Wednesday Zak drove me, Matthew, Becca, Nessa and Becca’s snowboard down to Ohakune. Now, HENRY’S is quite small… So the girls were in the back with the snowboard and it wasn’t very comfortable at all. We couldn’t really move much at all. The car was pretty packed.at all. Wait, what?

Took us a while to get there. How many hours? 5-ish. I can’t remember where we stopped. I don’t remember… wait… O… Otarahonga… That’s where I got a sausage roll and a potato and gravy. I should have just brought a Subway.

Anyway: Got to our place, Sunbeam Motels which was pretty lucky especially since we didn’t have the address (as usual were hoping to find it by wandering around). I must say that the Ohakune New World is FULL of skiiers and snowboarders.

The place we were staying at was quite nice, it was JUST big enough for 6 people. Darren meet us down there because, unlike us, he only had to drive 2 hours from Wanganui. Darren is ultra nice and chilled. Hahaha PUN! What’s more he has a large van which meant he could take us all up the mountain! But we took the bus for $20 the first day. $10 for 17km… That’s not really fair is it?

OK! So the SNOW!!! It was really white and slippery and participating in snow sports is very expensive especially when you don’t take your ID to say that you’re 18!!! ARGH! I had to pay adult fare. Dammit! $100 for board, boots and pass for the whole day. Me and Matthew were ripped off pretty much. Of all of us, Nessa spent the least amount of money ‘cos she didn’t want to ski or snowboard.

Becca showed us newbies how to snowboard, unfortunately I didn’t really understand and we spent most of the first couple of runs on our knees and bums crawling down the very shallow incline. It was ok getting back up the slope because there was a little conveyor belt that took you back up, just like at Scholastic. And just like the one at Scholastic it stopped, often randomly so you would either lurch forward and stop yourself or lurch forward and fall over. There was one time when it stopped cos this kid fell over and in stopping the belt it caused this group of kids behind me and Matthew (who was my mountain buddy) to fall over in a pile up. Matthew thought this was quite a hilarious thing. I have to admit that I had a bit of trouble riding it and slipped on it a couple of times. Bit retarded.

You know what is awesome? Warm things like hot water bottles, beds and spas. The motel had a spa which was really nice. Unfortunately someone decided to leave their dirty cup which once had pumpkin soup in it…. oh guys! Did anyone tell them that I accidently broke one of the small plates? I don’t think anyone did… woops. Oh well. Matthew will be getting billed… $3.

On the second day me, Matthew and Nessa had FREE FUN! We made a snowman, went sliding down the mountain on plastic sheets and ended the day watching snowboarders/skiiers fall over as they came down the mountain. It was mega tiring going up and down the mountain because I am unfit… and may have eaten too many brownies and ANZAC bikkies. I JUST CAN’T SAY NO! Free fun was the best especially since Matthew and I were VERY sore from the day before. Darren, Becca and Zak went back up the mountain snowboarding again. Apparently it was VERY cold up there.

On Saturday we went on this awesome walk that took us to this waterfall. It was really pretty. Check out all of the awesome pictures on Facebook, baby! 

Having this two week gap between my exams probably wasn’t the best thing just because I haven’t done like ANY work this week… Oh well I’ve done work for my Chinese exam, not so much for my French. Was meant to start yesterday and got through subjunctive… and that was it before hanging out with Lisa and Lud in the city. I have all next week to study so it’s OK I guess… uh not really.

Just finished looking through these awesome cute and sometimes very flash places to stay for next next week’s ski trip… unfortunately we probably aren’t able to get another car down there so that means that there aren’t going to be enough people to fill a house… stank! Probably going to stay here : http://www.sunbeammotels.co.nz/ which will be cool but I really want to stay here : http://www.bookabach.co.nz/holiday_homes/dsp_listing.cfm?bachId=4414 

So yeah. Off for some lunch and then going to do some proper French study probably while watching some sort of Disney movie… in my duvet… It’s so COLD in this house!

Things I did today: Wash, dry and re-bed the sheets, hand wash my scarfs, write out characters for Chinese, listen to a CD I haven’t listened to in years, play around with my make-up, play around with the straightener, take off my make-up, realise that buying that red lip-stick was a bad choice of colour, tidy the house, do my hair… that was in no particular order.

I should be doing my work for my exams but frankly I have just under TWO WEEKS to do it… That’s a LOT of time… which kinda means that I SHOULD be really prepared for it but just because you have so much time to do something doesn’t mean that you’ll do it right –> Asian studies essay.

I think my parents are annoyed by me.

I had a really interesting dream in which I wore my old Sommerville uniform… weird? Yes. I think I need a hair cut. Oh, another thing I have to add to that list of stuff I did: transfer money to Becca’s acc for SnOw TrIp! Yeah I’m not excited about that right now. It seems so far away.

I think that I’m a very instant-gratification-orientated person… well maybe just gratification-orientated person. I was watching this thing last night on happiness and people who are happy are working and involved with stuff, among other things. This is probably why I wasn’t happy today, because I wasn’t doing anything in particular. Hahahahaha… If only Lutonia read my blog.

Nessa just tweeted me that she will read this when she gets home but that won’t be until 4.30 because of the bloody traffic. I need Nessa’s phone number or I’m going to need to call her one day and I’ll call her old one and have weird people answering it. “Great, you’ve made me feel awkward.”

