Sophia's Belated Birthday Weekend
After booking the flight tickets a couple of months in advance, I was finally off to windy Wellington! Reason? To celebrate Sophia's birthday (a month after the actual date. Oops? :P) It was the first time I flew with Pacific Blue and I was surprised - the planes are actually big! I expected to have to walk on the run-way, following the big blue painted feet and having to enter through the back of the plane but no, it was a proper terminal!
On arriving in Wellington, I met an ex-high school mate, Daniel, as we were passing through the terminal. Silly enough, he was heading back to Chrischurch for the weekend while I had just arrived. We had a brief catch up but then his plane was boarding so he had to shoot off. What a small world...
Seeing as I arrived quite late on Friday night, Sophia took me to a place called Pravda for dessert with her and Liam. He's a physiotherapist and we all know how much I love physios huh? Twist and turn you in awkward positions and then ask you to rate the pain from 1 - 10. Duh... Obviously, I took the opportunity to hassle him about his profession, (to which he defended extremely well). Hehe! This was me trying to be as sociable as possible after Sophia complained about me being so anti-social in recent years. Bleh! I don't think i've been that bad. Maybe just too lazy to put myself out there and meet new people. I love my comfort zone. Eesh~
Anyway, we decided to have a pretty early night so that we could have a good night's rest for a whole day of shopping the next day! Hehe... Honestly, it was really a girl's weekend. Haven't had one of those in... forever? Wahahaha! Never really been into a girl's weekend but I must admit, it was pretty fun!
So Saturday morning... We had brunch at Simply Paris on Cuba Street, then started our shopping from there around midday. Had a coffee break somewhere in the middle. Can't remember the name of the cafe though.
Ended up at Lambton Quay, 5 hours later where Ai Wei joined us for some retail therapy. Poor girl had to work half day on Saturday.
At that point, I gave up on the idea of walking back to the car - I was told it would be around a 15 minute walk. Hell no! I insisted on cabbing to the car!
Seeing as we were just around the corner from the TSB Arena where there was the South East Asian Food Fair, we decided to take a look. There was around a 30 - 45 minute queue just to get in through the door. So instead, we decided to have wine at Shed 5 which is where we ended up dining for dinner as well. The wine was delicious! But at $50.00 a bottle and Sophia needing to drive later, we decided to stop at one. It is probably the nicest tasting wine i've ever had (then again, i'm not really a wine drinker - goes straight to my head!)
By the time we finished dinner, there was no queue for the "South East Asian Food Festival", so we decided to take a look. But before doing so, the outside of the TSB Arena proved to be some picture perfect moments, along with the pretty girls of course! Stop laughing! :P
There wasn't too much food left at the "South East Asian Food Festival" (not that we needed any!). Just that, Sophia needed to buy some for the lazy boys. Funny enough, I bumped into Chee Khiong there. Strangely, I think the last time I saw him was during my road trip up to Auckland via Wellington.
After walking one round of the Arena, we hopped into a cab and headed to the car. Hehe. I had to take a picture of us in the taxi. I mean, how often does this happen? It's unheard of! :P
We went over to Ai Wei's apartment to have a peak and then dropped her off at a party. Went to drop off the food at the boys' apartment before heading back to Sophia's flat. The boys' scare me... To think that they are the future of the medical profession when they can barely handle a plate of food and a fork! *fAiNt*! Crazy...
We had planned to take a nice hot shower and then get ready to hit the town but instead, we both got lazy and ended up staying home. It was getting late anyway. Either that or, we've become boring working people now.
Woke up in time for dim sum brunch with the boys at Majestic. Forgot to take photos so none to show. It's funny how much you learn when you go to dim sum with ang mo boys because there's so much they don't know and when you try to explain it to them, you realise that you don't know as much either. So it becomes a learning experience and sometimes, we need those moments to make us realise and yearn to learn again. Maybe that was the lesson I was meant to learn from this trip.
Sophia and I went for a caffeine boost at Gotham Cafe which is somewhere in Lambton Quay. Recognise the name? The theme is BATMAN and with "The Dark Knight" just being released, i'm sure it was a big hit during the time of the premiere and thereafter. The choice of the cafe was because we wanted to pick up where we left off the previous day with regards to SHOPPING! Hehe...
We ended up taking too long to shop and had to rush to our body massage. Sophia had booked us in for an hour long body massage at East Day Spa a week or so beforehand. Since I found out, I had been working on desperately trying to get out of it but to no avail. Hehe! So yeah, it was the first body massage i've ever had and it felt so awkward! :P Because we were late, we only had a half hour massage. Haha... My way of sabotaging the whole experience? No!! We still had to pay for the whole hour anyway! Bleh~
Went back to Sophia's flat to pack. That's her flat below by the way. If you've ever been to Dunedin, don't you think it looks similar to those in Dunedin? The more I saw of Wellington, the more it reminded me of Dunedin - the hills, the properties, how people love to walk around the city, how everything is in a close proximity of each other, even going around the bay. Didn't take any photos of the city itself, the weather turned crap on my final day - sad to see me leave. Yeah right!
Dinner that night was at Chow Restaurant. It's quite an interesting restaurant - an english, chinese fusion. I guess the equivalent in Christchurch would be, Indochine?
