Day 6 - 12/12/08

Sorry for the long delay between my posts. I was so busy with parties and college assignments that i have over looked the importance of this blog to other people. :D Just joking

Anyways, back to my story...

It rained this morning, and it was freaking cold... Tom was worried that if that kept up, we won't be able to have our "Sausage Sizzle". Our plan was to help the Lions sell sausages to raise funds. But the rain stopped at 10 a.m. So, we continued watching the weather forecast. We watched some TV to ease our boredom.

Oh, damn... It started to rain at 2 p.m. Gary (the other Lion) called to say that the "Sausage Sizzle" was canceled. Double damn... And I was really looking forward to it.

Sigh... I settled with psyching my self up for my favorite TV show. Yea! You guessed it! Girls of the Playboy Mansion!

...And Rex went to sleep... Zzzzz...

Half an hour later, Tom took us to a place called the Weta Cave. It's not a real cave, lol... Duh.. It's a small museum where they display the props used for a few movies.


The Weta cave!!!

It stopped raining when we got there, by the way.

It seems this company called WETA was responsible for the creation and design of the Lord of the Rings and Narnia amour. Woah... Deja vu.

Anyways, they had very, very detailed and realistic busts and models of the characters of many different films. I really can't describe the amount of detail that is in each and everyone of these models they produced.

Obviously, quality comes with a price.


Creatures from the LOTR... The one on the left is the fellow who killed Gandalf...

One of the Narnian beasts... I think...
Take a wild guess as to how big this thing was... Not even close... It was like... 2 inches tall... Check out the major detail on it...


I couldn't get to see the actual thing inside, as they didn't let us open the box. So i got the next best thing - the PICTURE printed on the box!!!
The cheapest thing they sold were small rings at $5 and the biggest, most expensive thing is a life-sized model of Gullum from LOTR priced at $2,500.

The damn expensive Gullum...

What the hell!!! Only a hardcore collector would buy that.

It started to rain when we got out of the Weta caves. Damn... The weather was screwing with us... Damn you, NZ weather!!!


The weather screwing with us...
Anyways, we were also "treated" to some NZ traffic jam on the way back... It wasn't as spectacular as Kuala Lumpur traffic jam, but we were moving along quite slowly, nonetheless...

During that time, my keen sense of observation made me notice a few things :
- That Tom's car was a Suzuki Baleno
- His gear shift, compared to my retarded car, was damn smooth. There wasn't a single sound coming from it when he changed gear... Wow...
- Tom loves to drag gear 1 until about 40-something kph, then drag gear 2 until about 65 kph. That was cool and impressive. My car can't even accelerate anymore when I'm at 20kph in gear 1.
- I love to crap when i have nothing else to say. Like this portion for instance.

Oh by the way, one of our team members had to go back to Malaysia this morning - Sze Ting. Apparently, she had been sick since we got here.... So, her symptoms were lack of appetite, vomiting, panicky, fever... and... Did I mention panicky?

Sigh, like I told Wan Qi, it's like losing a member of the family.

On a happier note, our dinner theme was - onions. Lol... Funny, right? Well, it all began like this...

As i said earlier, we wanted to have the "Sausage Sizzle" but it was royally screwed by the weather. Well, it seemed that Anne had already sliced up all 16 onions we bought before we were informed about the "Sausage Sizzle" being canceled. So, we were left with 16 sliced, smelly onions to cook with.

As usual, Anne worked her magic and produced 3 delicious dishes, all made with onion as one of the ingredients: Onion soup, Potatoes and onion, and lamb chops and onion.

Dinner was wonderful. (as usual)

During the clean up, Anne had a brain-blast of how to dispose of the left over onions. (of course we didn't finish the whole lot...) Apparently, her daughter was having a barbecue the very next day. We could just give it all to her!!! Yay!!! Problem solved!!!

But the idea came a few hours too late...