Going back to the gratification thing- this is probably why I’m overweight. Let me share with you, my one and only reader, my BMI. I am 156 cm and weigh 63.5kg (I checked this just now), this makes my BMI 26.1, which means I’m overweight. When I’m bored I eat… thankfully, there’s very small variety of things to snack on at home. Eating is just so good. Damn ME! I started losing weight at the beginning of the year when I went for runs or walks in the morning but then I went on camp with Brenda and Tom and went to the Mount with Lud and then I ate too much Kiwi Dip and I gained the weight back… 3 weeks of hard work, GONE in less than 2.

I’m feeling really weird right now. Spending time at home by myself isn’t too good for me. Someone remind me not to become a housewife, please.

Let me share another thing (Oh, when I’m bored, I like to talk about myself): I don’t want to get married… I don’t want kids and I don’t want to get married. Personally, I think that the love two people experience does not come from the NEED for love but that “love” is in fact a prevention/cure for lonliness which no one can live with. If lonliness lives with you, you are sure to die… soon. Omg… I was just about to write something REALLY inappropriate about being lonely and possible suicide. Not going to write it because THAT IS JUST TOO SAD. So the primary factor in life is lonliness and our brains create “love” to cure this… or out of fear of experiencing too much lonliness our brains create “love”. Ok. Enough of that. I’m feeling kind of lonely–> spending the day at home. Don’t come near me or I might “fall in love with you”.

I bet your thinking: but Novia, if you don’t get married you WILL be lonely. HA! No I won’t be, being married and being lonely are not each other’s complement in fact one can be married AND lonely and be unmarried AND unlonely… this shows that they are NOT complementary factors…  Wahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ahahahaha ahahahaha

Ok, so what have we learnt today? Novia is 1. fat 2. lonely 3. crazy. I’m planning on fixing all of these faults in the holidays… after French and Chinese… IN 11 DAYS XD

But now that I’ve decided that I didn’t need to study today… I HAVE LIKE NOTHING TO DO! … such irony.

It’s just so much harder to try when you have tried really hard and then you get kicked in the balls. Ah. I have my Asian exam tomorrow and I just found out that I got 74% for my essay that I stressed over for 3 weeks. I can’t blame anyone. I thought I did it really well, so even with full effort and plenty of time I still didn’t get what I was aiming for. Now. I have to study for that exam. If I had’ve got my mark back earlier THAN THE DAY BEFORE THE EXAM I think I’d be more motivated to study. Right now I feel kind of useless.

Actually if I’d got a better mark I would feel more motivated.

NO! I AM AMAZING AND I WILL SUCCEED.

Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please let me not screw this up…

The first mid-semester law exam was no kidding, THE MOST HORRIBLE TEST I’ve taken. And in second comes Ms Davies’ Microbiology test in yr 11 which made me make up stuff… Oh and there was the listening test for French a couple of weeks ago. That only comes third because I ended up doing well it… if I had of done worse it’d be higher.

In those tests I seriously had a … I HAVE NO IDEA IF WHAT I’M DOING IS RIGHT… spazz moment. I hope to write a well as I have been over the last few days… unfortunately my writing about law over the last few days has been with the help of my readings and all on the computer so I can go back, delete and make my stuff make sense. Unfortunately I don’t have either of those things tomorrow. Fingers crossed it’ll go all good.

Mona got her comic published in Craccum. OMG! I laughed for like 2 mins… It is so AWESOME!

Love your sarcasm. You needa get a different job or maybe some time for a hobby where you meet new people to break the monotony of a cafe worker… or ALTERNATIVELY you can start playing games with customers (or play games by yourself about the customers without them knowing). It’s all up to you really.

Movies. I honestly think you should go into some movie reviewing or SOMETHING because you are such a movie buff that it’s just plain RETARDED that you don’t! Go to Uni, get a degree and then become the world’s best movie reviewer. Two thumbs up.

MARK WATSON! OMG! Yeah, I know the one, Welsh, awesome. Becca might be going to see Danny Bhoy on Saturday too.

Aw! That’s stink. I think you should go to Chch anyway because you don’t NEED someone to drive you around do you? I mean, Jono can do it without a car… See what Becca’s doing during that time, she’ll probably be doing something/going somewhere you can hop along to. I think she said something about a ski trip.

You know, I was just thinking about how I hadn’t CONNECTED with you in ages… do you get what I mean… not just talking or anything that shallow but c-o-n-n-e-c-t-i-n-g. I feel better connected now. Never worry about being too long. The longer the better… hahahahahahahaha… NO NESSA STOP THINKING LIKE THAT!

Miss you too.

Lots of love

Novia

So instead of I don’t know, going through my Asian Studies readings, I wrote my speech for Friday. I KNEW that I didn’t actually needed to write a speech because no one else was going to and it wasn’t a formal speechy thing. It was for a talk I was doing with Pippa, Abbey and Jason (all ex-BDSCers) about going to Auckland Uni… I was REALLY good at procrastination in this time because I spent 2 hours doing it and wrote more than an astounding 1000 words! YEAH! I should make procrastinating my part-time job.

Then I of course wasted more time by hanging out with Sian and Lud in Starbucks instead of going to Chinese… Yup. I’m a model student. Perfect to talk about Uni to the year 11s and year 12s at BDSC.

So on Friday went to talk at BDSC and I actually got a laugh outta the crowd woot! And of course I didn’t use my speech word-for-word like I wrote it.

