I'm in Christchurch!!

finally i get to online here in christchurch!! well, 1st of all...sorry for not updating my blog. have been bz for months i guess...since month before exam...preparing for visa n stuff n oso exam itself, then exam, then go back kch for packing, and last packing n meetin up wif frens before departing to NZ on 20th Jan. and now finally decided to pay NZD 5 for 1 day of internet in the hotel :) my 1st post in NZ and oso my 1st post with my new laptop :P

how's Christchurch? hrm...seriously,i still cant tell how it is actually. once we departed, we were sent to the Oak Apartment hotel here. well, there's some prob when we goin thro the custom as the visa there written we r suppose to studying in University of Otago in Dunedin, but just a minor prob. still manage to get thro after all. it was quite a sunny day when we arrived. 21 C. the temperature was nice, weather was great. oh yea..talkin bout the apartment hotel. it is really nice!!! let's see wad it got, each one of us has our own room with double bed, with personal "kitchen" attached to it with fridge, microwave, pots, plates and bowls, kettle n so on. of cos there's a nice bathroom, wardrobe with iron and ironboard, phone + broadband, and of cos haf to pay for it like wad i'm doin now. notforgetting a tv and a radio :P

after we settled down our luggage n stuff, all 3 of us went for a walk around the city. well, it's sunday!! almost all the shops are close and we just walked around wif the help of a map and at last we found a hypermarket which is called Pak'N'Save!! n we decided to cook for ourselves on the 1st day in christchurch, cooked pasta for the 1st nite, beef wif rice on 2nd nite and saussage and rice on 3rd nite. wasnt too bad :P oh ya, morning tea and lunch are all provided in uni...so yum yum!!

wad we r having for this week is orientation for imu which is suggested by imu seniors. and we had some lectures like maori health, ethics, critical appraisal, which they think we imu students r bit behind of the other students so we r now trying to fill in the gap :) but too bad tat most of us r still jet lagging! so just feel sleepy all the time or...mebe the lectures r bit dry. haha! tat's wad basically wad we goin to do for this week. Introduction week for all year 4 students will started next 2 weeks so we basically have 3 weeks of orientation! in a way it's good oso, give me more time to adapt to the environment here :P

wad else i did so far? basically most of the time in the hotel will be sleepin, and outside hotel will be walking, walking and walking. hee...we walked to the hospital oso..bout 20mins walk. wasnt too bad oso walkin in such a weather. but...the weather here is fluctuating til it goes up to 3o degree 2 days ago and 14 degree today. hrm...dunno how will it be like tmr =S

tat's basically my life here so far. hrm...haven realy got a house yet. but found 1 10 mins away from the hotel here which is 30mins walk from uni, quite a nice wooden house, with a garden! yea...will be confirmed tmr. n there's a fish n chip shop just next to it which sell a big portion of fish n chip just for NSD 2.8 hrm...non of us can finish this chips. hahaha

hrm...after all, still need some time to adapt with this new environment!
1. the kiwi slang
2. when they dont talk bout air con but heater!
3. the window = air con
4. method to reserve heat
5. drink water straight from pipe water
6. quiet street where u see no traffic jam
7. nice car drivers who u hardly see in KL
8. shops close at 5pm.....and so on

and also wanna say sorry for ppl who i failed to inform and failed to meet up before i leave to NZ n yea...i'm here in christchurch studying in University of Otago. hope to see u guys when i go back next time. thanks yen, gordon, chin pei n andrew? for helpin me in packing, hon lian for sendin me to airport n all others who had helped me up :) appreciate it lots. thanks for those who came to send me off in airport...n ur gifts, ur cards, ur words n everything! THANKS!! photos will be comin....