Wkend trip to Wellington

Feeling all stress out in flight, bored of the usual drinking hole in palmy and need some new fresh boold to pump into our blood stream. We decided to take a drive down to welling juz for some party time and chillax..

We reached Wellington on Sat nite with no prebooking of ani accomodation or plans. Juz some ideas of what we want to do and roughly how we gona get there.. It was abt 9 ish when the first detail got our arse to wellington. Settle in at YHA which is a backpacker in town area. The nite was kina wild with couple of pubs, bars and club having their sets of music, entertainment and events. First stop was at "rain" which is like a asian club/ hangout place. Music was mainly RnB but there was the occasional house and techno. There after we were hopping from one place to another juz to see whats the other club have. There was live bands for the more chillax group, strip shows and club and pole dance for the more mature and nothing better to do group and the more quiet group wld be watching either ruby matches or soccer matches at the pubs. The younger mid range people wld be hopping around clubs and dancing the nite away.. We partied till 5 ish in the morning and the clubs din close till 7 in the morning.. Tired as we all were, we head back to our backpacker and catch some shut eyes before checking out and head out for our short tour of wellington.

Tim showing off his pole dance routine while most of us are still trying to stop sleep walking. Hungover and dehydrated as we all are, we made our way to the asian makan area and star mart to get some re-supply for our bodies..
Dim Sum place for the day is at Regal which is juz a few min walk from YHA
Lunch ended well with some of us falling a sleep at the table and making a hell lot of noise. But it was all in the name of fun. After lunch, we went up to Mt. Victoral lookout point to breath in some fresh all and to clear our heads.. As usual, the view is never disappointing.
Wan showing off his "cannon"
Still thinking of last nite's party, Senthil and I just relax on this photo..
What a beautiful day it is...

The group who went to party in wellington..
Juz at a junction of the road, we took this photo of the church and the sun shining on it..

Overall, the trip down was really an eye opener for me to see hows the clubbing sence in wellington is like and i`m sure of going back some time ltr this year to party again. Next trip to wellington, i`m going get meself a massage(clean); heard from a fren, there is one that is pretty good and my back kina needs some workon. And do some shopping...

School starts on monday and its back to flying week for me. Test and more study stuff ar juz around the cornor and i really need to get it done before departure back to singapore.. Nav flight is kina killing me as well with all the paper work that need to be done b4 the flight. Wish me luck~

Emptiness in a sober mind

Juz got back from town with the smoke still linger on my shirt..

Stars are shining brightly tonite with no vis of clouds. Its been awhile since we had ani clear nite skys and this is definately one of the better nites for a long while.. In a god sent nite like this, there seems to be an emptiness that linger close. Not to sure what is or what is not to be but am sure that i dun wanna kneo if it anithing good..

The darkest hour have yet to bestow on to me.. I pray may that all wld be well~!

Was lost but am found

Juz came down from my first solo Nav flight out to Mangaweka (DC-3; Cookie Time A/C). Weather enroute wasn`t that bad with clouds here there and everywhere. Winds was generally, VRB/03 and temp was 16/08. You can say is a pretty warm day after a shit load of rainny cold days.

Took off on RWY 25 juz after 737 Airnewzealand A/C took off on RWY07. The took off was really nice and not everyone can get a front seat view of the aircraft taking on. I was juz stone throw away from its take off point.

Once airborne, enroute to bunnythorpe was pretty short. Less then a min i wld say. Thereafter, I was in a track down lost lanes. Power lines and raising terrains look identical from the left to the right to the front. Sad to say, i have to be true to myself that i was lost on my first nav solo. No alam was raise as determine as i was to find back where i was, i use every available checks and procedures to find myself.. No mentioning i had some fun getting lost! haha...

Minutes and minutes passed and still no sign of where i was. Weather is coming in and cloud base is getting low, forcing me to go even nearer to the surface.. Few more feets down and i can start doing low level nav.. In the midest of it all, I crossed a double powerline which i kina rem it being really really near the ranges which i am not supposes to cross. Turning around and headed a general direction to gain as much ground as i can was the thou` that ran through my mind. This woke me up on my track and i found myself in a place i do not want to be!

Couple of mins later.. I manage to find Flat hill which is one of my pinpoint and got back into track and headed home from there.. The rest of the flight was juz njoying myself and making sure of where i was. Debrief was interesting as well but here is where the story end.

In life, we often get lost on our track. We can planned a perfect flight plan to bring us from point A to point B but we can never plan for the many emergencies, issues and things that may cause us to drift away from what we want. This is life... Juz like a ppt. my mom send me on trains! People come and go, you can never tell when the train will reach its final destination. The only thing we can do is to njoy the company and time we have with the passengers that bored our path and leave their tracks in our life. If we got lost, at least we are together and plan from there. Dun have to be frustrate but have fun.. Life is too short not to have any fun..

