= LifE Of a GaL =

boohoo! long time no blog!

I am just back from NZ yesterday, the jet lag put me to sleep yesterday at 11 p.m. The scenery there is fabulous, with the mountains, waterfalls and rivers. But being a very forgetful girl as usual, I guess I forgot most of the stuff, so I gotta summarise with the itienary when it gets unpacked later on.

But in general, you just get to see enough waterfalls to last you a lifetime, and the most beautiful scenery is from Milford Sound, a place where you take a sort of big size boat, and you can stand at the upper deck, let the wind blow in your face and body (the wind is strong!), and you get to see the mountains, waterfalls, right in front of you, the scenery is truly breathtaking. And basically it's spring going into summer time when I went, but nevertheless, it was snowing in the mountains during summer, and the weather was so cold even in the cities that you certainly have to wear a jacket everywhere you go. It's colder than normal aircon. The temperature there is always 25 degrees and below I guess, all the time I was there. According to the tour guide, the highest temperature ever in history in New Zealand is 32 degrees celsius. Wow, I was like, that's like everyday temperature for Singapore! lol. And I went on a tour around the South Island, where there's lots of scenery, 73% of the island is covered by mountains... So like my tour guide says, everywhere, when you turn your head, you will see at least a mountain.

And in the South Island, there's lots of agriculture. So you see all kinds of it, there's lots of sheep. It's just so cute to see green pastures dotted with white little sheep, and from far, they just looks like little fluffs of cotton wool. And cows, but not as many as sheep, and I just realised that the cute black and white cow that we see ever so often is not very common. It's mostly black, brown, and even if you do see a black and white cow, the white is very little. Haha, but that won't stop me from loving those cutie cows.

One of the days I went up to see a glacier, eh, I haven't really figured out what a glacier is, but it's like a frozen river, so it's beautiful. And cold. I was like trying to run to the place where the water and ice connect, but it's a bit far, and lack of time, so I missed it. And the rivers there are beautiful! The water is so clear, you can see the bottom, and you can really see the rivers are really flowing, some even flow very fast, and I drank water from one of the rivers. It's very nice, seriously. And once you seen the rivers there, you will just think Kallang River is not really a river. lol.

The scenery there is so untouched, and everything is natural. The pace of life there is so slow, especially in a city that I went called Christchurch (did I mention I love the name, dunno why). They enjoy themselves in the parks, take slow walks, and shops close so early like at 7 or 8 p.m. And even in Queenstown, they said the city shops close at a later time, and around 9 p.m. and it's closing. I went out to eat KFC there, and we were eating at 8 plus, and the shop is like preparing to close le. Wow. Imagine this in Singapore. People just have no place to eat dinner.

The days are long in NZ right now, at it's still bright at 8 p.m. Gets a little unused about that cos' in Singapore, I tend to stay till midnight, meaning around 5 hours with the sky dark before I sleep, but in NZ, the time seem to pass so slowly. And somehow, the person who like to rush around (me) can truly slow down when I get there. I was strolling along the streets at the slowest speed I could ever imagine myself to be walking at. I am surprised at myself, but somehow, you will just tend to slow down, and enjoy the scenery, and enjoy the cool temperature (free aircon lol), and I was walking slower than my NA team's slow march (I mean my own team, which is pretty fast, but still slower than my normal pace)...

And not to forget, because of NZ's beautiful scenery, it's the place where they film LOTR! I saw one of the scene where you see the dead trees thing. I am seriously not a fan of LOTR, so I couldn't point out exactly which scene is it. lol.

So that's the summary of my trip, I will be updating with more details when I am more free with the itienary next to me. lol. Some summary, I am as longwinded as ever. =P