Road Trip
Saturday, November 26, 2005
WAssup everybodoy...first blog, first entry, doesnt get BIGGER than this. Ive just recently came back from a road trip with zach,sean and bing. So ill just babble on about that. I would very much like to show some pics but it was all taken with bing's camera and that kambing hasnt send me the pics yet.
It all started on a bright sunday morning, weather was awesome and the sun was shimmering down on us. Sean came ova my place early in the morning and we were all geared up for this testosterone filled road trip. My day started out with a BANG (excuse the pun), just as we were gonna pull out of my drive way, the knuckle head zach brandished his BB gun and shot me right on the eye. Needless to say, it hurt quite a bit and left quite a bit of a mark. However, the show must go on and we departed good ol' howick.First stop, breakfast at macdonald and to pump some petrol then it was a straight ride to rotorua. After nearly 3.567 hours of driving, zach decided that he needs to take a leak so we stopped by this petrol station somewhere in the Hamilton vicinity. Upon reaching back to our car, Bing spotted this random car besides us with only children in it. A sudden rush of insanity striked him and he attempted to frighten those poor little kids. His antics was welcomed with lots of laughter among us (except for me). God, please help me from these crazy people, i prayed. Well, we hit the road again and admist all the "high quality" singing from the whole crew, we manged to reach rotorua with our sanity intact.
Our first stop in Rotorua was agrodome. A real adventure spot for tourist as it was advertised in the brochure. We went in and saw heaps of activities to partake such as bungy, jet boat, free fall and some crazy reverse bungy thing. What a hard choice, what hardcore activity would four tennage guys do?..well, it was easy, we chose to check out the farm animals. Firstly, we saw this random ass ass swaggering along the way. Obviously, many "ass" jokes were made and we laughed whole heartedly. Next we saw this gigantic pig lying on a pool of mud. It was so big it must have weighed the equivalent of kai ann's weight. That lazy creature suddenly reminded us of how we once were when sitting in our MM1 lectures. After that, bing started hassling some ostrich, he tried shouting at it but to his dismay it remained calm. We also got chase by some lurking ostrich when trying to disturb thier afernoon stroll. We then went to have a look at the zorb and decided not to do it coz er....we decided not to.Lunch twas at some burger joint and then it was the highlight of the trip: Whitewater rafting. After doing some phone calls and bookings, we went off to kaituna river where our adventure begin. We had to dressed in some really tight (and i mean TIGHT) swimming gear. We were then given helmets, life jackets and was treated to the music of creed's "One last Breath" (hahah, just kidding). After some instructions on pedalling and stuff, we tackle the KAituna river!!!....it boasted the highest commercially rafter waterfall in the WORLD, standing at a whopping 7m. Here's some pics of it... DAmn...this sucks...i cant seem to make the pics smaller and it says i have already exceeded my entry capacity or some shit. Oh well, damn blogs, someone gotta teach me how to use this shit.Anyway, we left for our tent site in Tongariro National Park after rafting. We set up our tent and left for dinner at a place called Tavern bar. To my surprise, one pizza cost about $16.95, damn...our steam boat also cheaper man. Night dawns, and this is when the suffering starts. Imagine sleeping in a poorly insulated tent on rock solid ground, well add that with the temperature of 1 celcius and 3 very tired tennage guys around you, one whose snoring could shake the very walls of Helm's Deep. What a dreadful night!!! But wait...it gets worse...of some obscure reason, the guys decide to tackle the bitter cold by farting thier hearts out to keep warm. The sweet aroma then undergo steady state diffusion and consequently reach the tender nostrils of everyone. This was the trade off we had to pay in order to be kept warm. After some "sleep", we woke up 6am to get ready to embark on our journey to the Tongariro crossing, one of the most famous one day treks in NZ. We were all geared up and ready to go. However, mother nature had other plans, probably angered at our air pollution from the previous night, she started to clean the air by letting rain come. The rain pour and pour for hours and we had to stay indoors and watch Brave heart. It didnt stop till late at night after which we thank mother nature for showing mercy. I could stay on continue writing about our adventure but i really have to go makan so here is a summary of the rest of the tripDay 3- Jungle trekking in taranaki waterfall- Gourgeous waterfall...makes u appreaciate God's creation- Took off our jackets and pose half naked at the peak of the mountain- Check out from the lodge- Stop at taupo for fish and chips- Sang vannasa carlton's "A thousand miles" all the way back home Thank you zach, bing and sean for this wonderful experience..cheers to u guys...pHooooTTTThats all folks
Alex
7:27 PM
CRAPPER
Ah-Lek Cheah
September 8th 1986
New Zealand
Civil Engineer wannabe
About the author:
Malaysian by birth, Alex Cheah was born in the rough and ruggard suburban city of Paramount Garden. He currently is pursuing a degree
in Civil Engineering in Auckland University, New Zealand.
The overall subject of blogging has been a life long passion. His frist blog has receives many accolates and criticism. The second (craptacular) aims
to cater for the ever growing demand of his friends.
In craptacular, Alex incorporates the very best of Malaysian Humour garnished with a hint of sacarsm and a pinch of disgustingly LAME jokes.
The result is a simple, practical blog which is geared to either piss someone off or provide humour to his/her life (hopefully the latter).
