Hiking at Rangiwahia, Manawatu, New Zealand

The best way to discover the beauty of New Zealand landscape is basically by walking and hiking. These activities will get you to absolutely breath taking areas which are not accessible by car or four wheel drive. Unless otherwise you've got very deep pocket, you can get there by helicopter or some other means of transportations. But, only through hiking you got to feel the nature. 

There are numerous hiking tracks all over New Zealand. Ranging from easy walking track to extreme adventurous for hardcore people. I myself had done several hiking tracks. Photos in this post are from my 6 hours of hiking experience and struggling with thorn bushes, dangerous Deadmans Track, slight groin ache, slightly oversize boots at Rangiwahia, Manawatu, New Zealand.

I reckon they gave the name 'Deadmans Track' for obvious reason. The track is between valleys filled with thorn bushes and extremely steep hills. One silly mistake in those areas could be lethal. You can see in the first picture, the track is on the tip of the hills with steep slopes on both sides. But, at the end of the day, it was all worth it.

If you want to see this yourself, head over to this website, Department of Conservation. 

Deadmans Track

Notes from several Jumaat Khutbah and Halaqah

Jumaat Khutbah 

-Pay attention to : time, money,words

-A lot of people are sent into hell fire because of words coming from their mouth

Jumaat Khutbah 2nd February 2013

-Obey Allah. You will be among the martyrs

-Dishonesty is quality of hypocrites

-Falseness leads to evil doing. Evil doing leads to an Nar

-Major sin : intentionally give false testament. Reported by Muslim Even if it's insignificant

-Woe to the one for tell lies to entertain people

Halaqah 21st February2013, Masjid Wellington

-Syaitan is an open, obvious enemy to you. Don't listen to them

-In the day of judgement, friends will be enemy of each other. But not the muttaqin

-We have brought to you the truth. But most of you don't accept it. You have your plan. We have ours

-Every secret will be recorded by our angle Glory is to Allah.

Jumaat Khutbah 1st March 2013

-When there's unity among Muslim, it's obligated for us to get back to the Sunnah.

-Causes of disunity: Bidaah. Adding stuff to the religion.

-Islam will split into 73 Groups. All of theme will end up in the hell accept 1.

-Anyone who wants the truth, sure will find it. The path is clear

-Islam doesn't evolve with time and places

Island Bay, Wellington, Test Footage

Lake Rotoiti

Lake Rotoiti was the first stop after we left BlueBridge jetty at Picton. We wanted to start fresh after having some issues in Wellington, where we departed from. First, we got our stuff locked up in the masjid. We went out after Isya to buy some food, but when we got back, everyone had left and the doors were locked. Tried to contact everyone who knew the community members of the masjid. We waited. Luckily, the Imam came in to pick his car up in which he didn't normally left his car at the masjid after Isya. We taught that we could stay there for awhile before heading to jetty, but apparently we couldn't. 

Secondly, we had trouble looking for a place where to park my car. Most of the long term parking areas were closed over the weekend for some reasons. Luckily, one of the BlueBridge staffs allowed us to park in their private parking area, right in front of the entrance. That was a really really nice unexpected things offered by BlueBridge. A simple thanks is not enough. It was absolutely a big relief. 

Once boarding, we looked for seats, lie down, and the next thing we knew, we were already at Picton. We waited for a rental car, and then headed to Lake Rotoiti.

Here are some pictures at Lake Rotoiti. There are some videos of eels coming up. But not so soon. Got to find some free time to do some editing. 

Lake Rotoiti

75cm DIY PVC GopPoleGo

I was making a pole for my GoPro camera when those two guys, Alya and AP texted me telling they were bored. Later they decided to follow me to Massey because I got to use a drill at the engineering workshop. This was a test shot using my 75cm DIY GoPole. Nice eh?

After that, AP randomly came up with an idea to register ourselves as 'new' students at the Social Science Lecture Block so that we could join the orientation week. The result, we grab ourselves free Massey notepad, bag and name tag. Then we went to the Afternoon Tea where Massey Vice Chancellor, Hon Steve Maharey officially welcome all the new students, internationals and locals. We were there because we were expecting sandwiches but we left in the middle of the VC speech. So no sandwiches. Only orange juice.  

But, at AP's place, me and him had baked rabbit instead. Awesome! It was really good. Felt like having mouthgasm. But, Alya only had instant noodle because he was waiting to have dinner with someone. 

So that's some bit of what I did today. what about you, internet? 

At Massey PD classroom

Kampung Tanjung, Baling Kedah, Malaysia

That guy on the left, got into accident 3 days ago. Get well soon bro

RNZAF Base Ohakea