Saturday was my 5 HOURS MUST STUDY ASIAN STUDIES!!! But… of course I only did 2 and a half hours of really crap, really slow, not really real study… about nation-states in Korea and Indonesia…. RIVETTING STUFF!

I mean I DO have a vaild reason… Genie and I were at Botany (I needed to buy a pen and a new toothbrush) and Jono’s New Show was their… starting to set up their busking challenge thing. Cool, cool. Genie wondered out loud which NZ band was doing the busking today when we see the two guys from Autozamm chilling with the producer/director-lady by the fountain. “Oh my gosh!” said Genie. So then I convinced her to get her Autozamm Drama Queen that I got her for her birthday signed.

After running (Closer to) home and getting Docie to come along with us we got to Botany to find that they had already started filming. Genie’s one objective: DO NOT GET FILMED. After a very awkward dancing around the cameras we finally got Docie (with her cute baby face) to get their autographs. They thought that she just bought it then (as though she were a poser) and Docie had to pretend that her name was Genie. She said that they were really friendly and I totally reckon Genie shoulda gone to say hi BUT the cameras were still everywhere. They wrote: HELLO GENIE THANKS HEAPS, squiggle, squiggle. It was quite the adventure…

I was meant to do more study today and I did… until I needed the computer to get the readings for Asian… and then I checked my twitter … and my gmail… which of course led to facebook… need I say more?

SO! Tuesday I got like 2.5 hours of work done, then yesterday I did 5 hours of work (which sounds like a lot of work but is still 3 hours less than my quota) and today I only did 2 hours… I even had 3 hours of class… and I wagged Chinese. (But I’m kinda glad I did because I gotta hang with Sian and Lud in Starbucks!)

I HATE MYSELF FOR BEING RETARDED AND NOT STUDYING LIKE RIGHT NOW… but I feel disgusting and want to have a shower then go to bed… its only 6.55pm. I’ll be in bed by 7.30pm. I CAN’T COMPENSATE TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last night I went to my VERY first (of many, I hope) launch party. This particular one was the lauch party of Midnight Youth’s The Brave Don’t Run album which came out on Monday. OMG!

SOOOOOO I was UBER excitement about this.

WTF

I have major writer’s block.

I can’t seem to get my words out properly.

Ok. Well I invited a whole bunch of people to hang with me but everyone had tests or meetings or work…  or were underage… DAMN SISTER NOT BEING 18… not that I blame you Genie…or simply couldn’t get permission (a bit like me… but that’s different because I did… I just tweaked what I got the permission for…) . So it ended up being hang times with me and Lisa 

Lisa was SOOOOOOO nice, she drove us there and even got a bit pushed around and was probably a bit uncomfortable because there were HEAPS of people… it was awesome being able to catch up as well I did feel kinda outta place though because everyone else was like 20yrs plus (which meant they didn’t have to get asked for id… like we did… damn us being short!) and was like really trendy wearing things such as gross-leather-like-ass-gripping-rear-widening pants… among other things.

I have to say that The Studio on K rd would be a BRILLIANT place to have a party… I’m looking at it for my 21st… if I’m a millionaire by then it will be definately be happening there people!

I brought Midnight Youth’s CD and a band shirt… I got the $45 combo deal that came with one debut album and one small tee…. WHICH I’M WEARING AT THE MOMENT AND IT’S LIKE THE BEST SHIRT EVER IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE FOR INFINITY.

So when it actually came to the set and the band actually playing… they sounded AWESOME… I have to say sounded because I pretty much stared at the back of this lady’s head the entire time… Lisa and I stayed on the ramp near the door because we wouldn’t have been able to see if we had gone right in and would have been surrounded by a forest of leggy blondes and weird guys… so we (mainly Lisa) were subject to some pushing… which kinda sucked. Upside we did get to see the stage when people moved their heads on from time to time…

From what I understand they played all of the songs on the album including one that didn’t make it on the album the “tear my pockets dry one…???” which I think is really awesome so sucks it didn’t make it … (I think they said that it didn’t make it… ) ANYWAYS I’m pretty sure the lead singer (Jeremy I think?) was black in a past life… (that’s not pc) HE IS SO GOOD! And the lead guitarist (Simon I think?) SUPER AWESOME too. Can’t really say much for the others because one: I couldn’t really see them and two: I have little to no proper music reviewing skills so my opinion is heavily based on what I can hear with my rudimentary listening skills which pretty much suck at listening to anything but vocals and lead guitar.

Lisa and I left after they finished and headed to McDonalds for some dinner. YAYNESS! All in all very good experience… hoping my next launch party will be bigger and better… and maybe have some nibbles so the Red Bull doesn’t get lonely in my stomach.

(x’s on the back of your hand…) … Just another girl alone at the bar.

Ok, so you might be saying “is this why Novia is at Uni on Sunday, to use the University facilties??” WELL NO! I’m here because I need to study for a STUPID midterm. What’s not so stupid is that it’s Chinese which isn’t my worst subject so I’m not stressing too much… I’m getting with some Chinese study buddies. We were meant to meet at Munchy Mart at 10.00am. Ashwin even sent a reminder text. NO ONE ELSE IS HERE YET! … unless they are and decided to study without me which means that I’m here for pretty much NO REASON because I can study fine by myself. If I didn’t have to come into Uni I coulda had more sleep… Instead of sleep I have to have V instead… which I have found to be an awesome stimulant. Thank you V.

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Blank for 20 mins while I did my work… eg go through my essay and get it handed in to turnitin.

