NZ South Island adventure and independant trip - Forewords

Planning a long holiday is a taff time, especially a holiday abroad. We planned for NZ 2 years ago......When's the moment we decided to take a break to NZ, there are several things accross my mind..... go b4 or after CNY? how to tell parents? have we enough budget? which destination worth to go? how many days should be enough...... It's is so frustration when scroll through the airlines available to Christchurch, MAS is retigulously unaffortable and also it's not flying Chritchurch, SIA is fully booked, Qantas didnt fly to Christchurch directly and also fully booked, and finally, some lightning crossing my mind---->>AirAsia. yea, AA is flying to Gold Coast now, if I fly with AA and take a connect flight with Jet Star, it sounds ok in terms of the flying cost. but....things are not as perfect as i thought, we will have to doing nothing but wait meaninglessly in the Gold Coast Airport for 10hours for the connect flight with JetStar, not only that, the coming back flight are enable to catch the AA route. Emmm.... Joshua always have some alternative good idea, he said try to look for agency and hopefully we can grasp a couple of seat with whatever airline. it seems like the plan turning down when the agent told that every airline are fully book during CNY, they suggested to plug us in the waiting list. ok, fine. we wait until the dead line. Finally, we blessed for 2 secured seats with SIA. yeah!!!! what to do now is planning the itinerary, booking for accomodation and rent a car. i am very ecixted for the day to come....and, ya, i'm not celebrating CNY in my home town for the first time in my life.