For my next destination, I alighted at Cromwell (one of the stops listed on Intercity) at about 5pm, after a three hour bus ride from Mt Cook. Cromwell is a small town known for their fruits produce, especially when spring comes around, but I went during winter-early spring so I couldn't try fruit-picking or visit their fruit farms because the flowers have not...

I'm not sure if this is what you call a writer's block, but I've been staring into this empty white space for a while now, writing and then deleting and then writing again, because I can't quite decide on how I should start my third post on New Zealand. This has never really happened before... But whatever let's skip it. Here's part three...

Last night was a pretty bad night. It's been a while since I last felt so emotional. I've always been trying to repress all the negative emotions, but facing it head on now feels like I may have confronted some of the demons I spent months running away from. Looking back, everything at that in point of time is true in all its...

It's almost about one week since I returned to Singapore and I finally found some time to start on this blog post and edit some of the trip's photos. Yes, finally!! And this new blog layout is entirely designed and coded (from scratch!!!) by yours truly after two painstaking nights of working on it right after internship hours. Internship has been quite fun...

For my first solo backpacking trip, New Zealand was pretty darn amazing. Being in New Zealand's South Island was a totally different kind of exposure - an unfamiliar culture, new people from all over the globe and a country that's vastly different from Singapore's. Anyway, a number of people have been asking so I decided to edit this post to make it more...