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Went to Irene’s birthday party yesterday. It was really awesome just being able to chill with mates and just be socialable I ended up staying the night because I live two streets away so I just had to walk to get my schtuff! YEAH!!! Talked to Eugene heaps (who is Irene’s friend she met through working at Kmart… hahaha… Where good times start! :D). Had two hours of sleep and then skidaddled home and went to Uni. That’s how I roll.

Need to pee really bad because I’ve drunk most of my V…

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/743994/Words_of_2009

The kick in the ass:
I NEED A FRICKIN’ BOOT UP MY ASS! I need to get a move on with this Asian Studies Essay!!!!!!!! ARGH! ALL I do is COMPLAIN about this… BUT NEVER DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT! NOW(!) I’m complaining about my complaining. WTF IS WRONG WITH ME!…. Ok. It’s Easter Break so I can take a four day break… 
I’m just listening to the radio and this chick is STUDYING this break… SCREW YOU!

Ok. Now that’s over… what was my sigh… um…. I got all worked up over the kick in the ass that I completely forgot what I was sighing over… hm.

Well I can tell you ALL about the sob… FRANCE! It’s been almost a year since we went to France and I have to say that I MISS IT SO BAD! We were only there for three weeks but it was the BEST three weeks of my LIFE! I totally want to look at the photos and the videos… ah… *sigh* I love you FRANCE!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m going for my first drive since getting my learners tomorrow!!! WOOT!

Here’s the gist… of the part that I can remember at this very point in time:

Univeristy:
Uni has gotten easier and I’ve actually kinda made some friends Overall the first half semester wasn’t that bad and was quite enjoyable… Except for the minor stress of test, assignments and labs (which to be fair make up pretty much all of the work you do in uni). Had a law test on Friday and I think I screwed it up.

Dragon Boating:
We had nationals last weekend. I’m not sure if I talked about regionals… but if I didn’t we came third. Nationals in Rotorua last weekend we came 15/33 or something like that… but to be fair we weren’t paddling with the same team and the draw was different so it was split into divisions… but even if it was we wouldn’t have won… ANYWAYS… Went to town on Saturday night. Most of the people who read this have already heard my stories from town and in fact the whole weekend… So I’m ending it here. Oh yeah but I did become a theif. Shhh… don’t tell the cops. Or my parents.

Other stuff:
Went to Genghis Khan for Matthew’s bday on Thursday… ate too much…. as usual… and no more dragon boating to get rid of the excess calories :(

Now back to yesterday:
I spent a lov-er-ly day helping Vanessa move out/in with Matthew and Shelley. We just put things on a truck (I helped move the plants mainly) and then drove to Hobsonville and unloaded it again. After the unloading, which worked up an appetite, we got lunch and I must say that Lois supplies some of the best lunches Matthew, Shelley and I spend the afternoon just lazing around while Nessa unpacked her stuff and occasionally whipped out an old Harrry Potter script or story written by her and Shelley or one of her dodgy old diary entries from when she was like 15. HILARIOUS… “I liked what they wore in the movies pantwise… ” Hahahahaha! That was one of my favourite afternoons in ages.

Then we had Sam’s pub crawl party which was awesome and meant that I got to have like all these random conversations with drunk people, some of them I knew and some of them I didn’t really know. We went to Fibbers, Ratoto (Ok I have no idea how to spell these places) and then Bungalow 8 (where I saw Brooke who is a chick in my Asian Studies class without her shoes on) We weren’t allowed in Empire cos someone chundered everywhere right in front of the bouncers. Fave place was Ratotos because there was an awesome dance floor with mean music!!!

Went back to Beccas (really early because we only had the party bus (which had free drinks, thanks Mr Paul!) and we watched Bridget Jones’ Diary and half of BJD 2 and chatted for ages. I’ve only had three hours of sleep and feel flipppin’ DANDY! YUSS!

FARHHHHHHHK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And although I absolutely ADORE Dragon Boating, I can’t wait until it’s over just because then I’ll have SO much more time…

GARRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really can’t wait until nationals. It’s going to be so much fun. OR it’s NOT going to be as much fun as I anticipate it to be… which has happened before… which is ULTRA GAY!

Speaking of gay, one of the friends I made at school is gay. She is awesome! What is so not awesome AND gay is French 201. I wish I had taken a stage 1 French course because it’s stage 2 SO HARD!

I should REALLY be doing work… and SO I SHALLLLLLLL…. AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!

So my first week went pretty well. HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS… AT ALL!!!!!!! It’s so hard when the lectures are so big that you sit next to someone and never see them again AND it’s not like you get to talk to them anyway because it’s a LECTURE!!!

I haven’t made any “friends” yet because I only really see them in lectures… I have met up with lots of different people who went to Botany though. Bethany is in my law class which is awesome. And apparently Josh Wu is as well which makes sense because I keep thinking I see him in my lectures…

The lectures are pretty good though. I do enjoy my law lectures which I have 3 times a week at 8am! French and Chinese aren’t lectures but more classes… So we have to call the roll or sign a piece of paper to say that we’re there. SO yeah. I also had to buy a $100 book for French yesterday. It is SO THIN!

The MOST annoying thing about going to Uni is taking 2 hours travel (there and back) for two hours of lectures… The bus makes you really tired and it’s not surprising to see people falling asleep. I would but I’m paranoid about missing my stop.

