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Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Sunday, 21 December 2008
Mail boat coming
My workshop look...
Mail boat come to Port Ligar weekly, today is 7th day of my stay, which mean i'm leaving.... I
Dont have much photos, but a 7 days stay is superb for experience... bye and thanks...
Last question to ask, penguin really stay here? Raewyn answer me as "no..."[This is part of the New Zealand Working Holiday] or [Where in the Route of New Zealand Map]
Green shell mussel
Tim have a green shell mussel farm, these mussel need unpolluted sea water to growth, pelorus sound provide a nice condition for the growth of green shell mussell...
Christ with Green shell mussel
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Tim bring me to havest some mussel from the rope in the farm, as well some cleaning to reduce unwanted on rope where used to stick by mussel...
Again, is always cold, cold water and wind... However, here have no salt smell as i smelt in Malaysia boat, but, fart alot today... caused by potato?i taste a lot mussel today, its look like oyster...
Christ with Green shell mussel[This is part of the New Zealand Working Holiday] or [Where in the Route of New Zealand Map]
Trained dog
2 kinds of dog trained here, 1 for chasing and 1 for hunting, chasing dog know how to bark, to frighten opponent, on other hand, hunting dog bark less, but bite... so if you use hunting dog to chase cow or sheep they will bite...
I never really feed and play with dogs, but i did here. I sit and one of them actually push to down.. facing sky... suddenly all came over and licking my face... wow!!!! my "first kiss" gone.... luckily nothing happen next day on my face!! 
Ohya, what happen to possum that Tim sell off all the fur? We feed all these dog, chop away toe is to avoid dog getting hurt by that....
i'm sorry again... possum...
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Hunting or hunted
Is a good day after herbing for whole morning, Anson invite us to join his wildboar hunting, Christ and i excited and follow...
After reach there, 4 hunting dogs ready as well, 2 of them wearing some kind of signal transmiter, after that, they rush to wild boar track to start searching, another 2 dogs follow Anson, when those dog found wild boar, they will surround victim and bark, until Anson reach there and "bang"... Anson havean antena, to know direction of dog, off course, sound of bark make the direction more precise.
From parking location, Christ and i tramp to hill top, here isnt forest, more as native bush, walking on hill top make me feel like a scene in LOTR where Aragon running in hill top chasing someone...I can see bay on both side of hill, other hill, and other sound. Upon reaching peak of hill, we walk into bush, or walking downhill, slope walk in almost 90 degree, so most of the time i just grap on some grass, and step on another grass, then go, those plant in bush is hard in compact.
While proceeding, height of bush become higher and higher compare me, untill...i can not see daylight anymore... i'm deep into bush.... high density bush, at this time, i really walk out my own walkway, Anson? He is on his walkway, following walkway of wild boar,again, he seem relax as normal walking, he is 19 years old, and grow up here...How about Christ? He is complaining, he want to go back, he feel suffering, and me too, so we walk toward tar road beside the native bush.
Around 4pm, we leave those teribble bush, without any wild boar, Anson heading to another bay to re-call back all his dog, but Christ not following and he walk back to car park, for me, i curius about the bay, so i follow Anson. Half way back from bay, Anson heard barking of hunting dog, he ask me to follow him and he rush into the bush again....oh!!
I follow as well!!This time he walk faster, up hill, and my sport shoe doesnt suit the condition, so i keep onfalling... yet need to follow Anson, he always say "we are close!!", and brief me, "when i start to shoot,you help me to whole bullet!!" i'm nervius, plus some exciting... But at the same time, i notice weare tramping randomly, far and far away from road...
After some time, the day getting dark, we cant go downhill anymore, is very hard to walk in bush without view, so we need to tramp uphill, as we can only see peak now, but is really far away...i wish to sit down, and take a nap...We hear no any sound of bark, we lost track on wild boar, and day is dark now, i cant see anything in bush now...
