Photos of Christchurch, NZ

Had my dinner in Zhuhai, China last night with my old colleagues. No photos available as it was a table of nine and everyone was starving. We had it at Fu Hai Gong Restaurant which is steps from the China-Macau border. We had two chickens made in different styles to top off the dinner menu. This restaurant is a favourite haunt by local Macanese. Afterwards, everyone decided to have foot massage. Since I don't like having a foot massage I decided to head off to one of Zhuhai's local supermarkets to buy some snacks/drinks. I actually saw 'lemon' flavoured potato chips by Lay's. I opted to buy Lay's International Flavours - Pizza potato chips (RMB3.2). Afterwards, I crossed back to Macau on my own. At 10:00pm, there were no line-ups whatsoever either in the Chinese or Macau immigration desks.

This morning while waiting for the bus to go to work on Avenida de Venceslau de Morais (慕拉士大馬路), the Transmac 'bus stop attendant' was grilled by several passengers for stopping the flow of traffic. The reason? Bus no. 1A (towards Dynasty Plaza (皇朝廣場)) arrived at the stop totally filled to the brim with passengers. As a Macanese oddity, passengers still continued to jump on the bus once the bus door opened. The attendant tried his best to tell the passengers inside the bus to move to the back to let the incoming passengers get inside the bus, but to no avail! Behind the bus no. 1A were other buses lining up to stop at this particular bus stop. This infuriated some impatient passengers as their buses were lining up behind it and caused a backup of at least 4-5 buses along the one-lane road. The attendant put his arms in the air and said, 'What can I do? Nobody is listening to me'. Welcome to Macau! Thankfully, I noted that two Bus no. 1A buses have passed and bus no. AP1 came. Bus no. AP1 is faster than 1A, but you need to pay an additional MOP0.8. Thus, I hopped on AP1 and with a seat.

Here's some photos of Christchurch, NZ. Not busy due to the fact that it was Christmas Day and the entire city is more or less deserted.