Why the random topic you might ask?
well i was looking at some of my facebook albums to catch up on the memories and i remembered that time my family and i went to New Zealand and instantly fell in love with the place ( get the tittle now?). it would be definitely be one of my Top 5 places to go again if i ever have the chance. My family and I went there in the middle of 2009 during the schools holidays and we thought it would be a good time off from all the stress from work and school, and this wasn't like a normal vacation where we would book a hotel for a week and enjoy one part of the country, this was an actual backpacking vacation where we would move every night to a new motel and we would backpack across the whole country right to the very south. As i could remember it was the Fall season when we went there, and it was already freezing cold! New Zealand was also a very special place to me because it was actually the first time i touched snow. it was a really memorable moment. REAL snow is so much different than the FAKE snow in lets say, SnowWorld in Genting (no offence)
Another thing about New Zealand that was memorable was the fact that i Bungy Jumped! Yeaps thats right, it was 5secs of pure adrenalin running through my veins. i even bought the jacket and they gave me a DVD of the ACTUAL dive! thats something to show the kids one day. To be honest i actually wasn't scared UNTIL i came to the edged and looked down, at this point i was asking myself "what was i thinking" and while i was thinking that the bungy guy was already counting down. The only thing that was between me and 50m drop into the freezing river was nothing but little strands of 'rubber bands' tied densely together. The actual drop was the whole highlight actually because of the suspense building up to the jump, i would line up with the rest of the jumpers and just as we're about to get ready to jump, we would see person after person jumping down.
There was actually something funny that happened, before it was my turn to jump, there was a waiting lounge near the bridge where we were jumping and inside was a couch and a live video of the jumpers jumping off. So i thought i might entertain myself for awhile and something hilarious happened, there was a korean lady who was (later i found out) dared to go on the jump and when it was her turn she froze in fear and countless times she tried to jump but she just couldn't so the bungy guy just asked her to look forward and count to 5, and even before she reaches 4, he pushed her! it was just plain funny to watch something like that happen right infront of you. Yes New Zealand was really just another one of those place where you would just want to have fun.
Good times, how i miss them
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