As per plan, we heading peak which is the only things i can see other than star...In dark, i simply grap anything i can, and moving up and up, and follow Anson, i have torch light in my pocket, which brought as i wake up very early in morning, but my hand not free for that,i can only follow light of Anson, after some time i bring out my torch, and use my mouth to hold that....so Anson can concentrate on walkway in front, but he pace up, i really doesnt mean to let him pace up whereby i need to pace up as well.... i'm so tire...
We stop for a rest, i can see Anson is tired this time, but i think he intend to let me rest, for longer journey... Sitting on glass, looking at wide sky, sparkling star, i wish to sleep... but when my body cool down, i feel cold, tire and cold, i doesnt want to move.... suddently one thought cross my mind, will i die here?
"Lets go!!" Anson initiave the move, i know cold will get me off if i didnt warm up my body now...At last, we reach back to hill top, and we follow the post along the way as where we came across few hours ago...Anson moving fast, he expect me to reconize the way back, plus my hand is free to hold the torch now...Physically, hill top of have strong wind due to different pressure, plus the cold wind reallycreate a lot friction for my walk, luckily i'm not too light, and my body is warm... even i just wearing a t-shirt...
8pm, reach back to car, Christ sleeping there, all dogs also back, "let's go back for dinner!!"Yes, today we all didnt have lunch.... what a long long day...
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After reach there, 4 hunting dogs ready as well, 2 of them wearing some kind of signal transmiter, after that, they rush to wild boar track to start searching, another 2 dogs follow Anson, when those dog found wild boar, they will surround victim and bark, until Anson reach there and "bang"... Anson havean antena, to know direction of dog, off course, sound of bark make the direction more precise.
From parking location, Christ and i tramp to hill top, here isnt forest, more as native bush, walking on hill top make me feel like a scene in LOTR where Aragon running in hill top chasing someone...I can see bay on both side of hill, other hill, and other sound. Upon reaching peak of hill, we walk into bush, or walking downhill, slope walk in almost 90 degree, so most of the time i just grap on some grass, and step on another grass, then go, those plant in bush is hard in compact.
While proceeding, height of bush become higher and higher compare me, untill...i can not see daylight anymore... i'm deep into bush.... high density bush, at this time, i really walk out my own walkway, Anson? He is on his walkway, following walkway of wild boar,again, he seem relax as normal walking, he is 19 years old, and grow up here...How about Christ? He is complaining, he want to go back, he feel suffering, and me too, so we walk toward tar road beside the native bush.
Around 4pm, we leave those teribble bush, without any wild boar, Anson heading to another bay to re-call back all his dog, but Christ not following and he walk back to car park, for me, i curius about the bay, so i follow Anson. Half way back from bay, Anson heard barking of hunting dog, he ask me to follow him and he rush into the bush again....oh!!
I follow as well!!This time he walk faster, up hill, and my sport shoe doesnt suit the condition, so i keep onfalling... yet need to follow Anson, he always say "we are close!!", and brief me, "when i start to shoot,you help me to whole bullet!!" i'm nervius, plus some exciting... But at the same time, i notice weare tramping randomly, far and far away from road...
After some time, the day getting dark, we cant go downhill anymore, is very hard to walk in bush without view, so we need to tramp uphill, as we can only see peak now, but is really far away...i wish to sit down, and take a nap...We hear no any sound of bark, we lost track on wild boar, and day is dark now, i cant see anything in bush now...
As per plan, we heading peak which is the only things i can see other than star...In dark, i simply grap anything i can, and moving up and up, and follow Anson, i have torch light in my pocket, which brought as i wake up very early in morning, but my hand not free for that,i can only follow light of Anson, after some time i bring out my torch, and use my mouth to hold that....so Anson can concentrate on walkway in front, but he pace up, i really doesnt mean to let him pace up whereby i need to pace up as well.... i'm so tire...
We stop for a rest, i can see Anson is tired this time, but i think he intend to let me rest, for longer journey... Sitting on glass, looking at wide sky, sparkling star, i wish to sleep... but when my body cool down, i feel cold, tire and cold, i doesnt want to move.... suddently one thought cross my mind, will i die here?
