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we went to dump our luggage bags, picked up our pizzas and headed over to my sister's for dinner and packed her really messy room. put a whole lot of good stuff outside the salvation army (which was closed), when we went back fifteen minutes later to get this weighing machine that my sister's friend wanted, all her stuff was gone already! gramma and mum went to the casino, we went to watch chronicles of narnia with my sister's friend and her friend's siblings. loads of leg room in the cinema! but tickets are priced around NZ$11.50 and they only have salty popcorn.

day 3:

graduation day!!! first we went to school for the reception..

the graduates got flowers (i forgot the name). rozana got orange (matches her bright outfit haha) and sister got a pink one! rozana (i think that's her name) wanted a picture with my "cute grandmother" (quoted) : )

my cutest ahma and rozana

then we had the parade! graduation is a big thing in town. they closed a few main roads for this march, and everyone was standing around watching and taking pictures.

one interesting speech punctuated with maori and a really loud "OOTAAAAGOOOOOO!" and the rest of the speeches put us to sleep.. the reception had champagne, quiche and some other food. i was starving! so we got dinner at..

we got blue cod, fries, kumara (this sweet potato-like thing, in fried form) and a deep-fried moro bar : ) i lost my all-time favourite mac eyeliner : ((( it fell out of my jacket pocket.

day 4:

we took a walk in the botanic garden. my grandmother is cool in her nicole richie sunglasses! nicole and mum have a strange obsession with flowers.

the tour was pretty cool! but it wasn't a working day cos it was a sunday, so didn't get to see a few things (and no workers to give out MANY bars of free chocolate!). i loved this tall tower where you climb to the top and then you see TONNES of chocolate pour out to the bottom! MMM!!! just like a waterfall! cadbury drinks are yummm too.

day 5:

we flewwwww to auckland! where it was almost TEN degrees hotter. about twenty degrees celsius in auckland.

my sister and i went to some bridge to do bungy jumping!!! it's SCARY SHIT! we have the dvd of us and it's absolutely hilarious! i couldn't stop laughing before my jump and my sister practically tumbled out of the gondola. WHAT an adrenaline rush!

while we were being scared shitless, the senior citizens/le lings/LLs (as we prefer to refer to them as) went for a wine tour. i don't like the taste of wine, it's too overpowering. i tried the one they bought and i gave up after three sips.. nicole and sister drank most of it.

day 7:

we took a bus, the link, to various places! first stop: victoria park market! i haven't mentioned that my mum and grandmother LOVE souvenir shops. they HAVE to stop at every single one. anyway, after going into a few million gift shops, something else finally caught their attention..

i didn't know there was such a thing as 'legal' weed which also gives you energy and makes you happy. there are also legal party pills available in new zealand. my sister says they sell weed at some place near her school every friday. fridays must be weedays! there's a national organisation for the reform of marijuana laws (NORML NZ inc), oh and singapore was mentioned in the marijuana magazine, for the hanging of nguyen tuong van.

next stop: ponsonby! a lot of bakeries here haha. and award-winning ones at that. i think there was a best hairdresser (awarded by metro in 2005) too.

new world supermarket!

day 9:

i was really bummed to the max when i opened my wallet and saw only S$64 inside because someone stole my money : ((( don't even know at which hotel that happened because usually i just put my wallet in my crumpler bag and stuff twenties in my jacket. i was saving most of my money for the last day! lesson well-learnt, never leave your valuables in hotel, no matter which hotel it is.

walking around the arts centre..

we took a really long time finding the fudge cottage. there were three very cute grandmotherly ladies selling the fudge. they really look like fudge-selling grandmothers! but i didn't get a shot of them : (

last shopping trip!!!

nicole's really cool because of her nicole richie shades, cute hats, wanting to bungy jump and because she wanted a handphone strap kind of thing, we chose one that says "out of range" for her!!! hahaha. she didn't join us on day 9 because she was very tired from walking far ass distances. thankfully she didn't, although lunch was really good, we took a few kilometres walk from the city centre (where lunch was at) to westfield shopping mall.. omgah wanted to die.

we were trying our luck on the finding nemo toys! almost got a black one : ( we were trying to get rid of our coins. anyway the flight back to singapore took forever! three of us were separated (my sister took another flight) and i was surrounding by angmoh LLs. entertained myself during the flight with inflight entertainment, ipod, dolly magazine, sleeping, eating and going to toilet. singapore is totally hot and humid! i swear i could feel the water vapour as i stepped out of the airport. anyway it was pretty fun despite the high blood pressure from arguments with my mum, the eyeliner and my money. ok must get my eyeliner replaced asap! anyway managed to retrieve this post because mozilla firefox was slow in refreshing but i still took a long time to complete everything because of font problems. i triumph over blogger! off to meet my lovely sijia now : )