Marlborough Farmer Market

Kiwi and Their Market

Untuk entry kali ni, saya nak kongsi sikit pengalaman mengenai market yang saya pergi di sini iaitu antaranya "Farmer Market". Sebenarnya, kat sini ada macam-macam jenis market... Saturday Market la, Sunday Market la, dan macam-macam lagilah...belum dikiranya dengan market untuk sesuatu town tu...Marlborough Farmer Market (MFM) ni, diadakan setiap hari Ahad di area dekat-dekat kawasan saya sewa. First time nampak sign pasal market ni, masa on the way nak pergi vineyard. Masa tu, nak moved pergi vineyard yang lain dan driver yang bawa tu kira ambik jalan shortcut. Dekat MFM ni, ramailah yang ambik peluang untuk jual macam - macam jenis jualan terutamanya hasil dari ladang mereka. Buah - buahan, sayur - sayuran, makanan serta bunga - bungaan. Ada juga yang mempamerkan bakat seni mereka yang nyanyian secara terbuka. Maka, dengan itu ramailah yang datang dan menghabiskan masa bersama keluarga. Di sini, they spend a very good quality time with their family members especially those yang ada anak kecil. Kiwi's love their child so much and they taking good care of them.









Marlborough Farmer Market open on Sunday at 9 a.m till noon

A warm welcoming greeting to this market.

This lady sells cherry from her farm as during this picture is taken the cherry and apricot fruit seasons were just started. The prices for those two fruits quite expensive because it just at the beginning of the season and it will get cheaper at the end of the season.

Drink coffee or espresso in the morning would be the best beverage to have and at same goes to those people in the picture above. There also have family having their breakfast and espresso here with their children. They look so enjoy themselves in the picture below.

At first, bila saya tengok apalah orang tu buat, dengan pakai costume macam tu, duduk depan atas bangku dan semua budak2 dok kumpul depan dia..bila dengar punya dengar..rupanya, dia macam cerita fairy tale story..rasanya la..hehehe.. ada jugak orang buat event macam ni buat kat tengah-tengah pasar kan? tak pernah nampak lagi lah kat Malaysia ada buat macam ni..sebab kalau yang pergi pasar tu mungkin para emak-emak dan ayah-ayah je kot..kot ada pun yang baby sebab baby xada orang nak jaga...

Dekat New Zealand, kebanyakkan komuniti bersara masih giat melakukan pelbagai aktiviti selagi mereka mampu. Ada yang masih boleh melakukan sukan bersama teman, menghabiskan masa bersama suami dan isteri dan xkurang juga ada yang usaha mencari pendapatan masing - masing seperti dalam gambar di atas. Suami isteri tersebut menjual bunga - bungaan segar di MFM. Namun, dalam pada banyak perkara yang baik tentang MFM ni, saya ada satu benda yang xdapat terima hakikat ini dan rasa lawak pun ada...hahahaha..nak dijadikan ceritanya, pagi ini saya bersama teman pun pergilah ke MFM untuk kesekian kalinya. Namun, kami telah tiba awal ke sana dalam pukul 8 lebih dan pada ketika itu, banyak para peniaga baru sahaja menyusun dan membuka gerai masing-masing. Untuk tidak membuang masa, kami bercadang mahu terus pusing dan mencari keperluan yang kami perlu sebab mahu pulang segera ke rumah akibat cuaca yang terlalu sejuk. Apabila kami tiba depan gerai yang kami mahu beli barang, penjual tu buat tidak endah dengan kehadiran kami. Kami berasa pelik, tapi kami approach dengan lebih dekat sebab kami betul-betul mahu beli barang tersebut. Apa yang berlaku seterusnya adalah, kami diberitahu, mereka tidak jual barang tu lagi sebab jam belum pukul 9 lagi..hahahahha..punya la lawak...mereka siap suggest dekat kami dtg pkl 9.30 untuk lebih baik....dalam hati ni berkata,"Nak bagi untung pun xnak. Kalau kat Malaysia ni, xkira dah..mesti jual punya..hahahahaha..."

Disebabkan kami malas nak menunggu dalam kesejukkan, kami terus ke destinasi lain...itulah kesudahan ceritanya..hahaha...

p/s: lain kali plan trip betul2 dan make sure pkl berapa they start..hahahaha..

Updated…oh, My Updated..

Assalamualaikum…apa khabar semua? hahahahaha…tiba2 macam penceramah nak mulakan ucapan la pulak..hehehe..rasa macam lama juga la xupdate blog kan? (walhal, sebelum ni, berbulan-bulan xupdate tu, lagi lama ya tak?hahahaha..) untuk tidak membuang banyak masa lagi, jom kita sambung kisah perjalanan hidup saya yer…kali lepas , ada cakap nak citer pasal life yang terkini kan? I mean, how do I survive here in New Zealand with my friends…(they are my course-mate during my study)