"Lets go!!" Anson initiave the move, i know cold will get me off if i didnt warm up my body now...At last, we reach back to hill top, and we follow the post along the way as where we came across few hours ago...Anson moving fast, he expect me to reconize the way back, plus my hand is free to hold the torch now...Physically, hill top of have strong wind due to different pressure, plus the cold wind reallycreate a lot friction for my walk, luckily i'm not too light, and my body is warm... even i just wearing a t-shirt...
8pm, reach back to car, Christ sleeping there, all dogs also back, "let's go back for dinner!!"Yes, today we all didnt have lunch.... what a long long day...
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Timbering
Timbering work today is for fire wood preparation, a tree can generate a lot of fire wood, and tiring..after that, bring all wood back to garrage and doing the stacking of those fire wood, which is funcompare with stacking on those kiwi fruit in box, we pass those wood around, throwing and receive...organizely like a hardworking ant... accordingly...i told Christ, Malaysian dont use fire wood to keep warm, but for cooking...
After that, we go for fencing again, but this time, the post is far more bigger, hence, hole for big post must be BIG & DEEP, off course!!!
Work in daily farm isnt only as cow boy...
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Cowboy
Now i experience cowboy, a boy who herbing cattle, sheep as well, which shall be a easy job as cattle and sheep afraid of us, a hand waive or shout is good enough... However, daily farm here attached with few block of hill, to after them, you need to surf through those hill as well... or i shall say climbing...
What motivating me is the fresh and breathtaking view accompany me while herbing...Back to work, our team have 4 person, Tim, Anson and Christ at bottom hill for majority of cow, i travelling around hill top for that three fat fat cow, for me is in deep shit, mentally and physically, i step on unlimited dump of shitS, and i fall down once where my face is justfew inch from one big big shit.... Tim and Anson seem relax walking around... but Christ have a same difficult experience like me, After work, i ask him, "how is it?" Without any eye contact, i heard "not good"... hehe...
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In my mind, typical cowboy riding with horse, or modenize one with motor... but i miss out the basic one...
What motivating me is the fresh and breathtaking view accompany me while herbing...Back to work, our team have 4 person, Tim, Anson and Christ at bottom hill for majority of cow, i travelling around hill top for that three fat fat cow, for me is in deep shit, mentally and physically, i step on unlimited dump of shitS, and i fall down once where my face is justfew inch from one big big shit.... Tim and Anson seem relax walking around... but Christ have a same difficult experience like me, After work, i ask him, "how is it?" Without any eye contact, i heard "not good"... hehe...[This is part of the New Zealand Working Holiday] or [Where in the Route of New Zealand Map]
Opossum in memory
Opossumi'm sorry possum, i feel guilty, to chop off your toe, tail, and tear off your fur, poor opossum...sorry...
1kg possum fur => $75
1kg wool => $3
Your fur are so valuable... no wonder...
Today, another woofer came, Christ from Wales, now is my room mate, 6 years as engineer causing him exhoustedto have a nice holiday now... looking at him, wonder if how will i be after i become 6 years of engineerwith him here, i can see and learn how be a guest... He ask about my work this few day, he wonder if this exchange will take off his private time... so i better don't consume his timebefore bed...
good nite room mate...
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1kg possum fur => $75
1kg wool => $3
Your fur are so valuable... no wonder...
Today, another woofer came, Christ from Wales, now is my room mate, 6 years as engineer causing him exhoustedto have a nice holiday now... looking at him, wonder if how will i be after i become 6 years of engineerwith him here, i can see and learn how be a guest... He ask about my work this few day, he wonder if this exchange will take off his private time... so i better don't consume his timebefore bed...
good nite room mate...
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Shand Family
This is the hut i stay...
3rd day of homestead at Port Ligar, Sunday... Everyone seem to be good mood in this morning, or i should say this is a sunny family, Father Tim, Mother Raewyn, Anson, Nathan, Shanna, Mahalia and Azzan, few family members wasn't at home...Today use to be Off day, i spend my whole day at home, writing my biography in guest bookand browse through helper who visited here... hehe... i'm the 1st Malaysian, those who was here came from Japan, Korea, Germany, Israel, Czech, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore etc...
