NZ : Day 1

finally... Day 1

~~touched down at 1120am, local time. after we got our mpv from APEX Car Rental, we went grocery shopping at Foodtown. we need to do marketing because we would be cooking our own meals. and since we have no idea what to eat for lunch, we opted to eat bread, with ready cooked pork. tasty! i guess it was due to hunger. hahaha.

#1 : all seated in the 8 seater Toyota Privia

#2 : Foodtown

#3 : pork, coleslaw, bread for hungry tummy

~~i was stressed on the first day. map said, head towards South Western Mwy. what is Mwy?? die! i see no South Western Mwy. i only saw S1. and found out later, S1 was South Western Mwy. oh.. Mwy is motorway. cilaka.

~~me & peggy kept on refering to each other. i was holding google map, while she read from her book map. hahahaa.... just to make sure we would be heading to Raglan instead of some where else. and when we have reached Raglan, phew.....


#4 : Raglan town

#5 : scenery while we were on the way to the hostel...

~~first night was the most memorable night. the Solscape Raglan was located on top of a hill, overlooking the world famous surf break Manu Bay and Ocean beach. it was windy when we reached there around 5pm. sun was setting. i didnt expect that we would be sleeping in locomotive coaches. AWESOME!

#6 : us (elaine d'researcher, sook man d'financial controller, me d'navigator, regine d'cook, grace d'driver, peggy d'cook cum principal, jane d'driver)

#7 : sunset @ Manu Bay

#8 : the locomotive coaches

~~as the kitchen was very small, hence our cooks decided to cook ASAP. and our "principal", peggy, instructed the rest of the "crews" to bath while they cooked so that all of us wont jammed the bathroom later. menu that night was rice with egg omelette, left over pork from lunch, and some vegetables. it was minimal. really minimal. eating outide of the Railway Station, in darkness, we just stuffed the food inside our mouth.

#9 : Railway station where we did our cooking, cleaning, bathing, peeing, pooing

~~the sky was full of stars that night.. really twinkle twinkle little stars!!! awesome view. everyone was tired by the time it was 9pm... time to sleep.

~~jane & elaine were in 1 coach with queen bed, while regine, grace & i were in a double decker+single bed coach. these 2 coaches were connected to each other. while peggy & sook man's coach was very far from us. (refer to #8)

~~tossed and turned, the room was getting colder. i pulled my jacketS, and wore both of them. put on the socks too. still cold. and i heard jane calling from next coach. "wei, come & sleep with us! i'm very cold". i ignored her at first. then all started to laugh... everyone was cold and could not sleep. regine went over to sleep on the queen bed, while grace & i pulled a single bed, to the next coach. both of us slept on it.


#10 : cold cold night...brrrrrrrr

~~after 30min of silence, i started hearing sound. what sound? snoring sound. some one has started the "engine". i still could not sleep as my left arm was touching the wall of the coach. steel.. cold... COLD! and grace was just next to me. i need more space. it was too crampy for me. i wanted to toss around. i have problem sleeping 'straight'. i need my space!

~~and the sound was getting louder. another engine has started too. and my eyes were still wide open. i gave up. went to the loo, and then climbed back to my double decker bed next coach. i was alone there. nevermind. at least it was quiet. i stared at the yellow light bulb. i told myself,"this light will give me heat. i will keep this on. i dont care about saving electricity. i'm cold, and i'm tired, i need to sleep!"

~~and i felt asleep... and the light was on until the next morning.