One Month in Dunedin. 1st Post in NZ!

Hello family and friends! Finally a post after a month. Forgive me, i just feel so lazy to blog! I have posted up lotsa photos in Facebook. Haha, so those of you who dont have Facebook.....Forgive me, its really hard to upload picture into this blog, or I'm just so bad at it. Nways straight to point, let me tell you bout the culture shock I've experienced so far. Some I got used to it, some I'll never wanna get used to!

1) Its all about sex sex and more sex.. Prostitution, its legal and this is not Amsterdam.

Let the picture do the talking. This is a cutting from a local newspaper. Its shocking but the my European and Canadian flatties was even more shock when they saw my reaction. According to a 'reliable source', most guys here loose their virginity at 15-17, and by 20, they should have done it 5-10 times to be considered normal.

2) Booz, everyday is a HaPpY day.

Captain "Dou Bro". Created after a consuming box of Double Brown

I don't remember what happened here..... But someone is below the brown cushion.

Friday and Saturday night is when people drink 20-30 cans of beer a night, after they're 'plastened', thats when they don't remember the things they do and sleep with the wrong person. Don't worry mommy and daddy, I have yet to walk into a club :) Will keep it that way.

3) Its all green...

Tip of an iceberg of sheep and cows.

To those who love big cities, this is all u get here. Its sad.

I warmed up with the grass. Haha, its not all germs. Its fun, gotta scrape off the fear of Malaysian grass to enjoy this really.

Got so used to green that my iPod is green too =) Sexy green.

4) MY COOKING, oh yeah, thats a culture shock too..

This, plus...

...this...

...then this...

...becomes this..Look so much better when my mom made it.

That was my 1st dinner i cooked here. Either my taste for food dropped to help my self esteem or my cooking just taste good :) Getting better everyday. But I really miss Malaysian food. The food just taste like crap.. and much crappier pricing. I miss mamak, bak kut teh, nasi lemak, laksa........ But dessert's the best, they have bomb cookies, cakes, ice creams, frozen yogurt, fruits and butter!

5) Only 'yellow' in class.

It was quite awkward initially, but I've gotten used to it and made more white friends then asians now. Unlike the medicine school (more than 50% are asians) politics and psychology consist mostly white students. But whats the point coming overseas and stick with the same bunch of Asians friends? There are plenty of 'white washed' Asians too.

In my 1st few weeks here, I met a few xenophobic drunkards. They'll stop the car just to curse at me, or speed up when I cross the road and the worse is throwing empty beer bottles at me. Haha, of course both bottles missed. Thank God for that. But apart from the few people, the people here are very very nice and polite. Unlike Malaysian drivers. Including me of course. hehe.

Church is good, found a place called "Grace Bible Church", emphasize alot on Word of God which is really good. But I miss the vibrantness of DUMC, only Dr Daniel Ho manage to balance Word and Gung-Ho-ness and hence DUMC :) Will be starting my men's prayer group soon. In this land, you wont last long if you don't hold yourself accountable with other man of God. Temptations and distraction everywhere.

Nways I'll be going for a trip tomorrow =) More pretty photos coming up in Facebook i expect. To my family, I miss you all loads. Not fun la no kakak at home and walking ATM everywhere I go. Haha, and I miss mom's nagging, dad's long lecture, Bryan's randomness, Jordan's fat pinchable face and kakak's niceness at home. 

...and church members, Dr Daniel's preaching, Pastor Chris M's prayer group. and everyone I know i DUMC.

...friends in Malaysia, there's no other better friends than you guys, I now know what "you'll only appreciate things when they're no longer there" means. But I have Skype =) Get Skype and we can talk!! 

Till then PRAY for me :p Won't forget you all in my prayers.