to the church where I spent the night sleeping in the tent with my French friend, that's probably one of my two regrets, the another one is that I never went to the Centre of New Zealand in Nelson. I guess I'll find a day and go back there for these locations. I really want to see the church so much, I mean under the daylight haha.
The main reason we came to Nelson was to have a lunch with two of our friends from China, who are now working in the Sealord factory. They were a dear friends to me, we knew each other in Timaru when we were picking apples. We never talked much until we moved into the same house here in Motueka. We became very close friends then. They left this packhouse earlier as they had to go to Nelson for the Sealord job. We never really had a proper farewell meal. That's why we were there, for the farewell lunch.
One thing that I never got used to is parting ways with close friends. And I think I will never do. I guess I will only learn how to accept it, and move on. The only thing is the time taken to move on. Just like when I graduated from high school and Pre-U, I took quite some time. I guess this is my personality, that's why I think I should not try to change it, for me, it's not a bad thing after all. Parting ways with close friends sucks, but it's part of our life. And it definitely takes a lot of time learning to accept that. I'm still learning. But still, I believe there are eternal friendship.
After the job ends, I will have to part way with more people. My housemates, my colleagues. This is the reality I couldn't change. But only with that I will get to meet new people and make new friends. I believe there are still more to come. I'm looking forward to it. Who will I meet and what will I do when I go on the round-island road trip in July?
Me, Siew Yee, Aaron, MayMay, Zeno and Ray. (left to right)
Sunday, 5 June 2016
Road-Trip With My Own Car
Finally I got myself a car after more than 3 months. It's a Honda Accord station wagon, bought it for $900 from my friend as she is leaving the country. Everything about this car is ok except the extremely high mileage. Still, I think it's worth a buy.
We didn't go far today. Went to see the sunrise in Port Motueka at 7am, took a couple of photos before heading home for breakfast. We went to the Kaiteriteri Beach and Little Kaiteriteri in the afternoon. That's all for today, at least we didn't stayed at home haha.
We didn't go far today. Went to see the sunrise in Port Motueka at 7am, took a couple of photos before heading home for breakfast. We went to the Kaiteriteri Beach and Little Kaiteriteri in the afternoon. That's all for today, at least we didn't stayed at home haha.
Tuesday, 31 May 2016
Golden Bay Trip
2016-05-29
So today we finally went to the place where we always wanted to go, Golden Bay. We decided to go yesterday night when we were having party and games. Which is why there were only 3 people including me on this trip. The other two being Aaron and MayMay. We always wanted to go there because we kept on hearing people saying about how beautiful is that place, how stunning is the view, how magnificent is the beach... Therefore before we hopped on the trip, we already had an rough idea where to visit.
We started the trip at 8am. It was a near two hours drive from Motueka until we reached the Flat Triangle car park, where we took a track to the Pillar Point Lighthouse but realised that we took the wrong way after 30 minutes. We were walking in the Farewell Spit beach, but it was low tide so we couldn't see the shape of the spit at all, which is why we didn't realised we took the wrong way. By the way it was such a coincidence because there were only one car parked at the Flat Triangle car park, and that belongs to one of our housemates. We left a note at her front mirror for a prank haha.
We studied the map and drove to the Wharariki car park because it was a shorter track from the car park to Wharariki Beach. It was just around 20 minutes from the car park to the beach, plus 10 minutes walking from sandy beach to the sea. The beach is huge, like HUGE. The rocks there are also huge. It was something I had never seen before in my life, those beaches I had seen were not even close to this one. The sands were so fine and your feet sink for about 15cm for every step you take. This beach is just, stunning. But unfortunately, the weather is so bad so the photos I took were not good at all.
Walked back to the car and drove to the Cape Farewell car park. 5 minutes walk from the car park and we reached the northest part of the South Island, Cape Farewell. The view from there is also great but again, the sun is right in front and the sea is like all-white. No good photos either. We took the Hilltop Track toward the Pillar Point Lighthouse, the expected time needed given by the notice board is 45 minutes but after 45 minutes of walk, we were not even close to the lighthouse. We had to walk into sheep farm on the way, all those sheep were dodging us haha. From far view, the lighthouse was not as nice as we thought, just a small structure, unlike the lighthouse we usually imagined. So we turned back and went back to the car as we still had other places to go. This lighthouse didn't worth those time.
The next place we went was Farewell Spit Cafe. This was probably my first time dining in a cafe in New Zealand. But for the view of Farewell Spit from the cafe, it's worth it. I had mocha for the first time since I came to New Zealand. We could also use the free binocular in the cafe to have a closer look at the birds and Farewell Spit too. It was around 3pm so it was already on high tide, we can clearly see the shape of Farewell Spit.
Finally we went to The Grove Scenic Reserve. There was a 10 minutes return track in the reserve. It was like a walk between big rocks, or limestone I'm not too sure. Well, there is not much to write about this track but the views inside the reserve is cool, especially when it was almost sunset.