Seperti tarikh yang tertera di dalam visa, maka pada 16 November 2011 tepat pukul 11.40 malam, saya pun terbanglah ke Christchurch, New Zealand dengan pesawat Air Asia..setelah melalui pengalaman perjalanan selama 11 jam di atas awan, saya pun tibalah dengan selamatnya di sini. For the first time, I had experienced 11 hours in plane and I don't wish for second experience..hahahaha..(adoii..kalau tak, macam mana nak balik Malaysia..?Apalah aku ni…?) sebelum ni, paling lama naik plane pun takat 2 jam je, ni pulak sampai 11 jam?mak oii..agak2nya, apalah nak dibuat selama tu…tapi walau apa pun, berjaya jugalah tempuhinya…hahahaha..pssttt, termuntah bila dah stop landing…hehehe..)pengalaman yang xkan dilupakan..hehehehe

Untuk seminggu pertama, I stay in Christchurch at KiwiHouse...it was such a wonderful backpacker hostel except for its limited and small room space. The rest is great!! From there, we start to open our bank account, apply and IRD number and get a transportation for us which then we decided to buy a campervan... Wonder how does our campervan looks like? Here is the picture:

After that, we were traveling around in the south island where we gone to Lake Tekapo, Twizel (one of the location for The Lord of the Ring shooting), Cromwell, Queenstown, Alexandra, Arrowtown and then right away to our location right now which is Seddon and Blenheim. We were traveling around to search and apply for a job but, yet unluckily we got none until we started our job with some vineyard work. Up till now, we work for vineyard for about two months already and what I can conclude about this job is, it is freaking hard and tough job to do. So, those yang not fit enough, please think twice or more before decided to do the job...you might be do wire lifting (most difficult especially who has limited in height...hahaha) bud rubbing, cutting branch, and leaves plucking. All these jobs of vineyard are pay by contract which mean you'll be paid on how many you done the job and definitely we have to be faster as other people will do their best to finish all the contract. What an exhausted day it would be at the end of the day...huhu... p/s: I have never go work for a straight week…

For all those reason, I keep praying that we all could find a new job which is hourly pay and the task to do is not as tough as we had experienced. Thank to The Almighty, Allah S.W.T as we got a new job today which is garlic because there is nothing we can do in vineyard anymore as the next step is just to wait for the harvesting time only…but we could not be that happy yet as we only confirm after two weeks as the employer wants to see how are about our performance. Then only we could sign the contract between them. Please pray all the best for me and my friends as we really need this job..hihi and we sure put all of our afford in doing so.. So, good luck to us and till we meet again in the next entry…

Lake Tekapo

Twizel (one of the location for The Lord of the Ring shooting)

Cromwell

Queenstown

Alexandra

New Year 2012

New Year 2012 Resolution

masih belum terlambat kot kalau nak ucapkan selamat tahun baru...apa pun, semoga kedatangan tahun baru ni membawa perubahan yang lebih positif dalam menjadikan diri kita lebih matang menghadapi masa yang mendatang..

entry kali yang lepas updated about mylife that is i am succeed getting my scroll in bachelor's degree of mechatronic engineering. so? what is up next? satu fasa dalam hidup dah lepas..lepas ni nak jadi apa pulak ni?sekarang ni tengah jadi apa pulak ni?(hehehhe...) masih tertanya-tanya dalam diri..

sebelum ni, hidup ni rasa mcm dah teratur i mean dah ditentukan; mula2 pg sekolah rendah...lepas tu sekolah menengah, lepas tu masuk matriks dan end up with masuk uni..semua sama dengan kawan-kawan...tapi lepas habis semua tu, bermulalah dengan perancangan masing-masing untuk terus bergerak dan maju kan hidup masing-masing.

so, cer saya pulak mcm mana eh?lps habis study last year, buat part time..penat apply keje ikut kelulusan..xikut kelulusan..semua pun apply..last2 decide, buat keja part time ja..haha..sebab bulan november nak fly ke new zealand..ni semua plan ikut kawan punya cer...konon nak cuba nasib kat tempat orang..nak merantau tengok tempat orang..nasib flight ticket dah beli sebelum habis study dulu..(means, paham2 jelah guna duit apa...hahahaha)..duit poket pulak, buat loan la..apa lagi..hahahaha..

so, up till now it is almost two months i am here in new zealand..and know what?mmm..can say that, how beautiful it is here, Malaysia still the best and stay number in my heart, know why? I miss my family so much especially my mom and her cooking....(huahauahahahha..makan je ingat nyer...)hahahaha... this is my first time to go to whiteman country..i mean negara yang ada cuaca sejuk2 gini lah..hahahaha...adoii...

susah gila nak cope with everything..cope with the weather, the social, the environment and with a small amount of pocket money..hahahaha...(xper2..next time, kita story panjang2 experience kat sini...ok.. ^^)

so, back to the topic of this entry(hahaha..setelah mengarut panjang2, baru nak masuk topik)...new year resolution yer..hehehe..tahun ni, kalau boleh nak jadi lebih baik dari tahun lepas..dari segi agama dan kehidupan...hahahaha..yang detail punya...?mestilah rahsia..xkan nak state kat sini pulak kan2?hahaha...just hope that this year will be a great year for me and all ..


and tiap kali ada entry, mesti ada photo kan?so enjoy the following photo of mine.. \(^^)/

p/s:picture taken recently during my trip to nelson&golden bay (31/12/2011-2/1/2012). Nature beauty.