Sunday was possibly one of the most busiest days of my life in which I ran A LOT… and this was on top of dragon boating. Ok. So we finish dragon boating and get dropped of in Newmarket by Emma (yay Emma!) to catch the bus back. The bus is coming in 13mins and I need to wee. Dash over to the Westfield opposite us and when we get back all the cars have disappeared… huh, that’s weird I thought to myself… and THEN there are all these road cones and people in yellow flasher-jackets… IT’S THE AUCKLAND CUP WEEK PARADE! There were horses crapping everywhere and little kids doing handstands and stuff… anyway. This meant that our bus WAS NOT coming… We were going to watch the hockey game Black Sticks vs India.

Grabbed some lunch and after a VERY frustrated explosion in my head THE BUS ACTUALLY ARRIVED. We were actually WALKING AWAY from the bus stop when we saw it coming. When we were running back we laughing in a spastic kind of way. From Botany RAN(!) back home and jumped in the car to the game.

The game was cool to watch. We were there for both of the goals that were scored… both by India. Or was it three? I don’t know… It was pretty mean to watch and the Indian fans made everything interesting. At the end when the Black Sticks lost the crowd ran onto the field to surround the Indian team and the BS were all alone and hanging their heads… Meh.

After this we went over to the Military Tattoo (whatever that is) and we saw Army things… yes I am being vague.

After a brief spell of getting both lost and wet ,Kelsey and I parted way with the engineers (Becca, Chris, Iris) and found the Arts room. We got a Uniguide named Amber with red hair (ironically… or not… I don’t actually know the proper meaning of ironic.) After the first 5 minutes she actually forgot that I was in her group and asked if I’d lost my Uniguide group and this was after she had taken down my details including name, dob and id number… But then again I can’t guarantee that I wouldn’t if it were me… So I really shouldn’t make a big deal out of it, but here I am making something of it because I feel like it.

We walked around for like 2 hours… the campus is HUGE and there is so much to see… After this Kelso and I went to the special event. It was this guy talking about the beginning of Uni, very interesting, very funny. I can’t remember his name… but then again I didn’t have to write it down… or his dob.

We met up with everyone else up at Shadows (Uni pub YES!). We grabbed lunch. I met an international student from Venuzula named Juan (who was really cool) who the engineers had met in their Uniguide group which sounded really fun and interesting. Our group was quite quiet and didn’t seem very interested in making friends with each other. I asked 3 people what their names were and talked with two others. Our group was rather reserved. We had lunch there. YUM!

Ah. Uni.

The (amazing) first band to play was the Midnight Youth who are REALLY good live and now I’m even contemplating actually paying to see them play. Their lead guitarist (your classic skinny white guy) was SUPER GOOD. There were all these teenie girls in front who went spaz (but not international-band-spazz) when they started to play The Letter {which is like one of the best songs released by a Kiwi band EVER[!]}… and I was fully acting like a retard mocking them. Teenage girls are so fun to mock. How could I have been that stupid… We got their autographs too which was pretty mean (the band not the girls).

We then brought an H2Go bottle and got our pictures taken by the H2Go Spotters so one of us (excluding Docie who isn’t over 16) might win $10,000. We actually chased them with our bottle… yes we brought one between us and took turns sneaking up on the Spotters so they didn’t know we were cheap.

We watched some band with the ex-lead singer of the Exponents when they did the classic Why Does Love Do This To Me… it was so awesome to hear everyone singing along.

We took a walk and I got something to eat. So we missed watching Pluto, but I’m gald we did cos I was getting hungry and wasn’t going to pay $3.50 for a pot of chips.

We headed back in time to watch Autozamm play and I was very pleased that they played Closer to Home and Killer Shoes While we were watching the band this Maori lady was talking to us (who may or may not have been drunk) and we watched the middle aged guy in a blue button-up shirt (who looked kinda like Dominique from the France trip) dance really spassticly (Docie was pissing herself watching him)… along with other concert-crowd characters like the young-long-haired-shirtless-guy and his friend old-long-haired-shirtless-guy as well as the covered-my-shirt-in-free-stickers-guys.

The whole thing was sponsered by V and put on by The Rock radio station. WOOT! T’was an amazing afternoon.

So. This is about Kuljeet. We go for runs in the morning… well we HAVE… a couple of times. Lately (especially since coming back from the bach) I haven’t been wanting to go for runs (EVEN THOUGH I TOTALLY PROMISED HER I WOULD AND I HATE BREAKING PROMISES). So I text her the other day that I’m not going for a run… and she texts back ok sweet me too. Then the next morning she calls me up and throws a fit at me because apparently I texted her saying I WAS going for a run and she had to go without me… but my stupid phone doesn’t keep all of sent texts which is a pain in the ass in times like this so I’m not sure if she’s right or I’m right. I apologise because there is only one thing that I HATE more than breaking promises and that is being wrong, so I apologise because I could have texted the wrong thing, right?

Ok, so that same morning I do her a favour by helping her dye her hair, over at my house because her dad was home. And, of course, she apologises for her spazz on the phone. After dying her hair (kind of unsuccessfully because I don’t think we left it in for long enough to achieve the desired result) she asks me if we are going for a run. I say no because I’m being lazy (AND A RETARD FOR BEING SO!) and she begs me to come with her… so I say yes, reluctantly… because I’m like oragami… I fold under pressure.

