After much procrastination from my part, I finally managed to upload our honeymoon pictures and sharing some of our experiences here...
Our honeymoon was filled with lots of drama, stress and little that we know, we are both camera fanatics. We were off to NZ for our much anticipated honeymoon on 29 July 2006. Our first drama was when we were in KLIA. We reached there the earliest but somehow we were the last one to check in. Somehow, Jonathan had a terrible stomachache at the very last minute and he just had to GO. And after the quick hassling and tugging along our bags, we did manage to get onto the plane. Phew...what a relief! We stopped in Singapore for at least 2 hours waiting to transit. So, we decided to save some money by not having our dinner in Spore airport coz' we knew Air New Zealand will provide us dinner on the plane. Trying very hard not to get hungry, but at the end our tummies just gave in. We went to have a light meal in Subway and we shared a sandwich. But our tummies just didn't agree with the light meal and we end up in Burger King for another meal. So, by the time we were on the plane and dinner was served, we were quite full and we did not finished our meals. It was quite a waste coz the food was quite alrite and we did enjoy it. Oh well...what a waste. I was sitting in between of Jon and another "ang mo". Too bad he was old but then again, Jon would not had approved of me sitting beside a hunk in the first plae. Hah!! The old man was quite nice and he hardly touched his food. In my mind, I was like, "Aren't u goin' to eat that??" Oh well, I guess he was sick of plane food or just being picky. After a long tiring flight, we landed on NZ. We thought our tiredness will be gone once we stepped out of the plane. But we were WRONG! The next stressing drama unfold.
We were interrogated by the NZ custom officers and we were treated just like criminals. I was seperated from my Jonathan and we were both asked a couple of personal questions, like "Are we married? Wheres the marriage certificate?". I was like huh?? Marriage cert on our honeymoon trip?? Come on...Give us a break. Both of our session lasted about nearly 2 hours and that what I called a waste of time. Out bags were opened and all our personal stuff were taken out for public viewing. That was embarassing coz all our "honeymoon" personal stuff were publicly ransacked and taken out from the bag. Our bags were then taken for drug test and to be sniffed by a dog...What an experience...!
At then end, we found out that 5 people from our tour group were deported back to Malaysia coz they did not have any return tickets. Well, after our constant queries to our tour guide, only we found out that those people travelled all the way to NZ to work and did not plan to go back with us at the end of the trip. We were mad initially coz we were among the "suspect lists" as we were on the same tour as them and then that explained the long interrogation we had earlier.
This was my first overseas trip with Jon and this happened. I guess when people do ask me next time whether I remember my honeymoon trip, I bet I would! Woa....I mean seriously, this is what I called an experience of a lifetime, altho' a bitter one during interrogation but overall, I enjoyed the trip very much and I had so much fun with Jon. We ended up with so many pictures and we were clicking the camera all the way. I guess that is the beauty of having digital camera, we can take as many pictures as we want and delete those that we do not want later. So do take a peek of our honeymoon pictures ya'.
We were interrogated by the NZ custom officers and we were treated just like criminals. I was seperated from my Jonathan and we were both asked a couple of personal questions, like "Are we married? Wheres the marriage certificate?". I was like huh?? Marriage cert on our honeymoon trip?? Come on...Give us a break. Both of our session lasted about nearly 2 hours and that what I called a waste of time. Out bags were opened and all our personal stuff were taken out for public viewing. That was embarassing coz all our "honeymoon" personal stuff were publicly ransacked and taken out from the bag. Our bags were then taken for drug test and to be sniffed by a dog...What an experience...!
At then end, we found out that 5 people from our tour group were deported back to Malaysia coz they did not have any return tickets. Well, after our constant queries to our tour guide, only we found out that those people travelled all the way to NZ to work and did not plan to go back with us at the end of the trip. We were mad initially coz we were among the "suspect lists" as we were on the same tour as them and then that explained the long interrogation we had earlier.
This was my first overseas trip with Jon and this happened. I guess when people do ask me next time whether I remember my honeymoon trip, I bet I would! Woa....I mean seriously, this is what I called an experience of a lifetime, altho' a bitter one during interrogation but overall, I enjoyed the trip very much and I had so much fun with Jon. We ended up with so many pictures and we were clicking the camera all the way. I guess that is the beauty of having digital camera, we can take as many pictures as we want and delete those that we do not want later. So do take a peek of our honeymoon pictures ya'.
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