hokitika - the jade factory

 

thanks to the 晴天娃娃

it didn't rain throughout the weekend

 

hokitika town center

love it! very tranquil little town

with jade factories and art galleries everywhere

 

my and my play mate

he 's 24 and i'm 26

but when we're together, we are both 12 =)

 

sunset point

too cloudy for sunset

but i had a great great time with thomas and jen

just walking along the beach. doing nothing

mr wink eye

bumping into mr wink eye during smoko is my favourite activity! and today he not only spoke to me, he came to the factory and 'gili-gili' me. i was totally surprised. according to my french friend, gili-gili is an international language. so if u wanna know what that means, get a french friend, haha! 

ok back to the story. i have asked him to take a picture with me before i leave. i have asked him how old he is. he is the only management staff who knew im leaving. and he's happy for me that im going to work at ski field. he remembered how i did for my IQ test. wow, it really made my day. im a super duper happy girl today! yay! 

i'll be back

 

i've heard so much about lake tekapo before visiting NZ. finally yesterday i visited the lake and the church of good shepard. the landscape is totally amazing. enjoyed the trip a lot as it's my second month in NZ celebration trip. plus we have very good travel mates. 

we went to the hot pools as well. very well spent 20 dollars. with 3 hours of chatting and relaxing in the pools. that's the best outing so far. nothing is better than dipping in hot pools after washing down a freaking factory. 

i'll be back for sure!

last nite shift

today marks the last day of night shift for me at talley's. i still haven't informed my team leader and supervisor that im leaving after queen's birthday. 

a dramatic and eventful night for crew one. the machines went crazy. the belts stopped. line one got stuck (again). thanks for making my last night so memorable. i will definitely miss night shift, haha. 

nite shift-farewell-new friends

this will be my last nite shift rotation as im leaving in 3 weeks' time. kinda excited yet feel a little sad. i know i'll miss the colleagues after i left. i have met people from uruguay, romania, brazil, argentina, scotland, sri lanka, czech republic, south africa etc at talley's. and they're really nice and funny. especially my team. i just started to know them better and i'll be leaving soon =( 

on the other hand, a lot of people have left the holiday park. max from germany and paddy from ireland. both of them are my library / grocery shopping kaki aka drivers on sunday. their jokes are super lame yet very funny, haha. i missed saying bye to them coz i was working, arghhhh... amy from UK left too. love the way she indirectly shoots ET whenever he asks lame questions. and the french couple when missing when we were on night shift. hope to see them again as we believe they're still in ashburton. 

some new friends moved into our Asian room. myra from china and wilson from taiwan. enjoyed chatting with them every night. until they moved to rakaia. anyway we have made plans to visit each other in future, so im looking forward to seeing them again! then some malaysians moved in. i dislike them (a lot). sad to admit that malaysians on working holiday here are pretty selfish and calculative. why so kiasu?? 

luckily my travel mate, Jen is super nice and caring =) 

2 months in NZ

 

BBQ area at tinwald domain

am enjoying my stay here

met lots of people with interesting stories to share

 

my french driver Thomas

sent him to the hospital on monday nite, he injured his fingers at work

my first time admitting someone to the hospital

was so worried. i nearly cry when the doctor poke to needle into his nail

according to him i had a fight with the doctor because of him, so he's very touched

and we become very good frens now

that's not a fight la, but the doctor is rude

i just did what i should do for my friend

 

thomas and his fren peter

i have a bunch of new frens from france after the fight with korean crazy man

i should learn french, so i could communicate with them =)

 

gimma and lauren

my first friends in ashburton

they invited me to play soccer on my first day

very adorable twin sisters 

everyone says ashburton is a boring place. but i enjoy my stay here more than blenheim. i enjoy cooking at the kitchen. listening to the conversation among the british, french and germans. hitch hiking to town. visiting the second hand shop. and looking at all the leng zais, haha. there are a lot of good looking guys here. shall bring ai ai along, haha! 

我遇到神经病

在NZ一切都很顺利，虽然有时候会遇到一些不那么如意的事，但我都可以应付。但最近 Holiday Park 来了个韩国神经病，他搞的大家都快发疯了。现在大家对厨房都敬而远之因为那是他出没的地方。

昨晚他一直批评我煮晚餐的速度慢得惊人，可是那关他屁事呢？就连法国人也听他说教听得厌烦了，就帮我出头叫他别再念了。但那顽固的神经病还不死心，叫法国人不要插嘴。法国人脾气好，不想吵架就说这只是误会，然后出去抽烟。神经病当然不放过他，也跟了出去。Jen 为了不要双方失和气竟然去跟神经病道歉。神经病得逞了还要喋喋不休，说是为我们好才开口教导我们。Jen 觉得受委屈就哭了。

我真的受不了啦！ 如果不是那群男生拉着我，我肯定去臭骂神经病一顿然后给他一个拳头。

他是我现在最最讨厌的人！但因为他，我和其他人的感情变好，大家都很团结，为对方说话或解围。希望神经病快快搬走啦。