I believe what i learnt from the army, contribute to my return as well.. haha..

Updates of a routine wk..

Was kina bored and restless soo started the day with the mindset of baking some durain muffins. Well, it wasn`t that difficult took sometime to do it. To be honest, it turn out pretty well and i wld like to thank Cathy for helping me who is an idiot in baking to get it out pretty.. Thank Cathy.. It taste good as well.. haha...

Juz another wk of routine study periods at milson flight centre and flying wk juz went by with the horrible weather hailing and raining..

What we can do is to njoy the time on the ground and juz be merry with what we have..

Invited some of the class over for some dinner at 201B. As usual, i cook and try to make all things work. Lemon grass lamp, sour plum chicken, some curry, mince with potato and egg dish.

looking kina tired after the whole deal of preparing the feast
George and Ash digging in..
Joben, Andrew and wan starting with their plates
George is not really good with spicy food soo he is kina worried with the curry as ash try to flood his plate of rice with curry..
Cathy helping herself to the dishes and looking pretty for the camera... dottie...

Well, the next day we have a surprice drinking nite at 201B again.. some of our classmates bought drinks and came over to have some drinking session before heading down to town to party the nite away..
This is Sam (Aussie boy no. 2) and the girlfren (can`t rem her name). As always, after some drinks, things get alit sticky and out of the closet.
This is MJ who si the most sober guy but trying to look drunk.. dangz..

Hmm.. Things have been quiet lately with the weather over palmy not favourable for flying and nuthing serious going on besides studying and praying for good weather. Tml, the Singaporeans at palmy will be meeting the high commissioner from wellington, Singapore embassy for lunch in palmy. This shld be interesting..

Currently, there are a few issue i need to settle to maintain my stay and studies here. I pray that all these will go well and no major issue will come off it!

I seriously need to go get my ticket back home.Juz checked on the web from SIA for the ticket home, its almost fully book on the dates i aim to get home. Well, if all goes well, i`m looking at reachin singapore by 10th of Dec and get back to palmy on 16th or 23rd of Jan to continue flying till sch starts in Feb.

Nice Song

Light Surrounding You By Evermore

I See You By The Water
Your Toes Dipped In The Sand
I Thought That It Was Over
I Thought You'd Understand
But The Feeling Is Returning
Though Time Has Made Us Change
And I Understand If You Don't
Wanna Talk To Me About It Tonight
Tonight '

cause I See The Light Surrounding You
So Don't Be Afraid Of Something New

Time Was Overtaking Me
And I Guess I Was Confused
They Were All Inviting Me
But I Wish I Had Refused
'cause I've Been There Before
And I've Seen It All
And I Believe In You

And If You Never Had My Heart
I Would've Never Called You Back
At The Start That Night
So I Want You To Know That

I See The Light Surrounding You
So Don't Be Afraid Of Something New
'cause I See The Light Surrounding You
So Don't Be Afraid Of What You're Turning Into

Blue-eyed Sun Shines On Me
In The Morning
Can't Help But Feel A Little Cold
Thinking Of You

'cause I See The Light Surrounding You
So Don't Be Afraid Of Something New
'cause I See The Light Surrounding You
So Don't Be Afraid Of What You're Turning Into
No, Don't Be Afraid
Don't Be Afraid
Cos I See The Light
Cos I See The Light
Cos I See The Light Surrounding You

Quiet Wk

Yet another wk of no flights and no events.. Was slacking this entire wk! Cleaning up my room, the house and setting my notes in place for the up coming one. This wk was suppose to be my course flying wk but due to some issues, we are put on hold and only those guys who are finishing up their flights for PPL are doing their sorties.

Weather was pretty crap at times! I can even hear the howlling of the wind when i wake up in the morning! Heaps of raining and low level clouds bring the flight for the guys one step closer to impossible. But some of them still went out and praise god, they came back in one piece! Weather down in NewZealand is really interesting..

Had a makan session with the new guy in the junior course, 51. Singaporean and an officer from the Armed forces. So we can relate alot abt army stuff and OCS especially! haha.. it does bring back good memories abt the wing, instructors and brother in arms. Fought throu taiwan and JCC not forgetting the constant battle between Charlie and Hotel Wing for all the awards and pride! It feels good to be in that big family..

Coming back to life in Palmy, this wk will be study wk for my course. back to all the Laws, systems, Principal of flights, Met and many many more... Hopefully, i get back to nav flight soon. Can`t wait to flying out of Palmy control and see whats other aerodromes are like! Maybe fly down to some beach runway and land by the coast. That wld be a fantastic view to have..