My first New Year celebration in NZ

My first day in 2014 dah berlalu ...ni dah 1.23am 2nd Jan 2014 waktu Wellington hehehehe ...ingat nak blog dulu sebelum tido ...sebab esok akan kembali pada rutin yang sibuk sibuk dan sibuk ...uni belum buka lagi but aku will be in the office as usual ...banyak kerja yang perlu dibuat ...just have to do what i need to do ...

view dari balkoni rumah Sergey ...aku ambik his FB photo coz dia guna kemera canggih! Rumah dorang atas bukit  ..and mmg residential area yang bersebelahan ngan city area ..it is in Aro Valley

How's your New Year celebration peeps? Mine was amazingly fun .. hahaha padahal memang planned on having a quiet night at the flat ...just me, the dvd and food ..that's was my plan ...i had a few NY parties invites tapi malas nak commit kata pergi ...all depends on mood and cuaca ..but my opis mate said i have to be with friends kata nya ...paksa2 aku lagi ...and other friends pun said the same thing ...and since my work went well (hahaha yes, I went to work for 4 hours on the last day of the year!) i kata i go to one of the parties ...and that was a good decision coz i had fun last night ..and well into the early hours of this morning ...

I went to the party hosted by my Russian friends - Sergey and Ana ...went there with Nabil - sebab dia kata kalau aku dibenarkan gi sorang sah2 aku tukar fikiran and tak gi .....or aku just sesat hahaha ...dorang dok about 20 mins walk from my place ...my place to their place takde bus ok ..menapak jer lah ....but weather was nice, warm summer weather semalam ....sampai sana and saw other friends dah sampai ..Tia ..Miko ...Emi semua dah ada ...and they were cooking and just hanging out ...

taken when the clock striked midnight ..hehehe aku as usual dok kat sebelah meja makanan!

I love hanging out ngan dorang nie coz dorang jenis yang have fun and easy to get along with ..takde lah jenis party2 yang you kena dressed up ke apa ke ..or jenis yang nak conversation canggih manggih that you cant join in ...the other parties yang i was invited to tu with different group ..one is a semi-formal NY party kat one of the nicest restaurant kat waterfront area ..hahaha aku mmg tak mau pergi sebab tak nak dressed up ..and the other tu kat Mount Vic area ..aku malas coz I know that party is going to be a huge one ....kang kena proper ...mingle and meet ppl ...so, tak pergi ...

the host preparing makanan negara dorang ...nie link to resipi tu kalau tak silap

a type of salad ...dalam dia ada potato, pickled herring, cabbage and yang buat merah tu adalah beetroot ...an acquire taste ...kira macam mat salleh nak rasa sambal belacan le agaknya! I had this with bread :-)

ini akak punya contribution to the dinner ..cold tuna pasta salad ...

Again, lots of food semalam ..4 boxes of pizzas, vege quiche ..spring rolls ..chips and dips ..caviar ..and spreads of cheese etc etc ...banyak lah ....sambil makan sembang ..and food continuously kuar from the kitchen ...abis first batch, someone akan gi kitchen ambik something from oven ...was there from 8pm till 2am ...tak terasa lama  pun ..tengok jam dah kol 2 ..kalau aku cinderella, dah lama tertukar coz past midnight

masa tunggu yang lain datang

ooo satu lagi benda baru yang I learned last night ...the twelve grape tradition ...Nabil nie half spanish so dia memang insist nak buat this twelve grape tradition untuk sambut tahun baru ...so setiap kali a bell strike at midnight dia akan makan satu grape ..sebab 12 kali bell bernunyi, maka 12 biji grape ...tapi mesti sebiji selepas setiap bell ...only the midnight bell on 31 Dec ...tak pernah lagi aku jumpa this tradition ...and semalam was the first I know of this :-) spanish tradition and also in some part of latin america! aku siap google tau ...hehehe here's the link!

Sebab balik lambat semalam ...which is actually 2am ...and tido lambat coz skype with family ...maka on NY day itself akak bangun lambat ....bangun2 tu terus check movie time ...sebab nak tengok Hobbit yang baru tu ...reason nak gi jugak today coz i know after this memang busy and maybe takde masa nak gi wayang ...luckily I managed to get up and was at the cinema in time for 12.30pm punya movie ....an awesome movie by the way ...and abis tu aku balik rumah sebab it was cold, and damp ..ujan .....balik sambung tido ...boleh??? and just lepak watch movies ..cook for lunch esok ...just another day kinda routine ...

that's is how I spent my NY Eve and NY Day .....