So the day before we’re meant to go running she texts me to remind me that we’re going for a run. I text her back and say that I’m going to leave earlier at 6.50am because she’s a faster runner than I am and she’ll catch up easily. And she texts back “What y cnt u wait 10mins” and I text back saying something like I want to get the run over as early as possible… and (not that I texted her this) because if I wait until 7 then I’m waiting up to 15mins for her to get ready when I could have done half the run by then and I have to run past school so the earlier I pass it the less likely I’m seen by teachers and students, which is just embarrasing because you’re sweaty and gross. So she texts back

“Its jst 10 mins novia it pisses me off how u always have 2 b fukn early 4 everything. Goodnight.”

Then I text back

“OMG. i didn’t even wana go for the flippin run. AND i want to go early becos i don’t want run past school wen ppl r getting thr and look like a dick.”

Or something to that effect…

I CAN’T BELIEVE SHE WAS BEING SO SELFISH! I didn’t even want to go for a RUN! And the last time we went for a run we stayed together for like 5 mins before she out paced me so WE DIDN’T EVEN RUN TOGETHER! Everytime she needs to me to listen to her problems or be there for her I am because we are friends and that’s what friends do. Likewise she has been there for me and given me help and advice on stuff. But this just made me so angry because I was doing HER a favour by going running with her so I don’t think it was unreasonable that I wanted to leave a bit earlier seeing as I was going out of MY way to do what she wanted to do.

AND(?!) I don’t HAVE to be early for everything!!! If you asked Genie she’d say that I’m late for a lot of things because I’m constantly wanting to be “on time” and then I spend too much time waiting to be “on time” and end up being late! Lately, I’ve been having to run to the bus everytime I want to get anywhere because I leave too late (like the morning Kuljeet was over). AND WTF IS WRONG WITH BEING EARLY?! I think it was the “u always have 2 b fukn early 4 everything” that got me because it’s not true… but it was also the extremely RUDE way she put it… AND the fact that she was having a go at me for not doing it how SHE wanted to do it, when she should be a little bit more lenient and didn’t have to be SUCH A BITCH!!!

Ok, don’t judge her because everyone has their flaws and you have them too. This is just me venting and this is NOT going to turn into a “People who piss me off” forum. I just needed to release it all, EVEN THOUGH THIS IS PROBABLY ONE OF MY MOST TRIVIAL PROBLEMS EVER!

Where?

Waihi.

Wicked Waves,

&

Warm Weather.

What are the most interesting things I can say about Waihi? We did a tresure hunt around the house trying to find Vodka Cruisers organised by Nessa and Becca and I made a big quiz… The girls choreographed a dance to the song “Let’s Chill” by Miley *vomit* Cyrus… but just cos she’s really annoying doesn’t mean that it wasn’t MEGA AWESOME!

The beach was beautiful as usual.

All of the other stuff “you had to be there”. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=700435030&ref=profile#/album.php?aid=90206&id=834743367&ref=mf there are 3 albums. Look at the photos and STALK US!!! YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!!!

WTF why is there ANOTHER ANT ON ME?! *squishes ant* There it’s gone!!!

I have to go Auckland Uni tomorrow to do ANOTHER placement test, this time it’s for Chinese. I’m not even going to try really hard. I want to do Chinese 100 which is THE BEGINNING of Chinese… I’m totally going to be zombie faced tomorrow just like I’m zombie faced now. I have NO(!) patience right now.

Where TF are all these ants coming from?! *squashes another ant* There are only 3 types of insects that I don’t feel absolutely horrible about killing: ants, flies and mosquitoes. Ants because there are loads of them and they are a pain because they get in your cereal and then you can’t eat your cereal. Flies because they’re disgusting. However not much effort goes into fly killing because they are very hard to kill so I just deal with them. Docie killed like 4 or something in the last holidays. Now, mosquito killing… I am a mosquito hunter… If they are buzzing around in my vicinity then they are as good as dead… I’m very lucky that mosquitoes are rather slow.

I’m feeling really reckless about what I’m writing. I might just reveal a secret that’s really private just to annoy myself.

My Chemical Romance have a new single, it’s a remake of Bob Dylan’s Desolition Row for the new movie Watchmen. I thought it sounded quite 70’s but I was wrong because Desolition Row was released 1965 on the album Highway 61 Revisited. I really quite like it.

I think I’ve out grown Fall Out Boy. I’m not even going to their concert… I’ve only ever seen them play once. Woooooooooooooototototototototototototototototo….

Who’s bored? Good… stop reading.

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For those of you who are not yet bored. Welcome to the other side.

Wow. I REALLY want a shower. But Docie is using it at the moment.

I’m being such a cow to my parents because I’m really shitty at the moment. WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU WANT TO DEAL WITH THAT EVERYDAY?! I don’t know how my parents handle it. I HATE it when my sisters are pissy with me and I can’t stand the thought of having children, that I MADE, being little jerks to me. I DON’T want kids. Because I don’t want kids I probably won’t EVER find a husband… that wants to divorce his wife and marry me. Maybe I’ll have more luck among people who aren’t married. But honestly, hands up who wants to have kids. PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE! I’ve met a couple of people who don’t want kids… I think it was Florence and Bilsim.

To be quite fwank sometimes I have such a strong doubt that I’ll ever fall in love that I find myself planning a solitary life in which I work in politics or devote my life to some worthwhile cause. I have honestly thought about becoming a nun. God can be my husband. I can be a cool nun like on Sister Act and help run down communities and help the homeless (which didn’t happen in the movie but is something that I’ve always wanted to do.)