We had a stop at a organic milk shop before we went home. It was advertised as the best real milk in New Zealand. It was an automated store, you enter the coins, you get the milk, for $2.5 per litre.
One of the reasons I don't like winter is that the sun sets at 4.30pm, unlike summer when the sun sets around 9pm. You just don't have enough time to play in a day. If I were to come back New Zealand for travel in the future, I will definitely come at summer.
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A walk at Farewell Spit beach.
First time getting this close to a peacock and apparently it didn't give a shit for humans around. At Wharariki car park.
Views from track from Wharariki car park to Wharariki Beach.
Having fun at Wharariki Beach.
Views from Wharariki Beach.
Views from the northest part of South Island, Cape Farewell.
Views from Hilltop Track to Pillar Point Lighthouse.
A cup of mocha at Farewell Spit Cafe.
Farewell Spit from sea level viewpoint.
Views in The Grove Scenic Reserve.
Village Milk, a.k.a. best real milk in NZ. So modern.
Sunday, 22 May 2016
Hike to Mount Arthur
22-05-2016
Before the hotpot party yesterday night, I had no plan for today. I was thinking how to spend this boring day before I heard our friends from other house talked about hiking tomorrow. I asked to join since there are one more place. Luckily. But I didn't knew where will we go until this morning when I got in the car.
We departed from Motueka around 7.50am and arrived at Flora car park after one hour driving including 7km drive on harsh gravel road. We started our journey at 8.56pm. It wasn't as steep as we expected but rather quite easy for us at the beginning. But still, it was very windy.
On the way we met a kiwi bird population research team of two. They told us about how the kiwi birds sound, how big are them, where to find them, the size of their egg and so on. We continued our journey all the way to the Mount Arthur Hut, took us slightly more than 1 hour to reach there.
Just a few meters before the hut, we saw a small pile of thin-layered snow beside the track. And honestly this is the first time I actually touched snow. It's like a dream came true. But I didn't eat it, I forgot to do so. Beside the pile of snow, a wild Weka bird appeared! I thought it was kiwi bird at the first sight lol. Apparently they are not afraid of human at all.
There were a lot of people at the hut. I heard that there were 11 people staying overnight at the hut yesterday. While we had a rest at the hut a lot of people told us not to continue further as the wind were too big, and it's too cold to continue. It's dangerous. We decided to go and have a look.
As expected it was very windy after 5 minutes from the hut, as we reached the peak of mountain. But it is still 4.7km to the Mount Arthur Summit. About 2.5 hours. We gave up and went back to the hut instead. Stayed there for almost an hour as we met a Malaysian couple there and talked together for a long time.
Reached home at 2.30pm, too much earlier than we expected. It was supposed to be 8-hour hike. If it wasn't for the weather. But this is probably the best hike I ever had. This is the first time I touched snow, the first time I experienced such wind and coldness, and the first time I seen a Weka bird. Didn't have the luck to come across kiwi bird.
Before the hotpot party yesterday night, I had no plan for today. I was thinking how to spend this boring day before I heard our friends from other house talked about hiking tomorrow. I asked to join since there are one more place. Luckily. But I didn't knew where will we go until this morning when I got in the car.
We departed from Motueka around 7.50am and arrived at Flora car park after one hour driving including 7km drive on harsh gravel road. We started our journey at 8.56pm. It wasn't as steep as we expected but rather quite easy for us at the beginning. But still, it was very windy.
On the way we met a kiwi bird population research team of two. They told us about how the kiwi birds sound, how big are them, where to find them, the size of their egg and so on. We continued our journey all the way to the Mount Arthur Hut, took us slightly more than 1 hour to reach there.
Just a few meters before the hut, we saw a small pile of thin-layered snow beside the track. And honestly this is the first time I actually touched snow. It's like a dream came true. But I didn't eat it, I forgot to do so. Beside the pile of snow, a wild Weka bird appeared! I thought it was kiwi bird at the first sight lol. Apparently they are not afraid of human at all.
There were a lot of people at the hut. I heard that there were 11 people staying overnight at the hut yesterday. While we had a rest at the hut a lot of people told us not to continue further as the wind were too big, and it's too cold to continue. It's dangerous. We decided to go and have a look.
As expected it was very windy after 5 minutes from the hut, as we reached the peak of mountain. But it is still 4.7km to the Mount Arthur Summit. About 2.5 hours. We gave up and went back to the hut instead. Stayed there for almost an hour as we met a Malaysian couple there and talked together for a long time.
Reached home at 2.30pm, too much earlier than we expected. It was supposed to be 8-hour hike. If it wasn't for the weather. But this is probably the best hike I ever had. This is the first time I touched snow, the first time I experienced such wind and coldness, and the first time I seen a Weka bird. Didn't have the luck to come across kiwi bird.
Weka bird!
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