the 'long' awaited photos

my parents finally gave in to my request to go somewhere so i can experiment with my camera..truth be told, i just wanted to go somewhere..and to a certain extent, experiment with my camera, but i found out i only knew how to use the "automatic" settings on my camera yesterday. HAHAHAHA. still got a lot to learn!! maybe i should just go to eastern beach or bucklands beach for now since they're only 5 minutes walk away..

so yesterday morning, mum woke us all up and told us we were going to maraetai beach right after church, but my bro came over just before church and told my parents to go to waiuku (somewhere further in after pukekohe) instead since he knows some nice spots for me to take pics.

so we were off to waiuku after a yucky yumcha at KK restaurant....and i'll let the pics do the talking from here onwards. enjoy :p


me and my vainpot siz. she looks stoned. BwAHAHAHHAHA gonna post it up on bebo for everyone to see *evil grin


the chee-daughters..my silly baby sis wasn't ready when the photo was taken -.-"


hurhurhur i like this pic...it makes me look kinda faceless. and erm, pimple-less! dont have to photoshop! *smug grin


this is the waitangi waterfall. it's a really small waterfall, but to quote my bro "HOW CAN A LOUSY WATERFALL SUDDENLY LOOK SO NICE IN A PICTURE?!?!?!! and that stupid guy and the other guy's head spoil a nice picture!"
the worst thing was, the guy with only the head in the pic was actually flexing his muscles (which are non-existent btw..he's a blob of fats!) when i took the pic. what an idiot!


the other side of waitangi waterfall. it looked kinda dirty from where we were standing, but somehow it looks clean-ish now


i like this pic...it looks really nice and peaceful...but i think i'll die of boredom living in waiuku. to quote R "what the hell are you doing in that inbreed town?!" dont know what he meant by inbreed though...


a little ducky frolicking in the little err..lake? this was zoomed to the max. i like my camera!


on the way to where we were headed to, we saw this huge queue of cows heading home and they were all walking in a very nice line and obediently too! the herder (?) saw our car coming and so he stopped the cows to make way for us. i told my dad to stop the car in between the first queue of cows and the second queue, but my dad refused..so he drove further away and i yelled for him to stop and he did this time, but it was so far away...so i had to zoom. but i dont think this pic does any justice for how amazing it was to see all the cows marching home!


we were driving and driving and we came across this path and my dad basically kicked me out of the car to take this picture -.-" he was bossing me around to take pictures of EVERYTHING...so this pic is just to make him happy :p


so many trees! like in LOTR...and the trees all look weird, but i cant quite point out what's weird about them..


another pic i like! pretty aye??


hehe i giggled when i saw this fluffy thingy..i said "look mommy! it's that fluffy thingy they use to fan the kings...like like...like in jungle book!!" and that sent my mum in hysterics -.-" what's SO funny?


view from the top of the lookout point.


when i saw these, i started shrieking "MOOOOOOMMMMM!!! LOOOKKK!! LOOK LOOKKKK!!! LOOKIE! PINK FLUFFY STUFF!!! IT'S PINK!!! FLUFF FLUFF!" my mum looked at me like i'm some sort of 'tard and walked away leaving me jumping around in excitement. *sigh* i think i'm too cute for my mum's liking!


up close and personal with the pink fluffy stuff ^^


mmm family pic :D thank technology for self timer and erm, a bench to put the camera on..i should really get a tripod, but i think i'll wait till malaysia..


another family pic at a different angle :)


HAH! looking at this pic makes me go crazy. we had to bush walk through all these thorny and prickly bushes and they were so tricky to get past them! they're positioned in such a way that they're on alternate sides - like you take one step, and the prickly bush will be on your left and when you take the next step, it'll be on your right...so you cant really bend to each side too much else you'll get pricked. i got scratched all over my legs and my left ankle is like swelling up now and it's so itchy! and on top of that, i have scratch marks on both my legs!


here! this is the thorny and prickly bush...aka gorse, which is a huge problem in nz. i remember learning about it in 7th form biology!


LOL my dad went "lemme do the ching chong pose coz i'm ching chong!" and my sis laughed and did the same. so here's my ching chong dad and ching chong sis. gosh my dad can be such a crack up at times..


and in this pic he said "here, lemme help you be ching chong too"
-.-"


acorn anyone?


LOL i was giggling when i took this pic coz it reminded me of "heroes", especially my dad and my sis. told ya my dad's a crack up!


and this is just another random pic. *roflrofl*


yucky stuff on a yucky bush


the path that leads to......nowhere?


hehe this pic was taken on the back of my family's car where all the sand got stuck. this resembles mt rangitoto. yes?



love these pics. they look like postcard-worthy pics!


the grumps who weren't happy because i distracted them while they were eating corn chips. sheesh!


another nice pic!


the obligatory camwhore pic :D


big tree, little me. poser poser poser :D


this cow's so cute! it's so fluffy...and i said "it looks like a toy!" which sent my bro in hysterics -.-" no really, what's SO funny?!?!


that fluffy cow got scared/ annoyed of us taking pics of it so it ran away and joined its friend/ sibling and both of them looked pretty annoyed. hehehehe..but look! they're fluffffyy! so cute ^^

and that's the end of it! it's almost 1.30am and i have to be at work at 9am..which means i have to be awake at 7.45am to get ready and have brekkie and everything. so that leaves me with 6 hrs 15 mins of sleep if i go to bed now. but i still have to read my book and Bible before sleeping. so that means i'll have less than 6 hours of sleep *groannn

well jo darling, hope you enjoyed looking at the pics :)