Activities of easi day is...
- accompany Mahalia to search for penguin, she always bring me to garrage and keep on mentionthere is some penguin there... please be silent...
- play my camera, watch movie
- reading books, they have a series of World Book, hope i can get 1 set of that when i go back to Malaysia.
- play my camera, watch movie
- reading books, they have a series of World Book, hope i can get 1 set of that when i go back to Malaysia.
- Some painting...Shand Family have a lot of books, Raewyn been to Germany for 2 years study, she educate her children very well, or i should say she make this family...
Tim is a tall daddy, he take care of farms, up hill and down to sea.... He remind me on Henk...He speak English in local slang, which i not really can understand, so i talk less, he is humor, although i cant get all the new zealand humor, hope i didnt make them bore...He like to work in kitchen as well, he makes fantastic bread, best homemade bread i ever eat,Should learn some, hope i can do that when i have my family....[This is part of the New Zealand Working Holiday] or [Where in the Route of New Zealand Map]
Saturday Nite!!
Spraying again in morning, afternoon go hill top for fencing, 1st you need to dig a hole,in cold wind, and insert post... i take a noon to complete 3 post, with helps from Anson after hefinish all his job... Tim told me, "let go, we keep some job for tommorow"... so we wrap up and go back for dinner, after dinner, i join whole shand family to Waterfall Bay to watch Rudby match.That end my Saturday Nite!! with All Black triump...
Miyuko, Japanese who stayed here for 2 weeks before me, she praise my english is goodwhich make me feel bit shy...she is a student, take a year leave, and attending language schoolat Christchurch, after that stay here for farmstay, she plan to stay here for 2 months.Maybe she is girl, her jobscope is mainly cleaning, play with children, some home job...
Nathan, 9 years old, boy with mature mind, maybe is caused by their culture... what i did wheni'm 9 years old?
Anson, strong boy, work as shaver, wild boar hunter. When play with Nathan, is really a big boy...His dream is travelling around USA and Europe as a professional shaver... Cool...
Shand family is a self educated family, untill they are 17 years old... wonder how Raewyn manage that, one good things is that, they get in touch with people from around the world...they always ask me about Malaysia, some times, interaction with them make me tension, as a representative from Malaysia.. haha... luckily my english not too bad...
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Saturday, 20 December 2008
Port Ligar
i took 3 hours mail boat to reach Port Ligar, is another scenic view along Pelorus sound. Lot of seal and mussel farm, Port Ligar located at outer sound which is far away from Havelock. 
Mail boat is really a boat which send mail, one bay to another bay, port to port...Arrive at Port Ligar, welcome by Nathan and Miyoko, Miyoko was another helper who joint the exchange as well,they bring me to Raewyn, Mahalia, and Azzan, after lunch, i join Mahalia and Azzan to seaside, they are so energitic...sea water here is so clear and clean, even Dolphin came here before, i wish to jump into sea, but...people seldom jump into sea during Autumn...
After that is my 1st job of stay, follow Tim up hill for spraying... on bush at road side...[This is part of the New Zealand Working Holiday] or [Where in the Route of New Zealand Map]
Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Halensville and Macadamia
Helpxchange bring me here... some where north from Auckland...
Cheryl and Hen is host for the farm stay at macadamia orchard, i'm working here for 4 days, in exchange of accommodation and food, and my job is pruning, is not easy job as the leaf of macadamia tree is sharp.. , i'm not really know what is macadamia nut before i come here, but now, macadamia nut always remind me on Halensville... is really a nice experience to be with my first host at New Zealand, and interaction really bring me close to their life...
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Cheryl and Hen is host for the farm stay at macadamia orchard, i'm working here for 4 days, in exchange of accommodation and food, and my job is pruning, is not easy job as the leaf of macadamia tree is sharp.. , i'm not really know what is macadamia nut before i come here, but now, macadamia nut always remind me on Halensville... is really a nice experience to be with my first host at New Zealand, and interaction really bring me close to their life...[This is part of the New Zealand Working Holiday] or [Where in the Route of New Zealand Map]
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