Saturday, 2nd January 2010 Despite telling fellow road trippers to wait at the Southern Cross Station, in front of Hungry Jack’s, at 7.30am sharp, I managed to wake up at 5am, turned off my alarm and fell asleep, then woke up again at 7.40am when Esther rang me up. fml. I was seized with a [...]
I was in front of my laptop at about 8.45pm on New Year’s Eve when I heard my name being yelled from outside my window. Sliding it open, I discovered Ivan literally right in between the birth of a storm, him breathlessly talking about a beautiful sight of a low-hanging moon. “This is crazy,” I [...]
Quick and easy pictorial post of what I’ve been up to since it’s less than 24 hours 6 hours till New Year’s. Saturday, 12th December 2009 I was holed up in the State Library using RMIT’s free WiFi when Ivan rang me up, asking if I’d like to go to join them with a friend [...]
Two Tuesdays ago (December 8th), Estee and I met up at Melbourne Central in the midst of the heavy rain. The downpour was an unpleasant setback as I was already getting sick, but I donned my waterproof jacket anyway (which proved to be only half-useful, as my trousers were soaked through) and walked to Flagstaff [...]
As mentioned previously in my previous post, I’m going to deviate from chronicling my New Zealand trip—if anyone does read them anyway—due to severe time constraints. My earlier plans of gaming like crazy was replaced with a workaholic being, whose daily life here is serenely pleasing with nary an incident—and that, in itself, is its [...]
Day 3 – Wednesday, 18th November 2009 I woke up at about 7am plus today to the after-rain wet roads and the sound of tyres kneeling over them. I had previously slept on the upper bunk depicted in this picture, where the Japanese dude slept below, but found it to be inconvenient as I’d like [...]
Day 2 – Tuesday, 17th November 2009 I woke up at 7am without my alarm clock, which I had set the night before initially for 8am, then lazed around in my bed by drifting in and out of sleep before I finally woke up proper at 8.30am. I had the free breakfast here—freshly made bread [...]
Day 1 – Monday, 16th November 2009 The night before, Ethan told me on MSN that he’d send me off and the spat of melancholy that swelled up at the thought of not being able to see him or Desmond again dissipated a little, and I felt a little better. I had wanted at the [...]
I have been tramping on my own for quite a while in New Zealand—something I would never attempt back in Malaysia—and I’m finding it oddly.. soothing. Thoughts would wrap themselves around my head, and it’s completely mystifying to think while listening to the waves crashing on the beach, or walking through thick green foliage bustling [...]
This traveller was beaten, soulless. But somewhere 800m above sea level by a cliff in Queenstown, he found his soul. The majestic view offered by standing on the narrow Ben Lumond Track, the snow-capped Cecil Peak towering on my right, and serene Lake Wakatipu by the Queenstown Bay all renewed in him a sense of [...]

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