"It was a good win to start the year, and we're now beginning to reach some of the goals that we talked about as a group back in the summer before the season," said Tu'ipulotu, who joined the club from Wellington just over two years ago.
"In a way it was good to move on from the disappointment of losing at home to Leeds the previous week, and it gives us a foundation now to really attack the rest of the season.
"Leeds was extremely difficult because the weather made it virtually impossible to play, but credit to them because they worked hard and got the result that day. A firmer pitch down at Wasps probably suited us a bit more with the way we like to play the game, and we showed that we can really mix it with the big boys in getting the win there.
"The key for the next stage in our development is achieving greater consistency, and that's something we're working hard at here behind the scenes all the time."
Asked the secret behind his side's improved showing in the capital last time out, the Tongan said: "Sometimes when you play the big teams you spend too much time thinking about what they are going to do, but leading into the Wasps match the focus was pretty much solely on what the Falcons are about and how we were going to impose our game on to them rather than the other way round.
"At times in the match we didn't go so well, and nobody is pretending that it was the perfect performance, but closing out the result was definitely a step in the right direction for us.
"I suppose on the one hand you could say it was a difficult week because we didn't have a field to train on for much of the time, but overall I think it actually worked in our favour.
"Being stuck indoors meant we had a lot of classroom sessions rather than being on the pitch, and the boys were totally clued-up as to what exactly we were doing. Sometimes when you're out on the field all week you can be a little bit all over the place, but being indoors intensified our focus on a few important things. We were extremely clear on exactly what we were doing, and it meant we could just save our legs for the big game."
With Tu'ipulotu once again a defensive kingpin, he added: "As a team I would say defence is definitely one of our strong points, and we've carried on from last year in that respect.
"We've got a very fit bunch of guys who can run around the pitch all day, that really helps us as a back line when we have to move about and in Alan Tait we also have a fantastic coach who knows the game extremely well. It's not perfect, by any means, but we're working hard all the time to improve and get rid of any little faults that might be floating around."
Moving on to Sunday's home tie against a Gloucester side which defeated the Falcons last month at Kingsholm, Tu'ipulotu predicted a similarly feisty encounter.
"We all know Gloucester as a team that loves to play the wide-wide game, but in the conditions we have at the moment they might have to go through their forward pack a bit more," he said.
"There will be a big emphasis on our defence and on shutting them down, but then we have the ball we have to look to hurt them on the scoreboard."
With much of the week again being dominated by the weather in a freezing Tyneside winter, Tu'ipulotu revealed a major first, stating: "I'd seen snow from long distance on the top of a mountain in New Zealand, but I'd never seen it close up or falling from the sky.
"When I opened my front door on the first snowy morning the other week I was a bit like a big kid, and it seemed like a cartoon or something when all the snow was coming out of the sky. I can remember being really nervous when I first put my foot in it, because I thought I was just going to sink through to the floor, but it's amazing really.
"I did the whole building the snowman thing, and played around in it with my kids. I do love the snow, I have to say. It's a new experience for me and it does make the rugby side of things very difficult, but to say that I've been sledging and thrown a snowball is something quite special for a Tongan boy!"
Advanced tickets for Sunday's Falcons v Gloucester game start from just £5 juniors, £12 concessions and £15 juniors. To book call 0871 226 60 60, log on to the Falcons website or pop to Kingston Park in person.
