Asian Kitchen, Corner of Cuba Street
Felt cheated even though it was me myself who made the mistake...I got a bit hungry and as I was hunting for the best bargain in town,I saw this restaurant that pasted their Menu on their glassy door. One of the item on the menu caught my eye - 'Nasi Goreng for $7.95'. sound pretty good for a dinner in Wellington. So i walked in and tried and make an order. But i was offered another set of Menu.
I asked the waitress for the menu that i saw, and i was told that it was the LUNCH Menu! Damn it~ now i have to order the cheapest food on the menu - Green Curry for $14~ !@$#@!$....i swear to myself that i'm gonna tear this restaurant down if the Green curry not worth that money...
i hate to admit it, but turn out that the Green Curry is pretty impressive. The spiciness of the curry was altered to suit the Kiwi taste, but i like it that way. The mildness allowed to taste the sweetness of other ingredient in it and yet it doesnt lose its curry flavour. But if i was given a choice, i will still choose to go Sampan and pay $6 for a bowl a noodle soup with complimentary chicken bone :)
6.53pm 16/11/05
4.30pm 16/11/05
Oriental Bay, wellington
It took me bloody 5 hours (!!) to reach this small little beach. but instead of walking all the way to oriental bay, i chose to take a bus (after 4 hours and 40minutes of walking). Why? because i took the wrong path from the very BEGINNING!!!
instead of walking along the 'Southern Walkway', i followed another walkway call 'city to sea walkway', and i only realised it after almost 5 hours of walking! the funny thing is, instead of climbing up Mount Victoria, i ended up in University of Victoria. this is stupid......
university of victorianow i start to wonder which peak that i had actually got up to. there is this funny looking statue on top of the peak,which i thought its representing Victoria! i must admit that it was fun though, and i did get to Oriental Bay eventually anyway.
and i thought this is how the legendary Victoria looks like..i was quite disappointed with the fact that there is nobody in this beach. This is kind a small for a beach but there should be people crazy enough to come over and have a swim.
the only creature in this beachMy leg is kind of numb now after playing with the cold sea water. Also, the wind is getting really strong now and the sand is hitting me REAL hard now....better run quick...
10.35 AM - 130PM 16/11/05
Snapshot along the walkway
there's all these sign around the city to guide you throughout the walkway. If you look carefully, this signboard is guiding me to another walkway and i didnt realise it until the very end of my adventure!!
its amazing how the mountain view change so rapidly along the way. this slightly bald mountain view is quite common
there's gate around to prevent car ( and perhaps possums?) from getting access into certain area, and the tourism board was kind enough to build a stairs like structure for explorer to go ahead...thoughtful..
this is so mild seven's advertisement right?
looks like a huge-ass whale swimming in the air...
i stood there for quite a while when i snapping this shot.....green plus blue just so soothing...
seaside view
geographic pole on a not so high hill...
i had almost 20 shots that is identical to this.....looking at the sea beyond the horizon is just so spectacular....damn...wish i could stay there forever
a small island not far away for shore
quite a number of housing area build around this bay...lucky bastard...
apparently this area filled with poison that is mean to kill all the possum...possum is a pest here n yet its a protective species in OZ....how ironic...
the bus here are all cabled....i kinda like it...
10.35 AM 16/11/05
Kenny's Cafe
A brand new day! yesterday my portugist roommate warmed me about his snoring, i thought he was jsut saying it out of courtesy, but it turns out that he snored bloody loud~ the good thing is, i was pretty tired, so i still managed to sleep without any problem. Just as i was on the edge of seeing Catherine Zeta Jones in my dream, a Californian came in and occupied the final empty bed. He has to rush for a morning bus on the next day, thus we didnt d omuch talking. Apparently he's been to dunedin and regret that he only spent 2 days there...if i am not wrong, so ar he is the only tourist that i met did not choose to skip dunedin town due to time constriction....
Enjoying my breakfast now.....yum~
Anyway, after the breakfast i am planning to walk on a 'Southern Walkway' which will take about 4-5 hours to finish the whole walkway. i will be taking bus from city center to Island Bay, then climb over Mt victoria and reach Oriental Bay and have some fun on the beah~ Hopefully then i would still have time to check out Embassy Theatre, the premier site of Lord of the Ring.
6.44pm 15/11/05
YHA WELLINGTON
finally got to meet my roommate. He's from Manchester and he owns a season ticket at OLD TRAFFORD!! how cool is that~ had a bit of chat with him. Apparentlly he just got back from America. He will continue his journey in New Zealand for another couple of weeks before heading to Melbourne and stay there for another half a year. It's amazing that how many people actually had travel the world. I'm starting to feel inferior now for seeing the only tiny bits of the world. Another roommate came in at a while later. He's from Portugal. Although i've been stayin in Dunedin for 2 years, but never in my live manage to meet up with so many people, with so many different backgrounds, this is getting exciting,woohoo~
anyway i shall start planning schedule for tommorow now......
so hard to plan your schedule when you have such a nice view from your bed5.52pm 15/11/05
YHA Bagpackers, Wellington
it took me at least an hour to arrive the goddamn YHA Bagpacker.
Didn't expect that the harbour is so far away from the town. To be more specific, i didnt expect wellington tp be that BIG. finally i've come to a REAL city.
open cafe/pubarrived Wellington for almost 2 hours now, but i've already heard ambulance siren twice. This city defintely have a faster pace than Dunedin (DUH!). My room has rather wide flat window that i can easily enjoy the view from my bed, Right in front of me is the New World supermarket and slightly further away its the harbour.
well, i guess Gong recommended me a right place! (i was cursing him 2 hours ago for choosing a bagpakcers that is so far away from harbour, SORRY MATE~).BIG city with a panoramic view of sea and mountain, I'M LOVIN' IT~
1.29pm 15/11/05
On the Cruise from Picton ---> Wellington
this is such a huge cruise! i wasnt expecthing something like this at all, there's bar, restaurant, huge family area, 'reclining area' ( area for you to relax and read some books).
the actual size is at least 10000x bigger than this picture
this giant ship is so stable that it actual manage to decieve that i am on a land transport. Well, i guess that's because it is cruising REALLY slow.
i think they agreed with me too..
i didnt manage to catch the canadian name, but it took me a while to realise why his accent sound so familar to me. OH yes, one of my favourite lecturer Sheila is from Canada too!back to this giant cruise. there is this 'i-station' machine that give information of NZ famous tourism spots, and the coolest part is that the machine can actually print out voucher! in order to make myself looks more like an Asian tourist (hehe..just finding an excuse to get discount voucher) , i printed out a couple of voucher which includes cheaper deal for skydiving, bungy jumping plus a numbeof x-game. i'm still dwelling whether i should try all this extreme game or not,so i shall keep all the vouchers,hehe.....Oopss, i've totally forgotten t check on the map on how should i walk to the YHA bagpackers. Maybe i should go try and check it on the i-station again,haha.....
11.30am 15/11/05
Grassmere
The wind is getting warmer, maybe because the train is running between the mountain, not too sure about the geographical thingy. We just passed
i'm sure girls would prefer the sea is this colur....
this is our salt........untreated ofcoz...The passengers are starting to fall asleep. Some of them are reading newspaper and playing card though. The train currently is going through a wine yard (I wasn’t sure what was that during that time) Then I saw a black sheep sucking milk from the milk. The funny thing is the mother is white in colour. Perhaps that blacky is cow. Wait a minute, that would be even weirder!
I am getting hungry. Tried to buy a pie but failed. Why? Because the handle to open the rear door is broken (the kitchen is at the back).sigh…hungry~~