Touring Christchurch

They say Christchurch is a kind of an English town. I have to admit to that, it does have some similarities. Aeda, Nees and I spent the weekend at Christchurch, just to get a different taste from Dunedin.

Definitely Christchurch was colder than Dunedin but wasn't as windy. Nothing much to say, please enjoy the pictures. I will post some more picture soon.

Just outside our backpackers, they celebrated the black Friday. Some of those balloon contain prizes.


Amongst the crowd, I await for my lucky balloon. Nees was also supposed to be there, but due to lack of height, she couldn't be seen.


Aeda took this picture, a very cute baby indeed.


There they are, figuring the bus time table.


Perfect stranger meeting in Christchurch at the bus stop.


Aeda, with her solitary moment. =P


Our first stop, Nando's.


Took a picture with my Malaysian friends.


And after we had dinner.

Disco On Ice

It was a terrific evening where 17 people turned up for the ice skating outing. Thanks again to Aeda for organising the event. Obviously the ice was slippery, it is definitely not comparable to the skating ring at the Mall, Gadong.

The evening was actually a disco night, which means musics and disco lights. Some were very good with the ice and the dancing part. All in all, we all did had a good, exciting night. Please enjoy the pictures.

Aeda getting ready to skate.


And the other ladies.


Their debut to the skating ring.


They are quite good with the skates.


I voted him to be the best skater among us all.


Aeda in action.


Lee Shen and Rozana, holding each other to maintain balance. :P


Aeda, giving some tips to Amal,


Our initial train.


Nees and Khai, sweet shot.


Aeda fell twice, I counted :P


Chilling and relaxing the ankles.


We, Bruneians really like the cameras.


The longest train.


And the grand finale.

P/S: Kodaku, bila ktani webcam lagi? miss u.

The Unthinkable

"There is this place. A place where anything could happen. The unthinkable could happen. A place where 'urang handal jadi inda handal' and vice versa" (Quoted by Aeda). This place is called the Bowling centre at Kaikorai.

Seven of us went to the bowling alley, and I would use one word to describe it; fascinating. All of us have never played before and it turned out to be we played like the pro. Some did spins and curves though I could say, they were not deliberate. Some lost hope but turned out to knock over all the pins, and one could say it was a strike.

We really had fun despite the small number who turned up. Lots of thanks to Aeda for organising the event.

Introducing Aeda with her bowling skill.


One could say that Aeda waited for ages for the ball to hit the pins. I learnt that slow and steady really does work.


This is Shareen. Kept her eyes on the ball.


Nees, I used her camera to get pictures for this post. Lot of thanks.


And there she is, in action.


This is Lai, he injured his bottom.


Introducing Patricia, Lai said to her to think of happy thoughts while bowling.


Khai, he got the funniest skill of us all and a very good bowler.


And not forgetting, yours truly.


Still have to work on the biceps =p

Visit by Bruneian students

It is a not common for us, Bruneian students in New Zealand to be paid a visit by other Bruneian students. It is a unique experience for us to see unfamiliar faces especially from our kind. There are about 8 of them, and their main aim is to visit us, indirectly, but on a more serious note, their actual aim is to study the geography of New Zealand. I, myself studied Geography at 5th form. New Zealand is a place where pictures are taken to be used for textbook.

I talked to some of them, and they said the field trip lasted for 8 days and Dunedin is their last stop, and apparently they did actually have time to explore Dunedin. We only had dinner with them and took some pictures, enjoy the pictures below.

Aeda on the front right. She had Chicken Kadai.

The thing about this kind of dinner setting is we tend to only interact to three people; people on both our sides and people sitting in front of us.


One of the supervisor for the field trip. He is a Kiwi by the way.


I don't know any of the visitors really.


We come from Japan.

Checking the map of Dunedin.


Aeda with our two new friends.


Aeda complimented my biceps :P


The Bruneians.

Another supervisor teaching Geography in MD.

My days at Amberley

It is the semester break and it is predicted to snow this weekend. I am not going to talk about the snow. Last week I went to Amberley. It is a small rural town about 1hr drive from Christchurch. The 6hr ride to Christchurch was terrible plus the another sick hour spent in the bus to Amberley.

Not much to say about Amberley, enjoy the pictures below.


Our accomodation at Amberley.


The kitchen area.


Cooked something for dinner.


Walaa, dinner for two.


Dinner with my room mate.


Waiting for the next meeting.


Played with the trampoline and did an awesome front flip :P


Group dinner.


Final night at Amberley and preparing for the final report.


Enjoying Amberley beach.


Enjoying the sun and the camera.


It is very hard to get a perfect jump.


And some even hardly tried. :P


A country cottage house.


Time to leave sweet ol' Amberley.