The Real Winter...

Cold, gusty, blustery, winter gales weather finally revealed last Saturday. The cold westerly and southerly winds strike Dunedin for the whole WEEK ever since it 'showed up' it's true and real 'appearance' last Saturday, bringing icy cold showers and drizzles towards the whole city. Snow and sleet were not seen yet even though it rained for 5 days. The prediction provided by Met Service, NZ of snowing overnight all the way until Sunday was driving me into curiosity. Nevertheless, fizzy, rambunctious and flamboyant feelings planted firmly in my heart core, anticipate for the coming of the blissful and memorable event to come true. Hopefully.... The temperature in Dunedin crept pace to pace, from 12 degree Celsius to 4 degree Celsius. The cold foggy shower spells were trying to horn me, drenched, doused and soused my whole body, causing shivering to the meanest for the whole day! OR even the for the last 5 days!

'What's The Point III'- International Outreach

'What's the point 3 ' is an International service held 'once in a blue moon' at Elim Christian Centre, Dunedin, NZ. To be precise, it is held once a year. The theme for this year's event is ' FEARFULLY & WONDERFULLY MADE' which was taken from PSALM 139-'I will give thanks unto thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made'. The skits and incredible Christian songs clearly illustrate the main theme of the event. The church was gaily decorated with spot lights for this special event as shown in one of the video and photos I have taken. This meaningful event is trying to convey a message- No matter how loathe u feel of yourself, how despicable u feel, how useless u feel of yourself, how odium u feel, feeling smoulder of yourself or even envy of peers obtaining efficacious results than you, Jesus will not abandon you. You are a creation of God and WONDERFULLY MADE by the Almighty God. God has wonderful plans for you and your future. Just believe it and do not worry. The skits were amazing although some of the performers were gabbing in a claptrap manner but clarified the theme at the end of each skit. Overall, it was 'wonderfully made/performed ' and awesome as you can see their hard core work overwhelmed each of the audiences. But in the video, some audience's heads were distracting me from filming the video. I was impressed, amazed and flabbergasted by the blue lighted gloves in one of the skit as shown below even though the words made by the blue lighted gloves seemed blurry and crooked. Here are one of the video of A SKIT and photos taken during the 'concert'. Hope you enjoy the photos and the video. It's awesome and fantastic!~~

New- Zealand First Chinese Garden

A grand opening ceremony was held on the 8th of July 2008 to celebrate the opening of Dunedin Chinese Garden. After 8 months of hard core construction, Dunedin Chinese garden is officially open to tourists as well as Kiwis. The garden is located abreast with the Railway Station, between Dunedin central city( The Octagon) and the harbourside. Dunedin Chinese Garden is New Zealand’s only Chinese Garden, and the first in the Southern Hemisphere. Great news isn't it? It was pre-fabricated in Shanghai, then dismantled and transported or fleeted here. The decent Chinese Garden is based on a late Ming, early Ching Dynasty Scholar’s Garden, traditionally the focal point of a family compound. Tens of thousands of visitors visit the garden daily according to Otago Daily Times, the web and blogs . Due to the fact that I am a penny-pinching and miserly person or a niggard or cheapskate who does not willing to spend such money just to glance through the new Chinese Garden, I managed to find some Dunedin Chinese Gardens photos via the web. Despite the garden looks kinda poky (to me) and is not as opulent as compared to those gardens in China, it is still decent looking and satisfy the requirements of being a 'CHINESE' garden such as ginormous fish pond, intricate Chinese architecture designs on the apex of the roofs and window seals, elephantine shaped rocks along the ponds, Japanese Carps or goldfishes, jade green/ ink black / snow white pebbles embedded on the surfaces of pathways, corridors and pavements, Rock gardens and etc. The entrance fee for this garden is NZ5 for students or beneficiary and NZ8 for adults. So anyway, here are the photos.

Happy 17th BIRTHDAY To Me....

Happy birthday to me! ^^ . lol... there's nothing much happened today although it's my 17th birthday. I gadded to Hoyts Cinema at Dunedin Octagon to meet my Asian friends after savouring my lunch at Meridian Mall which is just a stone throw away from Hyots Cinema. We have a great time watching GET SMART at Hoyts Cinema. Watching movie at the cinema seriously helped me to relax my mind due to the irking nauseous I had few days ago. I found the movie quite therapeutic in mind. But as we were watching the movie, I was hacked off my my shitty cough sickness. I have not slept soundly for 2 nights and now, the effing cough was discomfited me, disrupting me from watching the movie. It was awkward indeed when i coughed spontaneously, distracting hundreds of people from watching the marvelous movie. I felt sassy and impudent towards the people who was watching the movie. Anyway, after the movie, we went to Unipol to play basketball. I played for quite some time and rested because I was in a torpor state that time. I was nervous wreck after watching the movie due to the irritating cough that prevented me from sleeping soundly in my snugly blanket for the last two nights. I felt drowsy and went back home. lol.. What a weird birthday....

Nauseous...

This was the most terrible and queerest holiday ever!! The queasy and nauseous feelings followed me everywhere, having no mood in doing anything I intended to. Sole throat, cough and flu invaded me, as if trying to conquer my whole body, bringing me to doom's day. *cough*... Who the heck jinxed me ??!! eff.. lol... just kidding. Fantastic holiday feelings dissipated immediately and ruined completely as the irking and distinct nauseous feelings were drilling me off...

Blustering Gales

Snow commenced to thaw yesterday. Nevertheless, ratty gales blustered throughout Dunedin. The weather in Dunedin is uncertain nowadays compared to the previous years. This year, there are little snow blanket throughout Dunedin while the higher region of New- Zealand such as Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch experienced 'violent snow attack'. lol... Some State Highways were closed due to the icy and slippery conditions. It's absurd! Why does Dunedin city has the lowest snow pour-down compared to the rest of the cities of New-Zealand? lol... The blustering ice cold winds were pissing me off. To overcome this, I went to University central library to online. lol... The central library in University was the most amazing spot for study and online. Heaps of thousands of computers and spaces for study as well as the warm atmosphere were perfect to be my second home. lol....There are ample and adequate computers for university students and alumnus to do their assignments for scholastic projects. The cosy atmosphere in the central library aids me to save my house electricity too, lowering the electricity bills . lol.... At least I can 'amble' throughout the gigantic and opulent central library than apace swiftly outside due to the coldness of the surrounding.

Inter school Competition

I went to school this morning just to report myself because I was in jittery situation when my Korean friend told me that those students who didn't report themselves today will have 5 hours detention. But that's a effing scandal. I was in a stupor and flabbergasted when i saw not many students were at school this morning. Shit... We went to our indoor school hall to practise our school haka before going to Logan Park to watch the inter school competition. We had free shuttles all the way to the Logan Park but i wagged to the city and university after half and hour later. ^^. I managed to take some photos of our indoor school hall and the surroundings of Logan Park including Otago Polytechnic. Our school has a elephantine, ginormous, opulent and posh auditorium/ theatre where the school conducts assembly every Tuesday period 2 and numerous marvelous events have been conducted in this old yet elegant auditorium. (Back to the topic) I saw a helicopter landed on the apex of the roof of the Dunedin general hospital and it was my 1st time experiencing this in my real life.lol... Apart from that, gusty winds up to 140 kilometer per second is heading towards Dunedin tomorrow. Sleet, snow and shower are pouring like cats and dogs late afternoon. Fortunately, i managed to come home on time. So anyway here are those photos. Till then, Luke...