YAY! I feel extra clean now because I just had a shower.

*ZOMBIE FACE* *ZOMBIE FACE* *ZOMBIE FACE*

WHY AM I WASTING SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH TIME?!

Here’s a big notice for Ludwig: I don’t really want to carry on with SDD tv anymore because I don’t see how I am able to gather information and write a coherent script which will be able to be delievered in an entertaining manner. I was totally thinking this before we had our first meeting this year but getting sorted I fully got right into it again… but NO ONE EVEN WATCHES OUR SHOW! AND even if they DO watch our show, WHAT’S THE POINT????!!!!!! But there is still a part of me that wants to do it. I’M SO CONFUSED!!! <hormones>.

 I miss my friends. Genie and Docie aren’t very fun at the moment because they have school work and all that. FUCKING HECK! STUPID INTERNET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It keeps cutting out!!! It is so retarded!

Ok so figuring that NO ONE would have made it this far through I can finally reveal (to no one) the biggest secret I know.

SHAME! YOU DON’T GET NO SECRET!

I would like to apologise to anyone trying to find information about the following: Waihi, Auckland University, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Bob Dylan, Desolation Row, Watchmen, Miley Cyrus, Let’s Chill. I’m sorry all you found was this useless dribble. For all of those trying to find any of these and haven’t got to this point… YOU DON’T DESERVE AN APOLOGY!

They are (just to shame them out): FRENCH 201 and CHINESE 100

What’s more I have no idea whether I want to wake up early every morning for 8am Law lectures and have 4 hour gaps until my next class or have to take Law at 3pm in the afternoon, making it my third one hour lecture in a row, which means I won’t get home until 5pm… I’m not too keen on having to wake up at 6 every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning especially since it’s going to be pitch black when it gets to April/May… BUT I don’t want to have 3 classes in a row and finish at 4pm (even though it’s still rather early).

Right… so I enrolled myself into the 8am lecture… OMG! I hope I haven’t made the wrong decision.

WOO HOO!

So now I can learn how to drive… another thing to put on my ever-growing to-do list.

Afterwards we went to this Japanese restaurant for lunch and got a free meal. They got Genie’s order wrong but gave it to us for free and then we went to Easy Way which is a pearl milk tea place. I LOVE PEARL MILK TEA!!!

So yeah. That’s about it. I need a job. Oh yeah, I went job hunting last week and quite a few places are needing people to work. I filled out quite a few applications and handed my CV to tonnes of places. Chances of actually getting work are still very slim because I DON’T HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE!!! How the heck am I meant to get experience if I people only want workers with experience. SO UNFAIR!

I went camping with my sisters Brenda and Tom at Waharau Regional Park. Go here for pics:http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=86914&id=700435030&saved#/album.php?aid=86900&id=700435030

Then for 4 nights I went with Ludwig, Lisa, Matthew and Herman to Mount Maunganui. Go here for pics:http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=86914&id=700435030&saved#/album.php?aid=86914&id=700435030

I’m too lazy to relay stories…

I have SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH TO WRITE ABOUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First. Let’s start off at the beginning of the day… and then I can talk about the concert side of it… and then compare this with other concerts I’ve been to.

Ok, so. The beginning. I’m so glad that I avoided a HUGE disaster in the morning by waking up MUCH earlier than I’d planned. I woke up at 5.40-ish that morning (because I was so excited) and tried to go back to sleep again because I didn’t want to feel tired… BUT I couldn’t go back to sleep because I still hadn’t figured out what I was going to take etc… so I got outta bed earlier than my alarm which I didn’t actually set. So if I hadn’t decided to get up earlier and had actually gone back to sleep I would have woken up late… not you’d find that interesting…

So Laura got to our house early to drop her stuff off because she was staying the night and we headed to the bus stop where I almost had a heart attack because Mona didn’t get there until the time that the bus was meant to arrive, but luckily/predictably the bus was NOT on time so it was all good.

We arrived and we waited in line for a while and we played Give a Life using the freaky looking guy on the bus and we named him Robert-Harris.

OK! So I’m going to stop being BORING and start telling you about the BEST BIT OF BIG DAY OUT! THE ACTS! I was lucky and got to see the following acts:

The Kiwi Act: The Tutts
Mona had a minor obsession over them a while ago and so she wanted to see them play, and I stayed and watched too. There were a couple of songs that I liked. The lead singer reminded me of the lead singer of The Strokes because he looked kinda drunk and he also looked similar to the lead singer of My Chemical Romance, he looks more similar than Gerard Way’s actual brother. The crowd went off when they played K but apart from that the crowd was pretty low key. I found myself thinking a lot because I generally don’t REALLY engage myself when I don’t know the music well. It wasn’t completely shit though and Mona enjoyed it.

The British Act: The Ting Tings
Now, because we were already there for The Tutts we just decided to chill out in front of the barrier for The Ting Tings so that we’d be RIGHT AT THE FRONT!!! During this time we used the texts to communicate because the music from the other stage (Luger Boa, another NZ band and they were pretty good) was REALLY loud. The thing about BDO is that your hearing really goes because there is not a quiet corner anywhere. So Mona and I were right in the front-centre for The Ting Tings, it was THE BEST SPOT! The Ting Tings were really good, heaps of energy and their set was really good too. Although I didn’t know most of the songs they played the last two songs were their two most popular, Shut Up and Let Me Go and That’s Not My Name. Looking at the videos right now and I wonder why I didn’t just film them without dancing, that way the video wouldn’t be shaking. They had a HUGE crowd.