With an hour to spare before needing to head to the airport, we went to Strawberry Fare for dessert.
And that, pretty much sums up my weekend in Wellington. It was an awesome trip! Can't wait for next weekend - Auckland, here I come! :)
On arriving in Wellington, I met an ex-high school mate, Daniel, as we were passing through the terminal. Silly enough, he was heading back to Chrischurch for the weekend while I had just arrived. We had a brief catch up but then his plane was boarding so he had to shoot off. What a small world...
Seeing as I arrived quite late on Friday night, Sophia took me to a place called Pravda for dessert with her and Liam. He's a physiotherapist and we all know how much I love physios huh? Twist and turn you in awkward positions and then ask you to rate the pain from 1 - 10. Duh... Obviously, I took the opportunity to hassle him about his profession, (to which he defended extremely well). Hehe! This was me trying to be as sociable as possible after Sophia complained about me being so anti-social in recent years. Bleh! I don't think i've been that bad. Maybe just too lazy to put myself out there and meet new people. I love my comfort zone. Eesh~
Anyway, we decided to have a pretty early night so that we could have a good night's rest for a whole day of shopping the next day! Hehe... Honestly, it was really a girl's weekend. Haven't had one of those in... forever? Wahahaha! Never really been into a girl's weekend but I must admit, it was pretty fun!
So Saturday morning... We had brunch at Simply Paris on Cuba Street, then started our shopping from there around midday. Had a coffee break somewhere in the middle. Can't remember the name of the cafe though.
Ended up at Lambton Quay, 5 hours later where Ai Wei joined us for some retail therapy. Poor girl had to work half day on Saturday.
At that point, I gave up on the idea of walking back to the car - I was told it would be around a 15 minute walk. Hell no! I insisted on cabbing to the car!
Seeing as we were just around the corner from the TSB Arena where there was the South East Asian Food Fair, we decided to take a look. There was around a 30 - 45 minute queue just to get in through the door. So instead, we decided to have wine at Shed 5 which is where we ended up dining for dinner as well. The wine was delicious! But at $50.00 a bottle and Sophia needing to drive later, we decided to stop at one. It is probably the nicest tasting wine i've ever had (then again, i'm not really a wine drinker - goes straight to my head!)
By the time we finished dinner, there was no queue for the "South East Asian Food Festival", so we decided to take a look. But before doing so, the outside of the TSB Arena proved to be some picture perfect moments, along with the pretty girls of course! Stop laughing! :P
There wasn't too much food left at the "South East Asian Food Festival" (not that we needed any!). Just that, Sophia needed to buy some for the lazy boys. Funny enough, I bumped into Chee Khiong there. Strangely, I think the last time I saw him was during my road trip up to Auckland via Wellington.
After walking one round of the Arena, we hopped into a cab and headed to the car. Hehe. I had to take a picture of us in the taxi. I mean, how often does this happen? It's unheard of! :P
We went over to Ai Wei's apartment to have a peak and then dropped her off at a party. Went to drop off the food at the boys' apartment before heading back to Sophia's flat. The boys' scare me... To think that they are the future of the medical profession when they can barely handle a plate of food and a fork! *fAiNt*! Crazy...
We had planned to take a nice hot shower and then get ready to hit the town but instead, we both got lazy and ended up staying home. It was getting late anyway. Either that or, we've become boring working people now.
Woke up in time for dim sum brunch with the boys at Majestic. Forgot to take photos so none to show. It's funny how much you learn when you go to dim sum with ang mo boys because there's so much they don't know and when you try to explain it to them, you realise that you don't know as much either. So it becomes a learning experience and sometimes, we need those moments to make us realise and yearn to learn again. Maybe that was the lesson I was meant to learn from this trip.
Sophia and I went for a caffeine boost at Gotham Cafe which is somewhere in Lambton Quay. Recognise the name? The theme is BATMAN and with "The Dark Knight" just being released, i'm sure it was a big hit during the time of the premiere and thereafter. The choice of the cafe was because we wanted to pick up where we left off the previous day with regards to SHOPPING! Hehe...
We ended up taking too long to shop and had to rush to our body massage. Sophia had booked us in for an hour long body massage at East Day Spa a week or so beforehand. Since I found out, I had been working on desperately trying to get out of it but to no avail. Hehe! So yeah, it was the first body massage i've ever had and it felt so awkward! :P Because we were late, we only had a half hour massage. Haha... My way of sabotaging the whole experience? No!! We still had to pay for the whole hour anyway! Bleh~
Went back to Sophia's flat to pack. That's her flat below by the way. If you've ever been to Dunedin, don't you think it looks similar to those in Dunedin? The more I saw of Wellington, the more it reminded me of Dunedin - the hills, the properties, how people love to walk around the city, how everything is in a close proximity of each other, even going around the bay. Didn't take any photos of the city itself, the weather turned crap on my final day - sad to see me leave. Yeah right!
Dinner that night was at Chow Restaurant. It's quite an interesting restaurant - an english, chinese fusion. I guess the equivalent in Christchurch would be, Indochine?
With an hour to spare before needing to head to the airport, we went to Strawberry Fare for dessert.
And that, pretty much sums up my weekend in Wellington. It was an awesome trip! Can't wait for next weekend - Auckland, here I come! :)
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