We arrived holding hands not knowing what to do. we had no car and it was getting pretty late. We had to reach Mount Cook before dusk and it was an estimated 6 hr drive from the Airport. There were infinite road maps. I grabbed one quickly. It was our only life saver.
Awak managed to finally got his driver’s license a month or so before this trip. Entering CTE in Singapore for the first time was mind boggling experience for him. So we knew that it was gonna be a big risk. A road trip for the entire 2 weeks in a... well, totally foreign traffic.
He jumped, wanted badly to test out the weather. From a distant I saw a disappointed face and I could recognize those lips. He whispered, “it’s suppose to be freezing cold right?”
and yeah, right about there, the wind blew on his face. He froze, shivered and tested out again. There were smoke coming out from his mouth.
You are not used to it, don’t misjudge our Mother Nature.
The car we had was perfect. When I first entered, it stinks. Cow dung.
Overtime we got really used to it. The car stench of chilli sauce + cow dung + coffee + cig + mud + wet coat, etc
We were lucky that I managed to burn like 5 cds last minute. We played the songs over and over and over again mixtures of country and punk rock. They played good rock music but because we jumped to places a lot, the FM station just couldn't keep up.
So, yea what we did next? Turn right or left or straight. I was the navigator and for the first time I was proud of myself when I said
“turn right and go all the way straight…”
For the next 3 hrs, we were dumbfounded.
Slowly we monitored the temperature. It literally dropped every hour passing by.
The first town was a scary one because yeah because it was THE FIRST I guess. We saw Kebab Stall and figured that it shouldn't be that sinful. it wasn’t easy to get Halal food around. And then we tried searching for supermarket and upon arrival, we were clueless man, lol. Cos I don’t cook so does dean. We don’t know what to buy and so we bought, chips, cookies, Maggie, 2 bottles of Coke and milk, chocolate powder, gummy err yea. So erm that’s pretty much for dinner.
They don't eat with chilli sauce so we couldn't swallow the fish and chips. We went to a nearby stall grab 3 bottles of Thai Sweet and Sour Chilli Sauce, stored it in our car compartment and ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Perfect.
So yea, the day passed by quickly, we didn’t want it to end too quick. There was one night in Dunedin I held his hand and said “I’m gg to miss you” It felt like a dream, everything, like I don’t wanna wake up cos I will miss this boy. This boy who were there for me, who protected me. This boy who was always next to me sheltered me thru snow, wind, rain and rocks. He carried me when there were so many land mine on the field (haa I meant cow dung of course).
We had a lot of fun doing the impossible. Like water rafting. Water rafting I thought was easy but I was wrong. Imagine, you had to paddle through that angry river with your fingers numb. Yea the weather was definitely a challenge.Almost all the activities I wanna give up because I had to do it with a numb hand and i wasnt used to it. It was fucking on average 7 to zero degree throughout. Even the sun didn’t help at all and its only autumn. I cried climbing the glacier, I swear. Its not a joke you know. People died climbing that glacier. I saw flowers at a few corners and that represented death. Even the roads were crazy. It was never a straight road, 25 even 15 degree turn at almost all corners. You will never know what to expect. Bungy was fun for sure. Mount cook's beautiful and peaceful and the lakes, how can I ever forget all the lakes, magical. The sea, the breeze I had to wrapped my face with cloth. It was freezing forever.
Everytime i got scared awak hugged me, I sniff his body and I felt calmer, warmer. In peace.
The small town had crazy teens around, especially Greymouth. unfortunately, we were chased by gangster one night. But we made it through eventually.
I cannot erased from my mind, That night, we were in slipper in Christchurch. We watch ‘The Reader’ and everyone looked everyone was so formal as we pretended like nobody cares.
In that busy street, the guy strummed his guitar so loud the police siren but dean said to me “I don’t want us to pretend to be old too fast just because we got married. Let’s stop pretending let’s do it our way”
YOU TOOK OFF YOUR SHIRT IN THE SNOW
You protected me when we were climbing up the glacier, you carried my bag. You pushed me to climb the mountain when I cried. Everyone looked I was embarrassed but I saw you, you were proud of me.
Above all the biggest challenge was that I didn’t meet Dean for a month before the wedding day and suddenly we were man and wife. It was confusing, was hard figuring who he was and how I was to him. Initially, first few day at NZ, we acted like man and wife. It wasnt us. We felt kinda jaded. So that night, I got up, jumped at his back and closed his eyes. And i told him to stop pretending.
Slowly but somehow, we managed to go back to normalcy again.
so, Ive uploaded the photos in facebook.
I will upload videos here okey, this is weird but ermm Ive made like a documentary-like-horrible-i cant understand what the hell i was thinking- video. will share with guys, I will upload bit by bit when I got the time cos im using youtube. I guess by end of the week I should have almost all the 2 wks trip video.
So here are a few video first, will show the rest maybe later tonight ;)
I didn’t know where the dikir barat song come from, lol. Awak you are mad!
alrighty post more later, bye..