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Place Review: New Plymouth, New Zealand (Part 1)

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Destination: Brooklands Zoo PHOTO OP! Here are some pics that we took at Brooklands Zoo. There are some animals that we took too. Enjoy! What I liked: The Brooklands Zoo was filled with so much animals, ranging from birds like infamous rainbow lorikeets, exotic mammals (capybaras for example), kunekune pigs (a farmyard animal) and schelputosiks, a type of reptile you see on your right! Don't let them deceive you, it's actually not a snake, it's a lizard! There's so much animals to admire that there's 90 of them and 30 species in total. It was really interesting to see the animals live in their habitats. Birds flying, the reptiles and amphibians moving about, it's always intriguing to look at all of them. The kunekune pigs I found were incredibly cute!      Eclectus parrot       Destination: Paradise Valley  Berry Farm What I liked:      The place looked full of green. It gave  me a taste of what a typical strawberry  ...

Place Review: Taupo, the heart of NZ's North Island (and basically my itinerary)

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Lake Taupo Holiday Resort, and a review Location: Taupo (4.5 hour drive from Wellington)  PHOTOS!! ('cause why not?) Entrance to LTHR This is me on a go kart! AND the iconic "#LOVETAUPO" sign, me standing on  the "U" Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious amenities:  Go karts, waterslides, pool (with a  BAR in it), tennis court, mini golf, gaming room, beach volleyball, jumping pillow and bike rentals Facilities: kitchens, picnic area, BBQ areas, camping grounds and campervans Hydroslides What I liked: The Hydroslides had some great features. It had lights inside, so it made the experience even more enjoyable. It also had a stoplight at the entrance when it's your turn to slide down the long snake of a waterslide. My family and I booked a slot for the camping ground, and luckily, the weather conditions were not so bad. LTHR made camping so much more fun, especially with just a short walking distance to the amenities. It was pretty easy to camp, since the easily-...

All About the Writer; behind the computer

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Illustrated by Sophia Ysabel name : Sophia Ysabel Pangilinan Danganan age : 11 years-old birthday : July 29 2013 likes : writing about random things, reading, books, listening to music (on headphones), deep thoughts, sweaters, organising, organised environments, bookshops, (weirdly) horror, TV shows to binge, shopping, singing, warm showers on a cold day, karate, sleeping, actually funny things that are funny for absolutely no reason in particular dislikes: EVERY SINGLE THING THAT RELATES TO BOREDOM SOMEHOW, waiting, change, school (just a tiny speck), stress and anxiety, being cold, being woken up, depressing things, getting your hopes up then something/one ruins it, tomatoes!!!!!! (do I even need to explain why?...), capsicum, cold food What do you want to be when you grow up? Well,  there's three things I wanna be. One of them is being an author, since I love writing random stuff about... anything I guess. The last two are either an artist or a psychologist, or both! An artist b...

Pick-a-Path ~ "Strangely-Accurate" Occurrence (Part 5) FINALE

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Previously on "Strangely Accurate" Occurrence Illustrated by Sophia Ysabel Time-Making Control Doing time-making control can gradually affect someone's life. It could also change and control within your grasp. Having control over someone's future can be in many different forms. A book, a scroll - like the one you're reading right now -, etc. But the someone who touches any form of time-making will cause the controller to gain control over the someone's whole life and their decisions. A way to reverse this effect is for the controller to hold the form of time-making and chant the words "tempus faciens imperium abstinuit".    You feel tears forming in your eyes as you read the first bits of the scroll. There was no way this was true. You realise that maybe Julia was testing out if this would work. This makes you cry even more. Mum and Dad notices and rushes over to you.  "What happened?" He said quietly.  "I was just an experiment. WE we...

Pick-a-Path ~ "Strangely-Accurate" Occurrence (Part 4)

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Previously on "Strangely Accurate" Occurence... "Pray tell, who did you say your name was again?" The question would've have made sense, except you didn't say your name to her before. But what's wrong with saying your name anyway. It would cause no harm at all, right? "It's-"  "Laura. Of course."  How the pancakes did she know her name. This was as equally terrifying as the book. Then, deep inside you, something screams "SHE'S A RED FLAG DON'T TRUST HER" in your mind. Maybe it was true. This time, you must trust your gut, not your brain. "What's your name?" Trying not to sound as terrified as possible. "My name is Julia Murde." Huh. You'd never heard that name before. "The name was... I guess interesting?" You think to yourself. "Well, I'll be on my way, Ms. Murde."  "Please. Call me Julia." You nod and walk away staring at the cover of the book. And t...

Pick-a-Path ~ "Strangely-Accurate" Occurrence (Part 3)

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Previously on "Strangely-Accurate" Occurrence... You were in a car crash and badly hit unconscious. Then, you wake up and find yourself in a cottage. Your dad feels really guilty about what happened.  He thinks it's his fault, when you know who's really at fault. Out of shame and pity, you are now explaining about what the book does. " And the book wrote that we were heading to water, and... there was no more writing because it already wrote 5 minutes to the future. And..." You realise something.   You notice... "THE BOOK!" You yell. "IT'S GONE!!!" You quickly run everywhere around the house in a frenzy. And practically rummage through anything you see. Then out the window, you see a book floating in sea (the cottage you were in was in a beach). "THE BOOK!!!"   As you run toward the door, a lady carrying a basket of strange polka-dotted blueberries bumps into you.  With this, the berries tumble to the ground. "Oh my goo...