My NZDSA T-shirt

NZDSA (New Zealand Dental Student Association) T-shirts were finally being given out to its members... I love the design. Think the design is very creative. Not only that, it fulfils the current long T-shirt fashion trend. I like~~

(LA = Local Anesthetic)

The New Taiwanese Restaurant - Asian Delight~

A new taiwanese restaurant was opened 2 weeks ago about 10meter from the central library. A friend introduced it to me and since then it is the restaurant I most frequently visit. The food~ I wouldn't say is great but with the price and serving size taken into consideration - it becomes better than OK. The owners aim to serve foods that are high in nutritional values and hope to provide us students with balanced diet. It certainly is very balanced. Moreover, it tastes so much like home cooked food and the lady owner is so mummy like... reminds me of Taiwan everytime I go there.

My favourite dish = Pork chop with rice. Huge serving at a cost of $7.50.

$6.50 curry chicken on rice - not as good as the pork chop with rice.

1 thing I really like about the place is - for every $6.50 and above, we get a free dessert ^^ My favourite is the wheel cake (comes in different fillings like red bean paste, taro, custard and also has savoury fillings such as tuna, turnip etc) but not available all the time.

To promote the newly opened restaurant, the owners decided to hold a $1 dinner for first 50 customers yesterday. Being the 'Kiasu' me (and a few other friends) - we arrived at the restaurant 10minutes before it opened. And wooww.. apparently there were MORE kiasu people than ourselves. By 5pm, the queue has already reached the street outside the shop.

There were a few choices available: minced beef, vegetarian mince, curry chicken, stew beef and mapo tofu; on rice / noodles. They didn't allow us to choose what we would like but rather they served them at random turns and we had to just take whatever we were being offered.

When it was my turn - I got chicken curry on noodle. It was much smaller serving than what we expected but for a $1 meal, it's not too bad.

Too hungry, just gobbled the whole plate of food - then remembered I should have taken some photos before I got lost in the urge of filling up my tummy.. nevermind, still get to see the empty plates hehe.

Anyways, it didnt really fill me up so I went and bought some greasy fish and chips to complete my Saturday eat out experience.

My freezing cold Saturday~

It was a freezing day yesterday. It snowed for almost a whole day. However, the snow didn't settle because it was too wet, which was quite a pity as I would love to play with the snow a bit.

However, I felt very grateful that I had a warm shelter. Most times like this, I usually imagine people who are broke and have to live under the bridge or park.. then I tell myself, how lucky I am :)

Photo taken from inside the library while I was working in the morning.. very wet and it was VERY windy. The bl**dy wind broke my umbrella... again! I lost so many umbrellas because of the strong wind in Dunedin and the record was - opened the umbrella - the wind broke it in 3 seconds (and it was my most favorite polka dot umbrella which I bought from Brunei - then brought it back to Malaysia - then forgot to bring to NZ - then finally brought it with me to NZ during the following holiday, used it on a windy, rainy day and in less than 3 seconds - BROKEN!! THEN I had to walk in the rain......)

Well, at least this umbrella has served me 2 times before it broke yesterday.. T_T

Snapshot of the weather forecast on my cellphone (and also to show off my new LV themed wallpaper wahaha)

This is the place I spent my whole Saturday afternoon in. It is one of the Biomaterial labs at school and I was there working on my research project. Not the flashest place to be in on a weekend day but then, it kept me dry and warm ^^

Snapshot of the 'scenery' I got to enjoy when I was at the lab.

I really enjoyed my evening later on as I went to the cinema and watched Hancock. Feel it was time and money well-spent. Highly recommended as it was very witty and different from the usual 'superhero' movie storyline. Thumbs up for this one!

Shopping Spree~

Kathmandu's on sale! Well, in general, Kathmandu goes on sale many times a year.. but, this time it is DIFFERENT because EVERYTHING is at least 40% off.

Kathmandu is definitely not my favorite brand for fashion. However, it sells some really awesome and creative accessories for traveling. So, this time, with almost everything 50 - 60% off, I shopped and bought like mad.. yes it was madness indeed..

I spent about NZD200 in 2 days!! @_@" (feeling very guilty now~)



Bags of goodies...



Ok, not all are for myself.. some of them are for my parents and friend.. The accessories are: packing cells (to compartmentalize clothes and underwear etc) (Green and black), toiletries bags (Black and mint), Microfibre towels (2 X-large and 1 medium, very compact and light), foldable indoor slippers, shoes bags (green-gray and blue-gray), snooze pillow, anti-dvt socks and luggage tag.




My new shoe bag.. I love it! I tried using and I think can at least squeeze in 2 pairs of shoes..




This is my favorite! Toiletries bag. The best thing about this bag is it has many small sleeves / pockets which can carry bottles and sort them out nicely and neatly. Also, the sleeves prevent the bottles from falling all around.









The cutest thing I bought from Kathmandu - luggage tag with cartoon of a sheep :):)