The American Act: Lupe Fiasco
There are only two rappers in the world that I would go and see and they are Kanye West and Lupe Fiasco. I hired Lupe’s albums Food and Liquor and The Cool just so that I’d know his stuff when we saw him at BDO… His stuff is really good and it isn’t talking about the normal crap that most rappers talk about. He was in the Boiler Room and if there are two words I could pick to describe the boiler room it would be ‘hot’ and ‘weed’ because there were so many people smoking weed in there… The music was different than on the album because he had a band and the songs were transformed to fit a concert setting. Lupe was very good, but not to the taste of Mona and Laura so they took a look at Sneaky Sound System. Genie and I sweated it out with many others and went crazy when he did Superstar. My other favourite song was Go Go Gadget, I very much like the lyrics in that one.

The Suprise Act: Serj Tankian
I didn’t really plan on watching The Tank (as dubbed by Laura) but we wanted to get into the D (the area in front of the two main stages) early so that we could get close when we watched the Arctic Monkeys. At first I was really weary because I thought that The Tank would have really HARD OUT fans who would get angus at us and that they would be really scary people… but we ended up being the scary ones. The crowd at the back was quite placid and we were being really random and dancing really spazzily, we were the most energetic ones there (at the back)… I was laughing so hard, I remember when Genie was dancing like a spastic retard, a guy had the “omg what a weirdo” look on his face and he was like “hey look over to that spazzy dancing girl” to his friend. I read that conversation all through facials and hand gestures. The Tank wasn’t as freaky as I thought, he actually sampled ABBA in one of his songs… But I think I can speak for Genie, Laura, Mona and I when I say that our favourite song was the “Praise the Lord, Pass the Ammunition” song… hahahahahaha :) The Tank was DEFINATELY one of my favourite parts of BDO. I just wish I got some of the dancing on camera.

The Headliner: Arctic Monkeys
These guys are the reason that I spent $130 on my BDO ticket… In any concert I would say that there are two main aspects that contribute to how you experience the show: the crowd and the band.

The Crowd: So we rushed up front once The Tank had finished so that we’d be in prime position for AM so before the show started we were about 3/4 people from the front… most people would say this is close enough, but it isn’t close enough if you can get closer. HOWEVER (!) we were stuck behind the TALLEST guy I saw at BDO… he was stupidly tall. Genie was standing behind him and she wouldn’t have been able to touch the top of his head, even if she tip-toed. You can check out the tall guy and other of our BDO photos here http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=59550820030&saved#/album.php?aid=84030&id=700435030 and here http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=58685&id=694787373. ANYWAY(!) the guys in front of us were SO TALL (tall guy and his friends TOWERED above us) and there was a chick on my right who was trying to steal my space. BUT because Genie has MAD SKILLS I got into the second row from the front, shoulder to shoulder with Genie and the tall guy (well it was more like shoulder to elbow with tall guy) by the time AM started to play. Generally before the band starts I get excited cos there’s like all this anticipation and all that BUT this time because I was concentrating so much on trying to get a good place I didn’t get MEGA excited… so that sucked.

The Band: Well, let me just say that the Arctic Monkeys are SOOOOO AWESOME and their music is amazing… and Alex Turner (lead singer) was quite sexy. But I don’t give them many points for their opening… because although they performed really well I think their choice of song wasn’t very wise. Their first two songs were new songs that no one really knew so even though the crowd was mega hyped (don’t believe the hype) they weren’t as excited as they could have been. The rest of their set was pretty good, they did one more new song and a cover (of some person that I’d never heard of) and they played my favourite song When the Sun Goes Down as well as Fluorescent Adolescent but they didn’t play Balaclava, which was like my favourite song to sing with Mona during yr 12 English just because of the mean instrumentally-drum-soloish bit which is really fun to sing. When they first started playing I thought the mic wasn’t on because I totally couldn’t hear it but it was actually because we were too close to the stage… If I had to put the band members in order of best performances I would say it went drummer, lead singer, guitarist, bassist… to be honest the bassist was quite boring but the drummer was really energetic, he had MEAN FACIALS and I reckon he was better than the lead singer which is a hard thing to do as a drummer.

SO much more to say but I have to go and pack my bag to go camping!!! Will finish this (one day) and ALSO do a comparison of all of the concerts I’ve been to.

Genie is a massive Egg-HEAD!

New Years! : I celebrated New Years with Nessa, Zak, Matthew and Shelley at Jono’s… It was fun. Until it became unfun because my body was becoming increasingly uncomfortable to be in… so I went to bed early. We had homemade pizza for dinner and pancakes for dinner as well. Those of us old enough to drink celebrated the New Year with a shot, which to be honest was quite gross. And I think vodka makes me sneezy… and my pulse was being all weird and really strong which I told everyone and mentioned constantly, I made everyone feel my pulse. I think that that’s a good indicator about whether or not I’m drunk; when I mention something a lot and want to spink I could feel my blood moving around my body as though I had just gone for a run. It was fun for a while… I was first one to turn in… I did it so quietly that Nessa didn’t even realise I had gone to bed until quite a while later… but I also think she was absorbed in the movie (Pearl Harbour) and still kinda drunk.

Of the 5 nights that have already passed this week… I’ve only spent 4 nights at home in my own bed. The freedom of holidays…